Review: S.H. Figuarts Wild Tiger (Top Mag version)
Tamashii Nations has been incredibly generous in the Tiger & Bunny items they’ve made available to the US, with the Double Chaser being a nice surprise for domestic release. Their followup act is this version of Wild Tiger, originally a Tamashii Web Shop exclusive. This is Kotetsu’s look before his wanton destruction of public property finally resulted … Continue reading
Episode 112: Shutting Off The Electricity For The Night
Just when I thought I was safe to plan future purchases, Toy Fair happens and annihilates all those carefully constructed plots! I don’t mind though considering the incredible stuff out there and this show is going to have a lot of it spent painfully accounting for all of it! Then we actually do a new … Continue reading
Action Figures in 2013: My obnoxious, totally biased hopes and wishes
Toy Fair is almost here, and after exercising a relatively large amount of restraint in going too crazy with this post so I could actually have it up in time, I’ve put together what I really want the different brands/lines to show me this year: stuff that would just leave me floored for the most part. … Continue reading
Review: S.H. Figuarts Double Chaser
Bandai’s Figuarts line has produced a number of vehicles, most of them for the Sentai lines like the Kamen Rider characters. Now, those various bikes see the Double Chaser joining them, the vehicle of choice for the starring pair in Tiger & Bunny. Vehicles have become an important part of the Figuarts line, but does the Double … Continue reading
Review: S.H. Figuarts Perfect Cell
Christmas! A Time for new toys, and that’s just what I got! To complement my fantastic Figuarts Trunks, I received a Figuarts Perfect Cell for maximum fighting action (courtesy of fellow Planned Banter official Richard)! Perfect Cell is commonly referred by Dragonball Z fans as the point they loved the show more or less. He … Continue reading
Review: S.H. Figuarts Barnaby Brooks Jr.
After finally deciding to open Wild Tiger I figured it was time to start gathering the rest of the Tiger & Bunny castmembers, and there’s no better place to start than with his crime-fighting cohort, Barnaby Brooks Jr. Can the most outrageously pink and red superhero this side of Viewtiful Joe impress me as much as his … Continue reading
Review: S.H. Figuarts Wild Tiger
You can’t keep a good concept down, and that has to be why I keep bringing up Tiger & Bunny whenever I can. The story of personalities clashing in the realm of corporate-sponsored superheroes has kept a steady hold on my attention ever since I first heard of it, and watching the final product hardly … Continue reading
Monday News: System Failure
So how about that Lucasfilm/Disney deal, huh? Between the 700,000,000 director wishlists that are probably gobbling up an equal number of hits for the sites that threw whatever nerd bait names together in a list designed to magnetize Google search queries of “‘x director’ Star Wars VII” in 5 minutes to well-established for their independent … Continue reading
Monday News: ‘The Doom that came to my finances’ or ‘Beyond the wall of self-restraint’
Nothing may have made money at the box office this weekend, but man, work was awesome. The downside of that is the terrifying weather friends on the East Coast are experiencing so I hope everyone out there is ready for Hurricane Sandy. This is why I hate the weather guys. But I have fun news type stuff … Continue reading
S.H. Figuarts Trunks: Review
Continuing with Bandai’s tradition of making high quality, high articulated figures of franchises I love, S.H. Figuarts Trunks (from Dragonball Z) has arrived in my home. Via purchasing in stores. The MonsterArts figures have left a HIGH impression of quality in my collection. How will Trunks fair? Packaging Trunks arrives in the standard S.H. FiguArts … Continue reading
Planned Banter 