Long time no see and here we go again with another toy review.
This time we tackled over the "infamous" line of figures that came from Japan, the Super Hero Figuarts from Bandai. Now, while there's nothing bad with this figure but, this time our beloved company decided to cutout some of the essential accesories of their figures. At first I thought they only do this to other lines of figures beside theirs, but hey, look at what we get now!
Alright, enough with that kind of talk let's talk straight to the figures shall we?
Starting off from what you get from the box. And yeah, I didn't forget to take pictures of the accesories. It just a couple of set hands, and nothing else. The pairs you get is closed fists, open hand, the "signature" hands, and only one holding hand.
nonetheless, this figure look great and shinny with those metallic finish on the red and blue, makes this figure looks expensive. The clear pieces on the eyes also very reflective, well if you have enough light really. Just let the pictures do the talk.
from these 3 pictures, you'll see how inconsistent the lightning are. It's because I rely on sunlight which is pretty hard to control lol.
The articulation is nothing specials. They're good but nothing really new and crazy. You do enable to recapture the most iconic pose from this guy's show, but not the most crazy ones.
The painting though, is very nice and clean. I'm surprised how detailed the belt (a.k.a Build Driver) is. Even the full bottles are molded in clear plastic AND can be removed although it's so tiny don't lose them :D
The holding hand that I've mentioned earlier was to replicate the finishing move triggered by rotating the lever on the build driver. But be careful though, it's easily paint chipped.
Also the iconic pose hands are just there to do some pose like this:
"I've found the winning formula!"
"shall we begin the experiment?"
VOLTECH FINISH!
and that rider kick bring us to the end of this review
That can be concluded in my point of view, this figure is
PROS
- Relatively cheap SHF figure, around 3,400yen list price (Just a friendly reminder MARVEL characters from SHF are more expensives because of the copyrights infringement or something, so Marvel SHF with the same amount of accesories can be ranged from 6,000-9,000yen, just keep that in mind :D )
- Great paintjob, great articulated figures, pretty solid on the joints too.
CONS
- NO accesories just like the SHF Kamen Rider Drive Type Speed, you could get the accs from the other SHF figure which is for this case, the SHF Smartphone bike or something like that
other than that, it's just a normal SHF figure. If you want to experience what is SHF Kamen Rider Series look and feels like, and if you are a completionist, I'd recommend this figure. But if you're nothing like I mentioned about, you can pass on this figure easily.
Thank you for turning in this time
until next review
goodbye!
