Thursday, 21 November 2013
The set was made in collaboration with the band, as part of their A Thousand Horizons project - they're the result of Linkin Park's contributions during the Japan earthquake relief, which GSC was a participant of.
Before we leap into the review, some information on the Nendoroid Petite line (info from MFC):
Nendoroid Petit (or Puchi Nendoroid) are smaller versions (about 65mm) of the regular Nedoroid figures (normally 100mm). Like Nendoroids, Nendoroid Petit feature popular characters in chibified form. They also have some amount of articulation through their ball-jointed heads and shoulder cuts. Some even have V-crotch articulation.If you want to see the figure reveal, it was at the A Thousand Horizons event, below
Nendoroid Petit are relatively of sharper paint job and more consistent quality than most gashapon or shokugan (or trading figures in general).
(The figure reveal is from 40:34 - 46:00):
Onto the figures!
The band arrives in a typical Nendoroid Petite-style box, with a window showing all the band members. The sides of the box show each individual figure, and on the other side, the assembled set.
The back shows the entire set again, along with information on both the band and A Thousand Horizons, along with all the usual stuff you see on the back of a nendo petit box. My box is slightly damaged, but it's from Mandarake and was marked as opened and box damage. Anyway, let's open the box up!
First, we have the stage! The figures all have their own individual stands, but I'll be setting them up on the stage, as they'll be on display in my figure cabinet.
Let's start with Chester! He's adorable - especially considering the size of petites, the detail on these are amazing! As with all nendo petites, they all come apart - because of this, though, Chester's arms seem to fall off a lot.
Chester is posed as if in mid-performance. There is an amazing level of details, but what is really, really awesome about this petite is how detailed the recreation of Chester's tattoos are! They're hard to show since they're so small, but they really are amazing.
I've also unpacked the first of the accessories. Chester can stand without it, but he does look a little strange. Even this stand is incredibly detailed!
Next out of the package is Mike. He's just as detailed as Chester, but I had the most trouble with him with attaching the stand.
I'm going to skip ahead a little since there's still a lot of this set to get through. So here's Phoenix, Brad and Rob. Brad's headphones are removable to reveal ears, but the headphone band is still irremovable.
And the final member of the set, Joe Hahn! Even the back of his t-shirt is detailed - and his ponytail moves!
Next up are the accessories and instruments. They're so detailed, yet so incredibly tiny! They're super delicate, though...
...As I learnt the hard way, when trying to wrestle Phoenix onto the stage. I snapped the guitar neck...
The instruments! They're adorable... the turntables even actually spin, as does the slider move!
Bonus picture!
More wrestling! (and the unfortunate demise of Phoenix's guitar...)
and done! Sorry about the drop in photo quality, here - they took so long to assemble, it was starting to get dark. Another difficult thing is that the instruments don't attach anywhere - so the drumset, especially the cymbals, tend to just fly whenever you so much as touch the stage. I have to transport this to the cabinet, now...
but- complete! Let's see how long this took...
...3 hours?!
Overall, I really love this set. The quality is amazing, and they represent the band well! The assembly time however is something else - and it would maybe have been a good idea to make the instruments attach to the stage. But overall, they're one of Good Smile's best sets.
That concludes this post! Next time I'll be unboxing Figma Nanoha Takamachi. See you then!
