Polyvinyl Crush

What we have on display today is a little exercise in dualities or, more specifically, the interesting effect when one company produces two figures and my reaction to the second figure is pretty much diametrically opposed to my reaction of the first figure.  It is rare indeed when I for a single post that I both praise and criticize a single company.  Today we have two companies to boot!

hobby ~ Read the rest of this entry →

Save for a couple of gems, these last few weeks of figure announcements featured sparse and/or unimaginative figures.  I seem to recall a lull in good announcements about this time last year as well so I wasn’t too worried and knew the pace would pick up again.  Boy did it ever.  Both these were featured at Wonder Festival 2010 Winter so I’ve already talked about them some but I’ve changed my opinion on one.  Oh, and I have some exciting news to share so read on!

Midsummer hobby~ Read the rest of this entry →

Looking at the calendar I’d say I’m a little late with this concept but I couldn’t find the time this weekend to do a full review so I decided to this instead.  The rules were simple: 1) The figure had to be released in 2009 (so all those GSC and Alter figures that got pushed back didn’t make the cut) and 2) I actually had to own the figure.  Despite those simple rules this ended up being quite the task since so many fantastic figures were released in 2009.  On top of that I decided to be really controversial and rank these 15 beauties.  Why 15?  Because I honestly couldn’t whittle the list down further than that.

Some of the results were surprising even to me~ Read the rest of this entry →

First post of the new year!  Let’s get 2010 started right with some high quality figure reviewing action.  Today we’re taking a look at Kotobukiya’s exclusive 1/8th scale Mikoto Misaka ‘Swimsuit Ver.’ PVC from To Aru Majutsu no Index.

Psychic Hobby~ Read the rest of this entry →

I wrote this late in the evening on Wednesday becuase the PolyvinylCrush crew and I got an early start to Otakon this weekend and, as I am likely in the dealers room at this very moment completely surrounded by otakuness, I didn’t get to spend any of my usual prep-time on the post.  So I had to write this a bit earlier to compensate.  Undoubtedly a few more awesome figures went up for pre-order since Wednesday, but for now these are the figures I’m excited about.

I curse this hobby sometimes Read the rest of this entry →

To Aru Majutsu no Index (or A Certain Magical Index) is yet another anime franchise I’ve had no exposure too.  But unlike other times when I have said that, this Mikoto figure from Kotobukiya is enough to make me want to check it out and see what I’ve been missing.

Today we’re taking a look Kotobukiya’s 1/8th scale Mikoto Misaka PVC from To Aru Majutsu no Index.  ~A Certain Magical Hobby~  Read the rest of this entry →