Max Factory To Release Metroid: Other M Samus Aran Figma Figurine

All the figures I personally own are plastic (PVC), and come assembled and painted.  The ones I’ve linked pictures to, and the Samus zero suit figure here are those.

The ones you put together are cold cast/polystone/resin kits.  They are incredibly fragile, and I’ve had earth shattering experiences seeing delicate pieces chip off, so I more or less stay away from them now.  Those can have a special amount of detail that can be pretty neat to look at, and they can be bought pre-assembled as well.  They are not the safest things to order internationally due to how fragile they are.

1/6 refers to the scale of the figure, so that 1/6 Aigis is 1/6 the size of what the sculptor assumes Aigis to be.  Most common size for character figs is 1/8.

Yeah, I only have like 6-12 figs at any one time.  I try to sell as many as I buy yearly.  It’s just too expensive.  *Looks at yer pics*  I have that Rin and Ignis, hehe.  Prolly going to sell the Rin since I also have the new GSC one.  It’s hard to choose ~.~;

I personally prefer Alter over others, faces can be pretty subjective.  For example Alter’s Aigis face is spot on for me, and I don’t much care for the Max Fac Senjougahara etc.  I think it’s pretty case by case, and prolly depends on which figures people are interested in.  Still stay mostly with those 3.  Occasionally get a kotobukiya or megahouse, but yeah.

man guess i’ll stick with the PVC ones :)

they look soo stylish, and the quality seems to be top notch, im not good a assemblying things and i suck at art so i guess i’ll stick with PVC no matter how high the price is ^^

i hear ya, heck with all the customs looking through shipments, i can see why a certain douchebag might harm the models
since they’ll just make a excuse on “inspecting” things instead of just taking care it nicely. heck i remember this guy throwing
our bags in the airport when we were booking in. can’t he tell there are fragile things like games, laptop and so on??? unbelievable.

though Samus seems to be big for a 1/8 size. 1/8 is larger than 1/6 right??? :D

where do you buy though??? and what figure companies should i pay attention to when they are offering my kind of figs??

heard good smile is an awesome for they’re Black Rock Shooter Models what else??

are the Square Enix Playarts good??? since they have Snake and Adam.

sorry for asking soo many questions ^^

gonna check out myfigurine for sure ^^

ohh amiami is definitely good but im not sure if they accept visa???

hlj will check it as well :D

ahaha ones a a legendary hero, and the other a augemented dude. man that would be sweet if Big Boss and Adam Jensen would team up :)

oh oh oh btw. since your very very experienced in buying figurines and imports. can you recommend me places that i can buy one of these??? 

im thinking of buying this Samus and Adam Jensen when it get’s released. but i don’t know where to start. i also missed out my KOS-MOS figures back then T____T

http://www.amiami.jp/shop/?set=english&vgForm=ProductInfo&sku=FIG-MOE-2205&template=default/product/e_display.html

i definitley don’t want to miss Samus and Adam as well :(

as for Big Boss, i don’t know he the peace walker version(the picture that i showed you) is still being sold :(

thanks for the tips and tricks though. i really am thankful you help me out in that Yes Asia order, and your recommendations as well in other places.

you seem to have a grand collection yourself O_____O

You’re not NA? Amazon still has Kos-mosVer4, but hell of alot more expensive then when i got mine.

But the armored Samus would fit nicely next to my Aigis, Metis, and Kos-mos figmas + the BRS animation figmas . not to0 keen on static PVC figures

yeah AmiAmi seems to be the best place :P

they do accept Visa right??? :D

man it seems Figures can be competitive at times :)

have you also shop in these as well??

http://www.hobbyfan.com/

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/

btw i just got my item!!!! finally. the FFVII book seems thin though, but the pictures are awesome. and the novel is beyon awesome :)

awesome2 man i can’t wait to build my collection :)

been building Games and Anime only. definitely need some variety ^^

AmiAmi takes PayPal, you could register your visa card w/ them.  I never bought from these sites but I’ll bookmark them :)..  I really haven’t gotten into figures until recent years (other than building a lot of mecha and Gundam models when I was young, the Five Start Stories ones were amazing, I still have a Tekkaman Blade somewhere), and I’m no expert either..  for mechs, Revoltech makes some great smaller figures..

PVC is just the common material for figures, there are other more expensive kinds.. 1/6 is one kind of figure, just means it’s approx scaled to 1/6 of the the char’s height, to 12″..   I used to have Gundam model kits (and SD figures), even some Saint Seiya action figures (still got a couple), when I was a kid.. Most figures are completely finished and pre-painted, unless you look for the kind that you want to brush paint or spray paint yourself (I ruined some when I was a kid w/ amateurish paint job lol), those are for the hardcore hobbyists, I remember my cousins painted many resin kits for Dragonball or Kamen Rider.. I had an uncle who had lots of Gundam toys and models but that was many years ago..

Cool you finally got your order.  The Ep Zero novel is indeed great, has a really neat transparent jacket (I took it off when I was reading it, didn’t want to bend it), the other book I treasure is the 1000 years of dreams novel for Lost Odyssey (these were actually in-game, just compiled into a book).. If you like 13, you should get the Ultimania Omega Mook too, lots of illustration not seen anywhere, I have the ones for X, 12, & 13..

Only get the figures you must need though, too many good ones and too expensive :)

AmiAmi or cdjapan.co.jp for figures, usually the former has the best deal if you could pre-order it before it sells out.  I haven’t tried other sites, but AmiAmi’s discount seems hard to beat.