2025 has finished and it kinda went quick. I felt started off well doing toys reviews at the start o the year, but then, I got a PS5 and whew! What a time sink that was. More on that later though.
The toys this year:
So there you go, a not terribly exciting bunch.
Here I have a review of mostly MArion from Link Travelers due to bad luck on the rest of the rolls.
If You're curious, here are the instructions for the build:
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| Shining Series 01: Shining Roll Out |
I saw some of these guys on a Transformers Discord chat and thought they seemed decent enough and thought I would like to get at least one to experience for myself. While browsing the website, I saw they actually had a Shattered Glass Optimus Prime version and in the same box is a rather cool looking Grimlock too. Hrm, I says...
And then I had ordered a box with Shatty Prime and this single "Shining Version" of Optimus Prime. Essentially these guys are blind box purakit figures. That is, figures that you need to assemble yourself. I ended up actually using Aliexpress, because these guys don't have a Japanese distributor and even Amazon US seems to have a bit of a spotty range. And so this arrived in the post one day.
Land, Kingdom, place, whatever. Where the beast folk live.
So here I am with a review of the wave three of Gashapon Quest plastic model figures. Amazingly these things come from Gacha machines, yep, they're not cheap, but they're pretty cool. I managed to get 3 of the 4 waves released from the machines, most of it was done through Bandai's online Gashapon site, which I didn't do, because:
So here is the first set I managed to complete myself.
Glad to say I managed get get my grubby mitts on all the pullback batmobiles from Takaratomy Arts and their capsule toys. Yay.
SO here is a video of the FINAL THREE. Watch it and enjoy yerselves.
Previous Batmobiles here;
Tets' Toys and Shenanigans: Mini Batmobiles!! Takara Tomy ARTS Capsule toys.
So today I found out it is Gacha day!
The anniversary of gacha being launched in Japan in 1965. Well there ya go.
It was started by a company called Penny, who stole the idea from America. Penny is still around to this very day, which is nice.
Here's a link in Japanese. Google translate works with this if you need it.
https://www.penny.co.jp/gacha.html
And another link giving us the same information in a slightly different format.
https://zatsuneta.com/archives/102175.html
And the home page of Penny.
There we go, I just thought I'd share that. Happy birthday Gacha in Japan.
Hey cool people of the internets, here I am with yet another capsule toy review, and this time I am having a look at the DeLorean from back to the Future. That sounds kind of familiar right? And it should as not so long ago, I did the exact same thing, but with a different one! OMG, are we approaching the DeLorean event horizon as described by the wonderful Douglas Adams??
No.
So you can relax (for now).
This video is all about Bandai's version of the enigmatic car that comes out of a round ball.
Hello gang. Here I am with another Capsule toy review. My plan is to have a capsule toy review up every two weeks or so. Now that I've said that, my schedule is going to go badly isn't it?
Following on from the overwhelming success of my CRAB video(40 views!!), I'd like to continue on with my wa(i)(s)ting of money on capsule toys and present a rather nice little fellow made by
State of the Art (SOTA) and their take on an armadillo lizard.
Warning, if you don't like lizards, don't watch the video. I think many lizards are cute and this guy is one of them. Skinks, geckos and the Thorny devil that drinks via its feet (not to mention the frilled neck and other lizards that run on their hind legs) and well, pretty much any lizard that is small and lizard-y I think I like.
This capsule toy does a good job of looking like one. Please take a gander.
