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Went downtown to pick up my Figma Haruhi sometime last week. The Figma Saber that I’ve preordered with it back in March was out of stocks, currently waiting for the second shipment of it =(

Very nice packaging, as can be expected from any other Japanese product.

Comes with a tiny instruction leaflet on exchanging the faces, and the arm band.

out of the box

A new series of product by Max Factory, Figma’s line of figurines looked much, much better than Kaiyodo’s Revoltech Fräulein, for almost the same pricing. Kaiyodo’s Fräulein series always have problems with their awkward faces (especially the blank-staring eyes). Speaking of which, I don’t get why Kaiyodo is trying to come out with a Fräulein Haruhi of their own. Riding on the bandwagon, I suppose ┐( ¯3¯)┌

how do I changed face?

I really like this figure. The paints on it were bright and colorful, as seen in the anime, and the posability is great. The elbow joints can bend by 110′, knee joints can almost do a full 180′.

If there’s any downside to it, it’s the fact that she can hardly wield anything. I’ve tired getting her to wield bazookas, shields, guns, but to no avail, mainly due to how the hands were designed. Here’s the only weapon I managed to get her to hold on. Notice how the hands aren’t really grabbing it at all.

pew pew lazors

I also like how each Figma comes with a thick zippo plastic bag of their own. It’s so much more convenient for us collectors, and it barely costed anything for the manufacturers to produce. It makes one’s extra/optional parts’ storage more neat too. Over the years, I’ve been using these plastic cases from Ferrero Rocher to store my model kit/trading figure/gashapon parts:

Time for some flaws that I’ve noticed: there’s a tiny paint chip on the upper right arm, and on the lower right arm, there’s a blue-ish tint. Someone in the factory slacked off and didn’t wait for the paint to dry up completely before assembling, I bet. There’s also a fine misdrawn line on her lower left leg.

The joints connecting to the shoes were very tight too, so tight, that I gave up on trying to change the shoes into the white, casual version. The warning/instructions on the flap of the box wasn’t being helpful either (it just tells one to firmly and slowly hold the shoes and the joints to remove it, and that it will break if one forcefully pull it off)

this instruction is a LIE!

Regardless, it’s a wonderful figure. Can’t wait for them to release more.

Also, my orders from XL-shop arrived today ｷﾀ━━━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━━━!!!!!

Oh boy, can’t wait for the Finals to be over on next Friday