Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Pic of the Day 174

Black Canary Ame Comi figure by DC Direct.

This is another figure that I appreciate more in hand than I did from pictures before buying. The matte black of her body suit contrasts nicely with the glossy black of her jacket and boots, all the gold detailing works really well, but what I like best of all is the throwing star in her left hand. It's something I'd never noticed in the solicit photos, and I think it really adds to the personality of the character and the figure.

For more pictures, visit the Black Canary Ame Comi page on my collecting wiki

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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Pic of the Day 173 and Review of Ame Comi Hawkgirl

Hawkgirl Ame Comi Heroine statue by DC Direct.

Great looking statue, in my opinion. However, there's something a little off with these pictures. Can you tell what?

I tried to photo them in such a way as to hide it, but it's pretty apparent to me that she's gimpy. While attaching her to the stand, her right wing snapped off. :( However, I think she's too interesting looking of a statue to delay posting some pictures of her while I attempt to mend her broken wing.

The first pic allows a good look at clawed left hand, the arm band on her right, and her helm. I like the way the black paint under her hawk-eye doesn't end, it streaks back fading into the gold. I thought at first it was a mistake, but both sides are the same, and I rather like the effect. It is also apparent from this angle that her top doesn't wrap around, and while she's...um, rather large...in the front (less apparent because you can't see how thin the rest of her body is), I'm not sure that covering would stay in place particularly well in actual flight/combat. Although the red strings wrap around her waist as well as her neck, so maybe? I don't know, I'm no fassion expert. I can't even figure out how to spell it: fascion? fasion? phassion? Oh, it's easier than that: fashion.

Anyway, the second pic gives a slightly better view of the armor bit on her left hand, you can see it's got some detailing on the top, reminiscent of the Eye of Ra symbol, plus she's got some nifty necklaces. She's got a battle ready, intent look on her face, and interestingly, she appears to have an impressive scar under her left eye. Right up under her eye. That was a close call. I like that she has eye lashes or something drawn under her right eye, but she's not hiding the close call she had with her left one.

Unfortunately, the following picture removes any illusion of wings, but gives us a good look at her Mace. This hand also has the finger claws and bracer that her left has, but no wrist or hand armor, just the finger claws, the pommel of the mace is carved in an hawk head motif, though obviously my angle was off when shooting it. But the mace head itself is quite cool, I love that the studs are gold instead of the same lead color of the mace, and the collar obviously is supposed to have some interesting detailing, though either PVC is too soft to have picked up the details well, or they weren't very finely detailed to begin with. But it's an interesting texture and color if nothing else. Also, her hair is done up in one really long braid. I like that.

Ame Comi Hawkgirl definitely turns out to be one of the best figures in the line so far, one of my favorites for sure, and I didn't even get any good pics to show off her armored boots with they're hawk claw detailing, but trust me, they're awesome, it's a great figure, I highly recommend it. Plus, it's a variant on her modern costume, which I MUCH prefer to her Golden/Silver Age look, or even her Animated Series look.

But attach the stand to her back first, the hole was just a tad too small, and it took quite a bit of force to get it in (in retrospect I could have easily shaved the hole out a little with a razor, and since I had plugged the wings in first, I inadvertently pushed on her wing more than I thought I was. Stand first, then wings. :(

For more pictures, visit the Ame Comi Hawkgirl page on my collecting wiki

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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Pic of the Day 172

Donna Troy, Women of the DC Universe Busts

For more pictures and info, visit the Women of the DC Universe Donna Troy bust page on my collecting wiki.

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Pic of the Day 171

Generic Chinese Dragon desktop statue.

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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Pic of the Day 170

Donna Troy, Ame Comi statue by DC Direct.

For more pictures, visit the Donna Troy Ame Comi page on my collecting wiki

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Pic of the Day 169

Thrust, Transformers Generations, by Hasbro.

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Pic of the Day 168

Ramjet, Transformers Classics, by Hasbro.

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Friday, March 18, 2011

Pic of the Day 167

And now for something completely different...

Dirge, Transformers Generations, by Hasbro.

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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Pic of the Day 166

Batman Build A Scene Statue Part 1: Robin and Catwoman, by DC Direct.

Resuming the Batman Build A Scene Statue, we finally have Part 1 here, with Batman's protoge, Tim Drake, the third Robin, and his girlfriend, Selina Kyle. Just the Batman assemblage remains.

Additional pictures of this Catwoman & Robin statue at my collecting wiki

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Pic of the Day 165

Wonder Woman (version 1), Ame Comi statue by DC Direct

Oh, how long I have been trying to get this figure for a good price. I love the redesign of her armor, and it's really not even that big a change, except for the sides, which you can't really see in the pictures I've taken of it so far. I'll have to get a side view picture up tomorrow.

For more info and pics, visit Ame Comi Wonder Woman at my collecting wiki.

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Friday, March 11, 2011

Pic of the Day 164

Batman Build A Scene Statue Part 2: Huntress and Nightwing, by DC Direct.

Like Batwoman, I've always been fond of Huntress, and her costume, although in Huntress' case, I also know some about her, having read some comics with her in them. She's an interesting character. Nightwing is less so to me, but I much prefer Dick Grayson as Nightwing than as Robin. ANyway, it's a nice looking piece, I thinks.

Additional pictures of this Huntress & Nightwing statue at my collecting wiki

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Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Pic of the Day 163

Batman Build A Scene Statue Part 3: Commissioner Gordon and Batwoman, by DC Direct.

This is something I should have posted weeks ago. Nay, months ago. The pictures appear to date back to August of last year. I LOVE this statue. I got Part 1 months before I got Part 2, and it was at least several more weeks before I managed to get Part 3 at a good price, but the Batman Family Build A Scene statue is Definitely worth getting, especially at the significantly reduced prices that I paid.

As is obvious, Part 3 of the Batman Family Build A Scene statue contains possibly the single most important character in Batman's life, that isn't Batman himself. Or his parents ("My parents are DEAD!"). Or the Joker ("You complete me."). He's a bit of a boring choice for a statue or action figure, but where would Batman be without Commissioner James Gordon? And as I've said before, I just love the modern Batwoman costume, it's fantastic.

Additional pictures of this Commissioner Gordon & Batwoman statue at my collecting wiki

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Pic of the Day 162

Ame Comi Harley Quinn mini statue, by DC Direct

While I hope to acquire the larger Harley Quinn Ame Comi statue, this one is quite nice, nicer perhaps, than the big one. I believe the colors to be very matte on the large one, where as the red of her costume here on the mini version is a very glossy, metallic red, and the white collar piece is actually pearlescent, rather than straight white. I prefer the pose on this one more too. I like the little color details on her legs and feet, which break up the red/black scheme for which Harley is known. The gold-trimmed blue and green sections at the ends of her pants, and the green trim on the shoes really jump out at you, but at the same time, I feel they blend in with the costume very well, making it better. It seems like the oval cutouts all around the thigh portion would make the outfit very prone to ripping while putting it on, if she just catches one with her foot, the whole thing could rip off, but I like the look.

I'm very glad to have gotten this new version, I think I'll quite like the mini versions, it's fun that they're different poses to costumes already released. I'm still not really interested in the blue/gray Batgirl, and though I think the mini Poison Ivy is better than the regular sized one, I'm not particularly tempted to get it. However, if I recall Series 2 correctly, it has Hawkgirl, Wonder Woman and one similar to the Supergirl (v2) I posted last time, so I will have to get all three, and series 3 has Power Girl and Donna Troy, or something like that, I may have the actually characters confused, but I'm pretty sure I want all of mini series 2 and 2 of the 3 of mini series 3.

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Saturday, March 05, 2011

Pic of the Day 161

Supergirl, Ame Comi DC Heroines, by DC Direct.

By no means my favorite of the series, but a nice entry nonetheless. I like the Kryptonian writing on the yellow straps of the cape, the metallic blue, and that the bottom of the skirt is kinda translucent. Also like the strange design of the costume in general, with the kinda odd cut-outs on the side/back, as though to remind us the actual costume shows her midriff. I don't really care for the looking in the side mirror of a car thing, and there's something odd about her lower legs, but overall, it's quite good, everything about the costume is great.

For more pics visit my Ame Comi Supergirl page at my collecting wiki.

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Friday, March 04, 2011

Pic of the Day 160

Supergirl, Women of the DC Universe, Series 2 - Terry Dodson, by DC Direct.

For more info visit my Women of the DC Universe Supergirl page, or the complete Women of the DC Universe Checklist at my collecting wiki.

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Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Pic of the Day 159

Jade, Women of the DC Universe, Series 2 - Terry Dodson, by DC Direct.

For more info visit Women of the DC Universe Jade or the complete Women of the DC Universe Checklist at my collecting wiki.

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Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Pic of the Day 158

Batwoman, Women of the DC Universe, Series 2 - Terry Dodson, by DC Direct.

For more info visit Women of the DC Universe Batwoman or the complete Women of the DC Universe Checklist at my collecting wiki.

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Pic of the Day 157

Catwoman, Women of the DC Universe, Series 3 - Amanda Conner, by DC Direct.

Wow, I have been horribly lazy at posting pictures lately, which is a huge shame, as I've recently got some great items. Of particular interest, I finally started getting into two lines which I've been interested in from the start, the Women of the DCU busts (now I think it's just called Heroes of the DCU, since they stopped restricting themselves to female characters - and actually, since Joker, Darkseid and Sinestro are also being released in this line, I wonder if it's actually Heroes and Villains of the DCU), and Ame-Comi Heroines line (actually, since they released Batman a few figures ago (which, coincidentally was the first I actually bought) it has also been renamed to Ame-Comi Heroines and Heroes). I'm horribly behind on both lines, the bust line I would definitely be a completist in, if I could afford it, but most those from the first series, based on Adam Hughes art, are expensively hard to find. And sadly, most of the early Ame-Comi's are similarly expensive, in fact, two of my very most wanted from that line sell from $70-$120 on eBay, which is 2 to 4 times retail price at the beginning of the line (when it was $30), though that's only twice suggested retail now (most having an MSRP of $60-$70), though thankfully I've been able to get some of the newer ones for under retail. But I'm talking too much in a post that should really be just a picture, so I'll stop now.

For more info visit Women of the DC Universe Catwoman or the complete Women of the DC Universe Checklist at my collecting wiki.

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