After waiting a while, I finally received my Hyper Zetton figure last week. It had initially released at the end of April in Japan, but the place I ordered it from didn't get it in stock until June. Even after it was shipped, it still took about 3 weeks to get to me. Thankfully, he eventually arrived. Hyper Zetton hails from the 2012 film Ultraman Saga. He's created by Alien Bat, and started out looking like a giant caterpillar-like insect, before evolving into the more humanoid Imago form. This Zetton differs wildly from the original, with a sleeker, more menacing design, with large spikey claws instead of hands, a series of armor plates on his body, shoulders and legs, as well as a small tail. He also eventually gains a pair of wings and an elongated tail, making him capable of high speed flight. Bandai did a fine job capturing his look in action figure form, incorporating all his details well. His accessories include his large pair of wings, some shoulder blade parts that go...
I recently picked up a new building/street base diorama set. I own a lot of buildings, but most of those are silver, so I decided to add some color to my cityscapes. I was watching a video clip on Instagram of someone taking photos of their Godzilla figure. I noticed that the person was using some small, brightly colored buildings, so I asked in the comments where he had gotten them from. He responded, saying they were on Amazon, and suggested I search for 1/300 scale buildings. I did and came across this set, which wasn't too pricey and looked good, so I purchased it. The set was delivered over a week ago. This set came with a total of 7 different colored and sized buildings, a street base, and a small bag of cars and trees. When I opened the box, I was pleasantly surprised to see that all of the buildings were already assembled, each individually wrapped in plastic. The street base was also wrapped in plastic. It's a T-shaped intersection, with spaces on the ends where you c...