Musings of an Inkd Geek

My box day arrival this morning was S.H. Figuarts Ultraman Victory. He’s a pretty cool Ultraman with a unique head design (the shape of a V) who first appeared in the Ultraman Ginga show.   Victory is yet another Ultra figure that comes with a good amount of accessories. Included are   4 hands in total (fists, holding, karate chop and open/grabbing). He comes with a red color timer (shaped in a V), a sword called the Sheperdon Saber and an EX Red King Knuckle. The saber and Red King accessory are fun and allow him to display some of the abilities he had in the show, taking the power of one of the kaiju spark dolls and using it in the form of a weapon. I’m curious if Tamashii Nations will release future accessory packs with the other weapons he use from King Joe, Eleking, Sadora, etc.   The paint applications and sculpt are quite nice. He sports a nice black, red and silver color scheme, along with translucent yellow V-shaped crystals in his forehead, for...

Today I received the Mafex/Medicom Deadpool. It’s a really great figure with LOTS of accessories and extras.       He comes with a total of 8 pairs of hands (fists, holding fists, trigger finger holding, relaxed, open, pointing, hang five and thumbs up). He comes with 2 swords, a harness with sword handles that fits like a backpack, 3 heads (regular, narrow/squinted eyes, and one eye open and the other winking). He comes with 3 different belt buckles as well. And finally, a stand. The one thing you immediately notice is that he does not come with any guns, which would’ve been nice, but the wide selection of hands more than make up for it. And I own a pair of extra action figure guns that fit his hands. You can always buy extra accessories off eBay, such as guns and stuff.     I’ll immediately say that the stand is rather weak. It’s good for keeping him in standing poses, but in action poses where his feet are off the grou...

Today I finally received my SH Figuarts Endgame Ant-Man. I had ordered it weeks ago from BandaiOnline (a place where I’ve purchased many figures from) and for some reason it was super slow to be delivered. Oh well, I finally got it.     I had wanted to get an Ant-Man figure, but since the prior releases from Figuarts did not include an unmasked head I passed. When I saw that they were finally going to include one with the Endgame release I picked it up.         As far as appearance, it looks great. The details on the suit are very nice, the masked head has red translucent eye visors that you can see the eyes from (previous releases did not have that feature). The unmasked head looks enough like Paul Rudd that it works. It’s not perfect, but it’s not awful either.     The articulation is pretty good. Some of the joints on my figure’s arms were a bit tight, but I used my Traxxas silicone shoc...