Musings of an Inkd Geek

The latest figure from the Shin Ultraman film that I got is alien Mefilas. Similar to the star, this character also had a sleek, lanky design. He was the 2nd alien antagonist in the film, after Zarab. Similar to the original 66 show, his fight with Ultraman ended in a standstill. The figure turned out pretty cool. Shin Mefilas comes with 4 pairs of hands (fists, open palm, relaxed, and split), an extra left hand that holds the Beta Box Igniter, another right hand that shoots his grip beam, a small Beta Box, and an extra right hand for Shin Ultraman to hold it. Both the box and igniter are highly detailed, despite their tiny size. The grip beam has a translucent yellow, zigzag design, and the fist that shoots it has yellow in the fingers instead of red like the regular hands. All the hands are black on the top with silver on the insides of the palms. His face has a thin blue line that’s supposed to be his eyes, and yellow for his mouth. The other colors on him besides black are silver, ...

Earlier in the year, Tamashii Nations announced they would be re-releasing their Gamera 1999 figure. When the promo photos dropped, it was obvious that they had resculpted the head to be more screen accurate to the sleeker, more menacing look he had in the film. Along with a different paint job, they also added an extra accessory. I liked the original release, despite the inaccurate head sculpt and paint glob on his lower row of teeth that made it look like he went overboard on toothpaste, but this new one looked appealing, so I decided to preorder it. Now that it’s here, I can say the resculpted head very much makes a big difference. And since Gamera 3 is my favorite of the 90’s trilogy, I’m quite pleased with it. The accessories include a flight stand with an orange, fiery base, interchangeable wing arms for flying, an interchangeable flight tail, 2 small flight fins, a translucent, fiery claw called the banishing fist, and bloody, cut off right arm segment. These last 2 parts are fr...