New Busou Shinki Figures Preview!!!

Konami's innovative video game and toyline Busou Shinki featuring mechanized young girls continues it's impressive variety of girls gone wild in transforming mecha armor and vehicles. This next pair should be dubbed "Road Warrior" for their automotive theme. I'm digging the red one called Ark. The green one is called Iida.



Check out these earlier posts for more Busou Shinki madness!!!! This Waffebunny suit is still my favorite and sitting on my desk as we speak!!

Custom Busou Shinki and Super Robot Wars!!!

You will have to forgive me. I now have a scanner so when I see cool stuff in magazines...especially Japanese Toy mags, I may not be able to resist the urge to scan the images and post them here. Especially when I can't find any said photos of the same subject online.

Some very cool spreads in last months issue including a nice exhibit of custome Busou Shinki figures. Check out the "Terminator" like cyber skeleton below! I have this figure and it's only 5-6 inches tall so I don't know how this guy made all these cyber joints and parts!



The gasper in this issue was definitely this Super Robot Wars Original Generations ACTION FIGURE!!! Yes!! I guess it's gonna be produced by Volks and be a pretty high end figure along the lines of the last two that they did. Anyone got any more info on release dates, price, etc. drop me a line. This is what a mech is supposed to look like, no? Big, Bulky, Thick with a bad ass attitude. None of this pansy Evangelion shit going on here...

New Busou Shinki Action Figure Pics!!

I recently discovered this line of female action figures based on an online game by Konami called "Busou Shinki" I wrote this post about it late last year and am sad to report that I am still eagerly awaiting my first two of these figures (the crazy Devil Girl and Bunny with machine gun chick). Diamond is now distributing these in the US with a slightly more appropriate packaged offering for new Busou Shinki fans. I think the idea is that you get one or two complete action figures and then you can buy additional "Weapons Sets" that are just the armor and weapons. Diamond decided wisely to offer all of their selections with a figure. Just be careful when ordering elsewhere. It's easy to tell usually cause if it comes complete with a figure, it will be $40-$50 each. If it's just the Weapons set, it will be $20-$25.

One of the guys thoughtfully posted a link to another online toy store featuring Japanese toys. It's called ToysLogic and at first I was put off a bit cause it looks like it's all anime figures. A little digging in the left hand menu and you can see their offering is pretty deep in all kinds of Japanese toys, not just the cutesy anime stuff. Most impressive is their selection of Busou Shinki figures. Many of them are pre-order right now, but they have some good pics (which is where I got these).

The first new Weapons Set that caught my eye is this Vaffe Dolphin EX Weapons Type (above) which means no figure included. The theme is some kind of "SEAL" operative with fins and scuba gear and all that. Looks pretty good and will go well with my other figures when they show up. I'm kinda torn on the whole "outfit" thing as I would want a figure to hang this weapons set on all the time. Maybe they should just offer a generic figure as well.

Next is this cool winged "Eucrate" figure which does come complete. Kinda reminds me of the Winged Gundam or "Zone of Enders" character. I like it a lot. I'm ordering it.



The rest of these below are interesting and all, but not enough to get me to bust out my credit card or write any further about them. After all, a picture speaks a thousand words, right?