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May 29, 2008

Medicom News: Musicals, Flops and Disappointments Abound...

Some of these images have been floating around but I was waiting for Medicom to put them up on their own site and now that they have we can talk about 'em!

First up is a flop. A flop that only an idiot could not see coming and that's Speed Racer and this month Medicom offers RAH #413 the mysterious Racer X. He goes for 17,640 YEN (167.17 USD) and will hit the streets on November 2008.



Next is the disappointment (movie wise) is Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. This Medicom is limited to and 2008 pieces, RAH #400. From the looks of it it's obviously the older Indy from the fourth movie. His yen is 17,640 YEN (167.17 USD).

You also will be able to buy him from indianajones.com. It's not on that site yet but soon will be. He will also hit the streets November of this year.



Almost everything I said about Indy above can be used for Mutt Williams except he's not limited to anything and he’s RAH #411.



And rounding it this update is RAH #412, Sweeney Todd. He goes for 17,640 YEN (167.17 USD) and will also be released this Novmeber.



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May 27, 2008

Gallery Teaser: I Guess This is The Main Dude...

I'm just guessing really. Black Jackie knows more than I who this guy is.

This is another Togainu no Chi Soft Vinyl figure from Kotobukiya. This one here is Akira who by looking at his eyes looks perfectly sane to me (that or he hasn't recovered from that Zeebra video I posted last week).

Anyway expect this to be posted up soon.



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May 25, 2008

Statue News: Hell a Lotta Green



I speak for the entire staff of HH when I say we are all huge Berserk fans. We all own a few of Art of War's magnificent statues. Last year AOW shattered the bar with their offering of their 1/10 scale Knight of Skeleton on horseback. Poised atop a Ogre head, it is simply one of the most magnificent statues I've ever seen. Now Zodd's nemesis returns in a new, extremely limited edition. This time instead of being a weathered silver, he is painted in a striking metallic green. These days its obvious he's silver, but this new scheme remembers his early days, when he was a mystic green hue. Personally, I always prefered this to the all-too-generic silver. And this isn't a mass produced piece; every one is a hand repaint by the in-house artists Only 20 pieces max will be made! The final kicker: a price tag of 80,000 yen!! This piece is for the most diehard of Berserk fans! If you're game, preorders start May 28th on their home page.

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KOTOBUKIYA Gallery: Togainu no Chi Soft Vinyl Figure



NEW GALLERY! Togainu no Chi Soft Vinyl Figure gallery!

Here's a quick gallery of the referee of Togainu no Chi~ After Arbitro, we have SHIKI!!!! !! My favorite!!!!! Akira will be coming soon (we got preview of it in this gallery though hehe~~~<3


Check out the gallery ^_^

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May 23, 2008

Gar News: This PVC statue Throws Away Your Logic and Kicks Reason to the Curb!



Tendou is away on business (*chortle*), but I know this is news that he would want posted right up. Eye Up Hobby is showing off pictures an upcoming release!

Pictures speak louder than words so:

Side note: Japanese toy companies take such better pics of their toys than US ones. Why is that?

Anyways, This 1/8 hunk of Gar-ness is due out late August, with an MSRP of 7800 yen (with the dollar being what it is now, I'm not even gonna bother converting that.)

心のマグマが炎と燃える !!!



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VIDEO: "We Need to Reach to the Japanese Audience!"

So here I am checking the stats for the site and I talk to Tendou about where hits are coming from, what popular pages we have and all that. To no ones surprise most of our hits from Hong Kong (which is huge for us as that’s practically toy capital of the world), Brazil, South East Asia... but only ok in Japan.

TENDOU: Hey, didn't we get tons of hits from the Jay Chou video you posted?

ME: Yeah and?

TENDOU: Oh Man, Post Up Some Zeebra!

ME: F**k no. I don't even like hip-hop. Think of something else.

TENDOU: Oh come on man! It's Zeebra. We need to reach the contemporary Japanese audience!!

*****after much bitching back and forth*****

ME: Fine I'll post a goddman Zeebra video but I chose the goddamn video because I'm the goddamn Gatack.

So since this is Tendou's most favorite music ever ever ever (oh he'll love reading that). Other than to whore out my post to get more Japanese viewers I chose this video because of its BLATANT use of SNICKERS in the video. No it's not a commercial. It’s an honest to god music video. It's hard not to laugh each time I see a Snickers in that video but apparently eating a Snickers can make you look cool and probably hook you up with someone hot.

Man those Japanese can improve on almost everything.

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Sideshow News: Nope. Sideshow PF Bruce Lee Gallery Won't Be on This Site.

Sorry.

There isn't going to be a Gallery of the Sideshow Premium Format Bruce Lee. The images are out and well I've got better things to spend money on.

Really, who here is surprised? Honestly who thought this was going to be great? In a scale of 1/10 it's a six. I was expecting a seven maybe eight from Sideshow but it's actually lower than my expectation (it's a shame Bruce Lee isn't some fictional Marvel character because I guarantee you they would have gotten him right then).

As it is now it doesn't look much like him. It doesn't look like Dragon Lee or Bruce Li or any other Bruce Clone I can think of either (FYI - it's all about Dragon Lee in clone department. Bruce Li is the Tom Welling of the Bruce Lee clone community. Looks great but stiff and boring as hell).

You're better off buying an ENTERBAY Bruce or if you're on a budget getting the MEDICOM Bruce (which is a damn great 1/6). Save your money.

Here are two high res images of the Sideshow Bruce Premium Format. I cropped out the body to just show you the head because if the head doesn't look good then the rest is doesn't really matter now does it?





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May 22, 2008

Movie News: Prayer Doesn't Work. DBZ Movie Still Happening.

My feelings for the upcoming Live Action Dragonball movie are well documented. Lets just say I don't like it. But since this movie is still going foward more and more images are coming out. Linked to the image below are bigger scans from the Roadshow magazine. You'll see clear shots of what Bulma and Yamcha others look like. Of course there is the man, Chow Yun Fat. Who is the best thing this movie has to offer.

Anyway get ready for a chosen gwai lo to save the universe (again).



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May 21, 2008

GALLERY TEASER: A Male Persona 3 Statue...

Don't see those around too often do we? Who is this? This is AKIHIKO SANADA from SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI. Sure he's 1/10 scale and isn't in scale with the Aegis and the Mitsuru but what can you do?

I'll tell you what you can do! You can email fanquestions@kotous.com and tell them (nicely) that you'd like them in the same 1/7 scale!

Back to Akihiko, expect this Koto gallery to be up soon. But enjoy the teaser (as much as you can) and watch the video below about him. Yeah it's a spoiler so don't say I didn't warn you.



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May 20, 2008

Gallery Teaser: It's SHIKI!!! No Wait... Wrong Shiki... Mother@&*C@%$!!!

Sorry guys. I was pumped for a second. I thought we had a Shiki statue from Samurai Spirits. I was pumped because she's hot you see. But this is a different Shiki from Togainu no Chi. This is a cool Chibi vinyl and all that. Honestly I don't know much about him other then he's into... odd things I had no idea you could do those kinds of things with a hand full of syringes... (****must remove images from brain*** ****must remove images from brain*** ****must remove images from brain***).

Other than the interesting images I've seen of him he seems to be pretty tough. Expect fellow Henshinhobby member Black Jackie 999 (she's the Togainu no Chi expert after all) to post this gallery up sometime soon.



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VIDEO: "These ALIENS... Aren't a Problem!"

Sometimes a concept is just too good. Sometimes crossovers fail us and leave us with empty wallets and empty hearts. However this... THIS could be the movie that re-invigorates the ALIEN franchise.

Too bad they’ll never make it.

Only in my dreams would Takeshi Miike direct a movie like this. And it would rock. Hard.

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May 19, 2008

FIGMA Gallery: You Say You Want A Revolution?

Lelouch Lamperouge is for sure someone who can ace any test that's in front of him. Although when it comes to physical activities he's not what I'd call a natural athlete. He's not really athletic and that came into play when this gallery was shot. While he does come with a gun he's not Tequila from Hard Boiled. He's not going to do anything fancy and we like to do our galleries that fit the character's personality (you're not going to see Bruce Lee pull off some Jet Li moves in our galleries).

This Lelouch Figma action figure is awesome. I've really been impressed with this line and I can only hope Max Factory does more characters from Code Geass. Hell there are plenty of characters they could do and I'd probably buy all of them.



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May 16, 2008

Sideshow News: MORTALLLL KOMBAA.... Sorry, Logo Threw Me Off.

Hey you look at that logo and tell me you weren't thinking Mortal Kombat. Anyway, looks like Sideshow will do a Premium Format of the legendary Bruce Lee.

Funny story about that.

Last year at SDCC I noticed that Sideshow put the Medicom Bruce Lee on display which caught my interest. After all, I had just posted my review of the Medicom Bruce a few weeks before so naturally I was curious. I went to a rep and asked him about it.

He had no idea what I was talking about.

All of a sudden the Bruce Medicom wasn't on display. He had no idea there was a Bruce there. I asked him where it was and he had no idea. As far as he was concerned he had (say it with me) no idea it was even put out (which I'm sure is the case as it's always Medicom or Hot Toys who set the non-SST items up at a show and not the SST staff). Anyway he said he didn't know about a 1/6 Bruce but did mention a PF Bruce. He had that look of "crap, I shouldn't have said that" on his face and I asked him point blank about it and he was mum really fast from that point on.

So I knew there was a PF Bruce coming down the pike from SST for a while now but no ones seen or heard anything about it. But finally last night there was a teaser of a PF Bruce. The first thing that came to mind other than Mortal Kombat (and a Shaw Brothers poster) is Arnie Kim. Honestly in this day and age it's hard to NOT think of him when it comes to sculptured Bruce's. He is the definitive Bruce Lee sculptor.

Whatever Sideshow has in mind I hope they aim high and get their best guy/people on this because ENTERBAY has set the Bruce Lee bar absurdly high.



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May 15, 2008

Sideshow News: BALROG is Here... and Looking Quite Buff

Maybe a bit too buff. I don't know. I dug the Gouki and the Ryu Premium Formats but Balrog (as he's called in Japan) is ok. I think Balrog here is based off the Jo Chen painting of him. I think he's a bit too buff and ripped to be honest.

He Kinda looks like the 2002 version of He-Man went to Spain got a poor man's Crying Freeman Tattoo. Regardless it does look nice and impressive but I think he's a bit too buff and has too many hard facial features. He's too damn manly looking.

Maybe this will be on the site, I don't know. But two versions of it are up right now on Sideshow. The exclusive one has "Interchangeable head and right hand for alternate unmasked display!" while the standard one doesn't. The good one, I mean the exclusive one goes for $274.99 and the non-exclusive one goes for $249.99.

Click the image below to check it out and pre-order.



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May 14, 2008

Gallery Teaser: Tiny Ankles Are Hot

Nothing worse than a chick with big feet and thick ankles. That's not hot. Ever. Normally with most teasers on this site it's pretty obvious who or what the character is but I'm in my perfume ad phase I guess and well it works for me.

Who is she? Well she's an attractive high school student who is also one incredible pilot. Hint? Ok fine. She just had a nude scene this past Saturday on Cartoon Network (which was blurred. Adult Swim my nuts).

Anyway expect her and certain other cast members of her show to be on this site.



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Street Fighter Edification 01: Street Fighter The Movie

So I hear there is another Street Fighter movie on the horizon. I've made my feelings about known about that movie (The Legend of Chun Li starring Lana Lang) before so I want to move onto something else. A movie that is both known and acknowledged (as opposed to celebrated and acclaimed) in certain circles of the Street Fighter fandom.

While some may scoff and deny the existence of this movie I embrace it, mainly for the utter cheesiness of it. Sure it's terrible on every level from characterization, costume, casting and plot but it does have one silver lining. A speech that would make kings weep. Look out Aragorn, Look out Bill Pullman in Independence Day, look out Mifune in Matrix Revolutions (easily the worst speech ever) and anyone else who's given a forced “rah rah” speech.

I give you this one speech that would shake the heavens. Just remember this new upcoming Street Fighter movie has to equal, NAY surpass this level of acting and excellence.

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May 13, 2008

KONAMI Gallery: Soldiers From Underground


Today's gallery is perhaps the Most Epic and GAR of all Trading Figure sets!!!! TEN O TSUKE!!!!!


Are you GAR enough??


Photos by Tendou

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Gallery Teaser: Lelouch... Fragrance for Men

I don't know why the teaser pic ended up looking like a men’s cologne ad but I'll take it. All I need is some kind of Udo Kier accent when I say "Frayyy-graaaance for Men" to make it sound really sexy... in German.

Anyway now that Cartoon Network has been showing Code Geass for about three weeks now I've noticed more traffic on the older Code Geass galleries.

Good. Because we've got more Code Geass items waiting to hit the site.



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May 12, 2008

WTF: God Hates Us More than I Originally Thought (Yeah It's Dragonball Movie Related)

While seeing Speed Racer crash and burn made my heart sing with glorious I-told-you-so glee (and for those waiting for it to do well in Japan... It's not. People in Japan don't give a crap about Speed Racer. Hope that wasn't too subtle of a message) I'm quickly brought back down to earth as I see this ad.

This ad is from today's Shonen Jump #24. As you can see it looks like complete and total garbage. I expect zero out of this movie as just by the looks of it, it looks like a bad cosplay group at some crappy mid-level anime convention (you know the ones; with fat Ryu’s, unattractive chicks wearing skimpy clothes hoping to divert attention from their face to their tits. You mean you've never been?!).

Regardless this movie will suck. I know it, you know it, the dog knows it. Hell I’m pretty sure Chow Yun Fat knows it and he’s in the damn thing.

SOURCE: dbzmovieblog



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May 09, 2008

Macross Edification 03: Macross Plus

Here we have my favorite Macross story. Macross Plus knocked me on my ass the moment I saw it. That series was beautiful, stunning and formidable. I saw it as a movie first and to this day it has influenced the way I edit and produce videos for the site (and for my job). Sure, I have influences from other things (ideas that I do take liberally) but in the end I always go back to whether it's "Macross Plus" good.

Maybe one day the anime gods will give us a blu-ray version of this.

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May 07, 2008

SHOOT TO FLY 003: TEN O TSUKE!!!!!


FINALLY IT'S HERE!!!!! MY MOST ANTICIPATED TOY EVER!!!! Konami's Great Impact Model GURREN LAGANN Diecast!!!!!


TEN O TSUKE!






Photos by Tendou

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May 06, 2008

WTF: Wow, This Actually IS Being Made...

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li is poised to make an enormous splash in movie theat.... heh heh heh... sorry. It's not going to do a goddamn thing in theaters. Who are we kidding? You know it, I know it, even our site mascot Henshin Dog knows it.

Sure, this movie could really improve on the 1994 Van Damme opus of cheese and horrifically accented one liners and the beautifully hysterical performance of the late Raul Julia (via con Dios) but why bother?

The first image is of Moon Bloodgood as Det. Maya Suneeand, a new character in the new SF Universe. Below that is Robin Shou as Gen. Always good to see Robin Shou even if he's doing stuff like this (hey any guy who shares screen time with Donnie Yen gets my respect). And random thought; I always wondered who would win in a battle royal; Robin Shou, Mark Dacascos, Jeff Speakmen, Gary Daniels or that skinny kid from Gymkata. Truly I have agonized over such things.

SOURCE: Street Fighter- The Legend of Chun Li



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May 05, 2008

Alpha Omega Gallery: I Think She's Wearing My Shirt...

Hell yeah! Episode five of the new season of Code Geass recently aired in Japan and needless to say it kicks ass. It kicks so much ass that I decided to post this gallery up of C.C. right now without a teaser. Yeah you heard me. No teaser just pantie... er just the gallery.

Anyway, enjoy the awesomeness that is C.C.

(Honestly after this gallery I feel that our motto should be, "We’re Henshinhobby. We don't shy away from panty shots." Works for me.)

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May 02, 2008

Macross Edification 02: MACROSS 7

In 1994 Macross 7 struck a cord with audiences. It's an incredible series but sadly was never released here. Unlike Macross and Macross Plus, Macross 7 hasn't made it's way here and probably never will (which is probably a good thing as the last thing I need is a miscast main character seiyu). But that doesn't mean I can't tell you about how great this series is.

When you think of Macross 7 and you immediately think of music. CD's, concerts -all that are big part of this series (and as we all know music is a huge part of Macross in general). The music is awesome as is the show itself (and the live concert stuff is fantastic. The audience is so into it, it sends chills up your spine). It's a shame really some won't ever be able to see it but trust me, it's worth the search.

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May 01, 2008

Err... about That Superman/Clark Kent 2-n-1 Gallery

Funny thing about that. Drives were damaged... images were lost... babies cried. It was like the Titanic but less epic.

Worry not, the gallery will be put up. Seriously it'll be up sometime soon.. Fer Real.

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