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NEW GALLERY! Togainu no Chi Soft Vinyl Figure gallery!
Here's a quick gallery of the referee of Togainu no Chi~ After Arbitro, and Shiki, here's our Akira!! :D
Check out the gallery ^_^
FROM NEWSARAMA.COM
Unfortunately it's with great sadness that I must inform everyone that Michael Turner tragically passed away last night, June 27th at approximately 10:42 pm in Santa Monica, Ca. Turner had been dealing with recent health complications arisen in the past few weeks. More details concerning Turner's passing, and services, will be given shortly.
Anyone wishing to send their condolences to Michael Turner's family is encouraged to send to:
Aspen MLT, Inc.
C/O Michael Turner
5855 Green Valley Circle, Suite 111
Culver City, CA, 90230
Aspen also encourages anyone wishing to make a charitable donation to please send to Michael Turner's requested charities:
The American Cancer Society
Or
The Make-A-Wish Foundation
Turner was diagnosed with chondrosarcoma (a bone-based cancer that attacks the cartilage) in March of 2000, which ultimately cost him his right hip, a portion of his pelvis and several pounds of bone. Turner was very open about his cancer, making convention appearances throughout the entire time, and never giving in to the illness.
Mike got his major break in comics at Top Cow, where he made his name as the artist on Witchblade with a look that was reminiscent of studio founder Marc Silvestri, but was all his own. His work was highly in demand throughout his career, and he was a frequent cover artist for a diverse number of series over the years. Turner’s style influenced many artists in the new millennium, probably more than Turner himself ever realized.
Turner’s creator-owned Fathom debuted in 1998, and in 2002, he left Top Cow to found his own Aspen MLT, Inc. where he saw Fathom resurface, along with other projects such as Soulfire and Ekos. Turner had done a significant portion of work at DC early in the decade, providing covers for Identity Crisis and Flash, as well as for the “Godfall” arc in the Superman titles (which he co-wrote), and the interior art for “Supergirl from Krypton” in Superman/Batman, where he and writer Jeph Loeb re-introduced Supergirl into the modern DC Universe. More recently, he had been providing variant covers for Marvel titles, such as next month’s Uncanny X-Men #500. At his most recent convention appearances, both Turner, and later Aspen representatives spoke of how the artist was eager to complete his obligations to other companies, so he could finally get back to work on his own projects at Aspen.
Despite his illness, Turner was one of the most upbeat people at conventions and in the industry. He always radiated a sense of humility and gratitude to his fans, and always had time for a quick chat or a smile. In an industry that can and has beat the happiness out of many creators, Mike was resistant to it, and was ever happy to work and talk to his fans, and even talk to the press. From the first moment you met him, you were his friend, and he treated you like he'd known you all his life.
Since his initial diagnosis in 2000, Turner had several ups and downs, but, surely thanks in part to his positive attitude, he was seen as the guy who was going to beat it, and be drawing for years to come - he just had to kick this thing first. Mike was 37.
Said I'd talk about the limited releases and so here I am.
First up is Shadowmoon and you have to send off mail away info that comes with the Kamen Rider Black Medicom. Needless to say this bit of news is what excited me the most. Next we have an olive suit version of Snake from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. I doubt this will be the last Snake we get from that game. To wrap up this post we have Kouichi Haruyama from CROWS X WORSE and Father of Ultra.
So here we are with some more info on SOME of the Medicom's that were shown in the Medicom Toy Exhibition 2008.
Here we have a Batman Begins suit V2 that appears in The Dark Knight, the Heath Ledger Joker again from The Dark Knight, Piccolo from Dragaon Ball Z and The Nega form of Kamen Rider Den Oh. All the appropriate info is on the images themselves.
Next up, the limited Medi's.
Here is the first official picture Dragonball movie poster. Behold the power of the montage. At least it's better than the floating head posters that some studio's use. It says DRAGONBALL: THE LEGEND COMES TO LIFE.
I'm sure it will.
Hey it's True.
Anyway here is one we just did of a one-sixth Rei Ayanami and it's one of the nicest ones I've seen. Rei gets all the good stuff even after all these years. She always gets nice merchandise and this one is no exception and I like this statue a lot. Yeah there have been plenty of nice ones in the past but there is no such thing as too many nice Rei statues (same goes for Chun Li and Mai Shiranui).
So without further ado please enjoy the gallery!
NOW we're talking about HUGE news!
I don't know where to begin so before I go on I'll give credit to newsvisualmedia.com/HK for their pix.
These are pix from the Medicom Toy Exhibition 2008 and let’s just go down the list of what we see…
We see Shadowmoon from Kamen Rider Black for the very first time as he’s standing next to Kamen Rider Black AND Kamen Rider Black RX. Needless to say they look vicious and I must get them.
We then see unpainted prototype parts for a new Kamen Rider Stronger RAH 220. Not much to really say as there is no finished product but the pick confirms that they are making one.
Next up we have a contingent of Kamen Rider Den-oh characters. We see a closer image of Momotaros (that’s the red demon looking guy with the cup who also happens to be the most popular guy in the series), the PLAT form of Den-Oh (the plain white one) and the Nega Den-Oh Form .
Next up we have a couple of Ultramen. We have Ultraman Leo (the one with the smaller horns) and Father of Ultra (YES)!
Next we have the Toriyama character section. We Son Goku along with an incredible Piccolo and a VCD of Son Gohan (Freeza Saga version). Then we have Arale and Obotchaman from Dr. Slump.
After that we have The Dark Knight one-sixth. We see Bruce Wayne, Batman and the Joker. Joker’s head looks amazing. I like the Hot Toys clothes more but I like the head of this one better. Gotta get both I guess.
On the Star Wars front we have an Episode III Anakin Skywalker and a classic Episode IV Han Solo. Han looks great… easily the best looking Han I’ve seen, great proportions. There are some clone troopers and some kubrick’s and a VCD or two. Big news obviously is the Ani and Han one-sixth.
Next we have two incredible one-sixth from the CROWS : Z.E.R.O movie as the two rivals Serizawa (the dude with the flowered shirt) and Genji are well represented here. I actually feel like watching the movie again. Next to them are several other Crows characters from the manga. It’s worth mentioning that the dude in the green trench is KOUICHI HARUYAMA and he’s a fan favorite. The TFOA guy you see with the big curl is Shogo Nurata. Next to Shogo is Tesho who is also a TFOA (which stands the Front of Armament).
After that we have the Hokuto No Ken (Fist of the North Star) lot. Big thing in this shot is that we get to see a Jagi one-sixth (the one with the helmet). Now that I think about it this is the first posable Jagi character figure in ten years (I think the last one was from the Kaiyodo 199x line). The Kenshiro in the middle is a darker blued version of the first of the first release of the Kenshiro figure. It looks like it’s based from the current movie series. We can’t see the other shoulder pad so we don’t know exactly which version it is. It could be the Wonderfest one but it’s hard to confirm by the image here.
Next we have the iconic Captain Harlock. This is the second release of Captain Harlock from Medicom but the first one was released about a decade ago. Needless to say he crazy awesome and one could only hope that this means that Medicom will go back and re-do the previous releases like Ashitano Joe and Black Jack in an updated DX form.
Next up is JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure Part Seven: Steel Ball Run. Gyro Zepelli is one of the two main characters (the more popular one). Hopefully this means Johnny Joestar and other JoJo characters from other storylines are next. We all saw JoJo one-sixth coming rvrt since the WF Bao was released.
Next up we have Chun Li from Street Fighter. What sticks out here the most is that she has the muscle thigh action thing going on and she looks like she’s from Street Fighter III: Third Strike. Also it’s great to see a new posable female body from Medicom. Maybe they’ll release a Street Fighter Zero one where she’s wearing the tights to. Can’t get enough Chun Li!
We have a new Snake from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. This shouldn’t be a surprise since the first Medicom Snake had several releases. And I’m pretty sure that won’t be the last Snake released either.
Next up we have Sweeny Todd…. Moving on…
And Finally Indiana Jones gets another figure in the Medicom Library as we have a great representation of the late River Phoenix as a young Indiana Jones from my favorite movie in the series, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Whew.
You know when I made this little teaser I must have subconsciously yearned for some 80's teen sex romp because upon further review this looks like a teaser for Porky's 4: The Quickening (if only). But if you know your PVC cooter shots then you can tell this is Yoko from Gurren Lagann.
Honest.
She's a red head and really that's all you need to know (I call it the M.J. rule). Expect her on this site soon... seriously.
What is Jigoku Shôjo? Who is Jigoku Shôjo?
In all honesty I sorta know but not really. Sometimes I arrive at Henshinhobby HQ and I see stacks of new toys and things that Tendou recently bought or got as a free sample (honestly he gets tons. I'd have to quit my job if I were to do a gallery of EVERYTHING he gets). So this long haired goth chick with red hair looks cool.
That's cool I guess. Tendou could tell you everything about this series in any of it's incarnations (anime or live action). I on the other hand will show you the first opening of the show. And sorry for the lack of updates but I've been sick as a dog for a while (fret not true believer, it's not the consumption). We have some REALLY great galleries on the way (WATAAAAA!) so please bear with us.
Date Masamune is a name that can bring about many different emotions. Personally I'lm glad I'm not Japanese because I've seen them go back and forth on that BUT what I can say that he looks pretty damn cool. As he does in Sengoku Basara 2 (Capcom game for the PS2).
And thanks again to Kotobukiya we've got a sweet representation of Date from the Sengoku Basara 2 game. He's crazy nice I tells ya'.
Below is the Japanese PS2 opening.
Wow now THIS is a dream piece! Some item props are very expensive but are usually made of fiberglass. This one is made out of iron. Forged like the old Japanese Kabuto Helmets, that's both old school and hardcore. It also means that this 1/1 scale helmet must be one heavy monster. For those who can't tell by looking this helmet is one of Raoh's. I can say easily it’s his most famous one.
Here is what ART OF WAR themselves have to say about the crafting of this helmet:
Using same materials and technique of Japanese traditional helmet、the item will still be appreciated 100 years later. Hand-perfected by the artisan、the shape of the Kabuto is achieved one by one from striking iron. By using real material completely for this Kabuto, ART OF WAR guarantees that this effort detail is suitable for Raoh's own personality.
I heard that Art of War (makers of the excellent Berserk statue line) were making HNK props. Two things came to mind when I heard that.
1) Wow that's awesome!
2) Wow that's going to be expensive!
Right on both counts. I respect AOW and I love what they've done with the Berserk license and for years I always dreamt about what they would do with the Hokuto No Ken Licsense. I was hoping for statues but I got a one of a kind Raoh Ken-oh Helmet. I can live with that.
This incredibly awesome item is 450,000 YEN which is about 4,242.88 USD and it's limited to 30 pieces..
A new video for all you Persona 3 fans. Featuring all Kotobukiya figures released so far. Now we only need to bug them to make an entire lineup in 1/7 scale!
Photos by Tendou
And you'd check out this new Gallery if you don't want to feel that way again.
Maybe I'm just being cynical. Maybe I'm seeing this as glass half empty but when I first read that this was in the works I wondered to myself ok, what white dude is going to play Light? Shia Lebouf? Justin Chadwick? Tom Welling (They’re not that dumb). Hey these things happen. Sadly.
ShockTillYouDrop.com broke this news that...
Within Universal's production notes for The Strangers it has been revealed - under producer Doug Davison's bio - writers Vlas and Charles Parlapanides are penning an American remake of Death Note for Vertigo Films. The brothers are currently overseeing the development of CW's upcoming television series Undercover, directed by John Stockwell (Turistas).
Regardless of whatever racial make-up the cast is the movie should be a hit. It's a great premise, great cat and mouse scenes, great icon creating characters and well only a complete and total twat of a director would take all the positives of Death Note and ruin it.
Death Note, Shusuke Kaneko's adaptation of the popular manga, has become a cult hit and spawned a sequel Death Note: The Last Name. The story concerns a student, Light Yagami, who discovers a notebook that gives him the ability to jot someone's name down within its pages and kill someone.
Vertigo, in addition to producing Strangers, is also at work on a remake of Anguish.
And now since I know you just couldn’t sleep without it, the limited Medi news is here.
Before I go into the details I gotta say that I MUST own this. Not just because I’m a huge fan of the Sakurajima look but I also have the original limited RAH 220 (from years and years ago) Sakurajima. What sucks is that he goes for 16,800 YEN (160.90USD). That’s no chump change. This is a Kamen Rider #1 Sakurajima Toei Hero Exclusive website offering. Expect him to hit the streets December of this year. He’s RAH220 #57.
Next up is HANAKI GURIKO from Crows X Worst. This is a Glam Store exclusive which will be available this month and goes for 14,490 YEN (138.77 USD). Hanaki is RAH #386.
And rounding it this update is RAH #414, Akiko Fuji from the original Ultraman television show from 1966. To get her you need to send in the mailing coupon from Ultraman C-Type Medicom. She goes for 13,440 YEN (128.72 USD) and will also be released January 2009.
Photos by Tendou
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