There are plenty of upcoming new figures from Good Smile Company, but what has really gotten the best of my attention are the new prototypes and announcement with regards to their 1/7th scale Fairy Tail figures. It's has been quite a while since they released 1/7th scale Lucy Heartfilia - their first Fairy Tail scaled figure and we haven't got any news to follow up on this line since then. But during last week's Wonder Festival 2014 Winter, we got not one... not two... but three announcements of Fairy Tail scaled figures from GSC.
They are going to release the first four main characters from the series. Yes, that's right, we will be getting Natsu Dragneel, Gray Fullbuster and Erza Scarlet. Isn't that a wonderful news to us Fairy Tail fans? GSC seems to be going along the returning popularity of the anime series which will resume by April 2014.
Natsu Dragneel
GSC has gotten far ahead with Natsu before his prototype was revealed. It is already fully completed to the point where it already have an official promo shot. It's looking great, but I find that the head is a bit smaller in proportion to his body. Doesn't look too bad though. You will notice that the skin tone is a bit darker compared to the anime. Not really a problem since he's actually described to have a slightly tan skin tone in the manga.
He's displaying his fire magic ability on his left hand and like Lucy, he's also on his pre-timeskip appearance. This is the best Natsu scaled figure to date, and yes, including that mediocre Natsu from Tsume (Sorry, I'm really not satisfied of that).
No pricing and release date yet, but seeing this fully completed prototype, it should be on preorder soon. Do I really have to say that this is a must get?
Gray Fullbuster
The second male lead of the series. It's really surprising that GSC is giving us male scaled figures before their usual female releases. Gray is still in it's unpainted prototype stage, but you can now have a very good idea of how would the fully completed prototype would look like. Judging from the looks of the face, you cannot really tell that this is Gray in an instant, only when you notice the clothing and his "Ice-make" gesture. His clothing by the way is also in pre-timeskip, same as Lucy and Natsu.
Overall, it really looks fine. I just hope that the likeness to Gray will improve after it is painted. Regardless, this is the first scaled figure of Gray Fullbuster and it's from none other than Good Smile Company. Can't wait for the fully completed prototype.
No pricing and release date yet, but its said to be released this year (2014).
Erza Scarlet
The last announcement may not have a prototype yet, but this is enough to really get us fans excited. One of the image on GSC's wall of teasers is an announcement of an Erza Scarlet figure. The photo shows her in her casual armor - the Heart Kreuz, but we're not sure yet if that's what we'll be getting. If she's indeed going to be wearing that, then I would like to see how it compares to Tsume release which I also find mediocre.
There also isn't much of a good Erza Scarlet figure out there. There's only two that I know of actually, the Tsume HQF and the and the Yoto Benisakura by Amakuni. For me, none of those really satisfy the lack of Erza scarlet figures. And yes, those ecchi figures from X-plus doesn't even count. They just ruin my respect to these characters.
I'm pretty sure that GSC will produce one hell of a great looking S-Class Mage of Fairy Tail. Please GSC, don't disappoint me.
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