A Sexy Gladiator To Heat Up The Summer

 

Summer isn't coming up soon, but MegaHouse is letting us feel the July heat as they announce the preorder for the next addition to our POP collection, the semi-naked warrior - POP Sailing Again - Gladiator Rebecca. Preorders for this figure will start next Wednesday, 5th of March 2014 at 18:00 (JST).

The Phantom Sixth Man (Look What I Got 2014-02-14)

Last Friday, I was happy to have received my first Kuroko No Basuke figure from Hobby Frontier - The Kuroko No Basuke Figure Series - Tetsuya Kuroko by MegaHouse. I'm totally happy about this figure as it really looks close to Tetsuya Kuroko from the series, particularly in the anime. I was just surprised to see that it's kind of small for a 1/8th figure. But come to think of it, Kuroko is actually a small character, so I guess this is fine.

Zoro Has Lost His Way Again

Zoro has lost his way again... on the store shelves that is. This would mean that we won't be meeting with him this February. POP Edition-Z - Roronoa Zoro will be delayed according to a news from Megahobby Station. The release date was pushed to next month, March 2014. As a result, we're now down to two POP releases for this month - POP LIMITED - Nami (Mugiwara Ver), and POP Edition-Z - Monkey D. Luffy.

Earlier, they also announced the delay of POP MAS - Tony Tony Chopper (Horn Point). We initially expected four POP releases by February, but it turns out that we'll only be getting two. I hope there won't be any further delay announcements from MegaHouse for this month.

Wonder Festival 2014 Winter - GSC Fairy Tail

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.

Wonder Festival 2014 Winter - POP

Wonder Festival 2014 Winter has wrapped up last Sunday, 9th of February 2014, and there tons of new upcoming great figures for us from various figure manufacturers like Good Smile Company, Kotobukiya, Alter, MegaHouse, etc. But for the usual MegaHouse's POPs, there isn't much to see aside from some updates of the previously showcased during the MegaHobby EXPO 2013 Autumn and Jump Festa 2014 events. That was expected actually since they usually show us their big guns during MegaHobby EXPOs. But these updates though small, are enough to get us excited, specially to those who are waiting for the release of these new POPs. Let's check out these updates.

It's Going To Rain Meteors On August

It's going to rain meteors on August. Not on the One Piece anime or manga but on your wallets and on your display shelves. We got an info that Figuarts ZERO - Fujitora-Issho is expected to be released on August 2014. Priced only for 4,104 yen, but sadly, it is a Tamashii Web/Premium Bandai Web exclusive. I don't know what's the reason behind this exclusivity but I find it totally absurd.

Anime-only followers, watch-out for spoilers ahead.

A Sexy Addition To Your Punk Hazard Collection

The second Figuarts ZERO that was revealed during the Jump Festa 2014 event has already been given a pricing and release date. Figuarts ZERO - Baby 5 will be a June 2014 release and it will cost you 4,104 yen should you decide to own this sexy looking figure.

Baby 5 must be popular to be getting a Figuarts ZERO treatment rather than giving us Kinemon. Or maybe they are just simply continuing the Punk Hazard characters. They have already released Trafalgar Law, Caesar Clown, Smoker and Tashigi. Anyway, this figure seems to look nice. It's just that I'm not totally contented.

The Resurrection Of Marco The Phoenix

Finally, after two months of waiting since its introduction during the Megahobby EXPO 2013 Autumn, POP MAS - Marco the Phoenix has risen up for preorder yesterday (see the preorder announcement here). If you're still on the other side of the fence, then it's time for you to check out these official promo images and see the figure in all the interesting angles to help you decide.

These photos aren't much of a surprise actually. We've seen the figure's entirety on the exhibit photos. No optional interchangeable parts as we can see here, just like the previously released POP MAS - Rob Lucci (Leopard Kami-e Bushin Ver.). I suppose most of the POP in this class won't have any alternate parts.