Post by eMummy on Aug 25, 2008 12:58:44 GMT -5
Bleighdzes I opened my Priss last night and took a bunch of pics. Here is my take on it.
I was a big fan of Bubblegum Crisis back when I pretty much watched every vhs anime I could rent from Blockbuster. BGC was so influential to my drawing and creativity. So I was excited to preorder Yamato's Priss on BBTS. Well it came, and it was like $68.99 before tax and shipping.
Packaging is good, but I threw that out this morning. It has a nice flap to show off the contents, its pretty much wysiwyg.
She's actually tiny. 1/15th scale is pretty small. Here is a size comparison:
So from Left to Right: Hyperguardian, Pinky:St., Lego Minifig, Priss, Motoslave in bike mode, Revoltech Patlabor, Konami MMS (basically the base body of a busou shinki), and McFarlane toys's halo 3 fig.
Other than the size, the pieces are pretty well sculpted for the size. The motoslave is made of all solid color pieces, meaning there is little paint work on it, which i think is nice. Priss herself is like a PVC revoltech figure, she isn't very poseable in that her arms can't come out straight from the body. The elbow and knee joints are like smaller scale revolver joints (revoltech joints) without the clicking action.
Her shoulder is connected by a double ball joint, which gives her shoulders an interesting shoulder shrug movement.
She comes with a gun arm, alternate hands for fists, and connecting to the motoslave, and an alternate set of longer shoulder joints for fitting in the motoslave (which I got away without using)
The motoslave front end is magnetic. I have to say that transforming this thing the first time, I definitely needed the manual, and I felt that it could break at any moment if i forced anything. It's got incredibly tiny moving pieces that are really thin. I had to take care not to twist and break off stuff. The seat becomes the legs which are nice and the body intelligently takes form from the rest of the chassis. It comes with a really big gun too, which fits well into its hands.
Putting Priss in the motoslave is pretty straight forward. A kick stand pulls out of each leg for her heels to fit into, but you do have to pull her knees to extend on the revolver joint to get them to sit properly. She comes with a stand with pegs for just her which fits in a large base for the motoslave which keeps it elevated. It makes sense with Priss and the bike, and Priss in the motoslave, but not Priss standing next to the motoslave, it's just not positioned well for that, but I did it anyways.
So would I tell you to spend $70 on one of these? I'll tell you right off that I'm not going to get the other 3 that are coming out. Even though I love the hardsuit designs on Linna and Sylia, I'm going to pass on them. They are small, fairly unposeable, and while I can see that the price probably makes up for the really complex motoslave transformation, Priss herself is really lacking. A good Busou SHinki figure like Ach comes very close to a Knightsaber and is about $25 less that this release. It is very nostalgic having Priss on my display case, but I feel that we really haven't been given a GOOD Knightsaber release. It almost seems that Konami's MMS figures were made to be dressed in a Hardsuit and Ach (the motorbike type Busou Shinki) really comes close in giving that knightsaber feel. Yamato Priss sadly DOES NOT rock me like a hurricane.
verdict: wait for something better or get a Busou Shinki Ach. PM me about it.
I was a big fan of Bubblegum Crisis back when I pretty much watched every vhs anime I could rent from Blockbuster. BGC was so influential to my drawing and creativity. So I was excited to preorder Yamato's Priss on BBTS. Well it came, and it was like $68.99 before tax and shipping.
Packaging is good, but I threw that out this morning. It has a nice flap to show off the contents, its pretty much wysiwyg.
She's actually tiny. 1/15th scale is pretty small. Here is a size comparison:
So from Left to Right: Hyperguardian, Pinky:St., Lego Minifig, Priss, Motoslave in bike mode, Revoltech Patlabor, Konami MMS (basically the base body of a busou shinki), and McFarlane toys's halo 3 fig.
Other than the size, the pieces are pretty well sculpted for the size. The motoslave is made of all solid color pieces, meaning there is little paint work on it, which i think is nice. Priss herself is like a PVC revoltech figure, she isn't very poseable in that her arms can't come out straight from the body. The elbow and knee joints are like smaller scale revolver joints (revoltech joints) without the clicking action.
Her shoulder is connected by a double ball joint, which gives her shoulders an interesting shoulder shrug movement.
She comes with a gun arm, alternate hands for fists, and connecting to the motoslave, and an alternate set of longer shoulder joints for fitting in the motoslave (which I got away without using)
The motoslave front end is magnetic. I have to say that transforming this thing the first time, I definitely needed the manual, and I felt that it could break at any moment if i forced anything. It's got incredibly tiny moving pieces that are really thin. I had to take care not to twist and break off stuff. The seat becomes the legs which are nice and the body intelligently takes form from the rest of the chassis. It comes with a really big gun too, which fits well into its hands.
Putting Priss in the motoslave is pretty straight forward. A kick stand pulls out of each leg for her heels to fit into, but you do have to pull her knees to extend on the revolver joint to get them to sit properly. She comes with a stand with pegs for just her which fits in a large base for the motoslave which keeps it elevated. It makes sense with Priss and the bike, and Priss in the motoslave, but not Priss standing next to the motoslave, it's just not positioned well for that, but I did it anyways.
So would I tell you to spend $70 on one of these? I'll tell you right off that I'm not going to get the other 3 that are coming out. Even though I love the hardsuit designs on Linna and Sylia, I'm going to pass on them. They are small, fairly unposeable, and while I can see that the price probably makes up for the really complex motoslave transformation, Priss herself is really lacking. A good Busou SHinki figure like Ach comes very close to a Knightsaber and is about $25 less that this release. It is very nostalgic having Priss on my display case, but I feel that we really haven't been given a GOOD Knightsaber release. It almost seems that Konami's MMS figures were made to be dressed in a Hardsuit and Ach (the motorbike type Busou Shinki) really comes close in giving that knightsaber feel. Yamato Priss sadly DOES NOT rock me like a hurricane.
verdict: wait for something better or get a Busou Shinki Ach. PM me about it.
