This post is one week late but yeah. I got into Love Live in autumn last year and never watched any of their concerts live until their final one on April 1st where I managed to get a ticket to a live viewing at a cinema near my place.
Watching the concert inside a theatre with Japanese fans was interesting as most if not all of them were waving light sticks, but I didn’t have any. At the end there were quite a few people crying too.
In the previous post I mentioned getting a Tamiya router. It’s overpriced compared to other alternatives out there, but due to its design it’s possible to upgrade this router with parts for Mini 4WD cars.
Continue reading Tamiya Electric Handy Router
This is a new series of posts about building and setting up a Tamiya Mini 4WD machine from scratch. I’ll be sharing my machine and setup as well has how it was built. While this machine is not battle-proven in official races, the current setup has an average speed and I’m still working on improvements to its stability.
I decided to build a machine recently but due to official race regulations requiring a painted body, I couldn’t make it to enter the Spring 2016 Japan Cup qualification which was held at Kumamoto Prefecture, near where I live.
The last time I played with these things was probably around 18 to 20 years ago, where as a kid the bottleneck was pocket money and the parts on your machine were limited to whatever you could afford back then with your meagre savings. Apparently in Japan Mini 4WD is experiencing a sort of revival recently, and there are numerous changes and new parts introduced over the years. Of note this time round is the heavy emphasis on jump/airborne stability as race courses are three-dimensional with jumps where poorly set-up machines will fly off course.
Continue reading Mini 4WD Madness! Part 1: Getting Started
Continuing the review with Ikaros Force this week.
Continue reading LBX Z Mode Ikaros Zero & Ikaros Force – Part 2
While Amazon Japan had this toy on sale at around half price, I managed to win an auction for a bit cheaper. Since the plastic models are out of print as of writing this, many of them have been fetching ridiculous prices on the secondary market considering how cheap they originally were. Also, this toy has the same gimmicks as the plastic model equivalents except with a bit of die-cast and some slightly improved detail, but they fetch a pretty penny at retail, costing around five times the combined price of the equivalent pair of plastic models.
Continue reading LBX Z Mode Ikaros Zero & Ikaros Force – Part 1
An even shorter post than last week’s this is a Customable Choro Q toy, the predecessor of the Super Customable toys. There wasn’t much variety and all the cars were just redecos of the same thing. There were some bumpers you could buy and they looked like simpler versions of the AT System parts.
Continue reading Customable Choro Q RCP90
This is an almost 20 year old toy with not much of a gimmick so this post will be brief.
Continue reading Super Customable Choro-Q Mazda RX-7
Here’s a fairly old Microman figure I got off Mandarake.
Continue reading Microman Acroyear X-2 Acroplana
This is a special box set containing a Combat Phoenix, Mega Cannon Wing, EX Stay Barrel and EX Plate Magazine in a limited colour scheme. I’m not sure exactly how limited or special this was as I got it off Yahoo Auction for a better price than if I were to hunt for the Mega Cannon Wing on its own.
Continue reading Super B-Daman Combat Phoenix Special Set
Sorry for the brief post for this week as I didn’t lump these pictures together with last week’s post. I might have the spelling for this guy wrong because I’ve only seen it written in Japanese.
Chris Whiter, Chris Blued and Chris Greaver are similarly sized to one another.
Here’s Chris Blacker in the picture; he’s about twice as tall and large compared to the other three toys.
Here are the individual toys in their combiner forms. The clear parts from Chris Blued and Chris Greaver go onto the combiner mode helmet.
Everything is slapped together to form B-Da Caliber.
Rear view. Notice the legs are hollow.
You get three B-Daman figures left over. In combiner mode this toy can still fire marbles using Chris Blacker’s B-Da Unit. You can also mount B-Da Units from all the previous toys onto the shoulders, hips and legs. Even if I had access to my other toys back home I would not be able to reproduce this form as I don’t have the bad guys’ toys.
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