[Joe Moore]

Pacific Rim Uprising Robot Spirits Series 2 - Toyark Photo Shoot

[Alucard1138]

Great pics as always. Uprising was good, but not great. But these Bandai figures are fantastic for the price point. Though, I would really like for them to revisit the original film and make figures from that. I like the original Jaeger aesthetics more, and there were more and cooler looking Kaiju in the original. I think the only downside to these are lack of paint weathering, but Bandai is releasing these in their snapkit model forms, so I'll buy those up and custom paint them all. 6 figures in now, that's basically all the Jaegers I remember from Uprising, aside from Scrapper. What do they have left to make, a few more Kaiju and maybe some variants?

[Joe Moore]

I've seen a lot of people do washes and use Gundam markers to do detail lining and those adjustments really help the molds pop a bit more.

[Alucard1138]

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Originally Posted by Joe Moore

I've seen a lot of people do washes and use Gundam markers to do detail lining and those adjustments really help the molds pop a bit more.

I may get a 2nd one to paint up. Really I'm fine with how they are, still has good paint apps and details. These make me very excited for the Bandai model kits because they'll be just like these in terms of articulation, but will have more details since they're all separate pieces, and then I can custom paint it. As much as I love Neca, I think Bandai kinda has a grip on Robots, these aren't as big as the Neca releases from the original but far less QC issues and much better articulation.

[K Dubious]

I'm all in on these, and just a heads up if Gamestop is still doing the bag deal you can get 25% off of them. They even had the Gypsy Model kit at a couple of the stores, but I held off on the model for now.

I have not seen the movie yet and I will wait to display them until I have seen the flick, but as much as I liked the first movie I have a feeling I will enjoy this one as well.

Also a minor nitpick in the review/description "around $20" should be changed to "around $30" since the only jaeger that was $20 was Gypsy, the rest have all been $29.99.

[Alucard1138]

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Originally Posted by K Dubious

I'm all in on these, and just a heads up if Gamestop is still doing the bag deal you can get 25% off of them. They even had the Gypsy Model kit at a couple of the stores, but I held off on the model for now.

I have not seen the movie yet and I will wait to display them until I have seen the flick, but as much as I liked the first movie I have a feeling I will enjoy this one as well.

Also a minor nitpick in the review/description "around $20" should be changed to "around $30" since the only jaeger that was $20 was Gypsy, the rest have all been $29.99.

Oh nice, didn't know Gamestop had these, thanks for the heads up.

I think you'll like Uprising, most likely not as much as the first, but the sequel does its own thing and isn't a big rehash. If you liked the trailers you should like the movie just fine.

Gypsy Avenger had been $19, so I got one to open and one to keep carded, now he's up to $30 like the rest.

[Snowflakian]

Definitely need to pick up Gypsy Avenger and Obsidian Fury. Not sure on the rest. Do wish that a better articulated to scale Scrapper was made. The movie was a fun ride and setup fuel for an even more action filled third one.

Gotta admit I enjoyed Scrapper a heck of a lot more than I expected. So much heart in that tiny little bot, especially with how earnest the pilots of it were. As a support Jaeger, it was freaking brilliant.

Obsidian Fury I kind of wish had some more action screen time too. That design was awesome and I hope leads to some reconfigurations for Avenger in the third film to finally give the Gypsy Jaeger series dual swords.

While the sequel was a bit of a crisper pace than the first one, gotta admit what they packed in did have a lot of nice impact and homages all around, and some nice parallels in new ways. Where the first one was more about stepping out of retirement and last stands to go out swinging, this one was much more rising to the occasion and forging a new legend ready to carry the fight to the enemy.

I really like where the films and designs are going, and even the toys reflect that well. The first movie being more "dirty and brushing the debris off your shoulders" reflected in both the grittiness of the toys with battle damaged versions and the ship club one came with, to this film feeling more bright and hopeful, cleaner/cleaning up ones act to how the toys are a little brighter and cleaner and more agile. Very night and day like how the films are very night and day.

Very cool in comparison. Wonder what movie 3/toy series 3 will do to compliment the previous two and pull in the best of both.