[Blade Raider]

Totally forgot I posted here as well.

This thing is selling wherever Toynami sells stuff, which is kind of random to me. I think comic shops would be the biggest buyers, but most comic shops around here don't care about anime items, so I rarely see them. The only big chains I've seen with Toynami stuff (mostly Blaech and Naruto stuff) are Fye, Waldenbooks (which I think is part of Borders now. I miss Walden), Hot Topics (Oh god, please no!), and maybe Barns and Noble. Think the best bet is getting them online.


Now a few details I forgot. My Kakashi's second head (with the eye covered) is painful (literally! That hair is pointy!) to get on the joint and his chin blocks it from going all the way down. I think this can be fixed with heat and working with it. Not sue what kind of plastic it is.

I'd like to be more clear on how the hip is made. The ball/socket joints are all connected to a plastic T-Bar. The outer hip (umm...the crotch) is made of a very soft rubbery plastic. Sence the hip is hollow with only the T-Bar inside, this means the T-Bar is free to move allowing the hips to shift back a forth.



The shoulder pads are made of the same soft rubbery plastic, making it easy to push outta the way of the shoulder joints and looks natural.

The copyright on his back is of interest. It reads © 2002MK-2007SP TOYNAMI/CHINA. Wonder if the others reads 2002 on them...that's just odd. Only connection I can figure is that 2002 was when the anime started in Japan and 2007 was when Shippuden started. So it's a copyright for the first series while this is made for the second series (Btw, Icha-Icha Tactics is the clue that makes him a Shippuden figure).




Scale: I found my last remaining Mattel Naruto figure (Rock Lee) and found out the scale is way off between the two. My mistake. At least I get a chance to make Rock Lee do the Nazi salute.