Recap of 2008: Top 10 Awards

Year 2008 was a good year for me, at least as a toy collector. I hereby wish to share this past year achievement with all of you in this "award" ceremony. XD

1) Most Dashing Award: Play Arts Final Fantasy VII Advent Children - Cloud Strife w/ Fenrir

For those FF fans out there, who can deny the coolness of Cloud on his Fenrir bike in "Advent Children" ;)

2) Most Exclusive Award: Transformers Alternators - Decepticon Rumble

This is a Wal-Mart exclusive piece that you can't find it anywhere in the local toy shop (correct me if I'm wrong). Rumble in the original Transformers series is actually a cassette tape warrior. In this alternate mode, he turns into a red hot Honda Civic Si.

3) Most Difficult-to-Get Award: Saint Seiya Myth Cloth - Final Bronze Cloth Andromeda Shun

Getting this baby has gotten me into a lot of trouble including searching every corner of the internet & toy shop, plus liaising with the seller. I took about 3 months to get my hands on this from the point of sale.

4) Most Adorable Award: Kaiyodo Revoltech - Danboard

Just look at this figurine, need I say more? (",)

5) Most Prized-Investment Award: Bandai Movie Realization - Batman & Bat-pod

This piece has received alot of controversies such as the batman figure depiction, etc. Nevertheless, due to the movie success of "Dark Knight", it still remain as one of the most sought-for toy with steady price appreciation.

6) Most value-for-money: Saint Seiya Myth Cloth - Poseidon Julian Solo

The God of the sea in Saint Seiya comes with the Poseidon Scales Armor, a red cape for the 'bling bling' armor, his most powerful trident, the royal throne & his alternate royal white clothing. What more can you ask for?

7) Most Touching-Moment Award: Bandai BB Senshi - BB#275 Musha Dragon Monk Nu

A little explanation is needed here for the questionable award title. This piece won the title purely because it concludes my conquest in completing my "Musha Retsuden" collection after so long. Touching~ T_T

8) Most Suprising Award: Bandai Macross Frontier - VF-25F Altoh Custom

The reason why this won the Most Suprising Award is because I never expect myself to acquire any mecha toy that is out of 1/100 scale, until I watched the entire series of Macross Frontier. The series is so great that I bought this 1/72 scale toy without hesitation.

9) Most Memorable Award: SOTA Toys - Street Fighters Vega

When I was young, my first interaction with fighting game was the "Street Fighters II". Of all the fighters in SF2, Vega is one of the most suave-looking yet mysteriously strong & agile character. I even remembered as a boy I even made his claw weapon out of "Pocky" biscuit box & straws. So much for the fun memories..

10) Most "Humongous" Award: Bandai Master Grade Gundam - Perfect Zeong

Definition for "Humongous" - Huge + Monstrous

Just look at the size of the box in contrast with my Gundam RX-78 ver 2.0. Hope i can squeeze some time in 2009 to complete this kit. XD

This concludes my 2008 Award Ceremony. I hope there's a 2009 award ceremony too. XD

Final Catch of October

Got this from hlj yesterday. Finally get my hands on BB279 & HG 1/100 V2 Gundam.

This is one of the 3 missing SD gundam for my "Musharetsuden" series. That means I'm still left with BB267 & BB275 (Again if ANYONE has any idea where i can get them please let me know, thanks ^_^).

Side view of the box. He's got this really awsome shuriken that turns into different weapons.

Probably one of the BB gundam that requires the least number of colouring. You really just need black, white, gold and maybe red gundam markers. :D

Next is my V2 gundam. This is probably the smallest 1/100 scale gundam ever.

Yup, it can transform!

A look inside. You notice that the runners for the kit comes in dual colour, which means minimal colouring is needed. ^_^ Also, the manual is half the usual size.

A sneak peek of the manual.

Lastly, i got these encyclopedia of "Saint Seiya Myth Cloth" & "Musharetsuden" series.

A peek inside at both.

The Gundam Weapon Musharetsuden issue contains all released BB gundam from this series, as well as some modified BBs.

The modified Noomaru looks mouth-watering :....

The book contains not just "Myth Cloth" series but all saint seiya related toys. The bottom left is the Prototype Pegasus Cloth from the "Saint Seiya~Heaven Overture" OVA.

Did I just see another potential Seiya to milk our money?

Pit Stop: BB Collection

Hee missed out this box during my "collection photo shoot" previously. Keroro Gunso is one anime that Gundam Fans should watch. They made many parody of Gundam 0079, some of which are really hilarious. The storyline is about this alien frog platoon (yes, they are frogs from outer space) came to Earth to take over the human race. However, their captain, Keroro, spend half the time working as a housemaid to earn money building his Gunpla empire.

Anyway, this is the GodKeron DX model kit. It includes 5 mecha controlled by each alien frog and can "gattai" into one giant mama.

However, this is not an official review of this model kit. ^_^

As you can see, i have use the box to store my BB Senshi and other collections.

My SD Gundam "Musharetsuden Zero" series. All packed in plastic bags individually to avoid damages and paint marks. Still short of BB267, BB275 & BB279 to complete my collection. If anyone whose reading this and have any ideas where i can get my hands on them, please let me know :D

Other collections include "1/35 Code Geass" series. Only got Guren, Vincent & Lancelot. Only hope Bandai can produce some more Code Geass model kit.

The mechas and the pilot frogs below.

"Kerokerokero.. Tamatamatama.. Girogirogiro..Kurukurukuru..Dorodorodoro.." (Catchphrase of the anime when they are "resonating" with one another).