Nine Over Ten 9/10

I’m beginning to wonder, with all the price cuts this particular Nintendo BOX Figure Collection Part 5: Mario vs. Donkey Kong is getting, why hasn’t it been sold out? Bear in mind people, this is an entire collection of Mario vs. Donkey Kong figurines that you’ll be getting, not some randomly shipped item. And it’s yours for a brand new price of just USD 9.90.

I bought mine quite some time ago at the original price of USD 14.90 and I can tell you that even at that price, it was already a bargain.

Interested? Click here for details.

It’s all about Dragon Ball Z this Christmas with the release of various series of toys featuring the characters from the popular anime.

First up we have the 40th Weekly Jump Dragon Ball Z X One Piece Key Chain Toy collection. This collection of 4 different key chains features Goku & Luffy, Piccolo & Zoro, Trunks & Sanji and Chopper & Kirillin. With each of them having their costumes swapped with their respective partners, this is one interesting mash up. Click here for purchase information.

Next up is the 40th Weekly Jump Dragon Ball Z X One Piece Competing of Dream Pre-Painted Trading Figure collection. With all the mash-ups going on in earlier mentioned Key Chain collection, the One Piece and Dragon Ball Z character are back in their own garbs and are now in various poses.

Pairs of characters featured include Son Goku & Luffy, Zoro & Piccolo, Satan & Ace, Chopper & Son Gohan, and Nami & Kami Senin. Check out the collection here.

Last but not least are the 12 centimeter Dragon Ball Z High Quality Colouring Volume 4 Pre-Painted Figurines featuring Android No. 16, Vegeta and Son Goku.

Car lovers, I bet you know about Japan’s highly popular Option car magazine. But did you know that the magazine has a line of 1/64 scale pre-painted car models. There are 10 different cars + 1 secret, each of them in real life are highly describable Japanese sports cars.

While each car costs USD 5.49 and the car is shipped randomly, do note that ordering a box of 10 cars will result in a factory-sealed package. Interested? Click here for information.

With just nine days left to Christmas, I would say these Street Fighter figurines, done by Kaiyodo under their Revoltech SFO series, have been released just in time. Even though the Ken figurine comes with a nice red fireball, the Zangief figurine is borderline awesome with a likeness and poseability not unlike his on-screen counterpart.

Street Fighter fans owe it to themselves to order these figurines and have them shipped using courier services in order to reach before Christmas. For those interested check out:

• Revoltech SFO Series No.007 Non Scale Pre-Painted PVC Figure: Ken
• Revoltech SFO Series No.005 Non Scale Pre-Painted PVC Figure: Zangief

Or still not convinced? Let these pictures change your mind:

December 12 sees the release of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy Miniature Trading Figures Vol.3. Essentially a collection of popular Final Fantasy characters in adorable super-deformed style, these figurines deserve the display space from anyone who calls himself/herself a Final Fantasy fan.

Priced at USD 5.49 each, the characters available in Vol.3 are:

• Aerith Gainsborough
• Tidus
• Rikku
• Balthier
• Fran

These characters ship randomly if you are to order individual boxes. A factory sealed container is available with an order of 9 boxes. Click here for ordering information.

I don’t know why people collect/ogle over these type of figurines, after all, they are merely physical representations of virtual buxom women found only in video games and anime. But hey, since the following figurines (two different versions of Kasumi from the Dead or Alive video games) are selling for a discount and since some of my readers are of the same inclination mentioned in the previous statement, enjoy:

Both figures are from the Mon-Sieur Bome Collection of figurines produced by Kaiyodo, a company well known for their Revoltech figurines. The two Kasumis are approximately 200mm in height. The best part is that both are now at half price! What was previously being sold at USD 49.90 is now available at USD 24.90!

For further details, check out the links below:

• Mon-Sieur Bome Collection Vol.15 Dead or Alive Pre-Painted Figure: Kasumi (Blue Version)
• Mon-Sieur Bome Collection Vol.14 Dead or Alive Pre-Painted Figure: Kasumi (White Version)

You know what would be a really cool stocking-stuffer for a Phoenix Wright fan this Christmas? How about a set of imported, limited edition Gyakuten Saiban Book Marks, produced by Capcom. Yup, you read that right, book marks. You won’t find these States-side, and thus the novelty factor is high.

Get them while they are still available at USD 24.90 for a set of three. Click here for further details.

Now you can bring home Mario, Wario, Yoshi, Bowser, and Luigi, along with their respective race karts, back home with TakaraTomy’s Q Steer Mario Kart Wii Remote Controlled (R/C) Karts.

Each of these remote-controlled Karts comes with an extra set of wheels and a pair of weapons (banana peel and turtle shell). 2 LR44 batteries are needed to power the kart and remote control each.

The following characters are available:

• Yoshi ~ USD 19.90 (click here for further details)
• Mario ~ USD 19.90 (click here for further details)
• Bowser ~ USD 19.90 (click here for further details)
• Luigi ~ USD 19.90 (click here for further details)
• Mario & Wario set ~ USD 44.90 (click here for further details)

If you are a shmup fan, especially classics such as R-Type, Fantasy Zone and RayStorm, today is your lucky day. Yujin’s Shooting Game Historica 2 SP - Classic Game Figthing Plane Trading Figure and Gashapon sets are both selling at discounted prices.

The collection features R-Type III (R-90), Star Blade (Geo Sword), Fantazy Zone (OPAOPA), RayStorm (R-Gray 1) & Star Luster (GAIA). Each Trading Figure or Gashapon is selling for USD 3.49 each, the only difference between the 2 sets is that one comes in a box (you don’t get to see what you get when it arrives, unless you open the boxes) and another comes gashapon style.

Interested? Click here for the Trading Figure set or here for the Gashapon set.

What happens when you take the characters from two popular animes, namely One Piece and Dragon Ball Z, mash ‘em up and make figurines out of them? You’ll get Banpresto’s 40th Weekly Jump collection of Dragon Ball Z x One Piece DX Non Scale Pre-Painted Figurines.

The collection is home to pretty weird designs, such as Luffy in Goku’s gi uniform, and Goku wearing Luffy’s signature pirate get-up.

The following characters are available for pre-order (will be released sometime in November, click on their respective names for further details):

• Luffy
• Son Goku
• Nami
• Bulma

For those of you who want something more immediate, Bandai has the Dragon Ball X One Piece X Naruto pre-painted candy toy figurine collection on sale. Click here for details.