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Astro Toy - Play Arts Spike Spiegel


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v1cious



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 3:45 pm Reply with quote
100 dollars for that? It looks like a generic action figure you'd buy off the shelf.
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Greed1914



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:44 pm Reply with quote
Aynslesa wrote:
I think the face is definitely the biggest downside to figure - definitely Host Club Spike. It doesn't seem to look so bad from a distance, but when you get around to posing him, and especially that picture where he's got his legs stretched out and his head turned upwards...I feel like he should have a background of sparkles and roses.

Not a bad figure, but not one I think I'll be adding to my collection. The only Play Arts I tend to go for are the Final Fantasy ones, which I think translate better to Square-Enix's figure line than the 2D animation does.


I'm sure Square-Enix tries harder for its own characters.


Faces can be tricky, but this one wasn't really in the ballpark. As you said, at a distance, it looks fine, but up close is where it flops, and for the price, the figure really ought to hold up to such scrutiny. Not having different colored eyes, like in the show, makes me wonder how much they cared about the details.
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