Title : One Piece Figuarts Zero Non Scale Pre-Painted PVC Figure: Roronoa Zoro Battle Ver. Rengoku Onigiri
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One Piece Figuarts Zero Non Scale Pre-Painted PVC Figure: Roronoa Zoro Battle Ver. Rengoku Onigiri
MegaHouse has been making One Piece collectors slog through delay after delay throughout the last few months, but Bandai has kept on chugging along and gotten every new One Piece Figuarts Zero figure out right on time. So it’s no surprise that, just as promised, the September 2013 Bandai One Piece Figuarts Zero Roronoa Zoro Rengoku Onigiri Battle Ver. figure has now been released overseas…
Well, I guess this Zoro figure isn’t going to win any awards for “the
best-looking figure in its packaging”, huh? It’s not a terrible
box–Bandai clearly tried–but the logistics of this figure made it such
that this particular Roronoa Zoro figure was never going to look very
good in the package.
As you can see from the packaged photo, the Figuarts Zero Rengoku
Onigiri Roronoa Zoro comes boxed with all three of his swords packaged
separately from the main body. This particular figure isn’t one where
you’re ever going to want to display the figure without the trio of
swords, but doubtless making them removable saved Bandai thousands of
dollars by being able to use smaller packaging (and thus saved us
dollars as well).
The more I see it, the more I like this second Battle Version Figuarts Zero figure of Roronoa Zoro. Whereas I absolutely love
the original Figuarts Zero Roronoa Zoro Battle Ver. figure I reviewed last year,
that Zoro figure is more a static, “poised for battle” figure.
Meanwhile, this is a very dynamic Zoro figure, in the middle of a deadly
attack!
With the new Sanji Battle Ver. 2 figure coming out in December 2013
and Luffy Battle Ver. released during the summer, the OnePiece Monster
Trio will be complete by the end of the year!
Bandai
has become the master of effects pieces, and they’ve done another
knockout job with all of the special effects on the Figuarts Zero
Roronoa Zoro Rengoku Onigiri figure. I love the varying amount of
opacity on the different effects pieces, and the way that the
translucent plastic transitions in color, such as the slash effect
behind Zoro changing from yellow to clear and then back to yellow.
Bandai could teach every other company in the world a few things about
effects pieces, that’s for sure.
The
detail on Zoro’s swords is far better than I was expecting, based on
the glamor shots that Bandai released of the figure prototypes. All
three swords look great and have the proper paint deco on them that they
ideally should.
And
for those wondering–yes, the new timeskip Zoro figure looks pretty
killer displayed next to the Figuarts Zero Luffy Battle Ver. figure,
don’t you think?
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