I remember when Figma was still pretty high tier. Best in the biz, but their choices in figures has left me...meh. And the prices for figures with few accessories is pretty rough. I like the side or smaller stuff, but chill on those prices.
Figma have released figures from very few franchises I've had any interest in of late. A trend I've especially noticed is the switch to mostly just making franchises of trending shows. Tbh, I think Good Smile could also be deliberately making Figma bad because Nendoroids have always sold more and are probably cheaper to make, but that's just speculation.
the attack on titan figma were £30 on release with Armin being £40. Second hand figma (figma deadmaster ova version for example) went for £20. This was 2012 -2014.
I don't know who's running the Figma line lately (Max Factory or GSC), but holy moly I can't believe how deep they've fallen with their releases nowadays. Besides Chainsaw Man, they still haven't gotten around releasing other series everyone likes such as Love Live Nijigasaki. And other missing characters such as the Elite Four from Kill la Kill. But they chose not to and decided to release whatever, whichever that NO ONE CARES ABOUT. Like who tf wants a figure of the Mona Lisa (even the Tabletop series as a whole)? Some random anime character from that particular series Japan likes/loves but the rest of the world no one knows the title of? We didn't even get more characters from Genshin Impact, yet they used to release different versions of Saber and the other Servants from the Fate series back in the day. HoloLive and VTubers figures aside, sure, they are recently popular but that's the problem with Figma nowadays. My personal guess would be that they're complying to what's recently popular and went with it, expecting that they'll have a huge profit of it. They did purchase a lot of licenses; some were accepted and some were rejected, but they just chose not to. Gone were the good ol' days with banger releases such as Madoka Magica, VOCALOID (don't even get me started on Snow Miku.), the Fate Series, and any other fan favorites. I was considering to get some of the My Hero Academia characters, but ended up rethinking of getting the Revoltech versions due to the uprising QC issue with their Figma S1 Deku. Same with Saitama from One Punch Man; get the Dasin Model version. At this point, Bandai may consider to be the Japanese version of Hasbro with their shitty customer service, then the Figma line might as well be the Japanese version of the Star Wars Black Series and Marvel Legends.
agreed. As someone who likes Fate, i've been wanting to see more Fate figmas regarding other servants that appear in FGO like robin hood, Gawain, Billy The Kid, etc. i would have loved more OPM figures like Tatsumaki... want gurren laggan? too bad. smh... well, at least buzzmod has their kamina figure. which is basically figma but of a different brand name and will be releasing Yoko soon next year. Still kinda sucks that the prices are high and for some reason don't seem to be into making figures from other series that people would love, or characters that are missing. Like where TF is Subaru from Re:zero???
Oh yeah, I've been wanting love live nijigasaki figmas since forever. But nope, they will never come out. Hell, they won't even make the 6 other members of liella. Too bad shf isn't too keen on making love live stuff again.
Good Smile sees that they make way more money with Nendoroids and those shitty fucking statues, so Figmas are like, last priority to them now. Extremely sad.
Jobbythehong actually made a video about that, and said the yamaguchi was more worth it (could be that the figma one decided to split in half but I digress)
We have to consider the track record Bandai has left recently with poor QC. Look at Trunks and most recently reports of their Guts figure breaking apart.
100%, Bandai has been terrible with QC this year but people are not making as much noise. This comparison is absurd because it takes figures like Denji where Figuarts absolutely is better (although the face of the SH is 100% not Denji), but what about figures like Gojo, Nobara, Sakura Card Captor where the figma is the best option? people just like to repeat what they hear.
Damn that’s pretty depressing, haven’t picked up a figma in a while but this was a good insight. Tbh i’d say the nendo line has had a smallish quality drop also but might just be my own bias
Don't forget quality control! I just send back my replacement Shinobu last week because the robe was torn away from the body and her neck peg was faulty. This was a replacement of the first one which had her arm just fall off, and her crotch joint was floating. It's like parts weren't glued down properly.
I'd have bought that Doom Guy if the elbow joint isn't so damn hideous, as well completely misprinted. The arm sculpts for that figure just don't look human or natural.
nah the joints on that guy look terrible. even the mcfarlane (lmao) looks better in a neutral pose that's why figma should stick to anime girls or skinny characters
Also the problem of figma now, they make an expensive poseable figure that you probably dont want to touch too many times, Instead of a kinda fun to play and decent possabilty, and great sclupt action figure like back then.
Figma pricing is outrageous. Companies should ask themselves when pricing things, why should people pay this for OUR product when our competition has a cheaper product regardless of quality.😊
I have collected a few figmas over the years. The old Strike Witches, Garupan and Madoka ones I got for cheap and retailed for $30-$40 USD in 2011ish would be $110 now. The new Gura's elbows kill me at the price they are going to ask. I think the core of the issue is the lack of competition in the possible anime girl figure market. Thankfully I dont like new anime and figures dont retain value in japan so importing them 2nd hand is a good deal.
Funny video haha. Agree with all points you made (especially about the UK pricing) but another major point why they suck now a days is that they aren't making many characters that people want imo, as you will see way more characters in the nendoroid or the new PUP line compared to S.h figuarts, Revoltech/Amazing Yamaguchi and even Buzzmod now. They even stopped making stuff for the more popular anime series like where are the new AOT or SAO seasons?. Plus they tend to not make alot of the main cast of a series (usually stop at 1 or 2 characters compared to nendoroid).
This. I swear that every figure that i wanted from figma (a bunch of overwatch characters, phoenix wright characters, the now announced ryu ga gotoku characters....) are being released as fucking nendoroids. I don´t have anything against nendoroids, but im tired that almost every interesting character is being released as a nendoroid, and the figma buyers are stuck with cute anime chick / fucking fate character.
The only reason why I get Figma is for some of their video game characters that won't be getting figures from other brands with articulation (Samus, Demifiend, Joker (P5)). Other than that, I'm surprised it took this long for some to notice how downhill figma has gotten recently. I know SH Figuarts isn't perfect, but man the Kamen Rider Geats figures are way cheaper and are more articulated. Even the SpyxFamily line is pretty good for less price.
By the way I would say Hasbro is not that bad. It just depends on what kind of figure we are talking about. I collect a number of Star Wars Black series figures and for the price of $25-30 I would say you are getting a good deal. They do have issues though, the paint is okay, they could have a better paint job, but that would only increase the price. The other issue would also be limited posing. If you have a clone trooper and you are just going to do some simple posses I would say you are getting pretty decent quality for the price. If anything my biggest issue with Hasbro is them making figure store exclusives.
Figma fell off for me with their first splatoon set. The figures feel awful to pose, the accessories feel flimsy and the earphone accessory snapped when I was trying to put it on. Wasted money lmao
I have the og Spider-Man and Iron Spider. I really like the Spider-Man, amazing poseability and accessories but the Iron Spider isn’t really my thing. I don’t have many of their figures because they don’t really own any properties I like besides super heroes. I’ll probably pick up the One Punch man figures they’re making if I can afford them.
price wise even figuarts has gotten rediculous, specifically the sh monsterarts line, i bought the Final Wars Godzilla and it was like 95 usd...no accessories, poor qc and not much in the way of paintwork on the body. When NECA had the license, you could get a Godzilla figure that was like 30 bucks with great articulation, sculpt detail and amazing paint. Those figures fetch a high aftermarket price for a reason.
I've been looking more into other brands like Snail Shell. I still pre-order Nendoroids because they're like 50 bucks but yeah, Figmas has been rising in price recently despite the sub-par quality. Unless I really like the media, I don't bother buying it. I haven't ordered in a while and I've only pre-ordered Shiroko and Nikke Alice recently.
There are 3 anime that deserve figures Full metal alchemist brotherhood Fairy tail Kenichi the mightiest disciple Oh and black clover I don’t even watch that anime but even I k ow they deserve some love too
My favorite Figma that I own is probably Uesugi Kenshin from Rance -- not only is the sculpt very expressive and proportionally accurate, but it's just really cool to know they made a figure for a straight up porn franchise. It really appealed to me that Figma made figures for niche otaku interests, down to figures of Japanese memes for the sheer novelty of it. Now they make figures of like... Homelander and uhh... L--League of Legends. Man, this shit sucks, I'm going back to Bionicles...
Figma Eren Yaeger : $60, comes with full 3DMG, cape, grappling hooks, second grappling hooks made of string for hanging on stuff, smoke effect parts, 3 faces. Upcoming Figma Dread Samus : $100+, comes with morph ball, second arm cannon, AND... a bit of wall. All that for $40 bucks more. Even the old other M Samus came with some effect parts and it was still less than $100.
Figma homelander could work if he didnt look too realistic and looked more like it was made for kids Cause it would've looked like merch ripped out of the show. (I didnt watch the boys but i think they have atleast some homelander toys for marketing purposes)
Bro honestly the prices nowadays are atrocious. A figma that comes with a single weapon and 5 pairs of hands will cost like 80-90 dollars (looking at you figma Ruby rose and weiss)
I bought figma Erwin figure from Attack on Titan for my birthday. Less than 5 minutes passed after I put the horse on the stand and the connector broke.
I think it’s a company wide problem of them growing too fast. I talked about it a bit in one of my videos but they really need to stop scooping up licenses and making new product lines and re focus their efforts.
my issue with figma is how the prices are all so high with the little accessories the figures get. For example- there is this figma i wanna get of my favorite Visual Novel character named Arcueid. It comes in two editions. Both only have...two face plates extra faceplates, standard hand set, and a bunch of weird PNG cut-outs nobody asked for. And the "Accessory" for the DX edition? A purple skirt-. But it doesn't matter. The standard is still pricy as hell. "don't wanna buy or 100 dollar figure? then check out our version of it that is only five fucking dollars off." bruh.
Figma has settled for mediocrity, they been doing figures for years and just lately they have been using double joints for example, and yeah the prices are just way too much for what little they come with
There's also the fact that barely any new Figmas are announced at events anymore, really does feel like they're trying the phase the line out in favour of Pop Up Parade which sucks.
Goodsmile in general has fell off in recent years, they'd rather profit off nendoroids of dead celebrities, youtubers and American indie games in order to appeal to a western audience before making anything remotely Japanese Can't wait for the Garten of Banban nendo! Not like I've been waiting on a new Touhou character for the last 6 years
Fortunately most new Fate Figma is actually good. Of course beside Okita. Still can't forgive them making the haori DX, also no blood effect. If the Nendo can have it, why not Figma? Who tf want chibi Nobbu as standard release. But Lancer Artoria and MHX Alter was good, thought not worth the price but at least it's good
From what I remember, the more reasonable reason why GSC gives less of a shit about Figma and more Nendoroids is because the technology and Plastic cost. Since from what I heard, the Company stated that Plastic has been more Expensive or something, while S.H Figuarts are releasing it like nothing is stopping their way. Sounds like Bullshit. But, I think they try soo hard to be High Quality but failed at the same time. They should've seen their Rival Company having more Cheaper prices than their own. For Example, Power, S.h Figuarts and Figma are posable Figure. They have the same Accessories. S.H Figuarts is 59$ Figma cosg 90$ Who wins? S.H Figuarts. Since no one in hell will buy a 90$ Figma Version if your super into the Character. GSC should know this. But, they just don't fucking listen. I never like Nendoroids but their cute. But lack of Posability and Imagination. Pop Up Parade is just another Generic Statue that you can just get a Banpresto for 15$ GSC is soo cheap with their products that they accidently almost killed their own Lines.
Kinda misleading to say that the figma one is more expensive when you forgot to mention that his human form and that chainsaw thing (i haven't seen the anime as well lol) is the same figure and you get those parts as one set while the S.H. Figuarts both iterations are sold separately and (at least where i live) it costs more to buy both Denji's from figuarts then it is to buy a figma 🤷♀
That’s very true thank you for pointing that out! I think my point still stands with how the Figma looks like absolute shit in comparison but I definitely should’ve mentioned what you said lol.
I remember when figma started making more "masculine" figures like the avengers and how poorly they turned out. People were defending them too even when hasbro was releasing better figures of the characters for a fraction of the price. It was also when figuarts wasnt batshit insane. I had some great figma back in the day though. Sad to see all this.
I almosttt was disappointed that i accidentally picked up the s.h.figuarts chainsaw man over figma because the figma one comes with pochita until I noticed the s.h.figuarts one has the yellow dot eyes and figma doesnt (best design element chainsaw man has)
yeah I'm not familiar with these lines of toys since i mostly just collect 52 toys beast box's but the photos shown probably just because figma promotional pictures have no singular lighting - instead using a straight ahead lighting to not have shadows.
The tradeoff is... the mecha fans are getting fed so well with Moderoid and the "Mechasmile" products. Maybe Act-Mode too. We eating good mecha brosssss.
I am pretty sure that Figma Denji's chainsaw arm blades are facing the wrong direction, that reason alone makes me prefer the SHF one so much more 😭😭😭😭😭
When it comes to figuarts anime figures, there's the problem that you can't trust the official photos too much for the paint job, their main focus is Tokusatsu figures after all
I don't really believe in memorabilia, anyway. Maybe when someone makes an Alcatraz figure with a SCAR, Gauss Rifle or MIKE and his Majestic and Monomolecular Sword I might actually throw my hat into this ring but... meh. Good video, though, hope it all works out for you.
sneak peak for my next video at the very end
Please keep uploading bro I feel as if figure content creators don’t say shit like this and for you to have vids like this means a lot to me man
I remember when Figma was still pretty high tier. Best in the biz, but their choices in figures has left me...meh. And the prices for figures with few accessories is pretty rough. I like the side or smaller stuff, but chill on those prices.
They still were the only ones doing video game figures, but even SH are doing that now.
Hoping we get SH version of everything Figma did.
Figuarts are trash compared to figma
@@fillerbunnyninjashark271rage bait
@@GhostTheOG imagine being emotionally invested in product
@@fillerbunnyninjashark271 I’m not but you’re just lying
That homelander looked like a marvel legends ☠️
Figma have released figures from very few franchises I've had any interest in of late. A trend I've especially noticed is the switch to mostly just making franchises of trending shows. Tbh, I think Good Smile could also be deliberately making Figma bad because Nendoroids have always sold more and are probably cheaper to make, but that's just speculation.
Yeah, and the Nendoroids despite being simpler and smaller figures they still relatively get high prices, but hey, its a popular line 💀
When I first bought figmas in 2013, they were like £30-40. The jump to £100+ is fucking insane
the attack on titan figma were £30 on release with Armin being £40. Second hand figma (figma deadmaster ova version for example) went for £20. This was 2012 -2014.
I don't know who's running the Figma line lately (Max Factory or GSC), but holy moly I can't believe how deep they've fallen with their releases nowadays. Besides Chainsaw Man, they still haven't gotten around releasing other series everyone likes such as Love Live Nijigasaki. And other missing characters such as the Elite Four from Kill la Kill. But they chose not to and decided to release whatever, whichever that NO ONE CARES ABOUT. Like who tf wants a figure of the Mona Lisa (even the Tabletop series as a whole)? Some random anime character from that particular series Japan likes/loves but the rest of the world no one knows the title of? We didn't even get more characters from Genshin Impact, yet they used to release different versions of Saber and the other Servants from the Fate series back in the day.
HoloLive and VTubers figures aside, sure, they are recently popular but that's the problem with Figma nowadays. My personal guess would be that they're complying to what's recently popular and went with it, expecting that they'll have a huge profit of it. They did purchase a lot of licenses; some were accepted and some were rejected, but they just chose not to.
Gone were the good ol' days with banger releases such as Madoka Magica, VOCALOID (don't even get me started on Snow Miku.), the Fate Series, and any other fan favorites. I was considering to get some of the My Hero Academia characters, but ended up rethinking of getting the Revoltech versions due to the uprising QC issue with their Figma S1 Deku. Same with Saitama from One Punch Man; get the Dasin Model version.
At this point, Bandai may consider to be the Japanese version of Hasbro with their shitty customer service, then the Figma line might as well be the Japanese version of the Star Wars Black Series and Marvel Legends.
agreed. As someone who likes Fate, i've been wanting to see more Fate figmas regarding other servants that appear in FGO like robin hood, Gawain, Billy The Kid, etc. i would have loved more OPM figures like Tatsumaki... want gurren laggan? too bad. smh...
well, at least buzzmod has their kamina figure. which is basically figma but of a different brand name and will be releasing Yoko soon next year. Still kinda sucks that the prices are high and for some reason don't seem to be into making figures from other series that people would love, or characters that are missing. Like where TF is Subaru from Re:zero???
Oh yeah, I've been wanting love live nijigasaki figmas since forever. But nope, they will never come out. Hell, they won't even make the 6 other members of liella. Too bad shf isn't too keen on making love live stuff again.
Good Smile sees that they make way more money with Nendoroids and those shitty fucking statues, so Figmas are like, last priority to them now. Extremely sad.
@@SoundwaveSC yeah. I don't mind nendoroids. But those dumb fucking statues need to go. That's why I'm sticking to shf nowadays.
BR
Bros a samaller ver. of Spider-Criminal💀 I have to sub. 🤑
I’m better at editing than him 🏃🏃🏃
@@Captain_Flood 👀
Bro really is spider- criminal 2.O
@@toro_official I know right? Jdkej
Bro is the BBC version of Spider-Criminal. 🔥🔥
Don't forget the Figma MHA line vs. Amazing Yamaguchi MHA line.
Jobbythehong actually made a video about that, and said the yamaguchi was more worth it (could be that the figma one decided to split in half but I digress)
Bro nah, even SHfiguarts other division SHMOnsterarts have gone up in price. For a Godzilla figure enjoyer as myself, this shit OUTTA HAND.
We have to consider the track record Bandai has left recently with poor QC. Look at Trunks and most recently reports of their Guts figure breaking apart.
what’s wrong with trunks?
@@Cr2-10 exploding limbs
Bandai has been getting significantly worse for years.
100%, Bandai has been terrible with QC this year but people are not making as much noise. This comparison is absurd because it takes figures like Denji where Figuarts absolutely is better (although the face of the SH is 100% not Denji), but what about figures like Gojo, Nobara, Sakura Card Captor where the figma is the best option? people just like to repeat what they hear.
@@marianotorres9645Nobara shf >>> figma nobara ☠️
Damn that’s pretty depressing, haven’t picked up a figma in a while but this was a good insight. Tbh i’d say the nendo line has had a smallish quality drop also but might just be my own bias
Don't forget quality control! I just send back my replacement Shinobu last week because the robe was torn away from the body and her neck peg was faulty. This was a replacement of the first one which had her arm just fall off, and her crotch joint was floating. It's like parts weren't glued down properly.
Doomguy was my first figma, and also my last. Good figure but the qc for the price they were asking was ridiculous.
I'd have bought that Doom Guy if the elbow joint isn't so damn hideous, as well completely misprinted. The arm sculpts for that figure just don't look human or natural.
nah the joints on that guy look terrible. even the mcfarlane (lmao) looks better in a neutral pose
that's why figma should stick to anime girls or skinny characters
@@Sebastian_AG1792 I don’t care
figma balls
Not only the prices high. But they are sold out really fast. It seems like there is higher demand in general for figures today.
Also the problem of figma now, they make an expensive poseable figure that you probably dont want to touch too many times, Instead of a kinda fun to play and decent possabilty, and great sclupt action figure like back then.
Figma pricing is outrageous. Companies should ask themselves when pricing things, why should people pay this for OUR product when our competition has a cheaper product regardless of quality.😊
I have collected a few figmas over the years. The old Strike Witches, Garupan and Madoka ones I got for cheap and retailed for $30-$40 USD in 2011ish would be $110 now. The new Gura's elbows kill me at the price they are going to ask. I think the core of the issue is the lack of competition in the possible anime girl figure market.
Thankfully I dont like new anime and figures dont retain value in japan so importing them 2nd hand is a good deal.
Funny video haha. Agree with all points you made (especially about the UK pricing) but another major point why they suck now a days is that they aren't making many characters that people want imo, as you will see way more characters in the nendoroid or the new PUP line compared to S.h figuarts, Revoltech/Amazing Yamaguchi and even Buzzmod now. They even stopped making stuff for the more popular anime series like where are the new AOT or SAO seasons?. Plus they tend to not make alot of the main cast of a series (usually stop at 1 or 2 characters compared to nendoroid).
This. I swear that every figure that i wanted from figma (a bunch of overwatch characters, phoenix wright characters, the now announced ryu ga gotoku characters....) are being released as fucking nendoroids. I don´t have anything against nendoroids, but im tired that almost every interesting character is being released as a nendoroid, and the figma buyers are stuck with cute anime chick / fucking fate character.
@piratesrafaelito Goodsmile Company are literally shooting themselves in the foot. 90$ for a Casual Modred Figure with bad Paint on the Figure.
Yeah, there need to be more FMA figures. It's sad Hohenheim doesn't have one. I'd like to see Father and Pride too.
as a figma male this is tragic
The only reason why I get Figma is for some of their video game characters that won't be getting figures from other brands with articulation (Samus, Demifiend, Joker (P5)). Other than that, I'm surprised it took this long for some to notice how downhill figma has gotten recently.
I know SH Figuarts isn't perfect, but man the Kamen Rider Geats figures are way cheaper and are more articulated. Even the SpyxFamily line is pretty good for less price.
By the way I would say Hasbro is not that bad. It just depends on what kind of figure we are talking about. I collect a number of Star Wars Black series figures and for the price of $25-30 I would say you are getting a good deal. They do have issues though, the paint is okay, they could have a better paint job, but that would only increase the price. The other issue would also be limited posing. If you have a clone trooper and you are just going to do some simple posses I would say you are getting pretty decent quality for the price. If anything my biggest issue with Hasbro is them making figure store exclusives.
I have zero interest in figures yet i am devotedly watching this video about a brand I’ve never heard of, life forces you in strange paths
Algorythm blessed u, u gonna blow up and i'm here to watch this happen.. 😼
god id lose all my money if they came out with a FMA line
>randomly clicks on a figure video
>immediately plays music from the pod
BAAAAAAAAASED
YES
Figma fell off for me with their first splatoon set. The figures feel awful to pose, the accessories feel flimsy and the earphone accessory snapped when I was trying to put it on. Wasted money lmao
Why is no one talking about the save room theme serenity from RE4 at 1:01 music to my ears
The prices probably have something to do with the yen rate constantly shifting up and down.
How do you feel about Revoltech?
I have the og Spider-Man and Iron Spider. I really like the Spider-Man, amazing poseability and accessories but the Iron Spider isn’t really my thing. I don’t have many of their figures because they don’t really own any properties I like besides super heroes. I’ll probably pick up the One Punch man figures they’re making if I can afford them.
Same thing happened with SH Monsterarts. More expensive, less accessories, and QC issues. Thank god for Hiya Toys
Dudes Fucking Spider-Criminal Remastered
Theres one comparsion to buzzmod that is such a huge difference like the figma akaza is literal trash and the buzzmod is 10x better
price wise even figuarts has gotten rediculous, specifically the sh monsterarts line, i bought the Final Wars Godzilla and it was like 95 usd...no accessories, poor qc and not much in the way of paintwork on the body. When NECA had the license, you could get a Godzilla figure that was like 30 bucks with great articulation, sculpt detail and amazing paint. Those figures fetch a high aftermarket price for a reason.
I've been looking more into other brands like Snail Shell. I still pre-order Nendoroids because they're like 50 bucks but yeah, Figmas has been rising in price recently despite the sub-par quality.
Unless I really like the media, I don't bother buying it. I haven't ordered in a while and I've only pre-ordered Shiroko and Nikke Alice recently.
There are 3 anime that deserve figures
Full metal alchemist brotherhood
Fairy tail
Kenichi the mightiest disciple
Oh and black clover I don’t even watch that anime but even I k ow they deserve some love too
My favorite Figma that I own is probably Uesugi Kenshin from Rance -- not only is the sculpt very expressive and proportionally accurate, but it's just really cool to know they made a figure for a straight up porn franchise. It really appealed to me that Figma made figures for niche otaku interests, down to figures of Japanese memes for the sheer novelty of it.
Now they make figures of like... Homelander and uhh... L--League of Legends.
Man, this shit sucks, I'm going back to Bionicles...
4:36 the bloke thought we was gonna agree with him😂😂😂😂😂( i want an sh figuarts alphonse elric)
yo bro could you pay pal me $4,000 thanks
@@Captain_Flood do i know you?
cheers mate grandma fell down the stairs 👍
Figma Eren Yaeger : $60, comes with full 3DMG, cape, grappling hooks, second grappling hooks made of string for hanging on stuff, smoke effect parts, 3 faces.
Upcoming Figma Dread Samus : $100+, comes with morph ball, second arm cannon, AND... a bit of wall. All that for $40 bucks more. Even the old other M Samus came with some effect parts and it was still less than $100.
Bro I haven’t seen a break-out figure from figure in a while
Figma homelander could work if he didnt look too realistic and looked more like it was made for kids
Cause it would've looked like merch ripped out of the show.
(I didnt watch the boys but i think they have atleast some homelander toys for marketing purposes)
Bro honestly the prices nowadays are atrocious. A figma that comes with a single weapon and 5 pairs of hands will cost like 80-90 dollars (looking at you figma Ruby rose and weiss)
I ordered Ruby and assumed Weiss having a smaller accessories would be significantly cheaper but of course not. So I couldn't justify getting her.
That Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 music hits hard 2:09
I bought figma Erwin figure from Attack on Titan for my birthday. Less than 5 minutes passed after I put the horse on the stand and the connector broke.
I think it’s a company wide problem of them growing too fast. I talked about it a bit in one of my videos but they really need to stop scooping up licenses and making new product lines and re focus their efforts.
my issue with figma is how the prices are all so high with the little accessories the figures get. For example- there is this figma i wanna get of my favorite Visual Novel character named Arcueid. It comes in two editions. Both only have...two face plates extra faceplates, standard hand set, and a bunch of weird PNG cut-outs nobody asked for. And the "Accessory" for the DX edition? A purple skirt-.
But it doesn't matter. The standard is still pricy as hell. "don't wanna buy or 100 dollar figure? then check out our version of it that is only five fucking dollars off." bruh.
Swing swing
SWINGALING
Figma prices have been climbing steadily for years, all while the sculpts are getting worse and releases are including less and less accessories
Stopped my Figma collection years ago.
It's clear Figma has fallen to Vtubers and sloppy money pits, such a shame, end of an era etc.
That's not shading on the Figuarts Denji, it's lighting and irl shadows. Great photography can do amazing things.
im actually so glad im not the only one
dude that figma Denji looks like that Neko arc thing
Quality control, design and prices be like BRRRRRR go crAzy ALAlalalaLa GO sTuPid 🤣 Meanwhile they keep buying more licenses 💀
Where does that one audio where Scooby Doo is making the weird noise come from? 2:42
Figma has settled for mediocrity, they been doing figures for years and just lately they have been using double joints for example, and yeah the prices are just way too much for what little they come with
i just want the us ryuki figmas
There's also the fact that barely any new Figmas are announced at events anymore, really does feel like they're trying the phase the line out in favour of Pop Up Parade which sucks.
Goodsmile in general has fell off in recent years, they'd rather profit off nendoroids of dead celebrities, youtubers and American indie games in order to appeal to a western audience before making anything remotely Japanese
Can't wait for the Garten of Banban nendo! Not like I've been waiting on a new Touhou character for the last 6 years
this was funny af, love the editing style
Why can tell Figma is gonna die when Wonfest had like less than 10 new figures shown off
Fortunately most new Fate Figma is actually good. Of course beside Okita. Still can't forgive them making the haori DX, also no blood effect. If the Nendo can have it, why not Figma? Who tf want chibi Nobbu as standard release. But Lancer Artoria and MHX Alter was good, thought not worth the price but at least it's good
Not gonna lie thought the video was gonna be a ligma joke based on title
From what I remember, the more reasonable reason why GSC gives less of a shit about Figma and more Nendoroids is because the technology and Plastic cost.
Since from what I heard, the Company stated that Plastic has been more Expensive or something, while S.H Figuarts are releasing it like nothing is stopping their way. Sounds like Bullshit. But, I think they try soo hard to be High Quality but failed at the same time.
They should've seen their Rival Company having more Cheaper prices than their own.
For Example, Power, S.h Figuarts and Figma are posable Figure. They have the same Accessories.
S.H Figuarts is 59$ Figma cosg 90$
Who wins? S.H Figuarts. Since no one in hell will buy a 90$ Figma Version if your super into the Character. GSC should know this. But, they just don't fucking listen.
I never like Nendoroids but their cute. But lack of Posability and Imagination.
Pop Up Parade is just another Generic Statue that you can just get a Banpresto for 15$
GSC is soo cheap with their products that they accidently almost killed their own Lines.
The Bandai one looks even rougher and having baked in shading on figuarts usually goes wrong
your commentary on figma is pretty sigma that it gave me ligma
I want a moomy Makima figuarts. come on.
Which figurarts denji is that? All the ones I’ve been don’t have a normal head sculpt
my genuine reaction as a gunpla and figure rise standards builder:
i can't wait to preorder myself the Denji figure from S.H.F this october
Jebus what happened
Homelander has killed people for less. THAT SHIT⚰️
Figma Balls.
Gottem
Alright guys I gotta ask, is the Genos figma worth it?
Kinda misleading to say that the figma one is more expensive when you forgot to mention that his human form and that chainsaw thing (i haven't seen the anime as well lol) is the same figure and you get those parts as one set while the S.H. Figuarts both iterations are sold separately and (at least where i live) it costs more to buy both Denji's from figuarts then it is to buy a figma 🤷♀
That’s very true thank you for pointing that out! I think my point still stands with how the Figma looks like absolute shit in comparison but I definitely should’ve mentioned what you said lol.
both shf denji + chainsaw man at retail price is roughly the same as the figma. and you get 2 figures instead of 1 with interchangeable parts
I thought the figma one was McFarland
Except their Denji IS accurate to the anime. Proportions and coloring especially. I don’t like it, but its still faithful
I remember when figma started making more "masculine" figures like the avengers and how poorly they turned out. People were defending them too even when hasbro was releasing better figures of the characters for a fraction of the price. It was also when figuarts wasnt batshit insane. I had some great figma back in the day though. Sad to see all this.
the figma homelander looks like something i would find at the walmart toy section
ill petition for a SHF FMA line if you help petition for a SHF Travis Touchdown
you have no idea how much I want tht shit
Average figuarts 35-80$
Average figma 80-120$
I like my Fate figma of Astolfo.
I almosttt was disappointed that i accidentally picked up the s.h.figuarts chainsaw man over figma because the figma one comes with pochita until I noticed the s.h.figuarts one has the yellow dot eyes and figma doesnt (best design element chainsaw man has)
the only reason im still buying figma is only because of those racing & snow mikus
Buy both and then get back to me
yeah I'm not familiar with these lines of toys since i mostly just collect 52 toys beast box's but the photos shown probably just because figma promotional pictures have no singular lighting - instead using a straight ahead lighting to not have shadows.
The tradeoff is... the mecha fans are getting fed so well with Moderoid and the "Mechasmile" products. Maybe Act-Mode too. We eating good mecha brosssss.
Nowadays it's better to buy anime model kits like 30MS and Megami Device. Cheaper and way more accessories
Figma Balls
That kid Icarus figure wasn't over 100 on rerelease. It was 67. Maybe use Japanese sites for prices instead of import middle men sites
I am pretty sure that Figma Denji's chainsaw arm blades are facing the wrong direction, that reason alone makes me prefer the SHF one so much more 😭😭😭😭😭
What the hell happened with figma denji 💀
Figma has been falling off for years, it's why I hardly ever buy new releases.
sigma?🗿🗿
this is not the figma i thought this video was going to be about
I really want a chainsaw man now.
When it comes to figuarts anime figures, there's the problem that you can't trust the official photos too much for the paint job, their main focus is Tokusatsu figures after all
No, the one who focus on Toku figures is SHF by Bandai. They have nothing to do with Goodsmile's Figma.
@@rdwn1999 that what he was talking about
@@xs3tsunax Shit, somehow I misread figuarts as figma
I don't really believe in memorabilia, anyway. Maybe when someone makes an Alcatraz figure with a SCAR, Gauss Rifle or MIKE and his Majestic and Monomolecular Sword I might actually throw my hat into this ring but... meh. Good video, though, hope it all works out for you.
Howdy what’s the song at the beginning?
Captain Fantasy by Ween
The part I used is at the very end
Love SHF but that Figma E.M.M.I. really got me.