Hot Toys Samurai Predator 1/6 Scale

  Just got a big package from teh customz. God I hate dealing with the customs. The box was huge and weighed over 5 kilos. I took a few quick snapshots. When the weather is good and i have time I`ll take some proper pictures.

Inside the box there was a smaller box.

                                
                                Here is the front side of the box. Looks very cool. Worthy of display on its own.
                                                                            

                                    
                                    
                                      
 Inside that big box there were another two small boxes that house the Samurai Predator and the alien base.
                                             

                                            
To make the base you have to put these parts into he alien's dead body.
                                          
                    The head of the xenomorph. Sweet details.

          Here is the completed base .
                                                      
It looks sick. Some people are obsessed with having a purple head to match the body, but I have to be honest - I bought purple paint  and had a plan of painting the head dark purple , but when I saw how the figure looks with this head in person , I have to say that it looks great. The pictures make the head really stand out and be in a different colour than the body , but in person the difference between the body and the head is not that big, so why bother ruining a great paint job and a very good black wash.

And now for the crazy Hot Toys Samurai Predator  1/6 Scale action figure
                                          
                                                                                             
I just love the whole figure. The feel of the figure - it's superior to any other predator you owe - especially the Tracker , Falconer or Berserker (I own a Tracker and he is placed just next to the Samurai and pales in the level of detail of the armor, the base, the paintjob). The predators from the movie Predators are just plain as hell compared to the Samurai.
                                       
Close up of the beautifully painted and sculpted head. The mouth can be opened and close and the open mandibles make this guy loook very mean. He looks pissed.

                                                            The details on the armour.

The beautiful sculpt and the detail of the head.

Another shot. Breath-taking.

BFC-07 Max Factory Zoalord Gyout

    Ah , yes - another package. The seller who sent me box also attached some Japanese tea . The customs from my country decided to open the package and get the tea for themselves.... bastards. Anyway , here is the box 

                                        

                                                                    

  
            There he is - POWER ..... unlimited poweeeer!!!

     Nice looking box. You can see the armor pieces and that huge Unito remover.

  You can see the Unit remover below the armor pieces . I decided to pose him without the remover , becasue i think it`ll be a pain in the a** to pose him with such a heavy weapon. I could try in the future though.

  I can't get enough of that nasty grin .The paint job and sculpts is superb - just like any other BFC MAX factory figure. 

You have to remove the head to put his armor and you have to remove the fists to put his knuckle guards.

   Clumsy poses - ftw.

Looks very menacing with the chest piece on.

There he is - with his shoulder pads and wrist blades.

The zoa-crystal is made out of some kind of translucent plastic , as well as the green gravity orbs on his body. He has transparent eyes , just like the Guyver I , III , Dark and Gigantic Guyver. Very , very nice.

Height-wise Gyout towers over Guyver I and Guyver III. He is ever bigger than the Gigantic Guyvers.

To sum it all up -the BFC 07 MAX Factory Gyout is a great villain and a superb addition to any Guyver collection. Even if you pose him all by himself- Gyout looks menacing and radiates an ominous aura.

 What makes this line of figures more valuable to recent figma or robot tamashii lines is  that they are bigger in scale and have a really good range of mobility,sculpt and paintjob application.
 I have Robot Tamashii Evangelion figures and their articulation is great , but the scale is pathetic - they range about 14 cm at best. They are tiny, yet very expensive.
The Black Rock Shooter figures from the figma line in comparison to the Guyver figures are small , skinny and the paint applications are decent ,but I think that the guyver line offers more intricate details , they are bigger in scale and look fantastic. Just my opinion.

BFC-MAX09 Gigantic Guyver Dark

I dont know why I didn't take a proper picture of the box . The photos I took are pretty crappy and have to take better ones. That will happen soon.

I love those jagged blades

                         

                  

I was happily surprised today when he suddenly arrived ... the Dark Guyver Gigantic .

From the moment I opened the box I felt in love with it. The high frequency blades are

a little tricky to change so I was extra careful with them. Also the gigasmashers should

 be handled with care. Other than that - its fantastic . I love the paintjob , the edged

frequency blades and overall with its black and beige colour scheme it looks menacing,sinister and ruthless- just like his user Agito Makishima .If you can afford it and find it its a great collection for every guyver fan. The Dark looks similar to  Sho's Gigantic yet it is sinister and dark enough to make a statement on his own.

                          This is the collection for now. Tomorrow I will bring another addition to it :p

BFC MAX 08 - Neo ZX Tole

Oh... what an interesting looking bad. What could possibly be inside ?

Neo ZX-Tole ?? That ain`t no Gundam. Then what could this peculiar name stand for ??

                       Yeah - teh awesome BG Customs opened to see what`s inside and then taped it

                         with this stupid BUL POST logo....

           

                            Oh wait..its bubble-wrap :d. But you can see NEO ZX-TOLE

        And here it is - the former Hyper-Mega-Ultra Zoanoid who was fine tuned to become a Lost     Number like Aptom . I picked this bad boy up because it was loaded with accessories :

      Bug wings :d and a set of open-palm hand. With a tiny missile that can be attached to the other  bio-missiles on his shoulders.

And here he is - the king beetle-looking NEO ZX TOLE. And as every review-er that has had this figure says - it is super shiny.The armor has a very nice looking shine which makes it stand out when posed next to the matte-finish Guyver I . Of course some people might not like the super glossy finish on NEO Zx-Tole ,but I personally find it OK because it is in contrast with the other Guyver figures.

                                   

                   Something I did not know - there is one solid piece on his back -his wings.

        Max Factory could have omitted this part but instead took the time to make it . Looks very nice

   You can see the big-ass organic-missiles and also the red energy jewels or orbs .I fell in love with all those red orbs that can be opened on his hands and legs .

And I immediately thought that I am going to pose him firing those beams ( or in a pose that he is about to fire them cause i can`t really fire any beams :D )

         Here he is - going all out . I attached the high frequency blades later . I had no problem with

 the left one but that right one .... the mold was not perfect and you have to use a lot of force

 so you could make it pass..... Some very frustrating and scary minutes.

                                      Kameee-haaameee.... No :d .Wrong show :d

So yeah that`s sums it up for this figure. It`s a very good

edition to any Guyver-fan`s collection.It has a ton of accessories ,

its horns,head ,arms are very well articulated. The legs are not that

 articulated as good as the other parts of his body but posing him kicking

 someone just won`t happen when he has beams,missiles and horns able to conduct electricity.