Dissidia Play Arts Kai: Gabranth

My first & only action figures from Square Enix - Play Arts Kai, Dissidia Final Fantasy: Gabranth. He is a character from the PSP hand held console game Dissidia Final Fanasty. Myself is a Final Fantasy fans following from FF VII all the way to FF X. That is the time during my college & university life. Once graduated & entering the working work, there aren't time to spend on for this hardcore FF game.

I do have my hand on Dissidia FF for a couple of weeks & I can't remember I ever choose Gabranth to play with. The reason I made my purchased for this figure is his bad ass armored look. Aren't you agree with me? Well, with SRP at 4,800 Yen is quite an expensive pieces of PVC to play with. Even Square Enix naming this "toy" as Black Label Collectors.

Come in a windowed box & he is secured inside a plastic tray. In the tray, there are 2 swords & 1 set of hands (to hold the swords)

Standard standing pose from 4 sides (he is approximately 20cm++)

His cape is made by same material of PVC which it is flexible to handle but the design is fix. The swords can be combine together & his hand is swappable to hold the weapons (just pull & plug).

For the box, it do mention that he come with 26 points of articulations. Not sure if it it true since I didn't really count on it. There are ratchet joints at the ankle, knee & elbow. Other than that, most of them are ball joints. He can stand on one leg, all thanks to his cape.

Random closed up to the details. His paint job are great, I never thought that all his armors are made by PVC until I handle him (I used to think that they are using material like gunpla plastic when I made my purchased). In my opinion, his mask is the most bad ass looking!

Random posing shots from him.

Nice looking isn't he? He is easily available on shelf at most of the toy shop. If you dislike the smell of PVC, you can give him a skip. The fume of it can easily fill up your room, you may need to open the package & left it "breathe" for sometime to minimize the PVC fume (My wife dislike him due to the fume, so he is officially back to the package).

Chogokin Fireball Charming Drossel

I am having a hard time in how to start this review. I never see her from anywhere which I Google up a bit & find out Drossel is from a computer animation by Disney which shown in Japan. She is indeed charming & with the Chogokin label, I make my purchased from one of my local shop for 6,000 Yen in compare with her SRP of 9,000 Yen.

She doesn't sell very well in compare with her previous release version of Fireball Drossel which seems to be completely swept off from all the toys shop. Anyway, I didn't have the previous version so nothing much I can do to compare both of them.

She is pack in a thin box & house in a plastic tray.

The accessories includes 5 pairs of extra hands, 1 different head, 3 wheels, 2 extended feet pieces, 2 figures holder, 1 rose, 1 display base & 1 sword.

How shall I start. I have taken all photographs before I enter it into this review. And only for this time I first encounter the hardship in writing it out. Put in this way, normally I will taken the standing pose of her after unboxing her. However! She can't stand by her own or might be due do my table aren't flat enough for her to stand! Despite of installing her extended feet support, she unable to stabilize herself to stand up by her own. At the end, she supported by her feet & hair?

At the end, the whole review I will have her hold firm by the stand (Well, it can't really stabilize her due to her weight)

Into the details. Can you see those pistons?

Range of movement she can perform (This is the best part, double ankle & knee joint. Flexible arms, shoulder, waist & hips. Basically she can perform most of the pose you can think of).

Gimmicks bundled.

 
To swap her head & hands. You just have to used forced!! lolx. Pull out push in!! (Actually some of the hands kind of loose which is kind of disappointing with her)

After swapping the head.... Hey, nice to meet you~

What? You will post my picture online?? Wait for a moment for me to pose for you~ Ok. I am ready ^.^

Peace!

Flower for me?? Oh my, thank you (blushes)

Force of evil! Come if you dare....

 Transform.....

 Phew... Being a model is not an easy task...

Ok ok... Let's call this a day... Enough of posing... Peace out...

As you can see, despite that she lack of facial expression. Combination of her hands & movements do develops numbers of personality & interaction with us. I can say that she is definitely an eye candy & photogenic. But the handling process (at least for myself) is not a pleasant experience. Loosing joints of the stands, constantly pop out of her hands, stabilizing her for not falling off & etc....

To buy or not to... This will be a tough question to answer. As you can see, she fall under nice to see & not good to handle category. Even with her Chogokin label, I can't really feel much weight from her. Painting wise is nice. Snowy white with smooth surface. No smear paint job can be detected (since are all in white). In considering all these factors, I will definitely regret if I am buying her with original SRP even yesterday when I am handling her I am quite disappointed with her. However, in writing this review I think it still worth with the discounted price (admiring of her beauty, she do have some kind of charm don't you think so?).