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Early last month I posted about the Lego Blindboxed series due out later this year. More details have surfaced stating that the series will consist of 16 figures which will be blindboxed and sold separately for a rumored $2. Um, hey Kidrobot, three words: two. fucking. dollars. I hope you’re taking notes. The first series of Lego blindboxed figures is set to drop this June. Now feast your eyes on the sexy display case.
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Design duo Noferin have created an all new set of 12 wooden blindboxed figures called Jibibuts. The figures range from 2.5 – 3.5 inches and there’s two randomly packed secret Gold and Silver editions!
Here’s the best part: buying a full case guarantees that you’ll get the entire set! Too bad there’s no word yet on how much a full case or single blindbox will cost. A single blindbox will retail for $9.
Here’s an absurdly cute video showing off the characters in the set: You can find more pics and info here and be don’t forget to check out Noferin.com for more awesomeness!
As you all know should know by now, I’m pretty obsessed with Figmas at the moment. You can check my Figma review on last week’s episode of blindboxed. This week I decided to compare Figmas to their competitor, Revoltech. blindboxed tv #9
Since I already have the Kanou Unchou Figma, I decided to get another Ikki Tousen girl, so I picked up Ryomou Shimei. I really wish Max Factory would make a version of Ryomou in her school outfit. She’s so much more adorable and innocent-looking. Maid outfit Ryomou is kinda’ intimidating.
Since I’d never had a Revoltech before, it was difficult choosing which one to get first. I really wanted Yokko from Gurren Lagann or Haruhi Suzamiya in her bunny costume, but I figured I’d test the waters by getting the cheapest Revoltech I could find, just in case I wound up hating them. So I wound up with Pocco, designed by master illustrator, Shunya Yamashita.
Here’s a closeup comparison of the hands. I like that the Figmas come with the little storage thingie. They also have hands that are more elegantly posed.
Here’s Kanu, Ryomou, and Pocco all lined up. I feel like I came off a little harsh in my review of the Revoltech. I really liked it! I just think that Figmas offer more bang for their buck, even if they are a bit smaller. That doesn’t mean that I’m not planning out my next few Revoltech purchases. My shelves are gonna’ be LOADED! I hope you enjoyed the last otakufied episode of blindboxed for a while. The show will go back to designer toys next week when I review… wait, I’m not telling you! You’ll just have to watch and see! I’ll also be giving away details on how you can win a custom Munny by Jim Freck! Please leave comments, feedback, what you wanna’ see on future episodes, etc. And don’t forget to subscribe to the Albotas.com YouTube channel where you can catch all the latest episodes of blindboxed and A Little Bit On The Awesome Show!
Oh, shit! Blindboxed.com is dead as shit after it crashed during the last Wordpress upgrade, but blindboxed tv lives on! It’s been and while and I thought I’d do something different. Blindboxed typically covers designer toys, but I figured I’d throw some anime figures in the mix. Let me know if you’d like to hear about all kinds of toys on blindboxed, not just designer stuff, or if the anime stuff should be saved for A Little Bit On The Awesome Show. blindboxed tv #8
In this episode I review Max Factory’s Kanu Unchou Figma. This is the first Figma I’ve ever purchased and I’m fairly pleased with it.
And here’s a crazy stop-motion version of the Hare Hare Yukai Dance done entirely with Figmas… If you wanna’ get some figmas of your own, just hit up Play-Asia.com. You can also find ‘em pretty cheap on Amazon.
In case you haven’t heard, I also run this other little blog called blindboxed. It’s all about the world of urban designer toys and you should really check it out. It was a weird week for me as it was my first time updating the site consistently since rsin and InfamousAdam left the site. They were two friends helping out with blogging duties, but their personal lives got kinda’ busy, so I’m holding down the fort by my lonesome for a while. Here’s what’s been going on at blindboxed.com this week: I managed to get some pics of a custom Skeletor DIY Pusher that I made a while back (above) and it’s currently for sale if anyone’s interested. There’s also a sweet Mr. Shoe custom by Phu! and 2 sick custom Mini Munnys by nerviswr3k. If that weren’t enough customized awesomeness, there’s a fresh-to-death zombie Soopa by the Black Water Gallery (below). If customized toys aren’t your thing, how about customized gadgets? Reactor88 customized these gorgeous Vimobot USB drives for this year’s San Diego Comic Con. Finally, in toy news, toy customizer extrodinaire Okkle has teamed up with My Plastic Heart to release a limited set of 10 handmade, handpainted Birdlett figures, Erick Scarecrow is designing for movies, graffiti/toy artist Buff Monster has a new book coming out, Kidrobot announced an 8″ version of their popular Lucky Cat Dunny, and Muttpop announced an incredible new Tequila colorway.
Now that you know what you’ve been missing, why not add blindboxed.com to your bookmarks and follow blindboxed on Twitter? This week we give you guys a look at Vinyl Luv inside Vertigo Records in West Reading, PA. This is where we buy our toys and we figured it’d be nice to give you the inside look since a lot of people mainly get their toys online and have never really seen them carried in a shop. We also review the 3″ Baby Mei Mei and Di Di from Crazy Label which we’ve already given a thorough written review here, but this is your chance to see our initial reactions. Due to time constraints (we like to keep each episode under 10 minutes) we weren’t able to do a Sculpey tutorial this week, but it’s coming next week. We promise. Special thanks to wizardsleevetoys.com for sponsoring this week’s episode! If you’d like to become a sponsor, send an email to brownkidd@blindboxed.com for more info. Oh yeah, and we’ve extended the Kathy Olivas Dolbee Contest until the end of May. All you have to do is comment on any episode of blindboxed tv and we’ll randomly pick a winner in the first episode that airs in June. 
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