X-Plus Vinyl Figures Discussion Thread

[klen7]

Have all these come from AmiAmi?

[ILL GREEN]

Shame to see that the broken ones came with shipping box and padding and still came out like that. Its a factory error.

Richard's KG looked like the middle metal rod is missing, or maybe it slipped inside the torso.

Any word from collectors in Japan?

[walshiam]

The resin statue avoided these issues by packaging the heads, tails and wings unattached. I do remember how easy it was removing the heads because of the glue that I used after X-Plus discovered a design defect. They shipped new ones after realizing the horns were up side down a couple of months later.

[Hybrid Gojira]

[klen7]

Ugh... Just watched the Samson West and Rich Eso unboxing videos. Feeling lucky now.

[Hybrid Gojira]

One poor guy had all 3 necks and a leg broken when he opened his.

Wow.

[Legion]

It's really X-Plus who dropped the ball here, and in many infuriating ways. The necks and legs have very shallow, glued-on attachment points, and nothing on the figure is assembled like a typical vinyl toy. So one good knock and pieces are going to snap right off and have to be re-glued. And because a very good chunk of the figure seems to be made of a more rigid material with almost no give, kiss those horns goodbye if you ever bang into them. And that's nothing compared to the plastic wings, the tips of which seem to be unbelievably fragile. The wings themselves seem no more sturdy that the cheap plastic ones that came with the Bandai Great Monsters Ghidorah from 1984. And on top of that, the way the wings attach is a little on the half assed side. Each wing gets two small pegs that fit into a plastic assembly inside the figure, and in my case (and many others) the left wing did not want to stay in with heating up the vinyl around the insertion points and moving it aside to give the wings a more snug fit. But even after that, I didn't feel the fit on either wing was all that tight and I really worry about what's going to happy when gravity wins out and those wings slip out. Since I don't have a place to display the figure at the moment I ended up removing the wings to be on the safe side. I've heard people say that you could just glue the wings in, but to me that just kills the resale value and would prevent me from disassembling the figure for storage or sale if I ever needed to. I don't think permanently gluing the wings to a $300+ figure is a good solution.

So you've got a highly fragile figure. How do you box it up? Why, in nothing but a plastic tray and thin cardboard box of course!! Yes, that makes far more sense than encasing the figure in some sort of foam to protect it. People can blame Ami Ami all they want, but plenty of people got broken figures from other sources. And this figure seems so fragile that I can't even blame them being shipped overseas. All someone would have to do is drop the box and this thing would break. And that could happen even in Japan.

Does the figure look incredible when assembled and displayed? Of course it does. But something this expensive and hyped shouldn't have these kinds of problems. I've seen several people already who have seen what others have had to say about this toy and said they were glad they didn't order it. That's a shame.

[Hybrid Gojira]

[Enjoying An Egg]

Ordered two KGs, one from AmiAmi and one from HLJ. The one from AmiAmi hasn't arrived yet, but the one from HLJ arrived today. Well-packaged inside a secondary box, but it still came out with two severed heads and a horn missing off one head. Guess I'll be emailing X-Plus trying to get a replacement horn. I was prepared to have to glue this thing back together, but I can't glue parts that aren't there.

It's an absolutely gorgeous figure, but all these QC problems really put a damper on the ol' Box Day. I ate noodles for a month to afford this thing, y'know what I mean?

This is one egg I'm NOT enjoying.

[klen7]

did the horn fall into the wing holes?

[Enjoying An Egg]

Don't hear anything rattling around in there, so I don't think so.

[walshiam]

I think X-Plus should have released these in a smaller scale to avoid some of these issues. The larger the figure, the more fragile it could become. Either that or use a more durable material to make them, not to mention affordability.

[ILL GREEN]

Here comes Gigan!!



Reissued and limited to 300. $179.00 USD

[Baltan II]

I really wish I knew about this much sooner! I would've loved making Gigan my first X-Plus, but he's already gone. http://ric-toy.ne.jp/shop/products/deta ... uct_id=296

[ILL GREEN]

Already sold out It just got preorders up a week ago.

Well I made it onto the preorder list. I hear Gigan is smaller than usual 12 inch figures. He's gonna look fierce next to Ghidorah

[Legion]

[Cookie]

I need help finding a G'84 30cm figure. With Diamond not renewing their license, I'm forced to go after the original release.

Got G'55 and G'03 in the mail Saturday. They're awesome.

[Hybrid Gojira]

[ILL GREEN]

Be patient, Diamond is releasing those sculpts one more time. So far, G'54 and G'62 are up for preorder again.

[Cookie]

[Hybrid Gojira]

[ILL GREEN]

My bad, I read that as G'64.

[klen7]

[Hybrid Gojira]

[klen7]

Odd. I understand the contract not being renewed, but i still don't understand how LP has any say or would even have any reason to have a say in anything other than the Legendary Godzilla 30cm figure. Toho so far has been treating it as a separate license in the US.

They certainly aren't putting out any comparable products... Since Legendary is trying to get their comics line off the ground and Godzilla has been their biggest seller, i could see them trying to squeeze IDW out of the picture, but they haven't done much with their licensing for collector's grade products.

I am just curious what the reasoning is behind the rumor, especially since G'14 already came and went and the franchise is on hold for a few more years.