What's Your Obsession

Today I’m taking a look at the version of Jean Grey I’m most familiar with, the 90s suit, as recreated in statue form by Bowen Designs. Though I’d started reading X-Men before she wore this costume, this costume was prominant in many of the issues when I was absolutely hooked on the series. This costume was also the one she wore when the series got bogged down in bullshit and I quit reading.

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Seemed as good a time as any to make a new feature for the site. I do a LOT of business on Ebay, much as I’d prefer not to, so why not save people some of the bad experiences I’ve had on the site?

I’ll publish my Ebay block list soon enough but for now, let’s look at the latest person I recommend avoiding.

1969koolcollectables , the Ebay ID of Thunder Bay’s Kool Collectables & Comics. Since he doesn’t have a website for his business and I get a good amount of traffic here, willing to bet this is going to show up #1 on google whenever someone searches for Kool Collectables & Comics. Good, people should know who they’re dealing with.

Here’s what happened. I ordered a statue described as new. I received an item that was broken in 2 areas, as well as having the motor partially screwed up. Seller claimed his employee owned it and he assumed it was mint. Yeah, sure, but whatever, he offered a refund. Then he couldn’t refund due to his “brother” being out of town and having his Paypal passwords. Apparently his “brother” hasn’t heard of a modern invention called a phone. But hey, he’s got 100% feedback, it’s only been a few days. Finally I get a confirmation, I’ll have the refund by Friday. On Thursday he emails me again saying he’ll have it to me on Friday.

Friday evening rolls around, no refund. I email him asking where my refund is. The jackass has the gall to claim his dad is dying of cancer so my refund isn’t his highest priority (despite having plenty of time to reply to my emails from the hospital, apparently). When I tell him I’m tired of it, he says I’ll get my refund when he feels like it. Sucks for him that I filed a Paypal complaint and left him a negative, since I’ll get my money back anyways.

So if you’re ever looking to get broken products or like getting lied to by a place that pretends it’s a real business, Kool Collectables & Comics in Thunder Bay, Ontario is the store for you!

Some more Chara Hobby convention coverage from Hobbystock again, a sneak peek of Alter’s Flynn Scifo statue from Tales of Vesperia.

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I’ve never heard of Embrace Japan before, but if I can they’re putting out statues that can nail the reference art this well, I should probably keep an eye on them. In this case, this Diabolus Inclinatus looks pretty great and will be available for about $80 at whatever import shop you frequent. It’s a cast off statue, so it’s only a matter of time until your friends discover you’re a perv.

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I’ve been linked to this one from a few people, you know how when you make models, you’re left with all the plastic outside parts? Someone decided to put them to great use, check the detail image under the cut.

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Hope you Guilty Gear fans have some spare dough laying around, Alter’s releasing what looks to be the nicest Dizzy statue yet. No details on price yet, this was shown at the Chara Hobby convention (coverage by Hobbystock).

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Sue Storm statue gallery

It’s going to come in at $185 for the regular and $190 for the exclusive, with a print. I know people complain about print exclusives (in some cases it’s quite justified), but it’s not bad looking and for $5, I think it’ll do just fine. Nice price overall on the statues, seems to be about 1/5th scale.

Marcus Wright statue gallery

Marcus here is going to be $235 for the regular, $245 for the exclusive. The exclusive is going to have a switch-out battle damaged portrait, looks better than I expected but I wasn’t the biggest fan of the latest Terminator, so I’ll pass.

Both go up for order on Thursday as usual!

You get to see Rodimus Prime’s weapon here, as well as the general size of him. Oh, and goggles, WOOP WOOP. GOOD NEWS though, not only does he come with the Rodimus Prime face, he appears to come with the original Hot Rod face. While not quite perfect, I’d say it looks much better.

Not that anyone is surprised by this, but Hot Toys finally made their Christopher Reeve Superman DX announcement. They’ve got Arnie Kim on board for this one, a pretty famous sculptor over there.

These are the highest quality shots to date of the S.H. Figuarts Luffy and Ace figures and unfortunately, I still think that Ace is looking pretty bad. On the other hand, Luffy is good. If you’re interested, they should be up at most import stores.

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