Banpresto 2012 One Piece Convention

Banpresto's 2012 One Piece convention has started just three days from now and from all the photo's being shown online, there are so many awesome figures that I thought I would like to share with you all. All the images can be found from the following links at the bottom of this post, but here is a list of Banpresto's up coming releases. Check out their blogs as well! There are a lot of other figures other than One Piece characters and some pretty awesome prototypes being shown.

Banpresto Ichiban Kuji: The Legend of Edward Newgate & The Legend of Gol D. Roger, Girl's Collection: Shirahoshi, Hancock, and Perona, and Chopper & Creatures. 

From The Grand Line Series: Grand Line Men - Garp, Young Shanks, Shiki (all Vol.0), Franky (Vol.13), and Grand Line Ships Vol.1 & 2 - Thousand Sunny and Moby Dick. 

From Banpresto SCultures and SCultures BIG we have the figures from the One Piece Colosseum. I am aware that some people on forums have been asking about what the difference is between the SCulture and SCulture BIG series, but to my best knowledge I am unsure of myself. Some people state that the figures are a little taller for SCulture BIG but there are characters such as Nami being labelled BIG where as X-Drake is still the regular SCulture. If I do however find out more information on this, I will post an update on this matter.

From what I have seen so far, I am pretty excited about the Ichiban Kuji: Chopper & Creatures releases since they have Karu and a bunch of well detailed characters. There is a mystery character that has not been uncovered but who ever the character is, it should be awesome! If you have any question on any of the resource links provided at the bottom, please leave a comment and I will get back to you on that! Enjoy!

Reference links

One Piece POP Figure Blog

Akiba Hobby

Moeyo Blog

Banpresto Grand Line Men Vol.0

Grand Line Men Vol.0 Garp & Shanks

Here's an exclusive look from the 2011 Prize Fair convention in Tokyo, revealing Banpresto's up coming Grand Line Men and Children series. Banpresto announced their Vol.0 (Strong World series) of the Grand Line Men with Garp & Shanks, along with what looks like to be Shiki, which may be announced very soon. For Grand Line Children, we have Nico Robin and Spandam with his pet elephant. I can't wait for Vol.0 to come out!! Shanks and Garp both look fantastic. For those that didn't get the P.O.P DX: Strong World Garp, the GLM Vol.0 version of him is a good alternative!  Enough with the long post, here are the photos!

Source Reference:

Moeyo Toy Blog (in Japanese Online)

P.O.P DX Monkey D. Garp (ver.0)

P.O.P DX Monkey D. Garp (ver. 0) Limited

Here is a small update on a very limited P.O.P DX Monkey D. Garp (version 0), where he showed up in the Gol D. Roger Era from the Strong World series. This version is when he was still Admiral at the time along with Sengoku and where Kizaru, Aokiji, and Akainu were still rookies back then. The coloring done on Garp on this version is just fantastic! His face skin-tone is fixed compared to his first version. I assume that they made this version because of the amount of extra Garp figures MegaHouse made. The pose is exactly the same as his other version except for the color and his head. At the moment we are not sure what other items he comes with but I assume it is just the figure with one pose.

Garp will be only available during the MegaHouse showcase in Tokyo, so if you happen to be there this winter take a look there and see if you are able to get him! I do love the coloring on this Garp compared to the first version, but to blend in with the other P.O.P DX figures he would stand out a lot. I try to blend in the characters based on the one's I already have, which is why I won't be getting this one. I will be updating on a few P.O.P's that I have got these past few months. I just didn't have any time to update some of them, but I will get to those very soon!

Source:
http://www.donki.com/onepiece/index.php#one

Wonder Festival Summer 2011 One Piece Reveals

P.O.P New World: Luffy & Chopper

Here are a few nice releases and some new prototypes from the recent Wonder Festival Summer 2011 event held in Tokyo. They released a few updates on the P.O.P (Portrait of Pirates) Time Skip version of Luffy, Zoro, Chopper, and Nami. They brought some updates of Kizaru and surprisingly a new version of Garp from the Strong World or Vol. 0 series. There are some minor photo's for Banpresto's Grand Line Men/Women/Children as well, which I can't wait for some of the new releases!! Especially for the Time Skip version's!! But enough with the long post and take a look at the photo gallery.

P.O.P New World: Zoro

P.O.P New World: Nami

P.O.P DX: Admiral Kizaru

P.O.P DX: Admiral Akainu

P.O.P DX: Garp (Strong World/Vol. 0 version.)

Banpresto Grand Line Men

Banpresto Grand Line Lady & Children

Source of Media from the following links:

Law of One Piece Blog

Wonder Festival 2011 Blog

POP DX Monkey D. Garp

P.O.P DX Monkey D. Garp

Just as the title states, my P.O.P DX Monkey D. Garp has finally arrived and he is fantastic. Though the only disappointing thing about him is the color tone on his face. His neck skin tone and his face skin tone are completely different. It feels like the two pieces were given to two different people. But I would only display Garp with his Dog mask on so I have nothing to worry about. Here are some edited photo's of him. Enjoy!