Banpresto Grand Line Ships & Ichiban Kuji

Here are some up coming releases next month from Banpresto. We have the new Grand Line Ship series starting with Thousand Sunny, possibly Merry, and the Moby Dick as well for volume 1. For the Ichiban Kuji series we have Young White Beard and also Roger both for as the A-prize. I have not come across Roger's promo poster, but if I do see it online I will post it up for you guys so keep in touch. Here are some photos I found online. Enjoy!

Banpresto Ichiban Kuji Lupin the 3rd Prize

Thought I would review something different for a change other than the usual One Piece characters since I am waiting on the new Grand Line Men characters to come out. Today we have Banpresto Ichiban Kuji Lupin the 3rd (ルパン三世) Prize figures. Lupin was probably one of my very first anime shows I have seen during my childhood and when I saw these up on Mandarake, I just had to get these.

These Ichiban Kuji characters are roughly around 4-5inch's in height, although in the photo's they look a little bit bigger. I was surprised how small these were when they came in the mail, but the quality on the characters were pretty good. The only one's that had the least detailed quality was probably Fujiko and Goemon, where as the others were better in terms of their coloring since these are pretty small figures.

This Kuji series if the K-prize which contains 5 characters: Lupin, Jigen, Goemon, Fujiko, and Zenigata. They all come with a mini stand and they can not stand by themselves because of the mini pegs on their feet.

 I assume they "could" stand on their own if you cut off the mini pegs, but do that at your own risk! Seeing these in person now, I do enjoy these figures and hopefully if I can get my hands on the Banpresto DX characters of Lupin, I will do another review on those guys as well. Here is a small gallery of the figures. Enjoy!

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