[Saint Cloth Myth] Figure Oh 140, lots of News

Hey folks, I haven't updated this for a while, sorry about that, but to compensate here are some pretty exciting news for you myth cloth-wise ;)

With the 2009 planning being set, we're now moving onto the 2010 releases and many of those will certainly be shown at the Tamashii Nations exhibit in a couple of weeks. So what's in store? Well for this year we have Phecda Thor released today, next month it's a whole bunch of Tamashii Nations specials, the OCE appendixes of Shaka and Milo, the first 3 gold pandora's boxes with Old Dohko and Pegasus Seiya Final Cloth OCE. In November we have Benu Kagaho and December Odin God Robe.

In January, it seems like it's not 1 but 2 new releases:

- Cancer Deathmask Surplice

- Zeta Prime star Alcor Bud

You can see pictures of them below, though Bud doesn't look like he's changed much since he was first present at the first Tamashii Nations (in other words, the Odin Sapphire is still there, and it shouldn't be but it's ok I suppose, after all Thor's Mjöllnir Hammers aren't quite right either)

The other "prototypes" (they look quite complete to me) presented below are:

- Dragon Shiryu God Cloth

- Pegasus Seiya First Cloth (anime version)... you know the one the majority of people have been wanting for years!!

It certainly looks pretty exciting for 2010

Thanks Cybergundam ;)

[Saint Cloth Myth] Hobby Japan 9 - Figure Oh 138 - Exclusive News!!

I know I'm a little late in the bandwagon for posting this but bear with me because rather than posting blurry small pictures, I was waiting for the high res scans of these to really appreciate what it offers, and I'm hoping you won't be disappointed guys. Thanks immensely to Trevor for providing those scans :D

So as you can see the major feature in both magazines is Gamma star, Phecda Thor, the giant of the north and what a giant. We've been shown prototypes of various sorts with uncertain ideas of its actual size. Now we have a full scale colour photo complete with facial features and size comparaisons.

In terms of size, what we can expect is just under twice the size of an average myth, which will make it truly impressive indeed! If you have a diorama to display it in, keep him on the lowest level ;)

This latest Hobby Japan comes with a few rather important announcements as well. First of them is the 3D graphic announcing the release of Odin's God Robe. While this is not a surprise so much since the name was included with the labels in the Display Stands C, it's still nice to see that its release is rather imminent. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if it was going to be released for December as we know Kagaho comes out in November and nothing's scheduled for October but we already have a prototype for Kagaho as you can see below.

Next to be announced is the release of the 12 Gold Saints Pandora's boxes, made of metal (die cast as they call it) and apparently divided in 4 sets of 3 starting with Aries, Taurus and Gemini. Whether Roshi Dohko is included in the first set is not really clear but it would be a nice thought to have the first set with Dohko, the second with, say, Kiki, and then all bets are open for sets 3 and 4. Now I'm speculating here so don't go spreading roumors. Though if someone reads Japanese better than I do, a clarification on the inclusion of Dohko with the set would be appreciated.

The little window about the Upcoming October Tamashii Nations is rather interesting. Whilst we already knew about Pegasus Final Cloth OCE, there will be other St Seiya goodies as well. The first two are Appendix Milo and Appendix Shaka both OCE. You may be wondering what this means exactly, well in the manga, Milo actually has blonde hair so that'll be that, but then, so does Shaka, just like in the anime. We know from previous releases (Poseidon, Seiya God Cloth, Appendix Saga...) that OCE merely means recolouring of the cloth or the body to match the covers of the manga. So what it'll mean for Shaka is a mystery. We also have a new set of clear yellow / golden display stands appropriately lettered 'D' which were first visible at the first Tamashii Nations if you recall the exhibit on the Gold Bronze saints Reborn cloth with the Libra weapons. I'll be interested to see the labels on that one. Finally it seems visitors to the Exhibit will be given little Pegasus Objects as a token. Got one of those with my Seiya Plain Cloth, they're not much to awe about ;)

Now Figure Oh pretty much has the same announcements (though they seem to have missed Odon for some reason). Only one bit in there leads me to believe that the Gold Saint Pandora set (with Dohko?) will be only available through the Tamashii web store in the same way Seiya God Cloth OPE was. That means it'll be quite pricy for anyone trying to get it outside Japan.

I'll leave you to admire the Asgardian Giant. Thanks again to Trevor for the scans ;)

[Saint Cloth Myth] Lost Canvas - Benu Kagaho Exclusive Prototype

Last Weekend was the yearly "Japan Expo" in Paris and by the looks of it, they had an exclusive prototype on display which is being made available even before any Toy Show in Japan.

Benu Kagaho, the first major specter to make an appearance in lost canvas and which release had been announced a few days back is actually already in the prototype stage, despite my initial doubts of a November release based on first images being a CG design.

It's hard to tell exactly and I can't say I recall his surplice to be like that but it looks like some sort of mix between a God Cloth and Rhadamanthys' surplice. It's supposed to pretty much be all black so we'll have to wait to see the coloured version but so far, it looks pretty good, perhaps a little broad on the hips...




Anyway, thanks to the guys at Ikki63 and ma-deesse for posting those pictures. :)

[Saint Cloth Myth] Hobby Japan 08-09 Andromeda God Cloth

We continue this month's set of photos with a change of focus from Hobby Japan on Andromeda God cloth. Not much to say there that hasn't been said before. It seems he's grown quite a bit between the Underworld and Elysion, I dunno, maybe the outside dimension was a bit of a stretch...


Anyhow, this page is a bit more interesting. We finally have comparative views between Thor and another God Warrior (Fenrir in this case), and though he sits on a display stand, the size is pretty much bang on what I thought, that is with his waist at the level of the shoulders of another average-sized character.

Finally another CAD drawing of Kagaho (well the same as Figure Oh really) and if we're to believe Trevor (who kindly provided those scans), this will be released in November '09 for the modest price of ¥6,825. If it's still at the computer design stage, it's hard to believe it's due to release so soon, especially when other key Saint Seiya characters are yet to be released.

Anyway, thanks to Trevor again.

[Saint Cloth Myth] Figure Oh 137: Pegasus Tenma

Here it is, the first myth cloth off the Lost Canvas spinoff by Shiori Teshirogi due to come out in August 2009. This coincides with the release of the first DVD of the OVAs that should be round about now.

Now, as I said in a previou spost, the animatin and graphics of these OVAs are tremendous, however, sometimes a little improvement can't hurt. What I mean by that is the overly simplistic, in terms of colour of Tenma's cloth. Sure it's quite close to Seiya's original anime cloth but it kinda lacks highlights of sorts so the blue chromium makes it look quite plain. Still lots of potential for the original anime series to create some customised figures with little work.

Also of note is a CAD design of Benu Kagaho, one of the first major specters to battle in the manga series. The result is quite intriguing so we'll see if Bandai decides to go ahead with this character and when.



Thanks to Trevor for the scans :D