Once again One Piece was the number one manga in sales in Japan for 2014 so it's no wonder why MegaHouse couldn't show any restraint when displaying OP figures at Megahobby Expo Autumn 2014. Some of these we've seen before, but still brought more than enough unpainted pieces to make us happy! Best of all it's not all New World stuff, they're doing a bunch of kids and even some from the first leg of the Grand Line. There's too much to talk about every figure individually so first a list of everything on display and then some comments.
Portrait of Pirates MILD (child versions)
- Nami
- Roronoa Zoro
- Nojiko
- Boa Hancock
- Brook
- Monkey D. Luffy
- Nico Robin (standing)
- Nico Robin (sitting, reissue)
- Sanji
Portrait of Pirates Sailing Again
- Koala
- Sabo
- Eustass Kid
- Killer
- Trafalgar Law (ver. 2)
- Trafalgar Law (ver. 2.5 shirtless)
Portrait of Pirates DX
- Roronoa Zoro (10th Limited ver.)
- Mr. 2 Bon Clay (Impel Down)
- Portgas D. Ace (10th Limited ver.)
Variable Action Heroes
- Monkey D. Luffy
- Trafalgar Law
OK, so this is pretty exciting if you're a One Piece fan. The kid figures all look really great. I honestly hate those half-age figures that turn up every now and then, this is how kid figures should look. For the most part they're accurate to their appearances. Thanks to the manga we should be seeing a Law figure sometime soon which will also require a certain other character to be paired with, perhaps for the DX line. I guess we could use a MILD Doflamingo while we're at it, too.
For the Sailing Again figures they picked two pairs of real winners. Koala and Sabo look absolutely perfect together and they even added some interaction with Koala holding his hat. I assume the hat can actually go on Sabo's head and maybe that hand can be replaced with a fist? Now we just need a Hack figure to finish out the trio. On the other side Killer and Captain Kid make for two massive looking figures that should look great painted. To say nothing of imposing. They haven't seen any action in the manga yet, but it's only a matter of time.
Taking a trip back to the DX line it's pretty great that they're doing Impel Down figures and hopefully we see a lot more where those came from. Bon Clay is a good place to pick up since, if I'm not mistaken, the closest they've come to addressing that arc is Shiliew. We need prisoner versions of Mr. 3, Buggy, and Crocodile, too! And can you believe they're making their 10th Zoro figure? And it's a classic Zoro rather than a New World version to boot. Making it a DX figure means it should be the best version of Zoro yet and so far the sculpt doesn't disappoint!
That just leaves the Heroes figures. The line is basically the successor to the S.H.Figuarts run, but in a larger seven inch scale. They're great looking figures, but the scale doesn't interact well with other lines so it's a little hard to justify them. If they had gone an inch larger they could be matched with the POP figures and a little smaller they'd fit in with SHF and the like. Who knows, maybe they'll make a bunch of them, but it seems unlikely seeing as how they haven't announced any others with them coming out next month.
Now where's my Sabo as Lucy figure?
[via Akiba Hobby]
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