{"id":3888,"date":"2010-06-15T03:06:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T03:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anymoon.com\/blog\/?p=3888"},"modified":"2010-06-17T07:05:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T07:05:38","slug":"cms-mospeada-character-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anymoon.com\/blog\/?p=3888","title":{"rendered":"CMs Mospeada Character Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Observations & Critique: Casual clothing figures for your ride armor collection
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Usually there’s no place here at Scorched Earth Toys for character figures, since they’re not really toys, but since these figures go so well with the CMs toys I’ve elected to include them.\u00a0 Like many other figure sets, the Mospeada figures come gashapon bundled in a larger box with individually packaged characters inside.\u00a0 CMs used the blind box method, so there’s no way of telling what character you’re buying from the individual boxes.\u00a0 Fortunately, CMs went with the gentle blind box method that allows you to buy one complete box and receive all the figures including the chase.\u00a0 In fact, it appears that all the white boxes contain all the characters arranged in exactly the same pattern allowing you to get TWO full sets of the characters with one chase figure.\u00a0 The chase figure (Yellow as a woman) seems to always be located in the front left-hand (you facing the box) slot.\u00a0 The standing figures also come with a miniature doll stand so you don\u2019t have to worry so much about them falling over (not pictured).<\/p>\n

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As with everything CMs made for Mospeada, the production run on these figures was very small.\u00a0 They\u2019ve become quite hard to get a hold of.\u00a0 Stores that had anticipated selling them never seemed to get them in stock and those that did get them sold out pretty quickly.\u00a0 Now-a-days the figures catch a nice premium.\u00a0 I would think that the female Yellow would be the hottest collector\u2019s item but at the same time, it\u2019s also the figure that goes the poorest with the existing CMs toys.\u00a0 That said, Yellow is a huge fan favorite in Japan which is why the set has two Yellow figures and no Sorji (Sera), Batra (Corg), Jim (Lunk), Aisha (Marlene II), Col. Wolff, or Refless (Regis) figures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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For their scale the CMs figures are not a bad representation of the Mospeada figures but they\u2019re not excellent either.\u00a0 CMs chose poses that were fairly well known from popular line art (I\u2019ve provided comparisons).\u00a0 The paint job is fair as is the attention to detail.\u00a0 There’s some nice shading done on the riding figures.<\/p>\n

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None of the figures feature very much articulation and most can\u2019t really balance on their own.\u00a0 Don\u2019t expect to get any more joy or satisfaction out of these characters other than really satisfying group pictures with CMs toys\u2026 if you own those CMs toys.<\/p>\n

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You don\u2019t really have to worry about breaking these toys since they\u2019re essentially solid hunks of plastic but do be careful when putting the riding Stick (Scott) and Yellow figures on their bikes as the bikes can be fragile.\u00a0 I also fiddled with the gun that Ray (Rand) comes packaged with to try to get it to work with a Ride Armor but I couldn\u2019t get it to work right and didn\u2019t want to risk breaking the toy or the gun (I admittedly didn\u2019t try very hard).<\/p>\n

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You don\u2019t really get any articulation out of these figures other than a head that might twist and arms that might go up and down.\u00a0 Essentially these are little plastic statuettes but I doubt anyone will buy these expecting them to be anything more than that.\u00a0 If you do have a huge CMs Mospeada toy collection then you\u2019ll find these figures go along very well.\u00a0 They might leave a little bit to be desired but they do serve their purpose of dressing up your Mospeada display very nicely.\u00a0 Would these figures go well with the Mega House or Beagle toys?\u00a0 No, they\u2019re perfectly in scale with the CMs toys and will look small next to a display of another company\u2019s toys (unless you have a large display of mixed scales which is how I generally do things).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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