He is small, he is highly
detailed, he has decent articulation, and he is (was?) cheap! Yes, he is the (discontinued?) Super Imaginative Chogokin Kiwami Tamashii Masked
Rider Kuuga Rising Ultimate (now that’s what I call a looong name :)).
The looks
For anyone who likes small, 3.75
inch figure such GI Joe and marvel universe line, SIC kiwami is like a blooming
flower in the middle of the desert ( and I don’t even know what that’s means
!). And in the terms of looks, Kuuga rising ultimate inherits all good things
from this line of figure. Just look how detail this guy is while he is only
about 4 inch tall.
For your notice, I have displaced
this figure torso joint by the way. As far as I know, regular release of SIC KT
kamen riders are using double ball peg for its torso joint and there are two
type of it, the long one and the short one. Regular kuuga mighty form and ultimate
rising was using short joint for both, and I have change mine to the long one
which make him a bit taller than his original released. I like this proportion
better and it became more articulated so I just going to keep it that way.
The red eyes are made of red
compound eyes which add the goodness of this guy.
And yes, he is made in china and
has the customer service number just in case you need more…
Overall he is definitely a beat up for
other small figures and even compare to his bigger companion such as SHF. There were some un-neat finishing for its
plastic mold left over in mine, but it does not affect much on his sweet looks
IMO. Two thumbs for the appearance.
Articulation
Articulation of this guy is
actually pretty decent. Not all great but I think could still do every things
that he needs to do, except maybe the rider kick. Well… maybe it just me and
maybe because I came from the showa age, but I always think that the ability to
performs the rider kick is a must for an articulated kamen rider figure :).
Another thing that I’ve remember,
when I first open this guy from its mint condition, some of its joints are
kinda sticky. It seems that they place him inside his box while his paint was
still not perfectly dry. A deadline release I think. So if you got him in his
mint condition, you might need to be careful on your first try moving his
joints, don’t put much force to it. Once they moved, everything’s gone be all
right.
Head and neck are separated parts
from the upper body and connected using ball joints. Free head rotation, decent
nods down, limited for side and looking up movements.
Upper hand to shoulder connected
using ball hinge joint which makes a good swivel and ball movement.
Unfortunately
upper arms movement get hindered by its shoulder armor attached at his main
body shoulder which only has a little up down hinge movement.
By the way, you
might need to be gentler with the shoulder armor joints. From my experience,
sic kiwami has a fragile shoulder armor joints so far, and I was having bad
time with agito trinity and blade joker.
Its upper arms itself has this
separated moveable shoulder cover which is a very nice feature IMO.
Pivot rotation at the biceps and
double jointed elbow. Hands wrist using Ball peg which has a deep ball
connection so it could only gives a rotation movement.
Unlike SHF, SIC KT’s main body
only separated in to two parts and connected at its torso using one double ball
peg. Like I’ve mentioned earlier, I’ve swap his with SIC KT Blade’s which the
long one is, so what you see in the next pictures is actually better than his
original movement.
The only thing that, well… need
to be complain is his thighs to hips connection. It is a ball joint, and the way
they construct the ball cup make him possessed a reaaally lame split movement.
His upper thighs are separated
and connected at pivot for rotation movement. But it happen to be kind of
hindered. Maybe that’s because how it shaped. It makes its rotation
movement became very limited.
Other than that, everything else
is good, double joint at knee and ball hinge at ankle.
Accesories
He only has alternative hands and an
alternative black eyes head. A bit disappointing because as I could remember he
has a higher price tag compares to others regular KTs. I will not say much
about them besides they all made with the same good details, except for the black eyes which only has a plain black color without compound structure.
Poses
Could still do rider kick with a bit of imagination.
Now, posing with other small 3,75 inch GI Joe so you could compare them by yourself
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| Let's make peace my friend |
Size comparison
Final Thought
If I was writing this pose at the
end of 2012, I would recommend this guy just based on the thought: he was too
good to be cheap (or too cheap to be good?). Unfortunately this is a late
review, he is already discontinued (?), and usually these kinds of discontinued
figures have always become too expensive to considerably buy at present.
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