Hello, welcome to my 2nd figure review... and now I'm going to review about this thing...
the Nendoroid Exelica
ok, let's get to the box already:
(front view of the box)
(side view of the box.. showing some scenes from the game Triggerheart Exelica.. it's the same pic for both the right and the left side)
(top view of the box)
(bottom view of the box)
(back view of the box, with a great art of exelica, soaring in the sky ^^ I found the almost same thing with the box of Bandai's VF-27 Brera Stern's Lucifer [(mfc link)], where the back of the box also showing the almost same thing ^^ -->
let's see the content!
exelica comes with so many parts at the first look. she also comes bundled with her PS2 dvd game and an instruction manual..
(front view of the game box)
(back view of the game box)
(what's inside of the game box is the DVD game, and a book about the game..)
(nothing special inside this book.. actually this book only explains a little things about the gameplay and the characters of the game.. not really interesting)
I'll stop talking about the game or the content of the book, since we're reviewing the figure, not the game ^^
Exelica, like I've said before, come with so many parts, that makes her box unusually wide.. and her dvd game, makes her box thicker than the regular box of nendoroids..
but unfortunately, she's not carrying many parts. 3 faceplates (normal, serious and smiling face), 3 arms (2 left + 1 right), 4 legs (1 pair of standard legs, and one pair of leg with jet units), 2 additional weapons (in the form of independent flying unit), and her backpack.... in fact those massive numbers of parts are actually combined to be a single part, her backpack.. the backpack consists of 7 parts, which is assembled to a single part..
her backpack is the most impressive thing about this nendoroid, since this backpack's size is huge.. almost as the same height as the nendoroid itself... I'll let you see the size comparison later, in this review ^^
by the way, the design of her backpack alone reminds me of Aegis Gundam's Mobile Armor mode somehow ^^' (aegis gundam --> (ext link))
Exelica comes with 3 arms, like I said before.. 1 normal left arm, 1 normal right arm, and 1 bended left arm with a clenched hand...
you can actually disassemble the entire arms like this, to make a new arm, based on your creativity...
about the head, nothing really super special here... but exelica got a huge ribbon (iron ribbon?) which is removable, but will leave a hole at her head...
you can disassemble her head like any other nendoroids.. her faceplate is also compatible to many other nendoroids and vice versa...
but some nendoroids (like nendoroid konata izumi --> (mfc link) and nendoroid kagamiku --> (mfc link)) can't fit this nendoroid and vice versa...
now let's talk about her sexy legs... we got 2 pair of legs, the normal one, and the one she used in her "full armor" mode.. they're different in shape and design, but they're also different in size...
exelica almost gain some height, thanks to her new legs..
^ from this to this v
now, let's talk about her main interest, her backpack! her backpack needs some assembling... just snap-fitting things here and there.. you can learn how to assemble it from the instruction manual..
now let's see her action base / stand base / whatever you call it..
there're 3 parts of her action base.. a big white plate, and 2 white plastic sticks.. assemble them (just follow the instruction manual) and you're finished with action base like this -->
to connect exelica to the base, jam the iron pole of the action base to exelica's err.. hips.. (since it's not really sticking at her back..)
then jam the other side of the iron pole to the backpack unit... vala! you got your exelica in her perfecet mode!
some photos from all angles and with some original parts:
now about the bad things about exelica.. being a number 049 means she's a little bit old as a nendoroid... and GSC's quality control about nendoroid back then isn't quite good.. ok, exelica got a pearl-like paint and it's really beautiful, but the paint job itself isn't that good... there are some flaws here and there, even though nothing really big though.. but recently released nendoroids got some better paint job, compared to exelica..
I will post the picture about the paint flaw later and put them in this review..
the second bad things about exelica is her own action base.. why?
first of all, her action base is simply a white plate.. why don't GSC give some sculpts or some paint job to her base? even the bases of her additional weapons got some engravement...
then, her action base is unique, since you need this action base to attach her backpack.. without her action base, she can't use her great backpack.. but this action base itself, limit her movements and poses... however, you can use the new nendoroid action base to pose her more efficiently, like this
but you can't put her backpack that way.. and I think that's a big minus point for her pose-ability....
the great things about her is that her sculting is flawless! I don't see any flaw in her sculpt... and her color, despite having some bad paint job, her paint is actually great.. she's covered with some white-pearl paint and not to mention, her blue stripes are also shiny..
in my opinion, she's one of the greatest nendoroid on earth ^^
despite being too pricey for me, she's one of my favorite nendoroid...
some photos to make you understand how lovely is Exelica ^^"
I hope this review is useful for all of us ^^ thanks a lot for reading!
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