Furuta Choco Egg: Animal Crossing figures

Can anyone guess what I've been playing lately?  Yep! Animal Crossing New Leaf on my 3DS XL.  I gotta say, while I've never fully played the previous games, this one has me completely addicted. It's the perfect game to play while waiting for a friend, or just before going to bed at night.  I love the variety of characters, goods, and customization.  

Again, a main part of this game is enjoying the characters.  So when I saw Furuta's Choco Eggs were going to come out with a line of the little guys I had to pick up a box. Here is the box below: 

Animal Crossing New Leaf is called とびだせ どうぶつの森 Tobidase Dōbutsu no Mori or Animal Forest: Jump Out, in Japanese.

I'm sure most people recognize the little boxes that Choco Eggs come in.  For anyone that isn't familiar with buying a set box, you get 10 individual little boxes.  Don't be fooled though, Choco Egg characters are notorious for being difficult to collect.  You'll never get a full set of characters out of one of these set boxes. The Choco Egg boxes are always random, and a person can easily get 3 to 5 of the same character out of one of these set boxes.

I love the designs on the boxes.  They really fit the theme of the game, and show off the characters you can get.  I really enjoy all of these little guys so as long as I didn't get too many repeats I knew I was going to be happy.

So tiny! Here is a size comparison with my Kanji.

The wrappers on these are always shiny and adorable, plus the chocolate tastes good.

 Here is my set! Reese, Cyrus, Isabelle, Kapp'n, Tom Nook, K.K. Slider, and Digby.

 I'd say the average height for these guys is about and inch to and inch and a half, or 4 to 5 centimeters.

Being such small figures they do have some missed paint spots, and like all Furuta Choco Egg figures, they feel waxy and slick.  They look wonderful as a set though!  Like I said, doubles are bound to happen, and I suddenly have a trio of Nooks at the end of my openings.

Hope this was interesting, I should be back to more Sunday posts this for this summer.  I'm looking into filming some reviews just to change things up.  Thank you again for reading!

Animal Crossing Figure?

Yes.  I can't resist a video game figure, especially when one is being sold on the cheap.  I like hunting around for sale figures, and an ebay auction caught my eye again. 2.00 for an animal crossing trading box.

I actually never played animal crossing (only a little at a friends house) and the game play didn't interest me.  I do however enjoy the little animal designs. So I put in a minimum bid and forgot it existed. Suddenly I won and my little guy made it here fast. So what exactly did I bid on?

So a much larger box than I expected came in (it's still trading figure size).  Also, it seems I have a part of a whole small world, rather than a single character.  I have to admit, the back that shows the completed glode is really cute.  It goes with the game motif/concept, so kudos! now what is inside:

Suddenly kit! and an adorable wolf girl. So I do have to build my little part of the world...interesting.  As a concept I like this a lot, but in practice I'm wary of how well this will work. I do like the tiny stand they include so you can display JUST the character, but considering the whole set, that would feel like a waste. So time to build:

So here are the individual parts coming together.  At least I could use the tiny stand to get some easy shots.  As far as parts go, they fit pretty well.  As far as the stickers.....they do not.  They also have that terrible problem of peeling up after being placed.  They also don't line up well, which made placing them difficult in the first place. This might be from parts being so small, but I've still seen better sticker for figures, specifically from Bandai on my gundam I did a few posts before. The real joy has to be in assembling the corner of the world, so here's how it came out.

So here is the completed piece.  Altogether it's not bad at all.  A fun little put together that suffers from being a small part of a whole concept.  From the front and top views it's a sweet little scene.  The ability to make it your own with the extra stickers was smart on the part of the designers. 

The real problem is the side view.  It shows off the seams of the build, and has the awkward leeeeaaan that a rounded base tends to give. I'm still not fond of the stickers peeling either.  I'm ok with the connections to the other globe parts because they don't scream "we are lock in joints" but they will always be there if you don't complete the globe.  So link is back for size comparison, and this completed corner is approx. 2 inches tall.

I like my little wolf and have decided she can live on a shelf by my art supplies. Specifically because I can only view her from the front that way. Her face is well painted and the parts are adorable, so it's a shame it has problems.  I would not get another one of these kits, even at the wonderful price (thanks again to a great seller).  I'm content with her, and have no ambitions to complete a globe. 

I'd rather complete a more difficult kit in the future, so again nerd away~