It's the Little Things - Zelda and Monster Hunter Airou

I'm still adjusting to my new space, and don't have a shooting space for figures like before.  Currently, I am working on it since I have a couple of exciting new figures to share, but not until later.

So, for tonight, I just wanted to collect the pictures of the little things I've picked up, and photographed, since I started this blog, but never had the chance to put them up.  So here's a start to a new section, It's the Little Things!

These little guys have been in previous shots, mostly for size comparison things.  The Zelda Phantom Hourglass Tomy Gashapon figures were a random pickup from my local target store for 5 bucks each.  I was really lucky to end up with the two I wanted out of the set, the adorable toon Link, and the hilariously selfish Linebeck.  (I love the word Gashapon by the by)

The figures are really well modeled; more so than I was expecting for the small size. They do suffer from what most Gashapons suffer from: tiny missed paint spots, bends in weapons, and weird bases.  These didn't have bends and the missed paint spots are minor enough to ignore.  The bases have extra holes for no reason though, it's a little annoying to myself, but probably not an issue to others.  I do love the extra item they give you with each character, Link has the actual Hourglass, while Linebeck has a green rupee.

These are pretty popular in the states.  After finding mine in Target, I later saw some for sale in a walmart, and a MicroCenter.  You can also pick them up online prices ranging from 5 to 9 bucks (plus or minus shipping)  With these I have no need for any of future iterations of toon link, since I enjoy this these guys so much they hang out by my desk.  Others may be interested in the Ultra detail figure of toon link coming up http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=FIG-IPN-5007&page=top

Onto a convention pickup, another random box! This time the adorable Airous from Monster Hunter (Portable 3 this time) caught my eye.  These are adorable, and look pretty perfect in my opinion.  love the little decals you can attach as well.  This one was an 8 dollar splurge at a convention dealer's room.

 Another dealer's room item at another convention (sorry I don't have photos from either convention to cover them) were these adorable bobble head cats!My friend Lechau and I went ahead and got these and traded each other for the ones we wanted.  Love a trading figure where I can actually TRADE with someone.  I got the panic cat (the one I really really wanted) and the sympathetic cat. A perfect pair.

 These are far more glossy and bright compared to other monster hunter Airou items, which may turn people off, but makes them fresh an new for me. They do have a few missed paint spot but they are too minor to be a bother.  They come with a card to show you the possible bobbles you can get.  I may or may not pick up more.....depends if I can find them again because these little guys are kinda hard to find.  prices seem to be 8 to 10 bucks at conventions.

 So here are the buddies keeping me company right now, and they look pretty nice together.

Hope this was a nice post to keep everyone entertained until some larger post come down the line.  I'm preparing for a trip to Canada in the near future, so hopefully I can find a couple of cool stores or goods from that trip to share.