One Piece Bandai Candy Toy: Dressrosa Box

Finally more candy figures from Bandai.  I really do like picking these up when I can, but they often sell out so fast.  This set is the final part of Punk Hazard and the Beginning to the Dressrosa Arc we are currently enoying.  

I liked the lineup and the outfits for this set so I was happy to see it hadn't sold out by the time I got around to picking these up.  Simply I had to have tiny Doflamingo and Aokiji.

Let's get this party started, first off we have Sanji, Luffy, and Nami who all happen to look great.

Next up are Momonosuke, Baby 5, and Chopper, all of which are really too cute (Momonosuke is especially well sculpted for such a little guy).

Finally the stars of the box are Doflamingo and Aokiji, two of my favorite characters!

The extra special note to this box? Two secret characters that are "Ice Colors" Doflamingo and Aokiji. Really a nice surprise since color variations don't happen too often past separate metallic sets.

 

Aokiji looks like he is activating his ice powers, while Doflamingo looks more like he's ready for a 90's esque party.....Although these colors would work really well for him as a character as well XD

All in all a great little set, I'm hoping to pick up the next box in the near future.

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!

Hi Chew: Special Edition One Piece (2013)

It's been a while since I reviewed something I picked up completely at random.  But when I found these online I couldn't resist them. 

For one thing, I really like trying sweets from different countries (like most people).  I've had different flavors of Hi Chew before, and always really liked the texture (Think chewing gum crossed with taffy).  I felt like picking some up again and to my amazement found these:

I found One Piece special edition packs complete with a random tiny gashapon charms!  These were apparently a limited edition item back in 2013 along side the punk hazard arc in the anime.  I wasn't aware of these existing then, otherwise I would've picked these up sooner.

I bought eight packs trying my luck at pulling the few I really wanted.  The backs of the packs show the ten possible charms: Caesar Clown, Smoker Tashigi, Dangling Chopper, Sanji Nami, Trafalgar Law, Luffy, Tashigi Smoker, Diable Jambe Sanji, Nami Franky, and Dragon form Momonosuke. As adorable as little Chopper and tough Nami are, my real hope is for that blushy Smoker.

The packs themselves are nice, coming with ten pieces of individually wrapped Hi Chew candies. Even the packs have little characters on them.  The candy itself have a flavor somewhere between their Apple (possibly Lime?) Hi-chew and Ramune Soda Hi Chews.  These were unique by having the green and blue jelly parts floating throughout the Hi Chew piece rather than mixed in; as it shows on the wrapper below.  If anyone knows the exact name of this flavor on these let me know!  They happen to be really good....

The tiny bonus boxes have numbers on them that correspond to the charm inside.  I had two 3 boxes, two 4 boxes, 5, 7, 8, and 9.  I never mind pulling doubles though, so lets see what these are!

 Starting off great! Chopper was in my number 3 box! This little guy is going straight onto my purse.

 Pulled a second one, which is good incase I ever loose the first.

My number 4 boxes had the lovey Sanji Nami! Another one that I wanted.  I ended up putting one on my keys.

 Next up Nami Franky!  Trying to shoot the beam, poor Nami in this arc....

 Caesar Clown looks really good like this actually! He is doing his Villian pose very well here.

 Pulled Momonosuke right after Caesar clown, and he is also a really cute charm.

Yes! My finale was the way cool attacking Sanji!  He was another one I wanted to get out of these packs.

So here is my bounty all in all.  I'm considering getting some more of these packs, just to have Hi Chews around for a while and try my hand at getting Smoker again.  If anyone has the Smoker from this set and would like to trade or sell, leave me a comment or send me a message!

These are really detailed metal charms, not just plastic or paper.  I tend to prefer the metal ones for things like my purse and my keys, because they stay clean and last longer.  They are also very small, here is chopper next to the bead and Layton coin I have on my purse for a size comparison. 

 I can't say the word CUTE enough in this post.....