Hello guys,
Finally this guy has arrived. Yep, Setsuna F. Seiei in pilot suit, the main protagonist of Gundam 00 series, is made to this "kakkoi" and cool sculpted figure from the Gundam 00 Portraits series.
Althought quite rare in my country I managed to get it for $15, fortunately I got him in MIB condition.
Box
This figure itself has been released since 2007, quite old and I got catched for this character quite recent, LOL.
IMHO, I like this box's design for it has Exia as the background. The quote on the left as far as I can describe is "Ore(tachi??) wa Celestial Being no Gundam Meister da."
As usual for the back we have the line up for this figure series, including Lockon Stratos, Tieria Erde, Wang Liu Mei (why in the box said Wang Liu Min??) and Sumeragi Lee Noriega. The rest of these line up as I could found are still available except Sumeragi. I don't have a clue whether this lady has also become rare or not.
Open container (..box I meant)
As usual as Bandai candy toys, the instruction sheet is included. As you can see, there's an inprinted (embossed) Celestial Being mark (logo) on the base, but when you display it, it almost not noticeable. Except you have a LED base or acrylic box with LED for your display, perhaps it'll boost the logo appearance.
On the bottom side of the sheet there's a writing for Gundam 00 and Gundam W, I think it's a broadcast schedule in Japan's local channels.
Enough for the et cetera, let's go to the groove..
When not assembled Setsuna has one piece of main body, the rest separated is only his arms. This reduced the unnecessary gap between part of body but increased the posibility of bending. For mine, it has a little bend to the front, but when attached to the stand, this flaw may gone.
As you can see, even it's not a model kit, Bandai provide us with runner (for stand).
The content
The detail and siluet of this Setsuna are nice. At first I hope for the wearability of the helm (like in Gundam Seed Haro capsule TF) but Bandai didn't provide this.
For me, the main point of this figure is its pose, for the part I like his hair and eyes. For this series it looks like Bandai give a greyish black hair for Setsuna instead of usual black. Don't know if this based on the gundam wikia which in there described that Setsuna has silver hair in movie ver.
For the eyes, he has more reddish brown eyes instead of brownish chestnut which described in gundam wikia. Ohh, almost forget to mention, his shoes' soles also has a great detail, just check it out.
The compare
I had two Setsuna figure, another one is in my post below. When they compared, as you can see, the latter had a bigger scale than the previous. But.. I love those both, each can be portrayed for different purpose, thanks to their different scale and pose.
That's all for now and Christmas is coming in 3 days. So, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year guys. See you next year..
