Fraulein Revoltech Yoko

Fraulein Revoltech Yoko arrived at my door today, along with another figure I’ll be reviewing next. This will be the second Revoltech figure I own, and the first Fraulein Revoltech. Yoko is from the anime Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Some of these pictures feature the box to the Yoko Solid Mouse Pad (the oppai one), and the mouse pad itself. Both the mouse pad and the figure I bought from my favorite store, Hobby Search. As always it arrived in good condition and promptly. I had to have a little fun, hope you enjoy the pictures. Read on for the review and click on the pictures for higher resolution!




Alright, so the box for her was pretty tiny, smallest figure box I’ve gotten so far. Moving on to the actual figure though, she was just as I had expected her, well mostly. She comes with two faces, and two hair pieces, not four like a certain promo picture had shown before. Not that I’m complaining, I was just surprised. One hair piece that’s normal and one with the glasses attached, and one angry and one normal face. One of the first things I’d like to point out about her, since I read some people weren’t happy with the promo pictures being different from the actual figure, but I don’t really see any difference besides the lighting. The lines on the bottom of her eyes aren’t really an accident, as you can see from the mouse pad and it’s box art, those are meant to be there. As a Revoltech figure her joints move a lot different than the Figmas, and I find it harder to pose them, and especially harder to use the stand. This stand is a lot better than my Revoltech Saber’s stand, which was utter crap. Still though, I’m only using the stand for display, not for pictures. I don’t like the rubber grip that goes around her waist in pictures and I don’t like that her feet don’t properly touch the base. Revoltech still has a bit further to go if they want to have bases that are top notch. It’s not much of a complaint I suppose, but it’s one thing that annoys me with Revoltech figures. Figma is pure win in the base department in comparison.




When I was switching Yoko’s hands, her wrist bracelets dropped right off. I was lucky to find one of them, as I wasn’t expecting them to fly off and roll on the floor… and right down a heat vent nearby. I managed to retrieve it, and thus learned a lesson with handling her. Before you change her hands, make sure you grip the bracelets, they are not part of the hands. I like the Revoltech joints in all places but the knees, as they seem a bit weaker there, at least in this figure’s case. Her scarf is removable, not part of the head, and moves around pretty loosely. Her hair has a joint in it. The gun’s scope is removable, and it comes with two stands. The pink strap on the gun borders on elastic but it’s not, and it seemed to stretch a bit when I put the gun around her. She’s all I could ask for in a Yoko figure, except that I wouldn’t mind a little Boota to go with her like the Konami version figure. She came with extra hands I believe six of them. If there was ever anything Revoltech could do to make their figures better it would be to try harder with their bases, take a note from Figma and make a couple more joints in them. So there you have it, my Fraulein Revoltech Yoko review, hope you enjoy the pictures and maybe this will help you decide whether or not this is something you’ll want to get or not. I’m happy with my purchase, the figure itself is great I just know they can do better on the bases.


My First Revoltech Has Arrived

Alright well it’s been a few days since I posted anything. I’ve been trying to cut down on spending lately so I’m going to try and keep myself from impulse buys. I have about 8 pre-orders right now as it is. Anyways I’ll be doing a review/photo shoot of my newest arrival, Revoltech Saber [Alter] this evening. Excuse the crap blurry shot of the box, but I can’t sit there getting a bunch of pix of the box before opening figures up, I could care less about the packaging most of the time.


Since I’ll be doing the real photo shoot later I suppose I’ll just make this a short post. When I opened it up I was surprised by the stand because it wasn’t like what I had seen in other reviews of Revoltech figures. In my opinion the stand is next to useless (I could be biased because I’m used to figma stands). It’s quite simple and the only place the stand goes on the figure is the feet, which I find somewhat difficult for pulling off really good poses. I did like the art piece that came in the box. Very cool. Uh, so here’s a few shots of her stand and next to Figma Saber, to show size comparison. Real pictures will either be up either tonight or tomorrow, I got cleaning to do for now.

Early Arrivals


I’m happy and excited to say that I’m very impressed with Hobby Search as they only took four days to get my Fate T. Harlaown figma to me, thanks to EMS shipping (which I see well worth the extra money). Also, my other order for Nanoha Takamachi and Konata Izumi came in this morning from J-List. Early arrivals are for the win! So, I’m going to hold off since my birthday is on Monday. For now here’s the boxes.


Yeah I know the pictures aren’t that great but I just wanted to show that they’re here and waiting for release. I’ll only post the best of my pictures when I do the photo shoots for the actual figures.


I’ll post up reviews/pictures of them on my birthday, the 11th. I’m sort of wondering whether or not I should post separately for each one, or do them all in the same post. Not sure what would be best, I’m bound to take a ton of pictures. Oh and the very first picture is the wallpaper I’m using for my desktop right now, I’m on a Nanoha kick right now. Also made a couple more orders today. I pre-ordered the Fraulein Revoltech Yoko Ritona action figure for my wife, this will be the first Revoltech figure we’ll have owned, now I can compare them with figma. Also decided to finally get Saber figma because I started watching Fate/Stay Night last night and I actually got into it. I never got into it before because the story just didn’t appeal to me, but the truth is I’ve always loved things medieval and ever since I was a kid, armor and swords were a fascination of mine. I’m sure most everyone has seen both but here are pictures of them just in case.