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The Toyark › Random Photo Shoot › Pacific Rim Uprising Robot Spirits Series 2 – Toyark Photo Shoot

Pacific Rim Uprising Robot Spirits Series 2 – Toyark Photo Shoot

Posted on April 10, 2018 at 12:00 pm by Joe Moore under Random Photo Shoot, Robot and Mecha Toy News

For Pacific Rim: Uprising, the sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s giant monsters vs giant robots movie, the licensing has been distributed to multiple companies. For the first film, it was mainly NECA who produced figures, and that line ran for quite some time, spanning over 30 figures across size classes. This time around, the main licensees are Diamond Select Toys and Bandai/Tamashii Nations. With the latter, there will be numerous releases set up for the film, across different figure lines. Those include Robot Damashii (Robot Spirits), Soul of Chogokin, Model Kits and SOFVI Spirits (for the Kaiju). The multiple size classes allow for Tamashii Nations to have figures available at multiple price points. Last month, we shared a gallery of their first series of Robot Spirits Pacific Rim: Uprising Figures. Today, we are sharing an in-hand look at the next three Robot Spirits Pacific Rim: Uprising Figures.

The second round of releases includes Obsidian Fury, Saber Athena, and Guardian Bravo in the 6″ scale Robot Spirits line. We have a review and full gallery of the newly released figures. Bluefin was kind enough to send them along. Check them out by reading on.

Pacific Rim: Uprising – Robot Spirits Series 2

Pros

  • Nice sculpts all around
  • They have excellent range of motion
  • Obsidian Fury is a blast to pose with the double blades
  • Easy to swap out parts
  • Price is just right

Cons

  • They could use some paint and weathering

Overall
The Robot Spirits figures come packaged in small, collector friendly window boxes. Each box contains large character art on the front, with photos of the figure and some of the included accessories shown on the back. The figures sit on plastic trays along with their accessories. They can easily be removed and put back in for storage on display. Obsidian Fury includes interchangeable hands and removable blades for his arm. Saber Athena includes an extra set of interchangeable hands, two small sword, and a single large sword. Guardian Bravo includes an extra set of interchangeable hands and two whips.

The second series of figures essentially has the same pros and cons as the first. The base sculpts for each of the figures is excellent. There’s a lot of sharp detail work throughout. Articulation is where these figures excel. The range of motion on all three of these releases is outstanding, with nearly any pose you can think of achievable. Elbows, knees, should and hips all have strong joints that allow for good balance and a dynamic range of posing options. Hands and weapons swap out with no issues. Like the first series, these are fairly hollow and light weight. They still remind me of Hasbro Transformers figures when looking at the type of plastic, as well as how they feel in hand. But, with the plastic type, the light weight nature and the solid joints, there’s little to no concern for QC issues or breakage, which is always a major plus.

There’s very little in the way of additional details outside of the plastic color for each piece. There are a few tampos here and there for decals. But there’s no paint used at all here. Like the first assortment, I would really love to see these painted up with full detail lining, washes and weathering for a more authentic screen look.

If you picked up the first assortment and enjoyed them, then there’s no reason to pass these up. Articulation junkies will be in for a real treat while posing these. At around $20 $30 each, it’s going to be hard to pass up if you come across them. See a few select photos below and a full gallery after that.

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› Companies: Tamashii Nations, Bluefin › Characters: Saber Athena, Obsidian Fury, Guardian Bravo › Scale: 6 Inch › Sub-Line: Robot Damashii

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  1. Joe Moore's Avatar Joe Moore says

    04-10-2018, 09:00 AM

    Pacific Rim Uprising Robot Spirits Series 2 - Toyark Photo Shoot











  2. Alucard1138 has no avatar! Alucard1138 says

    04-10-2018, 10:14 AM

    Great pics as always. Uprising was good, but not great. But these Bandai figures are fantastic for the price point. Though, I would really like for them to revisit the original film and make figures from that. I like the original Jaeger aesthetics more, and there were more and cooler looking Kaiju in the original. I think the only downside to these are lack of paint weathering, but Bandai is releasing these in their snapkit model forms, so I'll buy those up and custom paint them all. 6 figures in now, that's basically all the Jaegers I remember from Uprising, aside from Scrapper. What do they have left to make, a few more Kaiju and maybe some variants?

  3. Joe Moore's Avatar Joe Moore says

    04-10-2018, 10:18 AM

    I've seen a lot of people do washes and use Gundam markers to do detail lining and those adjustments really help the molds pop a bit more.

  4. Alucard1138 has no avatar! Alucard1138 says

    04-10-2018, 10:30 AM

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Joe Moore View Post
    I've seen a lot of people do washes and use Gundam markers to do detail lining and those adjustments really help the molds pop a bit more.
    I may get a 2nd one to paint up. Really I'm fine with how they are, still has good paint apps and details. These make me very excited for the Bandai model kits because they'll be just like these in terms of articulation, but will have more details since they're all separate pieces, and then I can custom paint it. As much as I love Neca, I think Bandai kinda has a grip on Robots, these aren't as big as the Neca releases from the original but far less QC issues and much better articulation.

  5. K Dubious's Avatar K Dubious says

    04-10-2018, 11:17 AM

    I'm all in on these, and just a heads up if Gamestop is still doing the bag deal you can get 25% off of them. They even had the Gypsy Model kit at a couple of the stores, but I held off on the model for now.

    I have not seen the movie yet and I will wait to display them until I have seen the flick, but as much as I liked the first movie I have a feeling I will enjoy this one as well.

    Also a minor nitpick in the review/description "around $20" should be changed to "around $30" since the only jaeger that was $20 was Gypsy, the rest have all been $29.99.

  6. Alucard1138 has no avatar! Alucard1138 says

    04-10-2018, 11:41 AM

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by K Dubious View Post
    I'm all in on these, and just a heads up if Gamestop is still doing the bag deal you can get 25% off of them. They even had the Gypsy Model kit at a couple of the stores, but I held off on the model for now.

    I have not seen the movie yet and I will wait to display them until I have seen the flick, but as much as I liked the first movie I have a feeling I will enjoy this one as well.

    Also a minor nitpick in the review/description "around $20" should be changed to "around $30" since the only jaeger that was $20 was Gypsy, the rest have all been $29.99.
    Oh nice, didn't know Gamestop had these, thanks for the heads up.

    I think you'll like Uprising, most likely not as much as the first, but the sequel does its own thing and isn't a big rehash. If you liked the trailers you should like the movie just fine.

    Gypsy Avenger had been $19, so I got one to open and one to keep carded, now he's up to $30 like the rest.

  7. Snowflakian's Avatar Snowflakian says

    04-10-2018, 01:06 PM

    Definitely need to pick up Gypsy Avenger and Obsidian Fury. Not sure on the rest. Do wish that a better articulated to scale Scrapper was made. The movie was a fun ride and setup fuel for an even more action filled third one.

    Gotta admit I enjoyed Scrapper a heck of a lot more than I expected. So much heart in that tiny little bot, especially with how earnest the pilots of it were. As a support Jaeger, it was freaking brilliant.

    Obsidian Fury I kind of wish had some more action screen time too. That design was awesome and I hope leads to some reconfigurations for Avenger in the third film to finally give the Gypsy Jaeger series dual swords.

    While the sequel was a bit of a crisper pace than the first one, gotta admit what they packed in did have a lot of nice impact and homages all around, and some nice parallels in new ways. Where the first one was more about stepping out of retirement and last stands to go out swinging, this one was much more rising to the occasion and forging a new legend ready to carry the fight to the enemy.

    I really like where the films and designs are going, and even the toys reflect that well. The first movie being more "dirty and brushing the debris off your shoulders" reflected in both the grittiness of the toys with battle damaged versions and the ship club one came with, to this film feeling more bright and hopeful, cleaner/cleaning up ones act to how the toys are a little brighter and cleaner and more agile. Very night and day like how the films are very night and day.

    Very cool in comparison. Wonder what movie 3/toy series 3 will do to compliment the previous two and pull in the best of both.

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