Monday, July 18, 2011

2011 update of My S.I.C. Collection

I would like to apologize for unable to update my blog for quite some time. I have been renovating my room and the cabinets where I display my collections and also my camera is not really suitable for closeup shots. The other thing that slows down my progress was that it is not a really easy task to complete these collections and I needed time to track the figures down and also financial reasons which sometimes slowdown my progress.



Now that I am back...lets begin. Owh... I really do appreciate it if you would kindly follow my blog and comment on my collections. Thank you.


KIKAIDER SERIES


Finally able to complete this collection. Previously I couldn't find Volume 11 but recently a friend of mine decided to sell his to me. Currently the market price for Kikaider and Side Machine alone
is RM750++ but i was able to get it for RM300 only from my friend. Thanks a billion for completing my collection.


KAMEN RIDER WITH BIKES SERIES


To complete the two Rider I had to modified Rider 1 and Cyclone 1 into Rider 2 and Cyclone 2 respectively. Plus I had to paint Rider 1 into Rider 2. I hope the next version for Rider 2 and Cyclone 2 will be release soon.



SHOWA SERIES & THE FIRST AND THE NEXT SERIES


So far I did not need to buy 2 sets of any figure from the Showa Series, up until Kamen Rider Stronger was release. This was because Stronger has the Charge-Up Form while Tackle has the Mask On Mode.


SHOWA RIDER SERIES 2

An almost complete collection after the recently bought Kamen Rider J. Now I only need Kamen Rider Shin to complete the series, which I hope will come out soon.


HENSEI KUUGA AND FAIZ SERIES


I put this two series together in one cabinet because so far this are the only series with the most few figures compared to the other series. As you can see I only put up Kuuga Mighty Forms here as I haven't found extra bodies for the Normal Form. On the other hand the FAIZ series is a complete set after I got the Axel Form.


AGITO SERIES

I hope S.I.C will be releasing Kamen Rider Grill as soon as possible as that is the only missing rider to complete this series and since Kamen Rider Agito and his bike has come out with a Version 2.


RYUKI SERIES


I purposely bought both Ryuki Normal Mode and Survive Mode so that I could extend Dragredder. Same goes for Ryuga which I bought 1 set of Ryuga Survive Mode and 2 sets of Ryuga Normal Mode simply to extend Dragblacker. I also bought Kamen Rider Knight for its Normal and Survive Mode, and sold off Ouja.


BLADE SERIES


This was the first collection that I was able to complete the whole set. But then I was also a bit mad the S.I.C reissued Wild Chalice in Tamashii Nation 2010 Wild Chalice which was far cheaper than the one I bought in 2008 which was double of the one came out in 2010.


HIBIKI SERIES

So far I've collected 4 out of 5 Limited Edition figures which are; Imagination Works Limited Hibiki Maziora, Imagination Works Ani-Com 2007 Hong Kong Limited Todoroki Maziora, Hobby Japan Limited Warring State Perriod Masked Rider Armed Hibiki, Masked Rider Sabaki, Eiki & Dannki and S.I.C. Kanto 11 Oni -Elite Assembly-. The only one I dont have would be the Limited Hibiki Clear ver.


KABUTO SERIES

For this series alone I bought 5 set of Kabuto, 2 set of Dark Kabuto and 2 sets of Gattack. I hope the other character in the series will come out as well.


DEN-O SERIES


Im looking forward to get my hands on Cho Den-O and New Den-O. I will not collect Kamen Rider Den-O Kohana & Naomi PVC because these two are only figures and not action figures.


KIVA SERIES

There was a high demand for the Kiva Emperor Form even before the figure came out. By the time I received the figure the price went up from RM320 to RM520. I also want to see more characters from this series to come out as well.


DECADE SERIES

For me to complete this collection I had to hunt down most of the older models, which I mount with the extra Decade's belt which I got from Decade Kuuga's and Kabuto which I have bought extra. The only Rider missing is Faiz and Limited Diend.

W SERIES

As you can see the collection is still small although I am aiming to have all 9 Modes in the future. Im looking forward to add in Kamen Rider W FangJoker and also Kamen Rider Skull and Skull Crystal.

As you can see, S.I.C had came a long way just to make this figure a reality. Even though it was just a figure for us, but the really made effort to create a figure as real as the one we see on the series. Therefore I would like to salute Takayuki Takeya and Kenji Ando for making improvements to S.I.C figures all this time.