i love going to figure shop so much! its like museum but statues are pvc figures of beautiful anime boys and girl! and i can see different kind of figures too
Your videos are the best on the subject, I would like to start collecting figurines, you should make a top 7 tips for buying beginner version figurines
Here in Canada, there's like maybe one or two small figure stores within drivable distance (like up to 2 or 3 cities away) and everything they have is about 2X or more the price of buying from japan or china. When I visited china recently, there were several large figure stores selling merchandise near taobao prices within the same city and that was such a fun experience.
11:50 Fenrir was Cloud's motorcycle in the movie Final Fantasy Advent Children. This store looks pretty decent, i think the only thing its missing is plushies.
The Fenrir is the Advent Children 1/6 motor cycle that goes with the Cloud figure that you see on the top. Assuming it says 2399 MYR as the price tag for both, that is a good deal actually.
Nice video. Watching this video felt I like I was going for a walk in one of these stores. It's a shame there are hardly any where I live, so I only ever get to see these things in person in anime conventions. Also, at 17:56 the umarked box is Witch in Training Nana Hoshikawa (this company also made the Witch of the Other World Fatereal), followed by the Flash Point 1/12 LingJi Kenai (which is known to have a lot of imperfections and quality issues when it came out. Not sure if it's now a new batch that fixes those problems). And for anyone wondering, 18:15 is Snail Shell - Front Armor Girl Victoria. 18:24 is Big Firebird -Scientific Catgirls Sunflower. 18:27 are the ATK Girl Model kits. 18:43 is a model kit by Nuke Matrix -Summer Vivienne. 18:51 Zhuge Liang and Greed are both model kits by MS General.
Love the tour. I wish we had a store like this. We have 6 million people in my city but none of the figure stores have very good selections. Lots of Pop Up Parade and Funko Pops but few scale figures or Nendroids that I want. And there are a few gacha machines coming in but they're $5 and not worth it to me. Love your red car too! I have a red Kia Sorento about that shade. Thanks for the video!
Thanks. My car is a Proton X50 (RHD version of Geely Binyue), and it is actually orange color, with a black roof. I picked orange for the reason it is a rare color on vehicles in general. You know how everyone just buys white, silver, grey cars nowadays? As a bonus, it also makes it easy to find your car in a massive car park. Your car just sticks out like a sore thumb in a sea of white and silver vehicles lol.
@@EXkurogane Those are car models I've never heard of. It's interesting how different cars are marketed with different names depending on country.. I'll have to look yours up! There are a lot of red cars where I am but orange is unusual. Many white cars to reflect heat as I'm in Phoenix, AZ but lots of totally black interiors which is definitely doesn't reflect heat. Weird.
Why are there $100-200 scale figures stacked on the floor where people can easily walk into it by accident... and then $5 prize/PuP figures get their own shelves. This shop is ridiculous.
Unfortunately it's common practice here in my country. Also i don't think you can stack prize figure boxes, because of the small surface area and very light weight. They would topple very easily after just 3 or 4 layers of stacking.
This place looks amazing and spacious with everything in one location from figures to games but it also looks like a place that sells everything as market price with very little discounts or sales. A more niche local collectors store would probably sell hidden gems at reasonable prices for example. Everything looks like instock merch anyways , nothing old releases.
Hobby stores have been dying off for the past decade in my state because of various factors from not being able to compete, price-wise, with online options, to the pandemic recently. So it is quite refreshing to see a new one opening. This store will probably survive just fine because they diversified their offerings to include gaming peripherals and also gunpla and mecha stuff.
The market just isn't really there in the US. It's certainly grown over the years but hobby stores still focus on Western figs, like DC/Marvel, Funko, Star Wars, etc. and the few you do find are generally marked up the ass like $200-$250 for like a Koto bishoujo and PUPs in the $65-$80 range. Granted, they have to make up for import costs but anime figures in the US are way overpriced in general.
12:10 fenrir is a model kit of a wolf mecha girl. I've built one from the franchise and they're good 18:15 I really want to collect more action figures, particularly from the company Snail Shell I know what you mean, I don't mind paying a bit extra cause buying it from an in-person store feels special
Holy shit, this is Impulse Gaming? Damn so big, can't even recognize it anymore. I used to go to the Impulse Gaming in Johor 10 years ago when they were just a small shop that only sold games on the 2nd floor of a small mall no one goes to. Still remember the pain of climbing those huge stairs because there's no escalators or elevators there. Also, you prefer Western games with realistic graphics? That's a surprise, given 99% of the content you cover on this channel lol
I have never really bought into fantasy RPGs or anything that resembles isekai (regardless of whether it is Japanese, Korean or Western) be it Kingdom Hearts, Genshin or Dark Souls. I like games that feel realistic or is a direct parody compared to our current world, so the way Grand Theft Auto, or Far Cry, or The Crew works, or COD modern warfare is something I enjoyed more. Shooters that are a bit Sci Fi like Crysis is also up my alley. So yeah, my taste in anime and figures is almost the exact opposite of my taste in games in terms of the setting. However, if i am going to play a game where character design matters (like arcade fighting - street fighter, tekken) or even the likes of Stellar Blade, yeah, the characters need to be attractive to be even worthy of my consideration. So my approach towards games has quite a number of different factors. The western games I described are the kind where character designs often don't matter.
@@EXkurogane Crysis 4 when? I don't mind games with a more cartoony aesthetic as long as they're still well detailed and animated. Personally, I just find most JARPG's and the like kind of 'samey' and they all look like they're still using PS3 era graphics but that's just me.
@@charlestonjew7587 I almost unlocked all the achievements for Crysis 3 in steam man, except for one haha. 35/36 achieved. The last one appeared to be a bug where it was something similar a treasure hunt but that object does not appear in the game, or rather, even after you collected it, the game does not register it.
@@EXkurogane I know the feeling. Way back there was a game called Brütal Legend that I played the crap out of. I was at 99% completed but there was this one out of a hundred bound dragon statues that eluded me that I could never find. I must have combed every square inch of the entire world and all its zones several times over but could never find it.
0:52 $h!t coffee 😂😂😂 Our Starbucks also $h!t here in L.A. too! Overpriced doesn't even describe Starbucks 😂 I pull my own espresso and it's 3 times stronger and better tasting than that Corporate crap, and I don't have to tip the barista! 😂
There's a few shops like this in the US. Very nice stuff. You are right about Figma and Japanese figures being not worth it anymore. They are more expensive and are very lacking in what you get anymore. The Chinese brands are kicking their ass like Snail Shell, they come with WAY more and their price is more fair or even cheap.
Sometimes, scale figures that have bargain binned after release are already encroaching on the price range of Figmas. I'd rather get those scales for being more detailed
Like I really appreciate the entire bricks and mortar experience (where I am in Singapore) but it's unfortunate that I can at most keep it to window shopping - I can understand the need for them to account for operation/rents but 2 times more.. makes it really hard to stomach. It's not like the figures original retail are low to start with and these stores also usually don't account for the current 'binned' values. I can only blame our overall country space constraints which escalate the rents. Such almost warehouse-like size/concept will be next to impossible.
I have 1 small anime store in my city and it's... very simple, let's put it that way. Not a lot of anything and everything is expectedly overpriced 🤷🏻♀️ well, I'm fine with online purchasing 😊
@@EXkurogane I can understand why, probably the cheaper prize figures are easier to sell to the average person that walks into the store...it just makes me sad. Some of those figures (like the Xenogears one) are epic.
No, the prices in the shop are Malaysian ringgit. But when i speak in my videos i usually convert to USD or yen because of my audience are mostly from overseas.
My state used to have a lot more stores like this but one by one closed down over the years due to poor business and the pandemic accelerated the closures further. After all rent is not cheap. So it's quite exciting to see new stores open.
I think it's because the Japanese do a really bad job with 3D CGI in general, be it anime or games. With anime, for example, there's Ufotable who really knows how to blend CGI with 2D Key animation properly into a well balanced composite, and then there's everyone else making bad CGI regardless of budget. With games it's not too different - only a very small subset of Japanese games had good CGI while the rest are really clunky with very robotic movements.
@@EXkurogane I can respect that. Personally I enjoy both worlds. I find the aesthetics of western games too ruggered in a lot of cases while Japanese games tend to have a more 'soft' aesthetic. Like I prefer Zelda over Horizon Zero Dawn, but on the other side of the spectrum, I'd prefer DOTA over LoL.
None of this figure is a must have for me. The Fenrir is the motorcycle that cloud ride from FFVII. 52 toys is call five two toys not fifty two toys. The new action figure that are not from Snail Shell or Animester is shit(The one you show . For Girl mech palmo 2 chinese company(Atk Girl and Nuke Matrix) can compete with Kotobukiya. Bandai mech musume plamo is shit.
i love going to figure shop so much! its like museum but statues are pvc figures of beautiful anime boys and girl! and i can see different kind of figures too
Your videos are the best on the subject, I would like to start collecting figurines, you should make a top 7 tips for buying beginner version figurines
Here in Canada, there's like maybe one or two small figure stores within drivable distance (like up to 2 or 3 cities away) and everything they have is about 2X or more the price of buying from japan or china. When I visited china recently, there were several large figure stores selling merchandise near taobao prices within the same city and that was such a fun experience.
11:50 Fenrir was Cloud's motorcycle in the movie Final Fantasy Advent Children. This store looks pretty decent, i think the only thing its missing is plushies.
The Fenrir is the Advent Children 1/6 motor cycle that goes with the Cloud figure that you see on the top. Assuming it says 2399 MYR as the price tag for both, that is a good deal actually.
Nice video. Watching this video felt I like I was going for a walk in one of these stores. It's a shame there are hardly any where I live, so I only ever get to see these things in person in anime conventions. Also, at 17:56 the umarked box is Witch in Training Nana Hoshikawa (this company also made the Witch of the Other World Fatereal), followed by the Flash Point 1/12 LingJi Kenai (which is known to have a lot of imperfections and quality issues when it came out. Not sure if it's now a new batch that fixes those problems).
And for anyone wondering, 18:15 is Snail Shell - Front Armor Girl Victoria. 18:24 is Big Firebird -Scientific Catgirls Sunflower. 18:27 are the ATK Girl Model kits. 18:43 is a model kit by Nuke Matrix -Summer Vivienne. 18:51 Zhuge Liang and Greed are both model kits by MS General.
Love the tour. I wish we had a store like this. We have 6 million people in my city but none of the figure stores have very good selections. Lots of Pop Up Parade and Funko Pops but few scale figures or Nendroids that I want. And there are a few gacha machines coming in but they're $5 and not worth it to me. Love your red car too! I have a red Kia Sorento about that shade. Thanks for the video!
Thanks. My car is a Proton X50 (RHD version of Geely Binyue), and it is actually orange color, with a black roof. I picked orange for the reason it is a rare color on vehicles in general. You know how everyone just buys white, silver, grey cars nowadays? As a bonus, it also makes it easy to find your car in a massive car park. Your car just sticks out like a sore thumb in a sea of white and silver vehicles lol.
@@EXkurogane Those are car models I've never heard of. It's interesting how different cars are marketed with different names depending on country.. I'll have to look yours up! There are a lot of red cars where I am but orange is unusual. Many white cars to reflect heat as I'm in Phoenix, AZ but lots of totally black interiors which is definitely doesn't reflect heat. Weird.
Why are there $100-200 scale figures stacked on the floor where people can easily walk into it by accident... and then $5 prize/PuP figures get their own shelves.
This shop is ridiculous.
Unfortunately it's common practice here in my country. Also i don't think you can stack prize figure boxes, because of the small surface area and very light weight. They would topple very easily after just 3 or 4 layers of stacking.
This place looks amazing and spacious with everything in one location from figures to games but it also looks like a place that sells everything as market price with very little discounts or sales. A more niche local collectors store would probably sell hidden gems at reasonable prices for example. Everything looks like instock merch anyways , nothing old releases.
I noticed that Asian Countries have more elaborate anime figure stores than in the US! The closest one to me is 40 minutes away from the city!
Hobby stores have been dying off for the past decade in my state because of various factors from not being able to compete, price-wise, with online options, to the pandemic recently. So it is quite refreshing to see a new one opening. This store will probably survive just fine because they diversified their offerings to include gaming peripherals and also gunpla and mecha stuff.
The market just isn't really there in the US. It's certainly grown over the years but hobby stores still focus on Western figs, like DC/Marvel, Funko, Star Wars, etc. and the few you do find are generally marked up the ass like $200-$250 for like a Koto bishoujo and PUPs in the $65-$80 range. Granted, they have to make up for import costs but anime figures in the US are way overpriced in general.
Oh, a new store in Malaysia? Interesting. Maybe I should give it a try and see if they have what I want.
12:10 fenrir is a model kit of a wolf mecha girl. I've built one from the franchise and they're good
18:15 I really want to collect more action figures, particularly from the company Snail Shell
I know what you mean, I don't mind paying a bit extra cause buying it from an in-person store feels special
I don't think that is the wolf mech girl that is the motorcycle that cloud ride in FFVII because of the huge box
11:38 aaaa i wanna see more of what kindof Desktop Army variant they have in store
Holy shit, this is Impulse Gaming? Damn so big, can't even recognize it anymore. I used to go to the Impulse Gaming in Johor 10 years ago when they were just a small shop that only sold games on the 2nd floor of a small mall no one goes to. Still remember the pain of climbing those huge stairs because there's no escalators or elevators there.
Also, you prefer Western games with realistic graphics? That's a surprise, given 99% of the content you cover on this channel lol
I have never really bought into fantasy RPGs or anything that resembles isekai (regardless of whether it is Japanese, Korean or Western) be it Kingdom Hearts, Genshin or Dark Souls.
I like games that feel realistic or is a direct parody compared to our current world, so the way Grand Theft Auto, or Far Cry, or The Crew works, or COD modern warfare is something I enjoyed more. Shooters that are a bit Sci Fi like Crysis is also up my alley.
So yeah, my taste in anime and figures is almost the exact opposite of my taste in games in terms of the setting. However, if i am going to play a game where character design matters (like arcade fighting - street fighter, tekken) or even the likes of Stellar Blade, yeah, the characters need to be attractive to be even worthy of my consideration.
So my approach towards games has quite a number of different factors. The western games I described are the kind where character designs often don't matter.
@@EXkurogane Crysis 4 when? I don't mind games with a more cartoony aesthetic as long as they're still well detailed and animated. Personally, I just find most JARPG's and the like kind of 'samey' and they all look like they're still using PS3 era graphics but that's just me.
@@charlestonjew7587 I almost unlocked all the achievements for Crysis 3 in steam man, except for one haha. 35/36 achieved.
The last one appeared to be a bug where it was something similar a treasure hunt but that object does not appear in the game, or rather, even after you collected it, the game does not register it.
@@EXkurogane I know the feeling. Way back there was a game called Brütal Legend that I played the crap out of. I was at 99% completed but there was this one out of a hundred bound dragon statues that eluded me that I could never find. I must have combed every square inch of the entire world and all its zones several times over but could never find it.
0:52 $h!t coffee 😂😂😂
Our Starbucks also $h!t here in L.A. too! Overpriced doesn't even describe Starbucks 😂 I pull my own espresso and it's 3 times stronger and better tasting than that Corporate crap, and I don't have to tip the barista! 😂
I’d love to have a store like this in my country, we have nothing like this in Ireland.
20:51 dropped my spagetthi
There's a few shops like this in the US. Very nice stuff.
You are right about Figma and Japanese figures being not worth it anymore. They are more expensive and are very lacking in what you get anymore. The Chinese brands are kicking their ass like Snail Shell, they come with WAY more and their price is more fair or even cheap.
Sometimes, scale figures that have bargain binned after release are already encroaching on the price range of Figmas. I'd rather get those scales for being more detailed
Like I really appreciate the entire bricks and mortar experience (where I am in Singapore) but it's unfortunate that I can at most keep it to window shopping - I can understand the need for them to account for operation/rents but 2 times more.. makes it really hard to stomach. It's not like the figures original retail are low to start with and these stores also usually don't account for the current 'binned' values.
I can only blame our overall country space constraints which escalate the rents. Such almost warehouse-like size/concept will be next to impossible.
damn I hope there was a shop like this around my area because If I want to shop it's at least 2hrs commute to the next city.
I have 1 small anime store in my city and it's... very simple, let's put it that way. Not a lot of anything and everything is expectedly overpriced 🤷🏻♀️ well, I'm fine with online purchasing 😊
1:58 Isn’t that life size Spider-Man like $10,000? I’ve seen 1/3 Spider-Man for $2,000, I’m nearly sure it’s over $10k.
I have two Kinokuniyas here in Portland, Oregon. They sell anime figures but the price is sooo damn expensive lol.
Kinokuniya is mostly a book store here
I really enjoyed this store walkabout! But I found that the way they stacked to display the scale figures...blasphemy.
It's common practice here in my country though, unfortunately. When i visited several hobby stores in Kuala Lumpur some of the stores also do it
@@EXkurogane I can understand why, probably the cheaper prize figures are easier to sell to the average person that walks into the store...it just makes me sad. Some of those figures (like the Xenogears one) are epic.
I would go there if they actually display scale figures in the glass cabinets, but sadly a lot of them are pup, back to jp proxy i guess
Local Weeb found Utopia in a dystopian world.
Gametoys make good final fantasy figure, Fenrir is the motorcycle of Cloud
Are the prices in US Dollars?
No, the prices in the shop are Malaysian ringgit.
But when i speak in my videos i usually convert to USD or yen because of my audience are mostly from overseas.
@@EXkurogane Thanks, appreciated!
No figure store is in my area so I use ebay.
My state used to have a lot more stores like this but one by one closed down over the years due to poor business and the pandemic accelerated the closures further. After all rent is not cheap. So it's quite exciting to see new stores open.
I'm immensely weirded out by the fact that you collect anime game (or as you called "cartoonish style" game) figures but don't like them lol.
I think it's because the Japanese do a really bad job with 3D CGI in general, be it anime or games. With anime, for example, there's Ufotable who really knows how to blend CGI with 2D Key animation properly into a well balanced composite, and then there's everyone else making bad CGI regardless of budget. With games it's not too different - only a very small subset of Japanese games had good CGI while the rest are really clunky with very robotic movements.
@@EXkurogane I can respect that. Personally I enjoy both worlds. I find the aesthetics of western games too ruggered in a lot of cases while Japanese games tend to have a more 'soft' aesthetic. Like I prefer Zelda over Horizon Zero Dawn, but on the other side of the spectrum, I'd prefer DOTA over LoL.
None of this figure is a must have for me.
The Fenrir is the motorcycle that cloud ride from FFVII.
52 toys is call five two toys not fifty two toys.
The new action figure that are not from Snail Shell or Animester is shit(The one you show .
For Girl mech palmo 2 chinese company(Atk Girl and Nuke Matrix) can compete with Kotobukiya. Bandai mech musume plamo is shit.