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New from Sentai
Manga releases are finally coming in in waves instead of drips, and there’ s plenty interesting to read, but there’s also plenty to watch. Let’s dip into anime news this week since I rarely get […]
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Review: Figma Makinami Mari Illustrious
By Christopher Troy Wait, another Mari review?! Didn’t we just do one of these like 6 months ago? Yes and no! That was Revoltech Mari. Well the first one at least. This is the Max […]
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Review: Figma Aegis
By Christopher Troy It’s been awhile since we’ve looked at a Figma on the FPNYC blog, as most of our coverage has focused on American-toys. Luckily for the 3 or 4 otaku who read this […]
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Marvel vs DC Round 2: Clash of the Rising Sun Statues
By Christopher Troy Hey there FPNYC faithful, cold enough out there for you? (The answer should be yes, because it’s cold enough for me dammit) It’s the new year and FPNYC recently got in a […]
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Giving The Gift of Comics
This year for Christmas, as with all years, I gave my Dad Comic Books. My family, maybe like yours, doesn’t understand me at times. Some of them try, many of them don’t. I admit I’m […]
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A Unicorn-y Build Log part 6!
By Loran It’s time for the return of the Unicorn-y build log! Apologies for not delivering last week, let’s just say my finals week was like being stuck in a Zeon POW camp. Of course, […]
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Short Packed: Bite sized reviews.
By Christopher Troy DC Direct seems to like making a liar out of me. A while back, I previewed 3 different lines of figures (Blackest Night series 7 & 8, Mass Effect 2 series 1) […]
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A Unicorn-y Build Log Part 5
By Loran And so, I have reached a conclusion on yet another kit for the Unicorn-y build log. I had a feeling this kit was going to take a lot less time than the Destroy […]
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Kuroshitsuji: One Hell of a Butler
by Shannon Hochman Imagine for a second that your entire family was murdered and you were presented with a chance to seek revenge. Would you do it no matter what the cost? Would you pay […]
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This Saturday: FREE Black Butler Screening
On Saturday, Decmber 11th, Forbidden Planet, in conjunction with FUNimation, will be presenting a FREE screening of episodes 1-6 of the Black Butler anime at the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art here in NYC (138 […]
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News from the Front: All I want for Christmas
by Christopher Troy Greeting Forbidden Planet Faithful (and should you not like Faithful, how are you guys feeling about Planeteers? No? Alright then.) ! It’s now December, and that means we’re now in Holiday time […]
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A Unicorn-y Buildlog part 4
By Loran Well, another kit in the Unicorn buildathon has been completed! I now have another “star” Gundam to add to my shelf, and he certainly is worthy… After much, much frustration with the shiny […]
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A Unicorn-y build log part 3
By Loran The kit building has been progressing quite nicely! ReZel is pretty much complete though he needs a bit of touchup work still (I need better lighting in my bedroom). Today I also received […]
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Best of DC Directs Blackest Night figures part 1
by Christopher Troy Before addressing the topic of this article, I just want to point out the current FPNYC-fueled addiction in my life: The Persona 3&4 keychains by Megahouse. The cult-fave PS2/PSP J-rpgs released by […]
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A Unicorn-y Build Log (part 2)
By Loran After an on-off week consisting of papers, work, and Gunpla work, I’m mostly finished with my Unicorn kits… well, the first one anyway. However, it’s very nice to be back in the mostly-full […]
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A Unicorn-Y Build Log part 1
By Loran Today I’m going to do something a bit different and go for a build log. Recently my reviews have featured a lot of poorly-assembled and poorly-painted kits from my youth. That’s mostly because […]
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Review: HGGS Justice Gundam
By Loran Once again we come to another design from the Cosmic Era, and again, it’s one I’m rather mixed on. I know I seem to say that with a lot of suits from SEED […]
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Review: HGUC Hizack
By Loran As my last review pretty much stated, I love cannonfodder. But you know what I can’t stand? When a series doesn’t give nearly enough-I’m looking at you, Zeta Gundam. Really, there are so […]
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Review: HGGS GOUF Ignited
By Loran ignited The Zaku, Gouf, and Dom are probably three of the Zeon’s most memorable mobile suits of the One Year War. They’ve seen tons of variants over the years, with the Zaku having […]
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NYCC/AF Recap & Play Arts Kai Preview/Review
By Christopher Troy LAST NYCC/NYAF POST I SWEAR! BUT EVERYTHING IS RELEVANT TO THE BLOG SO IT’S COOL! One week and $240 later, another NYCC/NYAF has passed. Despite the Saturday crowds, I had a blast […]