Hot Toys Iron Man Mk7

In response to the post I made a few months ago. The Hot Toys Iron Man Mk7 is finally ready for preorder. Since Iron Man 3 is coming out next year, Im in a dilemna to get this one or wait for the final version of the Iron Man armour from the upcoming film. Why do decisions have to be so hard for a collector!

Bandai Premium SD HWS Nu Gundam

Welcome to the new layout of ODU. A fresh change which has been long overdue! Bandai for a long time knew that the Nu Gundam is a money printing device and this figure im sure will sell well! Im so getting this from Hobby Dream.

As of late Gundam figures have been really rubbing off on me I guess its because of the quality of the metal build series! Enjoy! Now please bring on the Sazabi! LOL man I am greedy.

PS Vita thoughts

My lovely wife decided to get me a PS Vita last week! After a week of play im very happy with it. the depth of colour and graphics make the original PSP really look like a grainy antique in comparison well done! My only peeve is that its got too many unneccesary apps like Maps etc. I dont like the menus touch screen bubble format its not as sleek as the original layouts adopted by the PSP and PS3.

This is essentially a personal preference some people might love it but to me it looks childish but its a gaming device I wont judge it on menus alone right! Now lets get to the games and media! Seems like Sony has learnt about the advantages of storage cards over mechanical UMD disks from the homebrewers! below is a conparison in size with other storage mediums from www.dejiki.com

Now onto my games!

Easily the funnest fighting (also violent) fighting game ever!

Batman in lego goodness Superman is the absolute bomb to use! Can't wait to finish this one and unlock more characters.

Being the Gundam fanboy you all know I am you'd probably expect me to rave about this one. The controls are just awful but fun nonetheless!

Of course being padantic about the conditions of my toys I have the Vita in a hard case and I have the screen protected. The hard case was a bargain from JB HiFi! This zip up case cost less than thirty dollars has snug cushioning, a belt clip, storage pockets and a neat flip wallet thingy which has enough slots to hold 16 games!

In conclusion to my post I sure hope that more good titles do come for this awesome piece of kit!


SMASH 2012

Three years ago Kenji and I went to our first convention which accelerated the creation of this blog. Today we returned to this year's SMASH man I have to say it has grown exponentially in this time frame! It shows that the influence of anime is becoming more mainstream year after year. The same goes for this blog I still remember the days when we were struggling to get past 300 visitors now we are in the 26 thousands!

The lovely Hobbyco girls with their Gundam themed uniforms. There was a third but I didn't manage to get a photo. They were promoting the Gundam Builders Cup... makes me want to come out of building retirement!

a loli girl with the main character from the Lollipop Chainsaw game

And as if you can forget about the amazing artists in the crowds!

Stay tuned for Animania later this month this would cover all the conventions on the calendar this year which is a first for ODU!

Dark Knight Rises Aventador

The Gallerie Victoria is conducting a promotion at the moment in collaboration with Lamborghini and The Dark Knight Rises. Don't miss your chance to see an Aventador up close... or perhaps if you are lucky ride in it! This vehicle was driven on the movie set. As a part of a promotion for the movie Lamborghini are conducting a draw where the winner would be chauffered in the Aventador to the premiere of the Dark Knight Rises. As in Highlander there can only be one winner but feel free to oggle at the car's sleekness

Is different exactly better?

On my never ending quest to be at the forefront of release news I got wind of various new movie merchandise figures. It seems like marketers are currently finding new ways to get fans to justify buying more hero merchandise. The easiest way to do this is of course... issuing a new suit! Well I guess its good in a way to repackage old franchises so that they can be enjoyed by a new generation however for older fans who are more inclined towards tradition its harder to accept as they grew up with older costumes and become attached to them! Okay so the debate is... Is different exactly better?

The new Kotobukiya release for the upcoming man of steel release... LOL what happened to the undies!

Nendroid Spiderman... Hmm this costume will always be a weird one to me it looks classic but isnt classic it just doesn't look right without the "belt" section!

So what do the readers think? Feel free to comment!

RG Justice arrives this month!

Not long after the release of the RG Freedom, Justice was announced by now this isnt news. ODU is after all not a product release blog its a blog expressing our interest in products that are coming soon with our own opinions and thoughts.

I've always liked the concept of Freedom and Justice complementing each other Athrun and Kira make good partners on par with Lelouch and Suzaku from Code Geass. Anyhow back on topic the product is about to roll out!!

From the first RG release I loved how the box art present a close up of the head, its pretty neat I hope that they continue releasing RG box art like this! and for the product its got my Facebook style like too! I'm sure Kenji would buy this one!