Play Arts Kai - PROJECT! Final Fantasy

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Nelxid

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I’ve just received my PAK nyx ulric yesterday and i must say i’m quite disappointed with its design. The ankle is now full ball jointed, great idea but it makes standing pose imposibly difficult to look natural. And also they keep doing this cheap idea of reducing material on places that is semi hidden from sight. Nyx’s right hand is actually shorter from the left because it has the “cloth like” thing on his right shoulder that covers up the upper right arm. So they actually shorten his right arm and stick the arm not on the shoulder socket but the socket is actually lower too. Its like the arm is attached to his right ribs if you remove the shoulder shroud thingy. Well at least its not as bad as ignis’ skeletal body design under his clothing, but still, with the ever increasing price, cutting corners by reducing materials like this is really untolerable. I’ll post some pics later on if anyone interested.
 
lithiumkatana17

lithiumkatana17

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Nelxid said:
I’ve just received my PAK nyx ulric yesterday and i must say i’m quite disappointed with its design. The ankle is now full ball jointed, great idea but it makes standing pose imposibly difficult to look natural. And also they keep doing this cheap idea of reducing material on places that is semi hidden from sight. Nyx’s right hand is actually shorter from the left because it has the “cloth like” thing on his right shoulder that covers up the upper right arm. So they actually shorten his right arm and stick the arm not on the shoulder socket but the socket is actually lower too. Its like the arm is attached to his right ribs if you remove the shoulder shroud thingy. Well at least its not as bad as ignis’ skeletal body design under his clothing, but still, with the ever increasing price, cutting corners by reducing materials like this is really untolerable. I’ll post some pics later on if anyone interested.
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Ugh. I'm glad I didn't like his PAK design enough to invest in it.

The only figure I have is Noctis, because he came with my UCE. Those ball ankle joints are definitely pain when trying to make him stand!
 
lithiumkatana17

lithiumkatana17

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Ok, I feel slightly ripped off. A new PAK of Noctis is up on AmiAmi for preorder, and this one comes with the Engine Blade AND the Sword of the Father! WTF.

http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/de...keywords=noctis$pagemax=40$getcnt=0$pagecnt=1

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Nelxid

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It’s not new. It’s been out for months now. They initially wanted to release noctis ONLY with the limited edition bundle, so anyone wants to complete the main characters need to buy the bundle. But the fans got mad and demanded a stand alone noctis figure, so SE released this version.

I was quite surprised you didn’t know about this. It’s been out and reviewed on youtube for quite some times. Maybe almost a year now.

This one that is on preorder is most likely a re-release due to high demand. Like with AC cloud second batch some times ago
 
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Nelxid

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So nycc starts tomorrow. Maybe we’ll get to see new PAK protos and pics. Not hoping for new FF proto though as usually SE will focus more on western based licenses for sdcc and nycc. Probably we’ll see new DC and marvel variant protos...

Will update this post if i see anything interesting comes up ��


Update:

Seems like nothing new from SE this years, just protos we’ve seen before. Not even new protos for DC or Marvel. I thought they were gonna show some justice league pak. On the plus side though, we get clearer and detailed pictures on cid and caith sith pak

Link: http://news.toyark.com/2017/10/05/nycc-2017-square-enix-play-arts-kai-273235

Credits to toyark.com

and a nice pic of terra from SE twitter:

https://mobile.twitter.com/SquareEnix/status/915985610170621952/photo/2

Her face looks like already a mass produced pak here compared to the one in TGS last month...
 
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Nelxid

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Actually, amano designed her originally as blonde too. The green hair is only the in-game sprite as far as i know. So nomura must follow amano’s design for dissidia terra seeing that she is not her creation...

Interestingly, the in game sprite of terra in chibi form is designed by nomura. So he was actually the one giving her sprite a green hair...

Well who knows, we might get a recolor version of terra with green hair later, just like the vii remake cloud limited color edition. But personally i always see terra as a blonde though
 
ForceStealer

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Nomura didn't do the sprite art for VI, Kazuko Shibuya did. Nomura was still a monster-designer for VI.

And yeah, I know her concept art is blonde, but she looks better (and, crucially, distinguishable from Celes) with green hair.
 
lithiumkatana17

lithiumkatana17

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Yeah, but hasn't the key art from Dissidia NT depicted her with blonde hair so far? This is a Dissidia PAK after all.

I would like to see a green-haired version one day though.
 
The Twilight Mexican

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I suppose one could paint it, but seriously, why go this route when they know that's not the iconic look people associate with the character?
 
Avalanche87

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Anyone else think that Cid's rack could be a bit more... masculine? Looking at Cid V Lightning..... Cid's more busty!
 
Channy

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I don't care I'm so unbelievably stoked for Cid. Which is weird because I didn't care much for him when I was playing the game years ago... but the lack of merch love made me love him more.... is that a thing?

Also having not really played VI, gotta agree that green haired Terra is definitely more iconic and well, just purdy.
 
Sam

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How long does it usually take between reveal and release? It's odd because with Zack we saw a coloured prototype at one toy show then back to a grey one at another (I guess that grey one was floating from show to show).

So what's the usual time between colour prototype and when pre-orders go live? How does the quality of the FF PAKs so far compare with the quality of the original FF play arts? The only Kai I had was Cyborg Ninja, and he was pretty damn fragile.
 
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Nelxid

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Sam said:
How long does it usually take between reveal and release? It's odd because with Zack we saw a coloured prototype at one toy show then back to a grey one at another (I guess that grey one was floating from show to show).

So what's the usual time between colour prototype and when pre-orders go live? How does the quality of the FF PAKs so far compare with the quality of the original FF play arts? The only Kai I had was Cyborg Ninja, and he was pretty damn fragile.
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Usually preorder opens around 3 months after fisrt proto reveal. Kai play arts are hit and miss in quality control department. The more intricate the character design, the more they need to work their way around the design and configure the joints etc.

But as for zack, i would guess he would be a sturdy figure seeing that his design is quite simple and straightforward.

Oh and dont worry about the unpainted zack proto in the nycc. It doesnt mean that the production is slowing or that they scrapped the painted proto and decided to rework it from scratch again. SE typically produces more than one protos in various stages for events. So it could be that the american office received the unpainted proto because the painted one was used somewhere else...
 
Sam

Sam

Lv. 25 Adventurer
Nelxid said:
Sam said:
How long does it usually take between reveal and release? It's odd because with Zack we saw a coloured prototype at one toy show then back to a grey one at another (I guess that grey one was floating from show to show).

So what's the usual time between colour prototype and when pre-orders go live? How does the quality of the FF PAKs so far compare with the quality of the original FF play arts? The only Kai I had was Cyborg Ninja, and he was pretty damn fragile.
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Usually preorder opens around 3 months after fisrt proto reveal. Kai play arts are hit and miss in quality control department. The more intricate the character design, the more they need to work their way around the design and configure the joints etc.

But as for zack, i would guess he would be a sturdy figure seeing that his design is quite simple and straightforward.

Oh and dont worry about the unpainted zack proto in the nycc. It doesnt mean that the production is slowing or that they scrapped the painted proto and decided to rework it from scratch again. SE typically produces more than one protos in various stages for events. So it could be that the american office received the unpainted proto because the painted one was used somewhere else...
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Three months, cool. He was originally shown in July so I guess any day now, then!

How is the quality on Barret and Cloud released so far from this line, generally?

Yeah don't worry my current plastic crack addiction is Masterpiece Transformers and I've seen plenty of times colour prototypes followed again by grey ones because that's what was floating around between toy shows - seems to be the same for all toys!

I'm tempted to pick up Barret and wait for Cloud, assuming he'll come with the inevitable Hardy Daytona. Fenrir is coming with its own AC Cloud, right?
 
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Nelxid

Lv. 25 Adventurer
Yeah i guess it depends on who they will choose to open the pre order now. We saw lightning dissidia pak around the same time with zack, and they opened the preorder about a month after. SE usually releases 1-2 play arts kai per month, so hopefully zack is after lightning. But they can also choose to release cid, new vincent, or even terra before zack. It really depends on which is more convenient to them.

As for the ff vii remake play arts, i would say barret is very well made and sturdy. While i think cloud is a bit too skinny, i havent found any priblem with him either. And yeah i think there would be a good chance they will make hardy daytona, but probably as the final figure after they finish with other characters in this line, as a grand finale you may say.

For me, i’m just waiting for aerith to complete the AC line...
 
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