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General => Report & Review => Topic started by: Wolf Knight on February 21, 2011, 17:37:35

Title: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: Wolf Knight on February 21, 2011, 17:37:35
I think many of us are waiting for this anxiously?  ;D I received a few goodies from a german Ebay seller...

I am not familiar with the terminology, perhaps Cheng or Heronimus or WarriorOfToys can help us out here...

But here are the pics!!!

Enjoy!!!

(http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x335/Baldthar/DSC02523.jpg)

(http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x335/Baldthar/DSC02524.jpg)

(http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x335/Baldthar/DSC02525.jpg)

(http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x335/Baldthar/DSC02527.jpg)

(http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x335/Baldthar/DSC02528.jpg)

Just to add a few details, the body armour is actually separated into two big pieces. The upper body armour covering chest and back and the lover body armour from the waist down that sits on the torso much like a belt!

I really love seeing these dark grey bracers!!! I could use them on knights too!!!

Samurais wore both sword on their waist but I guess since its difficult to do so on a klicky, the designers had to put one of them hanging at the back...

The yellow pattern on the armour is printed on...a bit disappointing as I expected it to be carved on...
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: WarriorOfToys on February 21, 2011, 17:42:19
Thank you for the pictures Wolf Knight!!! :wow: :wow: :wow:
I cannot wait to get one of these myself! :love:
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: Bill Blackhurst on February 21, 2011, 17:46:09
Thank you for this interesting review on this unusual figure, Panos :)9!  :thanks:
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: tonguello on February 21, 2011, 17:51:46
Great! My samurai is on the mail...my Geisha has been lonely  :lol:
Thank you Panos for the review!
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: bonniebeth on February 21, 2011, 17:52:47
You could make more geishas!  :yup:
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: Gis on February 21, 2011, 19:28:38
Thanks for the great review Sir Wolf. I will hopefully be able to pick up a couple myself soon :-)
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: Justindo on February 21, 2011, 19:30:17
Thanks for the review, Panos!  He looks pretty good overall.
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: tonguello on February 21, 2011, 20:26:21
Quote from: bonniebeth on February 21, 2011, 17:52:47
You could make more geishas!  :yup:
yes I'd love to.... but I must find time for it.  :(
I have so many projects going on!!  :lol:
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: Elric on February 22, 2011, 02:57:52
Great review!  I'm diggin' the asian figures including the monguls. 
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: cheng on February 22, 2011, 09:08:36
thanks for sharing and this very clear review & photos Wolf Knight!  :)
...all I can say is that now my samurai customs are beginning to look very un-Playmobil (which was never my intention)  :-soon I'll be seeing a lot of new samurai customs  ;)
...maybe I have to compromise and interchange parts with him so that they dont look poles apart  :P
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: Wolf Knight on February 22, 2011, 09:18:46
Quote from: cheng on February 22, 2011, 09:08:36
soon I'll be seeing a lot of new samurai customs  ;)

Oh goody goody!!! Me wanna see!!!  ;D
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: Giorginetto on February 22, 2011, 10:33:59
Thanks for the review Sir Wolf. Awesome Klicky

I want 200 of them !!!! and i want them now !!!!  :hissyfit: :hissyfit: :hissyfit: :hissyfit: :hissyfit: :hissyfit: :hissyfit: :hissyfit:
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: Heronimus on February 22, 2011, 10:44:00
Many many thanks for the review of this long waited samurai.,,,!! It is amazing, but doesnt capture the essence of the Japanese warrior. But I wont complain, and look forward a full theme of ancient asians, and some better looking samurai!!! Thanks for the pics again and I will wait for another year till it arrives :love:
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: Giorginetto on February 22, 2011, 10:52:54
Quote from: Heronimus on February 22, 2011, 10:44:00
Many many thanks for the review of this long waited samurai.,,,!! It is amazing, but doesnt capture the essence of the Japanese warrior.

I am curious as i think its a very good klicky , why do you think it doesnt capture the way of the warrior  ??? ??? ???
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: Heronimus on February 22, 2011, 11:45:46
Quote from: Giorginetto on February 22, 2011, 10:52:54
I am curious as i think its a very good klicky , why do you think it doesnt capture the way of the warrior  ??? ??? ???
I dont know how to put it in words. Let me show you how the Japanese put the samurai and musha idea into toys, and I guess that is what makes a figure samuraish.
This samurai klicky does have the essential armour and helmet, right colour scheme too. And I love it too, though playmobil got the room to perfect it further!! :P Maybe because I am not a Japanese, neither a JP expert. 8-)
 
http://dalong.net/review/mg/m110/m110_p.htm

http://www.gunpla.tw/images/200810/1225253589944725405.jpg
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: Rasputin on February 22, 2011, 19:28:23
Thanks for the detailed pictures, I hate waiting but I may build up pressure causing me to buy way more than I really could ever use  ;)
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: Bolingbroke on February 22, 2011, 19:30:36
This must surely be one of the UGLIEST specials ever released. Seriously: the samurais you guys customise are a million times better than this: and I am sure that many of you - after the usual emperor's new clothes period - will agree with me.
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: playmofire on February 22, 2011, 19:45:02
Nice review, Panos - thank you.   :wave:
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: Martin Milner on February 22, 2011, 22:25:34
Thanks for the review and pics Panos!

It wouldn have been nice, since they had to make new mouldings anyway, to have the two swords correctly carried at the waist. It would restrict his left arm movement, but as his arms are already severely restricted by the shoulder armor, what difference?

Still, I welcome a Samurai Special with open arms and will certainly buy them in numbers, in the hopes that this helps spawn a full Feudal Japan theme. It looks like it would be easy to customise some different color Samurai, albeit they'd lose the leg printing but that's a small price to pay.

If I were designing the figure I'd have made rectangular shoulder plates (more accurate to that clip to the arms, much as the old-style European armor does. That way the pauldrons could be removed and attached to different klickies, and the arms would have a wider range of movement. We have to bear in mind the difficulties of moulding in hot plastic, so the solution they've come up with may be the only one possible.
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: Ali Baba on February 22, 2011, 22:28:50
Owwwwwwwwww, sir Wolf. I'm jealous. You beat me to it. I've been checking out the shops here for 2 weeks now.

Thanks for the review. I read it with great interest. I will buy at least one samurai!
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: AndrewL on February 23, 2011, 08:01:31
Hi Wolf Knight,

Very nice review -- many thanks. I just got one of these myself (via my German in-laws) and I quite like it. Not perfect, but a very credible first step. Only bad thing was I only got one katana in the package, but three arm guards.

I agree with pretty much everything Martin said in his comment.

I already have some ideas and have tried out a couple of things regarding customising the samurai, but pictures are going to have to wait...

Cheers,

AndrewL
Title: Re: 4748 Samurai Special
Post by: playmojager on February 24, 2011, 15:05:49
Wow, great klicky and excellent review, maibe some day in the future PLAYMOBIL procuces a full line from Japan history.