Nendoroid 100
The accessories are neat, but they’re also stylized for Mickey Mouse so their use with other figures is negligible. The figure itself is fairly fragile. The eyes are interchangeable, but this means they pop out easily and I’ve already broken a joint on one of the extra arms when swapping them out.
Nendoroid 755, Belle
The extras really make this figure. Personally I would have preferred the blue dress Belle wears through most of the movie, but this is fine. The dress is a solid piece so all the articulation comes from the arms and head.
The dress comes with an interchangeable piece that is meant to combine with an interchangeable arm to mimic her holding her dress for a minuet, but the hand doesn’t actually hold the dress and the gap makes it look like Belle is making her dress levitate. And it means that there’s a big crack in the dress, so all I wish they hadn’t included the effect, but it’s a minor quibble.
That the Beast is only included as a plastic standee means we probably won’t ever see him as a Nendoroid, so that’s disappointing.
I don’t know what PriPara is, but I saw a $15 Nendoroid figure and I wanted to get it. It turns out the reason it’s inexpensive is that it’s a Nendoroid Co-De. And I had no idea what that was until I opened this sucker up and then did a looksie on Wikipedia.
Co-De is a sub-line of Nendoroid that uses the same interchangeable heads and expressions as regular Nendoroids but the bodies have no articulation. They’re stuck in one pose, but the heads, faces, torsos, and legs are interchangeable with other Co-De figures via a simple peg system. And their heads and expressions can be exchanged with other Nendoroid lines!
I’ve got no reaction to this figure based on my unfamiliarity to the character, but as a way of expanding simple Nendoroid custom options by providing figures with new wardrobes, I’m all for this.
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