Friday 19 July 2019

The latest MS Ensemble news...

In the latest developer blog the Bandai development lead for Ensemble talks about how the figure series is coming up on its third anniversary in December (still half a year out...). As part of the musings he speaks about the very first EX figure, the today ludicrously hard to find Full Armor Unicorn, a figure I personally missed out on because I was still on the fence about jumping in (it was the later EX 03 Hazel TR-1 figure that lured me in). The figure was originally offered in the green Awake Mode colours in a very complete gear package at a price of ¥2700 plus tax. Last I saw one of these rare figures popping up on Mandarake it sold for ¥15000 within minutes...

Naturally, when K. Sawa begun talking about this figure in the blog entry I immediately begun drooling at a chance to see it reissued. It turns out though that although this is also something they had in mind, they will be clever enough to redo it in standard Destroy Mode white and red colours. Cheeky... To add a little extra value the set will also feature two additional shields intended for the brand new Unicorn Mode Unicorn figure which is being released this month as part of Ensemble Part 10.

The new Full Armor Unicorn figure is priced at ¥2970 which is nearly the same price as that of the original figure. Preorders for this figure opened today (link here). There is actually also a discussion about the Ensemble series' history in the same blog entry but Google Translate does such a poor job of translating it that I can't really learn that much from it unfortunately.

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  1. alwyn22 July 2019 at 21:03

    https://p-bandai.jp/item/item-1000137497

    The 5400 yen was a joke. The blog mentioned that it's not that amount but close to 2800
    P bandai listed at 2970 tho so it's a steal!

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    1. Sergeant Shokugan23 July 2019 at 11:00

      Man, that's the second time he gets me! :) Good news though, definitely a better price. For comparison, the F91 option set sold for ¥2700 and the F90D/H at ¥3780. I guess not only can they reuse the old molds but they are probably also expecting a comparatively larger amount of orders for the Unicorn.

      Thanks for the heads-up. Do you read Japanese? I'd be curious to hear if there were any other interesting tidbits about the Ensemble development history mentioned in that post.

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    2. alwyn25 July 2019 at 02:58

      I'll let you know if I spot any in future :)

      I'm not sure why he wrote it that way. He just said it was

      5400 yen

      ではなくて… (not)

      And listed the price at the bottom without tax

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