Neverending story. I read somewhere here that there should be news about Berserk in 2023....  

 

Nope and paid 24 hrs ago.

 

Yea. Sadly not as much or as often as I’d like. I don’t think any other company is putting out consistently articulated figures either though… I mean it’s not like XTB or MMC are releasing every figure with extensive articulation either.
It does look as if FT are trying to address this more and more with each new reveal though, so I hope that trend continues more often than not.

 

Yeah I paid off my 2 copy's about a week ago. I received an in stock notice yesterday but no shipping notification has yet.

 

I ordered this together with Jive and apparently I selected “ship the stuff as it comes in” so I’ll have this guy in hand soon. Very pumped! I do wish they didn’t use chrome for the missile, but I guess that means the folks holding out for a yellow chest on Blaster still have hope  

It’ll be a huge change from Sphinx after having him on the shelf for so long!

 

Yep. I learned that lesson years ago. American e-tailers are an absolute last resort for me.

 

whoops i was in the middle of writing that message and didn't realize i sent it

But yeah i'm not gonna give them a pass on there articulation at all i was just gonna say sometimes they can put out a piece that does have decent articulation like there spoiler tesla roadking even for his size and bulk

They need to step there articulation game up for sure, just when you see signs of an ab crunch they go and pull a hitch and now phantasm, the latter looking really limited especially those awful feet

 

Does anybody know when Showz will get it in stock? Is it usually later than western retailers?

 

Anyone else have cockpit tabs like these? They look malformed and it doesn’t tab in, so I think it’s an error?

 

Guess I'll check out those cockpit tabs among other things tonight to see how my copy is.

 

Yeah my cockpit tabs are the same and peg in pretty tightly.
What doesn't is the right shoulder (his left) in robot mode in that black tab and hole... annoyed...
I guess I'll just use some super glue to bring the 2 halves of that piece that make a peg hole together and therefore tighten the pegging in...
Otherwise, looks good... a bit wobbly on one knee, and also both knee rotations are just a little loose...

 

i questioned my actual "need" to swap out hoist until i got hitch in hand. i suspect this will be the same with my oc max mirage.

 

Strange to see Phantasm being not quite a home run after a year of great releases. He seems like quite a mixed bag.

Still, looks great. I don't know if FT has ever made a figure which doesn't look (subjectively) beautiful.

 

Except this guy!

 

He sure looks great tho. Holy. Can’t wait for him to show up.

 

He's cool, the points I mentioned are small issues except for the shoulder, but thankfully I narrowed the peg hole with some supers glues. Seems to work out for now.
I haven't taken him into alt mode yet but the robot mode is very clean and easy to handle and pose.

You can also not fold in the forearm flaps if you want to hide the wizard sleeves, but it does give his forearm an odder side profile. It did it just to the gun hand here:

 

WOW! That gaping forearm hole is...noticeable.  

 

They are. We are eventually going to have to buy some fillers, aren’t we?

 

Gaping holes aside, colours look much better in your shots MINDVVIPE. Thank you, I'm happily sated on that front.

Surely it wouldn't have been difficult to not design the forearms like that though.

 

TE Phantom doesn't have that issue. Score one for the TE vs FT.