x-plus godzilla

[jrcrunch]

any x-plus collectors here??

[mpchi]

I am, even though I only have a few. I focused mostly on the 30cm scale, but have a couple 25cm ones that they didn't make in 30cm. It is a very tough line to collect, as the production is very limited, and items prices skyrocket once you missed the release window. Yet while X-Plus vinyl models have excellent sculpts, the paint job varies quite a bit from model to model, as they are all hand painted, airbrushed, and hand cut. Almost all the pieces I have has some paint flaws out of the box (even some badly cut pieces that caused some long term damage). But also because of the finish, it is quite forgiving to touch-up with some simple acrylic paint for the most part. Feels like they are quite overpriced (unless you get them from Diamond on the reissues cheap), and you pay a lot on a great vinyl model with questionable QC, but can't help but love them so much as they are indeed very appealing.

Small flaws aside, they look awesome and I just can't go back to buying smaller cheap kaiju action figures after collecting these. Even S.H.MonsterArts can't quite compare in terms of looks and details. I am not a big kaiju addict, so I only got the few pieces I really like, such as follow:

30cm:
Gamera 3 (Rick Boy Exclusive with the Vanishing Fist)
Godzilla GMK 2001
Godzilla 1962
Mothra Larva 1961

25cm:
Biollante
King Ghidorah
Daimajin (Limited Edition with the cross)

Misc:
Hyper Gyaos (in scale with 30cm Gamera 3, hard vinyl model from vending machine price)

Here is a old post I had some fun with the Biollante:
robotjapan.proboards.com/thread/18014/monsterarts?page=20

[diegodoom]

I'm a fellow X-Plus collector as well

[Deckard]

I just bought my first, the 25cm DesuGoji/Burning Godzilla (1995). I'll probably grab a couple more as time goes on, but to be honest I feel they are seriously overpriced considering they are manufactured in China, as opposed to Sofubi vinyl toys, that are hand made in Japan. The vinyl quality is also rather dubious and smells kinda cheap to me, especially when compared to the Japanese stuff.

Hit and miss QC along with crazy international shipping costs doesn't help either. I like X-Plus' vinyl Kaiju toys, but they are definitely overrated.

[mpchi]

I wouldn't say its overrated, as it is hard to beat the sculpt accuracy and details, especially on the 30cm line. The 25cm line is a bit too small for the sculpts to shine. But I agree on the iffy QC, especially on the paintjob. Its like X-Plus set up a very thorough pipeline on how to paint and airbrush different parts, layer over layer of paint. All it takes is one sloppy step among the layers, and you can get a messed up mouth, eye, claw nails that look wrong. And they don't tend to take out too much badly painted parts and left them in the production run, causing more bad parts in the mix of released figures. Its a shame, I have to say.