Hey everybody BAM Collectibles here back for another statue unboxing review for you!
Man do we have a big statue in store for today.
Minato or the Fourth Hokage has always been one of my personal favorites and
this statue does such justice to one of the most epic moments in the whole series.
As seen the statue comes in two boxes one very large and this smaller one right here
so this bad boy was quite expensive to ship.
On the bottom of the base we can see the studio's name GL as well as only 200 were made, mine being 178.
After seeing the size of this base in person it makes sense why two boxes were needed.
This was in the smaller brown box while later larger parts will be in the bigger art box.
The nameplate says I don't know someone tell me please haha!
All throughout the trim of the base we can see the Uzumaki clan logo.
On the back of the statue is the port used to bring power to the LED's.
I gotta say I love how the base was executed with a mixture of cloud, dust and rock.
It really helps to showcase and emit the power that's going on when Minato was using this Jutsu.
For the crazy few people out there that would decide
"Hey, I don't want to use the LEDs on this statue" they've provided a
cap that you can put in the center and cover it up.
For me it's a no-brainer, if the statute has LEDs I'm going to use them.
For those of you that have ever wondered why
they use large round bases for statues. When showcasing giant large heavy chunks
of resin it's important to have an anchor something that holds this steady
to the ground and the bases do just that
Speaking of large giant heavy chunks of resin here comes the Shinigami seen in the Reaper Death Seal.
Most of the statue is casted in clear resin painted with a little white on it.
The chest area is obviously colored with that skin tone
Now magnets are used all throughout the statute to add some
additional pieces that we will see soon. This bad boy does weigh about 20 pounds
so I can't hold them up to my camera for a long periods of time like I normally
do because I like my back. The blue flames at the bottom are attached to the
Shinigami via magnets and it allows it to then attach to the base.
Most of it was somewhat hollow inside. On the back there is a large rectangular crevasse
with a very strong magnet attached. That's later gonna be housing one of the larger pieces of hair.
Another feature of the blue flames at the bottom is it
gives off the effect when mounted to the base as if the shinigami is hovering or floating a little bit above it.
The hands were sculpted separately with magnets on
their side to allow it to attach to the body. The left hand does come with the
prayer beads which is an actual bracelet you can see the stretchiness of it here.
I always find it neat when they use actual real items in statues like when
wood is wood or steel a steel or when a bracelet is a bracelet.
Here is the soul of the user who activated the jutsu.
Another large strong magnet that allows it to attach to the bottom part.
The paint application on this looks awesome!
It almost looks as if he's already glowing without any LEDs on there.
You'll see these holes on the left and right sides that hair pieces will later attach to there.
The bottom part is nice and flat so it doesn't rub up against the character in front of it.
On to the hair which serves as two purposes. One obviously to fit the character
and the other as I mentioned before to brace and hold the soul.
It's held on by that one small magnet up top there which is really all it needs.
Here are the notches right there which actually connect to those shoulder pieces on the soul.
The horns were done nicely. I wanted to mention that towards
the end be sure to stick around I'll be showcasing with about four pictures.
I had a death Reaper before this one about two years ago that I sold off because
this one was somewhat of an upgrade from that one but if you want to take a look be sure to stick around
This hairpiece is ginormous! It's spiky and I have to be careful with it while handling.
It reminds me of Jiraiya's Lion Mane technique that he uses.
This magnet is by far the largest and strongest I've seen on the statue.
I mean really necessary for how large of a piece it's supporting as you can see.
Though it's just a large piece of hair it's a very impressive to see up close how they
painted it and also how it was sculpted
The last additional pieces were missing for the Death Reaper are these blue flames.
There's gonna be four in total. This one did come with the tip broken
off I just glued it back on and you can tell if you look but from a distance you can't tell at all.
I like to also include these imperfections because in the game
of collecting resin statues it just happens it happens you deal with
it and you'll work with it like you can. One attaches to the top as you can see
here one attaches to the front part of it.
Sorry I said the flames with the last piece but we still have his dagger or a
miniature sword that the Reaper holds in its mouth.
This tiny metal rod is inserted into a tiny metal hole in the mouth.
Please enjoy while I struggle to get this thing inserted.
You can see on my left arm I do have a tattoo go ahead and guess in the comment section what series it's from.
With everything now installed I wanted to go ahead and show
off the LEDs without a character being in front of it.
Straight up this is one of my favourite statues to be illuminated in clear resin like this
This statue actually comes with two different characters we'll go ahead and
take a look at the fourth hokage first. Man did they nail the pose for when he
activated the Death Reaper Seal. One of the minor negatives that we'll mention
is the face on him...it seems off I can't pinpoint what exactly but something
seems off the hair is perfectly fine so it's not the whole head sculpt together
but something about that face is just off. Who needs a perfect looking face
when you got an awesome looking Death Reaper behind you though. So on his cloak
there are some minor paint imperfections I think I might have actually caused
those when connecting him and maybe rubbing up against that soul part behind him.
This steel rod on that foot and there's a magnet on this one allow him to sit securely to the base
One of the awesome things that statue companies do sometimes is include an
alternative character and also an alternative base to display said character.
This base is very similar to the other ones just no dust particles and all rock.
Would have been cool if they sculpted the headband on the front
as being removable so I could kind of use it on the other one if I wanted to.
So as you probably expected the Third Hokage is also included as an
alternative character that you can use to display in front of the Death Reaper.
I've always loved how the battle armor looked on Hiruzen.
Overall the sculpt on this one that looks pretty great. I think the face again is a little bit off me
you can let me know in the comments below what you think maybe it's a little
bit too chubby maybe it should be skinnier but it's not bad not bad at all
especially from a distance everything looks pretty dang good.
The long fabric pieces that are attached to his helmet were sculpted separately thank goodness
and they attach to him with a small little magnet on the very very top of it.
For some reason when I attach it to the helmet it kind of hovers on the bottom
of it doesn't fit into the groove exactly but it does stay magnetized and
secure so I don't really care but it does look a little odd.
The Monkey King Enma pole was also included and you can display this on the
separate base with him if you choose to. One thing that I cannot wait for one day
is to have an actual statue of the Monkey King and must separately.
Now's the time where I love to hear from you who do you think would look best in front of the Death Reaper?
Though both episodes and both characters using this
jutsu were equally amazing and impressive I have to say my personal
preference is going to lean towards the Fourth Hokage.
Here's how the statue looks with the character in front of it and the LEDs on. I love how it gives off
a silhouette look to the statue As I mentioned before I did have a version
one of a Death Reaper statue this is made by SxG Studio and had it for a
solid year I sold it after the pre-order went up for the current one you can see
it did come with a little baby Naruto in the bottom right really cool touch.
This statue represents a genius father making a split moment decision to both entrust
his son with power and seal away half of that very same power so no one would
have access to the full chakra of nine tails. I don't know about you but I have
issues trusting my daughter to carry over a glass of water to me much less
trusting her with power like that. I don't do this enough but I wanted to for
those interested in the statue say that it does sit about 21 and a half inches
tall and 23 inches wide from the dust cloud to dust cloud.
This statue is one of my favorite scenes in the whole series so it's going to be in my
collection for a long time. Though it was sad it was a moment of a father
showcasing his love for his family his son and the future.
I hope you did enjoy the statue
and as always everybody do what you love and love what you do! BAM out!!