Hey everybody BAM Collectibles here back for another statue unboxing review for you!
My favorite season in all of Naruto has
to be the Pain Invasion arc. The statues you're going to be looking at today
are two statues out of a group that you'll see here that are going to be
made of all the Paths of Pain. The statues are made by IM Studio and I
have to admit they've been out for quite a few months and I was skeptical
that the studio would make all the Path's and actually they're on their last two
that they need to be making so I wanted to get in on this before
they rose in price because of how awesome they're gonna be when they're all together.
All statues are going to be made on that
more natural looking base that doesn't have
a round circular plate to it. If we look on the bottom we will see the studio's logo.
Taking a closer look we'll see there is what looks to be moss
and they used a lot of different gloss all over the base of it to where it
looks wet so i'm not sure if this is supposed to be him in the
Hidden Rain Village or if it's just him inside of the cave but
that's kind of the natural look that they went for with it being more moisty looking...
Note to self....never use the word moisty looking to define a statue again...
Pain, or Nagato or Nagato using Yahiko's body
whatever you want to refer to it is one of my favorite antagonists in the show
next to Zabuza of course, because of his ability was so
mysterious and I loved how we got to go through the journey
of learning about how it works and unfortunately we had to lose somebody
because of that process but it was just an incredible journey
and that'll always be one of my favorite seasons.
Each one of the legs for his mechanical device is numbered so you know which one
does go where. It's also nice that they made all these
notches that key into the statue different shapes
so it helps you as well to know where to install it.
Here is the central part that holds not only all the pieces together for the
statue but also for the device itself. Now if anybody
knows in the comment section below what is the name of this device for some
reason I don't recall what it is but all I
remember is it does remind me of a spider.
One of the things that I always wanted to know is did he actually use this to
walk around is this how he traveled places or was it
moved mobley like how did he actually lug this thing
around from place to place to ensure that he could execute his
jutsu and abilities the way that he did. This large notch right here has a big
old fat magnet inside of it and that helps it to connect
to the back of that main hub there now we'll see three different holes on each
side the left and the right later on there's going to be some wires
or plugs that go in and from outside of that and those
looks like giant bolts that make it realistically look like it
attaches to that main unit.
and with this piece attached we'll go ahead and get the rest of the six legs
installed onto the main unit. In the series Naruto we initially follow
Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura and you know if
there's three people or I guess honestly six people that I wish we could see more
of their journey it would be uh Nagato Yahiko Konan
and I would also love to see you know Jiraiya Orochimaru Tsunade.
Those are the six people that I wish we could almost get to see
100-150-200 episodes of their life,
their journey, things they went through, their progression as they grew.
Not likely something we'll see but you know a man can dream can he.
What we're looking at here is the part of the device where Nagato sticks his
hands into and again I'm not really sure what they
do or their purpose but I do remember that from the show and so it is
accurately sculpted into the statue. The paint application on
these look fantastic it looks like brushed steel
and you have those magnets that will allow to attach to the main center of the base.
One of the last larger pieces for this is going to be this large
hunk of wood that we'll see attached to the front of it and if we get close up
to it the paint texturing on this and the way
that they honestly sculpted it it looks like real wood that is how it
connects itself to the base but you can see here looks like somebody
hand carved that out of wood but nope nope it is made of resin!
Like I mentioned in the beginning today we're gonna be showcasing two of the
paths of pain and then we're gonna be having another
four that i've ordered and one that just went up for pre-order
and so i look forward to them all coming together slowly.
These pieces right here are not made of resin they are just
wire to my knowledge...they're very flexible you can bend them as you need to.
We have three different lengths one's
super long which goes on the far left a medium size in the center and the
shorter one closer to the inside.
There's really no direct way to connect them to the part where his arm goes in
there but I just rested in between the grooves
as you see here and that's how it looks natural to me.
One of the most enjoyable parts of the statue in boxing and owning the statue
is the fact that it brings to life more this device that
Nagato used you really never got that in the show so we really get to see closely
how this thing worked and what it looked like.
Speaking of what the statue looked like man it is so strange
to see him in person sculpted like this.
It is incredible how sickly he looks and how much he sacrifices to obtain the
power that he does in the show. The purple metallic paint
app on the bottom there looks really cool
and there's the bottom notch where he connects to the base very strong magnet there
and if we flip this around to the back
this is where it gets gosh it looks so gross to see you know
without all the rods in there but honestly once we get all the rods in
there it's going to look even more gross but
all those holes that house those rods that are stuck in its back I
believe they're called the the chakra rods or the transmitter rods.
The head was sculpted separately and there's no secure way to attach it to
the body that's why I removed it when I was first showcasing that there's no
magnet in there but they did a fantastic job with that the hair shading looks great,
his eyes and the color of his skin tone just all around looks spot-on.
Here we have all those chakras....
All right...take two...so we have all of the chakra rods here they are of different
sizes you have really long ones, you have some short
ones and I love that they did offer a different range in that so you
have the main rod that's coming out there
and towards the bottom you'll see a silver and it comes to a point that
allows you to stick it into the holes inside the back. Now the holes are all
different sizes so you really have to play around
to get it right which one goes where. I'm not the kind of person that
enjoys scary movies or anything gory or gross and so this kind of stuff
always wears me out to do this it reminds me of the same way
I had to do for the Zabaza death scene statue where I had to stick all the
swords in his back and and the side of his arm it was just
different weird to do but you know I got to put the statue together.
and with all those in you can see how crazy that looks
when I spin this back around from side to side. It's just incredible
to bring this from a 2D art television show
into a 3D environment where you can see this right in front of your face.
Not that it's something we all already don't know but it makes
so much sense you know why his character's name was
pain on so many different levels including the pain he has to endure
to execute the jutsu that he does. With all that together you can see how
incredible this looks assembled. I'm looking forward to because he is going
to be the centerpiece of all the paths of pain when they
finally assemble and come together and they did such a good job with it
being and feeling like a centerpiece. Here we have the base for the Deva Path
This path honestly when you say the word pain you think of
this one right this is Yahiko's body and the main one that kind of controls
the gravitational pull aspects of the Rinnegan.
The holes there on the base is where an effect piece will be attached in just a moment.
We'll see two little patches of grass
the nice rocky rubble and almost like you just use almighty push
or he's sprinting off the ground it's causing a huge effect below his feet.
Your guess is better than mine on what exactly these effect pieces are.
Once we put everything together I imagine these being
just a showcase of the force that's being used as he's sprinting away.
I'm not sure you know again what exactly they were going for here.
I imagine more smoke or dust clouds would have been appropriate but
this is the effect we have and so you'll see how it's assembled here now.
All right and there you have it it's uh very unimpressive to see...
It's kind of boring and I'm not sure why they decided to go with this but
I think the all-around theme of this is going to be that the Deva Path is not
the path of focus as everything comes together so they didn't want to put too
much attention and detail to his base. The head and right arm was sculpted
separately so i'm going to remove those and take a look at them later you'll see
he is in a very nice sprinting pose and the
cloak itself is very good you'll see all the details going from everything to the
toenails to the top of his head is immaculate perfect paint job.
What was interesting here is the texturing of the cape is very smooth
and then inside of there it's like a metallic red that's not something I
normally see usually it's a dull red but it's metallic I actually liked it though
I thought it looked really good how it went with the statue.
You know I'll say it again and I've said it in other Akatsuki videos before I
can never imagine them actually painting their fingernails and toenails like at
one point they had to have sat down and painted them together like that is
just not something I imagine any of them doing.
All right so we see here on the right arm we have some of the rods that are poking out.
We have this main rod it almost looks
like a baton like he's a baton runner on this one but that's the pose that they chose.
Definitely a good focus on attention you can even see the symbol there on the
ring and if we jump over the head sculpt I think they did a fantastic
job with that just capturing the likeness of Yahiko's face.
The only thing I'll say which it could just be me is I think the eyes are a
little off maybe they're just too oval shaped and they need to be a
little bit more round but also they weren't painted with a layer of gloss
over them so it takes away from the realism
of an eyeball so again a very small complaint very minor I think overall it
looks good but here's how everything connects again
there's no magnets it's just friction that holds it into place.
There's a magnet in the arm I'm not sure why they didn't put one on the head.
But it just rests in there and sits securely
As I said before for this specific Deva Path of Pain
there is a high expectation you know I think everybody on the channel who's
familiar with me is aware one of my favorite statues of all
time is the Surge Studio Planetary Devastation and
that's epic so I'm just glad I have something that represents that
and this is more of an accenting character as we're gathering together
all the Paths of Pain. I want to take a moment to thank all of my members on the
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Now the edition size for these statues
was captured on these steel plates that you see here
and that was Nagato's face on the front back here we'll see there was only 298
made I don't know why they didn't just make
300 that's kind of odd but 298 made and here we go we have Nagato's
eye and on the back there we'll see the
symbol for IM then we have one more piece that will showcase the edition
size and you'll see this one is going to be
300 so again I don't know why they made 298 for the other 300 for the other
but hey I'm not the studio. Well that about wraps up the showcase
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