Hey everybody! BAM Collectibles here back for another statue unboxing review for you!
The votes are in and Charizard is the winner for the first to be showcased
for his whole evolution line. Today is actually gonna be a showcasing of three
different statues the first two evolution Charmander and Charmeleon are
gonna be by MFC studio and Charizard is made by DS studio.
All statues were shipped in this soft foam packaging.
I will apologize in advance
Charizard for some reason the video file that I had got corrupted and I lost the
packaging overview for that one. Usually after I'm done doing the video for the
review process I always put the packaging back together and stick it in
my storage it would have been a huge to do to go back in there just to get a small shot.
So get over it alright..yeah get over it (^_^)/
MFC studio does a nice job at balancing both a classy base and a nice effect to
accent the character. On the bottom is three foam circular pads that help it keep balance.
On the top is somewhat of a square piece that will help to connect Charmander to it later.
Then there's some cavities over here that the effect particles will connect to.
The effects are made of resin and painted over with
a nice yellow orange and red touch to make it look fiery. Very fragile but it
has a little bit of a bend to it for some flexibility if needed.
One area on YouTube that is massively unrepresented is Pokemon statues,
If it's one passion I have it's let people know that there are other options out there other than cards...
In fact if you hang around to the end of the video you will see my showcase of
how I will be displaying them and it's an awesome mixture of both statue and card.
Getting a close-up look at Charmander WOAH did they do an amazing job!
The paint application looks so smooth and realistic just like he
jumped out of a television show or video game.
The eyes do have a nice glossy
effect on them they make him look a little bit more realistic.
The large cavity on his back is what allows him to connect to the base. The tail flame was
molded separately it's held on by friction and just hold into place.
Here's a close-up shot of how this all comes together. The moveset that it looks like
Charmander was going for is using ember where he's manipulating the fire on his
tail to unleash an attack. One of my only complaints for the statue is the effects
that are used in this piece almost look like they're liquid flame when I wish
they had a little bit more points to them so it looked like actual fire.
Would you get in there!!! (^_^)
TAKETWO! Got to have the right angle to fit that in there nicely.
Very dynamic pose that I love how Charmander almost looks like he's suspended in the air.
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As the Pokemon get larger so do their bases. Charmeleon base differs
from charmander's because it's not focused around a single move but more so
the actual power of the Pokemon. The rocks are shooting up from the sides as
he prepares to unleash a fire attack.
The effects that come with Charmeleons base
are similar to that of Charmander's, just a lot larger!
They attach to thebase by this sculpted little insert on the side.
the blue stuff you see right there is called Blue Tack.
It's actually like a putty and what it does is it
creates a thin layer between the actual insert and where the base cavity is.
does not harm the statue and it allows you to fit in there more securely just
like you would use glue on something. I stuck a little bit of blue tack inside
of Charmeleons fire tail piece as well and this is an edition size card that
came with Charmeleon. Unfortunately Charmander did not come with one of these.
As you can see there there was only 560 made.
Mmmhmm let's go ahead and take a look at these details on him! Another flawless
paint and sculpt job by MFC. On his forehead and throughout the body will
see some darker shades of red. The eyes are just like Charmander's in that they
have that little thin gloss coat on them
I'll show you exactly how the tail piece sits on this one. Like I said before that
little bit of blue tack makes it to where I don't have to use glue to hold
everything together and unfortunately you can't really ship these things as
one giant piece because it would risk too much breakages on it.
Coming up after we put Charmeleon together I'm gonna need your help to decide on what
background I should use for these statues in my IKEA Detolf Display Case.
This effect piece was a little tricky to get in you have to wrap it around his
foot and then that insert goes into the cavity.
Though this one wasn't as dynamic
as Charmander is I love how powerful he looks while standing in this pose.
With everything assembled you can see how awesome he looks standing there
Taking a look at Charizards base you can see this thing is on a whole different level!
Althroughout out the back you can see the soot and smoke coloring.
This white button will be used to illuminate the
fire LED's on the front of the statue.
Powered via a micro USB, which comes with it.
I'm not sure exactly what the base is themed after but it kind of looks like
some old or ancient Colosseum. It could just be a Pokemon Stadium but you can
see how much destruction was caused by him using his flamethrower.
There's a close-up of the wrecked pokeball. There's so much stuff going on in the base though it's incredible!
Here's we can really begin to tell the difference
between a high quality and a low quality collectible. On the left side you'll see
a metal peg coming out of it that's to secure in fashion it to Charizard's back.
Seriously look at the paint job it's so incredible! The blues and the blacks on
the front, that orange and dark orange really bring out all the different tones in the wings.
Sculpted onto the wing is a dust particle as we saw on the base.
For the main event himself Charizard! There is not a flaw to be found on this bad boy!
Similar to his left wing you'll see some
of the dust particles that were sculpted on to him. The metal peg is what helps him secure to the base.
In the cavities there you can see the little holes where the metal pegs from the wings that will go into place.
Holy freaking goodness man look at the headsculpt! How perfect is that?!?!
The tail flame unlike the others actually has a small magnet impacted in there
and that helps it attach perfectly secure to the tail.
Here you'll see how the wing attaches to the back of Charizard and it's amazing
how natural it looks as if it wasn't even two different pieces.
He is absolutely glorious the only thing that I will say is when you see these
all three side by side Charizard I think could have been a little larger.
Now is where I need your help in deciding what background I should use for my case
Option one is a volcanic theme.
Option two is a sunset on a Coliseum, kind of reminds me of how the base was themed.
Option three being a generic fiery background.
Be sure to let me know what background you prefer in the comments
and I will go ahead and print that out in the very near future and share in my Community Post.
Just in case you're not familiar with the microUSB power cord I'll go ahead and give that a look.
Definitely my favorite feature of the Statue is the bright LED's
I'll turn one of my studio lights off to set the mood a little more.
Al throughout the showcase I hope you were able to get a good look at the
difference in quality between kind of a low-end cheap plastic Pokemon Collectible
and a higher-end resin version like this. They really did go for
a super-bright LED on this one and let me tell you as a kid this would have
been the nightlight of my dreams! Turning off my other studio light you can see
how it looks in pitch black dark. This whole piece just oozes with that cool factor!
I'm going to mess with the auto focus on my camera so the flames canflicker a little bit.
Now for the card that started all of this for most of us! For my PSA graded
cards I always decide to go with non first editions and a PSA grade of seven.
I do that for two reasons, first off it's affordable and second having all the
starters next to each other and the PSA is being 777...just feels lucky!
The power of nostalgia is such a real thing and it's
never more real than just looking at this card. I do have a stand that I have
that it sits in with my IKEA Detolf display case. If you do have any interest
in purchasing some resin Pokemon statues I do recommend that you visit my
description area of this video to check out people that I trust directly, have
bought from and that you can go to to find some awesome statues.
Now I want to show you my setup and how they'll be looking inside of the case itself.
At first I thought to have Charmander on the bottom then Charmeleon kind of on the
next step and then Charizard on top but I liked the balance of having Charmeleon
a little bit lower since he's more taller than Charmander.
I have them sitting on top of these plastic acrylic stands.
That about wraps up today's showcase. Thank you so much for tagging along for this journey.
Look forward to some more Pokemon statues in the very near future.
As always everybody, do what you love and love what you do! BAM out!