New Arrival: Figma Teana Lanster

Finally got around to getting the Figma of Ms. Low Self-Esteem.  She was on sale (again), so I decided I might as well get her now before she's not available anymore.  Ordered her from HLJ (hopefully my box didn't include any plague...), where she's still in stock but no longer on sale.  I'm pretty late to the Teana party so I don't think this will be much of a review or anything like that.  But I can assure you I won't just post a video of ten minutes of talking while not moving the figure!

A box.  A grossly over-sized box.  I'm starting to get annoyed with these larger Figma boxes, since almost every Figma that comes in one could just have easily gone in the normal-sized boxes if only Max Factory would adopt more efficient packing.

Teana looks pretty nice out of the box.  Her jacket/vest/whatever and both sections of her skirt are made of the soft plastic material, which is a welcome change from the Nanoha Figmas usually having a giant skirt made of the hard plastic.  I actually would have expected the outer, white section to be hard plastic, so I was pleasantly surprised.  Her X-Men souvenir belt is still made of the hard plastic, but it's not actually attached to Teana anywhere, meaning it won't really get in the way of posing.

Fair bit of accessories, but not enough to justify the box, in my opinion.  She's got five versions of her two Cross Mirage pistols, a variety of effect parts for the pistols, two faces total, secondary front and back hair pieces, an angled adapter for her stand, and five sets of hands (splayed, fists, holding things, Cross Mirage trigger fingers, and dagger-mode trigger fingers).  The second back hair piece even has its own neck joint, so not only do you not have to worry about switching it every time you want to change the hair, but it also means there's enough head parts to have two Teanas.  The two front hair pieces are almost the same, though, the second one is supposed to be wind-swept I suppose, but its hard to tell.  I also would have liked it if they had included a third face, maybe one of her tsundere expressions or something.  Two faces just isn't cutting it anymore, and with the upcoming Revoltech Queen's Blade Annalotte coming with five faces, I think Max Factory needs to start stepping it up.  And not make us have to buy another figure to get more faces, fucking Lucky Star summer uniforms.

Cross Mirage in John Woo mode.  The firing effect parts can only go on those two pistols, and not the dagger forms or the big attack form.

Same with the little blades, they won't go on the other versions of Cross Mirage.

Dagger mode.  The hands for this mode are angled, so Teana can hold them pretty competently.  And they do look pretty damn cool like this.

Last form of Cross Mirage.  Doesn't have any effect parts, sadly.  And hair down part!  A lot of people seem to really like Teana with her hair down, but I kinda like the pigtails better.

This is the same pose as the previous picture, but it doesn't really show the gun that well so I took the other one.

Speaking of those pigtails, they seem to be better attached than the pigtails of Kagami or Fate.  They don't feel like they're going to break or anything, and I'm not even sure they're all that removable.  However, they can only rotate and don't have any of the slight extra range that the ball-jointed ones on Kagami and Fate have.

A final note, it is possible to remove the jacket, but doesn't really seem to be useful, since removing the jacket leaves the shoulder joints horribly exposed.  I only did this since I needed to make the peg hole for the stand in her back bigger, as it didn't want to go in past the jacket at all.

Suddenly, a wild Subaru appears!

TEANA GET!  But where is Subaru going with her?!

Oh, that's where.

And the morning after.  When your girlfriend is a magic-powered combat cyborg designed to beat the crap out of people, I guess it's kinda hard to say "no".

I also recently picked up Mcfarlane's Kat from Halo: Reach because I want a female Spartan and I don't want to wait until the fall for the pink one (which I'll probably get as well).  I've been contemplating getting one of the Play Arts Halo figures, now that I've had a chance to see one in person and mess around with it, but I don't know yet since it'd ultimately be a display piece and not really something I could use much, as Big Boss has taught me.  But the Play Arts is definately a thousand times better in quality than Mcfarlane's crap.

"Please to be waitink, I am Twitterink."
A lot of people have described Kat's paint as "Twitter blue".  Because of this, I think I should make her a mascot for Twittering.

Yo cat, we heard you like Kat, so we gave your cat a Kat so you can play with Kat while you play with your cat!

Random pictures time.

I wanted a quick picture comparing the sizes of Play Arts Kai to the Mcfarlane Reach figures.  Instead I got a picture of Noble Six trying not to stare at Big Boss' package.

Another day, another weird fabulous pose for Ultra Magnus.

Face-swapping with Takoluka is fun for the whole family!

And while Takoluka had Nanoha's face...

...why am I so frightened now?!