~ Tomica Pikachu car

I found something special today while having windows shopping i.e. Pikachu from Poketmon series has transformed into car!!! Tomy has produced one of the most popular cartoon character in the form of die-cast car. This car doesn't have actual scale but i expected its scale is around 1/59-1/62 as the car is quite big compared to 1/64 car.


Its very cute and I bet most of us like this car. The car's face looks almost identical to Pikachu. The eyes has replaced the head lamps. It has a pair of ears on the car roof while a lightning shaped tail at back. The tail and ears are made from plastic. Besides that, it also has fully function "suspension" wheels.


The painted Poketmon tempo on both sides make the car looks more attractive.


The bad point for this car is that it doesn't feature any opening doors features. Anyway, I would say that its a must have item in your die-cast collection! I don't think Tomy is going to reissue this cute car in the future unless Pikachu is too hot!


It was made in China in year 2005 and has a black base. Nintendo has approved this car as one of the Poketmon official products.

~ HB Human Torch

I bought this figure from the exclusive 3 pack DVD Commemorative series. The main difference of this series compared to single carded figure is the metallic dark blue suit! This metallic suit is darker and more accurate compared to previous release. This figure is made by Hasbro in conjuction with the release of the Fantastic 4 the movie: The rise of Silver Surfer in 2007.

This figure has a real human looks sculpt. However, i am suprised that the figure doesn't look like Chris Evans (actual actor of Human Torch) but Lee Ryan! xD Note: the small right photo is Lee Ryan while the left one is Chris Evans.


The features:

• Maker: Hasbro
• Year of released: 2007
• 5" tall
• 16 points of articulation
• 1 fire blast weapon + 2 bullets (single card has 2 fire blast)
• 1 Body and 2 leg orange fire decals
• Weapon can shoot!

Comments: The articulation can be improved like adding additional joints on the wrist and thigh with ball joints. Overall paint job is fine but there are quite a number of tiny dried gum marks on the figure. I like that blue metallic colour!

The body and legs fire decals actually just clip on the figure. The decals are semi transparent orange soft pvc rubber.

You can add the weapon by simply just clip it on the figure. I think Hasbro should design the fire blast that is able to let the figure hand put in it instead of clip on. In this way, the figure hand can glow the "fire". Cool!

We have to press the blue button to shoot the "fire" and should avoid pointing the weapon towards eyes as the shooting strength is quite strong. Its worth to be added into your marvel collection.

Jonny:"Fire in the hole."

~ Tomica Mitsuoka Orochi

The reason that i bought this car is because it has a very unique and stylish body design. The release of Orochi has replaced the previous No.25 Mitsuoka in TOMICA line. It is very heavy as almost 85% of this car is made of metal except the interior, wheels and windscreen. It doesn't feature any openable doors but has semi "suspension". Its scale is 1/63.



The head lamp of the car is chrome plated and has black stripes which resembles the python eyes. This car has a "smiling face" but at the same time the design looks evil.


The design on the top part of the car is very detail especially the rear engine cover.


Rear lamps are painted. Actually, this car has some tiny wording on both side of its body as well as on the engine cover. However, i am not sure what is the actual word as i cant see cleary on those tiny wording but i guess the word is "Orochi".


The back engine cover is openable! This is the best part compared to other car. The engine is quite detail for a 1/63 model car. Nice! However, you have to prepare a needle to open the engine cover because the cover is very tight!


The base is made from metal which add additional weight to the car ! It was made in China.