While her name may be Mask Croissant we all know and love her be her real name, Ringo. Out of more boredom and photography experimentation i bring another review. This time it’s bandai’s Otome-Dama Croissant Mask.

This another one of my Bf’s figures that i acquired. I did complain about not getting free figures but then technically i did get many from him.

Ringo was a character we both liked in the air gear series. So when this figure was announced he jumped and pre-ordered her.

I don’t own any other Bandai figures other than Gashapons so i don’t really have much to compare her to.

What a nice view from over here.

I don’t like the glasses much, they sit awkwardly on her face and make her look a bit cross eyed.

It is possible to remove them but then you are left with a mark on her face where the glasses rest and parts in her hair where the glasses are held on.

The cape is also removable but it makes her neck looks a bit awkward as well.

But at least she has a nice ass.

Ringo here isn’t a bad figure, but at the same time there is no reason to run and get her. There are some hiccups in her paint, on her body it looks like there were some stray hairs on the paint that were later removed… A few blemishes on her legs and air trecks. the hair line isn’t really done well and has a noticeable gap. Her hands are the worst, the gloves look like a shakey person painted them with their eyes closed. But the thing i hate the most about this figure is her base. Instead of most bases where the pegs are in the base and maybe with luck the figure doesn’t even need the base. The pegs are on her air trecks, and even then she doesn’t even fit into the base all the way, she’s wobbly and falls off constantly. Now those are my complaints, on the plus side it’s an interesting and fun pose. Ok thats it, just the pose is good. But i’m not rushing to sell her off, not because her pose is so awesome that it makes up for it. But for the fact that i like the character. But if it weren’t for that she’s be long gone by now.

Figure Info-

Manufactured by Bandai
Non Scale
Initial release in Januray ‘07
Price of 3,700 yen
Discontinued at HLJ

I didn’t get to spend as much as i wished i could have at Ax this year, i ended up being pretty broke.

But i still had a decent amount to spend and spent it wisely this year! Normally i do too many impulse buys but this year i went through an entire list of figures i wanted and figures i was going to look for plus their average retail price.

Majority for my figures purchases were Good Smile Company/ Max Factory Figures. Okay, Well they are all GSC/Mf figures.

Got the GSC 1/8 Arin since she was not only a figure i was looking for but also since she was super cheap. Found at this one booth selling figures for cheap since their boxes were damaged. i get her for $20 which is an absolute steal! Then found the GSC 1/8 Melissa Seraphy for $40 when everyone else wanted her for $80. I’ve been eyeing her for some time and found only one online store that had her for $80. So i was pretty lucky to find her for such a great price. I got the Max Factory Shana from the Kid Nemo Booth, my first purchase from AX. I’ve been looking for her for a while now and i was happy to find her! I’ve been wanting this Shana figure for so long now! Also got the GSC Shuraki #1 Akatsuki Mishiro for regular retail price of $40! Everyone else wanted her for $85-$90! I have a eye for good deals!

Got three model kits since the boyfriend has been bugging me to start making some. He’s an avid Gundam builder so he keeps telling me how fun it is to build them so i splurged and got the Bandai 1/35 Lancelot and two Kotobukiya Gurren Lagann Kits. I built them the moment i got home and i love them! Now i want to build more and paint them as well!

Found an Aria Sachou Bank and had to get that as well! Plus i got my first figma! I have to say I’m amazed at the quality and the poseablitly. I’m not an action figure kinda gal but i can see why so many people like them. I don’t know if I’ll be getting more, it all depends on if i like the character enough. Nay pose i put Lelouch in looks so natural and unlike my Revoltechs it’s much easier to move around and replace hands and faces.

Went to the kinokuniya booth and got the Nia art book and the Ground work fo Gurren Lagann book as well! My friend Bridget gave me Nana 11 since she went to a booth that had a buy 4 get one free and she didn’t know what else to get. I’ll go reviews of the GL books later.

Got a Shugo Chara Phone dangly of ran.

And another of Aria Sachou. They had more Aria stuff at that booth but at $16 a pop for each phone dangly i only got one. In the end this is the only item i felt that i overpaid but i love it too much to honestly care.

This was my boyfriend’s Birthday present since his birthday is in July 4th during AX. He’d been eyeing this gundam for who knows how long so he was pretty excited to finally get it.

At the end of the convention at the one staff party (that i snuck into ^_~) they were giving out free shirts from past Anime Expos to staff. I snuck in and got a grand total of 18 shirts! But i gave some to my family and friends and this pile here are my shirts.

I felt like i got a good haul, better than last year since last year i bought too many figures that i regretted getting later. I hope that next year i’ll have more money to spend, at least for next year i hope to be going as press so then i won’t have to pay for my AX ticket.

Atelier-Sai
1/6 Teresa Testarossa Race Queen Yellow, 1/6 Chidori Kaname, 1/6 Asahina Mikuru Red Bunny, 1/6 Haruhi Suzumiya Black Bunny

Can someone honestly say they hate a certain figure? I know I can, I can honestly say it about 4 of them to be precise. I hate these figures, they are horrible and yet I bought them all. Why? I don’t know why still. My thought is that I had the money at the time and they were some of the first figures I saw! Atelier Sai beat Max Factory to the punch and released both the Red bunny Mikuru and the Black Bunny Haruhi. I just had to have a Haruhi figure so I went with those. Then later I saw the Max Factory Haruhi and all it’s wonder and pre-ordered her as well, well my order kept getting pushed back so I kept buying more Atelier-Sai figures. I didn’t have any other amazing figures to compare them to so i thought they were good figures. I got the Tessa figure and then reluctantly the Chidori figure. I didn’t originally want the Chidori figure, she seemed too slutty. Yes, too slutty! Chidori is not a slutty character, she’s loud and strong and doesn’t let people push her around, she’s no where near slutty. Both of the Full Metal Panic figures were out of place, neither pose nor outfit suited the character. Plus once I started getting more quality figures I realized how bad quality these figures were. The face is off, they don’t look like the characters at all! Plus they are huge, and they all had the same boring giant black base.

Bandai
Otome-Dama Croissant Mask

More of my boyfriend’s figure than my own, This alter ego of Ringo from Air gear is a beauty. She’s well made, and well painted. My only complaint is the base, she is very wobbly on it. But other than that she’s a beauty. We did purchase her online through HLJ so we did have our time to debate on whether we truly wanted her or not. Out of all the Ringo figures I have she’s not my favorite but since she was for my boyfriend really than i have no complaints.

Banpresto
Kyoko Otonashi A

Once again this was as usual an impulse buy, but more along the lines of I didn’t even know a Kyoko figure existed. I looked but never really found any figures online (that just shows you how bad i am at finding stuff online). But I saw her sitting in one store and my first thought was that she was a fake, They had her in a display case outside of her box. SO i asked if they had the box she came in, they told me yes, went to the back room and pulled t out. Yes she was real and for only $22 she was already mine! She’s well made considering the price really. Not extravagant at all, but then Kyoko’s beauty was simple so if they tried to do anything extravagant i might not like this figure.

Chara-Ani
Ren

I do love this Ren figure, I really love Peach-Pit art so when I saw this little lady on display in an anime store she was mine. What i love about her the most is the way her hair sits. It’s exactly the way her hair was in the story, lively and flowing.

Clayz
Rin Tousaka Swimsuit

I think the thing I love most about Rin here is her legs. They are practically perfect, long, smooth, the shape, She looks like a gorgeous model. Plus how she’s seems to tease you, you don’t know whether she’s pulling her top off, or putting it on. She doesn’t seem like she’s trying to tease you with her sexiness, but instead she you her sweet side. She’s really a must have if you’re a die Hard Rin fan!

Fewture
Chii

The only real Chii figure i’ve ever gotten my hands on. I don’t know what it is about this girl that i love so much; Her outfit? Her pose? Her hair? Everything is about perfect. Except for a teeny mark on her left butt cheek, She’s perfect. the only thing, and i mean THE ONLY THING I DON’T LIKE, is her base. It’s huge! plus she’s not even attached to it. it’s huge and bulky and pointless. It’s just a space waster really, she doesn’t even need a base if you’ve going to give me this lame ass base Fewture!

Regrets:
The figures i regret the most aren’t figures that I never bought. no no no, it’s figures that i did buy, only because i had the money. I didn’t buy them for beauty i bought them to show off. I explained it before; it’s like buying a hummer, you don’t need a hummer. It’s not the nicest looking car out there, it’s big, bulky, and a gas guzzler. You could have bought a nicer hybrid, smaller, much more elegant, saves you money on gas, an all in all better deal! Now thats what i did with my Atelier sai figures. I bought them only because they were the first haruhi figures released. Plus they were bigger and were more expensive. Why did i do that? i had such a small collection and i wanted to show off, i wanted people to think “wow this girl has some awesome figures!” But i later realized it’s not about Quantity with figures, but the quality. Within the figure owning community i bet if you saw someone with only 4 figures but they were some of the most rare and beautiful figures ever and then you saw some kid with tons of giant nasty figures that are easy to find and cost lots of money… Who would you looks up to? Me personally I’d look to the one who has the better figures. It may be a smaller collection but they are so much better in quality really! Luckily I was able to sell off all my Atelier sai figures this year, and with the money I earned I was able to get much more smaller better quality figures! I really shouldn’t say this but please if you want to ever become a figure collector STAY AWAY FROM ATELIER-SAI! At least wait until the finally get their act together and staying doing much more quality work and please if anyone from Atelier-Sai even stumbles on this, i’m not being mean, you guys just have to get your act together!