Canaan 1/8 (Good Smile) review
By James. Filed in Figures Pics, Figures Reviews, Girls and Flowers |Tags: 1/8, canaan, flowers, Good Smile
More under the cut
Good: Great dynamic pose, base more detailled than usual, bigger than expected.
Bad: Control quality sux, some samples of Canaan are poorly painted at best. The hair is not looking too great, too bulky. Poor painting on the base, especially if you compare to the proto shots.
This Canaan is not a bad figure, mine is correct but i saw some very bad painted one out there. So another Good Smile figure, another lottery. Not as bad as the control quality for World is Mine but still really bad for Good Smile.
Canaan is getting three Exelica out of five.
Don’t forget to check the reviews of Canaan at Polyvinil Crush and Visual Fanfare.
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Tuesday, April 27th 2010 at 2:04 pm |
I pretty much concur, especially about the base. GSC has had some nice prototypes and ideas with regards to doing something interesting with the bases, but the execution is off.
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James Reply:
April 27th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
yeah, sad that they seem to concentrate on nendoroids instead of making their scale figures the good way …
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Tuesday, April 27th 2010 at 3:13 pm |
ça fait plusieurs figurines qui sont bâclées eu finish :/ j’ai eu Index y a pas longtemps et je dois dire qu’elle est de mauvaise qualité dans les finitions… GSC sont plus doués dans les prototypes et c’est bien dommage … ils perdent en notoriété :/
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James Reply:
April 28th, 2010 at 11:47 pm
GSC c’est mort, j’espere plus rien d’eux, a part des nendos qui leur rapportent pleins de fric :/
Bref ils ont plus ma confiance.
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Wednesday, April 28th 2010 at 11:23 pm |
Pourquoi gâcher une sculpture aussi excellente que cette Canaan, par une finition aussi déplorable. C’est affligeant. On dirait vraiment un bootleg (Les cheveux!!!!). C’est navrant.
Good Smile a l’air de choisir les quelques figurines qu’ils soigneront plus que les autres. Et ça, c’est vraiment honteux.
Au lieu de s’améliorer avec le temps, j’ai bien l’impression qu’ils régresse (et encore, avant ce n’était pas aussi moche). C’est à n’y rien comprendre.
Du coup, j’me félicite de ne pas l’avoir préco. Elle aurait pu être un must-have.
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James Reply:
April 28th, 2010 at 11:51 pm
Oh que oui ils ont regressé, je recite mon exemple, regarde la maintenant ancienne Melissa Seraphy, c’est le jour et la nuit si tu la compare aux GSC recentes :s
Sinon petite anecdote, j’ai recu aujourd’hui la C.C et Kallen de chez banpresto, c’est bien mieux que Canaan …
Banpresto et ces figs de lotterie qui sont meilleures que les “must have” GSC ? Tout est dit je crois …
Sinon je le dis la en attendant de faire ma review, pour les fans de Kallen, foncez, elle est TOP.
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Sunday, May 2nd 2010 at 4:12 pm |
Hm so the problematic quality check is still going down the line recently? That can hurt the reputation of the company, especially when they have given the fans and collectors a lot of expectation from the proto shots / previews.
The figure looks fine from the pictures. The base, um are you good with touch-ups? If you know how to do weathering then maybe you can make the base look more realistic by making it more dirt-like. Not sure how but I know there are weathering kits by e.g. Tamiya which are like make-up boxes with brushes. Maybe useful I dunno
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James Reply:
May 10th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
I’m awful with paint and brushes so i’ll pass :p
And i’m fine with my Canaan, but sadly some people got really bad ones
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Monday, May 3rd 2010 at 4:38 pm |
Nice photos – I would’ve never thought to use flowers as a background for Canaan! I really like the last one though, all the white and glowing reflections creates a pretty cool aura around her.
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James Reply:
May 10th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
I love flowers so yeah :p
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Wednesday, May 5th 2010 at 3:54 pm |
Now that’s an amazing background!
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James Reply:
May 10th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
Yeah i do like it too ^^
Flowers are always amazing
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Monday, May 10th 2010 at 9:04 am |
Quand je pense que quand j’ai voulu me procurer Nadie, tout le monde me disait “maiiiiis non prends Canaan, elle sera de meilleure qualité car récente, et moins chere vu la rareté de Nadie”.. ET BEN COMME QUOI, LES CHEVEUX LONGS VAINCRONT ! Voila d’abord (a)*
*C’était le message inutile
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James Reply:
May 10th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Hum meme a l’époque ou GSC faisait de la qualité, comparer avec Alter n’est meme pas utile je pense
Donc voila quoi ^^
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Tuesday, May 11th 2010 at 8:01 pm |
Ooooh looks like you were really lucky!
I was quite shocked about Canaans Quality when I saw the first real pictures up on HobbySearch and I was more thna glad that I canceled her and Canaan earlier even though it was for different reasons.I hope GSC catches up to their good times.Nothign worse than offering a game of hit and miss when so much cash is involved
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James Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Hobby Search pictures are always so bad
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Wednesday, May 12th 2010 at 7:48 pm |
I’m actually glad I cancelled my order. This review was mighty helpful
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James Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Glad if it is helpful, that’s why i’m making these reviews after all
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Friday, May 14th 2010 at 10:04 pm |
Look at that hair! Yikes! What did GSC do?! Nasty seamlines and excess bits of plastic? I expect that sort of thing from Kotobukiya, NOT GSC. Good thing this figure never really appealed to me. The pose is cool but I just don’t like the character design.
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