{"id":14824,"date":"2011-10-14T04:59:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T09:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=14824"},"modified":"2011-10-14T20:43:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T01:43:10","slug":"vault-review-chogokin-aegis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=14824","title":{"rendered":"Vault Review:
Chogokin Aegis"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I love dinosaurs, ray guns, skeletons in astronaut suits, comic books where the main character is being run out of town by an angry mob, and robot girls.\u00a0 You can never have enough robot women around, especially the cute ones, which is why I had to buy the newest Aegis figure.<\/p>\n

Aegis is a character from the video game Persona 3.\u00a0 Having never played the Persona games, I first discovered her when her Figma figure<\/a>\u00a0 was released.\u00a0 I loved her unique design and amazing poseablilty so much that she became one of my top five favorite toys of all time.\u00a0 This year Bandai took a crack at her in their Chogokin line, and I was quick to preorder.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know how well she\u2019d stack up against the Figma, but having more Aegis figures around is definitely not a bad thing.<\/p>\n

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Something I loved about opening this figure was how the company decided to package her.\u00a0 Laying in the middle of her plastic tray, Aegis\u2019 eyes are closed.\u00a0 She\u2019s in sleep mode, waiting to be woken up by her new owner.\u00a0 This was an incredibly cute idea and really injects the figure with a bit of personality before she\u2019s even removed from the package.\u00a0 Kudos to the person at Bandai who thought of this.<\/p>\n

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Chogokin Aegis has a fantastic sculpt.\u00a0 She\u2019s a larger scaled figure than the Figma, which allowed them to add even more details to the overall design of her body.\u00a0 My favorite of which are the robotic bits at her shoulders and hips.\u00a0 Bandai used a mixture of plastic and metal parts to create functioning joints that are spot-on to the designs of the character.<\/p>\n

The body itself is very similar to the Figma\u2019s but with a few stylistic differences, which I assume was the sculptor\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n

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Aegis\u2019 head looks terrific, and I think I prefer the messier hair style of the Chogokin.\u00a0 Sadly, one of my least favorite aspects of this figure is the sculpting done on two of her four faces.\u00a0 Her \u201cangry\u201d and \u201ceyes closed\u201d faces look fine to me.\u00a0 But the sculpt on her \u201cnormal\u201d and \u201csmiling\u201d faces seems a bit off.\u00a0 Especially her smiling face.\u00a0 Her wide eyed stare and slightly pursed mouth give her a bit of a deranged look.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, her normal face is too emotionless for my tastes.\u00a0 There\u2019s no personality to it whatsoever and I can\u2019t even think of a reason why I\u2019d want to display her with such a dull gaze.\u00a0 Speaking of gaze, for some reason they painted this face\u2019s eyes looking to the side instead of straight forward.\u00a0 This also makes posing awkward, and I don\u2019t really understand why they changed it from the center stare of the prototype.\u00a0 Continue to page 2…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Aegis has got mostly a white body, but there are still plenty of paint applications which cover the tiny details of the sculpt.\u00a0 Most impressive are the thin gray lines and tiny silver stitches that run along her torso and legs.\u00a0 Her eyes are detailed with a dark blue center, with a light blue ring that encompasses it, which really makes them look illuminated.\u00a0 Even her hair has this fantastic gradient effect that gets darker as it nears the edges.\u00a0 But my favorite has me going back to her shiny robotic bits.\u00a0 They did such a good job that it\u2019s almost impossible to tell which parts are plastic just by looking at them.<\/p>\n

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Aegis has a swivel\/hinge head, shoulders, elbows, and knees.\u00a0 Her neck, upper torso, and wrists are ball joints.\u00a0 Lastly, her hips are ball joints connected to swivels in the legs.\u00a0 This gives her a good range of motion.\u00a0 But it isn\u2019t quite as good as the Figma\u2019s.\u00a0 One of the bigger differences is that the Figma could bend her legs back nearly all the way and not just ninety degrees like the Chogokin.\u00a0 But I definitely like the Chogokin\u2019s additional head\/neck articulation which allows for much more personality in the poses.<\/p>\n

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Chogokin Aegis comes with a slew of accessories.\u00a0 First are her alternate body parts.\u00a0 She has four different faces: normal, eyes closed, smiling, and angry.\u00a0 Then she also comes with four pairs of alternate hands: flat, firing fingers, splayed fingers, and fists.<\/p>\n

Next are her weapons.\u00a0 There are a couple of ammo canisters that attach to her wristbands.\u00a0 Then there is a gun and a cannon weapon that can attach to either arm.<\/p>\n

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Lastly is her giant rocket fist, which attaches to her right arm.\u00a0 The fist has a snazzy metallic blue paintjob with a skull printed on the back of the hand.\u00a0 Interestingly, this fist has an action feature and attaches to her arm with a special spring loaded adaptor piece which allows you to fire it.\u00a0 Yet another fun little touch the Bandai folks added.<\/p>\n

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Chogokin Aegis comes with a large white stand and an articulated translucent arm to hold her up.\u00a0 Like the Figma, she can\u2019t stand on her own because of her slanted hooves.\u00a0 The Figma solved this problem by giving her tiny clear heels to stand on.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the Chogokin wasn\u2019t so inventive in this area.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t want to display her with the large base, then you can use the clear part of the stand by itself.<\/p>\n

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I still love my Figma more, but the Chogokin Aegis is damn fine also.\u00a0 The extra details and metallic parts look terrific, but she could stand to be a bit more limber when it comes to movement.\u00a0 I also wish her faces could have been done better.\u00a0 The Figma has some perfectly cute faces, and that just didn\u2019t transfer over to the Chogokin.\u00a0 If only there were a way to combine the two figures into one perfect Aegis.<\/p>\n

-Vault<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love dinosaurs, ray guns, skeletons in astronaut suits, comic books where the main character is being run out of town by an angry mob, and robot girls.\u00a0 You can never have enough robot women around, especially the cute ones, which is why I had to buy the newest Aegis figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[34,10],"tags":[503,1232,445,95,846],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.itsalltrue.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/aegcTN.jpg?fit=50%2C50","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pObc6-3R6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15946,"url":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=15946","url_meta":{"origin":14824,"position":0},"title":"Vault Review: Figma’s Aegis, Heavy Arms Ver. 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