No DX Bravers for me

After having studied my Ke-tai Sousakan min-pla models, I'm glad I didn't buy any of the DX toys. The mini-pla share similar characteristics with the DX toys and based on that I can tell the DX toys would be clunky and not as much fun to play around with as a figma or TF figure. What's worse, the LED faces prevent the DX Bravers from being display pieces. The only DX I'm interested in is Medic but I don't think it's worth it without a Phone Braver and those are definitely not worth it. So looks like I'm going to give up on the toy series, too bad.

Mini-Pla finished!

I took my time but built all 4 of the Ke-tai Sousakan Mini-pla plastic models. If one works hard at it, you can probably build most if not all of them in a day. But I'm super slow so I took a while. :p

Here are the pics of each in their individual modes as well as the combined mode at the end. You can mix and match the sets so that 7 wears Demolition and 01 wears Grindor as well as just mixing the individual parts. However 7 only has the Grindor Chakushin face and 01 only has Demolition's since that's the setup each PB usually use in the show.


One thing that this set has help me decide is that I'm not going to get the DX toy version of them. The samples of the electronic light & sound gimmicks on Youtube hasn't really excited me and on top of that I'm aware of their annoyance factor with them ringing at random intervals throughout the day (there doesn't seem to be an off button short of taking out the batteries). And if the mini-pla versions of them are any indication, the Chakushin form of them aren't that fun to play around with either.

Fully filled dakimakura cover

I washed the Daiba Minato cover and filled it with the Sears body pillow and a 20x28" pillow bought from Target. I was originally going to use a smaller pillow but it turned out the body pillow filling can be squished higher making the top fill out more but at the cost of having the body pillow take up less space in the cover. It's hard to tell from the picture but the 2nd pillow starts from the knees down. I'm happy with the way the cover is filled out but the 2nd pillow is much stiffer than the body pillow so I'm going to switch it out for something softer.



I built the first of the MiniPla. It was easier than I thought. You can pretty much twist the pieces out by hand and then use a model knife to shave off any sprue that sticks out too much. Next will be Grinder.



I decided to keep Tsugaru for now. If I get another EX, it would be Waffebunny and she would be my last EX. I'm on the fence on getting the upcoming Shinki figures; they've gotten rather expensive.