The box was “reviewed” earlier if you missed it ^^;;  Another excellent release from Alter, though she’s got an impressive footprint for a 1/7, not to mention price.

Really love how the wings were done, though in a totally different way than the awesome gwendolyn stuff that’s been released ^^;

It’s a shame you can’t really see the bottom pair from the front too much because of her outrageously large skirt thing.  ‘Course that’s another thing I love about this figure, so I wouldn’t want her without it ^^;

Like in the anime, the wings aren’t all directly attached to her body.

I was really surprised by the detail on her book. Was a nice touch.

There’s a notch in the side of the book that attaches to a peg on hayate’s arm.

Love the pose ^_^

Though rein has her own little stand, I prefer her perched on hayate’s wing.

Rein’s little book has a buncha stuff written on it too!

Obviously not as detailed as her non-scale release but pretty dang good for her tiny size (why don’t they just calculate a real scale number? According to a random nanoha wiki I found, she’s ~30cm, which makes the ‘non-scale’ release about 1/1.5 scale).

おっと、パンツ！ Before moving her into my new detolf, hayate was on above me on my desk… which means I was constantly inadvertently looking up her skirt all day ^^;;;  Gomen, hayate! m(_ _)m

Nice shiny finish on her hip armor thingies.

Another small reason to display her where she’s visible from all sides… nice little touch on the end of her staff for extra sexay.

I really shoulda dusted her off more carefully before the shoot. Stupid macro magnification ^^;

Though in all the official pics (and even the documentation I believe) hayate’s holding her staff on the golden part… it’s been a real pain to get the dang thing to stick.  Kept falling out and was getting fed up, so I moved her grip to the thicker wrapped part.

I’ve had plenty of other figures whose feet didn’t quite fit in their pegs without a bit of stretching… however in this case the stress from hayate’s feet not quite fitting properly case them to not fit flush with the base.  Err… not that you can see it in the below pic, but her foot reminded me of that ^^;

I think I have a thing for this sort of expression… always end up using it for my figmas ^^;

A head for unison mode is included, though I don’t think I’ll be using it since for accuracy, it would mean rein isn’t visible.

As with the rest of nanoha releases, you get all sorts of character info on the base. Wish they woulda spent the 10 seconds it takes to ask an english speaker if “Position belonging” is engrish or not -_-;

It’s a great pose I tell ya, even Exelica is doing it ^_^

Speaking of Exelica, I got an e-mail from Play-Asia recently…

Trigger Heart Exelica Enhanced [Limited Edition] tba. ->  Mar 26, 2009

Looks like I’ll be waiting a bit longer for the nendoroid.

Mini nanoha manekko

Aaaand speaking of nanoha, Alter still hasn’t released any info on a release for her… though it seems Subaru got some love lately…  I want a complete set! ^_^

Once again for your convenience, here are more reviews in case you missed ‘em or what not…

• Exelica Meteor
• Ota desho? ota desu!
• foo-bar-baz

In unrelated news… I’m insanely behind on my figure blog reading… 367 unread entries at the moment ;_;  So if you’re wondering why you haven’t seen me stop by in awhile… no I haven’t stopped reading, I’m just really behind.  Reaaaally reaaally behind orz

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I think I’m setting a personal record for consecutive non-figure-review posts…  I swear I’ll get back on track soon…

As pictured above, Lala came in.  Really happy to have her, and my first impression was damn, looks even better in person.  Unfortunately it also reminded me of how I don’t have 金色の闇 (konjiki no yami) to keep her company, since Kid Nemo went all awesome sauce on me and cancelled my order >_<  Been looking around but haven’t found her in stock anywhere.  Ugh.  If you know of a place, local, overseas, Japanese site or whatever, let me know, I’m considering all options at the moment…

On to the small favor, got a request from Shiddo almost a week ago for shots comparing hayate to needa/nanael for sizing purposes.  Was more than happy to comply but alas didn’t get to it as punctually as I planned.  Better late than never I guess.  Here’s the crew side by side…

Zoomed out a little more to see the extent of nanael’s wings and nida’s gun…

And finally the bases…

Hope that helped, ready to buy Hayate now? ^_^

It’s late again and I have lots of meetings tomorrow so gotta run… ;_;

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Update: gah, again had to add the links to the full size pics.  Guess I should poke around the support forums and see if this is a known issue or what…

Hmm did I say filler? Rather… make that… Hayate review part 1! ^^; Many posts mention her awesome presence so I thought I’d share it with everyone.  You can see Yoko’s rifle barrel doesn’t even extend past the top of the box.

Two boxes spring to mind when I think zomg, humongous! First off, Exelica.  Turns out the Exelica box is still wider and taller than Hayate’s.

Doesn’t compare in depth though.

After that the only one left is Fate-chan’s.

I believe Hayate wins in all three dimensions this time.

Too bad they didn’t do the same deal with a window on the back printed with Hayate’s magic seal thingy.

Then again, it’s Hayate I’m displaying not the box :P

While I’m working on the rest of the review, you can stop by Exelica Meteor, Ota desho? ota desu! and foo-bar-baz who already have many beautiful pics of her up… though I wouldn’t close this out without at least a few pics of Hayate unboxed.

Fate-chan and Hayate battle over having the largest garment.

I think Fate’s cape may still be the winner.

Slowly building up Lost Property Riot Force 6 ^_^ Next figure I can’t wait for: Signum!

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