Vita – Knight Ver. Figma

Posted by Persocom on Jan 23, 2010 in Figures | 7 comments

Vita comes from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS (as well as A’s). Like most of the Figmas from StrikerS she’s loaded, and a bit more expensive than the usual. Another fine Figma from Max Factory. I bought her at Hobby Search for 2,895 yen or around $32, not including shipping of course. She’s still available and also now qualifies for SAL shipping (she wasn’t when I ordered her), so if you’re interested you can pick her up here. It makes me wonder if they’ll do a non-knight version of her since they had to be so specific with giving it a version name. Anyways, read on for my review.

Vita comes with a load of accessories. 10 hands, 2 of which are not jointed so that Vita can hold her weapons without their sheer weight moving her hand out of pose, 2 open hands, one pointing, 2 for holding weapons that are jointed, 2 closed fists, and lastly one holding the metal balls she hits with Graf Eisen. There are two faces and two hairpieces on with her ahoge pointing both left and right. She also has her hat which is put on differently than hats from previous Figma. This hat is inserted under the hair piece and fits more securely, the only downside to this is leaving a larger seem viewable from the side of her hairpiece. Both of her pig tails are on a ball joint, and thus can be moved about a bit. Surprisingly on the back of her clothing the large bow is also on ball joints, allowing for even more movement for realistic posing. Vita’s scale is smaller than that of a regular Figma, accurately representing her size in comparison with others from the same line. Her details and paint job are near perfection. I’m very impressed with the amount of work done into a figure of a smaller scale. Of course, a Vita action figure wouldn’t be complete with her hammer, Graf Eisen. Graf Eisen comes as two shafts, one straight and one bent so as to capture the feel of her swings. The heads of the hammer included are the original hammer form, the missile form, giant form, and destruction form. On top of it all there’s an even bigger giant form papercraft that you can download, print out and add to the giant form for even more possibilites, you can find the download here. Unfortunately I can’t show the downloadable form at the moment because I don’t have a working printer. The only thing that I do not like about this figure is that with her pig tails the way they are, her head has very limited mobility. She is only able to turn her head and look downwards, and can hardly look at eye level let alone is completely unable to look upwards. The other issue is with her dress being solid on the bottom half, her legs aren’t quite as free. The top part of her barrier jacket however is flexible, however it’s not removable. Lastly, I really love the paint job on this figure. Her boots and Graf Eisen have a nice shiny paint to them and is a nice touch. While she could have been more mobile, her detail is superb.














Personally I’m not all that pleased with the pictures I took, but they seemed enough for the review. I would have included a decent video of Vita in action but I couldn’t find a good quality one that wasn’t a MAD or AMV, or might contain spoilers. This is a great figure of Vita, and I highly recommend it to anyone who might be a fan.
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