1/10 Ex Machina Briareos Hechatonchires (Initial Production)

This 1/10 Apple Seed Ex Machina Briareos Hechatonchires figurine is indeed a brilliant work produced by Wave Corporation from the well known (at least amongst Otaku) movie - Apple Seed : Ex Machina.

Standing at about 20cm tall to the tip of his "rabbit ear" sensors, powerful cyborg Briareos has been carefully finished, and is ready for endless posing fun right out of the box! His weapons include four machine guns, plus a large sniper rifle that only comes with this initial production release. Six optional hands are also provided.

For 12,000 yen (about SGD 180.00) before shipment charges this item is not cheap. Luckily I managed to get it in the local toy shop for exactly SGD 179.90 and that means I don't have to pay any shipment charges.

Yeah... the big and long sniper rifle is so cool that it's a shame to missed it and that is why we decided to grab this item since it has something that the next production run.

Apart from that, me my self is a big fan of both of the Apple Seed movies.

The first movie in 2004 (Apple Seed) and the second one in 2007 (Apple Seed: Ex Machina) is based on the character created by Masamune Shirow [ real name is Ota Masanori 太田 まさのり ] in the original Appleseed manga series that was published in 1985.

Masamune Shirow is the same guy who created another famous brand in anime - Ghost In The Shell.

There are a few interesting stuff that I first wanted to highlight here specifically on the 2nd movie (since this figurine is from the 2nd movie anyway).

First and foremost, luckily just like the 1st movie, it was directed by the same director - Aramaki Shinji ( 荒牧 伸志 ) who himself is a talented anime director and mechanichal designer and among others I listed some of his previous works below:

*Astro Boy: Tetsuwan Atom (mechanical design)
*Fullmetal Alchemist (production design)
*Kidō Senshi Gundam: MS IGLOO (mechanical design)
*The New Adventures of He-Man (mechanical design,1990-1991)
*Kikō Sōseiki Mospeada (mechanical design, 1983)
*Digimon Tamers (CG design)

Second of all, the second movie is produced by the brilliant Hong Kong/Hollywood film producer & director - John Woo.

Miuccia Prada (yeah that famous Prada brand) design 2 of Deunan's costumes. She is already a big fan of the 1st movie was really excited to get the opportunity to get involved in the 2nd movie production. Below is the photo of one of those two:

Where is the other one? Well, go and see the movie again and I'm sure you can spot the stylish design...

In the opening credit scene... there are 7 key partners of Ex Machina film as you can see in the photo below;





Apparently Takara Tommy and Sega Film managed to get some sort of "cameo advertisement role" inside the movie... try spot their advertisement/logo in the photo below;





Well then now let's get down to business...

The box...





Out of the box... you will get all these stuff...





The figurine...





All the weapons and extra hands...





Let's see some details on the figurine first...

Overall, the details is magnificent... I hope the photo can give you some hints on how great the sculpting quality and the design concept of this item... Wave Corporation did a splendid job... all my praise and appreciation to the team in Wave Corporation.

Now as always, let's look at the body...














One of the most important aspect in Shewsbury Land... action pose, we really love them...












We are very happy with the articulation of this figure.

Now let's see the weapons... this is one of the four machine guns supplied by Wave - basically they're all the same...





And this is the large sniper rifle that only comes with this initial production release... or so they said...






Some posing with the weapons.....













Side by side with the 1/10 Apple Seed Ex Machina figurine - Deunan Knute.







One of those lovely scene from the movie...





And I tried to copy the above scenery as below... if only I am good with Adobe Photoshop, maybe I can create something much better than this...

Overall, this is a very nice premium action figure at high end price to match the quality and workmanship produced by Wave Corporation. The details is superb, action pose is never a problem, the weapons that comes with it is enjoyable... we believe this item really worth every dollar you spent on it. If you are a big fan of Apple Seed like me, I'm sure that you would love to have this action figure. In terms of sculpt and material quality, this item is as good as those from Hot Toys.

And if in case you can afford to spent more money, you can forget about this and get those released by Hot Toys instead...

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