JoyToy X Warhammer 40K: Ultramarines - Captain With Master-Crafted Heavy Bolt Rifle

This is an Ultramarines Primaris Captain wielding a master-crafted heavy bolt rifle and a power sword that comes with a sheath. The set only comes with a clock, and pairs of swappable hands. It’s a shame it doesn’t have the option to swap helmetless character heads because look a bit plain despite him being a captain. I may have to do mixing with other figures to upgrade his looks. Surprisingly, he is taller than the Librarian and comparable in size to Grey Knights Terminator.

Product Information:

• Brand: JoyToy
• Size: 1/18 Scale Action Figure
• Series: Warhammer 40K
• Space Marine Chapters: Ultramarines - Captain With Master-Crafted Heavy Bolt Rifle
• Accessories: 
1. 1x Heavy Bolt Rifle
2. 1x Power Sword
3. 1x Sword sheath
4. 4x swappable hand.
• Release Date: Dec 2022
• Purchase Price: HKD 600.00
• JoyToy Retail Price: USD 62.99 (MSRP)
  
• My Rating: 7/10

JoyToy X Warhammer 40K: Grey Knights - Castellan Crowe

This is the first champion character I wanted to collect from the Grey Knights wave 1 when I first saw it in the W40K: Chaos Gate – Daemon Hunters DLC. He has an awesome design quality and is beautifully painted. The awesome part about this set is you get the Black Blade of Antwyr which comes with a beautifully crafted effect part that you can optionally put together for display. His swappable head mod is also incredibly good and preferred over the helmet version.

Product Information:

• Brand: JoyToy
• Size: 1/18 Scale Action Figure
• Series: Warhammer 40K
• Space Marine Chapters: Grey Knights Castellan Crowe
• Accessories: 
1. 1x Black Blade of Antwyr
2. 1x Sword Effect Part
3. 1x Helmet
4. 1x Crowe head
5. 1x Banner
6. 1x clock
7. 4x swappable hand.
• Release Date: Dec 2022
• Re-Run: March 2023
  
• Purchase Price: USD 69.99
• JoyToy Retail Price: USD 79.99
• My Rating: 9/10

Mechanical Alliance Dark Commander Review

Since there is no Nemesis version for Optimus Prime (Bumblebee Movie Ver.) available from the Transformers Studio Series, why not just get cheaper with high-quality paintwork and some die-cast parts from a knockoff toy for less than SGD 15.00? While the KO version is not near perfectly produced and has transformation issues in vehicle mode. Its robot mode is 95% accurate copies. You hardly find a difference between the original when displayed together.

Product Information:

• Brand: AOYI / BMB
  
• Size:Voyager
• Series:Transformers Studio Series
  
• Accessories: 1x Rifle
• Release Date: Unknown
• Purchase Price: SGD 14.00
  
• My Rating: 6/10
• Additional Info: Knock Off version of official Transformers Studio Series 38 - Voyager Optimus Prime (Bumblebee Movie Version).

JoyToy X Warhammer 40K - Ultramarines Primaris Librarian Review

The Ultramarines Primaris Librarian is the second wave released in 2022 which I asked the Game Workshop local dealer to help me purchase when it was put up on the official website. Good articulation (limited), is nicely painted and the quality is better than the Mcfarlane toys. Sadly, this figure comes with a few problems like loose shoulder joints and side armour plating easily popping off.

Product Information:

• Brand: JoyToy
• Size: 1/18 Scale Action Figure
• Series: Warhammer 40K
• Space Marine Chapters: Ultramarines Primaris Librarian
• Accessories: 
1. 1x Force Sword
2. 1x Marine helmet
3. 4x swappable hands (two psychic painted power effect)
• Release Date: January 2022
• Purchase Price: SGD 90.00
• JoyToy Retail Price: USD 69.00 
• My Rating: 5/10

Jujiang JJ01 Supreme Leader Review

I have been eyeing this 3rd party MP size Classic Optimus Prime for a while and never knew about such a release until I search Aliexpress for some KO Transformers. There are positive reviews of this improved version and many are quite satisfied with the figure quality build.

As a fan of the Classic series, I going to check out it myself since you still can get one for less than SGD 100.00 depending on where you source. I was able to get it from one of the local sellers who sold it to me for SGD 95.00, which is a reasonable price range for me after a few weeks of sourcing through the online stores. However, what I didn’t expect is how heavy the toy was packed inside despite the box looking small in my photo studio.

Product Information:

• Brand: Jujiang JJ01 Supreme Leader
• Size: Masterpiece / Oversized
• Design Based: Classic Optimus Prime (2006)
• Additional Info: Comes with diecast parts
• Accessories: 
• 1x replaceable movable mechanical than
• 1x large ion gun (wind vane)
• 1x smokestack laser gun 
• Release Date: 2017
• Purchase Price: SGD 95.00
• Market Price: USD 69.99
• My Rating: 8/10

NBK TF Engineering 3349 (aka Devastator) – Combiner Mode Review

This is my first 4th Party KO Transformers that I wanted to get for a long time after seeing more and more fellow collectors displaying their Wei Jiang/Jinbao combiners at home. I simply couldn’t resist any longer so I decided to give NBK brand a try and check out the quality of the toys before jumping in for more. 

Product Information:

• Brand: NBK TF Engineering 3349
• Size: Voyager
• Version: Green (G1)
• Design Base: Copy version of Generation Toy GT-01 Gravity Builder
• My Rating: 7/10
  
• Purchase Price: SGD 85.00
• Market Price: Less than SGD 100.00
  
• Other Version:
• NBK Yellow (G2)
• NBK Transparent Green
• Colorful (different combiner head and chest armour).
• Different Version: Omega Supreme (another cut-down and simple design)

Goodbye, 2022!

Happy New Year and another new beginning day to start over. Last year was another stressful year and nonsense. Hopefully, this year will be better and can’t wait to clear all the remaining 7 months of the mafia bank loans.

Travelling will not be priorities at the moment until my financial back to normal and stable. The year 2022 wasn’t good either for me when I lose the bonus payout completely. This affects me badly and has to extract backup money from my mom's savings to cover the losses at the moment. Once the bank loan clears, I can start to slowly pay back my mom's savings around September and keep some funds as a backup in case of emergency. My original plan is to pay using the bonus, but at the moment, nothing is certain about whether the current company going to pay me or not this year. If the same shit happens, well, time to plan for an exit.

Of course, the main problem is also my obsession with toy collections. It’s not slowing down, instead, JoyToy X Warhammer 40K action figure just join the family. Yikes! Even I recently loaded the classic W40K: Dawn of War RTS game to pass my lazy time. JoyToy is not stopping with its released wave and continues to announce new races every week. This is not good. I had to in advance preparing my financial spending plan last year because I have almost forgotten about the pre-ordered several P-Bandai Gunpla with one of the local sellers. I was hoping to slowly get from Mandarake. Looking at the Japanese YEN exchange rate right now, I need to revise and adjust my spending on the pre-order at HLJ too.

Mostly my order over there are either plastic kits (Gunpla, 30mm etc) or Transformers. I’m staying away from buying Anime figures because it’s so insanely hard to sell off in Brunei. Currently open to shipping out to the international buyer so if any of you happen to visit my blog, do check out the garage sales section. I haven’t started posting on FB yet because I don’t have the digital weight to calculate the item to estimate the shipping fee.