Blog 094 > Ghost in the Figure!
July 9th, 2007
Konnichiwa! For this massive 92-shot photoshoot, we step away from our Gothic Lolita Girls, and welcome the 1/7-scale “Purple Motoko” and approx-1/10-scale “Blue Tachikoma” figures released earlier this year!
Sculpted by Tuyoshi Takahashi, manufactured by a Vice & Alter collaboration, and released in January-February 2007, this faithful 1/7-scale PVC rendition of Motoko — from the long-running cyberpunk epic series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex — portrays her standing coolly and calmly in her gray combat suit with a black pistol hanging loosely from her gloved hand. Just as the Major should be, lol… Meanwhile, manufactured by Art Storm, and released in May 2007, this excellent approx-1/10-scale Soft Vinyl version of the blue Tachikoma — also from the same Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series — depicts the bubbly Artificially Intelligent spider-like mini-tank in a joint-poseable bright blue armor. Just as slick as its animated counterpart!
For this Canon photoshoot, I saved 117 shots, then narrowed it down to these 92 shots. While I used Photoshop to clean up an annoying dust particle which reappeared in Motoko’s hair for many of the shots, no color or lighting adjustments were made. Now, without further delay, enjoy the photoshoot!
P.S. Internet Explorer has now officially pissed me off. If Firefox can handle 90-100 images (4-10 MB total) per page without breaking, then why can’t IE? For instance, (1) both IE6 and IE7 erratically interprets pure black (#000000) in these images as transparent pixels, which results in white dots popping up through these holes (even if I change the [img] background color to black!), and (2) when using [div] tags, IE also fails to display the [div] content as the total number of images approaches 100. Ridiculous. So from this point onward, I can no longer promise my support of IE. Sorry.
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August 26th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Hi Jayman ^^, I got one question for you. The thing is I just this Motoko figure and someone told me that she’s a notorious leaner :S but I never heard anyone complaining about her. Is yours still standing straight or is back in the box?
August 26th, 2007 at 10:17 am
Hey B-san, nope, no complaints here. She’s been on my shelf with the Tachikoma since July, perfectly level, no props to tilt her base (unlike my Gothloli Ryomou). And I live in the Vegas heat too. Hope this helps!
August 26th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Thx for the reply Jayman, I currently have my figures in my basement due to heat we’re feeling here in Portugal, the temperature there is always around 20ºC (70 F)
August 26th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
No problem! My house is currently set at 82 F (outside is typically 100+ F), so u shouldn’t have any leaning problems.
For my Gothloli Ryomou, I slightly tilt her base against the lean. For my Bunny Girl Haruhi, the included bar support is needed to prevent the lean. Luckily, no other lean problems in my collection so far.