SH Figuarts Super Mario and Diorama Play Sets A & B

I've mentioned before my love of Mario so I was super excited to pick up these the other day from a shop! In the UK! Seriously, this kind of stuff is not usually found in these parts! These are the three sets currently available made by S.H. Figuarts from Tamashii Nations and Bandai and I was lucky enough to pick them all up from Forbidden Planet.

Here's the really nice window box packaging it comes in, front and back

Mario looks incredible, seriously, like he's been lifted straight of Super Mario 3D World.

Mario has great articulation for a little guy. You can't really move his head but that's ok, his arms move round from the shoulders and have a great joint at the elbow and his wrists swivel. No waist rotation but his hips swivel, his knees bend really far and his ankles move his feet up and down nicely. You can get him in some classic Mario poses.

Along with Mario, you get a super mushroom

Again, this little 'shroom looks as though it's been lifted straight off of the screen. Sharp paint and sculpted little eyes and white spots.

You get a question block

Solid yellow with white sculpted on question marks, and the rivets are a light brown.

And finally you get a super shiny coin with a small stand

This coin is SO SHINY! It's very cool though, and the little clear stand is a great, much needed, addition.

The first play set we'll look at is the Diorama Play Set A, which comes with a grass green base

This has three separate peg holes but has two small plugs so you can cover a couple at once, a really neat touch

It comes with a couple of pieces needed to pose Mario with, the blue piece plugs into his back and the clear stand goes from bas to back

Three blocks, two brick blocks and a question block

These also come with a clear stand so you can get your display going

You also get a beautifully sculpted and painted goomba and another coin, this time with a taller stand

Diorama Play Set B is also full of cool extras so that you can get a great looking Super Mario display on your shelf.

The big things are the two warp pipes, one tall and one short. The tall pipe is deeper whereas the short pipe is much more shallow. The great thing here is, you can switch these out so you can move the deeper section out, putting the shallow section on the longer pipe body.

Spare hands that are easily switched out

You get a koopa shell and clear pegs that can be held in the spare hands

You get a second goomba!

And you get another coin, that has two stands - one tall and one short, bringing the coin count to three!

Putting all three sets together, you get some very cool displays

Seriously, I'm in love with these sets. They're just brilliant. If you can pick up all three, I'd highly recommend it. If however you can only afford Mario, he's well worth a buy. These guys are a little pricey, but I think it's brilliant that they were all packaged and sold separately. It keeps the cost down and means you don't need the accessory packs if you don't need them. I think I'll probably take more pictures of these sets and post them up here in the future, this guy is really good fun to play with!

I really hope SH Figuarts get to do more of these sets with other characters - Luigi, Bowser, a full koopa, Toad, a Boo with a flight stand, the options with this are almost limitless!!

Good luck hunting these down, but if all else fails, there's always online.

Go Figure!