Nintendo Amiibo No 19 Rosalina Super Smash Brothers Collection

Next up on our look at some Amiibo is Rosalina, and this little figurine is beautiful.

Firstly, an awesome little addition to Rosalina is that she comes with her little star pal Luma! The sculpt is very simple but captures the character of Luma perfectly and the paint is clean.

Rosalina is stunning, really. For what these are, Nintendo have put a lot of love and attention into creating fantastic, videogame accurate, toys.

The paint is really nice on Rosalina - the blue has a kind of sparkle to it which looks lovely. Rosalina even has nail polish on. There are stars around the bottom of Rosalina's dress which look very cool and sharp, and there is sculpted detail around the cuffs of her dress.

Again, I'm a big fan of these small figures and I'm just so impressed with the detail in these small 2.5" figures. I definitely recommend these but only if you can get them at retail price - unfortunately there's a lot of scalpers out there.

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World of Nintendo Yoshi

First off, thanks for the bashed up box Amazon!

I picked up Yoshi and Link from the new Jakks Pacific World of Nintendo line and we're going to take a look at Yoshi first.

Mario's pal Yoshi comes with a mystery item that's in cardboard mystery box. It's a really nice looking little box!

Upon opening it up we find an egg!

It's a nice little piece, hollow white plastic with neat green circles painted on it. It's a nice addition to Yoshi for sure, particularly for the price of these toys. They're really quite cheap but the quality is surprisingly high - as you can see by Yoshi himself.

He's a solid sculpt and the paint apps are very neat and clean. A great green colour, with nice white eyes, cheeks and stomach, brown boots, and red spines and shell.

The articulation is minimal but good and really all you need from Yoshi. His swivels side to side, his arms are on a ball and hinge join so they can move up and down and forward and back, and his hips swivel forward and back. No ankle or wrist articulation, but I have heard that Yoshi will be the next release after Luigi in the S H Figuarts line of Nintendo figures, so I guess if you're looking for a more articulated Yoshi you could hold out for that one.

Talking of the S H Figuarts line, Yoshi looks pretty great with the Figuarts Mario

If you're a Yoshi or Mario, or even Nintendo fan - or if you're looking to build a Smash Brothers collection - I'd definitely recommend this figure as he'll cost you less than a tenner, and he's a really good looking toy!

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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.

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K'Nex Super Mario Mystery Figure Blind Bag Series 4

I love the Mario series, it's possibly my favourite videogame series of all time what with the amazing Mario Kart entries and the like. Super Mario Bros 3 was my first gaming love on the NES. I still remember getting it for Christmas. Hot damn that was a good time!

I knew these K'Nex mini figures existed but I'd never seen them before, but when I was out today I spotted a peg of the bags in Forbidden Planet so I had to check them out. There were more K'Nex Mario toys, but it's these blind bags that really got my interest. All of the bags on the peg were the same figure, all feeling very round. If you use your eyes, you'll see that the roundest character on the front of the bag is Bo-bomb. So no prizes for guessing who I got.

Still don't know? Well, it comes with a little paper insert too

Yep, I got Bo-bomb! Which is great, as that's really the only character in this wave that I wanted.

As you can see, there's some very minor assembly required with this guy. There are three peg holes on his body - two for his feet and one for his key.

These all just pop in easily, leaving you with a super sweet looking Bo-bomb!

I love this little guy! Such a simple little toy but it looks like it's been lifted straight from Super Mario! Very neat paint and the sculpting is great, with sculpted on eyes and a neat little fuse. If I can find the series that has Shy Guy, Dry Bones and the Para Koopa Trooper I'll definitely be trying to get those!

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