Nintendo Amiibo Mario Super Mario Classic Collection

I'm so nearly there. I've nearly picked up all the Amiibo I'm interested in getting!

Mario, for me, was a must have, but I was never sold on that first Smash Bros incarnation of Mario. This classic version is much more up my alley.

The pose is classic Mario and that's made all the better by the sculpt work and neat paint apps.

Mario is in his typical bright red and blue suit with his brown shoes, shiny gold buttons, and hat with 'M' nicely applied.

Like Toad, Mario's stood on the red base with grey checkerboard instead of the black and god Smash Bros base.

So like I said, nearly there with the Amiibo I want to pick up, but undoubtedly there'll be more released that I want!

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Nintendo Amiibo Toad Super Mario Classic Collection

This is one of the more simple Amiibo that has been released in terms of paint and sculpt that we've looked at so far, but he's so cute!

This is a great little representation of Toad from the Super Mario games. He's a cheery looking fellow with nice clean paint apps and good sculpt work.

There's really not a lot to say about Toad other than he looks great! I prefer his Super Mario grey checker board base to the gold Super Smash Bros base too, so that's a bonus!

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Super Mario K'Nex Series 4 Blind Bags

My local Forbidden Planet has these in stock, and you know what? Every one of them is a Bob-omb. You can feel the massive round body. But as I was shopping the other day I found 2 bags in amongst a bunch of the new Thomas the Tank Engine blind bags, so I bought them up!

I really like the little K'Nex Mario figs, especially for the enemies, I have that Bob-omb I was talking about in my videogame display. I felt both bags and made sure I was getting different figures, and this is who I got.

Firstly

Green Toad! He's a neat little figure. His arms are articulates as is his massive head.

Second up I got a character I really dig the design of

Bowser Jr! This little fig has head rotation, his arms and legs are articulated and he even has wrist swivel.

Both of these figures are easy little builds and both look really cool so I'm glad I picked them up. If I ever see more I'd no doubt add more to my collection.

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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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Nintendo Amiibo No 2 Peach Super Smash Brothers Collection

Following Bowser, we're taking a look at the Peach Amiibo. This Amiibo is in the Super Smash Bros collection so is stood on the gold base, just like the Bowser Amiibo.

As is with all the Amiibo, there's no articulation in these figurines, but the paint and sculpt really make up for that.

There are at least 3 different pinks used here - a flat baby pink, a dark pink and a metallic pink. The sculpted details around the white skirt are very nicely done, and the gold filigree work above and below the sculpted details are incredibly neatly applied.

All of the ruffles and folds in Peach's dress are all moulded and add some great depth to this figurine.

I'm really impressed with these figures and Peach is no exception. The gold of her crown and the blue of her earrings are all clean and sharp and add such videogame accurate detail.

If you own a Wii U and have compatible games these are fun additions to those games, but really, if you're just a Nintendo fan these could be worth picking up just to own them as Smash trophies!

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Nintendo Amiibo Bowser No 20 Super Smash Bros Collection

I had no intention of picking up any Amiibo. I really didn't. I was happy to stay away from them seeing as I'm not a Smash Bros player. But I love Mario Kart 8 and the extra costumes the Amiibo give your character are really fun, they give you extra lives in Captain Toad Treasure Tracker, they unlock an extra mode in Mario Party 10 and can be used as player tokens, and they give you new skins for Yoshi in Yoshi's Wooly World (which I hope to pick up soon). The added bonus of the Amiibo figures though? They look great.

There's no articulation on these, but the sculpt and paintwork on these really make up for it.

Bowser comes on a gold Super Smash Bros base and stands about 2" high. His scales are moulded, his hair is sculpted, and he has his spikes on his back and leather spiked bands.

Bowser is really nicely painted even with white under his feet, but it's his hair that looks the best as it goes from a dark red to a lighter red, giving it a very cool flame look.

I really didn't expect to like these figures as much but they really are great looking and the chance to add more Nintendo characters to my collection is always welcome. I might not be getting the most out of their functionality but I'll be cherry picking my favourite characters from this line for sure.

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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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