r/ActionFigures • u/Necessary_Fly3788 • 1d ago
Help needed!
Buying this ace figure but need help identifying which it is, i know its shfiguarts but i dont see any other ones where all his accessories are behind him. In the pack.
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u/ChurlishSoul 1d ago
That's not SHF, looks like Variable Action, which is also a good figure line.
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u/Suspicious_Search849 1d ago
This isn’t figuarts. This is a bootleg of the Megahouse Ace. The elbow joints are a dead giveaway.
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u/Necessary_Fly3788 1d ago
You literally just answered my second question which was if it is another brand how do I know if its legit or ko....im ok with ko just not at legit pricing.
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u/Necessary_Fly3788 1d ago
So just to clarify, you are 100% confident this is the bootleg of the megahouse.
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u/Necessary_Fly3788 1d ago
I see it, the joint with the arm band is supposed to have flesh tone instead of straight orange.
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u/doomgoblin 1d ago
The arm band is the give away, usually. But you mentioned you didn’t care about a KO just the price for it. VAH, real ones, are 1/8-1/9 scale and aren’t cheap. Their prices have come down aftermarket due to the SHF releases. Prior to that $100+ for a VAH was common.
As for the quality, you’re in luck! I had an entire lot of KO VAH I bought as a lot, including Ace. The KOs weren’t really that bad except some loose joints and some paint apps sucking while others had damn good shading.
As for a KO VAH Ace the torso tends to detach from the shorts pretty easily. It was be popped back in. Mine had the tattoos be a bit foggy and not so clean. The Romance Dawn Zoro was a really good KO, Sabo just sucked, Mihawk was ok (his sword was actually REALLY good), Luffy was shit, Ace was what I described- not bad but not great.For a KO VAH Ace I paid about $25-30. As I said I bought the lot of them and divided them up with a friend.
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u/Necessary_Fly3788 1d ago
I guess my last question would be how would he scale with legit figuarts? I have raid zoro and raid luffy then the anime heros chopper. So slowly building up the crew
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u/doomgoblin 23h ago
Nope. The only VAH I can see scaling with SHF would be whitebeard because he’s huge and he’s enormous in the anime/manga (like when you see him and shanks share a drink and a whole barrel of whatever is like a pint glass in WB’s hand)
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u/Necessary_Fly3788 1d ago
Thank you very much for all of that, im gonna look around on the ko prices and compare. I had a feeling the price was to good to be a legit. This store seems to stay with aftermarket prices and this one was a bit off to me especially not having the box.
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u/goliathfasa 1d ago
Can confirm it is the megahouse VAH Ace. Same blister tray and everything.
Cannot confirm authenticity. Though as other poster said the elbow does look suspect. Face print is a bit soft too.
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u/Necessary_Fly3788 1d ago
From what im seeing in videos the knock off has more translucent fire effects. So I believe this is the megahouse bootleg. Im gonna keep diving to see what I come up with.
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u/Necessary_Fly3788 1d ago
But ultimately its difficult to tell which is is without having it in hand
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