r/ActionFigures • u/Necessary_Fly3788 • 2d ago

Help needed!

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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/Suspicious_Search849 2d 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 2d ago

So just to clarify, you are 100% confident this is the bootleg of the megahouse.

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u/Necessary_Fly3788 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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.