Difference Between China Version of Play Arts Kai Figures

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Play Arts 改 -KAI- (プレイアーツ改, Purei Ashi KAI, lit. Play Arts "Revolution") is Foursquare Enix's line of improved (and upsized) Play Arts action figures that debut in November 2009. It is also under Square Enix's "Black Characterization Collectors" line-upwards. Dissimilar its predecessor line-upwardly "Play Arts," Play Arts KAI includes franchises exterior Square Enix and Eidos such as Konami, Ubisoft, Microsoft Studios, Sony Calculator Entertainment, Platinum Games, Capcom, EA, Sega, Hollywood movies, comic books and manga - with the Metallic Gear serial existence one of these franchises. Play Arts KAI figures are sculpted by OOParts.

Metallic Gear Solid: Peace Walker

Play Arts KAI'south first involvement with the series was the proclamation of theMetal Gear Solid: Peace Walker figure of Ophidian in his MSF Sneaking Conform. The figure included 2 Mk22 Mod-0 pistols, i Hush Puppy suppressor, a ballistic shield and a pair of extra hands. The figure likewise included a lawmaking to download a special recruited solider onto the PlayStation Portable version of Peace Walker as well as a Fob T-shirt uniform if the player doesn't already have it. The Sneaking Suit ver. was released in June 2010.

A Vol. ii set of figures was released this time being the AI weapons, PUPA, CHRYSALIS and BASILISK. Each one also came with a PSP code. They were released on September 2010.

Vol. 3 featured Snake again, this time in his Jungle Fatigues attire. The figure came with a Mk22 Modern-0, a M16A1, a Stun Rod and a actress hand. The prepare also involved the COCOON and ZEKE AI weapons also, all three of them came with PSP codes. They were released on Nov 2010.

The final prepare (Vol. 4) contained Snake in his Battle Dress attire and Kazuhira Miller. Snake came with a Mk22 Modernistic-0, a M60, a RPG-seven, a extra caput resembling a MSF soldier w/ helmet and a actress hand. Miller came with a Mk22 Mod-0, a M16A1, two pairs of sunglasses, a extra caput resembling a MSF soldier and a pair of actress hands. No PSP codes were included in this set. The figures were released on June 2011.

During the time of the last set's release, Square Enix Products store did an offer that whoever purchases Snake (Battle Dress ver.) or Miller from their online store or store at conventions received a limited edition accessory pack containing the Love Pack paper-thin box to display the figures in. The offer was exclusive only to Japan and available throughout June - September 2011.

iii limited edition figures were released for the Peace Walker prepare. The first beingness the Version ZERO of the Snake - Sneaking Suit ver. figure. The differences betwixt information technology and the original is that his suit is now chrome and the Ballistic Shield is colored orange. The figure is limited to 500 units worldwide and was merely sold at the conventions Japan Expo, Hong Kong Toy Off-white, New York Toy Fair and San Diego Comic Con throughout 2010.

The last 2 were the Snake - Battle Dress ver. Premium Package ver. and Kazuhira Miller Premium Bundle ver. These figures were only included with the Metallic Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD Edition Premium Package which was released in November, 2011 in Japan only. Snake was included inside every single unit whereas, Miller was but obtainable via Konamistyle past adding 5000 yen to the Premium Package's full. The difference between these and their original counterparts is that they were chrome painted (Snake'southward armor being light sliver and Miller's BDUs being nighttime greenish).

Metallic Gear Solid

The next set was announced to be Metal Gear Solid, via Hideo Kojima's Twitter account and released as part of the 25th Anniversary of Metallic Gear. The first to be released for this was the Cyborg Ninja, equipped with a katana, arm cannon and a extra hand. The effigy was released on February 2012.

Solid Snake was the second be to released bundled with with a SOCOM, Suppressor, FAMAS and a pair of actress easily as accessories. The figure was released in March 2012.

Meryl Silverburgh was the next in line when she was appear via Kojima's Twitter and came with accessories of a Desert Eagle, a combat pocketknife and a set of extra hands. The figure was released in November 2012.

The fourth and last figure of this prepare was revealed every bit Liquid Snake via Kojima'south Twitter. Liquid will come with a FIM-92 Stinger, a USP, dog tags, a pair of extra easily and a display stand. Liquid was originally planned to be released on September 2013 and was delayed til November 2013. Afterwards existence delayed twice, Liquid was finally released on December 2013.

A limited edition was released for this set. The Cyborg Ninja was re-released, this time in his red appearance. Dubbed "Red ver." the figure came with the same accessories as the original along with the inclusion of a extra caput of his face exposed. The effigy is limited to 500 units worldwide and was sold only at Hong Kong Toy Fair, Japan Expo, San Diego Comic Con, Tokyo Game Show & New York Comic Con throughout 2012.

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

The next set appear was Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Freedom with the reveal of Solidus Serpent on Kojima's Twitter as part of Metal Gear's 25th Anniversary. Solidus will come with accessories of extra easily, ii katanas, sheaths, 2 P90s, and a child-bearing chest plate. Information technology was released on November 2012.

The 2d and final figure for this set was appear on Kojima'southward Twitter account to exist Raiden. Raiden volition come with a fix of extra hands, canis familiaris tags, a loftier-frequency blade, a SOCOM, a suppressor, the scuba mask changeable caput and a display stand equally its accessories. Like the Liquid Snake figure, the Raiden figure was originally planned to be released on September 2013 and was delayed til November 2013. Raiden was eventually released on December 2013.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

The side by side set appear by Foursquare Enix Products isMetal Gear Rising: Revengeance with the announcement of a Raiden figure posted on Kojima's Twitter business relationship on February 2012. Raiden comes with his loftier-frequency blade, sheath, survival pocketknife, three kunai, kunai pouch, changeable visor head piece, a pair of extra hands, a pair of extra feet and a display stand. The effigy was released in March 2013.

The side by side effigy appear is a re-release of Raiden, this time in the White Armor attire that he wears in the game via DLC. Although the effigy isn't counted as a limited edition it was only obtainable via express editions of the game: the Metallic Gear Rising: Revengeance Premium Package (Konamistyle exclusive) and the European express edition. The European version is limited to 14,000 units worldwide. The figure was released on the game'due south Japanese and European release date of February 21, 2013.

iii limited editions take been appear for this set up. All being re-releases of Raiden, but based on the 3 custom bodies of Yellow, Red and Blueish that were unlock-able in the game. Each 1 is express edition to 1000 units worldwide and region sectional to sure websites and conventions.

Custom Torso Scarlet ver. was released in May 2013 and is exclusive to the U.s.a. and to websites Anime-Island, Hobby-Fan, Toy Let, BigBadToyStore and Diamond Comic Distributors.

Custom Trunk Yellow ver. was released in July 2013 and is sectional to Nihon and websites KONAMISTYLE, Amiami, Hobby Search, HobbyLink Japan and Square Enix Shop Japan.

Custom Trunk Blueish ver. is exclusive worldwide. It can be purchased but at Guangzhou '13, Japan Expo '13, ChinaJoy 'xiii, San Diego Comic Con '13, Tokyo Game Testify '13, New York Comic Con 'xiii, MCM London Comic Con '13 and Japan Expo '14.

Metal Gear Solid V: Basis Zeroes

Metallic Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes was the next gear up in the Play Arts KAI range with the declaration of a Snake figure via Hideo Kojima's Twitter account. The Ophidian figure volition come with a Wu Silent Pistol, a AM MRS-four, a combat knife, a changeable caput resembling Snake wearing his NVG, a gear up of extra hands and a display stand as its accessories. Information technology was released in May 2014.

A limited edition was appear for this set up. The Snake figure was re-released in a chromed suit (similar to the Zip ver. Snake from the Peace Walker set), but nether the championship "Metallic ver." The figure is only available in the JapaneseMetal Gear Solid Five: Ground Zeroes Collector'due south Edition exclusively from Konamistyle. It was released in March 2014.

Metallic Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is the last range in the Play Arts KAI collaboration with the Metallic Gear franchise. The first figure of the range was Venom Snake who was announced Kojima'due south Twitter. The figure's accessories include a Wu Silent Pistol, a SVG-76 with removable magazine, a iDroid, a survival knife, a changeable head resembling Snake wearing desert goggles, a cloak, a set up of child-bearing hands and a display stand. The effigy was released in December 2014.

Skull Face was the next figure appear for the MGSV set as revealed via Kojima'south Twitter. Accessories include a set of child-bearing easily, a mare'due south leg shortened rifle, a fedora hat and a changeable caput resembling his advent in Ground Zeroes. The figure was released in February 2015.

The next Play Arts KAI in the range is Quiet, revealed via Hideo Kojima's Twitter. Quiet volition come with a fix of changeable hands, a changeable head, a WICKED BUTTERFLY, a AM D114, a survival knife and a brandish stand up. The effigy was released in May 2015.

The next figure was revealed was the Man On Burn down on during San Diego Comic Con. The Homo On Burn volition come up with a fix of changeable hands, a changeable torso and a display stand up. The figure was released in September 2015.

The next effigy appear was Tretij Rebenok, who was revealed via Kojima'due south Twitter. Kojima refers to the graphic symbol every bit "Man-chan". He also included a quote stating "Wow! Are you too PlayArts?" Various websites reviewed the announcement calling the character "Kid Mantis." The effigy's name was confirmed to be Tretij Rebenok and was released on Nov 2015 with a display stand every bit its sole accessory.

At Tokyo Game Show 2014, after showing the new game play trailer for The Phantom Pain, Hideo Kojima and his staff appear the newest Play Arts KAI revealing to be Venom Snake this fourth dimension, sporting the new Sneaking Suit featured in the new trailers. This version of Snake will come up with a Wu Silent Pistol, a AM MRS-4 with removable mag, a SVG-67 with removable magazine, a gear up of changeable hands and a display stand. The figure was released in September 2015.

The adjacent in the series is Ocelot, who was revealed on the Christmas 2014 episode of Kojima Station by Satoshi Mikami. Ocelot will include a set of changeable easily, a changeable head resembling Ocelot wearing his J.F. Rey sunglasses, a TORNADO-6, a URAGAN-v and a brandish stand. The figure was released in Oct 2015.

The adjacent and final figure of the MGSV range and Metal Gear franchise was revealed to be DD who was unveiled on Hideo Kojima's Twitter account. DD will come with accessories of two changeable face plates resembling DD with a ballistic mask and DD with an eyepatch, 2 changeable jaw pieces, a survival knife, a stun rod and a display stand up. The effigy was released in December 2015.

3 express editions was appear for this set. The kickoff was the "Sneak Preview" version of the showtime Venom Snake figure sporting his Punished Snake proper noun. The whole figure and it'southward accessories was colored top to toe in statuary, and his bionic arm colored gold to mimic that of a statue. The Sneak Preview ver. was limited to 1000 pieces and released exclusively at San Diego Comic Con 2014, Gamescon 2014, Tokyo Game Show 2014, New York Comic Con 2014 and MCM London Comic Con 2014.

The 2nd was a re-release of the commencement Venom Ophidian figure, but sporting the Gilt Tiger camouflage instead. Dubbed "Gilded Tiger ver." information technology was released exclusive to Amazon Japan on July 2015.

The third was some other re-release of the first Venom Ophidian figure, this time sporting the Splitter camouflage and the Rocket Bionic Arm. The "Splitter ver." of this figure was released in at various toy, video game and comic conventions throughout 2015.

Counterfeit & Bootlegs

Like about merchandise related to anime and video games, various inexpensive knock offs of Play Arts KAI figurines accept been made and flogged inside the Chinese market. A bootleg figure tin can be told apart from it's original analogue by the cheap PVC textile, poor paintwork and cheap, flimsy material made packages, as well as being sold cheaper than their official counterparts. Bootlegs are usually institute and sold on websites similar eBay and Chinese based websites like AliExpress and Wish.

Like various companies earlier them that's been hit past cheap knock offs of their products, Squre Enix Products has been informed about this, and warn their customers virtually them, their bad quality and how they harm the company due to not receiving whatever profit. They also inform anyone not to buy them as customers deserve to go their money's wroth of figures and not accept it wasted abroad past desperately made knock offs.

Every bit of now the Cyborg Ninja (Metallic Gear Solid), Raiden (Metallic Gear Rise: Revengeance), Venom Snake and Queit (Metal Gear Solid Five: The Phantom Pain) are the nearly commonly bootlegged figurines.

Trivia

All figures from the Metal Gear Solid and Metallic Gear Solid 2 ranges are based on the Hard disk drive re-designs by Yoji Shinkawa during the fourth dimension Metallic Gear Solid: Hd Collection was in plans for release, simply were never used for the terminal prints (minus Raiden who was used for the Japanese box art.) However, the Cyborg Ninja figure was used as the directly inspiration for the Grey Fox peel in Metal Gear Ascent: Revengeance and the Solid Snake figure'due south concept, was used twice. First as a trading menu in Metallic Gear Solid: Social Ops and secondly, part of the cover art for Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection.

The Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance figurines of Raiden come with kunai accessories, a weapon not obtainable in the game, (just seen used in a cutscene where Raiden saves George in the sewers.) This could possibly be due to that the figurine was revealed at the time Metal Gear Solid: Rising was nevertheless in the works before it's counterfoil and rehashing into Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, every bit the said weapon has appeared in very earlier concept fine art of the cancelled project.

A modified version of the original Raiden figure, sporting series creator Hideo Kojima's face up instead of Raiden'southward, respectively, was supplied to Kojima past Square Enix Products as a gift. He would too place the head of his Solid Snake effigy likewise for a joke.

The Liquid Snake and MGS2 Raiden'south not sport the 25th Anniversary logo sticker on their packeting windows due to being released a year after the celebration.

Due to beingness based on earlier concepts, the Venom Snake figurines practise not sport the digital sentinel or Walkman. These was later added to the Sneaking Suit version.

On May eleven, 2014, Kojima revealed on his Twitter account that that according to Yoji Shinkawa, the Repose figurine's breasts were given soft plastics in guild to have them be flexible enough to move around.^[one] This tweet (and the character's popularity) has acquired this figurine to become a very sought after piece of memorabilia, despite information technology being a standard non-sectional release with second mitt sellers and scalpers flogging it for very loftier prices of almost and over $500+. 5 times the cost of its original pricing.

Snake (Big Boss) has the most figurines, with a total of seven. If Venom Snake was included, the total of figurines would increment to 12.