 Hey, welcome back everyone. Today we're going to be doing an unboxing and review of the Luminary Nendroid. I just got this from Tokyo Otaka mode. It is the first Nendroid figure for the Dragon Quest series. They just made this one and it's pretty cool. So yeah, I ordered this as soon as I could. I pre-ordered it. So let's just open this up and take a look at it. So as you can see we have the Tokyo Otaka mode little folder there. And of course is the packaging. This is what the folder looks like. It has just the information in it. It's very nice. And yeah, so we're going to take out this paper that uses padding. I'm going to get this out. Okay, and there's the Luminary Nendroid. And it has a bunch of bubble wrap around it. Alright, so we'll set that down and put this aside. Okay, so now that we got that out of the way, let's see. This is the Luminary Nendroid. And we're going to need to get this out of the bubble wrap first. So I'm going to make a quick cut here. Take that off so we can get a good look at the box. There it is. This is the box for the Luminary Nendroid. And you can see them pretty clearly through the window there. It says the Luminary Nendroid number 1285. That's how many figures they've made so far. It's quite a bit. So yeah, it looks nice. Now I have a few of these other Nendroids too besides this, but yeah, this one is definitely a nice one to have. And this is the side of the box, as you can see. We have the back of the box and the other side. It doesn't look too different. So yeah, the Luminary. It's interesting that they use the North American localized name for this product. They didn't call them a Yusha or anything, even though it's a Japanese figure. So as we can see here is a close-up pin of the box side and we'll be doing the back as well. So this is what the side looks like up close. There's a lot of pictures of them in different poses. And here's the back. All right, so we're going to have to get this thing open, I guess. So let's turn this around. You can tell it's authentic based on the sticker seal up here. There's a holographic sticker that tells you that it's not a bootleg. And also if the circle seal on the back is round, that's also an indicator that's authentic. Now we're going to be cutting this seal very carefully. Don't want to mess up the box, of course, because this is a collector's item, even though we're taking it out to look at. So very carefully and looks like that wasn't enough. So I'm going to very slowly push the sides open. Actually, we'll cut it open a little more. Okay. So very slowly pull this aside and try to get this out. If you do it too quickly, you might accidentally dent the box. Don't want to do that. All right, it's almost open. Okay, so we have the box open now. And it's just a matter of taking it out. So we're going to take a look at what's inside the box. So we'll just open this flap here and there he is. So if we try pulling him out, it looks like it's stuck a little bit. His stand is stuck to the box. It looks like it might be taped on there. I don't know why they did that. It's okay, I'll try to get him out. Let's just... Yes, it's a little bit of a complication, but it should be fine. It's taped to the inside of the plastic and it's taped to the inside of the box, looks like. Let's put that back in and pull it out like this. There we go. Yeah, it's stuck in there. All right, I'll just take it off, unpeel that. Okay, looks like it came out all right. No damage to the box. And yeah, so we got everything out safely. Let's put that to the side. You can take a look. There's the luminaries, the dragon quest symbol on the inside, the Ramya symbol on the inside of the box. It's all blue on the inside. Looks very cool. And yeah, there's not much more else to it. So there's some instructions in there as well, but we got that out as well. So I'll put that off to the side. Okay, so these are the instructions right here. It has all the real instructions, just more like part list tells you how to take off his face plates and how to use his accessories, things like that. There's different languages. It's just a nice little thing. We're not going to take it. We're not going to take too long on this. So I'll put that off to the side. And all right, so here is the luminary and all of his accessories. He comes in a lot of accessories in one faceplate. Comes with two swords, sheath, even extra leg and a shield. So we're going to take this off. Okay, put that off to the side. And there's the luminaries wrapped in plastic. Just take that off. I usually keep these, you know, you don't want to throw them out all the time because you might want to put them away in the box one day. So yeah, I'll just set them off to the side and we'll take everything out of the box before we take a closer look at everything. So first we're going to, I'm just gonna unload everything. So we have his first faceplate. He's got like this sideways view. Yeah. All right, we have next is the leg. This is an extra leg, I guess for an action pose. Put that off to the side. Next is the wave, the slash effect. It's pretty heavy actually. It feels all right. We'll look at everything a little bit closer soon. So there's a shield, put that off the side. We've got a sword here. Just gonna get that out. It's pretty stuck in there, but okay, there we go. Sword of light. The cobblestone sword and his sword sheath first back. That off to the side and we've got his little slime buddy here. We're gonna try to get him out. So looks like there's a piece of plastic over him keeping him in place. Peel that off slowly and we can get the slime out. There we go. Then there is slime. Okay, so we've got everything out. That should be everything. Set that off to the side and here is the luminary's head because I took the head off. Just we're gonna look at each piece first before we get into it. So I took the head off, that's the head sculpt. It looks very nice, very detailed actually. It looks a lot like his in-game model even though it's a chibi figure. I'm actually impressed with this. This looks nice. Next we have his torso with his arms and this is well sculpted as well. This is luminary's torso and he's got that sash for his sword. Next is his sort of skirt piece or his coat his coat front with his bag and his belt. This is another piece that you got to put over his legs and the next piece is his legs of course with the back the coattails and he's got a lot of articulation in the legs and they spin they sort of have a lot of they have a lot of motion they even have a bend like a bend in the knee kind of you know. All right the next thing is the sword sheath it has a peg hole in the back for putting into the luminary's back and of course these handle pops out. The handle pops out I guess you might need it for a pose where you're not holding the sword or he is holding the sword you can alternate and we've got another joint neck joint I guess this is like a spare neck joint in case she loses yours or if you break it or something for his neck and this is the cobblestone sword. This is the full sword that he would be holding in his hand and you may be wondering does the sword fit into the sheath. Well let's try it out it doesn't actually fit in it's it's just for show that sheath and you can't actually you can't stick the sword into it so that's uh it's not disappointing but it's uh just something to keep in mind and the next item is that slash effect that you use with the sword and this looks very detailed it's very clear it's like transparent at the end and it feels very nice actually it's very smooth so the second sword that we have is sort of light and it's very detailed it looks a lot like the game model it's a lot better than I expected from a ninja right honestly it looks really nice and then after that we have the shield the shield of verdric or the earth one shield and it has a little ball joint handle and that looks good too so the the second face play we have is a sort of smug looking sideways viewing face and you're gonna want to use that with the luminaries body you can swap it out just to give a different expression essentially so yeah they I always like it when they add a second face face plate to the figure you know and this this one definitely looks nice it looks like the luminary it has this face his eyebrows and it just looks like him a lot so that's a nice nice face plate now the next thing is the leg now the leg is for action poses I guess it's not something I would really use a lot but it's there for people who want to pose in different actions sort of sequence the sequence poses after that we have this slime body and this actually feels very nice it feels very thick unlike the bring arts figures slime and just take a closer look at it it looks really nice like he's got the little smile and the shading is really nice it's the darker at the top and it's lighter at the bottom and I just like the slime overall it's a it's a nice little slime that good smile made so yeah don't have any problems with this at all and yeah like he's not hollow it's pretty thick plastic it's pretty solid feeling so yeah the next item is the stand the peg hole stand thing for the first back essentially you'll plug it into the stand and the other part will plug into his back so that he could stand up because he's not he's very top heavy so he won't be able to stand up on his own no matter how much you try so we have here is the luminaries extra arms and extra hand pieces this is very necessary if you want to pose him holding the sword in different kinds of poses because he doesn't have articulation in the elbows you got to swap out his arms and you got the stand there and a little more pieces that came with the stand just extended so here's the luminaries serious face and we're gonna put the put an endure together so we're gonna get all the pieces and we're gonna assemble him even though he was assembled before so what we have here is a face plate skirt part the legs there's sword sheets and I'll show you all how how to put it together so the first things first you want to get that head in there so it's a bit of a tight fit you're gonna really want to shimmy it in there and don't force it but it'll it it'll fit in well so right try to pop it in there and there now no event all right this should be it and there you go you heard the pop so with that we are now onto the legs you're gonna want to take the the front of the coach and put it over the leg with the peg hole going through there we just put that on like that and it's that easy so there we go there's there's his body all put together and that's the ninja luminary it's a very nice looking ninja it's one of the best ninjords I've seen it's definitely uh one worth getting so and of course as you can see he doesn't stand up on his own he's not gonna stand up on his own he's got a giant head it's not gonna work out so he's got the second face plate as well uh we'll see a look at that in a second first I'm gonna show you the sword sheath so as I told you before it has a peg hole in the back and basically what you're gonna want to do with this is you're going to want to you're gonna want to use the actual stand itself to plug the peg hole into his back and keep it secured you actually need you need to do that you need to he needs to be on the stand in order to be using in order to be using the sheath of the sword so I'll show you how to do that in a second so yeah so it's it's kind of hard to position a sword like this on his back especially since his head is so big but it does work at a certain angle it's not going to be directly up because his head will be in the way but you can you can get it in there and it'll look fine so as you can see got it in there with the peg hole and obviously you're gonna want to use a stand now so that's how it looks that's how it should look at least so this part of it goes into his back it keeps the sword nice and snug and of course you have a lot of articulation with the stand and we're gonna plug that in to the stand of course and uh no you don't plug it in there you plug in the other side actually because the other side has the holes uh yeah so we plug it into here and you can plug it into any part of the stand you want well there he is so he's standing on his own kind of and he looks very nice look at that sculpt he looks just like a miniature version of the luminaire all the back and all the bell buckles and the straps and everything it just looks so good so I'm just gonna show you a 360 view of him standing up on his own now the thing about his arm is that the arm doesn't have a lot of articulation so you're gonna need to use different kind of arm pieces to make different poses like his arm stretching outwards you're gonna need to get another shoulder piece for that and these things pop out and you can mix and match the arm shoulder and hand pieces so for example this arm I'm holding in my hand is one that you use if his arm is outstretched and holding a sword like like slashing a sword kind of this one that he's already got plugged in that's that's for having his arm downwards this one on the other hand as you can see is has his hand outwards like this so you can hold be holding a sword you know and like I said you can mix and match and them like like this so if you want you know different kinds of combinations like his arm downwards with open hand you can swap the hand or you want a slight bend in the arm you could do that too and we're going to put in his sword of light in his hand and see how that looks so just as soon as I get that in there it looks like you can hold it pretty well it's a it's a good fit it's not to bring arts to bring ours was a little bit rougher with the sword so there's the luminary holding his sword of light and he looks really good with it now this is the luminary with weapon course and like I said there's different ways to pose them but this is just a very basic pose just to show you what it looks like yeah so like I said there's different kinds of arms I'll show you another arm how it looks so I'm gonna pop that shoulder part out and show you a more bent looking arm just as much as I can get that out there okay so this is a bent looking kind of a bent arm with an open hand to hold the sword if you want a different type of pose I can only get in there okay there we go and that's how it looks like so there is what his sword fell out it's fine and you can even put his arm back like this for like a grabbing the sword from his she's kind of pose there's that much variety you have but yeah it is a good looking figure overall and I do like the arms that came with it I appreciate it a lot so you can make a cool pose like this with the wave with the slash see that's how the outstretched arm would look like with his uh his slash coming in front of sword it looks very it's pretty heavy too so uh be careful because this thing I'll add a little bit of weight to your sword in my pop out so the way you put it in is you actually slide the sword into the wave and yeah that's how you do it as you can see there's like a wave for it to be secured and it just slides in and out like that but yeah this is uh it's a little extra I kind of just like him holding the sword so here is another arm that I mixed and matched there as you can see there's different kinds of shoulders and different kinds of arms and different kinds of hands so if I want a different hand I can just pop that out and uh take that closed fist and use that in his arm make an outstretched fist or I can make something else you know you could pop out a lot of different pieces there's always different arms and hands and he even has his luminary symbol on it oh that's uh that's about it really but I want to show you one more thing I want to show you how to swap his faceplate now his faceplate to do that you need to pop out his hair first the front of his hair and then you just get the faceplate out like that it's very easy comes out very easily and the next faceplate goes in just just as easy it doesn't click or anything it just slides right in and then after you get that in you just want to put the hair back on and he looks totally fine looks natural he's got that that smug grin on his face a little bit a little bit of smile yeah it looks good so there it is the luminary nendoroid it looks very good it's a very fun figure to have I'm actually very happy with this I was a little bit cheaper than the bring arts and I think it's overall a better figure to have it's definitely good for dragon quest 11 fans to own I absolutely do recommend this figure it's not you know it's not too crazy the price or anything like that and it has a lot of different accessories and a lot of different different arms different faceplates and even a different leg if you want to try that but yeah it's a good figure don't have any complaints honestly I had some complaints about the bring arts but this one not not so much I think it's it's did a decent job on this one so here he is next to some other luminary figures he's next to the luminary bring arts and the luminary amiibo he's about he's a little bit taller than the amiibo and he's about three quarters of the way up the bring arts figure and he's a lot better than the bring arts if you ask me the bring arts I was a little bit disappointed by because of its high price point and you know the lack of lack of a lot of accessories he only had well like he didn't have any faceplates or anything it was just kind of a very basic action figure for a very high price well the nendoroid is a lot more modestly priced and I think it actually looks a lot better it's more detailed and it just feels higher quality the amiibo is alright too but you know you're getting what you pay for the amiibo is like what 15 bucks it's a decent figure but out of these three I do think that the nendoroid is probably the best and probably the one you should go with if you want to have some sort of riding quest 11 luminary figure the nendoroid is the best of the bunch it just looks so good it looks very iconic and it's just a very cool thing to have in your desk you know but they're all nice but the nendoroid definitely the best so yeah I hope you guys enjoy this little review of the luminary nendoroid figure with all the accessories in the slime it's absolutely a very cool figure I like it a lot I don't think it was a waste of money I think I thought it was very good for the value you're getting and I would definitely recommend this so yeah I hope you guys enjoyed it and I'll see you guys next time