{"id":3150,"date":"2001-03-05T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2001-03-05T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2001\/03\/05\/images-of-new-japanese-action-figures\/"},"modified":"2001-03-05T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2001-03-05T14:24:00","slug":"images-of-new-japanese-action-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/images-of-new-japanese-action-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of New Japanese Action Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alfrex Co. Ltd. is currently the only toy company in the world producing action figures based on Japanese &#8220;jidaigeki&#8221; (samurai drama) movies.  The 12&#8243; highly detailed figures Alfrex produces are quite expensive at $150 each, but are produced in very limited number and are highly sought after collectables by serious collectors.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.figures.com\/Features\/index.html?show_article=19348&#038;domain=figures.com&#038;dom=fig&#038;domain_id=4\" target=\"_blank\">Figures.com<\/a> has posted a dozen images of currently available and upcoming Alfrex figures including the entire cast of Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s The Seven Samurai, Tomisaburo Wakayama as the Lone Wold Itto Ogami, Sonny Chiba as the ninja Hattori Hanzo, and Toshiro Mifune as a general samurai.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/209.197.117.27\/databases\/action.cgi?setup_file=fignews2.setup&#038;category=actionfigures&#038;topic=73&#038;show_article=50\" target=\"_blank\">Figures.com<\/a> has also posted the first image of a new action figure from Toycom based on the Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface manga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfrex Co. Ltd. is currently the only toy company in the world producing action figures based on Japanese &#8220;jidaigeki&#8221; (samurai drama) movies. The 12&#8243; highly detailed figures Alfrex produces are quite expensive at $150 each, but are produced in very limited number and are highly sought after collectables by serious collectors. Figures.com has posted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}