First 4 Figures Reveals Its Okami – Amaterasu: Divine Descent Resin Statue, Pre-Orders Now Live

Looks awesome. And is iuuugeee and expensive af too!

you could buy a whole switch and a couple games with that money! it looks great, but wow!

Capcom won't release games on 32GB cartridges, or collections with the entirety of the package on cartridge, nor will they release the Switch version of Ōkami at retail in the West, but they'll release Ōkami statues to the sum of nearly $700.

Genius.

If I get enough money from my tax returns I'll buy it...yeah, probably not gonna happen.

At night, the statue grows fur like a Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia pet and you can pet it.

Resin models are expensive because they have limited mold life and they are cleaned manually! You cant really mass produce resin kits cheaply

@Silly_G But this isn't Capcom.

Really wish the prices weren't so high, but judging by the footage of F4F stuff I've seen online and a sonic figure I own from them, it makes sense

No. I already got enough crap.

@JasmineDragon : If you want to play pedantics, their logo is right there and they get a cut from every sale.

They’re beautiful but they cost far to much.

I can think of at least 700 things I would rather spend $700 on.

I wish I had more money. This is one I would be interested in. So pretty!!

This thing is 3 times the price of the most expensive anime figure I ever purchased, yet even with the close up pictures here, it doesn't look any more detailed. It's mostly the size - but honestly I consider it being so big to be a negative.

I suspect many collectors, like myself, have limited display space. To buy something like this that is so expensive and so large - Amatarasu would have to be one of your all time favorite characters.

I'm sure someone out there loves Okami that much - or is just that rich that they can afford it regardless. But there's not gonna be many people who even consider it.

I thought maybe 20-30 quid but console price for inanimate plastic?! I mean they are gorgeous and it's a brilliant game but if your buying that, it can only be because moneys no object to you.

Nice and all but I don't think I would ever spend that much money on a figure - even if I was rich.

I'm glad that a couple of years ago, I learned to NOT want these things and just appreciate their beauty and move on. Still have a few of the older ones, like Dark Link and the exclusive Phazon Suit Samus (that I got for like €70 back then, on sale in a game store, and now costs an arm, a leg, your firstborn, and your soul, according to the only ebay seller I can find that has it in store)

@Silly_G It’s actually pretty easy to import it from Japan via Amazon and isn’t anywhere near the markup I’d thought it would be (I have it myself). You can play the game in English via cartridge just as you can via digital.

Although yes, it should have been released internationally as well. It’s a very beloved game.

@readalie : Amazon Japan doesn't ship to Australia, unfortunately, but I have purchased it via Play-Asia. I would have liked to have grabbed the special edition with the soundtrack (if I recall correctly), but it sold out. Ōkami was also released as a budget title, and was considerably cheaper than most games available locally (in Australia), so I had no complaints as far as the price was concerned.

they're telling us next will be an amiibo for ssbu

Honestly, for $535, the face and body sculpting don't really seem detailed or defined enough to warrant that price, just IMO as a layman. As others have said, its large size can actually be a negative. I'm more of an art book collector anyway, so I would much rather have a library of art books than a station of statues.

Ah so resin version of the pvc statues. Ill stick with the two pvcs I ordered. I’m a little annoyed they didn’t announce this first. But it just saves me some money. I love f4f but not enough to essentially buy the same statue twice. Besides the bust of Amaterasu that I have is huge and I have another 5 statues on the way.

@Ulysses it’s more because it’s just an upscale of their pvc versions which sold out super quick. Aside from the material upgrade, larger size and two extra weapons it’s the same mold.

They look great, but so did Tool's latest record and I couldn't afford that either!

@Ryu_Niiyama
Well that must explain it then. Upscaling the model without improving the detailing only brings more attention to it, but that's just my take.

@Ryu_Niiyama What material are these exactly that makes them an upgrade? Resin is a fancy 1970's way of saying "plastic." All plastics are resins. PVC is polyvinyl chloride resin. Just calling it resin is oddly nonspecific of them for being such a selling feature....what resin specifically?

@NEStalgia aww don’t do this to me. Nerd sense activate!

Resin is usually referring to Polystone resin which is a synthetic resin compound as opposed to just synthetic resin.

Synthetic resin is used more in hobby kits than statues and is smooth like pvc but usually has to be primed to take paint well. That being said it can be sanded without becoming very brittle so it is a great cheap material for hobby kits due to the diy nature of building the kits. And it is usually denser than pvc statues (obviously you can make pvc dense such as with pipes but a figure company isn’t trying to do that.) I used to be big into hobby kits growing up. Likely part of the reason I like statues so much.

Anyway Polystone resin (which is what f4f uses) is more brittle than resin and pvc but it mimics stone or porcelain depending on the stone additives (and cuts cleaner which allows for more detailed products) takes paint well, and it tends to be heavier than pvc at less density. So you get a polyurethane (resin component), aluminum hydrate and stone mix/material that mimics higher quality material for a fraction of the cost and is easy to mold and mass produce (relatively speaking. They aren’t spitting these out forever. ). So you get the elitist connotation of a marble/stone/porcelain statue at a fraction of the cost for both producer and buyer. They are still expensive of course but way less that what some wealthy person pays for more expensive materials. That being said we use artificial stone all the time for architecture and construction to make statues and the like.

Pvc in the strictest sense is a vinyl compound. Its polymerization process is different than say epoxy resin (disclaimer: my background is astrophysics not chemistry so I’m sure a chemist can correct me if needed. Astronomers/astrophysicists throw out the majority of the periodic table anyway.). It is softer (which can be altered for making pipes and the like) and requires no primer for painting. However, it looks and feels like plastic (since it is) and doesn’t make clean cuts (for details) so it is good for small figures and cheaper statues. But not as a main show piece.

Since f4f marketed this statue as the resin version of the pvc models (which I bought two of them) for me it’s not worth the increase in size and price since the model is similar.

Edit. My phone died twice while typing this so there may be typos. Really hate the software killswitch apple puts on battery life. Marketing wise most companies say polystone or resin. Their consumers tend to know generally the material used for statues hence the minimal information.

@Ryu_Niiyama Seems like one of those "industry lingo for the statue business" applications of a generic word that means something specific to the given audience then. Heck I have furniture from the 80's that was sold as "resin" - it was PVC of the same grade you'd use for industrial plumbing. Stuff is amazing - it's been outdoors for 30+ years and is STILL going strong with only a few cracked pieces due to stress fatigue (for decades) and one from being slammed in a hurricane with an umbrella pole in it.... Can't buy stuff like that anymore. Instead you get Chinese steel with the rust-spots pre-formed.

The meaning of "resin" seems to change by era and industry which is why I hate terms like that

@NEStalgia well, yeah but that's just marketing in general. Generic umbrella terms are the way to go. While somewhere a chemist is running in circles screaming. Remember, consumers are dumb and don't research. Most people will go "ohh a statue!" and that is the extent of their research. They will decide if the price, and subject are worth the investment and keep it moving.

@Ryu_Niiyama We keep being told that people are the most educated they've ever been. Work is more demanding than ever. 8 year olds read Kant and solve calculus as a 3rd grade graduation requirements...

How is it these same people can't figure out that "new and improved" means "cheaper and smaller" and that the blanket word "resin" has no meaning?" They can all solve quantum physics but can't tie their shoe laces. It's an entire society of Rain Men.

@NEStalgia we are also conditioned by marketing. It took me years to realize that half the reason I tend to be out of step with group think is that I haven't watched an american commercial (aside from the one off ) since 2001. Do we have access to more information than ever? Certainty, however we are also members of a society that imo is not trained to VALUE that information. We place our faith in authority figures who then tell us what information is the "right" information for us to consume. and our culture is propped up by ads that tell us what it means to be every aspect of our human identities. Even the folks that think they are rebels or going against the "normies" are just following another smaller herd somewhere else. (most people don't even fit in their herds half the time anyway. I think the LGBWTFBBQ has gone off the deep end, however I'm a homosexual so I'm expected to think everything they say is great even when it is harmful to me.) Which I personally feel is part of the reason for our backsliding as a culture (imo of course) because we have gotten to the point of willful ignorance due in part to stimulation overload (not really information as we have to fight more marketing/religious/political indoctrination than we do actually reflecting and growing our individual moral and intellectual stances and using that growth to contribute to the whole) and value dissonance.

However when society is designed that way its hard for people to break free of it. I'm not excusing the stupid or the ignorant or the cruel, I just see some of the hand that guides them (and us all really, no matter how smart you think you are you can't escape some of this mess we call society).

Also, work is more demanding but productivity is going down because our work regime overlords don't adapt (workplaces find more ways to cheat you and less ways to help you have a work life balance and decent wages). And on one hand the pursuit of knowledge is often a thankless, expensive journey (thanks student loan debt/continuing education) so many don't see the point.

@Ryu_Niiyama A very good observation I can relate well to! I to watch TV pretty much at Christmastime and Olympic years, and that's the full extent of it. It feels so alien when I see it all. And as you said, it's always a wakeup to me as to "so THIS is where the groupthink of that came from!"

Good point about the value of information as well. I'm convinced rural farmers in 1930 valued information more than the information age jumble society of today. Though I will not ever understand that faith in "authority figures" and following a herd of any size. Simply by instinct that never applied to me. I can't comprehend a mentality where it does. I trust basically nothing, ever, unless I personally verify it myself.

"LGBWTFBBQ" ROFL! Sigh that probably sums it up better than any paragraph that can be written!

We've joked at times in another thread among us about overpopulation and #meatandgreat (if you missed the memo, it was my solution I invented to solve the worlds problems. If the hipster anti-everything green everything, eliminate meat crowd wants to also solve the world problems starting with overpopulation, eating each other is the obvious and most green answer! ) But it's true. As long as each person is almost entirely irrelevant, reflecting and growing moral and intellectual stances will remain not only out of reach, but technically self-defeating. People like you and I are at a disadvantage in such a world as a result of doing so.

Though I wouldn't couple pursuit of knowledge with "continuing education(TM)" and it's easy payment plans. Selling enlightenment for exorbitant fees is yet another one of those society messes. Training in a particular discipline with access to equipment and people experienced in it may cost money. Knowledge, enlightenment, and critical thought surely don't need them, their fees, their facilities, nor their authority figure dispensers of truth. No matter how much the the marketeers tell us so. Simple folk 50 years ago may not have known much about polymerization or pancreatic fluids, but they actually understood the world around them and the people's relationship to each other within it. Which is more than I can say for the people of today. Especially the ones that bought $300k worth of enlightenment from a name brand dealer.....

No, the lack of persuit of knowledge has little to do with costs and access to "education" - but simply the lack of value of non-profit-generating knowledge. Put simply: It has absolutely no value at all in our society. It costs, at minimum, time, and nets nothing in return which inherently works against ones interests.

Fixing that, however, is another problem. I still believe in #meatandgreet.

@NEStalgia Heh. Considering I'm still chasing my dream of being a professional Astrophysicist, I agree that the institution of Education (big E!) is not the only source of growth (I'm well aware how cutthroat academia and even how full of sell outs it is)... however I stand by my belief that it is still the best location for resources and if not like minded on the same subject at least mostly like minded in the pursuit of knowledge. You just have to keep your wits about you. That being said financial shackles are still a big reason for contributing to both apathy towards education and the lack of it. Redlining ensured that many predominantly minority (including poor whites in this as well) attended public schools are under funded (I had my brother's history text book in highschool...he is a decade older than me and the book wasn't new when HE got it), teachers are under paid and quite frankly our summer vacation structure hurts more than it helps. And for kids with learning issues? That just makes it worse. People like to pretend that colleges are handing out free rides left and right, but that really isn't the case. And to make matters worse the structure for funding for a higher education is deliberately made confusing so that it is more predatory.

Also, there other ways that continuing education still take a financial chunk aside from the traditional "sell your kidney for a diploma" route. I spend about 30 percent of my income on certs, materials for certs, GRE testing, tax classes and the like. Some information/acknowledgement you have to pay for. Granted, the time expense if far greater but still I'd love to get my money back (no I can't write it off on my taxes).

Also as a minority, I firmly believe that knowledge is my best means of survival and way to combat the extremely toxic group think in America, as I can't depend on the social/economic/moral web of society to treat me fairly. (heck at this point unless you are wealthy and white at the same time I don't really think anybody is getting treated fairly...it is just minorities get kicked further down the road.)

The other thing is that people don't want to know the truth. Why do most Americans not know anything about American history (and why do they get incensed when you tell them the bad parts)? In part because it isn't taught but the other part is people don't want to know. Nobody wants to take responsibility in order to do better.

I'm going to stay out of the overpopulation argument. I have a low opinion of humanity and I tend to be very callous if I discuss it. I will say we are overdue for a plague or two. One that is virulent enough that being wealthy isn't an automatic survival card.

Yeah I have an issue when a lot of people that have only a very loose commonality try to band together...it never works out and usually the original vision gets tossed out. IMO it is ok to go, here is MY cause, and I am looking after MY cause and not the whole world ( in the end if done correctly it prompts cascading social change anyway). It is not the job of one group to do the social and emotional labor to get another group accepted in society. Some things do overlap because "humans", sure but when you are talking about putting legal protections and making legal definitions, soups don't work. I personally feel that the alphabet should have broken up after marriage was legalized and pursued individual interests. For one the new wave gender political lobbying machine has hijacked the narrative and skewed it beyond anything but what supports their views but the thing is a lot of their rhetoric is more comfortable to heteros so speaking out means you have to fight the folks that are supposedly your community and then heteros get to dig in while feeling progressive. I'm a simple woman. I just want to meet a nice fellow female (so in other words same body parts) of similar age with some overlapping moral viewpoints that I also find physically attractive and get married. Half of that list will get me cussed out now in some circles. sigh

I come from a rural working middle class family so education has always been extremely important as well as critical thinking for my folks. I do think that rural communities have the potential to put more emphasis in education and knowledge (even if just for the next generation) but they aren't perfect with that either. Some people are just "hicks" and and proud of it.

I do disagree with the "simple wisdom" argument though. I think that only works with rose tinted glasses and usually a pair that ignores all the various "isims" of the world (and they do exist). I feel humanity as a whole has maintained a baseline after a fashion (with rises and dips of course) but because we don't have anything to spearhead unity (authority that is actually good and intelligent, scientific progress that catches the public mindshare, ....sadly, because people are monsters... a war or tragedy) and progress. Humanity's default is to tear each other down and much of that comes from willful ignorance. We either don't want to know, don't want OTHERS to know, or don't think it is worth it to go learn so we give up and let others tell us what to do.

@Ryu_Niiyama I'm still getting back to this. I have a terrible habit of starting interesting conversations then not having enough time to reply to them....I owe like 3 people some research and continued conversation already! I end up contemplating replies in my head and never writing them...so...I haven't abandoned it - yet!

Though I'll chime in that, no matter how callous you are on overpopulation you'll never be as callous as me. I'm the inventor of #meatandgreet after all! More specifically I am of the opinion that "world peace" is the most sinister and destructive action ever perpetrated against humanity - allowing the misery of overbreeding which simply makes inevitable a collapse and destruction that makes WWI & II look like dress rehearsals. Wars, like plagues, are like over-pressure valves in contained and organized fashion. We plugged it up so it wouldn't vent today, ensuring it explodes tomorrow.

The rest, I can write too many text walls, agreeing and disagreeing in various parts, and simply haven't the time today! Hopefully I won't add this to the stack of incomplete conversations forever!

Lovely, but to expensive.