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Checking Out This Random Kirby I Bought At NYCC

Published Sun, 15 Oct 2017 17:45:17 -0500

Last updated Wed, 01 Nov 2017 02:39:17 -0500

Everywhere you went on the NYCC floor, there was a Kirby plushie to buy. At least for the first few days. As the con winded down, I needed to have one, but they were all gone. So, needing a little Kirby in my life, I decided to get this Pause Big Figure version and try him out in my home as a collectible.

Kirby stands about eight inches tall with a single look on his face of appearing happy. He is a plastic mold that comes with two feet and two hands so that you can pose him in different positions. The thing they don't address is that those options are limited. First off, the hands and feet are held together by magnets inside the figure, so you need to add them to specific areas to get the full effect. What you can't see is that there are only eight magnets: four for the feet and four for the hands.

Depending on what you decide to do, you can pose him in a couple different styles using the magnet system, but the options you have are very limited. What's worse is the shape of the hands and feet leave little for adjustment, so when I tried to make it look like Kirby was running, he flopped apart because there was no way to adjust him to hold the weight of the ball portion of the figure.

Overall, it's nice having Kirby in my home, but I would rather have a plushie at this point. This figure, while cute, doesn't have a lot of options and is basically a $40 poseable figure that you can't pose very well. If you don't care about that, you can find him at your next convention or online through Japanese retailers.