When people discovered the blind packaged Boosters in TakaraTomy's Beast Saga line would consist of translucent figures, a lot of fans weren't happy. I think part of the reason is there wasn't any solid information solicited about the Boosters and some people bought a case...only to end up with a lot of duplicates and (in some cases) figures they just didn't care about.
I was on the fence. If I'm going to drop $6-8 on a single figure I'd rather have a new unique character...at least that's what I thought. Once I had Moriku in my hands I fell in love with that little bat. I knew I wanted his Booster figure. I sought one out for just about the same price I paid for the regular figure. Then I stumbled across two others from the same seller.
Thankfully I wasn't thrilled by all of the Beast Saga figures. Some of them I just decided to skip over all together. Dorufan & Bamed were two of those. However the same guy that had Moriku had them and I got them for super cheap.
In hindsight I'm glad I got 'em. The Booster versions of each look so much better in my opinion than their regular painted counterparts. Both animals seem so passive to be in a series called Beast Saga so who knew a armored parakeet would be so cool?!
I do have one small complaint about Dorufan - his weapons. His shield is a new piece which is OK, but his sword - the plastic is so soft that it is horribly warped. I'll have to try some boiling water or the hair dryer trick and see if I can resolve this problem. Bamed comes with a new shield as well, but re-uses the lance type weapon that Eredoramu came with.
All of these figures look stellar with a proper light source is shown through the figure. I doubt I'll seek many other Booster figures out because let's face it - both money and display space are at a premium these days! However if you want to roll the dice (figuratively) and take a chance they aren't that bad looking.
