Went to the Branded Toys Warehouse Sale at Eunos Warehouse Complex yesterday, and my guess was right, it was pretty empty... It was so so so so so so so packed on Wednesday, and a super super super long long queue is needed just to enter the warehouse... Pity the kids who were there, enduring the stuffiness... Anyway, not much good stuff for me, in the end only bought a DX Decade Driver for $25, a DX K-Touch for $18, and a "Fengshui Nodder" that runs on solar power for $5...
This DX Decade Driver is the Asia version, with English words on the box packaging and Japanese words on the 10 cards... I probably will transplant the card reader circuit board into a DX Diend Driver, if I can persuade myself to get one, that is... anyway, still haven't decide yet... The white buckle seems a bit loose when attached to the grey holder, as compared to the Korean version... but still secure enough...
The DX K-Touch is also the Asia version, with the wasteful packaging box... But good thing is it comes with 2 extra Attack Ride cards (see 3rd picture below), considered a bonus... However, the QC is no good, as there are a lot of scratch swivel marks at the left side of the K-Touch... I suspect either the packing staff did a sloppish and careless job and scratches the K-Touch while packing, or maybe the assembly staff is bored and keep it for some time to play before throwing back to the packing line... Anyway, does not really matter... If I really do transplant the DX Decade Driver's card-reading circuit into a DX Diend Driver, I probably will paint this to blue and replace the red LEDs with blue ones...
And this evening I collected the purchase from Taobao.com... First up, the Bandai-China version of DX Drag Visor... Yeap, Bandai-China, not Bandai-Asia... It has a line of the KR Ryuki stuff, though some simplified (eg. KR Ouija's Visor is missing 1 sound after closing with card inserted, I believed...) Bought 2 of this DX Drag Visor - one for my little nephew, the other for me to transplant the card reading circuit into the DX Dark Visor Zwei... Hopefully can work... Each DX Drag Visor cost approximately $28.40...
Even though this is the Bandai-China version, it is still able to read the cards well and pronounce the English words with a Japanese accent... nice... I still find this version better than the KR Dragon Knight version... at least I don't have to press the Dragon's nose to make sounds... Be careful though, there is a simplified version of Drag Visor that makes only 1 sound. The packaging box does not have the word DX, and I think the silver painted parts are changed to silver-chromed... This DX version comes with 5 KR Ryuki Advent cards...
I initially wanted to get a DX Dark Visor, but Taobao has ran out of this, so in the end have to get the Zwei version... or "suay" version... Yes, quite "suay" (unlucky) to get one that appears to be tempered with before, despite the seller advertises as brand new... sigh... anyway, have cleaned the parts with anti-bacterial wipes, and is storing them now in a new zip-lock bag... DX Dark Visor Zwei uses 2 AA batteries, and has no card-reading capability, even though it is the Zwei version... It has lots of sounds though, including sounds when opening (or closing???) the card-cover... The 2 words it will say are "Survive" and "Advent" (or if you prefer, "a-to-ven-to")... This cost about $49.15...
Also bought another KO Zero Ultra Eye, this time the colour-accurate version... But the plastic feels slightly lousier than the wrong-colour version... The sounds is still the cheesy funny version... This costs about $5.95...
Oh, here's the "Fengshui Nodder" I was talking about at the start of this post... On the packaging, the words are in Japanese, only manage to figure out 2 Kanji that spells as fengshui in chinese... and it shakes its head sideways when there is enough light shining on the solar panel in front... very cute... Cost $5... Comes with a small, cute little figurine-key-chain...
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