May Purchase (4 with 3 akan datang) - DX Axcalibur, Super Drill S-3 Switch, Super Sentai & Time Ring Set

Bought these at Fujiya today... It is a shop in Sim Lim Square, and the seller is very nice. I saw these items on their eBay page, and bought them without much hesitation...

DX Axcaibur, the super weapon of Kamen Rider Wizard in his Infinity Form... Bought it at $78... Not sure if it is the lowest in Singapore, but it is definitely lower than that in Taobao... Sigh, cos I had bought one from Taobao, on its way, at about $109... SIGH... Anyway, that Axcalibur I will give to ... KR White Wizard... Hahaha... Yes, think I will go and hunt for 1, when it is brought in, and hopefully for less than $90...


Strange that the ring does not glow when brought near to the sensing area to activate the Axe mode... Anyway, it is quite a heavy and big toy...


Super Drill S-3 Astro Switch... the "DX" version... Cost $10 only, as it is on a special offer price... Sounds are quite fun, especially when you turn the top part of the dril switch 5 times or more, and when inserts into the DX Fourze Driver, it makes a "Su-Su-Su-Super!" sound...


This DX Wizard Ring Super Hero Taisen Z Set is bought on the spot, impulse buy, but no regrets, think the design is quite nice too... Cost $15... Not sure if it works, as the DX Wizard Driver I got for my nephew as his birthday gift is not here yet...



Actually had bought some gashapon KR Kiva Wrist Armour, Mini Belts, etc, and also gashapon Goseiger Real Change Kit,but due to some missing items and return process, will post them once settle down...

Gashapon Cosmic Switch Mod

Made a sound part for my little nephew's gashapon Cosmic Switch... Have not completed yet, still have the final finishing to do... Used 2 sound recording circuits to make the 2 sounds.



Done!... Well, almost... The size still looks ok, not too big, as I earlier had wanted to use 2 boxes to make the body of the sound part...


At 0:26 - my finger is actually pointing to the small (white) switch that is used to activate the henshin sounds.

Gashapon Gaia Memory Mod (II)...

Finished fixing my gashapon Gaia Memories that have a super hard to press button that I cannot use in my DX Lost Driver... And added LEDs to some of them, for fun... Last time I tried with the LED connect directly to the 2 terminals of the speaker, and it did work quite well for LEDs that need low voltage (eg. red, yellow, and maybe green, which is a bit of not so bright...) but not for LEDs of blue, purple, etc. So I tried another way of fixing (see the last picture of this post), and it work pretty well, though I am still not really satisfied with the purple. When making short presses for the different sounds, the LED tends to light up a little longer if connected this way, though the henshin sounds (long press of button) makes no difference...


The Xtreme memory uses a running-light-multicolour LED that has 3 colours (blue, red, green. The green cannot be seen so easily though) inside it...


Nearly forgotten about the Double memory...




This is the connection for low voltage LEDs (eg. yellow, red, maybe green)...


This is the connection for higher voltage LEDs (eg. purple, blue, and once again maybe green)... And if you look at the top left side of the circuit board, you can see 3 sets of copper pads, which are switches to activate the 2 ~ 3 different sounds recorded on the circuit board.  I tried with the Kuuga memory, and gave my little nephew a Kiva memory! So fun...

May Purchase (1), (2) - DX Decade Driver, DX K-Touch, DX Drag Visor, DX Dark Visor Zwei, (Boxed) KO Zero Ultra Eye

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...

Apr Purchase (4) - KO DX Gokai Gun, KO DX Gokai Saber

These two KOs finally arrived! Gotten these 2 from Taobao.com, but before this, my brother had already seen them in Taiwan during his recent trip there... Anyway, these are almost bootleg versions of the real deal, except for the sounds and lights... Not sure about the light, as I have not tested the KO Gokai Saber, but the sounds for the KO Gokai Gun is terrible... "~F~i~r~e! ~F~i~r~e!... Tatata (*machine guns firing*)... Pew pew.... (*laser guns firing*)..." Hilarious and ridiculous, hahahaha.... anyway, will be implanting the sounds and lights using my sound recording PCBs and the multi-light running LED.... Hope they turn out fine... Each of the KO comes with a Gokai-Grey Ranger Key!!!! Amazing... And do not trust the instructions or features, for the lights and sounds, seen on the back of the box, they are so unreal, hahahaha....

KO DX Gokai Gun
Plastic quality is good for a KO! Not like the original one, but definitely good enough. A (medium hard) tap on the red-skull button below will spring out the key-holder, and the Ranger Key can be inserted, just like the original version... just that the sound is ... Cost approx. $17.70...




KO DX Gokai Saber
The blade is made of the rubbery material similar to the original one!!! Not bad!!! Same as the gun counterpart, this KO can also spring out the key-holder, insert and turn the Ranger Key like the original version... The speaker is on the side where the LED light is originally located, weird... Cost approx. $23.75...



Edit: The KO Gokai Saber has only 3 types of sound (cycling over again) when button is pressed: (1) blade slashing sound (2) blades hitting each other sound (3) weird metal hitting each other 3 times "tang-tang-tang" sound... For light, the other side of the transparent skull has a red LED inside it that shines extremely bright when sounds are made...

Apr Purchase (3) - LRS Kamen Rider Ryuki/Knight V-Buckle

It finally arrives from eBay!!!! Hahaha.... Ok, fake excitement, but nevertheless was relieved when I received this package, as the tracking number provided is totally un-trackable... anyway, this is my 2nd time buying this belt, as I had bought it before for my little nephew... Decided to buy this belt as I had thought of getting the super cheap China-dealer version of the DX Dark Visor (which later turned out that all sellers have no actual stock but still list the item on Taobao.com... sigh... in the end had to get the more expensive DX Dark Visor Zwei, which is also the China-dealer version...) to complete the basic KR Knight set... Cost approx. $63.55...




Also have ordered a China-dealer DX Drag Visor for my little nephew, a 2nd one for me to transplant the reader into the just-ordered China-dealer DX Dark Visor Zwei... Hope they arrive soon...

Gashapon Gaia Memory Mod...

The Gashapon Gaia Memories I bought from CSC and a couple from the John Little Expo Sales have overly-tight buttons, and they don't work in my DX Lost Driver or my little nephew's DX Double Driver... After a LONG LONG time of fiddling, testing, and sighing, I finally settle on a laziest (to me, that is) method of "repairing" the memories...


A small white piece of plastic (on the right-side piece) is super-glued to the button-piece as extension to push the contact for activating the sounds... Some minor spaces are "pulled" out using a pair of long-nose pliers, which is so much easier than to cut with a pen-knife...

Some achievements include the Gashapon Eternal Memory which I have given to my little nephew... I also added a yellow 3mm LED (connected to the speaker's terminal at the PCB), which worked well, since yellow LEDs don't need a high voltage to shine optimally as compared to colours like blue, purple... sigh, purple...




Gashapon T2 Joker Memory... This little bugger was the biggest headache... and still is, as I have not been to get a way to get a good light to shine out... Purple, blue LED needs a higher voltage to shine out correctly... sigh... wasted money buying the purple LEDs... tried out MANY MANY methods, including using marker pens to colour on red LEDs, hoping to get a purple, but... sigh... even tried connecting the purple LED to the end of button switch contacts to the -ve of the battery, but still, the total battery voltage of this Gashapon Memory has only 2V which is not enough to support the purple LED... sigh...



Oh, and here is how the LED is to be connected...  Need to hollow the tip areas on both sides to put in the LED, and again, a pair of long-nose pliers is recommended, with a small penknife to do any fine trimming... The wires can run in the track space behind the contact switch PCB... 3mm LEDs are recommended, but I am going to try to put in a 5mm LED which lights up with many running colours into my Gashapon Xtreme Memory (single unit version)...