







15 Years of Calcium! 🥳🎉🎊 ||Calne Ca - 15th Memorial by Union Creative
Picked her up in Japan, and of course only *after* getting back home I looked her up and saw people were having tons of QC issues with her fragility and poor eye paint. While her eyes are a *little* derpy, honestly she's a very nice figure, and even her eyes can be mostly ignored by just slightly angling her (like I did in the photos). She also survived being just checked-in in a duffel bag with some clothes "padding" her since she was too big to fit in my luggage lol, so I personally wouldn't be *super* worried about her breaking in transport.
As for the figure herself, derp eyes aside she's *VERY* pretty. I unfortunately don't have any other Calne Ca figures to compare her to on account of the just *brutal* aftermarket prices for her figs, but I'm very pleased at how this figure captures her. It really captures how her design sort of feels both very frail yet simultaneously extremely imposing at the same time. Her sculpt and paint are both very on point, and while some of the larger mechanical panels are a *tad* plain, imo they balance out very well with her much more detailed body and especially her head. The base also has this really nice high gloss finish to it alongside the gold print commemorating her 15th anniversary, so despite it seeming like just a black slab it still feels pretty nice.
Overall while very pricey, she's both a wonderful piece for the 15th anniversary of Calne Ca and a pretth good figure by herself. The *only* real flaw is the eyeline issue, which tbf I can totally see being a dealbreaker at her price, but as someone who LOVES Calne Ca the options were either that or shell out double for one of the (let's be honest here) much less impressive figures of her instead, so I'm glad I went for this one. Her shelf presence is great, she's (relatively) affordable in comparison to her other figures, and even devoid of context she's just a cool design imo.
Really really stoked I managed to get her, she was definitely the highlight pickup of my trip to Japan 👍