Cu-Poche and Nendoroid

I recently decided to buy a Cu-poche. I've wanted one for ages but somehow I've never bought one.
While I was looking online for a Cu-poche, I kept coming across Nendoroids. And I couldn't help noticing that there are more Nendoroids, more places sell them and they tend to be a little cheaper. Which led to the question "Do I get a Cu-poche or a Nendoroid?", and because I have no self control, the obvious answer was BOTH!

If you don't know what Cu-poche or Nendoroids are - they're small, posable, plastic figures with big heads, usually based on characters from anime or video games or movies. They're not overly expensive, usually under fifty dollars, although before we moved, our local EB Games (video game store) had them priced closer to two hundred dollars! They're about ten centimetres (four inches) high and come with accessories, and extra faces and hands that can be interchanged between figures of the same company.

So here's a quick  comparison, with terrible photos, taken on my phone, at night. I actually know absolutely nothing about the characters they're supposed to represent, so don't be surprised if I don't know why they have weird stuff going on.

This is my Nendoroid

My first impression was that she is cute as a button. I seriously fell in love with her straight out of the box! And she came with a whole heap of accessories!

There are weapons that strap to her arms and legs and a radio and planes and some sort of battleships type table thingy. None of the accessories are really my style, but there are a lot!

She also came with extra faces and hands. . . and arms, and legs, and glasses. Nendoroids aren't very posable in themselves. They're jointed at the neck and hips. Posing of the arms and legs requires removing them and replacing them with other parts.  This particular girl has hands that pop off and her arm is made in two pieces - the puffy bit and the lower bit. These attatch with pegs and can swivel at the joint though.

The green thing is a tablet that should be attatched to one of the hands but it came off when I tried to put that hand on her arm.

On her back is a hole for attaching her stand, and for some reason wings on her lower legs.

So what do I think? She's beautiful. I love her face. I love her colouring. Looking at her makes me smile. AND I had to restrain myself from throwing her out the window.
Her arms fall off. All the time. If not at the shoulder, at the elbow joint. If you try to fit her accessories to her, her arms drop off AND break into pieces. Her tiny legs mean she has no hope of standing up on her own. But she doesn't fit on her stand.
Apparently those are common Nendoroid issues. I'm told if I heat her with a hair dryer she'll go on her stand. Except every time I think about her, her bloody arms drop off and then I'm too annoyed to even try to remember if I even own a hair dryer.

Now meet my Cu-poche

I like her tomboyish, almost scruffy, face and hair. It's cute. She did not come with as many accessories.

She has a stand, a backpack in two pieces, and a tank with a leash . . . I'm not even going to try to work out why.

She doesn't have as many severed limbs either.

Just two extra faces and two extra sets of hands. The Cu-poches have jointed limbs, so you don't have to switch out their body parts to pose them - or worry about losing all the extra limbs.

Her base has a magnet in it, and so do her feet, so she can stand on her base without a stand. Actually, she stand pretty well without the base. She also comes with a stand piece that fits in a hole in her back, like the other girl. With the added bonus that it actually fits in the hole in her back!

She's not perfect. One of her foot magnets comes out, which means she stands better without the base. I'm guessing this is a common problem since the instructions show you how to glue the magnet back in. And I can't show you her wearing her backpack, but that's my fault. I dropped the little peg that attatches it to her back and can't find it.

But here's a picture of her walking her tank .  .  . as you do.

And my favourite thing about Cu-poches?

They come with a little baggie to store all the bits in!

So my Nendoroid is clumsy, bits dropping offy, but beautiful with a bunch of accessories. My Cu-poche isn't a pretty and doesn't have as much stuff, but way more fun! Especially now she has friends!

Looking at Alice, and her shoes and headband, I can't help but wonder if Lol Surprise, or Kelly doll stuff will work with these girls. I definitely need to find out!