Kit Review

Straight build + Stickers

Size comparison with a cigarette pack.

Figurerise Mechanics Doraemon - The color separation is impressively done all the way down to the eyes and whiskers, but the

The color separation is impressively done all the way down to the eyes and whiskers, but the orange tongue is handled with a sticker.
If they were going to go that far, it's a bit of a shame they didn't just separate the tongue as a part too.

Outer armor removed

Internal frame.

The blue outer shell can be swapped out for clear parts.

Figurerise Mechanics Doraemon - With the clear outer shell on to show off the internal mechanics. (1/3)

With the clear outer shell on to show off the internal mechanics.

Figurerise Mechanics Doraemon - It's Doraemon, so of course there's the magic pocket! There is a gimmick where the pocket ope

It's Doraemon, so of course there's the magic pocket!
There is a gimmick where the pocket opens slightly forward, but it barely opens at all.

Figurerise Mechanics Doraemon - The feet may look fixed in place, but there's actually an extending joint gimmick hidden insi

The feet may look fixed in place, but there's actually an extending joint gimmick hidden inside.

Figurerise Mechanics Doraemon - Outside of the neck and arms rotating, there aren't really any other points of articulation,

Outside of the neck and arms rotating, there aren't really any other points of articulation, so there aren't many poses you can pull off.

Remove the back piece of the neck collar and you'll find a hole for a display stand.

Mounted on Action Base 2.

Optional parts are included to swap out the arms and legs...

Figurerise Mechanics Doraemon - Using these, you can recreate a seated pose like shown above — used when sitting Doraemon in

Using these, you can recreate a seated pose like shown above,
and it's used when sitting Doraemon in the time machine kit.

Together with the Figure-rise Mechanic Frieza Small Pod.

The Doraemon series has been added to the Figure-rise Mechanics lineup, which turns mecha from anime into plastic model kits. This particular kit is the main character Doraemon himself, and it does a great job of bringing the Doraemon character to life in three dimensions at a nice size.

First off, the color separation is clean from the eyes all the way up to the eyebrows, so even a straight build captures the colors of the original well. The only exception is the round orange tongue, which is handled with a sticker — it feels a little out of place, and it would've been nice if that part had been color-separated too.

As you can probably tell just from looking at the shape, the only articulation is rotation at the neck and arms, though there is an extending joint gimmick hidden inside the feet. That does limit the poses you can pull off, but the character likeness is so spot-on — like Doraemon just jumped straight out of the anime — that it's easy to forgive.

Doraemon is originally a robot sent from the future to the past, and the highlight of this kit is that it actually recreates a mechanical inner frame worthy of that robot. The frame turned out more detailed and three-dimensional than I expected, and clear outer shell parts are included so you can really show it off — it's genuinely fun to play around with.

The optional parts also include arm and leg pieces for a seated pose, which are meant to be used when sitting Doraemon in the separately released time machine kit. There's also a gimmick where Doraemon's signature pocket opens slightly, though the opening is really quite narrow. On top of that, you can remove the back neck piece and mount it on a display stand — though the attachment point being the back of the neck makes it look a little pitiful somehow...

Doraemon is a well-known character here in Korea too, and since it's never been made into a plastic model kit of this quality before, this is a genuinely exciting release in many ways. I'm from an older generation, so I remember it fondly under the name "Dongzzamong," but either way, this is a clean, high-quality plastic model that I'd highly recommend to anyone with fond memories of Doraemon. :-)

Figurerise Mechanics Doraemon | 2017. 11 | ¥2,800

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.