Today I will have my 25th figure review post and it will center around one of my latest purchased figures, which is called Chris 2009 Santa Version. Chris was manufactured by Beagle, the release date was in December 2009. This figure is sculpted after an illustration from the artworks of Range Murata.

Chris 2009 Santa Version  is scaled 1/7 and her height is about 200 mm. This figure caught my attention before, but her price was too high, as far as I know she normally costs around 100 USD fortunately HobbyLink Japan had her in stock for a great 30% discount some weeks ago.

Together with UJ-14 she is my second figure  from Beagle, they mainly produce figures from Pse Collection, these are figures which have their origin in illustrations of Range Murata.

Overall there were 3 versions of this figure: the original version from 2008, a different color version from 2008 and the version I own. I liked this grey colored clothes a lot so I have no regrets that I wasn’t able to get the red origional version.

Lets take a closer look from the top to the bottom of Chris 2009 Santa Version.

Chris appears like a pretty and cute young girl that likes to deliver packages. On first look it seems like she only could be displayed in the cold season in christmas, but she wears a short cutted outfit, so I think I won’t have to  put her back into the  box because it’s summer.

Hair & Face

The hair has a nice natural looking color tone and looks nicely sculpted as well. Chris has a center part short cut hairstyle, the things which were used 1:1 from the original figure are the red “hairbags” at the sides of her head, I don’t know the word for it, but they look really cute.

The mistletoe leafs and berries at these “hairbags” are sculpted very fine and detailed. In her very cute face are all the elements Range Murata uses when he illustrates younger girls, strong eyesbrows, a round face and big oval eyes and the face of Chris also shows a lot of her forehead because the bangs of her hair are pushed to the outsides. She also has a big and happy open mouth with the upper front teeth line showing up.

Outfit & Body

As you can see she wears a outfit that reminds of the cold season and christmas holidays.

Well a short jacket and a short skirt is not really useful in the cold season, but it shows some more of her skin which let the figure appear a bit more appealing.Her outfit is mainly colored in light grey, but there are darker grey, fur like looking outlines at the edges, all the nicely sculpted crinkles and seam lines give her outfit an quite realistic look.

The pose Chris has is creative and dynamic, it looks like she bravely jumps out of the reeindeer sleigh which hovers in the sky to bring the things inside her sack to the good and less good people in the world, well in my imagination. Because of her pose her pink and white striped panties are clearly visible. I don’t know if it’s just me, but to me it appears not very indecent, in her overall appearance Chris still keeps a very cute, happy and innocent aura.

At her hands she wears cute, white and glossy mittens, with one mitten she holds the rope of the dark grey sack, when looking at it you can see the nicely and clearly sculpted silhouette of the implied boxes inside.

What I really like about her outfit are the high boots, they look awesome with the cool and nice design and a glossy finish, the soles under her boots are showing a fancy design.

The base is a nice, transparent, rectangular cube with some sprayed on snowflakes. Inside this cube is a snow like surface at the bottom with a sad looking snowman on it.

Assembling was very easy; two pegs, two holes *plop* and everything is done .

Some words about the quality of this figure
I can’t really find a thing about this figure I could complain about, the sculpting is done very clean and accurate the same goes for the paintjob, there is no overpainting or parts at this figure where color is missing or shows scratches. Im feeling convinced in saying this, because many figures from Beagle have quite high average ratings on the MFC site.

So at last some final words about my Beagle’s Chris 2009 Santa Version.

I’m very satisfied with the quality and look of this figure, Im really happy that I noticed
the discount campaign at HobbyLink Japan and was able to get her for the cheap price.
The dynamic pose with the legs straight in the air is cute and funny.

Her outfit has some small and nice details, like the crinkles, the colorful parts at her head and the soles of her boots, Chris also has a nice and appealing color mix. The light grey outfit, the pale skin color and the brown hair color are fitting together very well. Additional to that the usage of glossy ,less shiny and matte colortones let the figure appear very livey.

Now to my new preorders, I lately ordered a bit sexier figures,  I think reading Tier’ blog has left some influence on me or its because of the cold season, well this time the figures which caughed my interest and have been ordered by me are a bit sexier than usual. Together with Dwarf I now have 3 Orchid Seed figures on order, I never had a figure from them, so I hope their quality will turn out like the prototypes suggest.

Eleanor Mercer – Orchid Seed

*cough* Oh well would you believe me that I don’t like such big boobs? probably not when Im ordering such a figure. Well her boobs aren’t the reason I’ve ordered this figure of Eleanor. I like her happy face, the blue bright  eyes and the freckles as well =) The curvy waist and her little bit chubby body are also quite nice. The scale is 1/7 and the release date is in February 2011

Hyper Nurse Painkiller Kotone-chan – Hobby Japan /Keumaya

This is a quite expensive one, I dunno why I really ordered her considering the very high price.
I must be crazy or a bit retarded. Nevertheless I like her space saving  pose, her detailed and
flashy outfit as well as the cool equipment like the needle shotgun or the large mecha hand.
She is a non scaled figure around 19 cm in height, her release date is in June 2011.

Super Sonico Bondage Version – Orchid Seed

Yeah I already have Yamato‘s Super Sonico on preorder, but the Bondage Version looks so nice in her hard rock outfit her pose and body are looking really hot and I really like her leather like black/white colored  jacket. She has a cast-off with several variations, so there are many possible ways to display her. She is scaled 1/7 and comes with a black guitar and will be released in April 2011

Chris 2009 Santa Version  – Beagle

She is another figure from the artworks of Range Murata, not really a preorder, because HLJ lately had her in stock for great 30%, I always liked this figure  but her price was to high as far as I know she normally costs around 100 USD. She is scaled 1/7 and will arrive with the speed of SAL shipment =D

I ordered this lovely 1/8 scaled Ringo Renmai Nagi GK as well

unfortunately there never was a PVC figure of Nagi that I really liked, which is quite a shame, since she was an interesting character with a pretty and cool outfit of the Kannagi anime show. I was happy that I was at least able to find this Garage Kit. *lol* I only have to search for someone skilled who will assembly and paint her for me in a satisfying way, because she comes as an unpainted model kit, she is scaled 1/8 a release date isn’t announced so far.

There are some other figures which caught my interest, like Dizzy, Fate-casual clothes, Nanako and Rin, but so far only these 5 more figures I’ve mentioned earlier in this post are added to my preorder list.

A few weeks later I stumbled over a link which lead to a review of the figure UJ-14 at Happysoda.

I wasn’t to sure about getting a figure for myself but after looking at UJ-14 I knew that I wanted this figure. At that time I also didn’t know where to get these figures, so Google was my friend and luckily I found her for a very fair price at an US online store.

UJ-14 is a 1/8 scaled figure manufactured by Beagle, she is made of PVC and ABS, ber release date was in November 2006. Her origin is from the Range Murata‘s illustration book: FORM CODE.
It’s pretty obvious that the design of UJ-14 isn’t anime like at all, you can easily recognize the Range Murata style of this figure.

Hair & Face

UJ-14 has light purple hair with some detailed strands, she wears a white colored headset, with some copper colored antennas like objects at the sides of her head. The almond eyes as well as the nicely sculpted mouth are underlining her some timid and shy, yet cool face expression.

Outfit & Body

The outfit of UJ-14 looks very interesting it’s a smooth looking white body suit, it’s seam lines and folds emits a feeling of softness. She has a detailed backpack which is connected to her headset with the copper colored antennas,these electronical looking parts are very cool, other nice details are the belts and buckles which are holding her backpack in place.

The pose is also very well done it looks natural and shows a silent yet cool body. gesture,which fits perfectly to her face expression. Her left butt cheek is a little bit lifted up by her left boot which adds a little bit natural sexyness to UJ-14 without looking vulgar by any means. The heavy boots of her are also showing detailed highlights at the outside and the sole.

I also like this harmonic colorsetting of her: the skin tone, the light purple hair as well as the black and white of her clothes, everything fits together very well, additional to this the mix of matte and shiny colors is also very well done, while the colors of her body and clothes mainly consists of matte colors, her electronic devices are painted with shiny colors.

All these cleanly painted and very well sculpted details of UJ-14 are really great considering her age and of course the price of this figure, she was more than a fair deal.

In this review I took some of my new and some of my old pictures for the newer pics I wanted to create a some kind industrial setting. I used the bowels of an old transistor radio as background and an aluminium sheet for the ground . Next time I should clean the dust off more properly by using water, before taking the pictures I shortly wiped over the figure but after sighting the pics at the pc there was still some ugly dust left.

Final Words

I am really satisfied with this UJ-14 figure, she resembles the art of Range Murata very well. The pose of UJ-14 is very interesting, with her cool outfit and her facial expression this figure has a quite unique look, Beagle did a really good job with the very good quality of the sculpting and painting. Im happy to have her in my collection.

The review which made me buy this lovely figure is at

Happysoda