Figure Museum W — Attraction in Seoul

Great experience for any figure/statue collector. There are four floors that correspond roughly to four categories: Star Wars, mecha, marvel/dc comics, and mainstream shounen anime. As others mentioned there are also small areas such as Astro boy and memorabilia on the walls in between floors with rare and sometimes signed cover art and posters. Each floor has a beautiful display of the figures with more than a few rarer collectibles to ogle at. There’s a lot to look at, for example a signed (Harrison Ford) millennium falcon.

As a collector of shoujo anime figures, I was disappointed that there was not a dedicated “cutesy” section. But I know enough about the industry that I can appreciate this collection for what it’s worth. I can see someone breezing through the museum very quickly if they didn’t have any interest in action figures or collectible art (bear bricks come to mind). Or if they thought it would be more interactive for kids. But the title and description is true to what you get. It is a collector’s dream, not a playground or an educational stroll.

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Not too hard to miss as you can see quite a few characters outside. Getting in is a bit harder since the door is atypical and you need to touch the button to get in, almost like a space ship. The entry fee was covered by the Discover Seoul pass. Once inside we went to the top of the building and made our way down the myriad of displays in the building. I quite enjoyed them because they were mostly ones which I recognise and like, including Marvel, DC, Gundam, DBZ and One PIece. I really enjoyed taking my time just looking at all the different figurines on display, particularly the life sized ones like the Hulk Buster. The vault on the top floor was also quite cool since you can check on the screen in front of you for details of the figurines. The only problem was that it got a bit hard to see the ones near the top and edges. After the browsing, you can buy some stuff yourself at the shop by...

My initial impression after the visit was that the owner must have ran out of run at his home for these figures and this is his fancy figures warehouse 😂 Honestly for 15000 won the collections were mediocre for my expectations. There were many limited and numbered figures but overall you can see the taste and preferences. There were many times when I questioned why certain photos, posters, or collection were on display there as they have no meaningful value to visitors. By the way you can finder better deal on entrance fee through 3rd party sites than at the door. Kids and adults are same price and the place is pretty tight. The display windows are not windex cleaned which is...