What makes it different
Most character clocks just sit there. This one goes off.
Nobody oversleeps twice
Three weeks in and I still look forward to the alarm going off, which is not a sentence I expected to write. The vapour catches the light before your eyes are properly open and it genuinely startles you awake. My old phone alarm never stood a chance.
I bought this expecting a gimmick and got something I'd happily keep on the shelf with the alarm switched off entirely. The paintwork on the robes holds up under close inspection, which is more than I can say for most licensed figures at this size.
Everything works exactly as advertised. The only thing I'd change is the reservoir — it wants topping up more often than I'd like if you use the mist daily. Easy enough to run the light on its own, and that alone still gets me out of bed.
Got it for my brother's birthday and had to sit through a video of him demonstrating it to everyone who visited that week. Ended up ordering the other two so he'd stop asking. Packaging is nice enough that I didn't bother wrapping it.
Solid build, and the tap-to-stop works from any angle even half asleep, which matters more than I thought it would. Sound is a touch quiet at the lower settings if you're a heavy sleeper, so I run it at four out of five.
My flatmate came into my room at seven in the morning purely to see what the noise was, and left having ordered one. It photographs far better in person than the listing suggests, especially with the room lights off.