Well, it's a sort of 'base' for Keroro and his pals. It comes in 5 different boxes that all require assembly. Each of the 5 sets turns into it's own mini-base and comes with a little figure (about an inch tall each). The best part is that all of the bases combine to form a big ol' Keroro-bot that is nicely articulated and stands about 12" tall. It takes a hell of a lot of time to put all of the sets together (took me over two hours) but it's really fun to assemble and the finished product is just so cool. I know it looks a little cheap and plain in the pics, and it is a little plain, but it's a quality toy and it's got the weird-factor in spades. If I get the ambition tonight I'll snap some pics of Keroro-bot brawling with some of my other recent acquisitions...
Please do. I love seeing stuff like this that I have never heard of before. I guess I should Google Keroro.
Th... that's... adorable. I awwed. /e puts it on the list of things to buy when he's not in imminent danger of changing jobs and places of residence.
I've been marveling at my SOC Gunbuster for about three and a half hours now, and now I'm finding myself frantically researching other SOC figures. The Ideon is definately piqueing my interest (which I can't really afford to have happen right now ), in particular this little photo: Ideon must be absolutely monstrous to tower over Gunbuster like that.
Gundams models are beast. Eva Revoltechs are beastier. Zoid models are pretty cool, too. I read on my Wii (haha) that Japan is making a robot that has an advanced AI, allowing it to move randomly to music.
I only own a few SOC myself, but they're all well-designed and well-made toys. Each SOC has a few issues, of course - but overall the level of detail, poseability, and playability is simply astounding. I'm so very tempted to buy, for instance, the Military Type Aquarion toy even though I already have the normal one... The Aquarion toys don't hold together well enough in combined mode - they're much better when posed and and left in a position. Their jet modes are also very spit-and-bailing wire. The whole thing seems more like a jumble of parts resembling a certain shape rather than a solid, well-thought-out robot mode. Gunbuster is quite possibly my favorite toy of all time. Unlike Aquarion, he is DEFINITELY a solid piece of engineering. His two pieces could lock together better, but he holds together well enough. The whole design feels like it was built specifically with the three modes in mind, and as a consequence Buster Machines 1 and 2 as well as Gunbuster itself all look SPECTACULAR. It's enough to make you forget that he doesn't actually have any guns... Instead he has two baseball bats, three axes (and a pole to combine two of them into a poleax), a missile attachment for one arm, finger-missile hands for both arms, electric colliders on all four limbs, a shield cape, his plasma core (which he uses to go nuclear with in the show), etc... I mean - the accessories themselves are worth the money. They didn't just include the accessories, they included different forms of the accessories for anything you could want to do with them. Dancougar... Is a close third if only because he has the four smaller robots that function individually... But I hear many mutterings of balance issues, etc...
It's SIC Garren. Comes with Leangle too... Not bad toys, but my experience with SIC is that their armor pieces just tend to fall off on a whim. Great for posing or if you're a collector who doesn't mind using glue, etc... to alter his toys - but not spectacularly well-made toys for the hefty price point. I did just pick up SIC Delta and Kaiza though... Mmm... Kaiza...
Does anyone know much about CM's and their GaoGaiGar figures? In particular, the Genesic GaoGaiGar? The GGG figures have always looked pretty neat to me, and the GGGG (is that the right number of G's ) looks pretty darned neat.
