Yeesh, there was a time I was afraid of paint, but I dread something like this *yet I've spent over a month painting gold and silver pistons on a ZOID. You can tell by the proportions of GridKnight this was made for the specific purpose of GATTAII!
Jumped in on the line with Baldios and the Ganbaruger and Raijin-Oh guys. Do these Webdiver guys also transform? I'm confused by the BBTS listings which say Gladion transforms, but Dark Gladion doesn't. The Dynazenon stuff looks pretty fun too.
keep forgetting to share this: Fafner in the Azure THE BEYOND MODEROID Fafner Mark Nicht Price: 9,000 JPY (Taxes Included) Release Date: Aug 2022
Got my Gradion in. Haven't built any of it yet, but flipping through the instructions, it looks like it might actually be perfect transformation, which I'm quite surprised and happy with. I didn't see any steps in the transformation manual showing removable/swappable parts. Sweet, Godannar. Finally, some new merch for that underrated mech. Hopefully with a Neo-Okusaer planned to go with it. And I wonder if this is finally going to be the time for Full-Powered Gridman to shine. Every single one of his previous toys has been unstable in some form. This version might need a bit more parts-swapping, like Dynazenon did, but it looks to be the most dynamically poseable version yet. Also very nice to see that Webdiver is continuing, with Wyverion. That was always a neat design that was practically impossible to obtain on the secondary market. Curious to see the level of articulation they've managed to work into Big O. I have the special coating version of the SoC, which is pretty sweet, but it's also a dated figure and quite stiff. Big problem is, Big O's design is also quite monolithic, without a lot of cuts where they could feasibly add more articulation without breaking his aesthetics. The biggest thing missing from the SoC is some form of butterfly joint so he can bring his arms together into the proper guarding pose from the anime, but he doesn't really have visible breaks in the chest to allow for that. Gravion is another design I'm somewhat curious about, but not enough to have forked over the big bucks for the Sen-Ti-Nel figure. The Moderoid should be able to fill that gap nicely.
GODANNAR! YES! About time someone touched that one! OVA Zeoyrmer was a long time coming too. Really interested in their take on SSSS Gridman that will be different from their GridKnight, but I really want to see someone (BANDAI! FIGURE-RISE NOW!!!) the original Gridman.
Why do I picture the Anakin x Padme meme with the text: "Kotobukiya is making more models too." "Kits other than Megami Device and Hexa Gear, right?"
I suspect that there won't be much "Gridman" in that FP Gridman, which i'm honestly glad for. If nothing else, this will be the first FP Gridman that actually has knees.
It's the full set with the assist weapons for the various configurations. Whether it will be sold together is still unknown but I would assume it will be the complete set since the Powered Zenon is not all that good of a toy/configuration to be able to justify it being sold separately.
The Super Minipla version has knee articulation. It's also the worst looking version of FP Gridman, IMO. Really chunky and stumpy. And it still has problems actually keeping the legs on.
I meant more that Gridman will be mostly partsformed out of the combination. It's easy enough to tell from the promo photos that FP Gridman has his own dedicated hip and what even looks to be waist assembly. It wouldn't surprise me if Gridman is reduced to an upper torso and a couple dedicated "stumps" to plug the FP arms into for the sake of a more stable and more importantly, more dynamic combination mode.
Trying to retain Gridman's hips is the biggest core problem with all the previous Full-Powered releases.
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