rico soul: So now that both the Point Factory and TieChuang Exia frames have come out, I want comparison the two. In short, you can't go wrong with either one but for me, TieChuang wins out slightly as more of a re-engineered frame for the regular MG Exia, whereas Point Factory is more faithful to the original frame and so is more compatible with different kits and may offer slightly better value since the initial run includes the HGGTO RX-78-2 alloy frame as a free gift.

Ankle and Waist Joints:
- Point Factory takes the original Bandai frame and strengthens the joints by using tight POM parts to replace the original polycaps. It does not however, redesign the joints, so the double ball jointed ankle is still there. The improved frame stability is purely from better materials.
- TieChuang redesigned the waist and ankle to use peg joints rather than ball joints. With the outer armor on, the articulation is pretty much unaffected but the new joint design is just simpler and sturdier. However, the new design makes it not compatible with the original rear calf armor so new pieces are included in 3x colors for white, trans am, and astrea red.
- Conclusion: I believe TieChuang's change is better, but both are vastly improved over the original Bandai frame.

LED unit
- PF: The included magnetic switch LED light has an extra wire that will need to pass through the pre-drilled neck ball joint to light up the head. The LED light has several spinning patterns for the GN Drive.
- TC: Also a magnetic switch LED with similar flashing modes for the GN Drive. Head lighting is achieved by a light piping neck piece but effect is weak. However, since there's no wiring, it's a simpler installation with no risk of snapping the wirings when rotating the head too much.
- Conclusion: I slightly favor the point factory design. It's brighter lighting for the head and the neck is also alloy.

Aesthetics:
- PF: The design here treats many of the completely exposed frame parts as grey outer armor and uses POM parts rather than metal parts. So this means the part of the frame that sticks out of the knee armor, and the lower portion of the torso.
- TC: The torso is pretty much completely opposite of Point Factory where the exposed part is metal and the hidden parts are POM. The exposed knee armor part is metal. The back of the knee deviates from Bandai's design and has a visible POM part sandwiched between two meta parts rather than only the two metal parts snapping together.
- Conclusion: Personal preference but I prefer the TieChuang look. I like seeing more of the metal show through and the redesigned knee looks more symmetrical even though the POM part isn't necessarily prettier.

Other:
- PF: The knee and hit joints use a ratcheting mechanism. Total weight with everything is about 230g. The thigh frame is still only a partial frame like the origing so it is still compatible with all original armor pieces. The polycap inside the thigh was replaced with a whole block of POM. There are more screws use in the PF frame to keep things nice and secure.
- TC: No racheting mechanisms so the joints are more just regular feeling joints. Total weight is about 235g. The upper thigh frame is redesigned to be a complete frame which looks nice as a bare frame but doesn't really change anything when fully assembled. However, it means it requires new thigh armor which is included in 3x colors for white, trans am, and astrea red.

Overall:
- PF: This package offers greater value because of the extra gifted HGGTO frame. Because there are no frame connection changes, there are no replacement armor pieces needed so it's fully compatible with any color exia or compatible model kit.
- TC: The TieChuang frame is imo better as a pure re-engineered Exia frame. However, the LED performance is weaker, and while the modified ankles and thighs are great, requiring to use one of the 3x provided colors for replacement armor may make things less color compatible with kits like the Dark Matter or special color or clear Exia kits.

So yeah, can't go wrong with either one and it comes down to personal preference and needs. Hell, go ahead and buy both if you have multiple Exia frames you need to fix.

rico soul: This KitzConcept Rathalos is pretty much double the size of the SH art's figure. (and double the price too lol) but it loks to be very nicely sculpted and the articulation joints aren't too obvious so it looks nice and organic while still being somewhat posable. Should be a great figure for MH fans.

I think it's supposed to come with a LED light for the mouth as well to emulate the fire breath.

rico soul: The EW Powered Red gorilla arms is actually a really nice copy of the Bandai verison. The three kits are the same, just different colors for the Noir, Blue and Red frames.

One problem though, the included waterslides are Red Frame HIRM water slides. So it doesn't really work for Noir or Blue. This makes sense since the Powered Red gorilla arms are for the red frame.

Still, it's worth noting since aesthetically, red frame decals don't really match blue frame or astray noir.

Also, there's no katana included so if you don't have a red frame astray, you'd have to figure out some way to buy some katanas for it if you wanted the for your noir or blue frame.

rico soul: For what it's worth, here's a photo I found showing the size of the FAZZ box next to the AoBing and CaoRen, and a cat for scale.

rico soul: I have the bandai jesta cannon but since that is premium bandai kit, it's not really available to everyone. This is one of the best grunt suit model kits from gundam and really everyone should get a chance at building one.

So the Daban is a solid option. I'm not a fan of the clear plastic since with bootlegs, they're usually very cloudy and clear plastics are more brittle than normal plastic to begin with. However, this is still a solid package.

The Jesta cannon kit includes all the parts to build the regular Jesta as well so you get a lot of customization options in the kit. My buddy has this Daban and is fairly satisfied with it. It's a fairly good bootleg, though some of the outer armor is a bit loose.

rico soul: Finally, we get the Exia Repair 4 add-on to complete the set. A must buy for any 00 fans.
Early review pictures from China looks pretty good.

rico soul: seems to be a solid kit but a metal frame kit feels a bit unnecessary for the RG hi-nu. Also, would have liked to see the calves also be metal

rico soul: updated promo photos from Cang Dao. Looking pretty badass.
The energy shields are clear effect parts as expected

rico soul: Another Expo, and we get more display pictures.

Looks he gets some kind of fold out arm blade. It's colorless clear for now on the prototype but I'm assuming it'll be some clear color in the final product. Pretty interesting melee weapon design. I always liked folding arm swords like Exia's GN Sword.

Also released are the line art we saw in the background from the last display. We can get a little better idea of how the robo dog backpack mode might work.

rico soul: A pictures of the robo dog from a different angle at another expo.
You can really see a lot of the molded detail on this one and get a better look that that back handle.

I'll also attach the line art they released for the tastier that gives us a better view of what the robo dog backpack mode might look like.