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IN ERA+ Vanguard Model Kit Reissue [Comment]

Apr 05, 2023

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rico soul: IN ERA+ choose April 1st to release more photos but this does all look legit.
I've rescaled and combined some ones I picked out here. I'm sure Gundamit will have it all up when they have a chance.

It seems like the English name has been re-translated to Trailblazer instead of Vanguard but it's still the same Chinese name.

This is apparently a different product line than the Ruling or Genesis. IN ERA+ is calling it [UMD -- Ultimate Minutia Design] and this will be the first product. The idea of this line is that it will reduce and simplify internal frame parts and instead put most of the focus on outer details. So it's going to be kind of like Bandai's Full Mechanics line probably.

This should mean there's no metal inner frame like the Ruling and the price tag will likely be lower. No price or additional details has been released at this time. But it seems likely they will release more info very soon

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Pazuzu23: I Hope no .....i Hope that It Will have the metal frame ...i really like motor nuclear kit and Ruling kit, in a big way for the metal frame....

By Apr 05,2023 06:59:43

rico soul: While I also really like good metal frames for the more action figure like playability, I'm still excited to see where IN ERA goes with this UMD line. A focus on having a simpler and more efficient build experience while maintaining the same level of surface detail and articulation does sound like an interesting idea. The current fad in China is to have metal frame kits so it's kind of refreshing to see IN ERA try to explore the third party market with a different approach. We will have lots of other metal frame kit options coming out later this year from other manufacturers anyways. And yes we can more or less confirm from both the announcements and the released photos that the Trailblazer is not using the same metal frame from the Ruling. You can see the joints are not from a prebuild metal frame.

CangDao Model 1/100 CD-TG01 Tianwei [Comment]

Apr 07, 2023

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rico soul: Ok so we finally get to see the prototype of this Tianwei figure with pictures from the 2023 Shenzhen Toy Fair and this is looking sick. A TG02 was also showed off for presumably the next figure in this affordable line.

At least from these model pictures, this still looks to maintain the high quality details from CangDao depite the affordable MSRP. Getting more excited to see what the final price will be here.

[Pre-Order] Yolopark/SOSKILL Transformers: Dark of The Moon Optimus Prime Model Kit [Comment]

Apr 07, 2023

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rico soul: Pretty exciting to see more model kits from Yolopark with their extreme level of mechanical detail. I do have to say that the Dark of the Moon and Last Knight versions of Optimus are not my favorite designs to begin with.

However, I'm excited to see just how Yolopark will reproduce the mechanical pistons and movement given how amazing their previous Bumblebee Optimus and Soundwave were. I might still get one of these just to admire the model kit design.

Yolopark also announced that they will be making a Optimus Primal model kit from the latest Rise of Beasts movie and I can't wait to see that one.

Zao Workshop Saint Armor Redeem Model Kit [Comment]

Apr 11, 2023

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rico soul: Looks like gundamit posted all of the photos except the Chinese price and release date one lol.
This is probably this models biggest selling point right now is the $159RMB price tag, Q2 2023 release.
It's a pretty crazy low price. Looks like the competition is really heating up for these I-can't-believe-it's-not-gundam model kits.

This one was just announced and these photos are still just renders so we will need to wait a bit to see more.

- It is a full plastic inner frame.
- the flame effect parts are included
- includes waterslide decals and a display base
- Nothing was said about whether there will be an premium version with a metal frame but it's probably unlikely.

I'm not a fan of the the flame effect parts on the backpack but I do really like the Titans colors. Overall, while the head is certainly Destiny Gundam, the mechanical design of this seems a bit less inspired by Gundam SEED.

While it's a different manufacturer, I do think the color and stylings makes for a nice contrast to pair up with the other recently revealed vientiane Apocalypse. I'm also going to call this Redemption since that should be what they meant to translate the name as lol

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Drurox: That price appears to be very low for a kit like this, are you sure?

By Apr 11,2023 05:38:46

rico soul: Yeah it's definitely a competitive price but remember 159RMB is the chinese retail price. That will be higher for international distribution after shipping and logistics. For comparison, the Motor Nuclear AoBing is 199RMB but with a massive box, and the Hemoxian Thor is 188RMB. This kit if everything translates will likely be somewhere around $50 USD.

Lucifer 1/6 LXF2310B The Wings of Salvation Healing Armour Heavy Armor Raphael [Comment]

Apr 14, 2023

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rico soul: Man if lucifer actually looked like this lol, hell doesn't seem too bad.

[Pre-Order] Toys Era 1/6 PE017 Final Fantasy VII Aerith Gainsborough [Comment]

Apr 14, 2023

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rico soul: Lol I still remember when Japan freaked out about how Aerith's face looked in FF7 remake. I wonder what they thing of this one.....

Flash Model 1/100 MG ZGMF-1000/A1 Gunner Zaku Warrior Lunamaria Hawke Custom Model Kit [Comment]

Apr 17, 2023

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rico soul: I'm kind of thinking that this should have been at a lower price point than the blue slash zaku warrior that gundamit listed. The Bandai lunamaria gunner zaku warrior is a standarad release and relatively easy to find, plus it's cheaper than the premium bandai variations to begin with.

It's a solid kit originally and this bootleg sounds like it should be solid but there's just not a huge price or availability incentive to go with this over the normal bandai release.

Animester Designer Toys Topupu-Robot [Comment]

Apr 18, 2023

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rico soul: Animester is really cranking out these product announcements.

Apart from the Gundam Astray designer collaboration for their mecha release, this is probably the most notable product since it is another collaboration with an well know artist. This time, it is a collaboration with CrazyJN, an artist from Shanghai.

This sort of cutsey design is really the signature of CrazyJN so this is a neat little product with alloy joints and whatnot. Hopefully the price will be appealing as well.

Zao Workshop Saint Armor Redeem Model Kit [Comment]

Apr 23, 2023

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rico soul: Here's a couple more pictures that are missing from this listing.

Some of the ideas here are kind of interesting like having the backpack beam effects actually be beam sabers for the mobile suit. It's nice to see this model.

One new update on the progress of this is that ZaoWorkshop is actually taking feedback on the color scheme of the model. I guess not everyone was onboard with the blue and purple colors from the original render.

It will be interesting to see if they end up changing anything. Personally, I like the sort of Titans color scheme but I think I would prefer the hue to be more blue and black rather than purplish.

Armed Battle Limit 1/144 Pisces RG MSN-04 Sazabi Gundam Weapons Upgrade Kit [Comment]

Apr 24, 2023

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rico soul: This is an interesting product, and is actually an original design rather than a bootleg of Bandai. We've seen this design for the side-ff Sazabi in the original side-ff Nu gundam trailer so that's what likely started the development of this.

Bandai also just recently announced their side-ff RG Sazabi and I'll attach some of their official images here.
Thei side-ff Sazabi trailer is at youtu.be/DB6EiIGO264

One detail to note from Bandai is that we now see these things were intended to go into the existing Sazabi funnel racks. That detail wasn't revealed in the previous trailers so we can see here this third party design is designed to be a complete backpack replacement rather than use the existing funnel racks.

Will be interesting to see how this one turns out vs the Bandai design

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