Yamato GN-U (Hagane) Danguard Ace

Planetary Robo Danguard Ace (惑星ロボ ダンガードA(エース) Another vintage anime with a fighter pilot Winstar and his transformable Danguard Ace battleship do battle against evil alien invaders.
One of my fave childhood animations, Ive been waiting for this bot for quite awhile,
finally a updated version of the classic....I will gladly suffer months of instant noodles for this bot!!!

The Feel is great!  Its quite a heavy gokin with loads of diecast and real good anime accurate head sculpt...

Transformation is split into 2 parts just like the actual anime....



Theres also a stand for the satelizer mode, the feet that form the thrusters just look damn cool.

Note that the screws are covered with small plastic tabs, thats one flawless feature for chogokins...



There are lotsa accessories, extra fists, missiles and loads of other stuff. The articulations is not bad as well, for such a bulky bot, ball jointed upper thighs, knees, ankles, waist, ball jointed neck to head, ball-jointed wraists, elbows....this is as close as it can get to Danguard Ace....

Another post about Chogokins

Yep today is Christmas and for the holidays, a red robot, in better words, a spotlight on Bandai's GT-02 Robocon from The chogokin series, a reissue of the classic chogokin from the vintage 1974 Tv series. Spanning 118 episodes,  with a genre attracting lotsa kids in the era who so happen to be adults now.....hence the collectabilty of this chogokin......oh the fond memories.....

A robot who lives amongst humans and aids them as part of his studies at Robot Academy. However, Robocon is usually screw up and is afraid of cockroaches besides that, this robots a hit with the gals, cos of his cuteness.

Transformation into car mode is simple, just remove the legs and add the wheels
  

Robocon pictured with GT-05 Gantsu Sensei.
Simiplecity in design compared to the others released in the market, good news, though it lacks articulation its made of almost 80% diecast.
Check out my past post with all the others from this series.

Happy Holidays!!!

Cheers

As I picked this Godzilla up from my neighbourhood convinient store, Cheers. 2004 released Bandai Monster Solid collection. I  was quite astonished that older series of figures keep reappearing in the most unlikely places, the even better news, I get to choose the figure I wanted to purchase, cos this Monster Solid figures always comes in sets.
 Set also included Gigan, Ebirah, King Seasar, 2 versions of Godzilla and Hedorah, all from the Final wars movie. For me now that I have the choice, I took the powered up Goji with the tranlucent spikes.

Though the figure boost zero articulation, the figure came with a real dynamic pose which makes up for it, the back dorsal fins has to be cut up and attached to the back, much like Gundam model kits, the intructions on where to place the fins are on the insides of the box.

It came with a clear stand that attached to the right foot, the figure stands well, without it too.

The fins was the best part of figure, there's also a normal white finned version too. Yep thats christmas eves surprise, Have a merry Christmas everybody!!! Godzillas always good on xmas!!

Landcross

Yes, finally a Transformer or should I say Gestalt or Combiners, for those who has new clue on what Im blabbling about, Gestalts are smaller robots that merge to form a bigger more stronger one. Right here is another one of those Gestalts/ Combiners from 1989's Transformers Victory series, Muilti-force Landcross.

Usually theres 5 with the exception of G1 Devastator, Landcross is one of the exceptional ones. The gimmick with this set is that the smaller robots can pair off and merge each other to form a slightly bigger robot. All six combined forms Landcross. Take a look....

Wing ( Jet) in robot mode

Waver ( Hydrofoil) in robot mode.

 
Mach ( Space Shuttle) in robot mode.


Tracker ( Truck ) in robot mode.

Dash ( Sports Car ) in robot mode.

Tanker ( Armored Carrier ) in robot mode.


The indivitual robots could also interchange and combine to form all sort of combos, but in the animation, these are the more common pair-ups.
WingWaver
MachTracker
DashTanker.


And of course, the all time fave among all combining robots is the fully combine form, LANDCROSS. Landcross' gun is formed by combining all the robot's gun.


Though the articulations are minimal and proportion of the overall robot isn't that great, the design was awesome and I always had a soft spot for Landcross and Liokaiser.... If you watch the cartoon when you were younger, you should get this guy as the reissue version won't hurt your wallet that much at all.....

Revoltech #018 Giant Robo

Went searching for Giant Robo toys from the 1998 OVA. Though Im not a big fan of the retro version, this one rocked, after watching Giant Robo "The day earth stood still", I really gotta have one too, I do want to catch the series also but went through all the video stores here but to no avail.
KAIYODO REVOLTECH #018 GIANT ROBO

As for the figure, I so wanted the Yamato missile version, sad thing is, there isnt any available here, that's the price for being a tad to slow....well, I gotten the second best one around, the revoltech version.

Though abit small for me especially for the head sculpt ( I really dig the Eygptianish pharoah design). Price is also one of the prime features cos revols only cost $20-25 Sgd here and to add the good news to greater news, playability and poseabilty is astonishing, Giant Robo is number 18 in the series.

 
Though it comes with no stand, GR has an extra pair of open fists and reversable parts that show where all the missiles launch. Though the centre chest doesn't open to reveal more missiles, reversable parts is one real cool idea.

The bazooka doesn't transform from his booster pack but came with GR2 as an replacement attachment for his booster pack. Man, how I did wish that the booster pack could transform......Im still considering to get GR2 though.

Quite a sturdy figure and the articulation is great!!! If you love Tetsujin, you're gonna love Giant Robo!!!

Another Goji

From Marmit's Kaiju Heaven or Marmit's Kaiju Tengoku series, here's Godzilla 73' from Godzilla Vs Megalon released in 2005.

One of the nicest sculpts in the series, measuring 9.5 inches tall and 9 inches long from head to tall.

Marmit Kaiju Tengoku series released a number of monsters with very nice molds rivaling Bullmarks or Yamanaya. Lookout for more from the series.