Bandai Super Robot Chogokin God Reideen

Though there were 3 incarnations of Reideen, the original vintage 1970’s Brave Raideen, which I watch during my childhood days, the 1993’s God Reideen, was one I loved but was too caught up in other stuff at that era and thus I didn't have a chance to owe the Bandai version of God Reideen.
And for the 2007's Neo Reideen, I couldn't be bothered, the anime makes me sleep..

Not to fret,  this year, Bandai's SRC ( Super Robot Chogokin ) series re-released another God Reideen for our collective glory!!!

The box art is sweet though a openable (is there such a word?!) flap to view the toy would be alot sweeter, hey, i'm not complaining just a suggestion, anyways, more pictures less words....

Even though the size doesn't impress me, the design was slick, still mantaining the classic Reideen's Eygptian design, colour scheme was really grand, silver and gold, though the box art made it seem as though it was gold and white. The major attraction to me, was that God Reideen was transformable, given the size, my thoughts was it was static figure, much like Yamato GNU dou figures.

The lower legs and chest area are made of diecast parts, the rest is plastic and painted, the articulation is rather good with all basic joints, arms, elbows, knees, waist, wrists but due to the design of the armor, movement is limited, so there's not much dynamic poses this Reideen can make, he still looks damn good in any display unless you collect Coke bottles.

God Reideen's accesories includes 2 open fists, 2 closed fists, 2 fists to hold his bow and his weapons, a full sized bow and arrow, a anime accurate smaller version bow, a shield and a opened shield. Kinda disappointed as there was no stand included to display Reideen in flight or to display in God bird mode though the back has a peg hole for the Tamashii stand (which is not included).

God Reideen still can do some decent poses, if you want, the shoulder armor and head piece is removeable (the removeable head piece is transformation purposes) and you could have poses without the armor though he look kinda naked...

Transformation is simple, only bad news is there's a need to interchange parts, mainly the headpiece. Another bad news, is there's no pegs to lock things into place, mainly the arms, the legs has a small peg that doesn't do much, making the god bird mode kinda flimsy but it still looks cool if you don't play with it and wave it around.

Overall, I'm quite satisfied with SRC God Reideen, it could have been better but the effort was there, if you're a reideen fan, this is definitely another version to have in your collection.