First it was the black version now another Jeeg, Takara's 1998 reissue of the normal coloured version, which was my personal fave when I was just 8 yrs old, beats the coloured paper version I had or the Micronauts version which was a bad guy.....yup, Its good to be grown up and owning a JEEG!!!! BUILT UP!!!!!
Besides being the exact replica of the original 1975 version it also came with some retro intructions and a mini poster on the other side.
Next up.. Panzeroid and Jeeg's ultimate combination and also look forward to a all new slicker Jeeg chogokin.....
Finally got my Black Jeeg yesterday, reissue of the classic 1975 Jeeg, Takara rereleased in 2005 with a new Black paint coat. This version is way cool, kinda like Darth Vader with magnets.
Other then the new colour scheme, the other parts remained the same. Box colour scheme was also altered to a black and white theme much like the other Black version toys.
On a sad note, there wasn't a black version of Panzeroid to match, buut oh well, Im happier when there another hunk of plastic (or magnets) in my collection.
Go Nagai's Kotetsushin Jeeg takes place fifty years after the original 1975 Steel Jeeg animation and features a new cast of characters - primarily the new main character Kenji Kusanagi, a high school student and motorcycle racer who becomes Kotetsushin Jeeg to fight the sudden reappearance of Haniwa Phantom Gods or clay robots from the Jamada Empire ruled by Queen Himika. Other characters include Tsubaki Tamashiro (granddaughter of Miwa Uzuki) and Kyo Misumi, Kenji's partners. Other main characters from the original series also appear again including the original Jeeg.
Though only 13 episodes this anime brings back the old Jeeg genre, revamped it and made it much slicker. Bandai Soul of Chogokin line brings us the steel God toy, GX-42 Kotetsushin Jeeg with real magnetic parts just like the original.
The magnet robot features alot of similarities with original Jeeg with most of the accessories that appeared in the animation with the classic Soul of chogokin stand to display all the parts...
With 2 closed fists, it also comes with 4 extra fists, 2 open hands, 1 for holding his Jeeg Crusher and hell slap open hand. Total of 6 interchangable hands....
The parts are interchangeable via magnetic ball joints, that also makes for the ball-jointed articulation also.
Besides all the cool accessories, Jeeg also comes with 2 heads, a transformable head and another anime accurate one. The transformable head transforms into Raikoba, Kenji's motorbike.
The only bad news, Jeeg is kinda flimsy in posing and parts tend to come off when in play. No playable gimmicks and no Baruba (a huge white sabretooth tiger) to merge with, unlike the Original Steel Jeeg which came with Panzeriod, the Soul of chogokin version didn't release any other companion piece for GX-42 or have any plans to in the future.
Other than the minor flaws, he still looks cool and very slick in any chogokin display.....
On a sad note, there wasn't a black version of Panzeroid to match, buut oh well, Im happier when there another hunk of plastic (or magnets) in my collection.
