Boaz MyTurnASpace wrote:
> 100% accurate. It's non-humanoid, which never gets a fair shake in
> price and quality. The Motoko figure is barely servicable.
Answer: EX model. I love EX models. I bought the EX Musai which has probably
the lowest plastic-to-price ratio for all Gunpla. And I love it. So how good
it is is the point.
I was thinking to compare the Tach kit with EX kit and there are a
little bit of similarity: both are a bit off-the-wall non-humanoid
topics.
I'd say Tachikoma is slightly better in price/plastic or price/quality
ratio, and comparable in details to EX 1/144 non-ships. The EX ships
have arguably better details than Tach. Can't comment on quality yet
as I haven't started construction. I like GITS so much that I simply
have to have a Tach, and the injection kit _might_ be the best
commercial version out there (there might be better garage kits out
there). If you are willing to wait perhaps there will be a good-sized
action figure or chokokin.
I'm a loyal hobby fan but I have to admit, objectively, a lot of toys
and figures are pinching hobby from all sides. Between the low end
(MSIA, HCMP) and high end (SOC, Fix and various Macross figures),
between pre-painted statues and playable/posable/transformable toys.
Hobby kits are being squeezed out of existence. If EX kits were there
in the mid-90s, they'd be a winner for sure. But now cheap Chinese
labor is making my investment of 10+ hours per HG kit an irrational
proposition.
simply say I'd buy it because it's a transforming kit.
Yeah, I'm a total sucker for transforming kits.
Well, it's hard to justify the outcome but could the huge success of
Camille's use of the Wave Rider Armor to land onto Jaburo a factor for AEUG
to go for a re-entry capable design than the Methuss/Z II type space fighter
design?
I don't buy that the WR was so different from other MS of the time.
If I remember which episode you are talking about. It's a full-on
orbit-to-air-to-ground assualt involving many non-transforming grunts
which were all re-entry capable. Units that have unique ability or
mode of movement don't fight side-by-sdide with general purpose units.
Submarines and landing crafts don't sail in the same group that
include carriers and destroyers. Apaches, Harrier and Osprey don't
fly with F-15 or A-10. But Zeta was fighting in the same attack
formation as the grunts so at best the WR mode gave it a bit of
performance edge but it's hard to seperate the advantage from the WR
mode out of all the other features such as speed, armor and
firepower... and of course the pilot.
Another example, from the fact that Darth Vader's TIE Advanced flies
side-by-side with vanilla TIE fighters, we know that the two types of
aren't radically different in flight characteristics. Likewise, Eta-2
Jedi Interceptor can't be that much faster or more nimble than ARC-170
(unless it's one of the many Lucas mind-lapses making the prequels,
you won't see Luke asking B-Wings to escort X-Wings).
Anyhow there was a dissociation betwen the supposed back story and the
realized transformation schemes. Zeta's looks like Gaplant and Mega
Rider looks like a non-transformable Methuss.
I actually like the D-Gundam's bird feel... at least it's a new gundam with
a nice facial design IMHO. Strike is fine and Astary is great... Impulse is
"Lego" to me only. but I like the Hobby Japan built up of Destiny Impulse
though.
Well I wouldn't even call Strike "fine", Strike and Impulse don't suck
as title mechs. Destiny doesn't suck so bad either, compared to ZZ,
F91, Shinning and Wing, but it's somewhere south of "forgettably
average".
Bandai did a great transforming E7s in the action figure side. And that R606
has clear parts for cockpit. It doesn't look to hard to do the
transformation... but I doubt Bandai will re-visit a E7 model now.
Yeah... so instead of dropping $20 + 10 hours on a decent kit, I might
as well spend $50 and zero time on the "great" figure. Anyway if I
wait long enough, the urge to get anything E7 related might blow over.
:)
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