Tuesday, September 21, 2010

JUMBO SCALE 'GUNDAN' (ORIGINALLY CALLED GUNDAM) REVIEW


I found a Jumbo Scale RX-78-2 'Gundan' recently in Speedy Videos stores. Either 'Gundan' is a long lost brother of Gundam or he's a China knock off of original Bandai's Jumbo Scale Gundam. Take a guess. It's 1/35 scale and 500mm tall! This figure is massive! This is my largest model kit/action figure hybrid todate. The figure is pre-built and painted quite nicely with weathering effects. Unlike other cheap bootlegs, this, in my opinion is a good quality knock off.

The toy comes with 2 pair of hands (open palms and closed+gun holding palm), unassembled shield, unassembled beam rifle and instructions. Unlike the box-art, the figure comes with applied markings and decals. In fact, I did a search on the web and found that this isn't its original box. There's this 'Gundan' decal on the head, shoulder, and shield that kinda de-value this toy because its basically shouting to the world 'I am a knock-off!" But then I may be wrong....vintage Star Wars knock offs are selling like hot cakes on the net! (Star Wars collectors would know which one I am refering to)
Just to show you how big this figure is, I've placed a Star Wars 3" Clone Trooper as perspective. Darn, now I gotto find a place to store this huge figure......
I noticed that the foot is a bit too large. The articulation is at the arms and head. It's very obvious the figure is meant for display only. It's a nice kit to have especially if you are a Gundam fan. The cost is a fraction of the original. (Original @ eBay USD200++) The quality...I can't comment because I don't have the original to compared with. As said earlier, it's nicely built and painted. eBay selling for USD99. The last time I checked Speedy videos stores, this figure is being snapped up...

Monday, September 6, 2010

My Vintage Star Wars Mint On Card Addition



Finally, I've acquired vintage Han Solo on card! As a bonus, I got his sidekick Chewbacca too. Took me a long time hunting for these figures for a good price to appear on eBay. Usually these sell for USD80-100++ but I got these for much lesser than that. I am pretty pleased with the purchase, now that I've got all the 4 Star Wars main characters, Luke, Leia, Han and Vader vintage figures mint on card! I guess I'll stop my vintage collection here.....but then...hmm it would be nice to have a Ben Kenobi .....let's see...