Set for August, RRP ¥6800
Pre-order at HLJ (5% off RRP if you order before 28th June)
Pre-ordered mine already. Apparently there's going to be pearl plastic. *Drools*
Pre-orders for the HMM Blade Liger Mirage have gone up. Set for August, RRP ¥6800 Pre-order at Ami Ami (20% off RRP)
Pre-order at HLJ (5% off RRP if you order before 28th June) Pre-ordered mine already. Apparently there's going to be pearl plastic. *Drools* Okay, so if a listing for a Zoid was to state that it was "lightly gnawed" by mice, and that the gnawing "Didn't detract much visually", what image would that put in your mind? A few slight gnaws in the plastic mebbe? Certainly not this: I've contacted the seller about his misleading listing, and we'll see what happens... but seriously, I expected better from someone with 100% feedback, many of them stating their items were as described! Anyway, for the time being I've cleaned him up and replaced some of his gnawed parts, namely the underside of the tail, one half of the body and that leg, though the replacement leg is a slightly different shade of grey. Mice aside however, I also received another Zoid in the post today. HMM Great Saber! I was much more impressed with this guy. It was three days from when Ami Ami sent me the shipping notice, to when he arrived on my doorstep, (Well, not quite the doorstep. Sue was out there barking at the postman. He couldn't get past the gate. Luckily we noticed him and I ran outside), and I didn't even get slapped with a customs charge, which was a very nice surprise.
Not sure if I was just lucky, but I'm certainly going to be buying with Ami Ami again. ^^ Predictably, Kotobukiya have followed up on the Red Horn mould with the HMM Dark Horn Ami Ami pre-order (25% off RRP)
HLJ pre-order (5% off RRP if you pre-order by 6th June) While the Dark Horn is a pretty cool looking Zoid, and my favourite out of the Horns colour schemes, I've decided to give this one a miss. It's just not selling itself to me as something to spend that amount of money on, and considering the Red Horn came to about £80 inc. shipping, with an additional £20 customs charge on top, I dread to think how much this will come to, with those extra weapons. Speaking of those weapons, does anyone else think it looks like they've just piled as many weapons and parts onto that tiny support as possible? Zoids Buckaroo mebbe? There is another reason for me to pass on the Dark Horn however. According to Ngee Khiong Kotobukiya are also releasing HMM Blade Liger Mirage in the fall, followed by Liger Zero in the winter. No pictures as yet, but more info will be posted as I find it. And now the decision I've decided for the sake of my credit card and bedroom space, that I'm banning myself from buying any Zoids that I haven't pre-ordered, with the following exceptions: Claws until I get one with ghost plastic under the chrome Blade Liger BI (Or BE) when I do get one with ghost plastic OER Zoidzilla, possibly if I find myself with some spare cash. ~Ghostie~ I got a payment request from Ami Ami for my HMM Great Saber this afternoon. Bit premature, but I want to call it Coal. I looked a photo of it the other day, and the colour just screamed coal. Additionally I got lucky last night and sniped an OER Zolkon for £8. Considering this is supposed to be one of the rarest OERs confirmed to be released, I was incredibly surprised. And the Revoltech Blade Liger has finally been put up for pre-order! Still not sure about that neck, but I'm pleased to see that the tail is jointed. That's the kind of thing the HMM sorely needed.
Still no word on the Revoltech Geno Breaker yet. So I got a note through the post the other day, telling me I had a parcel waiting for me at the delivery office. After racking my brains and then checking with Wiki, I suddenly realised, it must have been the trade she sent me. So I picked it up from the delivery office this morning. The contents
NJR Barigator NAR Killer Dome CP-06 Bomber unit (Being modeled by Zark) NAR Energy Liger body OER Blue/green cap for Cyberdon I was planning to take the Bomber Unit over to my parents to put on Pteras, but I think Zark is quite enjoying the extra armament, so he can hold onto it a while XD Not quite sure what to do with the Energy Liger yet. Original plan was to use it for customizing, but I've just fallen in love with that colour scheme. I'm wondering if it might actually be worth trying to restore him instead. And then of course, non-Zoid related, Jake Sully from the movie Avatar. Wiki kept what it was a secret the whole time. I didn't find out til I'd opened the box XD Thanks a lot Wiki ^^ *hugs* So, the past few days I've been going through that Zoids 2 lot and cleaning and repairing what I can. Ultra Saurus was the first job, since he was already out of the box and had a space waiting for him. He had quite a few issues when I first checked him. He has some sun damage, particularly on the caps, and faded stickers. He also suffered from a snapped cannon and leg to cannon connector, as well as some missing and gouged caps. Astoundingly he's not missing any parts aside from those caps. He even has the extra vehicles that I was certain would be long gone. As far as the cap situation goes, I discovered some caps hiding within the leg armour, that worked out to just enough to cover all the external points. Since they weren't really needed in there, I moved them, so he at least looks complete from the outside. I do plan to completely replace those sun damaged caps eventually, provided I can find appropriate replacements. Cruncher and Red Wing were worked on together Cruncher is probably the most complete and undamaged I've found thus far, suffering from little more than a snapped leg peg, and caps so sun damaged they disintegrated on removal. Thankfully I was able to replace his destroyed cap set with identical caps, and glue his leg peg back on, so he needs no further work. Red Wing on the other hand, was probably the Zoid suffering from the worst damage. His wings were snapped in many places, his front legs snapped off and some caps missing or disintegrated on removal. I've patched him up as best I could and given him some similar caps to make up the missing ones, but his right leg glued on a little wonky. He still walks... just... clockwise ^^; Red Wing was also bagged with the wrong colour pilot. But there are a load of gold pilots included in the extra parts bag, so no problem to switch. I've had to clean up some space for the Zoids that'll be staying with me, and my existing Zoids are a little confused Saber RV: "What's going on? Are we moving again?"
Saber Loris: "Nono, I do believe she's cleaning the room" Saber X: "HAHAHAHAHA! No, really, what's she doing? Gilvader: "WHEEEEEEEEE!" Well the lot arrived yesterday. So yus, these'll be seperated up, and Wiki's share posted to her as soon as I can manage it. There was one issue though... when I was checking the Zoids over, I pulled out Zoidzilla, only to discover corroded batteries had been left in the light pack... And not just corroded batteries, but batteries that had been left leaking in there for about 14 years! Aside from that however, there are a fair few breakages, and sun damage, but for a Spares or Repair lot I really can't complain.
The most important thing to me, is that the all the Ultra is missing is some of it's caps. The Ultra is my new baby, though he needs some love. Thought it was about time I started a blog for this site... that way people can keep up with what's happening on the site without have to guess everytime they visit. For new time visitors, so far the vintage page is the most complete. I've just posted a review for my newly acquired chrome Great Saber, and I have Ltd Gojulas the Ogre, TechnoZoids Evil Pegasus, and Zoids2 Red Wing lined up next. Also I teamed up with Wiki recently and together we purchased this huge Zoids2 lot: We were actually quite lucky on it! We got outbid a few second before the auction ended, but a couple of days later, for reasons I won't go into, we were given a (legitimate) second chance offer.
The Z-Knight, Zoidzilla, Iron Kong, Red Wing and Raptor will be heading off to Wiki, while the Ultrasaurus, Spinefin, Claw and Cruncher will be joining my ranks. Pretty excited about it ^^ |
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