Whew, been a bit before I could enjoy collecting after a unfortunate thing. Yet had a couple things sent over recently, and been opening them up. Last couple of days though, I finally found and got the Darling in the Franxx RD Strelitzia, but the run of finding deals on loose figures finally stopped and tripped me up. While it was labelled unopened but was missing a focal-point kind of part. Ugh. Shop made things right enough, and got to experiment with the look of the temp. replacement part for now.
>>9733559Got the ANIME Full-Armour Gundam finally, but still need to track down a GM Sniper Custom...
>>9735734No, but I better give you a heads up the decals you have on the PVC-like parts; like the lower leg have a high likelihood of flaking when it flexes I'm afraid. Otherwise looks good, glad to see another enjoying one of the OG RDs hahaha!
>>9739975Such a bummer this wasn't used as a pack-in with a ANIME GM Sniper, like what was done with the MSiA figure... Hoping we're still gonna get a ANIME GM Sniper now.
>>9741411Unfortunately can't find the article(think it came out of that MS Bible magazine), so can't say treat this as gospel. Though I think the 'Jet Core Booster' was supposed to justify development, tooling, and production(like assembly line setup) costs of the of the surprisingly effective 'Core Fighter' and 'Core Booster' before the manufacturer brought out the 'Tin Cod' meant to replace the 'Saberfish'. Was just the Core Fight + Bst were way expensive as is, and limited by their focused specs to be adopted as general use multi-purpose fighters. Specifically the 'Jet Core Booster' is the manufacturer streamlining the 'Core Booster' enough to focus it's use as a bomber/fighter enough to make the Federation keep the lights on in the plant I think.