>>10048251This last one is actually 'zikhoobusik' branded instead of Boley (Though the brands are just stickers) and I have noticed the plastic seems stiffer than before. some pieces fell right out of the sprues (pretty sure one is straight up lost, gonna have to see if they'll replace it for me)
the eyes aren't properly vac chromed, their color is still a transparent spray onto some rather mild silver plastic. which is odd because the silver sprue IS painted, with the underlying color being translucent off-white (The kind of thing you used to see a lot underneath vac-metal)
anyway to the actual kit,
The eye moves weirdly in the skull in this one too, this time the eye APPEARS when the mouth opens instead of the other way around. baffling. There also appears to be a gun in the roof of the mouth, but it's not able to deploy as far as I can tell. It's at the same latitude, so to speak, as the eyes, so there was no chance of it being visible. It must be a holdover from the original original zoid it was based on, because this frame's already been re-used once by Tomy. also the tomy archaeopteryx type this was based on was smart enough to replace the arms with guns, but I actually like the way this one has 6 limbs (well, mine has 5 for now). They actually rigged up wing feathers on the smaller arms that flip outward for no reason. maybe it's a shield unit, I dunno. Whereas the actual wings have one pretty useless flip-out feather, but it looks good at least, unlike the kit it's ripping off. Said wings are held onto the by approximately nothing (but there are two spare caps which fit on there, so I think they just forgotthe boosterlike (no visible nozzles or anything) pack once again flips up a little which serves no purpose. and when turned on, the wings move but not in anything resembling flapping.
I saved this one for last because I thought it'd be my favorite, but I can't recommend it. the wing folding joints feel like they're definitely going to eventually break
