Universal Unit Gundam GP01fb ver. B

I've opened this up maybe 2-3 years ago but it's only now that I'm actually putting this together. This Bandai shokugan is called Universal Unit. It's hard to define this because it's part pre-assembled, part putting together yourself. 

The standard selling blurb I guess? I remember back in the 80's when all we had was a little sticker sheet to decorate a shokugan model that was entirely a single color. How times have changed.

The line up. Each model have 2 variations in the included weapons except Wing Gundam. The one I'm working on is GP01fb B version which includes a long rifle and a (unmentioned) beam saber.

Package contents.

Instructions are printed inside the box.

Cu-poche Frame Arms Girl Baselard

This is something from a while back. Cu-poche Frame Arms Girl Baselard. This is her without her weapons rack on.

With her headdress; it attaches magnetically. She comes with 2 faceplates, normal and mouth open smile.

Baselard with her weapons backpack.

Backpack also allows her to fly.

She can also hand-wield the side-mounted rifles. The full-armored FAG Cu-poche is a good way to collect FAG if you don't want the hassle of building Kotobukiya's plastic models and don't mind the SD-aesthetic. However, there's only a limited amount of figures; all of them from the anime. Baselard also have a "Bare Body" version, basically her without the armor. You can get close with the full armor version but you can't remove the boots so those who want the "bare leggings style" should go with that version instead. That version also has more face parts.

Age of Extinction Voyager Drift

From the toyline for Transformers Age of Extinction, voyager class Drift. This is actually a remold of Skyhammer from the TF Dark of the Moon toyline so the vehicle mode looks nothing like the Drift's helicopter mode in the movie.

Rear view. You'll notice the rotors have a slight curve. Part of that might have to do with how the rotors stow away in robot mode.

Robot mode. Even with that funky looking Drift head, he still looks pretty badass thanks to the mold he's based on.

Transformers Prime Wheeljack

This time we have a double sword wielder, deluxe class Wheeljack from Transformers Prime.

Never got into watching Prime so not sure of Wheeljack's character but looks like they gave him Drift's sword and called it a day.

Wheeljack has no elbow swivel no wrist swivel so his posing ability with his swords is severely limited compared to voyager class Drift which we'll look at a bit later. Not exactly a fan of him so he'll go into my junk pile.

edit 8/17: There was supposed to be a post on voyager Drift but somehow they got moved around and this Wheeljack came out early. So some parts of this post probably didn't make sense until today's edit.

Kancolle Kashima figure from Sega

Today, we look at another crane game figure. This time it's a Kancolle Kashima crane game figure from Sega. Kashima is one of those god-tier character design. She looks really lovely compared to her fellow ships. Like Yamato from last time, she is also serving up something for her commanding officer.

Kancolle Yamato figure from Taito

So today we're going with something a bit different: a budget figure of Kancolle Yamato from Taito. Kancolle, as most people likely know, is a browser game featuring battleship girls who fight against a mysterious alien armada from the deep sea. This figure is a crane game figure, something you're supposed to win with luck and skill in one of those arcade crane games. But a lot of us would rather just fork over the money and be done with it so a lot of these figures can be found on various markets outside of the Japanese arcade nowadays.

Despite the glowing reviews on Amazon, this is very much a budget figure and it shows. Those of us who own more pricier figures should definitely be able to tell.

Hunt For The Decepticons voyager Sea Spray and scout Breacher

This is gonna be a slightly bigger than usual post. We have scout class Breacher and voyager class Sea Spray, both from Transformers Hunt For The Decepticons toyline. Reason I'm throwing them into one post is because they're designed to work with each other but we'll get to that later. As you can see, they are very different in design style so it's interesting that they are part of the same toyline.

First one we'll get to is Sea Spray. Guy has a definite scuba diver motif going on with his robot mode complete with flippers and other scuba gear inspired elements. His guns shoot harpoon style missiles but I can't find them at the moment so you'll have to use your imagination. :P

Back view. He's even got the air tank thing going on.