Murasame Liger Review with Pictures

[Suspsy]

One thing I've been meaning to say: if Genesis is eventually imported over here, I can see alot of young kids (and their parents) really liking Murasame Liger precisely because he requires less assembly than other large kits.

[zabrezed]

I can understand that. I personally thought much of the Genesis line was a bit of an experiment on Tomy's part to see how the market reacts to these partly prebuilt zoids. Its easier for them to make, cheaper to produce and should have more mass market appeal.

But the reason I like zoids in the first place is the fact you build it first. With these zoids it feels like there's no challenge to building them (though the review proves otherwise). They do run the risk of alienating a lot of their fanbase if they go down this route. I mean, look at the Hayate Liger & Deadly Kong situation.

Tomy need to get the balance right between the simpler zoids and the traditional zoids. Surely one of the main Ligers should have been based on the traditional molds. However, I can still see this line being a success in the short term for the reason Suspsy gave above.

[Tilly]

I can see why that might be good, but I still maintain they should have gone with a proper Murasame kit for the model fans and a more poseable toy version for the kids/action figure fans. It'd be sturdier that way, too, so kids could play with it without losing gold bits left and right.

Of course, that would have taken a lot more molding work...but I'd rather have one or the other out of that too. Good poseable toy would be better than very mediocre kit, even to my wanttobuildthings mind.

[murasameshadow]

Pheno is right, the stickers are placed incorrectly. I think the liger will look better when the stickers are placed correctly.

[Andy F²]

Please don't revive ancient threads.