ZIF: Infinity Leo

[RZ-009, Jaxom]

Bankee has done it again, after releasing limteds like DCSJ and DAlizard a few months ago, it has released another wave of limiteds unto Philippine shores!

included in the wave is the 2005 museum Zoids set and the infinity LEO.

Infinity Leo


a repackaged white leo blaze with en extra sprue for the infinity leo parts.
this kit goes for the equivalent of six dollars but on the net it costs aprox 17 dollars..

the bits and sprues:



color scheme is mostly white with transparent black blox, silver legs and gold/bronze claws.

the built kit:


one feature of this zoid is its abilty to be reconfigured into a miniture arcade machine.


since this zoid also includes the parts for leo blaze in its box it allows you to build it as a white leo blaze..

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the good: its limited! and you get three modes in one: Infinity, blaze and arcade machine.. great detail on the infinity leo parts.

the bad: mouth of infinity leo is fixed in place, construction is abit wobbly due to it being blox.. also it has almost no weapons whatsoever

the weird: arcade mode.

over-all rating: 7.5 for its limited sexiness!
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just a couple of pics of how i display him,




*gun "borrowed" from a 1/100 sword impulse gundam..

[vishus]

Great review, Jaxom! I hadn't planned on getting Infinity, but now I guess I'm going to have to pick one up

[panzer0]

Vishus, try out Toymanilla on eBay, see if they have any left.

Jaxom, great pictures, I can't wait for mine to get here.

[Snowflake]

Interesting, it doesn't have the bottom-piece from leoblaze, so it loses the one weapon it had.. and even then how was it supposed to use it without shooting itself in the beard? cool review

[Königbreaker]

Infinity Leo:
Type: Lion
Core Type: BX
Cockpit: Back
Size: Small
Length: 11.24 meters
Height: 4.5 meters
Weight: 18.5 tons
Top Speed: 222 km/h
Weapons: Bite Fang(mouth), Zan Blade(tail), Strike Laser Claw x4(feet)
Support Equipment: Ion Booster(back)

It's totally a downgrade from Leoblaze..

[vishus]

panzer0 said:

Vishus, try out Toymanilla on eBay, see if they have any left.

Thanks Panzer, I'll probably check them out later today.

[尹 眞悟]

I may have to ask my family in Korea to get them for me. No middle-man mark up so still US$7 (apprx) each!

[RZ-009, Jaxom]

snowflake said:

Interesting, it doesn't have the bottom-piece from leoblaze, so it loses the one weapon it had.. and even then how was it supposed to use it without shooting itself in the beard? cool review

what part is that??

and i totally agree about the "weaponless" aspect of ths zoid..

thats why i outfitted it with the gun it has now..

[Königbreaker]

I think he's talking about the Shock Cannon.

[Pawl]

Got mine from ToyManillla- it's on it's way. Likewise, I hand't planned on getting one but am looking forward to doing so now.

Also ordered the Neptune, which will be my 1st 24 Scale. Again I hadnt planned on getting these, but now I've got one it's gotta be em all.

Annoyingly I paid loads more for my Dinosaur Expo set than TM is selling em for & that even includes their cost of Shipping over to the UK! Still, let's hope these Phillipine releases bring out some more Ltd goodies.........

[Blitzwing]

On a side note:

PI customers have reported some mold defects especially at the tail section. I was able to snag 2 of these and one of them (one tail part) had a holes on hollow point of the tail section, its half of the peg is deformed and a thin piece of plastic is jutting out like a peg which is not supposed to be there. Although the holes can easily plugged and the deformed peg can be filled, carved and filled up by putty, and the unwanted plastic can be cut off but since this is an ltd, I would prefer the part to be replaced. Which the retailer did and good thing there were still some Infinity leos where we can get a good replacement part. When I went to the store to complain about the part there was another customer who complained about it as well and my contact told me that I was the third to complain about it in their store. It was reported by a rep from the distributor that a certain percentage of the Infinity Leos have these defects.

[RZ-009, Jaxom]

it seems that around 1/5 to 1/4 of the stock has this molding issue..

oh and about the next limiteds.. theres an unconfirmed rumor about more limiteds to come in january..

well just have to wait and see..
*prays for shield liger blox*

[尹 眞悟]

You should be praying for a Blade Hawk, that's first run only

But yeah, 20-25% is a rather large number..... quite worrying really.

[RZ-009, Jaxom]

mystickskye said:

You should be praying for a Blade Hawk, that's first run only

But yeah, 20-25% is a rather large number..... quite worrying really.

But i dont own a Lum-p Liger...
*never really liked the whole shuriken wearing a beak concept for blade hawk*

(how come LUm*P get automatically replace with murasame?? by the word filter?)


im praying for blox shieldy and maybe, just maybe, proto gojulas..
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yup 20% is scary..
good thing the one i got was pristine.. =)

[Neil]

got an email from toymanila that the storm sworder jet would be part of the "rain" of limited items here in the PI, but not so.. they actually emailed me a week later that it would not happen anyway, so I don't fault them... given the number of limited editions items I got off them, I'm definitely not complaining...

Nice review.... while I prefer the white leoblaze mode.... the molding for the head of the infinity leo is pretty interesting... considering all the detail... too bad the jaw doesn't move....

and Yes, I agree... a proto gojulas would be nice.... considering that all malls are now selling regular gigas for 30%off.... final price is approx $22. not bad.

Also, thanks for the idea with that gun.. the Infinity Leo does need a little spifing up.... though it does appear that the infinity leo is really made for melee combat instead of ranged....


personally, I'm wishing for a ptera rayse.. but that's just me....