Zoids Wild!!

[Hanyoutai]

Yes, Evil is a model kit. You'll receive the armor as a pre-order bonus when pre-ordering Zoids Wild: King of Blast for the Nintendo Switch. It doesn't include the base Liger though.

[greengai]

I mean, I like that they re-used the FMC sound effects. I'm definitely picking the game up (even if it looks a bit on the simple side) and the old sounds are just nostalgia-icing on this fun little cake.

Also, dang I want them cool green caps and black parts from Evil Armor but man do I want to do something different to that fire engine red.

[Charlie]

I need to watch out for the "Evil" kit armor only on Ebay. I do wish it becomes available separately the way the CAS was for the old Liger Zero.

[dchan]

Thanks everyone for all the translations, especially Hanyoutai for all the game info! I am excited to see it and hopefully play it. For me it's super impressive how vast and immersive and beautiful games can be these days (Zelda Breath of the Wild for example), but I also like a simple/dumb game that can be just picked up and played for a half hour or so.

Hmm, the evil armor is a neat look. I wish the parts were just different in some small way. I know that defeats the point of it being a recolor but I think it could be set apart from the regular Liger if the Wild Blast blades were a slightly different shape or something.

[SteelRain]

Nice shot of the Evil Armour from twitter, I'm not a huge fan of all the black personally but it looks like good fodder for parts swaps, especially those green caps.

[ultimateultrasaurus]

Weird that the final Rex pics and boxart stil show that extra spike (as I don't expect it to be actually present, because in that WB vid he didn't have it either and that's the final model..)

By the way I am starting to miss the subs by Falc there's been a lot of "plot" things going on since episode 7

Also, it's strange that they spread out the last two waves, (Liger first and Stego and Gusock after that) and even stranger that Rex is coming on the 8th and Hunter and Catalga on the 27th.. Doesn't quite seem like good timing (for impulse Christmas shoppers for instance )

[Hanyoutai]

I imagine it's to increase sales throughout the month over parents only being able to rely on stores having them in stock during the Christmas rush, which may actually just bottleneck things if they can't stock them fast enough (which Wild has already had issues with.) In the end it's all still for Christmas.

It's also not uncommon to use test versions of the kits for boxart. There's usually a disclaimer "actual product may vary." The Liger Zero uses the earlier version (though in fairness a few did reach the market as the 1st edition release) which didn't have the bars going across the hollow section of the leg armor, resulting in the peg actually sticking half to thin air. The Blade Liger BI also shows a Liger with silver blades, claws, and teeth, but you get gold. Sure there are plenty of other examples.

[ultimateultrasaurus]

New vid on twitter (Catalga taking Rex for walkies)

Oh and Han, yeah you're right, I just found it weird that they chose to do it like this (but then again, probably the same person that decided to make Raptor and Liger much more flexible on the boxart)

"Not an actual flying toy" as voiceover (spoken really fast) comes to mind

[ultimateultrasaurus]

Not at all liking the yellow eyes instead of the light green on the Hunter Wolf...

Oh and another Rex commercial

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULRlvHU-xq0

[dchan]

Fun seeing the Catalga in action-- cool movement! I hope they keep pushing the envelope and try new things with the mechanics designs, like the Knuckle Kong.

[Snowflake]

Ahhh now I want that catalga! it'd be really easy to just pretend it's 1/72

[Darth Escargot]

Welp, Gusock and Stegosage are in at HLJ, but I'm not getting the two Stegosages I preordered the day they became available because it's already been bounced back to out of stock.

I guess the bright side is, that means these things are still selling like hotcakes, or at least more than HLJ expected them to. I just REALLY wanted that Stegosage. It looks like it's going to be the best one yet.

Liger DX is out as well, btw, and I do have one on the way, but... meh. Don't really care too much about that one.

[dchan]

I hope they're selling well. Would love to see this become a long-lived line similar to the NJR, though that is probably optimistic since ZW is basically all new kits with no re-releases.

I'm a little late here, but I just saw these customs:

Any helpful translators able to shed some light on the announcement? From google translate I'm guessing it's a custom contest?

[Ernestotaku]

Guys... I just bought Death Rex...
Wasnt it supposed to be releaseed by the end of the month?

If not, where do you check the release dates?

[Hanyoutai]

Death Rex was scheduled for the 8th~ The Hunter Wolf and Catalga are scheduled for the 27th. You can view release dates on the official website, or on the TakaraTomy Mall, which usually updates before the website does.