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Post by Hanyoutai on Feb 9, 2020 0:04:10 GMT -5
Good Smile Company has announced that they'll be releasing a 1/72 scale Blade Liger as part of their Hagane Works line! Hagane Works, from what I can find is a fairly recent line with only one other figure (Demonsblade), which cost around $170 with an additional $50-ish parts set.  Quick Facts:Release Date: November 2020 Price: 25,364 Yen Weight: Approx. 630 Grams Scale: 1/72 Features:- Large scale poseable action figure - Partially Die Cast metal - Anime-focused aesthetic - Fully painted design - Dual seater cockpit - Uses spring 'click' joints - Total Length: 370 mm - Total Height: 160 mm - Comes with 2 (non character) pilot figures - Comes with the Attack Boosters Good Smile is most well known for their Nendoroid line, which has a copious amount of characters and figures. Although this Blade Liger is stated to be 1/72 (mentioned at the booth at Wonder Festival), many participants of the event have cited it being larger than the Tomy motorized 1/72. Closer to the Yamato Shield Liger in size. The figure will include some die cast parts to give it heft with an expected release date in 2020. It follows the anime aesthetic for the Zoid, with two pipes on the fronts of the legs, five slats for the E-Shield Generator, and a double-seater cockpit. However, the pilot figures are not anime characters. They are generic military pilots. This looks to be a promising product, and Good Smile tends to have quite high quality merchandise, so looking forward to it! |
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Post by ironman117 on Feb 9, 2020 3:23:56 GMT -5
As a person who wished that Yamato had become a line, and also is already a huge fan of Goodsmile, and can vouch for their good quality for sure (I have their Overwatch stuff), this is stunning news.
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Post by Zarwolf on Feb 9, 2020 5:49:47 GMT -5
Looks very cool.
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Post by Darth Escargot on Feb 9, 2020 6:38:52 GMT -5
Right now, I'm gonna say looks good, but I wish it was a kit, and I'll probably pass, and then I'll buy it anyway because I'm a sucker for the big stuff and the Yamato Shield Liger really was good.
Plus I can protest that I don't collect action figures anymore all I want, I've got two 200$ Macross/Mospeada ones to my left that say otherwise...
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Post by dchan on Feb 9, 2020 21:53:41 GMT -5
Thanks for the info! I gleaned that it was a new high-end finished model, but had not seen any of the specifics about additional parts or materials used.
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Post by Snowflake on Feb 10, 2020 18:10:44 GMT -5
I love a lot about it! It's very interesting in comparison to HMM for sure... Its torso is super lean, its head is a bit small (I guess that ties in with the anime look a bit) and the feet are quite large (I recall the anime ligers being quite broad-bodied and small pawed, so that's not part of that aesthetic).
What I appreciate most is that the foot is shorter than the forearm. That's something Kotobukiya messed up completely. Their ligers always end up with these scrunched-up, overly-long hind legs. Now technically yes, the original Tomy zoid has its foot caps spaced as far apart as its forearm caps (and yeah that's normal for a lot of animals, even our feet are the length of our forearms roughly), but it also gave the wrists more space, so that everything was balanced out. People who don't understand digitigrade anatomy might have more trouble noticing this problem, but it's always bugged me and this is the first time I've been truly conscious of what Koto did wrong. The easiest way to notice for sure is to compare the original Tomy Blade Liger, and the placement of its wrist caps. BEHIND the white armor piece, not integrated into it, the way the hind legs have their last set of cap joints. Then look at the Koto one and its identical cap placement for the front and rear legs. It's no wonder a lot of people get confused and think animals have 'backwards knees' and such.
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Post by bladeligerzero94 on Feb 10, 2020 19:24:39 GMT -5
This is the 3rd entry in their HAGANE WORKS line.
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Post by Phenotype on Feb 10, 2020 20:09:14 GMT -5
This looks awesome. Hopefully it's not $170, though I imagine it will be close to that. I'll be curious to see if they do more Zoids.
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Post by ironman117 on Feb 10, 2020 23:50:12 GMT -5
I love a lot about it! It's very interesting in comparison to HMM for sure... Its torso is super lean, its head is a bit small (I guess that ties in with the anime look a bit) and the feet are quite large (I recall the anime ligers being quite broad-bodied and small pawed, so that's not part of that aesthetic). What I appreciate most is that the foot is shorter than the forearm. That's something Kotobukiya messed up completely. Their ligers always end up with these scrunched-up, overly-long hind legs. Now technically yes, the original Tomy zoid has its foot caps spaced as far apart as its forearm caps (and yeah that's normal for a lot of animals, even our feet are the length of our forearms roughly), but it also gave the wrists more space, so that everything was balanced out. People who don't understand digitigrade anatomy might have more trouble noticing this problem, but it's always bugged me and this is the first time I've been truly conscious of what Koto did wrong. The easiest way to notice for sure is to compare the original Tomy Blade Liger, and the placement of its wrist caps. BEHIND the white armor piece, not integrated into it, the way the hind legs have their last set of cap joints. Then look at the Koto one and its identical cap placement for the front and rear legs. It's no wonder a lot of people get confused and think animals have 'backwards knees' and such. I love that you pointed this out because that is one of the most unattractive thing about Kotobukiya's model kit line and a very very large portion of why I don't like them. It's slightly less bad on the Blade Liger compared to the Command Wolf that looks like a newborn deer trying to figure out how to walk, but it still stands way the hell out. And I had only seen ONE other person complain about it before in a review. Initially I had thought it was to cut corners because their Zoids line was young and they needed to save time and money to make it work, but here we are this many years later and they are still doing it. So I am very happy to see another person point that out. hahaha |
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Post by bladeligerzero94 on Feb 11, 2020 7:34:14 GMT -5
I love a lot about it! It's very interesting in comparison to HMM for sure... Its torso is super lean, its head is a bit small (I guess that ties in with the anime look a bit) and the feet are quite large (I recall the anime ligers being quite broad-bodied and small pawed, so that's not part of that aesthetic). What I appreciate most is that the foot is shorter than the forearm. That's something Kotobukiya messed up completely. Their ligers always end up with these scrunched-up, overly-long hind legs. Now technically yes, the original Tomy zoid has its foot caps spaced as far apart as its forearm caps (and yeah that's normal for a lot of animals, even our feet are the length of our forearms roughly), but it also gave the wrists more space, so that everything was balanced out. People who don't understand digitigrade anatomy might have more trouble noticing this problem, but it's always bugged me and this is the first time I've been truly conscious of what Koto did wrong. The easiest way to notice for sure is to compare the original Tomy Blade Liger, and the placement of its wrist caps. BEHIND the white armor piece, not integrated into it, the way the hind legs have their last set of cap joints. Then look at the Koto one and its identical cap placement for the front and rear legs. It's no wonder a lot of people get confused and think animals have 'backwards knees' and such. I love that you pointed this out because that is one of the most unattractive thing about Kotobukiya's model kit line and a very very large portion of why I don't like them. It's slightly less bad on the Blade Liger compared to the Command Wolf that looks like a newborn deer trying to figure out how to walk, but it still stands way the hell out. And I had only seen ONE other person complain about it before in a review. Initially I had thought it was to cut corners because their Zoids line was young and they needed to save time and money to make it work, but here we are this many years later and they are still doing it. So I am very happy to see another person point that out. hahaha I think this is going to be an action figure, not a plastic model kit. |
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Post by Zarwolf on Feb 12, 2020 17:44:12 GMT -5
What I appreciate most is that the foot is shorter than the forearm. That's something Kotobukiya messed up completely. Their ligers always end up with these scrunched-up, overly-long hind legs. Now technically yes, the original Tomy zoid has its foot caps spaced as far apart as its forearm caps (and yeah that's normal for a lot of animals, even our feet are the length of our forearms roughly), but it also gave the wrists more space, so that everything was balanced out. People who don't understand digitigrade anatomy might have more trouble noticing this problem, but it's always bugged me and this is the first time I've been truly conscious of what Koto did wrong. The easiest way to notice for sure is to compare the original Tomy Blade Liger, and the placement of its wrist caps. BEHIND the white armor piece, not integrated into it, the way the hind legs have their last set of cap joints. Then look at the Koto one and its identical cap placement for the front and rear legs. It's no wonder a lot of people get confused and think animals have 'backwards knees' and such. Yes! Really appreciate someone with a good eye for mammalian anatomy pinpointing some of the problems I've also always had with the HMMs. I like Zoids best when you can tell someone paid attention to the real animals. While there's a lot I like about the HMMs, Kotobukiya's designers did a lot of really wonky things around the limbs. Probably the worst offender is the HMM Command Wolf, where out of either laziness or money-saving, they re-used the same parts four times over, and therefore made the hind legs identical to the front! It's like... did anyone ever look at a dog? The back legs are NOT the same as the front, either in length or how they are jointed! |
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Post by bladeligerzero94 on Jul 16, 2020 10:15:09 GMT -5
I would kill for a MODEROID Blade Liger.
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Post by Hanyoutai on Jul 20, 2020 0:30:06 GMT -5
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Post by Hanyoutai on Jul 20, 2020 21:58:02 GMT -5
The details have dropped! I'll try and get the first post updated soon~ Release Date: November 2020 Price: 25,364 Yen Weight: Approx. 630 Grams Other Details:- Uses spring 'click' joints - Total Length: 370 mm - Total Height: 160 mm - Comes with 2 (non character) pilot figures - Comes with the Attack Boosters There has been no mention of Good Smile exclusive or pre-order bonus parts. The other figures from the Hagane Works lines have appeared on stores like AmiAmi, so we can probably expect this guy to go up on pre-order in the usual locations soon.
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Post by Zarwolf on Jul 21, 2020 4:51:12 GMT -5
It looks cool but that's pretty expensive for a regular-sized Zoid. I'd have to think hard about whether it's really worth it.
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