I know I'm a little late to this thread but I picked one up on ebay for just under $40 about a month ago - couldn't resist for that price! Kind of on the fence about it though... I love the new tooling/engineering/transformation/ - yeah, yeah, a model isn't supposed to have moving parts but dammit, that makes these kits fun! - /decal options/full color instruction manual, box art and overall detail of it. But, buuuuuuuuuuuuut, I agree that a lot of the proportions are off in more than just a few places. The head is HUGE, the hands are kind of skeletal, the chest plate seems a bit elongated, the nose seems a bit too narrow and the arms are a bit on the scrawny side. The old Imai kits seem to have better proportion for gerwalk and battroid modes overall - and who didn't like the metal landing gear on the fat fighter mode? Just throwing in my two cents... I plan on doing a side by side build/comparison and throwing lots of pics up on here after the holidays so we'll see how it goes!
I know I'm a little late to this thread but I picked one up on ebay for just under $40 about a month ago - couldn't resist for that price! Kind of on the fence about it though... I love the new tooling/engineering/transformation/ - yeah, yeah, a model isn't supposed to have moving parts but dammit, that makes these kits fun! - /decal options/full color instruction manual, box art and overall detail of it. But, buuuuuuuuuuuuut, I agree that a lot of the proportions are off in more than just a few places. The head is HUGE, the hands are kind of skeletal, the chest plate seems a bit elongated, the nose seems a bit too narrow and the arms are a bit on the scrawny side. The old Imai kits seem to have better proportion for gerwalk and battroid modes overall - and who didn't like the metal landing gear on the fat fighter mode? Just throwing in my two cents... I plan on doing a side by side build/comparison and throwing lots of pics up on here after the holidays so we'll see how it goes!