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17 hours ago, kajnrig said:

The reviews of the Tristan I've seen focus too much on the limited articulation, ignoring that the kit looks kind of decent otherwise. Old-school, maybe, but swap out the hands for some better-looking sets and that's all you really need. Maybe swap out the joints for something newer if you must. (I'm currently mulling buying one plus a GM Custom to do exactly those two things.)

That being said, it IS confusing as hell why they went the route they did. Using Alex runners to save money is all well and good, but the runner they chose has very few parts that would make sense to use, and the parts they did reuse weren't those parts. Nearly all of the kit is newly-tooled, yet exhibits such old engineering. And whereas those older kits' flaws were a result of technology constraints, this kit has been intentionally hobbled, and not for any meaningful reason. They were just lazy.

Well what's bad is the Alex is still a better kit than this...and it looks weird. Even the proportions are just weird 

Im not happy about this Gundam Axis series, and the reviews of the Tristan are so far meh as it is a rehash of the HGUC Alex from 2001

August releases are going to set me back...looking at those RG kits for the MK.II and Zeta, and I'm not sure if I want to spring for another Pale Rider