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03.28.02: HUNK RE-DEFINED!
Drifand
andai's latest Soul of
Chogokin offering, GX-10 Boss Borot is truly a big hunk of gokin love. Just
looking at the box tells you you're in for a treat - which other SOC offers
its own head to you and sports such a cool logo that screams "CHARACTER!".
Chalk it up to the power of typography, perhaps?
Opening the sizable box,
we are greeted by a whole
styrofoam tray
of goodies, no more half-and-half cardboard
affairs like the Maz Ladies! The contents are spare but satisfyingly so, especially
when you lift da Boss' out of his carefully lined space. I mean he's almost
ALL diecast. The upper and lower torso are metal (and has a detented waist joint
to boot). Peeking under his
shoulder joint
reveals gleaming metal too! Even
his
feet
are diecast blocks, although they are hollow and not solid blocks as
one might hope. All in all, the only non-metal bits are his 3-heads, bendy arms,
thighs and interchageable hands.
As a side-note, Boss Borot
owes an engineering debt to last year's TOTY, GX-06 Getter Team. His
cool bendy arms
are a direct descendant of Getter-3's and are just as flexible...
Back to the toy proper,
the main gimmick has to be the
magne-attachment
heads with different expressions.
The
socket
is well crafted to mate with the odd-ball heads. It features a push
plunger in the back of the torso to help extract the head. The head(s) themselves
have a rounded metal plate to give you s m o o t h rotations in every direction.
Very nicely done! The three expressions are
"Normal"
,
"Happy"
and
"Mad"
, guaranteed to lend themselves to lots of goofy fun!
And just because I called
da Boss a hunk don't mean he can't
float
like a butterfly either! The hip joints
are generous in the degree of freedom achieved for such a blocky design. But
the real genius is in the superb work done for the ankles. It's a metal ball
joint that really delivers the goods in terms of poseability. If you want to,
da Boss can
'vogue'
it with the best of the SOCs.
As the box says, the main
team of good guys in the Mazinger series is now complete! Lets
PARTY!!!
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