PANDA Z! He's pretty darn cute, but you'll have second thoughts when his fists shoot out and remove one of your eyes!! ANYWAY... He stands at about 13.5cm tall (with the little panda pilot in seat) & an arm span of about 14cm (with fists on). He's about 70% diecast. His head, torso & legs are diecast. The cockpit in side the top of his head is soft but solid rubbery plastic, as is the little panda pilot, who is in a non-poseable "i'm controlling a giant panda robot" pose. He has a button on his back which protrudes 2 doors from his chest, which you unfortunately have to pull out & open to reveal a missile which unfortunately doesn't shoot out. So its a bit useless, except for like the ultimate pose. His legs are solid, but are very stricted in pose. The leg/hip joints only move from left to right about 20°. His knee joint has 2 clicks of about 45°. His ankle joint has a ball joint, but if you have the legs as far apart as possible his legs are too chunky for the ball joints to be of much use, but you can make him balance on one leg... which is pretty cool... it looks funny too :) He only has one joint on his arms at the shoulder which has 6 clicks of about 220° of forward & backwards rotation & 90° up & down smooth rotation. The plastic arm ends at his elbow where a latch & button are located. The rest of the arm is in the form of a clenched fist which is spring loaded. You click it on, push the button & BAM! NO EYEBALLS! There are two positions to lock the fists on. One where the arms are outstretched in front with his thumbs facing each other. The other being the arms at his side & thumbs are facing the front. He has a neck joint too, rotating on the Y axis, meaning no tilt is possible. He also has a pitiful magnet on his back which "helps" attach his solid plastic (like his arms, except for the tail wing which is that rubbery plastic) rocket wings.

The Pros & Cons:
Cons: He has very limited poseability & the poseabilty it does have seems pointless as you cant get very many poses out of him. The buttons to fire his fists are in an annoying position as I have many times accidently pressed them while trying to move his arms & BAM! NO EYEBALLS! The button on is back is essential to keep his rocket wings connected to his back as the rocket wings are moulded to the shape of his back & if the button is pushed in the wings are very loose & a little knock might/will shake them loose.
Pros: He is very cute & for his size, his black & whiteness will stand out on anyones shelf [unless you have a shelf of only black & white stuff]. He is very detailed & i can stare for ages looking at the soles of his paw feet. HE HAS ROCKET FIST FIRING PUNCH ACTION!!! Either one fist at a time or the ultimate simultaneous rocket punch taking both your younger sisters eyes out with the one hit! :P

He's not for everyone I admit, but as a newbie collector of giant robot toys & as my second "chogokin" I like him a lot. I couldn't imagine a robot collection without a Panda Z.

Heres the glorious box of the gorgeous black eva that I have in my hot little hands. All I can say is GO BUY ONE NOW! If your a fan of Eva & like collecting you can't go past the quality of the Bandai Soul of Chogokin's. Here are my pro's & cons: Its not that big (only about 18-19cm tall), but its not humungous so you can fit more of them on the shelf :). For its size its surprisingly heavy and almost dropped it the first time i picked it up. Its heavy because its practially almost entirely diecast, so its 'strong' and feels solid to handle. Its pretty well articulated pulling off all the poses on the box without any trouble & a couple more I did myself. Although as you play with it you'll find that if could have been a little bit more poseable. I know I'm asking a lot, but it would be cool if it had like perfect articulation (in other words bending like a human could bend). Also I would have liked the hands to solid and each finger poseable, instead of interchangeable ones. The closed plastic hands grasp around the gun handles perfectly though. The entry plug is pretty cool, however when you press the eject button the entry plug fires out! Since when did the entry plug act as a projectile! I almost lost an eye because of this. Its spring loaded for some stupid reason. Maybe thats why they gave you 3 entry plugs (just in case you loose em). It comes with a nifty stand aswell. Its a bit dodgey though. It works good in theory, but to get you eva to stand perfect in it, you have to have the arms and legs all bent at specific angles for him to balance and stand without falling over or looking crooked. All the weapons (bazooka, javilin, axe) attach them selves to the stand. The only weapon that I have problems with is the javilin, because it only have one loop to slot it in. So it tends to fall on an angle and look wrong. Other than all that GO BUY ONE NOW!!! lmao

I stumbled across this beauty while browsing the collectionDX site. It looks pretty cool and it has pretty good articulation, but I think its a bit top heavy. Unfortunately I can only find it on the US Ebay (not the Australian one) so I'll have to wait until I get my own Ebay account (& not use my girl friends fathers one ;P)

Lego Tachikoma & Fuchikoma

I think this is called Snake Eye, dunno... it kinda reminds me of the mech suits that were seen The Second Renaissance Part 2 in the Animatrix shorts.

I got these pics ages ago, but I forgot to post em... its a change from the overload of GGG mech.

Not as cool as the pics below, but still good... especially the Energy Liger!! [from left to right, blade liger limited, energy liger, liger zero holo armour & liger zero]

Black Ox whom I think comes from the Getter stuff. A simple yet very cool looking robot.

Some pics of the lion GGG and the box of the GGG final mech, which I must get my hands on :)!!

 

Another mecha... i'll need to look up its name...

GaoGaiGar Final Fusion!!!!

Found at the tamashii.jp site

Oooo CG pics of Metal Gear Solid's Rex.

Some more models from some convention.

Can't remember where I found these.

There is a new Eva model that has topped all others... This baby is diecast and fully poseable... mmm bendable and hard as a rock, what more can you want... It even has the progressive knife and my favourite pistol - the desert eagle.

From the Votoms series is Shadowfox, probably the coolest looking one of them all.