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Robot Spirits Titan Redeemer & Bracer Phoenix Pacific Rim Uprising Gallery
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04-16-2018, 01:33 PM
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Today we have a special double (well 2 & 1/2) sized gallery for you. In the years between Pacific Rim & Uprising, the
PPDC
continued to develop
Jaegers
for combat & security purposes. And while these two aren't quite the latest models, they pack more than enough brute force to fight some
Kaiju.
Leading into Uprising's finale the mighty
Titan Redeemer & Bracer Phoenix
took their fair share of damage though. If you've seen the movie, you know exactly what we're talking about in one of their cases.... And of course we can't forget the real hero of the war,
Scrapper!
** Beware, there be spoilers ahead!
In both my review text and in photos, there will be spoilers regarding the fates of Titan & Bracer. If you don't want to be spoiled on any of the film's details, you may want to avert your gaze! Now then.
- Post 1 is all about Titan Redeemer (and Scrapper!)
- Post 2 is all about Bracer Phoenix with a little bonus
Packaging
As I mentioned with Gipsy & Obsidian, the Pacific Rim Robot Spirits have gone in a new direction this toyline hasn't really before in terms of packaging. Each figure comes in a box with a punched tag to hang it on a retail store hook. It's definitely a new thing for Robot Spirits/Damashii to so openly market these figure at mass market retail. But perhaps their appeal and simultaneous release in both Western & Asian markets contributed to this decision? In either case these boxes are very unique and totally their own thing within the line. Even in regards to how slim and tall they are.
Part 1: Titan Redeemer
Of all the new Jaegers created for Uprising
Titan Redeemer
(and Bracer Phoenix for that matter) are some of the most orthodox big robot designs in the film. In many ways, they don't take any risks, and in many ways that's what makes them strong designs. Titan Redeemer would feel very much at home as a frontline grunt in your favorite 80's mecha anime of choice. He definitely feels like he could run around with a Destroid or two. While many find the design generic, I find it to be classic.
Ultimately, Redeemer has pretty standard proportions and articulation, so I'll just zero in on the important bits. The figure's feet are wide flat cross shapes. Somehow the balljoints they're attached to are even more free than Gipsy or Obsidian, and because of the wide form of the feet, you can get really damn nice grounded footing for this guy. The knees bend back completely letting the calf reset against the back of the thigh. And the hips can actually angle out so much further than you'd think by looking at them. It's those spectacular double jointed thighs & hips like Gipsy & Obsidian have. They just work for everything. This figure also has the same amazing swing joint inside the waist piece. This also means that like his relatives, Redeemer has no waist joint. Only a floating upper body that isn't nearly as free moving as Gipsy.
The upper body is seriously all one piece, even right down to the shoulder. The only moveable parts there are the thrusters that point outwardly and up to accommodate the arms, and the flexible soft plastic panels on the front and back that give you just a little bit more to work with for the arms. The shoulders are very much the same as Obsidian Fury's. Basically the massive shoulders hide the balljoint assembly that sticks out from the main body. Though because there are no moving shoulder pads here you lose a decent amount of play in these shoulders.
The arms themselves are fairly standard. The elbows can only make about a 90 degree angle. The right arm features a standard fist. Whereas the left arm features the massive
M19 Morningstar
mace. This massive weapon is removable actually. It slides right off of a plastic rod that's plugged into the wrist joint hole. You
CAN
actually remove this post and if you're feeling savvy, recreate a scene straight from the
final battle.
You see, the forearms on this guy can be removed, albeit it with more force than Gipsy's. That's because this isn't necessarily an intended feature. But they can be removed and swapped over to
Bracer Phoenix!
So remove the post and mace from Redeemer's left arm, take the right forearm off entirely, remove it's wrist joint. Then attach the mace assembly back to this arm, throw it on Bracer and boom, you're done! It may not be an "intended" feature of these toys, but by virtue of their designs it's entirely possible. And I LOVE that.
Finally that brings us to Titan Redeemer's head, which reminds me a bit of a Prime Master from Hasbro's current Power of the Primes toyline. The way the visor is laid out just reminds me of them so much. Despite the large chest and shoulders the neck angles up and out brilliantly, giving you just enough clearance to even turn the head a full 360 degrees. I know plenty of folks didn't care for the more generic/standard design of some of the uprising Jaegers. But honestly,
Titan Redeemer
is a charming traditional robot design.
Accessories
Redeemer comes with next to nothing, but here's what we get:
1 - open right hand.
Just one for posing. Which is pretty pathetic. But given how little this Jaeger did in the film, I suppose anything more is largely unnecessary.
1 - Scrapper Jaeger.
By far the best accessory that comes with any of the Jaegers. This little to scale replica of Scrapper is sadly unpainted and non-poseable. It's a static little accessory to pair up with your other Jaegers if you so wish. I would love to see a proper Scrapper Robot Spirit at some point. even though it would have to be out of scale with the rest of the line to have any meaningful poseability or paint applications. But it would still be great to have it.
That's pretty pathetic for Titan Redeemer, but I know they're trying to keep the accessory count down so they can keep these guys affordable. Extra hands would have been nice, but they aren't entirely missed either.
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