tajador's here
https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...420_084536.jpg

also what's with the bandai namco logo?

Agh, crap. I thought I read that the Bandai Namco logo was forkits that were related to a video game.

Uh, yeah, BanRise recently did some company rearrangement of sorts and put their stuff under a "Bandai Namco Filmworks" kind of thing. Sunrise still exists, but is just under that umbrella.

I'm guessing that Bamco logo is there to represent that.
Honestly pretty unsightly for me.

oh i didn't know that, so ig the rest of the FRS' will have that Bandai Namco logo on it.

and i got a pic of ghost's stickers
https://kurakuraplamo.com/wp-content...4/IMG_6141.jpg
https://kurakuraplamo.com/wp-content...4/IMG_6142.jpg

no orange parts at all, well, except the face

The face is a part?! I was so sure it'd be a sticker... VERY excited now, even if the sticker sheet does look a bit obscene

Even the belt strap is a sticker ? Ooofff

You can see the runners here:

https://kurakuraplamo.com/frs-ghost-parts/

https://kurakuraplamo.com/wp-content...4/IMG_6131.jpg

The driver shell being semi-transparent is a nice touch. That's what the Zi-O kit could have really used for its driver.

We got the double jointed elbow but the knee joints look like a new, simpler, style.

Seeing these stickers, I just now remembered that Ghost has that eye icon on his back but you almost never see it.

I'm definitely gonna want to hit the jacket with a matte top coat.

I think the translucent parts are the greatest success of this kit. The driver/sword, the chest/shoulders and ESPECIALLY the mask come out so wonderfully

That's definitely were the budget for this kit went.

The big surprise to me is that there are no separate Eyecons. After they did it for Fourze and then OOOs, with some of the smallest parts I've ever had to paint, we don't even get a like a hand holding one.

It is a bit of a shame for sure. I found it especially notable when one of the images they used for marketing this kit the most was a recreation of an early-series poster... which had an eyecon floating above his hand, which is impossible to recreate in the FRS version so it goes against the point of why he's holding his hand like that to begin with haha

https://i.imgur.com/LSkYBMn.png

https://bbts1.azureedge.net/images/p...704fac77e8.jpg

Jesus they couldn't even cast the belt in silver plastic. Plus you need to use the giant ugly sticker if you want the Eyecon visible on the Driver. There's no separate sticker if you decide to paint it.

Translucent parts aren't that fancy or expensive. Plenty of Gunpla kits use them. I don't know whee the budget for this kit went. This is worse colour accuracy than Build.

So little effort with this kit. Bandai didn't even try.