Minipla Shugod Gattai Series 02 Legend Shugod announced.

https://bandaicandy.hateblo.jp/entry...A1NTYxLjAuMC4w

Latest blog entry is a review of Minipla King-Ohger. Pretty much focused on the articulation and build, but the pedestal will not be included in this release due to budget constraints

https://bandaicandy.hateblo.jp/entry/20230416_sentai

Edit: Onitaijin's head is fully compatible with this new kit

https://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/image...0407142913.jpg

I think I will wait for an SP version of the King Ohger minipla. I can see that looking good.

NINJA GATTAI

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...3/IMG_9010.jpg

Okay, there's a couple things that bummed me out. First, the individual robots are not as fun to build since Yellow+Black and Blue+White are essentially the same. I like when there's variety in the designs. I will say the sculpting for the stone wall panels is excellent

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...9/IMG_9012.jpg

My biggest gripe was transforming Red. Turning the legs upside was incredibly frustrating and restrictive. As you can see, I snapped off a front panel trying to do so. On the other leg I opted to do a partial disassembly to get the peg to rotate. On the flip side, the transformation for the limbs is so easy it's almost trivial, but I'm not a fan of having to remove the heads on Yellow and Black to connect the feet. In general I'm not a fan of removing pieces to transform mechs.

BUT I don't completely dislike this kit. The castle aesthetic is an all-time great design and the chrome pieces are a good addition. With enough time I'll probably get over the final issues I ran into

I had the same thing happen to me when I was transforming red that I'm still bitter about it. I guess I'll eventually buy another Muteki Shogun since I'm more experienced now with properly building these kits while looking out for design flaws such as that one

That's a really cool kit but it's a shame to hear that the build is so repetitive and that the legs require partsforming. Still, it looks nice.

That brings me to another subject though...I've been building gunpla a lot more than minipla lately, and I'm noticing that the plastic seems to be of a higher quality. Minipla looks a lot more plasticky, while gunpla usually looks good straight out of the box and without even a top coat.

Now, I've seen some really good painted kits, but I'm not sure I've ever seen just a topcoated minipla kit. Have any of you builders out there ever just topcoated? Got any pics? (panel lining + topcoat is acceptable as well. just not fully painted)

I take it that Muteki Shogun is worth it if you prefer the combined form over the individual 5.

I built Muteki Shogun a long time ago. The separate robots are indeed a bit of a letdown, but that combined form is quite cool. The castle pattern is definitely a highlight. I wish the shoulder emblems were plated like the chest crest. I painted my gold parts a dull gold, and if I were to do it over, I would use a shiner gold. It's definitely an early model engineering.

I did end up using the Molotow Chrome pen marker on the individual robot arms to match the old DX toy.

https://i.imgur.com/iAv1cVs.jpg

By the way, if you're looking to fix that broken part, I would first extract it, sand it down a little bit so it's not so tight, and then drill tiny holes on both parts and fit clipped paperclips into the part.

Appreciate the advice I might give it a try but don't feel too confident in fear of damaging it worse lol. What you mentioned about using the chrome pen makes me want to buy another Muteki Shogun even more to try some different custom ideas

I definitely like Muteki Shogun both the SMP and the zord itself and never owned the original deluxe toy so when the SMP was announced it was an instant buy for me back then.