I've always wanted to tackle a LED Mirage, have you had a chance to go through the runners? And if so, how's the quality? The only Wave kit that I've built was an old Sakura Wars kit ages ago.

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/...20141008111216
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/...20150118063817

Wish I could make these myself...

So pretty.

Could someone explain to my why a lot of people don't like Awakening of the Trailblazer. When people throw criticisms at something, I could see where they are coming from. But I don't get what people think is so bad about this movie.

Well, it sort of makes the entire series of 00 seem pointless. It introduces actual intelligent aliens into the Gundam franchise for the first time ever and they're weird sentient metal with a hive mind.

All the political strife, conflict, intervention, everything that came before is rendered meaningless when ultimately the franchise ends by making peace with an alien race instead. The whole show revolved around the wars of mankind and how intervention in them could shape the future. What the movie does is make that whole premise irrelevant, using some pretty goofy aliens as the tool to achieve that piece instead. Mankind never really outgrew it's issues, we just have aliens now.

And while the show was pretty much always the Setsuna show, the movie goes even further into making the rest of Meisters seems irrelevant to the plot by making him the one who assimilates and makes piece with the ELS. It really just feels like for every good thing the show did, the movie trampled on it and made it ultimately less important. Personally I also absolutely hated the movie Gundam designs. Just silly over the top stuff. I saw the movie once and just never had any desire to watch it again, completely soured me the first time.

As someone who hates the show to begin with I don't think I'd be the best person to answer.:lol

I've only glanced at it but it looks like it should be a fun kit. This is my first injection mold LED Mirage. All the other FSS kits I have are resin and vinyl garage kits and a few lead miniatures.

Personally, I quite like the 00 Quanta and how it mixed design aspects of both the 00 Raiser and Exia together.

The rest are a mixed bag...Raphiel for example would be so much better with out the ridiculous hat cannon that he has.

http://i.imgur.com/XYz1MIS.jpg

Dun dun dun.

Premium Bandai is releasing the Rinastica but in Wing GUndam colours:

http://36.media.tumblr.com/f5e5144a8...2fpho1_540.jpg

http://40.media.tumblr.com/85984aa3b...2fpho2_540.jpg


More pics/info: http://www.gunjap.net/site/?p=263632

Dunno why but I want it it does look very wing Gundam Esc