[AkibaSilver]

Iirc, the choice for stickers in the Hazard box was to give *some* variety of texture for the figure, as well as to have a little less bare plastic on display.

In other news, I've been putting together a Build box, so it's time for me to ramble about... Ex-Aid?



Bet you all forgot about these guys, huh? A pair of V-Cinema forms for two of Ex-Aid's most popular side-characters. Well, they got a release in BUILD 8, which is a pretty essential box for any Build collector (I'll leave it up to you to guess why), so I'd suppose that lots of people just have these anyway. And they're solidly alright!

Lazer-X is a design I never really liked. It's effectively Lazer Level 3, but covered in a weird shade of blue. In hand, though, he's not so bad. The blue is nice in person, and the stickered flame decals add some nice detail. His downside, however, is down to his basic build. His core body is still the same bike Lazer released all the way at the start of Ex-Aid, and while it does help me imagine just how Lazer goes from a bike to a human, it also massively hinders his articulation. Also, his arm construction means his right shoulder just pegs out all the time, and the angle of how it's constructed means you have to disassemble his shoulder to peg it back together. Static, he looks great, but it's hard to find a decent pose.

We also have Wide Genm, using the form that everyone and their aunt made a mock-up of back when Maximum Mighty X debuted, and then it became real and kept getting released before the protagonist's version because Kuroto moves merch. It's weird. But anyway, he's pretty good! The design is striking, with Maximum Mighty X's bulk done up in purple and black looking much nicer than Lazer's blue. He doesn't come with a stand, the plastic going into bulking him up enough that he is a presence compared with your typical SO-DO. Not much taller, but thiccer. His big problem is his feet. I was expecting the footbads to have balljoints in them, to connect to the leg. Instead, he just has normal sized feet which "peg" into footbads. The peg does not like to stay in. Posing this guy below the waist is a pain, which is a shame, because his articulation isn't bad for being such a lorge boy.



Overall, they're good figures at core, let down by a combo of things. Genm's is just the footpads tbf, but Lazer is hurt more fundamentally. Between his design choices being hard to realise, along with what I can guess is the team not having found their footing yet - this comes from SO-DO's 2nd or 3rd wave *ever*, and it shows. I'm glad to have them, though. God Maximum is my only Kuroto figure, and I quite like the Lazer Vs Genm film, so I'll take what I can get.