KO RV Robo / KO Turbo Megazord

So I finally got my big box of Toku stuff and I started thinking on which toku merch I should start. Sadly some stuff broke and some stuff where knock-offs. And I had to plan out a different line of blogs. So now instead of starting with the newest I am starting with the oldest in the line Super Sentai robots I recently acquired. Which is RV Robo from Tokusou Sentai Carranger or rather the Turbo Megazord from Power Rangers Turbo.

So first off this Megazord is one of the few which where carded rather then boxed. This was positive in the sense that it was not heavy, But negative in the fact that it did get some tiny bit of scuff marks. I'll talk about them later. But the important thing is that this thing did not take up much space. Even though a Ranger Key fits between its legs.

The first one is Red Lightning Zord (using American names because the Japanese kinda suck) It looks okay, since its one of the 2 zords that have the right colours. Its missing allot of silver around the wheels and the rooftop. But other then that its pretty accurate to the original versions by Toei.

Second is the Blue Zord, Aside from a few scuff around the painted spots and the hind wheels being yellow instead of silver its pretty accurate. Sadly on its way here one of its wheels got split and I can see to figure out how to fix it. It doesn't interfere in its ability to roll but in robot mode it let one of the arms hand a little to loosely. Aside from that the frame was missing some screws, so it was hard to put it up or down without breaking it. And the left bumper is sadly broken. Every time I transform it into RV Robo I need to get a fork to get the bumper up. Though it looks fine in car mode. I give it that.

Here's the Green Zord, this is where we get to the colour inaccuracies, Its red, and it looks awesome, But its supposed to be GREEN. The gap on the hood is a bit annoying. But a tons of times I have seen it on the official Turbo Megazord. So I guess its Bandai's fault. The silver part on the roof kept coming loose so I glued it shut. And aside from that I got nothing else to say. Its pretty decent.

The Yellow Zord is supposed to be pretty much the same as the Green Zord. But it does not share the same problem, the hood does not have the same gap and the silver part on the grill looks pretty well. Its pretty good.

The White Zord is supposed to be my favourite of the 5 but this knock-off is just disappointing. Its yellow instead of white, that is obvious. But aside from that its bumper does not combine the right way. So it has this huge seam in the middle, this is so bad that it looks like it imploding. Another seam is in the middle which makes the doors look like they are an afterthought. Speaking of the doors, there was supposed to be a black line on the lower parts of doors, but this being a KO they where lazy. I might paint it over eventually.

Forming it was a bit hard in the beginning. This was due to the fact that the factory never finished up assembling this thing. It had so much loose screws and uncut plastic that I decided to fix a few things before taking photo's. I already talked about the arm problems, But there where a few more things wrong with the arms themselves. For instance, their wheels where about to pop-off during the plugging to the red zord. Because I was putting pressure on the shoulder-pads (aka the doors). I had to fix this by filing down the tabs on the inside. So the doors can now form the shoulders and the wheels aren't breaking. These tabs weren't changed at all during the moulding of the white vehicle, and to be honest I should have seen it coming. Down to the waste and legs is the other annoyance I mentioned earlier. The left bumper of blue (right in actuality) is a bit broken. It would not be so much of a problem if the green vehicle's bumper part that the blue one combines with wasn't so loose. However this is sadly the case, making it look (to me at least) like its not finished forming and rather leaning on that leg part. The other does not have this problem at all. But the thing they do share is the stupid feet formations that for from the hoods and backs of the two vehicles. These annoying shitty feet part retract as soon as you breath on them, let alone pick it up. They are like hermit crabs. My last complaint about the front of this Megazord's body is the grill. When it needs to be tight, its to loose. Making it move out of place easily. And when it needs to be loose to be moved by hand its to damn tight. I formed the Megazord correctly. The grill part went down on its own. >_<

Aside from all those problems I do have to say that this is the most upright bootleg Sentai mecha I blogged about up till now (this is the second btw lol) it works great if you have it against a wall. You don't even have to see the ugly 80% black painted back of it. Its dull but rarely seen. :3

The accessories are PERFECT, It has the shield and the sword. Both are decent in quality, chromed and not in dull flimsy Bandai America plastic. I am pleased to my fullest :D .

Initially I wasn't pleased with this but looking at it now its more then decent for €5.38 minus shipping costs. And though I can't lift it without loosing its feet, at least it did not break on its way here, unlike a certain 2004 bootleg mecha I ordered.

 Video by TheIchipai ©Toei LTD

And that's it for this blog. I should have posted this earlier but I was waiting for my Legend Mobirates. Next blog I'll post something cute :)

Super Sentai 199 Hero Great Battle Ending Theme RAW

I stayed up yesterday to watch this movie and its was worth it! It owns Lets Go All Riders in so many levels!! I loved  how they made it possible to call on all the Sentai without Basco and I love the new look of Black Star Fuhrer. It has so little faults. But the main one is the title 199? there's still allot of heroes missing and even with those counted there's still not 199! The main problem I have is the fact that Ninjaman and Gumajin are missing from the *extra* heroes line-up. (more are missing but I care the most about those two) You could argue that at least one of the two could be counted as an extra mecha but that still leaves Ninjaman who in all respect would have fitted in more with the extra heroes then Zubaan! Any way I love the fights even though they do the same old *splitting up to beat the enemy* trick they always used for these anniversary movies and team-ups. And the last battle is just EPIC especially because of the music that was used!

Any way have some Super Sentai Roll Call:

The raw was provided by Gustavaum from TokuRawRevolution even though I downloaded it from somewhere else. And the DVD will be released on the 21st quickly followed by the fansubs provided by Overtime and Grown Ups In Spandex. (and next year maybe TV-Nihon too) Seriously go watch this movie!!

Thank you for reading and listening. Enjoy the movie! :)

20th Jetman Anniversary Part 1: KO Jet Icarus

This week we celebrated the 20th anniversary of Choujin Sentai Jetman! And weirdly enough this is the first time I actually can buy stuff on-line. So I bought the recently released Jetman set at KO Toys for my birthday. This included Jet Icarus the mecha of the Jetman. And in the light of Jetman's tribute episode in Gokaiger, I will gladly show this thing off ^^

Jet Condor

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Lets start with Jetcondor the Jetmachine of Black Condor aka Gai Yuuki. The most manly and awesome Sentai hero of them all!! He's the one who returned for this week's episode.... Even though he may have died at the end of the series. This thing is 99% the same as the original toy. The only things that had been changed are a few stickers. Most notable the Jet Condor text line needs to be red.

Jet Swan

Jet Swan is the same deal just different wings and a different cockpit. The white kinda sets of the colour scheme of this plane. But between the 3 jet types for the main 5 mecha I do like these the most

Combo's

    

Yeah its not official AT ALL. But I like toying with the idea that Gai would help Kaori out because she's afraid again. And the two discover not only a double flight mode but also a tank mode xD

Jet Owl

   

Jet Owl is pretty! That is.... from one side... Yeah apparently the Chinese company that made the KO was afraid that kids would switch  around Jet Owl and Jet Swallow. So for each its yellow on the right side and blue on the other side. And Stupidly the numeral stickers where switched too! So I got a stanley knife and switched them around xD Not much else to say here. I do wish they included some claws though much like those used in the series.

Jet Swallow

   

I like this one more the Jet Owl. I think its due to the shield of Icarus actually becoming the wings for Jet Swallow. But the shield itself is a bit annoying as the clips that hold it together are uneven. And I am frankly sad that the didn't take the trouble to correct the colour to the actual light blue its supposed to have. Still I can look past all that. I like the cockpit of this one. Especially the point forming a beak. ^^

Jet Hawk

    

So much FAIL! I mean man this thing sucks! Firstly I knew it would turn out to be a blocky chunk of plastic with the connectors where the arms a supposed to connect clearly visible. I also knew about the crappy hiding system of said wings. But what I did not know what how messy it is to form it as it is. Its like its missing a whole lot of connection tabs that are supposed to keep everything together. But that ain't the real problem. The head/cockpit is the problem. I know its supposed to turn inside the body but somehow they made it so that the head always tilts down all a bit so everything comes loose as soon as one breathes on it or even looks at it. Lame Red Ranger mecha is LAME!

Icarus Haken

FUSION!! JET SCRAM!!

Icarus Haken

     

So this is Jetman's full on homage to Gatchaman! Icarus Haken! Its cool. but putting it together and taking it apart is a bitch to live through. Even if you got the Swan and Condor parts in the cockpit/foot part keeps coming loose so you'd actually have to be very careful picking it up. Also the sticker are reverse on the Jet Hawk part. So it actually looks to be upside down. This has annoyed my so much that I tried to carefully remove the stickers and switch them around. But sadly from the first second it looked to be a failure. the stickers are very thin and the glue is really strong. So I got not choice but to leave it like that!. Unless Reprolabels come out with their stickers I requested like twice now.

Jet Icarus

     

Forming the Jet Icarus is not as bad as CCLemon99 claims IMO. I liked putting it together and the steps are fairly easy. But I do agree that this thing didn't deserve to be a die-cast bot. Its pretty fine for a KO btw. The part where metal used to be are pretty solid. Even without the metal. And though the chrome did get damaged on the trip from Hong Kong its still a good grade for a 3rd party company. There where a few annoyances though. Mostly stickers of course. Firstly both feet need stickers. The Condor part needs a white sticker with a vent pattern on it, and the swan part needs a similar vent sticker too. Also the numeral stickers on the arm where switched around. So blue was on Jet Owl and Yellow was on Blue Swallow. Like I said these where easily switched around but where annoying non the less. Putting that all aside I love the design of this thing its so old school! and this before the DaiZyuJin who took a massive leap to mostly non-boxy looking Megazords. I like the blade and shield. But I can't seem to let it hold the damn gun upright with out letting it fall down. So I had to put it like its aiming at the sky.

SUPER SENTAI WORLD REUNION ALMOST COMPLETE!!

Overall I am very happy with this buy especially with that great timing of mine :D Lets leave you guys with something AWESOME!:

I'll change the actual video if it turns out to be really really slow. But I'll only do it of TV-Nihon releases their version.
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Editor's Note: Due to a annoying bug on Animevice I've been unable to use the gallery feature I've grown accustomed to. Which is why I didn't post it when the episode actually aired. Luckily my mother allowed me to finally use her browser and it turned out the bug wasn't around on this thing. So I got to blog it any way. Better late then never I guess.