3A Metal Gear Solid Rex Review

It has been awhile since there is any entry. It all due to the entrance for my new phase of life, parenthood. Yup, I am a father to a cute son. It really a huge changes to my life & talk about huge, this entry will be a huge re-entry of my blog after a few month hiatus.

1/48 scale 3A Metal Gear Solid Rex or also known as 3A Metal Gear Rex for short. This buddy here is really a big ass mecha in the game & also in the shelf. With SRP at whopping USD500.00 bucks, it come in retail version (which will be review here) & limited Bambaland Edition. I am too late for the limited version yet I am happy with the retail version. There is also a 1/100 scale MGS Rex model kit version release by Kotobukiya which I have also keep my eyes on.

What the heck is Rex? Well, we can refer to an introduction video from youtube below.

First word for the packing, HUGE!! Measuring at 55.5x47.0x53.5cm & weight at 6.3kg (indicate at the box as my tiny weight scale is insufficient to take the measurement), this is the largest toys I ever purchased not to mention the price tag as well. For easier size comparison, I put a HG Gundam model kit above.

It actually come in to layer of boxes, 1st is the brown box for postage purposed to served as a protection to the main box which come in white with some story, particular details & arts of Rex. To my surprise, the hardboard come in double layer.

Once we open the second box, it greet you with the explanation manual of Rex & a booklet of 3A release. With a quick flip on the manual, we can see quite a numbers of panel can be cast off to review the internal details. I am not really interested with 3A past (or maybe current) release. Since it is there I just take a couple pictures of it.

Upon flip of the layer of protection foam, we can see the HUGE!! rail gun & a tools used for something I am not aware of at this stage. Also some loose parts

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It is always not easy to wait for the main character to show himself in a movie, 3A does make the packaging tough. We need to bring out the whole polystyrene foam tray as it was tightly secure by a layer of cellophane tape. And once we cut it open, again it is HUGE!!! Rex finally review itself. It sitting quietly awaiting to be release. 3A done a good job in protecting Rex from any harmful damage & there is no saving for its' packaging. Kudos to 3A.

Getting Rex out from his comfort zone is quite a hassle for me as it is HUGE & I really need to figure how to handle it.

Attaching the rail gun to it & combining a HUGE gun for a HUGE mecha we get a HUGE BAD ASS REX.

I try to light up the LED but as the label said, battery not included. I can't wait to get myself the power juice & fired up the rail gun. I really need to clean-up some space for more detail review. Until then I manage to capture last picture of REX before my wife yelled at me.

Verdict by this far is, this guy is totally menacing in taking off your space. But the bright side, who don't love a HUGE mecha in display. Well, is contradict but in reality I really doesn't have any display shelf (yet) to fit him. I believe he will back into box after I complete my detail review for him.

Paint job is great. I love the weathering, colour separation, rusting shield & paint quality. It is in matt finish & so far I detect no smudge paint from him. Plastic quality is somehow similar to Gundam model kit & the joints, I notice it is from plastic. In this price range a metal joint should be used as the size of mecha might have higher chances in breakage due to the weight. Just find out the head can't turn left or right & this will be a turn-off for someone. Anyway, I love this guy & hey, where can I find Snake to display side by side of this mecha?

Dissidia Play Arts Kai: Gabranth

My first & only action figures from Square Enix - Play Arts Kai, Dissidia Final Fantasy: Gabranth. He is a character from the PSP hand held console game Dissidia Final Fanasty. Myself is a Final Fantasy fans following from FF VII all the way to FF X. That is the time during my college & university life. Once graduated & entering the working work, there aren't time to spend on for this hardcore FF game.

I do have my hand on Dissidia FF for a couple of weeks & I can't remember I ever choose Gabranth to play with. The reason I made my purchased for this figure is his bad ass armored look. Aren't you agree with me? Well, with SRP at 4,800 Yen is quite an expensive pieces of PVC to play with. Even Square Enix naming this "toy" as Black Label Collectors.

Come in a windowed box & he is secured inside a plastic tray. In the tray, there are 2 swords & 1 set of hands (to hold the swords)

Standard standing pose from 4 sides (he is approximately 20cm++)

His cape is made by same material of PVC which it is flexible to handle but the design is fix. The swords can be combine together & his hand is swappable to hold the weapons (just pull & plug).

For the box, it do mention that he come with 26 points of articulations. Not sure if it it true since I didn't really count on it. There are ratchet joints at the ankle, knee & elbow. Other than that, most of them are ball joints. He can stand on one leg, all thanks to his cape.

Random closed up to the details. His paint job are great, I never thought that all his armors are made by PVC until I handle him (I used to think that they are using material like gunpla plastic when I made my purchased). In my opinion, his mask is the most bad ass looking!

Random posing shots from him.

Nice looking isn't he? He is easily available on shelf at most of the toy shop. If you dislike the smell of PVC, you can give him a skip. The fume of it can easily fill up your room, you may need to open the package & left it "breathe" for sometime to minimize the PVC fume (My wife dislike him due to the fume, so he is officially back to the package).