Decent pics have finally popped up on the upcoming HMM Liger Zero. More or less confirmed from the 2nd pic that the add on parts will be upcoming. Knowing Kotobukiya, probably going to be separate kits. Nonetheless, me like!
And this apparently is going to be the boxart’s art… very nice!
The set is finally complete! Managed to grab the Clown a couple days ago.
Bring on series 2!
Almost complete! I misread one of the barcodes and I ended up having an extra zombie. Heh… no complaints though…
Only the clown left and series 1 is complete! 
With the news that series 1 is officially out of production, I think it’s time to quickly complete my collection
So now I have zombie (!!), mexican wrestler (luca libre!!), astronaut and ninja.
Pleasant news. For me anyway.
The next HMM Zoids from Kotobukiya is the Liger Zero. It’s coming in November, priced at 6,090 yen. Geez… price has gone up. Anyway, the Liger Zero has add-on armors to upgrade itself. These haven’t been announced. I wonder if the add-on armors will be sold as separate kits. Something tells me they’ll pack the base Liger Zero with the add-on armors. Bah.
Next up is the 3rd Bandai SOC mecha in the Ninja Senshi Tobikage series, Bakuryu. It doesn’t come with a small Tobikage like the previous 2 releases. Instead it comes with Zerokage. I don’t watch the show so I have no idea what Zerokage’s supposed to be. Still, Bakuryu is damn nice. It also happens to be one of those old 1980s toys that I liked but never bought. Coming in November (also) for 10,500 yen. Glurk…
Now this series is basically follows the capsule toy approach. You buy a bag and it’s the luck of the draw that determines what figure you get. Which means the more already you have in the series, the chances of getting doubles, triples etc goes up. Gets expensive. VERY expensive.
Brickset to the rescue! Members have put up PDF crib-sheets, matching the barcodes on the packaging to each figure. I tried out the ‘rest of the world release’ and it works! So now I have Robot and Cowboy (who looks more like an adventurer ala Indiana Jones to me) in my collection. Heh.
To still retain some sort of randomness to this, I decided to randomly pick packs and use the crib-sheets to only make sure I don’t get repeats. So you know… there’s still the (sort of) element of not knowing what I’m getting.
