The most successful merchandise line for any Kamen Rider series by Bandai of Japan has pumped out some incredible toys the last few months – and one of the most anticipated was none other than Arms Change Kamen Rider Zangetsu. Serving as the main antagonist in the Kamen Rider Gaim television series as of this writing, the character in the show just whoops up on all the other characters in a way that would make any superhero or super villain salivate.
So to determine how a white plastic remold of Kamen Rider Gaim in to Kamen Rider Zangetsu holds up, we turn to our great pal and TokuNation.com contributor baltmatrix, who provides us with yet another video review, this time of AC05 – Kamen Rider Zangetsu!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFWbvGwxcYU
Why would Zangetsu's white plastic fell cheap? Wouldn't he be on par with Fourze?
Zangetsu is, by all accounts and purposes, a remold of Kamen Rider Gaim - meaning they took the same casting plates, and simply did a new head and changed the color plastic to white.
I'm not 100% familiar with the plastic molding bit, but from what I was always led to believe, the quality of the plastic has to do with the COOLING of the plastic after it's been cast. A cheaper plastic cools faster, but also becomes more brittle. When you're dealing with white plastic, it costs xx amount more to get the same quality plastic as a not-white colored one.
White plastic is hard to do because the cheaper the plastic, the more "dirty" it looks, the cheaper it feels, and the more quickly it falls apart. It's not as bad as the dreaded gold plastic, which is too soft and thus degrades from dryness over time.
Zangetsu is, by all accounts and purposes, a remold of Kamen Rider Gaim - meaning they took the same casting plates, and simply did a new head and changed the color plastic to white.
I'm not 100% familiar with the plastic molding bit, but from what I was always led to believe, the quality of the plastic has to do with the COOLING of the plastic after it's been cast. A cheaper plastic cools faster, but also becomes more brittle. When you're dealing with white plastic, it costs xx amount more to get the same quality plastic as a not-white colored one.
White plastic is hard to do because the cheaper the plastic, the more "dirty" it looks, the cheaper it feels, and the more quickly it falls apart. It's not as bad as the dreaded gold plastic, which is too soft and thus degrades from dryness over time.
I didn't bother with the Fourze Gadget Line. So I'm no help there
These look really nice, I'm new to this stuff so what scale are these?
A real pity about Zangetsu's white making him brittle. Maybe if his Shin form is casted in a light grey perhaps he'll hold up better.
Great review.
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