Now, Bandai/Namco has come together to form a company called Megahouse and guess what the first 3 releases are in their Actionworks line? That's right, new versions of the Space Sheriffs. Gavan, Sharivan and Shaider are all scheduled to be released starting from October! Now this version of Gavan, I must say, looks much better. It can be posed in more dynamic poses and the proportions are much better.

Retailing at 2500 yen, these are fully poseable and stand about 12cm tall, which seems to indicate they are about the same size as the previous Souchaku Henshin releases.

Damn. I should stop looking at toy websites...

Baikanfu is like Gordion, where there are 3 different-sized robots, all nested inside each other. However, Baikanfu looked much cooler than Gordion.

The original toy wasn't poseable at all, due to the gimmick. If Bandai manages to make this upcoming release in any way poseable, it'd be damn hard for me to resist.

This is a must get for me since I actually prefer the Y-Wing design than the X-Wing design heh. There's just something about the workhorse spacecraft that appeals to me. Speaking of the X-Wing, Fine Molds also showcased a 1/48 version of the spacecraft at the show. Now this one wa a surprise for me.

No details if this is just a scale-up of the 1/72 X-Wing but it will make an impressive showcase in anyone's display case. This one is coming out 4th quarter 2007.

As per tradition, Kunio Okawara still has a hand in designing the main Gundams and it shows. He's usual odd lines (in my mind anyway) are still present. Although I must say they look a bit more 'super robot' than previous Gundams.

For now, I'm kinda ambivalent towards the designs but that is normal for Okawara designs. They tend to look better when animated. The Gundams we see here (from left to right, top to bottom): Gundam Exia, Gundam Dynames, Gundam Kyrios and Gundam Virtue are supposedly the 'hero' Gundams. Looks generic enough. A melee fighter, a long range sniper, an agile flyer and a heavy artillery gunner. These are now the archetypes for Gundams it seems stretching back to Gundam Wing. I don't really understand why they have to do Gundam this way to be honest.

But hey, Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny have been OK in the ratings so they must be doing something right. I'm just a moody old cumudgeon...

I'm by no means an Okawara basher since I liked the Strike Gundam and lots of other Gundam designs he did, but these look too generic and 'super robot' to my liking. Kinda dilutes the 'realistic robot' genre that Gundam originally pioneered.

To make the deal even sweeter, the promo page has pics of a Ride Armor too! And unlike the weirdly proportioned 1980s toy, this one manages to look good in both forms!

Being a Mospeada fanboy, I'm glad they are finally making properly done toys of this often overlooked series.

Now what am I going to do with the original releases of these things? Double bugger. The bottom picture is probably what the final colors of the Zoids will be. No suprises there since they are of the original colors.

I actually hope they spew out recolors of these things, so I can catch a breather and not have to buy new releases... hehe

Italeri kits can be hit or miss but so far, I've been lucky. The previous Italeri kit (the A-6E Intruder) I previewed looked to be a good kit. What about this one? The kit comes in the typical Italeri side opening box. There are two main trees of parts and 1 clear canopy tree in a plastic bag. Not much protection I must say, but at least there are no parts that fell off the tree.

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