THIS POST IS FOR ANOTHER ZOID. KOTOBUKIYA'S HIGH END MASTER MODEL THINGSSSS VERSION OF LIGER ZERO
SCHNEIDER JAGER. They spelled it that way, not me. It just makes me want to mispronounce it though. TOOLS USED: That scissors that I nearly sliced my finger off with while absentmidedly drying it off after cleaning it. It deserves to be dulled by plastic.
Anyway, this is mostly just pictures with ramblings from notes and things I remember from building it. I don't know what else to do. I also counted pieces because I couldn't understand how things like making all the armor pieces for a single leg was taking me 40 minutes. Seriously, this whole thing took me the majority of two days, and I really felt like I pushed myself hard to finish on that second day. AND YES I DID HAVE TO SIT DOWN AND DEAL WITH IT LIKE THAT I CAN'T JUST DO SOMETHING ELSE WHEN THERE'S A THING IN THE MIDDLE OF DOING
UNBOXING
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So I decided I wanted a Liger Zero and chose one that came with my favorite armor: Schneider. You know, the red one with all the sharp objects everywhere. I ORDERED THE RIGHT THING OKAY AMAZON EVEN STILL SAYS "SCHNEIIIIIIDERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR"
I open the box and SURPRISE HAPPY CHRISTMAS
So blue, so much damage. How do you manage to not only send the blue one instead of the red one (it's not like they're that similar or have the same numbers or anything like that at all) but also punch the box a few times on the bottom and left side and just. Stab it with a knife right in the middle there. It's hard to tell because I made the picture unnecessarily small, but it's that jangly white bit over his leg/chest. I really like the boxart on these things so that depressed me, and also made me worry that something inside may have been damaged by whatever knife they used to stab my (terribly blue and lacking in blades) box.
I never had a Jager, though, save for some really horrible plastic action figure I bought at Target or something back when you could do that in America... but even then, the box said it was Panzer. And it WAS green... Still, it was a Jager. But I never had a model, or any GOOD toys. And complaining about things is such a hassle, so I decided to just go with it and not say a word.
THE HEAD
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I actually had to shave off parts on the front two teeth piece to get it to fit in the face properly, since it kept popping off whenever the sideteeth parts were put on tightly. They made fronteeth bit too big on the bottom/connecting bit. :( All it did was tell me to use the nippers. BUT HOW COULD A NIPPER HELP ME WHEN THE PIECE WAS ACTUALLY JUST TOO BIG, NO CONNECTINGBITS LEFT OVER.
Taking the bottom teeth piece from the frame was so painful. I usually try to bend/twist pieces out after cutting enough that I can since they generally seem to come off better if you do that, but these teeth are so sharp, man, and they did not want to twist.
Taking the eyes/cockpitwindows piece out was almost dangerous. It was in some tiny bright orange SPRUUUUUUUUUUE but I didn't realize there was another piece in there and almost threw it away after taking the eyepart. But nope, there was a second part in N, and it's just some tiny square that couldn't possibly be useful for anything. I kept it to be safe.
As someone who is used to the old Zoids models, I cannot help but feel amazing and wonderful when everything fits snugly into place on the head. So many times in the past has putting the head together required becoming a fingeroctopus. Parts that move didn't stay put until they were locked in place by the other side, so for heads this meant you'd have to keep a bunch of pieces (like a lower mouthpart, the neck, and whatever other things might be required for that particular model) held into one half of the face and in position to fit into the second half of the face properly. It's impossible how did I do it a million times. But with these guys if you jam it in, it stays in instead of falling over immediately, and screw necks we use ballnecks here. So much easier. Much less octopus. thank you for listening.
OKAY GUYS I HOPE YOU'RE READY FOR A VERY IMPORTANT STEP VERY IMPORTANT TO DO IN PROPER ORDER STEP 1 OPEN COCKPUT SETP 2 INSERT BIT CLOUD (WAIT DOES THAT SAY PIT I NEVER WATCHED THIS ZOIDS SERIES IN JAPANESE) STEP 3 CLOSE COCKPIT (I missed step 3). You probably won't understand, but I couldn't stop myself from smiling like an idiot during this step. They acted like it was so important to do it in that order, which you understand. But what you don't understand is what inserting Bit Cloud into the Liger Zero means to me. I once had this huge action figure of Liger Zero, and if you stuck Bit Cloud into the pilot seat, it'd push a button that made it spew out a recording of him saying "THE NAME'S BIT CLOUD!" but the button was so, so sensitive. So whenever I put him into the cockpit, it was always "TH-TH-TH-TH-TH-THE NAME'S BIT CLOUD!" and :( I told you you would never understand.
FUN FACT: THE HEAD IS 23 PIECES, PLUS 33 MORE WITH ALL THE JAGERBITS ON.
TORSO AND LEGSTIME
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Have some random torso parts. Butt not included in picture, but I do want to note that putting the butt on was kinda hard. Most of the moving parts are handled with this crazy rubbery plasticy material, which works great and keeps everything really tight and secure so they only move when it's actually intended. But they can be so hard to actually get pieces into, man.
This isn't even all the torso, but the whole body is 91 pieces, plus 63 more when you get Jagerstuff on. Most of that is Jager's boosters, admittedly.
SHOWING OFF SOME LEG NOW. Also you can see my lovely scissors here. Isn't it disgusting how it tries to be so cute with that pink heart, yet the blades look like they could give you tetanus. I don't think I was vaccinated anywhere near recently I think I'm going to die. I'd also like to point out that this thing, judging by the brand name, is a scissors for scrapbooking (ie it cuts paper and paper). I usually use fabric scissors since they're stronger. But I guess the distinction was pointless after all. If it can cut flesh by accident, it can cut plastic.
SO ABOUT CLAWS. They're really sharp. They got caught on my bed a billion times whenever they weren't on the instructions.
For each leg, there's this blueish part that's used to connect to the body. To make it there's this tiny little nail/sticklike part that you have to put into a tiny hole to lock a hinge piece in place, but it won't go in all the way unless you make sure the tiny notch at the insertingend of the nailpiece is facing up. I saw this warning on the instructions all four times I had to deal with this and tried really hard to make it perfect but I had to take it out and redo it every single time. :(
Front legs are 46 pieces, plus 22 more in Jagerstuff. Back legs were 52 pieces, with 21 more in Jagerstuff.
TAIL AND ZOID CORE STUFF
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So the tail. The tail was the most painful thing I've ever consented to for something that's meant to be fun. It's also more painful than some medical procedures involving needles. NOT JOKING. See, there's like three sections on the tail, so you have to do this one step three times. There are like four parts in each section, and one of the parts is really small and has this very small pillar part that goes through a hole. You have to use a lot of force to get it in because like everything it fits fabulously, but then once it goes in it's like a ginormous needle stabbing you in the finger when the pillar finally hits the end of its hole... because it juts out past the hole to connect to the next piece and by the next piece I mean your finger. It's slightly worse than having your finger pricked for a blood sugar check. Everyone knows what that feels like, right? ... right?
Anyway screw the tail I made a sound all three times. Because of the SUDDEN PAIN. Also the tail was 15 pieces (woo!) without the gun part, since you take that off for all of the armor changes anyway. The Jager armor adds 5 pieces to that tail which seems far too reasonable to be true...
[18:33:24] <Guest57231> Oh god
[18:33:25] <Guest57231> N2 was real
MY REACTION WHEN I FOUND OUT THEY ACTUALLY WANTED ME TO USE THAT TINY ORANGE BOX PIECE I ALMOST THREW AWAY. I was hoping it wasn't really real.
Here is N2 on a quarter (Canadian but screw you it's not my fault people kept giving us random Canadian change in notcanada, which is in America). Just so you know how small it is. This also has the Zoid core and its holder thing in it. I dunno. I mostly only took this picture because WHAT THE HECK N2
I PUT IT IN BACKWARDS AND COULDN'T GET IT OUT AGAIN
FINISHING UP LIGER ZERO.
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All the parts for an unarmored Liger Zero. I sure do like it when legs can stand up on their own. Also the Zoid Core part slid in very nicely. I was impressed after all the massive confusion I remember having about the Blade Liger's that continues to this day.
Anyway, this thing was waaaay more sturdy than I remember their Blade Liger being. I remember always thinking "what is the point in being this flexible if everything falls apart if you look at it wrong" but the Liger Zero was so well done that I... actually couldn't even take off his legs when I wanted to to make it easier to put on the stuff for the Jager armor. TO TEST HIS FLEXIBILITY I SET HIM UP AGAINST HIS CHILD, THE MOST FLEXIBLE AND GOOD ACTION FIGURE ANYONE EVER MADE OF THE LIGER ZERO (THAT I KNOW OF I GUESS, I'M NOT ACTUALLY THAT INTO THE TOYS). In the nude.
I tried to make them do the same pose, but the pose never looked right with the action figure and he was ten million times less steady in it. As far as I'm concerned, man, this thing has made all Liger Zero toys obsolete. It's more flexible than all of them, more detailed than all of them, involves a fabulous manyhours of building time during which you are clearly in another world, and it's bigger than most. So impressed after all those mixed feelings from the HMM Blade Liger. I also don't remember having any real worries about pieces breaking, or anything like that. It never happened even when I wasn't being careful.
My mother told me that the Liger Zero looked like a skeleton and that I needed to hurry and put his armor together.
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SPOILERS I DIDN'T WRITE ANY NOTES AND ALL THE INPROGRESS PICTURES I TOOK WERE TOO DARK OR COLORWARPED BY MY LAMP TO BE OF ANY INTEREST. But I do have random things I remember, like thinking the boosters were totally hot. And getting mad when I realized they would barely be flexible at all because of how they were attached, and were also attached to the body by the flimsiest, scariest pieces ever. I don't dare try too hard to move them. That stuff'll snap in an instant, I just know it. There were also a lot of parts that were moulded in the stupidest possible ways. It was mostly the white parts that were like this, but so many were connected at the stupidest places that were bound to cause massive issues that no amount of skill or propermodellingtools was ever going to fix.
There were also random parts that were movable for no apparent reason, which just made the whole thing feel shakier without adding anything useful or cool. And the tail part for the tail? It's too heavy, I think, because after I put that on the tail kept coming apart at random sections whenever I happened to even lift the stupid thing up (as in, I didn't have to touch the tail to make it explode). Another complaint about those white parts is that a lot of them were just supposed to sort of stick on to other parts. With magic, I guess. Most of them stayed on fine, but it didn't surprise or confuse me at all that two of the parts (one was one of the wingbits on the back hip, and the other is a white part on his head near his eyes) popped off whenever I wasn't looking. And when I WAS looking. At least it's always the same two. I might stick some glue under those two...
Anyway, completion.
Frontish. I'm not really a good pictures person. I like how you can see part of his Zoid core here though. That little orange glow in the chestarea. KINDA COOL.
THE BUTT EVERYONE LOVES BUTTPICTURES
Not very imposing without all the pointy stuff sticking out.
OVERALL THIS WAS A VERY DISAPPOINTING SCHNEIDER BECAUSE IT WAS A JAGER AND HAD PROBLEMS THAT MADE ME FEEL KIND OF AMBIVALENT OF THIS AS A WHOLE BECAUSE ONLY THE LIGER ZERO PART WAS GOOD THE JAGER PART LOOKS GOOD BUT IS BAD. At least it can still headtilt despite all that added bulk.
Also this above picture is making me think that the reason they sent me a Jager instead of a Schneider is because they didn't want me to impale myself through my hand with one of the Schneider's blades, which would no doubt be xboxhueg and actually sharp, unlike how they are on this toy (which is the same toy I took the nakedpictures with, in case anyone was curious). But I still want an HMM Schneider... I WANT to stab myself through the hand with those blades.
LET'S ALL BECOME AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL, builders
Aug 10 2014, 05:37 PM
Walrus LET'S ALL BECOME AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL Aug 10 2014, 05:37 PM
