Robot Damashii Age-1 Normal

Wassup peeps , well it is way over exam period hence a review is in order. Today we will be looking at the AGE-1 Normal.
To be honest when sunrise said there will be a gundam based on 3 different generations I was kind interested  with the new concept and curious as how would they do it, but then I saw a post somewhere that this gundam is catered towards kids and poof goes my interest. But heck any gundam series deserves a second chance, I managed to watch a few episodes and it seems good as a gundam that can learn from the pilot and change parts to suit different situations is interesting, might get to finish the series one day.

Here is the review

Front Box

Back Box

Front View

Right Side View

Back View

Left Side View

 Head Articulation

Max Up

Max Down

Head can also rotate 360 degrees.

 Waist Articulation

Max Front

Max Back

Also forgot to mention that it can more side to side as well.

Arms Articulation

Max elbow

Max Shoulder

Side Skirts

Leg Articulations

Knee Joint

 Accessories
1 x Gun
1 x Shield
2 x Open hand
2 x Holding hand
1 x stand connector
1 x thruster effect part
2 x short beam saber
2 x long beam saber

The arms and legs can be separated by the torso as above, this feature is kinda unique for a gundam figure and will only make sense with the following review.

Overall this is a fairly good figure, very good articulations as you can see way above, being able to do a perfect split and kneeling down is rare for a gundam figure mostly due to the design of the gundam rather than the toy itself. 

There are a few downsides for this figure are that the head is actually painted white instead of the normal white plastic. Bandai decided to introduce a new point for the hands which is the thing I hated most about this figure, changing hands was a pain and I am afraid that it will break eventually as I was pretty rough with it. The feet is a little disappointing as it does not have any articulations besides the ankle joint. The effect part is nice but it is a pain to put it on the figure.

Somehow the Age series isnt doing well in the robot damashii line as the price online says it all. The age series line costs can go from 1000 yen to around 2000 yen which is very cheap, meaning nobody wants them hence the price drop. 

I was reluctant to buy the age line at first but the AGE-1 Titus design attracted me, and the rest of the figures are pretty cheap. There are only 4 age figures so far and with less than 2k yen for each I think it was quite worth it.

Coming up next will be the AGE-1 Titus