Zoids

[Philip Ayres]

Oct 7, 2024 11:43:15 GMT Philip Ayres said:

The Zoids came don from the loft on Saturday. I know we haven't found all of them yet

The little wind-up Zoids went down to the Garage en masse on Sunday afternoon, they've all survived storage relatively well.

I have a large plastic tub with all my larger wind up Zoids in, the Super 1000 series some of which were released over here in 88 or 89

I have another plastic tub with a number of my medium motorised Zoids in. Sabre Fang (red), Shield Liger Dimetrodon, Gunbuster, Lightning Saix and a Moonbay Gustav (Scavenger) with 4 trailers. The Gustav that donated the trailers should go in there too.

What couldn't go in was the Blade Liger which, not to put too fine a point on it, was in pieces. So one of today's tasks was rebuilding it. Can I get the booster engine tips to stay on? Can I bleep! Shame cos that's a nice pop up feature.

I said I had two Gustavs.... many years ago (15+) my in laws found me a box of Zoids in a charity shop. The Gustav was in there. Also in there was a near complete Elephander - missing an armour piece on the top of the trunk where it joins the head - which had most of it's alternate armour with it. So today I fished my Elephander out the box and discovered they'd been built identically. I stripped the head down on the incomplete one and rebuilt it into the variant: I think all the extra bits came from it's supply of parts rather than mine!

Also in that box were a number of smaller Zoids and a Gordosaur (Gorgon). That may be a challenge to rebuild as it doesn't want to stay together.

My Death Stinger has also shed a few parts in storage but the parts it's shed are proving challenging for my fingers to reassemble.

Then we have the box containing the Seisomosaurus and Gojulus Giga parts. Both in bits. Gojulas Giga shed parts like anything the last time I had him in one piece and had to put batteries in him

Nick's photos allowed me to place where my Ultrasaurus is but my Deathsaurer seems awol and there a number of small Blox kits I haven't seen yet

EDIT: D'oh, there's Deathy on the far right

[legios]

It's sneaking up on you. Who knew that a Zoid that big could move so quietly!

:-)

Karl

[legios]

I must admit this is making me tempted to get my own Deathsaurus reassembled. It's one of the few non custom-repainted Zoids I still have from my collection, and I am tempted to clear some space and get him out to loom over part of the flat.

Karl

[Philip Ayres]

Smaller Zoids now all in the garage

Been working on reassembling Gojulas Giga. Fight goes well, though I suspect he'll never walk again as the last time he did he shed parts EVERYWHERE :-(

The Seismosaurus looks less promising. It too was in a lot of pieces and some I could not see where they went having grabbed the manual

www.red-salamander.com/manuals/

Then I read this: theironbible.com/ZoidsModelKits/NJR/Seismosaurus.php

Unfortunately, reports from fans as of 2020 report that the kit suffers from brittle plastic syndrome, so it may be worth taking into account when buying and building.

It looks like every leg has had a piece fail catastrophically but very cleanly.

I'm going to need some experts to look at this one :-(