{"id":3443,"date":"2009-12-15T01:58:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T01:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anymoon.com\/blog\/?p=3443"},"modified":"2009-12-21T07:01:17","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T07:01:17","slug":"bandai-160-dx-ghost-weapons-bonus-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anymoon.com\/blog\/?p=3443","title":{"rendered":"Bandai 1\/60 DX Ghost & Weapons Bonus Items"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Observations & Critique: More money well burnt
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Tamashii exclusives come in a brown shipping box which houses a white inner box sheathed in tissue paper.\u00a0 Inside the box you\u2019ll find ONE of Luca\u2019s Ghosts, 2 communications antennae for the Ghost and corresponding (but not included) RVF-25 DX toy, 4 Reaction Missiles, Two sets of three mid-sized missiles, two individual longer missiles, and two sets of what look to be gun pods.\u00a0 Non-essential parts also include a display stand for the Ghost and a piece you can swap out to use said stand.<\/p>\n

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These were website exclusives limited to shipping addresses in Japan and it should only get harder to find these as time goes on.\u00a0 The Ghost Bonus Items should appeal to a bit broader base than the Gallia IV bonus parts.\u00a0 I have heard of a number of people ordering three sets of these parts so that they could have all three Ghosts to go along with their Luca DX VF-25 figure.\u00a0 The price on these is pretty prohibitive for most.<\/p>\n

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As seen previously with the Gallia IV bonus parts, Bandai has improved their accuracy since their VF-25 DX effort. The Ghost looks great.\u00a0 The obvious downside to the missiles is that they have to clip to the front of the DX\u2019s wing since the DX didn\u2019t come with hard points.\u00a0 It\u2019s not quite as bad as I anticipated but it\u2019s still pretty amateurish.\u00a0 You can probably do a better job than I did in the picture above of getting the missiles lined up.<\/p>\n

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There are some let downs in the design here.\u00a0 At this price, you would hope that the Ghost would have landing gears but it\u2019s great that Bandai compensated with a simple but effective display stand.\u00a0 Obviously the front clip mechanisms for the missiles are a let down as pegs fitting into the holes that should be in the wings would have been much more visually appealing (and failing that then magnets might have been cool).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I only have one complaint about the build here and that is that some parts of the Ghost are made of PVC so they might not hold their shape over time.\u00a0 As you might expect with any clip on part, you\u2019re going to want to be extra cautious about attaching the missiles.<\/p>\n

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Since there\u2019s really nothing to mention in regards to articulation (other than that the Ghost attaches to its display stand via a ball joint) I\u2019ll move right into the final thoughts.\u00a0 This is a great product but the Ghost should have been included with the DX RVF-25 toy OR three Ghosts should have come with this set.\u00a0 The extra bonus missiles are great but of those I think the reaction missiles are the only ones most people are going to care for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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