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\"SDF-1<\/a><\/p>\n

Review: Perhaps the most popular SDF-1 toy of all time
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Packaging & Extras:<\/strong> (2\/5)
\nWhile this review is for the official release you’ll probably immediately recognize this toy from any number of the knock-offs that were produced in its likeness.\u00a0 Pictured here is the official Takatoku packaging.\u00a0 The toy comes in a box adorned with Takatoku’s standard and beautiful artwork with a clear panel to see the toy within.\u00a0\u00a0 Inside you’ll find a small sticker-sheet to help you spruce up your new transforming toy.\u00a0 The toy also comes with several stickers already applied to give you some level of detail.\u00a0\u00a0 The picture below is stolen from an ebay listing and\u00a0shows one of the many knock-offs.<\/p>\n

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Charm & Collectability:<\/strong> (3\/5)
\nOf all my little (not deluxe) old school SDF-1 toys, including the somewhat pricy non-transformable 1\/6300 Takatoku offering, I think this is my favorite.\u00a0\u00a0 It loses some charm points by having essentially no metal content.\u00a0 Some might say the fact there are many knock-offs of this toy should bring down the collectability of the original but I’m not sure if I agree.\u00a0 The original certainly has the best looking color palette of all the variants I’ve seen.<\/p>\n

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Sculpt, Detail, & Paint:<\/strong> (5\/10)
\nFor its size it doesn’t do a bad job emulating the craft in the show.\u00a0 As I mentioned before, you do get some pre-applied stickers to help spruce things up.\u00a0 There are some obvious deficiencies, such as the parts that aren’t molded the whole way around like the gun booms.\u00a0 As you can see from the line art comparisons, Takatoku got the general shape right while not catching much of the detail.\u00a0 There are some large gaps in battroid mode and the post through the knees is a bit of an eyesore.<\/p>\n

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Design:<\/strong> (5\/10)
\nIt’s very cool that a toy of this small size can transform.\u00a0 Sure, the transformation is extremely simple and requires the main guns be detached and then reattached but that’s a very modest amount of parts-formation and easily forgiven from my standpoint.\u00a0 Beyond that though there’s nothing here to impress you.\u00a0 The legs should have some mechanism to lock them into place in cruiser mode and it seems one could have been very easily engineered.\u00a0 Obviously there aren’t any landing gears and not stand included so cruiser mode is for holding in your hand and whooshing around only.<\/p>\n