After
several weeks of voting, the Shield Liger won out over
the Berserk Fury. So lets take a look at this baby.
I bought the Shield liger with Lindy on a trip out to
Roanoke. We checked out Toys R Us, and Walmart. TRU
had a good selection, but was still over priced, as
much as $10 more. So I stuck to walmart. Initially I
was looking for something a little harder to find. But
I figured that cheap is good too. Lindy especially liked
the fact the shield liger is number 007. It must
be the James Bond of zoids!
Figure 1. The whole box |
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Figure 2. Japanese Writing, Republic Seal,
and James Bond ID
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Unsolved
Mysteries
So
I figured out a few things that I thought were really
cryptic about the box.. the funky YTr thing at the top
of Figure 2. is Japanese for ZO-EE-DO, or ZOID(O). So
what is the logo under that? and why are some boxes
red and some green? I found this out from watching the
new Zoid series that is currently on the Cartoon Network.
The series takes place in a point in time where zoids
are used (developed?) by opposing armies. The logo in
the middle of Figure 2 is for the Republic. The one
that appears some other zoids is the Imperial seal (see
figure 6 of the Elephander).
The French
Are Not Amused
Here's
something I noticed and Lindy did too actually. On the
back and sides of the box the it exclaims the various
amazing features. However, in the other languages the
features are not so amazing. Ok check this out, here
are four examples.
I
thought the funniest thing was the choices for hispanic
excitement. I mean really is it the weapons? nooo...
the shield? nooo.. "Look amigos the cockpit opens
up! Lets get out of here!" and it walk "Look
amigos this thing can move! Lets use it to get out of
here!" I apologize if this sounds racist in any
way, I blame it on my ignorance of what excites the
spanish speaking people of the world. The only thing
funnier than the choice of spanish linguistic excitement,
is the French accent I used while saying 'Oh look, ze
weapens, zey rotate' when Lindy and I were in the Olive
garden parking lot. For the record the Minestrone soup
there is the same as the italian chili, except there
is meat and one less bean in the chili. |
Figure 7 Aerial
Shot by Emily of randomly numbered snap off parts |
Parts
It
might be something to do with the fact that this was
one of the first models (007) but for some reason the
numbers were not put on the snap of cards in order.
Before section A had 1-10 or so and B had 11-24 etc.
But with the shield liger, the numbers were scattered
around for no apparent reason. I couldn't find anything
particular about the numbering that made any sense at
all. Oh well it was late, maybe I just don't understand
the modeling world. It just made it more difficult for
me to find things. but I suppose it wasn't all that
frustrating. I did think it was odd that there were
two extra parts that weren't mentioned anywhere on the
instructions. |