![]() ![]() He reminded me a bit of the robots on the old Bots Master cartoon. Sure there is certainly something VERY Japanese about him, but he looks different than a lot of anime flair. This doesn’t look like your standard Japanimation robot. I was drawn to King Gainer, largely because of his cool design. He enjoys long walks in the park and Ron Popeil infomercials…” Actually I have no clue what any of that says. He is generally regarded as one bad mamma jamma and can slice and dice you in 14 different ways. The Japanese text reads: “Revoltech’s King Gainer is the pinnacle in excellence of flawless design and ingenuity. The back shows off some incredible poses with the figure and gives some more general information. This means it ratchets so that it holds poses tightly. The other side shows off the Revoltech joint and explains a bit about it. Every Revoltech is numbered in the regular series. I’ve seen some pretty impressive displays of Revoltech boxes. Each one has a side panel like this, though in varying colors. This doesn’t seem all that eye appealing, but as you collect more and more Revoltechs, you can actually display the boxes like this. On the side you get a nice graphic picture of King Gainer in blue. American kids are basically little savages, so a package like this would never work at your local TRU. The market in Japan is a lot different than that of America, so these are actually aimed moreso at collectors than little kids. It’s that sort of chic minimalist design that you get with Apple products. A simple paper wrap and couple pieces of tape hold the box closed. In essence these are small boxes with a window on the front showing off what is inside. Revoltechs all come in similar packages, although some of the later series do offer up some variations on the same idea. The Revoltech line doesn’t cover a full series of figures, it generally picks out two or three popular characters from an anime and makes figures of them. Buy a cool robot figure, make up your own storyline. The entire Shogun Warriors line was based upon this premise. Personally I remember as a kid I used to buy all sorts of cool looking toys without knowing much about them. It sounds neat in premise, but I must confess I’ve never seen a single piece of this anime and I likely never will.Ī lot of people have a hard time understanding buying into a figure that you know nothing about. In the anime, a kid steals an “Overman robot” and uses his gamertag (Like on Xbox) as his name. King Gainer comes from an anime of the same name. Most are anime robots, but Revoltech is expanding it’s line to encompass lots of new characters like Kaiju from Gamera and Godzilla, plus Predator, Alien and much more. Not counting spin offs series and some special editions, there have been 85 Revoltech figures. The general release schedule for Revoltech is two figures per month. The toy line is named Revoltech, for it’s special revolver joint system and was started by a company called Kaiyodo in 2006, who had previously made their name in Japanese “garage kits” and is primarily sculpted by Yamaguchi Katsuhisa. So all March long we’re going to be highlighting special reviews of robot figures and what better way to get into the mood for robots than with a Revoltech. ![]()
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