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Moriboto Type-2; Jinki Extend, Robot Museum Meat and Potatoes; 5.0 Perks; 5.0 Homer Factor; 5.0				Description;  another butt-kicking piece of plastic from Kaiyodo.  Moriboto Type 2 is approximately 7" tall and is reminicent of the EVA figures created by Kaiyodo; an odd mix of insect-like appearance with a number of technological flourishes such as panel-lines and thruster vents.  The figure is mostly blue and white and has an immense amount of articulation. The figure comes with a veritable armory of weapons ranging from the usual sword to a giant cannont that's about as long as the figure  is tall.  The piece also comes with a ton of extra hands allowing he figure to hold every weapon.
'Not ANOTHER Japanese import?!??!?!?!?!!!!'  Yep.  Hey, deal with it, the stuff rocks.  Ok, ok, so the names can be REALLY horrible.  No one said George Lucas cornered the market on messed-up names.(Let's be frank here, JANGO Fett?  Oooookay.)  Just the same, we're talking about toys here.  Sure, sure, a cool name can point you in the right direction, but it's not the size of the blister back, it's how ya use it.  The anime series this is based on is a new one... and I have no idea what it's about.  I vaguely recall something about a girl being kidnapped, special robots... oh, who cares.  IT'S A GIANT ROBOT... and like all cool robots recreated by Kaiyodo, this one ROCKS.  Hey, you could name this freaking thing Shirley Temple, you STILL would have one bad-ass hunk o' plastic with enough weapons to make Rambo drool.  . Meat and potatoes?  Come on folks, this is Kaiyodo.  The piece is awesome in this department.  Like most Kaiyodo pieces, there are funky joints all over the place, so you have a figure with a ton o' posing possibilities, which means great display AND playing possibilities.  You want a basic standing-with-swords-in-hands-and-look-threatening pose?  No problem.  Wanna do the I'm-a-marine-and-this-is-my-rifle-shooting-your-sorry-butt pose?  No problem.  Likewise, the sculpt is over-the-top; vents, panel-lines, little sensor things abound.  The paint is also very good, albeit simple.  The details of getting the sensor clusters a nice green and red along with darkened panel-lines leave even Gundam figures a little green with envy.  Perks....ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh.  The wonderful thing about Kaiyodo pieces is they are VERY loaded, and this is no exception; you have two swords, a ton of variant hands, a pistol, quarterstaff with FOUR tips, and the largest hand-held rifle this side of Rambo.  I take that back, this isn't a 'rifle', this is a CANNON.  Ooooohhhhhhhhhhhh.  Oh, and ANOTHER good touch; the variant hands allow the figure to actually hold this giant gun like a rifle.  Oh yeah, babe! Oh, and a wonderful perk; Kaiyodo has again included a little instruction sheet with the figure to show where all the joints are and how most of the weapons fit into the figure's hands.  Granted, not in color, so details can be kinda hard to make-out, but just the same considering how off-the-wall the articulation of this figure is and the plethora o' accessories, any help is appreciated.  Home factor?   Please, this is KAIYODO.  Fine, the name of this thing is horrible and who knows what the 'toon is about.  Just the same, you have a piece created by a company that makes products that are both great to display AND awesome to just mess with. In the end, you cannot beat that combination of good look AND playability.  And you're wondering about price?  Not great by any means, but $25 for a Japanese import of this caliber is nothing to sneeze at.  Now if they could do something about the freaking NAME.   How can you go from Convoy and Black Zarak to Moriboto?  Oh well, nothing is perfect...