HomeBlue Command Wolf
With added shiny pilot!
I haven't reviewed CW in a while, so here we go.
Command Wolf is one of the ubiquitous windups of the NJR, appearing everywhere in various limited and regular releases. They're often customized, they show up in lots of teams, and not a single main anime pilot has kept his alive for the whole series other than Helmut.
In other words, there's a metric crapload of them. If you don't have one, you're nuts. Go get one.
Really, they're not challenging or boringly easy-building the fifth or sixth or whateverth Wolf gets to be theraputic in a bizarre way. You piece together a body with a tail and poke a head together around that, with a little gear on the neck enabling the speed-switching later. Then it's adding bits and going leg leg leg leg gun Wolf, and you can set it free on the nearest floor and watch its insane walk take it speedshuffling away. Accurate it ain't, but it's quick (and kinda silly). Put it in slow mode and it's a bit saner, but what's the fun in that?
Blue here used to be a very rare limited, but recently reappeared in large quantities along with Shieldy DCS-J. It has the same box, but Command Wolf HT instructions. (Shieldy has the new battery case instead of OJR pop-open style, and I've heard rumors of the CP being different colors I can't confirm.) The plastic is nice and easy to trim though almost dangerously so-be careful not to trim too much.
A lot of people confuse this guy and the Midnight, but they're not much alike beyond the base color being blue. Blue is a pleasing turquoiseroyal shade somewhere in between Shieldy and Bladey, and its caps are white and its guns gold. Midnight is a deep midnighty blue of the sort that eats Mystick's brain, and has grey caps and silver guns. It also comes in a black-tinted box mentioning stuff about the game it accompanied, while Blue's actually says Blue and is...well, blue. If you see a blue box that doesn't say Blue and mentions/shows a game, that's the red Imperial Wolf.
Confused? Me too.
If you like blue or Command Wolves, Blue is worth getting before it gets spendy again. Otherwise, just pick and choose the variants you like. This one reminds me a bit of O'Connell, and I'm not sure why. It's got to be Jammer's fault somehow.
written April 14th, 2006