Geno Breaker

Glowyyy eyes. Whee. This is the first dinosaur-y Zoid I built...leave it to me to pick a really hard one :p. Although I almost got the Berserk Führer instead...er...it cost 2500 yen plus shipping, which wasn't all that cheap, as Geno Breaker's both heavy and comes in a large box.

I thought the Liger Zero X had a lot of parts...this guy's worse. It comes with a ton of them, a motor with a glowy eye thingie attached to it, and a little pre-painted Shadow figure. And yes, there's a Raven figure for the pilot as well. I don't know why Shadow gets his own pre-painted figure and Sieg doesn't *pokes Tomy*...but the Shadow one is a softer plastic, and comes with parts so that his wings can be either folded or unfolded.

Other than a few parts, this guy was kind of tricky. Lots of parts, and the head with its pointy parts and glowy eye thing and the neck with the wires for the glowy eye thing were pretty fiddly. I assembled the head wrong the first time around (I had the pointy piece for the jaw on the outside instead of the inside) and didn't notice until I had more parts on, so I ended up having to take the body apart, fix the head, and put it back together.

When the Breaker's legs and arms were finally on, I tested it, and it walked okay. Then came the back boosters and claw things. The things that let the claw things turn were really tight-they barely would go together. So I made the holes for them a bit bigger with my xacto knife, and now they're a bit loose. Figures :p. Once I got it assembled and on the Geno Breaker, all that was left was the cannon things on the sides of the legs (or did those go on first? Argh...I can't remember right now...). Finally, the darn thing was together...

However, once I tried to get Geno Breaker to walk, I discovered that the additional weight made it hard for it to move...the motor sounds like it's straining (it kind of clicks occasionally), and the Breaker dances, for lack of a better word. If I pick it up and hold it in the air, it works normally, so I'm pretty sure it's the weight doing it and not something I did wrong. I checked everything, too...the legs and such are all on correctly. I've described the Breaker's walk as looking like an overly-caffeinated duck trying to dance, and it pretty much fits him...poor guy is too top-heavy. And the on/off switch is hard to reach, especially when it's in motion...it's tucked against its side, under the boosters/claws...

Geno Breaker does look very nice, though...the glowy eye effect is very cool, and the claw things are well-articulated. Its head and neck can also be pushed down a bit by hand so that it opens its mouth and looks like it's roaring or about to fire its CPC.