the origin kits are so hard to criticize because they don't leave a lot of room for that. The head joint is a little loose and sloppy but that can be easily modified and it's not that big a deal. the head doesn't randomly fall off in poses so who cares? Additionally sort of a meta complaint because this kit comes with optional parts selection and I wish they would just explain that you have an option because it's really hard to make these decisions after you've nearly completed a stage of the modeling. That's out of the way. All origin kits are RG-lite without the parts falling off of it every time you move them like dead pine needles on an old yellowed pine tree. None of these kits are bad. You have to look for ways to not like them. The shield is bad as heck (newtype's profanity filter is set to, like, 1950 lol) and sets this one off. Otherwise as one might expect this is the same basic kit as the origin rx-78-2 grandaddy. Style wise I wish these kits were a little "beefier". The kit is a little lanky but this is really an aesthetic preference. I found the stickers to be adequate but concise use of them in the rights spots really sets off this kit. The feet and the joints have a unique accordion ribbed frame thing going on, I thought the one at the feet was especially cool but really could have gone with a nice toe bend for certain poses. While this is not my favorite kit from the origin line (zaku 1 is too good), if you like UC timeline these kits are gold and you shouldn't pass them up. Not sure they're too heavy on reprints for this line as I've seen stock diminish. Looks like I'll be scratching my itch for 2-3x markup on ebay :(

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