Takatoku Cyborg 009 Joe Shimamura gokin

This is a neat little gokin that I unfortunately knew nothing about before I shot it for this post so I missed out on showing you guys a cool little gimmick.

Here you can see the gimmicks on the back of the box.

He comes with a little catalog, missile baggie and spring-loaded gun for eye-popping action.

You will notice the "buttons" on his chest looks like a separate piece of the chest. That's because they are. The chest flips down to reveal a cyborg inner chest that shoots missiles! Awesome. Not awesome is that I didn't realize it when I took the pics. You can see the chest gimmick on the back of the box.

I thought it would not be my cup of tea, but I enjoyed it. Look at it's excellent unplayed-with condition. Some Japanese kid missed out.

Mini Review: Takatoku Destroid Monster HWR-00-MK II

This is the 1/240 scale Destroid Monster from Takatoku. It is a sweet little block of diecast. The barrels are plastic as are the arms and thighs, but everything else is good old metal. It comes in a nice styro tray. Stickers have already been applied although I dont mind too much since they were applied pretty good and it looks good with them on.

Although stickers were applied, the sticker sheet was still included. Would have been nice to get a good scan of this sheet to get repros made. Oh well.

I'm a sucker for toys like this.