20 November 2005
Exclusive: Hands-On DX3 Pictures 
I received my DX3 figures from my friend in Hong Kong over the weekend. Don't ask how he got them... but he's got more for sale in the forum. Anyway, here are some pictures with commentary, click on the thumbnails for larger images.
Like the Psycho Gundam in DX2, the Devil Gundam is the rarest figure in DX3 - as rare as secret figures in the regular volumes. I have the regular version... even more rare is the alternate version, with "Devil Fingers" extended, and as you can image the "secret" version, the floating-head mobile armor mode, is almost impossible to find. Oh well.
The Gundam Wing Endless Waltz figures are pretty nice. I highly recommend getting both versions of Nataku if you can, because the arms are interchangeable, meaning you can make a version with both claws extended and one with neither claw extended, as I show below. The Sandrock with cloak is also a nice figure.
Hamma Hamma and Palace Athene with beam sabers:
Gaplant with beam saber... this is actually a pretty nice figure, but it has an awkward stand which is why we never got any good pictures of it.
I think this is a first: The Xamel figures includes both variants. As shown below, the Xamel comes with two versions of its main gun, one stowed and one deployed. It's a nice feature, and it saves us the trouble of buying two Xamels, though it will be very easy to lose those itty-bitty extra pieces...
Perfect Zeong is to scale, and it's pretty nice. You can see in the pictures that the Perfect Zeong measures up nicely against the Queen Mansa, and is about the same height as the not-quite-to-scale Psycho Gundam. Do you think it bothers Bandai that their 1/400 scale versions of the 30 meter tall Zeong and the 40 meter Psycho Gundam are the same height? It'd better! The Zeong upper body is identical to the one from DX1, except the two large rockets are removed... you can see in the picture it even has the hole for the DX1 Zeong's stand. Also, the Perfect Zeong's feet do contain rockets, as they should, but I'm a little annoyed they stuck the holes for the base right next to then... couldn't those have been integrated into the rocket somehow?
Other than a few nit-picky complaints, I am very pleased with DX3. The figures look great.
Like the Psycho Gundam in DX2, the Devil Gundam is the rarest figure in DX3 - as rare as secret figures in the regular volumes. I have the regular version... even more rare is the alternate version, with "Devil Fingers" extended, and as you can image the "secret" version, the floating-head mobile armor mode, is almost impossible to find. Oh well.
The Gundam Wing Endless Waltz figures are pretty nice. I highly recommend getting both versions of Nataku if you can, because the arms are interchangeable, meaning you can make a version with both claws extended and one with neither claw extended, as I show below. The Sandrock with cloak is also a nice figure.
Hamma Hamma and Palace Athene with beam sabers:
Gaplant with beam saber... this is actually a pretty nice figure, but it has an awkward stand which is why we never got any good pictures of it.
I think this is a first: The Xamel figures includes both variants. As shown below, the Xamel comes with two versions of its main gun, one stowed and one deployed. It's a nice feature, and it saves us the trouble of buying two Xamels, though it will be very easy to lose those itty-bitty extra pieces...
Perfect Zeong is to scale, and it's pretty nice. You can see in the pictures that the Perfect Zeong measures up nicely against the Queen Mansa, and is about the same height as the not-quite-to-scale Psycho Gundam. Do you think it bothers Bandai that their 1/400 scale versions of the 30 meter tall Zeong and the 40 meter Psycho Gundam are the same height? It'd better! The Zeong upper body is identical to the one from DX1, except the two large rockets are removed... you can see in the picture it even has the hole for the DX1 Zeong's stand. Also, the Perfect Zeong's feet do contain rockets, as they should, but I'm a little annoyed they stuck the holes for the base right next to then... couldn't those have been integrated into the rocket somehow?
Other than a few nit-picky complaints, I am very pleased with DX3. The figures look great.
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