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S.H. Monster Arts Mecha King Ghidorah Shinjuku Decisive Battle Special Set


It's been a while since I've gotten a new release figure. Tamashii Nations decided to give us an updated version of their Mecha King Ghidorah, with an added accessory that the previous release didn't include (though this one doesn't come with the 3 little Dorat figures, the creatures that were used to create King Ghidorah in the 1991 film, that this character also hails from). I received this rad dude a few days ago, so let's dive in and check him out.










The sculpt is accurate to the monster's suit, mostly silver and gold, everything painted and sculpted very nicely. The mechanical head has some red hightlights on the neck, as well as a rocket inside the mouth, and translucent green eyes. The wings are a nice gold color, with silver frame. There's a translucent circular segment on the chest, where the cyborg was piloted from within. In the film, after Godzilla defeated King Ghidorah, Emmie, who was from the future, went back to her time and revived Ghidorah's body, which was still underneath the sea, with a very faint heartbeat (I won't get into how unrealistic it was that he was able to survive that long for over 200 years). Anyway, using their modern technology, Emmie and the Futurians turn Ghidorah into a cyborg, giving him a mechanical head, body, wings, shin guards and mechanical tail ends, and send him back to 1992 to defeat Godzilla. The figure is made of the usual ABS and PVC material, with die cast on 4 hinged doors on its torso where he shoots out grabbing cables.










The accessories include 4 bendy wire cables with articulated claws that can be pegged into holes underneath the die cast hinged doors on its chest. 2 small ones are to grab onto Godzilla's arms, the larger ones are for his legs. He also has 1 large hard plastic hook that attaches to his mid torso. You simply pull out the panel in the middle of the body and peg this attachment into place. It has a large claw on the end with articulated mandibles for grabbing Godzilla's chest. Also included is a stand to help hold the cables up by themselves, though they don't require a stand when holding their prey. The new accessory included in this release is a pair of alternate battle-damaged wings, from the scene where Godzilla blasted holes into them before being dropped into the ocean. You swap them by pulling the regular ones out, and pushing the other one into the wing compartment until it snaps into place. Changing them is very easy, something that I was initially concerned about, but thankfully, that's not the case.









The articulation includes his three multi-segmented necks, the lower jaws are on ball joints, the tongues on the 2 side heads can move up and down, ball-jonted torso that can twist to the sides and crunch forward a bit, ball jointed thighs, single jointed knees, slight ankle pivot, and two multi-ball jointed tails. The wings are on hinges that can flap forward and backwards, and also include a circular hinge that allows them to tilt up and down. The articulation is the same for the battle-damaged wings as well. One thing I noticed is that everything stays in place fairly well. I wondered if the neck joints would pop out easily like the tentacles of Biollante, but they stayed put while posing them, so that was a pleasant surprise. Due to the design of the robotic neck, that one can't bend down as far as the other two.










Just like the reissue of Final Wars Gigan, this Decisive Battle Special Set Mecha King Ghidorah is fantastic, sporting great paint and sculpt, fun accessories, and good articulation. For anyone who skipped out on the initial release, this new version is absolutely worth getting. I'm glad that I made it a part of my collection. Tamashii Nations has teased a 1991 Godzilla to go along with this figure, but thus far, no further news about it has dropped. If you have the 1989 Godzilla, which I do, it should pair nicely with the 3-headed cyborg, as that suit is almost the same, other than some minor details. If you don’t have that one,  then the 1994 and 1995 versions also work with Mecha King Ghidorah’s grabbing accessories.



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