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Blokees Ultraman Tiga Gatanozoa set

Some time ago I was browsing online and came across a new Ultraman Tiga 30th anniversary set that featured the title hero and the final kaiju boss from the final two episodes of the Tiga series. It's made from Blokees, a company that makes action figures in various sizes that you assemble. I was able to find and purchase this set on ebay. It was delivered last week.












The set comes with large sheets of plastic pieces that you break off and snap together. Included is the kit to construct the kaiju Gatanozoa (aka Gatanothor), Ultraman Tiga, a stone version of Tiga, for when he was turned into a statue by the tentacled beast, a 4 piece diorama set to recreate Tiga's ocean battle with the Cthulhu-like sea monster, and several translucent pieces to duplicate waves, mountains and temples that can be pegged onto the diorama, and extra pieces to change both Gatanozoa and Tiga into half submerged forms. It all comes packed in a large box with an instruction manual to help you put it all together.












Building it was pretty easy, though it was time consuming, especially assembling all the parts together to build Gatanozoa, with his multiple tentacles, claw-like feet and four extendable claws with large pinchers. The two Tiga figure were very easy and fast. I simply put on my wireless headphones, listened to a mix of goth music while I started the task of putting this Lovecraftian sea beast together. Once constructed, Gatanozoa resembles a tentacled nautilus creature, with large shell, various claws and an upside-down head with red eyes. Based on the Cthulhu mythos, Gatanozoa is a very unique and cool kaiju, whose objective was to bring about the end of humanity by shrouding the world in darkness. The figure is wonderfully detailed and sculpted.











The articulation for Gatanozoa includes a mouth the opens and closes, his long tentacles that are held together by a series of pegs. The large crab pinchers that open and close. His two front legs that have a bend at the "knee", and six pairs of crab feet that can twist around, move up and down, and have claws that also open and close. The figure stays together fairly well. All the pieces snap into each other quite securely. The tentacled claws can pop off if you bend them too far, but you simply pop them back in a voila! He's ready for action. For the two Tiga figures, they sport movement in the head and neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, upper torso, waist, thighs, knees and ankles. The standard Tiga comes with 4 pairs of hands (fists, karate chop, relaxed and grabbing), while the stone version simply has fists and relaxed hands. There's also an extra torso piece with a hole in the chest that you can plug a power-up effect into for when he's getting ready to shoot his beam, and knee replacement parts, to peg the legs into the diorama to make it look like he's standing in water. There's also special peg ends that attach to the end of the long claws and peg into the diorama base, to make it look like they're coming out of the water.














Blokees Ultraman Tiga Gatanozoa 30th anniversary set is a very nice item to have if you're a fan of Tiga. It allows you to recreate Tiga's climactic finale. In addition to the very nice ocean base, the various interchangeable parts to display the figures on the diorama helps to make this set that much more fun. While some might be turned off by the fact that you have to build everything, if you follow the instructions, it's fairly easy, and the end result is worth it. This set is a great way to celebrate Tiga's 30th anniversary. I hope Blokees continues to produce more unique products like this.










 

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