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This 12-inch Sofubi Glow in the Dark Colossus Rex
was delayed a long time. Customs can take a while... and I have to
say when the box finally showed up in October I was almost rolling my
eyes, thinking "this can't possibly be worth the price and the wait."
Well, it was, and it was. It's gorgeous. It's a glowing beacon. It's
incredible and I'm glad they're planning on doing at least a few more of
these.
I was expecting a glow-in-the-dark version of Jack Asteroid - which we got - but to get a new character like Zero Gravity too? I'm surprised. He costs more than the original Jack Asteroid figure and has less paint, but the dude friggin' glows.
The fully Glyos-compatible astronaut has alternate bent/straight arms
and can be taken apart at nearly every point of articulation, and then
some. That little moon ingot pops off, the helmet dismantles to 3
pieces, and the figure has an ab and a belt joint. The mold should
look familiar - it was first released as the glow-in-the-dark Alpha
Phase Metamorpho in 2010, and was subsequently released as multiple
Metamorpho and Jack Asteroid bodies, most of which was reused for other
figures in the first couple years of the line. It's the perfect generic
humanoid template, they could keep more heads coming and I'd probably
buy even more redeco figures.