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 Even after the 'new toy' shine faded a little, I still love this thing to pieces. Okay, so it doesn't transform or anything, but it's still a damn nice figure, with superb articulation and a whole arsenal of accessories. There's so much to do with it that I haven't really put him down since he arrived on Friday. The whole presentation is very much small-scale Soul of Chogokin. I doubt I'm going to get the other GD series Gundam figures, just because very few of the designs appeal to me like the RX-78 does, but I'm glad I bought him.
Annoyingly, I managed to junk a shot of the figure with both beam sabers out so you could actually see them, so I'll have to find time to redo that...
- Chogokin RX-78 Mobile Suit Gundam review
 As promised, here's the review of the Chogokin Raideen figure - the first transforming robot toy. In line with my expectations, he's simple and not wildly impressive, but I like him for the history of the thing, and there are much worse figures out there.
I also realised the Godaikin menu was getting rather cluttered, so I've split off the couple of Japan-only reviews onto a new Chogokin menu, as well as moving the Soul of Chogokin Voltes V review to its' own section - I have designs on the SoC Combattler V figure (which I've heard lukewarm things about, but it's likely to be the only full-size version I'll ever be able to afford) and the forthcoming New Tetsujin 28, so hopefully that'll turn into more of a section (especially as I run low on Godaikin I actually want).
Work permitting, I should be taking pictures of my lovely Chogokin GD-16 Mobile Suit Gundam figure tomorrow, so a review of that should be added soon.
- Chogokin DX Raideen review
- Chogokin menu
- Chogokin ST Voltes V review
- Soul of Chogokin Voltes V review
 I'm not much of a Gundam fan, but this fellow caught my eye. It's an all-plastic fully-transforming Z-Gundam, dating from 1985.
It's a really fun figure on the whole, managing to be accurate to the Gundam ethos without looking miles out of place alongside my chunky 1980s Super Robots.
I have actually recently got another Gundam figure - the Chogokin GD-16 Mobile Suit Gundam figure, a small-ish non-transforming version of the original RX-78 Mobile Suit with a pile of accessories. Also turning up recently is something from the other end of the Chogokin scale - the GA-09 DX Raideen, the original transforming robot toy. Reviews of these should be up soon.
- MSZ-006 Z-Gundam review
 Thanks to Chris Olsen, the Robot Racer article has now been updated. As well as a snippet of information about the line's origins (the toys were originally issued in Japan under the name Change Robo, it would seem), there's now a complete list of the eight figures and some extra pictures. - Robot Racer article
 The latest Godaikin in my collection is Leopardon, a.k.a. Leopaldon, a.k.a. "That robot off the Japanese version of Spider-Man". I was actually pleasantly surprised by how good the figure is. While the transformation isn't one of the line's best, the robot mode is very slick and more than makes up for it. - Godaikin Leopardon review
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