| MSiA 1/144 EMS-10 Zudah
Series: Mobile Suit in Action!! (MSiA) Title: EMS-10 Zudah Release Date: 06/2006 Suggested Price: ¥ 1500 No. of Parts: 1 Zudah figure + 10 parts Plastic colors: navy blue, light blue, black, silver Gimmicks: Zaku machine gun, heat hawk, sturm faust (2), bazooka, movable shoulder shield
Contributor: Havok Photography: MHEX Date: June 19, 2007 The EMS-10 Zudah...ancestor to the MS-05 Zaku and successor to the early EMS-04 Zudah. This was personally a MSIA I couldn't wait to get my hands on, but it was a disappointment with a few cool features.
The head, unlike the EMS-04 Zudah has a few minor cosmetic changes. Instead of two support beams for the visor on the EMS-04 Zudah, the EMS-10 Zudah no longer has those supports and has been replaced with a communications antenna placed right down the middle. The head is able to turn around 360 degrees. It can lift its head forward and backward about 20 degrees, and tilt left to right less than 2 degrees...not much poseability there. Unlike the EMSIA Zaku II, the monoeye sensor cannot be moved, which, personally to me, sheds a few points off.
The torso looks great, sculpt is good. Torso can rotate all the way around 360 degrees and can tilt back and forwards 15 to 20 degrees. The cool part about the torso is that like the MSIA Zaku II 2nd version (both Char's and standard type), it features a removable backpack. The Zudah's waist can mount a spare drum for the Zaku machine gun on its right side. You can also mount a 280mm bazooka on its back waist.
Here is one of the cool parts of the figure altogether. The arms are the best feature, however, they are flawed. The Zudah is equipped with an extendable arm on each appendage, allowing it to easily reach down to its leg and grab its standard issue heat hawk and be ready to kick some Federation tail. However, there has been some debate between a friend and I on this issue... would mounting the heat hawk on the leg be more of a tactical advantage than mounting it on its back or waist as we have seen with some of the Zaku series? Back on subject, the arms can't really move worth squat! The EMSIA puts this Zudah to shame. Its arms can only be posed outward from the body about 30 degrees. Other than that...just up and down motion, poseable elbows that do have a 360 degree turn ration thanks to the hydraulics/extendable arms. The arms also include two swiveling ball joints to mount the spike shield. Either arm you want to mount it, your choice.
The legs are the most poseable part of the Zudah unfortunately, however... even though the other limbs are limited you can still get some pretty cool poses from it. The legs have the now standard issue double-jointed legs and you can practically pose them however you want with the added feature of the feet very similar to the MSIA Zaku II 2d version. Each leg also contains two mounts for the heat hawk...so depending on if your imaginary pilot is left handed or right handed you can mix and match.
Bazooka
Heat hawk
Machine gun
Machine gun drum
Shield
Sturm faust
The weapons and accessories are pretty basic...nothing new except for the spike shield and booster pack. As all MSIA figures have, it comes with two extra hands for each arms. It comes with one heat hawk, two sturm fausts, and what seems to be scaled down just a touch Zaku machine gun (personally I'm calling it the Zaku Machine Gun ver. 3) and of course we cannot forget the 280mm bazooka. Going back to the booster pack the apogee motors are poseable to the extent they would be able to on a real MS...the main booster is also poseable as well just the same as if it were a real MS.
Color scheme and logos- The color scheme on this (what Zeon considered to be a bad boy) is a navy blue, light blue, black and a few touches of silver. The logos to me look very great. They look more professional and that more time was spent to make them look realistic.
Again this was (for me) a highly anticipated MSIA. But it was a real disappointment. The poseability could be way better. There should be some sort of shield mount on the forearm instead of the shoulder so it could look like it could do more than stiff arm a GM and actually defend itself. I would have loved for it to have a poseable monoeye sensor. This MSIA really should have been the next EMSIA...Bandai could have done so much more!!! In conclusion...this MSIA is a great addition to your Gundam collection...but...after it's fully armed, put it on a shelf, look at it, and sympathize for it thinking.."You could have been so much greater." Overall Rating: 3 out of 5 stars <<back to Gundam |
