I love Xenoblade, and I tried very hard to love this kit. I have assembled Kotobukiya kits in the past so I knew it won't be the same quality as Bandai kits. However, for a 3 figure price tag I would expect something of decent quality. The assembling was OK, and there are definitely steps that are confusing and easy to got wrong - I managed to fix all of my mistakes with some glues. It was a bit of a pain to put it together and many tiny pieces are easy to fall off. Again, glue to rescue. The water decaling was the worst - it was impossible to apply the long lines of decals without them warping and breaking. And when you finally put it together, you realized A LOT of colors are missing and you need to paint yourself. Again, I did not expect that from a 3 figure model kit. The final assembled size isn't even that big, probably around the size of a regular Bandai HG. I would recommend it if it's ~$50, but at over $100 it was a ripoff.

I loved seeing a Gundam like mech in the game when I played it, and when I saw this had a model kit I knew I had to try it. I've been building and painting model kits for some time and I'm used to Bandai quality, so Koto's lack of good plastic and engineering was a bit jarring by my standards now for this kit. If you plan on painting this kit beware that the joints will become almost immobile if you paint over them. I had to strip the paint from the joints just to be able to get them to connect. The tolerances on this kit are incredibly tight so forcing parts together often will either break them or leave stress marks. Also, the price tag on this kit for the quality is almost intolerable; a triple digit price tag for this is insane honestly.

Recommends this product

First thing first: this thing has great shelf presence on account of the size of the wings and weapons. However, do be warned that the main body itself is not 11.81 CM, thats the height with the wings attached. The body itself is about the same size as a 1/144 Unicorn. Otherwise, for $120, this thing has horrific color accuracy worse than a HG kit (though that may just be something with Kotobukiya, this was my first kit from them), as in the hands of all things are color inaccurate. Even HGs have color accurate hands most of the time. The various joints are also questionable, namely the ball joints connecting the shoulders to the torso and the legs to the waist: unless I assembled them wrong, they barely hold the limbs in. The articulation is mostly fine, but more can certainly be asked of something with a triple-digit price. And finally, for $120, I expect a build that is on the level of an MG or at least a RG. This builds like a HG. Although it looks great on my shelf, I cannot believe this is remotely worth over a hundred, even with the wing and halo effects and waterslides (yes, this comes with waterslides). A better price point considering the build and color accuracy is probably half the asking price, in my opinion.