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Kamen Rider Double : Heat Metal

Kit Review

Straight build

The expected Kamen Rider Double variations are coming out one after another in order. The third one is Heat Metal, a red and silver combination — just like Luna Trigger, the base body is essentially the same, with only the molded colors and the wrist/ankle details being different, making it a kit where the character-specific weapons are swapped out.

The kit's characteristics are of course completely identical to Cyclone Joker / Luna Trigger, and Heat Metal's unique weapons include the extendable Metal Shaft and a stag beetle-type weapon called the Stag Phone. The Metal Shaft's detail is fairly refined, but color separation is completed by applying a pretty large number of silver seals, which is a bit of a bummer. The surfaces where the seals go are so intricately molded that it'd actually save you more time to just paint them — the seal work is quite tricky and ends up looking messy. With just a little more effort, proper color separation would've been totally doable... It feels like they pushed the sticker approach a bit too hard, and that's a minor gripe of mine.

It might seem like a string of kits that are all the same just in different colors, but since the color schemes are distinctly different from one another, having them all together would actually look pretty cool. ^^ If you're a Kamen Rider Double fan, this seems like a series that's fun to collect. :-)

MGFigurerise Kamen Rider Double : Heat Metal | 2010. 11 | ¥3,800

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.