Kit Review

Straight build

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Head.
The cannon inside the mouth is quite impressive.

Neck and waist section

Small front legs

Belly and back view

The long-range pulse laser rifle mounted on the back.

Zoid HMM Geno Saurer - Hind legs, feet, and soles (1/5)

Zoid HMM Geno Saurer - Hind legs, feet, and soles (2/5)

Zoid HMM Geno Saurer - Hind legs, feet, and soles (3/5)

Hind legs, feet, and soles

Tail

Underside view of the lower body and underside of the arms

Zoid HMM Geno Saurer - Open the chest cover and you'll find the cockpit with the Zoid Core. (1/4)

Zoid HMM Geno Saurer - Open the chest cover and you'll find the cockpit with the Zoid Core. (2/4)

Open the chest cover and you'll find the cockpit with the Zoid Core.

The lower jaw opens up quite wide, and the neck bends down quite a bit too.

The structure on the neck section opens and closes.

Range of motion for the front legs — up, down, left, and right

Range of motion for the legs

Zoid HMM Geno Saurer - Each segment of the tail bends up and down as well. (1/3)

Each segment of the tail bends up and down as well.

You can open all the top and bottom covers on the 4-segment tail.

Zoid HMM Geno Saurer - You open the large cover, then open the two small ducts inside as well — and you have to do this whole

You open the large cover, then open the two small ducts inside as well..
And you have to do this whole process 8 times total, for both the top and bottom of each segment.

Movement of the heel structure

Weapon articulation

Rawr~

Zoid HMM Geno Saurer - Action pose 2 (1/7)

Zoid HMM Geno Saurer - Action pose 2 (2/7)

Zoid HMM Geno Saurer - Action pose 2 (3/7)

Zoid HMM Geno Saurer - Action pose 2 (4/7)

Zoid HMM Geno Saurer - Action pose 2 (5/7)

Action pose 2

Zoid HMM Geno Saurer - Crouched low threatening pose (1/6)

Zoid HMM Geno Saurer - Crouched low threatening pose (2/6)

Zoid HMM Geno Saurer - Crouched low threatening pose (3/6)

Zoid HMM Geno Saurer - Crouched low threatening pose (4/6)

Crouched low threatening pose

Zoid HMM Geno Saurer - When you raise the body up fully, it gets about this upright. (Somehow... it looks like a puppy;;) (1/

Zoid HMM Geno Saurer - When you raise the body up fully, it gets about this upright. (Somehow... it looks like a puppy;;) (2/

When you raise the body up fully, it gets about this upright.
(Somehow... it looks like a puppy;;)

Leftover parts

Zoid HMM Geno Saurer - Together with the Blade Liger. The Shield Liger/Blade Liger is actually bulkier overall, but the Geno

Together with the Blade Liger.
The Shield Liger/Blade Liger is actually bulkier overall,
but the Geno Saurer's height makes it look like the bigger beast of the two.

Together with the Command Wolf.

The 4th Kotobukiya Zoids kit is the Geno Saurer, a bipedal mech. Shaped like a Tyrannosaurus rex, this mech has a personality that sets it apart from the other four-legged Zoids in a number of ways.

The overall parts count and volume are on par with the Shield Liger/Blade Liger, but compared to the early Shield Liger, the parts layout here is structurally more refined. Sure, there are still a ton of parts for the size, but the parts breakdown is more efficient, making the build a bit more manageable. If the Shield Liger wore you out, you'll definitely feel like something has improved here — the stress during assembly has gone down a notch. That said, the build time is still pretty lo~ng. ^^;

The snap-fit is better than the early Shield Liger as well, but there are still some key parts here and there that can feel pretty unstable overall if you don't glue them down — so keep that in mind, and make sure you check whether each part is meant to move or stay fixed before applying any glue.

Since the overall movement works quite differently from a four-legged build, it gives you a fresh feel in a lot of ways — and there's enough articulation to pull off a good variety of poses. Joint strength is solid across the board, and it's a relief that the two legs alone can support just about any pose you'd want to try.

Unlike the Shield Liger/Blade Liger where hatches opened up all over the body, the Geno Saurer doesn't really have many areas that open up aside from the Zoid Core section in the chest. Instead, the top and bottom ducts on the 4-segment tail open up in 3 stages — it's a little tedious to open them one by one, but the end result looks pretty impressive.

Overall, this kit feels like a step up in quality compared to the Shield Liger and Blade Liger — it seems like the initial over-ambition has settled down a bit, and the design is more efficient this time around. Given how large and complex the model is, the high parts count is understandable, and the color combination is more intricate than the previous kits, so the color payoff after a straight build is quite satisfying. If you like the style of this kit, it's a great Zoids kit that you can build with noticeably less stress than before. :-)

Zoid HMM Geno Saurer | 2007. 12 | ¥7,800

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.