Strike Rouge + Sky Grasper

The box art is absolutely fantastic..

Box Open

Box Open

Box Open

Case with handle attached

Same box size as the PG Zeta.

Together with the PG Strike & Aile Sky Grasper box.

Opening it up.. you slide the contents out from the side.

A nice generous pile of runners. But unlike the PG Zeta where everything was neatly divided into two separate inner boxes,
it's more like everything was just tossed in together — kind of like the MG Perfect Zeong.

The info printed on the box. 786 parts is definitely a lot ^^

The runners are (naturally) split into two groups: Strike parts and Sky Grasper + Aile parts.

Runner shots. There are a ton of them.

The runners changed for the Strike Rouge. The pink looks really lovely in person.
On top of that, the frame molded color has also been changed from black to gray.
In the end, every single runner has had its molded color changed, and the overall color tone of the runners is noticeably brighter.

Unusual pink plating. Who would've thought they'd even coat the plated parts in pink.. ;;;

The head antenna, which has a different color scheme from the previous PG Strike, is on a separate runner.

The armor molded colors come in 2 shades, just like the PG Strike. Light pink (left) and a very pale pink (right).

I figured the Sky Grasper + Aile pack section would just reuse the runners from the original kit as-is...
but looking closely, the parts with changed molded colors from the Strike Rouge have actually been added onto the Aile pack runners.
The red parts for the face and the black parts for the shield have been added via system injection into the gaps on the Aile wing runners.

This is the part where they got particularly sneaky about it...
The left one is the Sky Grasper runner from the original release, and the right one is the runner from this PG Rouge.
If you look carefully, something has been added into the hollow space in the middle of the U runner..

It's the 1/60 Cagalli figure. (You can tell by the chest ;) One for the cockpit and one for the stand..
It's a Strike part, so it's a bit puzzling why they tucked it into the Sky Grasper runner..

A quirky dry decal added for the Rouge. It goes on the chest.

The manuals come in 3 booklets total. There's a completely redesigned Instruction Manual,
plus the original Strike and Aile Sky Grasper manuals with some minor revisions included separately.

Instruction Manual comparison

Comparison of the Strike main body assembly manuals. The assembly instructions are mostly the same,
with just a few minor changes related to the Aile pack.

Comparison of the Aile Sky Grasper assembly manuals.
The previously lovely color manual has been reduced to plain monochrome;;

The color pages that were inside the original Aile Sky Grasper manual have been completely removed in the Rouge version.
Those color photos have naturally been consolidated into the Instruction Manual.
So the manual that was originally 20 pages has been trimmed down to 16 pages in the PG Rouge.

A

B

C (x2)

D (x2)

E

F

G

H

I

J

K (x2)

L (x2)

M (x2)

N (x2)

O

P

R

S & T. Polycap parts.

Metal & LED parts

U

V

W

X

Y

WA

WB

WC

WD

WF

PC 2 & Beam Saber

Stickers & Decals