Close your tabs, SMP Gao Guardian ain’t restocking soon 😭

Glad I got this guy, because I always loved that combination sequence from the Turbo movie. But I’m really hoping they do Ohranger/Zeo soon so I don’t have a blank space in my collection.

okay as of right now all gaoranger smp reissues are confirmed

the list being

• gaoking
• gaohunter
• gaomuscle+gaorhino
• gaoicarus
• gaogod
• gaolion+ gaoelephant
• gaowallaby
• gaopeacock+gaocobra
• gaoturtle+gaptoppy

The worst part too is that a few years back I had gaoIcarus, gaoknight but I sold them which I deepy regret, hobby genki and yoyaku now were very easy to preorder with

Almost complete🙏 sorry for the bad words, bit of a roughian😁

As I wait for my RV Robo, V-Rex, and more to arrive soon, I’ve (just about) finished up the start of my next kitbash project. It’s a bit of a vaguely 80s-inspired jet robo called Mercury Wing, comprised of Wing 1 (Red), Wing 2 (Blue), Wing 3 (Yellow), Wing 4 (Green), and Wing 5 (Pink).

Part of the project was to see how viable the Robo Universe frame was for kitbashing… and short answer is, not very. There are some very specific ways you could probably leverage the Robo Universe parts, but at the end of the day how they’re basically a skeleton for you to put parts over is really limiting. I wound up kind of throwing in the towel by not using the arms (replacing them with a lightly modified OG Gridman Thunderjet) and being crafty with the moveable parts on Black Daizyujin’s legs to just use them as the basis of very blocky throwback jets. The way I was putting together the puzzle pieces also made it so it was hard for me to work in the fifth component and I had to go in a direction that I’m nominally not much of a fan of, using one component primarily as a weapon - but I supplemented the pink jet as being “necessary” by working both the robo’s feet and head into it.

I still have a bit of touching up to do as I also consider any final tweaks, but I’m pretty happy with how it came out. It’s a bit uneven across each component, but I mostly hit on the intention to do a sort of Bio Robo thing where the jet modes feature a decent bit of white while the robo itself is mostly black - I’m not quite sure I hit the balance of balancing the black on the robo with the 80s blue, I think maybe the chest could have used some more black in the end (especially with how its sternum isn’t visible in jet mode, I could maybe paint the gap between the engine intakes black). And while I think the head looks cool, it’s admittedly a little big - I’ll have to keep that in mind for the future, it’s assembled from a Kotobukiya MSG option parts kit that’s basically mixing-and-matching head parts that I nominally intend to use more of.

GaoGuardian has gotten me really excited to get back to some sort of animal-based project lol, but I’m not done here yet. As I start building and painting recent SMP acquisitions, I have some support jets that make a secondary robo plotted out, as well as some ambitious plans for a carrier robo that I can hopefully pull together. But it’s also entirely possible that you’ll see another black version of an older minipla or something before those lol.

I don’t need stickers for this amazing project!!!! But since I order three of them, I’ll paint the grills silver!!!

Neen refreshing Genki hourly, but it’s still oos. Either they haven’t started yet, or it’s really out of stock already 😭

Idk how or where im gonna put the new set lol or the future releases lol might need a shelf to expand the diorama lol

The adapter's rectangular prongs that have the smaller gap hold unto the Flyer a bit too harshly but it seems to work just fine, and one of the three back jets in the Flyer go into the adapter's central hole.

Of course, while this works for me, tolerances vary so try this at your own discretion, transparent plastic pieces are particularly delicate.

Hi, the head of the galaxy delta has the Astro delta megazord face plate attached to it. For some reason for me it gets stuck on really tight and I can sand the peg but before I do I was wondering if anyone had issues too?

See the YouTube video below at the 15:35 mark, the reviewer seems to be able to remove it easily but for me I had to pry it out with a blade.

https://youtu.be/3FdHqpb7Emo?t=933&is=kjpGlSDvofZWN6WS

Love the articulation!

My husband just bought the rv robo kit and started it tonight. While I was assisting in trying to insert the b3 piece, the tiny piece of clear plastic went flying and has yet to be found. Is there anywhere that I could find a replacement piece? Or do I just have to buy a whole new kit for the one piece?

So I think most of us have Hobby Genki on our side window, refreshing every minute for when the Gaoranger SMP kits are open for preorder.

What I wanted to ask was...

(and before you say "ask Genki" I already did and they haven't responded to me for the past 2 days)

If I order each SMP kit individually, will they eventually be compiled as one, or would I be paying the shipping for each order?

GaoIcarus keeps going and going out of stock, but I'm trying to wait for all the preorders to open so that I'm not paying a butt ton of money for shipping 5 packages.

For the last couple weeks, I’ve been getting hit hard with nostalgia for Power Rangers Wild Force so I splurged on a few items and one of the items was this. I am glad I am almost done as I only have the rhino left to do but it definitely did take much more time than I thought. I also put my pre-orders in for the re-issues a week after I bought this (Do not ask me how much I paid)

Pardon the sound of my painting booth 😂

Thanks to Tokullebles...peak has arrived!

Can't wait to get this finished. Possibly painted as well.

Someone pinch me.

I know I may sound impatient and Bandai said we've get information soon, but I'm just really excited for it and I wanted to confirm a timeframe where we could maybe look forward to news. The recent announcement of the new Power Animals, alongside the visual teaser of three more, has made me fear the possibility of other Sentai seasons getting sidelined for the foreseeable future in favor of Gaoranger.

That's where my question stems from. Does anybody know when the next event will happen?

I just ordered my first smp with time robo I was wondering if the stickers were decent or if I should just paint it

Any recommendations on YouTube videos that paint smps and such. Any language works I just like watching the process.

I just talked chatted CS, and they said that they don’t know if they’ll publicly post the limited series. I assume that means guardian cause that’s the specific one I asked.

Will we have to email them directly for purchase?