The weather in the DMV (DC, MD, and VA) swings like a pendulum. Bright and sunny one hour, and the next, we're hit with rain followed by more swings in weather. This was a pain to shoot as it started drizzling when we assembled him. We, and I say we because this isn't a one-person setup, tried the following evening again to get some shots in as the sun went down. I got some great photos with the light-up features on full display (hoping they all worked without issue) and with the help of a 100 ft extension cord. Eventually, I got all the images I needed. The pictures speak for themselves.
My only drawback with this release is that the largest of the two boxes was too tight of a fit for the styrofoam casing. No matter what, we could only remove the statue by cutting the box open, which never happens, but it did this time. I was disappointed, considering their Spiral King Ghidorah DX was packaged immaculately with zero issues removing and repackaging him afterward. I don't know if that was just an isolated incident with me or if this has happened to other collectors.
That aside, the Burning DX is beautiful and a highlight of 2023, collecting-wise. We're only in May, but this has taken the lead in my Kaiju Collectable of the Year.
Props to Awesome Collector and Kaiju Live for bringing this titan home!
You can almost make an internally consistent Studio Gainax Mecha Anime Unified Timeline, but the one hitch is that Gunbuster and Evangelion both start in 2015 and portray a very different status for Earth and Humanity.
Maybe Nadia is the branching off point for both. In one timeline humanity investigates the Atlantean technology in the Nautilus and by 2015 has homing lasers, photon torpedoes, and degeneracy reactors. In the other timeline humanity finds the Atlantean base in Antarctica, investigates the body of Adam, and by 2015 has armored cyber kaiju.
Maybe have the closed timeline loop of Evangelion Rebuild erase the Second and Third Impacts from history, returning things to normal by 2015...just in time for the Space Kaiju to invade.
In any case, there's a pretty straight throughline from Diebuster to Gurren Lagann. When Lal'c and Nono draw on "hard work and guts" they're unwittingly tapping into the energy source that would later be scientifically codified and technologically harnessed as Spiral Power.
Y’all ever think about the fact that Niko Tatopoulous’ gorgeous ass Godzilla design finally got his own overpriced Collectible Statue? And in the year of our lord 2024?