#gaplant

Looks good but almost immediately some of the problems begin to pop up. That ginormous gun is too big for the Gaplant's big 'ol gorilla arms to hold naturally. And those arms are pretty restrictive- you can get quite a bit out of the legs but between the arm design, the shields, and the shoulder pads this variant has the arms are fairly limited.

You can disassemble the gun down to a little beam spray gun (I think?) but it's a little comical versus the suits bulk lol

And your melee option is this: a solid hunk of navy blue plastic with no individual hilt piece and no suit storage. You do get two of 'em but... yeah. I am Not A Fan (and these are on the runners in the pic because I threw them out actually).

Fortunately, you don't need to use the hands to hold the gun!

The "tail" on the buttplate can hold the gun (a little loosely but it works pretty well). And, as seen here, you can pop it out and mount it on the shoulders. It looks pretty neat!

Here's our other big mounting option for The Gun inside the shoulder. With bonus shield-mounted beam cannons held in the hands for firing! I really do love how much you can do with this thing.

Unfortunately, we come to the other major problem here. The stand, or to be more specific the way it connects to the MS. The entire weight of the machine is held in place by a single polycap. It isn't up to the task. Balance the weight even slightly wrong and the whole machine swivels at the mounting.

Anyway, MA mode!

I posted a ways back about how much I like the torso's transformation and that very much remains true. There's essentially no replace parts nonsense with this, just a stowed v-fin part and two gray bits to hold the gun in place and then mount on the stand. You do need to disassemble it, remove some bits, and reassemble, but like it's an HG that doesn't bug me. Unfortunately one of the arms on my copy has a very loose connection in this mode but it's just the one so I think that's a QC error (and an easy fix tbh).

In the end, this is a kit with a lot of neat ideas but the bits between them are kind of subpar. If you're able and willing to put in the work it'll shine assuming you can fix that polycap connection (or that I messed that up somehow) but it really does need that extra touch.

The HG 0RX-005 Gaplant TR-5 [Hrairoo] Titans Prototype Mobile Suit. I love this kit, but it is basically a brick. This kit is almost as big as the HG Kyshatria minus the wing binders.