#leynos

Cybernator aka Assaults Suits Valken got a new release on the Nintendo Switch. Shame I don't have a Switch to check it out. Which is a damn shame because all the extra stuff they’re including in the new release sounds pretty cool. Hopefully there’ll be a Steam port or someone might “liberate” that extra content.

Oh man here we go, here’s another in my growing collection of Robots Basically Nobody But Me Will Care About.  This is the AS-5E3 Leynos, from Assault Suit Leynos!  (see what I mean?)  It is a video game bot from a great cult series, and is rendered here in molded plastic pieces for the purposes of putting together into an articulated toy!  The color is pretty meh at the whole thing is molded in a whopping THREE colors, kinda tan/beige, and TWO whole shades of GREY.  Even the red eye actually comes as a blank translucent piece that I used a red sharpie to add color to.  It doesn’t pose super well, the engineering is a little old fashioned, a couple parts pop off pretty easy... and it cost me like 90 bucks...

And I still love it.  It’s a re-release of an old kit, and its a very limited run of a super niche topic for a piece of merch at all, let alone for a model kit.  I can forgive the oldness and even the price (to a degree) on those points, I’m glad it exists and that I have it.  I’ll likely end up shelling out again for the same company’s release of another different Assault Suit mech, even knowing how the line is with this one.  The company, PLUM, also does kits for famous shmup ships too, of which I have the R9-A Arrowhead from R-Type.  And I definitely wanna support these kits getting made at all.

Also he’s pretty dang big!  And that gun is wonderfully overblown, very 90′s.  Few more shots under the cut!

Assault Suit Leynos Global Steam Key Only $4.99 Instant Delivery