Saint Cloth Myth - Andromeda Shun Final Bronze
Series Saint Cloth Myth
Title Andromeda Shun Final Bronze
Release Date August 2006
Manufacturer Bandai
Suggested Price (JPY) 3,800
Scale 1/11
Height (cm) Figure: 15.5cm
Object: 9 x 7.5 x 12cm (L x W x H)
No.  of Parts 1 figure + 41 parts + 1 6-pages color instruction booklet
My Rating Good

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Andromeda Shun Final Bronze is the fourth Final Bronze release. This design is seen in Chapter Hades where the former Pope Shion of Aries Constellation rejuvenated it with Athena's fresh blood.

Packaging
The figure comes in a packaged in a book box where it opens to reveal two window boxes; in one window box is a figure of Shun, along with his cloth parts while the other half contains the rest of his armor parts and accessories.

The following are the parts count and items in bold are of metal and bold underline are partially metal:

Left Tray
  • 1 hair part
  • 1 circlet (for Final Bronze)
  • 1 circlet (for previous bronze cloth)
  • 2 shoulder armor
  • 2 arm guard w/o nebula chain
  • 2 thigh guard
  • 2 leg armor (upper portion)
  • 2 leg armor (lower portion)
  • 2 knee cap
  • 1 final bronze figure (pale flesh, pink body)
 Upper Right Tray
  • 8 extra gauntlet hands
    • 2 relax hand
    • 2 tight grip
    • 2 pulling hand gesture
    • 2 chop
  • 1 chest armor
  • 1 belt
  • 1 Andromeda head
  • 2 Andromeda hand
  • 2 extension piece (for object breast)
  • 2 arm guard with nebula chain attached
  • 1 object mannequin
  • 2 object thigh piece
Lower Right Tray
  • 1 object display base
  • 1 nebula chain (circular shape for Rolling Defense stance)
  • 2 short chain (for object)
  • 1 metal chain (for Nebula Chain attack stance)

The package also comes with an instruction manual.

Object
The object design does received an upgrade in the final bronze version. It do look more stylish and complicated comparing to Shun's first bronze cloth.

In prior release, Andromeda's breast is assemble from an additional pair of bigger knee caps. However, this version is making use of special extension piece to house the in-scale knee caps while retaining the size of the breast.

The chains tying Andromeda's hands comes with precise length and quite difficult to assemble to the object if you did not get all the pieces assemble correctly in the first place.

   
   
 

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Armored Figure
The armor is stylishly painted in shinny metallic red. The arm guard comes in 2 version; a pair with Nebula Chain and the other without.

I have a complain here. The shoulder armor on previous version is attach to the figure via the round recess area on the shoulder whereas, the final bronze design has a lower positioning for the shoulder armor. This make the shoulder-armor-to-figure attachment point in between the shoulder and the biceps. The biceps are required to face forward to hold the shoulder armor in place. As a result, it sacrifices some articulation on both arm. Moreover, the hold is not strong enough and it keeps popping out during play.

 
   
   
   
   

Conclusion
This item is a Hong Kong Edition and purchased locally at Berjaya Time Square.

Document Date : 2006-11-29


Responses to this page:

  1. (Wed, 29 Nov 2006 3:02 pm) seiyafan says:

    You attached the shoulder armor wrong.It actually does attach to the shoulder recess you where talking about.I made the same mistake at first.

  2. (Tue, 12 Dec 2006 4:10 pm) kfchong says:

    seiyafan, Thx for the tips. I guess the manual is printed wrongly or maybe my eyes are getting blurry reading those sometimes confusing diagrams.

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