Hello to all you SiFu out there, I have been reading the threads here word by word on your forum, trying to learn understand more about the story of Voids and this hobby. You see i want to relate to my kid interest in Zoids and the request for papa to get her these expensive toys. I think her interest was sparked by this cartoon "a rerun" on one of the national channels each Sunday. I must admit it took me a solid good 3 days to go thru your forum and in between surfing online store with the links provided getting a hang of the prices to pay and so forrth for the models. Now i guess i am a bit clearer about the Hype, and a bit braver to expose myself here.
Ok why am i here, I bought some Tomy Zoids 2 xmas ago for my 10 year old kid then, not knowing what they were then but just that i saw all this people were buying them fast from toys r us clearance sale , it was no more than RM50 each i recall, so i grab some boxes too and came home with Liger zero and Blade Liger and a few other neo blox (the smaller models). Well that was 2 years ago and my kid was not aware what these characters were then,and just fixed them . She now know the individual characters and also Xmas is round the corner, so papa here is trying hard to find her the favorite Zoids from the Genesis story. She has told me she wants Morga, Mugen and Murasame Liger . I have found from XL shop the Molga? The other 2 i saw was avaliable at Ebay. Must say i Got a shocker at the prices, but better than spending it on Computer games i think.
Can you guys tell me what is the difference in the Korean models? Why do they have the word Academy on them? Is the quality of the plastic or detail and lesser than the Japanese Tomy ? I ask because their prices a somewhat cheaper even after P&P as compared to local private seller in Malaysia.
To end my long intro and story, i must admit i am also so jealous , as today you guys have got all this tech to find each other with common interest. I am not new to modeling as a kid 30-40 years back i assemble Air fix and Revell planes and ships and grew up with a Tamiya RC car. I can remember even having a party to Christen the USS Enterprise when it was completed. . Ha ha Hope you can can help with this Academy model question.

These High End Models are they the ones labelled HMM? I think the Molga i ordered from XL belong to them. Hope to receive it later this week. Yeah now i hope to learn from you experts about the Korean Academy models . Will thet be equal to the basic Japanese Tomy RZ models? Thanks you

Thank you all for the help. For those interested the rerun is Sunday NTV7 11.30am. I am now thinking of getting Mugen Liger as the next model for my kid, as it has this growl and walk feature correct?