and if I may add, it's basically tauhu vs rock-steady-awesome-macross

hence the price difference....

if you can afford it, there's a saying... once you go chogokin, you can't go back...

just to add on, for DX chogokin, I would recommend to buy from local seller as the custom will almost 90% (if not 100%) tahan your shipment due to the high value of the item itself... ALL my chogokin kena

model kit is good for fixed posing as after a few round of transformation, the joints and parts will break easily... most of my 1/72 now is glued to a fixed position now... but to cure the itchiness of my hand to transform them, i always play with chogokin... chogokin metal part are mostly on the shoulder and the crotch "U" section which traditionally breaks a lot in the past, so bandai get pandai and change them into metal

my personal 2 cents to you, if you can tahan longer, save your money and go for DX chogokin straight... the kit itself is not that cheap anyway... we're talking 180-300 a kit so if you collect 2 3 4 kits, that's equivalent to 1 DX but boy oh boy... once you go DX, you cant go back dy... happy collecting