- EZ-035 Lightning Saix

The Lightning Saix is a simple, but beautiful model kit, with a nice texture to its armor and good color placement. It's also fairly fast, for a motorized kit of this age.

Box Images

- First Edition Card

Zoids Fan Book Vol. 3

- Lore

Information:	Technical Data:	Equipment:
Released: Sep 28th, 2000 Cost: 1800 Yen Motor: x2 AA Batteries Pieces: 83 To Assemble - 87 Parts - 18 Caps (14 are used)	Length: 18.4 m Height: 8.8 m Weight: 65.0 t Max Speed: 325 km/h	2-Barrelled Vulcan Gun Booster Pack Laser Killer Fang x2 Pulse Laser Rifle x2 Strike Laser Claws x4 Vertical Stabilizer x2 Wing Stabilizer x2

Zoids Battle Story

ZAC 2100 A full-scale attack from both the land and the sea, launched by the Guylos Empire, which was determined to settle the battle in northern Europa, ran into a counterattack from the Helic Republic's trumpcards, the Gojulas The Ogre and Hammer Head. It ended in failure. As a result, the frontlines of the Imperial Army, which couldn't procure enough materials, completely collapsed. Only a year ago, the Imperial Army was forced to retreat back along the same path where they had lead their incinvible march. However, even though many troops had been lost, the Imperial Army was still far superior in overall strength, and if they could get the time to rebuild and reoganize their rerouted troops, the tables would turn once again. There was a new Zoid planned to sortie, with high expectations from the Imperial Command. Geno Saurer's armament strengthened type, the Geno Breaker, and the super-high-speed Zoid used for surprise attacks, the Lightning Saix. Can these two major new Zoids, infused with Imperial technology, stop the Great Counterattack of the Republican Army?

Fuselage Explanation

Helcats could handle everything from high-speed combat to surprise attacks, but as the fierce battle continued, they were unable to compete with the new Zoids of the Republic, which were being introduced one after another. However, the Imperial Army Development Department incorproated the Organoid System into their next-generation high-speed Zoid, which had been under development for some time, and created the Lightning Saix. The booster on the back created an astonishing speed of 325 km, while maintaining the sound deafening functions in the legs and the concealment features that surpressed heat radiation. Its mobility exceeded even that of the Blade Liger.

- Instructions

- Review

    Lightning Saix is a pretty awesome kit, if not a little small. The zoid is also one of few that has remained cheap after all of this time.

    I hear that Lightning Saix has two walk modes. I haven't had a chance to test this myself, since most of my new zoids haven't received a "test run". They were merely built and put on the shelf. The Saix is a bit unusual, though, in that its battery back is inside of the back-mounted cannon, instead of the main body, like most zoids.

    Lightning Saix had pretty decent plastic. I didn't have any problem with fragile parts, but the black plastic shows flash very badly. Unfortunately, it also shows the stickers badly; as you can see in my images.

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Rundown

Pros:
    Good quality plastic and build.
    All of the fins on the Saix are adjustable.

Cons:
    Some pieces are difficult to get ahold of to move. The claws and jaws for example.

- Gimmicks

- Cockpit

Like most zoids, Saix' cockpit can also open. This is the entire piece that covers the top of the head, and the eyes are attached to it. Flip it forward towards the nose to show the console and pilot. The cockpit doesn't open quite as far as some Zoid's, though. The photo of the open cockpit is about as far as it'll go.

- Jaws

Lightning Saix can open its mouth quite a ways. Be forewarned, however, that if you close the jaws completely, they can be a pain to get back open.

- Claws

Lightning Saix shares the same feature it had in the show. The claws can be rotated up into the bottom of the Saix's paws (the silver piece), and can also be flipped out for battle or traction during movement.

When I first cut these pieces off of the sprue I thought that the little square thing on the back was just spare flash. Let me assure you it's not. While it can be more aesthetically appealing in a retracted mode to remove this flash, it makes it a bit more difficult to pull the claws back out.

I presume you're supposed to push up on this peg to flip the claws out from the bottom. Not very effectively, but enough that you can grab the sides and pull them out the rest of the way.

Just as an added note, the Lightning Saix's paws can also rotate up or down at the 'ankle'.

- Gun

;Oddly enough, while the Saix's gun cannot rotate, it seems to be able to tip forward or backwards to a small degree.

- Gun Fins

The wings at the side of the gun are also poseable in this same way. They can fan out to the side, enough so to even face directly forward. They can also lay flat against the gun (facing backwards), or just spread out to either side.

- Rear Fins

Both fins on the Saix's back (just before the tail) can be rotated backwards or forwards. This allows them to retract down beside the body or to flip upwards for movement.

- Tail

Lightning Saix' tail also has a small range of movement. ... A very small range of movement. This is a little unfortunate, since Saix would look nice if it could move the tail for different battle poses, but sadly, it cannot.