MAN-08 (ELMETH) MOBILE ARMOR LALAH SUNE USE

Gundam was the first toy line that I started collecting during my early college days, before my interested in toys started to grow drastically.

However, one flaw that I have as compared to other collectors out that is that I may have very limited knowledge on the history of a particular toy when it comes to the cartoon or comic background.

Having said so, let's now take a look at Mobile Armor Elmeth.

This behemoth of a vehicle is supposed to be a Newtype mobile armor to be used in battle against Gundam mobile suits. Although this toy looks like a small soccer ball, there are numerous gimmicks that will keep you entertained, for a little while. To begin with, the two huge front cannons can be aligned & moved about.

At the rear of the vehicle, this behemoth actually comes with 7 missile-like weapons known as 'Bits'. There is a button at the top of the vehicle that you push to launch the Bits out.

Top view of the vehicle.

The landing gears as you can see can be closed up.

In the cartoon, each of these Bits carrying a mega particle cannon can be remote controlled by the pilot. From the pictures above, I only have 6 Bits, there's actually another one somewhere among my other Gundam figures.

There is a transparent piece that comes with Elmeth. In case you're wondering what it does, for those of you that have a Char's Gelgoog it's for you to simulate one of the scenes in the cartoon where the battle damaged Gelgoog holds on to the rear end of Elmeth to retreat.

These are the extra parts that come along with this set to be replaced with Char's Gelgoog if you have one. In conclusion, this is a classic piece of Gundam figure you should own if you've been a fan of this series since the mid 80's.