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Just finished the high grade Demi trainer, chuchu's Demi trainer, and the expansion parts set! Here are my thoughts on them; To start off, I decided to put all of these into one post because both of these kits are similar, and the expansion parts set is compatible with both. No, your eyes don't deceive you. The gun is connected to the crotch. Starting with chuchu's Demi, I really like the asymmetrical design, the shoulder mounted shield and extra bulk are pretty cool. For weapons, what you see is what you get. It literally only has this gun if you don't get the expansion set. Articulation in the legs and especially the ankles can be pretty limited; As for the regular Demi, it's a bit plain compared to chuchu's one. Just like chuchu's Demi, what you see is what you get when it comes to weapons. It has a beam rifle, shield, and a stick. The stick can be stored on the sides of the legs, hips, forearms, or backpack. The connection point can fit just about anywhere on this thing. Articulation is about the same as chuchu's demi; Quick thing to mention about the regular Demi is that red isn't the only color you can put on the chest, as you can see there are 4 other options, so there is a bit of customization built into this thing. Speaking of customization, it's time to finally talk about the expansion parts set! The whole thing is modular, so you can combine the included parts in a ton of different ways. I'll just show a few things I did while messing around so you can get the idea. All of these are compatible with chuchu's Demi as well, I just used the regular one so I don't have to keep switching between them. everything attached at once except a couple adapter parts and the included open hand parts (I'll get to those later); And finally here are some examples from the instructions because I didn't take as many pictures as I thought I did. Here's a problem I had while making the review that I almost forgot to mention, the biceps separate if you move the arms too much, so I recommend gluing them if it gets too bad. It wasn't much of a problem for me but it did happen a couple times; The chuchu demi comes with open hand parts because it shares a runner with the expansion parts set for its gun. The regular Demi doesn't have open hands on its own, but since I got the expansion parts set it does now. HOWEVER, neither of these come with correctly colored backs for the open hands, so unless you feel like painting these you're gonna have to swap the backs of the hands if you feel like having them open. Well, unless of course you're a psychopath and don't care if it doesn't match. Overall, both of these are pretty nice kits. 8/10 for both. Each of them have issues, but none of them are bad enough for me to hate them for it. The expansion parts were also pretty nice, and helped turn these pretty plain kits into some pretty damn nice ones. 8.3/10 for the expansion parts set.
