Roll

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I have played the various Mega Man games far too many times. There was a time when I was proud to own all six original games for the NES. Such was my life.

Kotobukiya continues to be on a roll with their model kits. They decided to use their Hoihoi-san experience in making something a little more mainstream hence the creation of their Mega Man kits. Following Mega Man and Proto Man came their sister Roll.

Roll was a very pleasant building experience. I was able to put her together in about an hour using only a fingernail clipper. The resulting kit is everything you can expect from a small plastic Roll.

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By default, the instructions have you build Roll in her Mega Man 8 incarnation.

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One nice thing about Kotobukiya kits is the number of pre-painted parts. On Roll the small purple buttons on her upper dress and cuffs are pre-painted. The bow in her hair is also a white piece of plastic painted green. All the details on her face and eyes come pre-tampographed.

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Roll has very basic articulation in her arms, legs, and body. Still, she is very chipper and expressive.

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And she can dance.

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Roll comes with three faces. The first is a smiling face you saw in the previous pics and the second is a winking face. This face has its own white backing plate with only one eye.

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Roll’s third face is a confused look that coupled with the blank eye plate can be used to create a nightmarish visage. The blank plate is supposed to be customized with the included water slide decals, but since only wizards know how those work I have chosen to leave that piece blank.

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Converting Roll to her classic look in Mega Man 1-7 is simply of matter of removing the white part of her dress and swapping her arms, lower legs, and front hair piece.

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Classic Roll features the same articulation as before.

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She’s actually balanced enough to stand on one leg.

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Here’s the confused face with normal eyes.

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“I love you this much!”

Overall Roll is a fun little model kit. She’s fun as a standalone figure or as a companion to the Mega Man kit. The ability to display her in two different outfits is a nice touch. And because this is a Japanese figure, she does have little molded white panties. Oh Japan, don’t ever change.