I had all my zoids in a box at my parents house when I moved off to college. Now almost 15 years later I managed to finally bring them back home (I live across the country so it took awhile 😅)

Most of them were in pieces when I opened the box so I'm working on putting them all back together. I think there are 11 or 12 total.

Unfortunately the shield liger is the only one that got almost completely disassembled while rattling around in the box, so it will take a lot of time to figure out where the pieces go 😭

(Pic is what I have assembled so far)

Finished up this beast! Also I finally got some display shelves ordered and I’ll post a picture of the current collection once it’s all set up.

Was thinking of moving over to some flying zoids next, which one should I start with? HMM line preferred.

It has been an interesting 2 months. During that time, I have been slowly going through my backlog.

The past 2 months have had their share of challenges. Complications with buyers and sellers pushed back some upcoming items. Not a new thing. There were also economic factors affecting things for me, as that affects my final source of Zoids, after some communities and apps are no longer available to me. In the remaining communities, I have been working with people to figure it the economic factors. I have also been assisting administrators in dealing with the wave of crypto scammers that has been invading several communities over the past few months.

I might have let some people push me out of some communities, some think that I am quitting or have already quit, and some told me to balance things out, but I have chosen the balanced out option. The skills i have blessed with can be quite useful; and that is what has been keeping me going no matter the situation.

For some positive news now. At work, a lot of pre-orders. With all stress gone, productivity has massively increased. Projects have been slowly revived as I have been balancing out my hobbies. Unlike last time, where I burnt out from so much stress and projects at once, I have been managing things quite well now.

It is also interesting that the start of Phase 4 lines up with 11 months since I started, give or take a few days. The "workshop/junkyard" has reached maximum capacity at approximately 1,000 Zoids, with around 95% being junk ones obtained mostly from junk lots.

This is only the beginning. Customs and repairs were originally planned for February 2026, but kept being pushed back. Now, Phase 4 can finally begin, along with completely redesigned systems. Along with the moving forward of this hobby, other projects and hobbies are being revived.

Bonus: I was going to save this for the 1 year update, but since I am starting Phase 4, it makes sense to put these here:

Ever want to know what nearly 1,000 Zoids looks like?

Over 75% were imported after some sources I previously used were no longer available to me. At least 95% have or had some kind of issue with them. i recently bought supplies so I can start on some of these, so that most will become available to sell later on.

added dual gattling guns, forward smoke dischargersto break contact of stealthis broken. has dual boosters and rocket pods along with it'sstandard issue guns. close to the wild weasel vibe. colors don't match perfectly. pretty happy with how it turned out. will pair up with my command wolf.