- HMM-017 Red Horn

Release Date: February 20th, 2010  Retail Price: 6,800 yen


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- Introduction

 Red Horn, The Moving Fortress

 Red Horn, which has always been at the top of the rankings for commercialization surveys, is finally being commercialized.

 It was the core Zoid of the Imperial Armored Division, and was called the "Moving Fortress" because of the heavy equipment and armor that was applied to the whole body.

 - The weapons, which are applied to over 10 different places are a true highlight.
 - More than 60 movable parts place it at the highest level in the HMM series.
 - With lots of gimmicks, including the hidden claws within the toes, coupled with movable parts across the whole body, you'll remember the fun of assembling the sheer width of this plastic model, and getting to pose it.

- Technical Data

 Stats:
  Length: 20.8 m
  Height: 7.6 m
  Weight: 94.0 tons
  Maximum Speed: 130 km/h

 [Weapons]
  4-Shot Multi Missile Launchers  (Sides)
  80mm Surface-to-Air 2-Barrelled Beam Gun  (Right Side)
  AEZ 20mm Beam Guns  (Tail Tip)
  Anti-Zoid 3-Barrelled Linear Cannon  (Back)
  Bite Fangs  (Teeth)
  Crusher Horn  (Nose)
  High-Pressure Concentrated Sulphuric Acid Spray Gun (Short Barrel)  (Chin)
  Multi-Launchers  (Shoulders)
  Multiple Assault Beam Guns (All-Weather 3D Radar Antennae)  (Frill)
  Surface-to-Surface Missile Pod  (Ontop of Linear Cannon)
  TEZ 20mm Linear yse?AGuns  (Base of Tail)

 [Equipment]
  Composite Sensor Unit  (Antenna On Gun)
  Cooling Units  (Side Vents)
  Infrared Laser Searcher  (Back)
  Radar Unit  (Disc Under 80mm)
  Sensor Unit  (Forehead)
  Shock Absorber Skids  (Bottom of Tail Tip)

 [Features]
  Driver's Cockpit  (Head)
  Gunner Cockpit x2 (Small-Scale Reconnaissance Vehicle)  (Back, Tail)
  Spike Plates  (Heels)
  Weapon Platform  (Back)
  Zoid Core  (Chest, Internal)

- Marking Plus Version

 A Blue Gale Races Across The Battlefield

 "The Moving Fortress"

 The core Zoid of the Imperial Army's Armored Division, the Red Horn, joins the lineup with a significant increase in content, including new decals!
 The sliding gimmick in the neck joint and the movable axis of the waist joint combine strength and mobility, allowing you to recreate expressive poses and powerful standing poses.
 Additionally, clear colorless parts have been added in addition to the usual clear green. Paint them in your favorite clear color.
 Be sure to add this famous Zoid, highly acclaimed for its balanced offensive and defensive capabilities, to your lineup!


Gimmicks:

  • The hatch in the head cockpit opens and closes, and a common cockpit is built in with a unique HMM arrangement, with a general pilot figure included to board it.

  • The Zoid core built into the torso is detachable.

  • Numerous weapons are equipped throughout the body. You can rearrange and play with it however you like.

  • The back and tail are equipped with a gunner cockpit (small reconnaissance aircraft) covered by a canopy, and can be detached.

  • In addition to clear green, colorless clear parts have been added to each part. You can paint them in your favorite clear color.

  • New decals featuring a variety of emblems and caution marks are included, and you can apply them as you like to create a precise finish.

- Changes From Standard Kit

 ⚫ New decals included

 ⚫ Clear colorless parts

 ⚫ Includes the litttle head lamp parts (circular grates) on the side of the head which were originally released with the Dark Horn.


 Release Date: January 2024
 Price: 8,400 Yen

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- Release Notes

  - Rereleased in May 2016
  - Rereleased in January 2018
  - Rereleased in November 2020
  - Rereleased in January 2024 as the Marking Plus Version

History of the Red Horn

New Technology

 During the early stages of the Central Continent War, the relentless conflict between the two major powers on Planet Zi, the Helic Republic and the Zenebas Empire, continued to escalate. The intensification of the fighting was spurred on by the introduction of new types of combat Zoids, created using advanced technology.

 In the year ZAC 2029, the Globally III, a spacecraft carrying humans from a distant galaxy, crash-landed on Planet Zi. The Republican Army rescued one of the Earthlings, a scientist named Kronenbourg. Believing that the Republic's victory would restore peace to the continent, he cooperated with them, using older models as a base to enhance and modernize the weaponry and electronics of their combat Zoids. With these new and improved Zoids, the Republican Army launched an operation to reclaim their territory. The advanced technology brought by the people of Earth accelerated the evolution of Zoids as combat weapons, and various regions of the Central Continent were rapidly transformed into battlefields.

A Threat, The Zoid Gojulas

 In ZAC 2030, the forces of the Zenebas Empire were suffering successive defeats on all fronts in the face of the Helic Republic's relentless onslaught. While the movements of Zoid units, centered mostly around the new Godos model were impressive, the large Zoid known as the Zoid Gojulas, with immense power and heavy armaments displayed extraordinary combat capabilities. The giant dinosaur of the Republic broke through every line of defense, acting as a major threat to the Imperial Army.

 The Empire, feeling the limitations of its existing Zoids - which were based on the same types as the Republic's older models - watched its leader, Emperor Zenebas himself, bring in Landbury, a man claiming to be an Adventure Merchant from Earth, as his advisor, just as the Republic had done. He ridiculed the Empire's approach to warfare as mere "knights in shining armor" and introduced a sophisticated information processing system used for command, control, and communication. By introducing Earth-style modern warfare tactics to the military's high command, he compensated for the difference in combat power between the enemy's new models and the Empire's old ones. Furthermore, the Emperor issued a royal decree to the Ministry of Development to actively incorporate Earth's scientific technology and develop a large Zoid that would form the core of the Imperial Zoid forces, specifically designed to counter the Gojulas. However, no large Zoids equivalent to the Zoid Gojulas had been found within Zenebas territory, making the development process difficult from the very first step of selecting a suitable wild specimen.

The Birth of the Redhorn

 In response to the delay in the development of new Zoids, Landbury decided not to select a wild specimen of the same caliber, but instead shifted to the rapid development a quadrupedal assault combat Zoid based on the styracosaurus-type that the Ministry of Development had been promoting for some time, aiming for an anti-Zoids Mammoth and Gordos machine. In order to quickly form the Imperial Army Zoid Armored Division that he was pushing for, he needed a combat Zoid that could be reliably supplied to the entire army. Prioritizing quantity over quality, the styracosaurus, with its much larger population compared to the large tyrannosaurus type wild specimens (which were fewer in number and required time to mature before the Zoid Gojulas could be produced) offered a far easier production process. Although the styracosaurus had a distinct disadvantage in terms of combat power, it was judged that its quadrupedal gate would allow it to travel over rough terrain, and that its walking speed would be nearly twice that of the Zoid Gojulas. This ability would allow for the formation of different types of troops with several new, smaller Zoids that were being developed at the same time. Thus, the introduction of a styracosaurus Zoid was decided upon, not primarily as a countermeasure to the Zoid Gojulas, but rather with the formation of an armored division as the main objective.

 By repurposing existing designs, development was completed in a short period, and the Zoid was immediately deployed to the battlefield. The completed unit, incorporating design elements from the wild specimen, featured a large horn for close combat and, due to its intended role as a flagship unit, was given the Zenebas Empire's image color, red, and named the "Redhorn." As its name suggests, the Redhorn served as a symbol of the Zenebas Empire Army during the early stages of the Central Continent War.

The Redhorn of the Battlefield

 With the introduction of the Redhorn, a Zoid capable of transitioning from artillery combat to frontal assault and possessing advanced multi-sensor information gathering capabilities, thus functioning as a command center, units were reorganized and Imperial Army Zoid Armored Divisions were created one after another. The following year, ZAC 2031, the forces were further strengthened with the introduction of new advanced small-scale Zoids: The Molga for assault combat, the Geruder for artillery, Merda for high-speed combat, Sinker for air combat, Gator for electronic warfare, and Zatton for rear support. Regarding the problematic Zoid Gojulas, a strategy of using heavily armored units at high speed in frontal assaults, combined with group combat tactics using multiple Redhorns, allowed them to fight on equal footing, successfully turning the tide of the previously unfavorable battles. While the task of countering the Zoid Gojulas would later be taken over by the large-scale melee combat Zoid the Iron Kong, the Redhorn remained the core of the Zenebas Empire Army Zoid Armored Divisions until the end of the Central Continent War.

The Redhorns of the Guylos Empire

 In ZAC 2051, at the end of the Central Continent War, the Dark Continent Army suddenly appeared on the battlefield and absorbed the remaining units of the Zenebas Empire. They then declared war on the Republic under the name of the Guylos Empire. The Central Continent War turned into the Dark Continent War. The Guylos Empire also introduced a variant based on the Zenebas Empire's Redhorn as its main Zoid until the end of the Western Continent War in ZAC 2100. The following is an overview of the units operated by the Guylos Empire.

Dark Horn

 The Dark Horn is a combat Zoid that the Guylos Empire military thoroughly moddified from the Redhorns of the Zenebas Army, which the Guylos Empire had absorbed to bolster its strength. In addition to improving the performance of the machine by reviewing each part, combat power improvement systems using the mineral Deochalcum, which activates the Zoid Core and generates higher energy was introduced. In addition, the armor was reinforced with a simplified production version of a special metal based on Ice Metal, a new metal with high hardness introduced during the Dark Continent War. This armor was painted with black paint that served as the Guylos Empire's image color and also absorbed electromagnetic waves to give it stealth capabilities. While the basic design of the Dark Horn was the same as that of the Redhorn, these changes to the Red Horn's specifications dramatically improved its performance, giving it a combat capability comparable to a next generation machine. The Dark Horn was used as the main Zoid of the Guylos Empire until the end of the Dark Continent War in ZAC 2056.

Crimson Horn

 In ZAC 2056, a huge meteorite struck Planet Zi, causing a cataclysmic event that plunged the surface of the planet into a magnetic storm that lasted for 40 years, leaving the Zoids affected by these storms incapacitated. The Crimson Horn was a prototype Zoid used for local warfare, that was developed to operate under these conditions. The Zoid Core was adjusted to cope with the magnetic storms, and the Energy Conversion System installed in the fuselage, which took in magnetic energy, succeeded in generating a huge amount of power. When supplied with this energy, the Gravity Controller would activate, reducing the weight of the machine, thus allowing it to achieve mobility far superior to the Saber Tiger from the same army. Although this machine achieved high performance in magnetic storms, it was unable to even walk on the surface of the planet when the magnetic storms stopped, and the latest technology that it had been equipped with was deemed useless, so it disappeared before the Western Continent War.

Red Horn (Guylos Empire Army Spec.)

 In ZAC 2097, when the Guylos Empire began its invasion of the Western Continent, it introduced a new machine, a Dark Horn that had the Deochalcum combat enhancement system removed as its main Zoid. This was a countermeasure against the fact that Deochalcum, a special mineral peculiar to the Dark Continent, became impossible to mine due to the devastating impact of the Grand Catastrophe of Planet Zi. While this resulted in a decrease in combat power, it also led to an increase in production efficiency. Since widespread battles were expected from the beginning, and a large number of machines would be needed for that, the modified version was immediately adopted. The fuselage color was changed from black stealth paint to heat resistant paint for protection against optical weapons, accounting for the frequent head-on battles with the Republican Army. Due to the characteristics of this paint, the red unit, which was brighter than that of the Zenebas Empire, was introduced as the standard model. For this reason, it continued to be called the Red Horn, as it had been during the days of the Zenebas Empire.

 The Red Horn thus served as the core of the armored forces of both the Guylos and Zenebas Empires. Despite modifications, it maintained its basic design and remained a front-line unit for a long time thereafter, unaffected by the numerous new Zoids that were subsequently produced. The excellence of this unit can also be seen from the fact that no successor machine with similar capabilities has ever emerged.

 This is a testament to the foresight of the Earthling adventure merchant, Landbury, who chose to introduce the Red Horn.

 The Red Horn, which survived the battlefields of Planet Zi without changing its form or shape could, in a sense, be called the strongest combat Zoid.

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