Released in 1993, the Zoloatt was part of Bandai's short-lived "MS in Pocket" line. The line was launched to promote the new (at the time) Gundam series, V Gundam, and consisted of 14 pieces. The figures averaged around 10cm in height, and came with an assortment of weapons and accessories.

The Zoloatt included a beam rifle, 2 beam cannons, beam sabre, and beam shield. It was constructed with high quality plastic, not the material that MSIA are created out of today.

Some assembly is required. The translucent yellow parts come on a sprue like a model kit. Some decals also need to be applied.

It's a nice solid little figure, however after some play the joints get really loose. Also, the small yellow stickers on the feet tend to come off after time. You can tell that Bandai was trying out a lot of ideas for the first time with this series of figures.

For some reason, this figure is the easiest to obtain out of all of them, and can be easily found for around $10.

Contio comes with one Contio action figure + 7 runners (35 parts), molded out of cherry pink, dark grey, light grey, blue-green and translucent purple.

For such a small figure, Contio features a ton of weapons, including:

• beam rifle
• 2 shot claws (detachable from respective shoulder blocks; each unit inc. one pair of movable pincers, one giant beam sabre, and one pair of beam cutters)
• beam sabre
• beam 'loop sabre'
• beam shield.

The best feature of contio is the double-jointed calves, allowing for a wide range of poses. Contio does get pretty top heavy, so he falls over easily.