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Review:HGUC Rick Dom II

May 29, 2010 Christopher Troy Comments Off on Review:HGUC Rick Dom II

Continuing my semi unexpected “break” from the review “weeks”, I’m gonna be covering another kit from the HGUC 0080 series. In addition to the few new kits made for the HGUC line, all of the kits from the original line were redone. The Rick Dom II here was the fourth 0080 HGUC, coming out right before the Mass Produced Guncannon. This kit came in two flavors-the well-known classic Rick Dom colors that the original 0080 kit came in, and was later released in the “colony attack colors” which it donned in its first appearance in the OVA. Aside from the colors, both kits are identical. […]

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Now and Then: Custom Zakus part 2

May 28, 2010 Christopher Troy 2

Since the first part of this series examined one of the “newer” Custom Zakus, it’s only fair that the “Then” portion examines the O.G. of Custom Zakus-The MS-06S “Zakue II”:Principality of Zeon Char’s Customize Mobile Suit from the Original Mobile Suit Gundam series. Of course we won’t be looking at the first release of this kit, but we’ll be dealing with 1/144th scale HGUC “remake” released back in 2002. […]

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A Guide to Scales and Grades

May 26, 2010 Christopher Troy 1

I’m taking a little break from my two-review weeks and talking about a much more general subject-scale and grades. I’m sure a lot of first-time buyers look at the kits they want online and wonder, “How big is it? How hard is this to build? How nice will the finished product be?” Well, I’m hoping this guide here will help you decide what you want and what to expect. […]

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Titans Week part 1: The HGUC Gundam Mark II

May 20, 2010 Christopher Troy Comments Off on Titans Week part 1: The HGUC Gundam Mark II

Welcome to part one of two of Titans week! I’m going to start doing reviews with themes for the next few weeks, so you’ll see two reviews from me each week with something connecting the two together. This week I’m going to cover two mobile suits from everyone’s favorite fascist Federation police force with a really snazzy custom color scheme-the Titans! […]

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Gundam Double-OH YEAH!: The 4 meisters Gundam review part 3

May 15, 2010 Christopher Troy Comments Off on Gundam Double-OH YEAH!: The 4 meisters Gundam review part 3

Welcome back to Part 3 of my look at the Gundam 00 Mesiter Gundams. Head’s up for the two of you who care; we’re currently out of stock of any of pilot Allelujah Haptism’s Gundams on the 1/144th scale, so they will probably be a delay of some sort between parts 3 and 4. I apologize, but the 00 kits are some of the hottest Gunplas selling at Forbidden Planet, and we all prefer the customer getting first dibs on our stock than Loran and I. Worse cause scnario, we’ll concluded this in 2 weeks with a 1/100th scale kit for Allelujah. […]

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HGUC Mass Production Guncannon Review

May 15, 2010 Christopher Troy Comments Off on HGUC Mass Production Guncannon Review

When the original Gundam 0080 model kit line came out in 1989, it really changed things for Gunpla. While they may seem really outdated by today’s standards, they were the first fully-snap together Gundam kits, not needing any glue like the Sentinel kits, or screws like the Char’s Counterattack kits. While they may have had issues like hip joints that popped out easily or ugly yellow polycaps like on the Zaku FZ, they were actually released as a part of the High Grade line when Bandai America released Gundam kits in the early 2000’s. […]

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HGUC Rick Dias Review

May 8, 2010 Christopher Troy Comments Off on HGUC Rick Dias Review

by Loran When the HGUC line first started back in the summer of 1999, it kept things rather simple. Instead of covering all the main character units, fancy new OVAs, and stuff outside of the […]

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The Arche Gundam: Finale

May 5, 2010 Christopher Troy Comments Off on The Arche Gundam: Finale

by Keith GENTLEMEN, BEHOLD! ANOTHER ARTICLE! It’s been kind of a long road working on the Arche so far, and progress to this point has been relatively slow. Thankfully, that won’t be the case this […]

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HGUC Full Armor Gundam 7th Review

May 4, 2010 Christopher Troy Comments Off on HGUC Full Armor Gundam 7th Review

By Loran Boy, Bandai sure loves our money, don’t they? In the past few years, mostly through video games, Bandai has been having totally-awesome mecha designer Hajime Katoki redesign some of Kunio Ookawara’s M-MSV designs. […]

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The Arche Gundam part 2

April 17, 2010 Christopher Troy Comments Off on The Arche Gundam part 2

By Keith Welcome back, model-monkeys! Last time you were subjected to my semi-coherent pontification, we began construction of Bandai’s High Grade 00-series Arche Gundam. This week we’ll be continuing where we left off- moving on […]