Gundam Discussion - Twilight Axis

**Insanecyclone** · 2014-09-20 01:51

**Insanecyclone** · 2014-09-22 10:26

shiiiiiiiiiieeeeeet

**Serra** · 2014-09-22 11:05

The only thing I see is a Bearguy with a tiny Bear strapped to its back!

**Insanecyclone** · 2014-09-23 12:26

P-Bandai Online Hobby Shop Exclusive: MG 1/100 Tallgeese III (Release Date: Jan 2015, Price: 4,860 Yen)

**SurRival** · 2014-09-23 22:15

P-Bandai is quickly becoming a nuisance to official releases of designs than an outlet for exclusive variants of designs. The MG Banshee Norn being an exclusive was bad enough but I can see with this coming, setting a horrible precedent. Great for JP ONRY but everyone else is really out of lucky paying easily double for a few parts.

**Insanecyclone** · 2014-09-23 23:26

Probably doing it to counter that bootleg Tallgeese 3 MG but not doing it in the best way to release it.

**Insanecyclone** · 2014-09-24 00:46

Originally Posted by Serra

The only thing I see is a Bearguy with a tiny Bear strapped to its back!

**Serra** · 2014-09-24 01:31

That's incredible.. My bearguy is such a disappointment now!

**Edelweiss** · 2014-09-24 11:08

The rise in variant kits becoming Premium Bandai exclusives is getting rather ridiculous now. Especially with the MG Norn being from the critical and financial juggernaut that is Unicorn. I guess they know something we don't? Still, I hope they do move forward with expanding the scope of Premium Bandai to North America at least. Or even just making these variant kits a seperately purchaseable set of parts (sort of like the System Weapons line).

I mean, it's fine if you can afford to pay the mark-ups.. but for someone else who can't, that's a real punch in the dick.

Depending on how satisfied you are with the fit of the parts on the Dragon-Momoko Tallgeese III, you might want to bite the bullet and get the official kit. I've heard it's better than most third-party attempts at injection kits, but still not really quite there.

**Insanecyclone** · 2014-09-25 23:53

bru bruh bruh bruhb brurhuh

**Vandole** · 2014-09-26 00:08

8 weeks later i dont have my god hand nippers still ._.

**The Blackrose** · 2014-09-26 15:16

Amurikuh! Fuck yeah!

**Tyrath** · 2014-09-26 17:37

My GF got me that Gundam Wing :O Still trying to finish up Astray before I tackle it.

**Omniyoji** · 2014-09-26 20:40

Wow, what a gal!

**Edelweiss** · 2014-09-26 21:15

Already pre-ordered the PG Unicorn and it's LED set.

lol

By the way, there was a silhouetted image of Gundam Dynames for a November Bandai Hobby Proshop kit (shown with two MGs: the 1.5 RX-78 and a Zaku R1/R2/R2P exclusive to the Proshop). Might not want to read too deeply into the scale of the two kits, since the Proshop has only done MGs to date. Although a MG Dynames would be pretty awesome.

The December issue of Gundam Ace will include the option parts for the RG Wing Zero Custom EW. And the RG frame for Gundam W's Gundams was shown next to silhouetted images of the other EW Gundams; it's basically what they did with the MGs sharing much of the same basic frame. Tallgeese III's MG release is also seeing a re-issue of the MG Tallgeese II.

Wave Corp. is releasing a non-scale O'Neill Cylinder-type Island 3 colony model in January.

The RE/100 Gundam Mk.III is going to be revealed in November.

Finally, the Commander variant Gehennam from G-Reco is fucking beautiful.

**Mythe_Seraph** · 2014-09-26 22:14

If I wanted to get the entire RG Wing set as they are released would it be better to buy them one by one or to just buy them all at once after every release? It may sound like a stupid question but I'm being serious. Also these RG kits are not going to be exclusives are they? They will be available like every other RG kit is?

**Mrbeansman** · 2014-09-26 22:28

Really hope the lighter wings on that RG Wing Zero will allow for displaying it spread eagle. My biggest grip with the PG was that the wings are so heavy and the sockets so loose that wings just don't stay up in that position.

**Edelweiss** · 2014-09-27 04:45

Originally Posted by Mythe_Seraph

If I wanted to get the entire RG Wing set as they are released would it be better to buy them one by one or to just buy them all at once after every release? It may sound like a stupid question but I'm being serious. Also these RG kits are not going to be exclusives are they? They will be available like every other RG kit is?

Gunpla, unless otherwise noted (like being Premium Bandai exclusives... which is rapidly becoming the new B-Club, in terms of hatred by Gunotas) will never be discontinued. Now, it might be on a long-term reissue cycle like the old 80s and 90s kits, but never discontinued. The modern Gunpla lines pretty much all see monthly production of a large number of kits (the MG Zaku II 2.0 and it's variants might have broken some kind of record for now, with how often they're cranked out). This includes the HG and MG lines nominally; the 1/100s and non-HG kits seem to be addressed on a per-series basis (SEED shit is frequently cycled in 4-5 times a year). It's safe to assume that the RG and, the newest line (RE/100), are also going to follow the same reproduction runs every month (there is some feedback and response on sales helping gauge and try to meet demand, though obviously with some crack-tier stuff like the Bearguy, no increase in volume was ever meeting the rabid demand..).

That said, it's rather early to say what you should do; but we don't really have much reason to believe the other Gundams from Wing are going to be exclusives so far. Now, it is possible they'll have some limited availability bonus parts (like the option set for the twin buster rifle that's bundled with December's Gundam Ace) or equipment packs (the VTOL equipment for Heavyarms, Armadillo Armor for Sandrock, etc. from the Glory of the Losers manga). But we've always been given heads up on that with a couple months notice, not that you want to ever wait all that long to pre-order limited stuff.

If you're ever worried about stuff going out of production for a period of time, checking the monthly release schedule (http://bandai-hobby.net/site/schedule.html) will help keep to appraised of everything being reissued for the next month. This month there's an unusually high amount of PG kits being reissued, though I suppose it's about that time of year (the last major reissue period was back in January, IIRC).

**Mythe_Seraph** · 2014-09-27 15:53

I see, so basically it's safe to say that if I just wanted the RG kits without any of the attachment parts I'm probably good to wait a bit and not have to worry about picking them up as they are released. Thank you!

I built so many of the wing kits when I was younger in like 2000 and 2001 whenever it was on toonami that I got really tired of the wing gundams. But the RG kits are so fantastic and to have a set of the 5 of them would be pretty sick for a small display.

**SurRival** · 2014-09-27 15:58

The lack of MG news is telling; we'll have a few big announcements nearing the end of the year for hype.

A P-Bandai exclusive shouldn't be news and all they have in store. I have a funny feeling it's going to be an MG G-Self to hit the iron while it's still hot like when AGE was out.

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