Chris | January 20, 2012
by Loran Like its younger, better-looking Gundam brother, the GM II has gone pretty unappreciated in the model kit world. There was one plastic kit back in the original Zeta Gundam line, and at least one conversion kit made for the HGUC GM. While I do like its design overall, it’s really not that much [...]
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Tags: GM II, GM Semi-Striker, Gundam, HGUC GM III Review, One Year War, Torrington Base, Zeta Gundam
Chris | January 20, 2012
By Loran Like I said in the review for the Schuzrum Dias, I love it when Bandai decides they’ll throw us a bone with a kit of a suit that’s never been done before. The thing about the Schuzrum Dias, though, is that most of it was already done. There are many suits that existed [...]
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Tags: 30th Anniversary Gundam, AEUG, Char’s Counterattack, Double Zeta, EFSF, Federation, GM III, HGUC GM III Review, Jegan, Karaba, Londo Bell, polycap, Schuzrum Dias, Strikers
Chris | December 29, 2011
By Loran While the Schuzrum Dias may have been a bit of a pointless variation to begin with, Double Zeta Gundam thankfully has a few more interesting ones. I believe I covered a kitbash of the ReGelg, a Gelgoog variant, some time ago, which is one of my personal favorites. However, there was one story [...]
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Tags: Bandai, Double Zeta Gundam, EWAC, EWAC Zack, Eye-Zack, Gelgoog, HGUC, Review, Schuzrum Dias, The Blue Team, Zack
Chris | December 27, 2011
By Loran Towards the end of Double Zeta Gundam, I have to wonder if there was some sort of budget crisis with the model kits. In the series, you start seeing old suits and variations of them appearing in the latter half. Suits like Gelgoogs, Desert Zakus, and of course, the Gazu R/L. But there [...]
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Tags: Amuro, Anaheim Electronics, Double Zeta Gundam, HGUC, Karaba, Review, Rick Dias, Schuzrum Dias, the AEUG, the Federation, Zeon
Chris | December 23, 2011
By Loran I feel really weird building and reviewing the older HGUC Gundam kits these days. I remember when these things were the best kits you could buy at the scale. Back then, the only prerequisites for a “good model” were “doesn’t need glue” and “isn’t from the original 0083 line”. We had no double-jointed [...]
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Tags: 0083, GP01fb, Gundam, HGUC, Macross, Review, Shoji Kawamori
Chris | December 7, 2011
By Chris Troy SHAMELESS PLUG OF THE WEEK: From January 5-8, 2012, my ass will be at the MAGfest X (Magfest.org, which stands for Music and Games Festival) down in Maryland, and I highly encourage you hit the festival up as well! Nobuo Uematsu, the genius behind many a awesome Final Fantasy soundtrack, will be [...]
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Tags: 10th anniversary, 8-player X-Men arcade cabinet, Duke Nukem, Earthbound Papas, Final Fantasy, Gears of War 3, Gundam AGE, Gundam SEED, Gundam Unicorn, Gundam Wing, Gundam Zeta, Jazzwares, John St. John, MAGfest X, Magfest.org, Maryland, Master Chief, Mortal Kombat, Music and Games Festival, My Little Ponies, NECA, Nobuo Uematsu, NYCC Spartans, one piece, Play Arts Kai, Shonen Jump, Sonic, Square Enix, Street Fighter IV
Chris | December 2, 2011
By Loran With the miniscule amount of toys G.I. Joe Renegades seems to be getting, it’s a miracle we’re seeing any vehicles at all, especially one that isn’t the Coyote. We did get to see the new HISS in action (which I still need in some form), and the HISS is always great; really, it [...]
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Tags: Black Dragon, COBRA, G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe Renegades, Iron Grenadier, Osprey, Renegades, Review, VTOL
Chris | November 24, 2011
By Loran Gundam 00. So much great promise, so many great designs, so many interesting concepts… and so many letdowns. Personal feelings about the show itself, it was filled with great designs, especially the grunts. It was great to see an Alternate Universe series that not only had a plethora of great grunts, but ones [...]
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Tags: Gundam 00, HG00, Review, Union Flag
Chris | November 23, 2011
By Loran Every once in awhile I’ll buy a kit for the “why the hell not?” factor. They usually end up being kits from shows that I’m not too into, or ones that “just look cool”. My modern philosophy with kits is to either start with the main robot and work from there (even if [...]
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Tags: Buster, Buster Gundam, Dearka, Duel Gundam, Gundam, HGGS, Review, SD Gundam, Yzak
Chris | October 13, 2011
By Loran With episode of four of Gundam Unicorn just around the corner and Gundam AGE having just premiered a few days ago, it’s time to look at some new upcoming kits! Let’s see what we’ve got this time around… First off, we have colored pictures for the GM II. I’m a bit sad that [...]
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Tags: Beginning D Gundam, Beginning G, Beginning Gundams, Beginning J Gundam, Dra-C, GM II, GN-X, Gundam, Gundam 00, Gundam AGE, Gundam Unicorn, Gundam Unicorn Full Armor Type, Gunpla, Gunpla Builders, Heavyarms, HGUC, Master Grade, Sandrock Version Katoki, Titans, Ver. Ka Wing, Zee-Zulu