Tag: Gunpla

Mobile Suit Gundam 40th Anniversary PV & Build Divers Re:Rise Announced

Michael Lederhos

Sunrise has released a new promotional video for the Mobile Suit Gundam 40th Anniversary. The video features previews of upcoming projects as well as a retrospective of past Gundam series going all the way back to the beginning. While we already knew of the current Gundam 40th projects, we recently learned a few new details from the video.   First, viewers get to see familiar footage from the Gundam Live-Action Movie Announcement and Gundam Factory Yokohama. Next there is artwork from the Gundam x Ken Okuyama collaboration; the collaboration features Industrial Designer Ken Okuyama redesigning classic Mobile Suits…

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Gundam Battle: Gunpla Warfare Announced

Michael Lederhos

Japan receives multiple Mobile Suit Gundam video games a year, but very few seem to make it over to the West, especially mobile games. This lead to quite the surprise when it was revealed that Bandai Namco’s upcoming mobile game, Gundam Breaker Mobile, will be released in North America as Gundam Battle: Gunpla Warfare. This new mobile game is based on the Gundam Breaker video game series which is very popular in Japan. However, the Gundam Breaker Series hit a wall with the release of New Gundam Breaker in 2018 which ended up being a critical, and commercial…

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Gundam F90 FF Manga Begins in June

Michael Lederhos

In the June issue of Kadokawa’s Monthly Gundam Ace magazine, a 40-page prologue chapter was published for the new manga series, Mobile Suit Gundam F90 FF (Fastest Formula). However, the series will officially begin in the August issue which releases on June 26. 【GA6月号・プロローグ読み切り】MG化も発表されたF90の新作コミック40Pを掲載！！「ビルドファイターズA」の今ノ夜きよし最新作です！「機動戦士ガンダムF90 ファステストフォーミュラ」https://t.co/cVAtumc7HI　 推奨ハッシュタグは #F90FF です！ pic.twitter.com/sfhiu9RLcj — ガンダムエース (@gundam_ace1) April 26, 2019 Mobile Suit Gundam F90 FF is a continuation of the Mobile Suit Gundam F90 manga which ran from 1990 to 1991, and had one compiled volume. Both, Mobile Suit Gundam F90 and F90 FF, serve…

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Gunpla News Round-Up – March 26, 2019: Silver Bullet Suppressor, Exia Repair III & More!

Michael Lederhos

This week on Gunpla News Round-Up, we have five P-Bandai kits and one retail kit! While not the most preferable ratio of retail to exclusive releases, we still have some great stuff to talk about. As usual, we are going to go from the largest scale down to the smallest one.   MG Qan[T] Full Saber (Special Coating Ver) Releasing in July 2019 for 11,800 yen is a re-release of the MG 1/100 Qan[T] Full Saber now with a special coating on several of the parts. This Gundam 00V design has now been given a sparkly overlay which allows…

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Gunpla News Round-Up – March 12, 2019: More Baseball

Michael Lederhos

This week’s Gunpla news is super light as we have just one piece of news and yes, it is baseball related. Now, here we go!   Saitama Seibu Lions Baseball Team Gundam & Zaku II The next special edition HG RX-78-2 Gundam to be released is the Saitama Seibu Lions version. To get this version of the HG Gundam, one needs to order it from the team’s website starting March 19, 2019. The kit will be sold for 3000 yen and will ship in April 2019. The kit will also be made available at an event on May 4, 2019. Whereas, the HG Zaku II Lions…

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Review: HGUC Sinanju Stein (Narrative Ver.)

Michael Lederhos

Welcome to Soundout12’s brand-new Model Kit Monday! The series is back from a long hiatus and this week we’ll be looking at the HGUC Sinanju Stein (Narrative Ver.). This kit was released in October 2018 for 2800 yen/ $32.99 and is based upon the Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative film. The Sinanju Stein was used by the primary antagonist of the movie, Zoltan Akkanen and the kit reuses most of its parts from the HGUC Sinanju. That being said, there’s a lot of great engineering involved with the building of the kit itself and this ends up being quite unique. Check out the video review…

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NYCC 2018: Gundam Build Divers English Dub Announced

Pak Hanu

Earlier today, Sunrise held their New York Comic Con 2018 panel and revealed that they will be teaming with Bang Zoom! Entertainment to produced an English dub for Gundam Build Divers. Sunrise also revealed that they will also be hosting the US premiere of the first 20 mintutes of Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative (Kidō Senshi Gundam NT) on November 16-18. In addition, Sunrise is planning to host the U.S. premiere sometime around the Japanese theatrical release, which be released on November 30. Gundam Build Divers recently finished it’s streaming run earlier last week on Gundam.info. Gundam.info provided an description for…

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Bandai Namco Acquires Bluefin; Bandai Namco Collectibles is Born

Billy "TaJa" Doyle

Interesting news has broke online regarding Bluefin Corp, otherwise referred to as Bluefin Tamashii, the Japanese toy distributor. On Wednesday, Bandai Namco Holdings announced that they acquired an 80% controlling stake in Nippon Imports, LLC, the company that owns and operates Bluefin. Now, with this transaction Bandai Namco will establish a new subsidiary, Bandai Namco Collectibles in October that will continue operations under Bluefin. However, Bandai Namco Collectibles will effectively commence operations in January 2019.   Nippon Imports, LLC founder and CEO Steve Fujimura will serve as Bandai Namco Collectibles’…

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