Thanks for feeding me my weekly Gundam habit, I was starving last week lol. Another great episode guys, also it looks like Build Fighters is over unless they decide to create a second season.
So why do you guys think Bandai decided to make Banshee Norn a Premium Bandai exclusive instead of Phenex? I mean Banshee Norn is going to be in the anime that everyone even international people can see; where you can only see Phenex at Gundam Front Tokyo and not everyone are able see that. If I were Bandai I would make Banshee Norn a mass retail…[Read more]
Honestly I think that the phenex is quite a nice release. It offers something a bit different (and shiny) to the table than just a modified gun and bigger shield.
If anything I think that the best thing Bandai could do would be to give us an expansion set like the universe booster or the core booster set as all that really changes is the pilot…[Read more]
I agree with Nick A “universe” type booster/ Norn pack would be great, sell for 2000 yen or so, nice cheap add-on. The whole P-Bandai is just a bit silly for international gunpla fans. At least there are sites to grab them. but yeah, I don’t understand why cannot make the Norn a retail release.
I waited on getting the banshee because i figured the Norn would be the retail release, lo and behold it’s the insanely over priced Phenex. Why bandai did what they did, we’ll honestly never know but i do feel the norn should’ve been the retail release, making it online only seemed like a slap in the face to international gunpla builders.
I’m actually happy they made it an exclusive. It’s not geared towards beginners anyway, so people who purchase it should be painting and detailing the kit.
I think you’ve seen/heard of it now. They showed new trailer for Unicorn Episode 7, teaser for the new Gundam series, “Gundam Reconguista in G” and “The Origin I.” And the announcement of the new 1/1 scale Gundam statue, although they haven’t said which MS it’s going to be (*cough Char’s Zaku *cough *cough)
Some I’ve seen some I’ve not. I saw the trailer for Unicorn Episode 7 this morning and the Zaku statue was leaked weeks ago, not to mention in Build Fighters. I did not know about ‘Gundam Reconquista in G’ until just now. The art style looks very different to Gundam’s. It hasn’t got me excited but that Origin trailer has! If ‘Gundam Reconquista in…[Read more]
The Bandai Channel says “We’re Sorry. Our current service is not available in your country.” But there are links to http://www.gundam-the-origin.net/ (which has a few pics that should be recognizable to anyone who’s read Gundam: The Origin vol. 5) and http://www.g-reco.net/ (which has a mech that looks like a mashup of Gundam Exia and AGE-1 Normal).
Reconquista in G has me thinking that the Mech could be the “White Devil” from the dark history of Turn-A with its reversed V-Blade, there’s a noticeable drop in the animation quality so it could be heading to TV toward the end of the year.
The Origin doesn’t have a noticeable drop in quality so it looks as though it will be an OVA release.
Thanks for another great episode guys, big news from the US also, starting next month in April the retailer Barnes and Nobel is going to start selling Gunpla models in stores. They did a trial run of select stores in 2013 and it did well enough to go nationwide. Hopefully with that roll out we can get more people interested in Gunpla and other…[Read more]