Megalosaro
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The Official Gundam Thread of Gunpla, Origins, and 35 Years of GUNDAMUUUU!
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There is a theory about that. ..
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Megalosaro
Banned
Son
Edit: I finished my HGUC V2. Pics coming soon.
Overall, it is a pretty good kit and I enjoyed it. It's freaking TINY, which is something I find endlessly amusing. Seeing how small it is compared to beasts like the Nu Gun dam or Sazabi (or hell, even a Ric Dom dwarfs it) is just too funny and awesome. It looks great IMHO and it was a fun build. I do have some problems with it.
The polycaps: This kit is somewhat fragile (though not nearly as bad as an RG). Hands and shoulders pop off pretty easily. Even the waist comes off without much provocation. This is definitely something you're not going to want to play around with.
Tiny pieces. Since this IS a smaller kit, this means the pieces you'll be working with are small, and thus fragile. As I mentioned early, I snapped the face plate in half just removing it from the tray, and I'm pretty careful with that sort of stuff. Be CAREFUL while building.
The beam shield. I was REALLY disappointed with the beam shield, since it was something I was most looking forward to. The piece that connects the shield to the arm doesn't fit snuggly in when the shield is in place, meaning that it is loose and pops off VERY easily. I was not confident enough in the piece to use it, meaning I had to forego the shield which is a shame because it makes the suit look visually striking and is one of it's best looking features.
But seriously, I love how small this guy is. He's almost half as tall as my Sazabi.
Edit: I finished my HGUC V2. Pics coming soon.
Overall, it is a pretty good kit and I enjoyed it. It's freaking TINY, which is something I find endlessly amusing. Seeing how small it is compared to beasts like the Nu Gun dam or Sazabi (or hell, even a Ric Dom dwarfs it) is just too funny and awesome. It looks great IMHO and it was a fun build. I do have some problems with it.
The polycaps: This kit is somewhat fragile (though not nearly as bad as an RG). Hands and shoulders pop off pretty easily. Even the waist comes off without much provocation. This is definitely something you're not going to want to play around with.
Tiny pieces. Since this IS a smaller kit, this means the pieces you'll be working with are small, and thus fragile. As I mentioned early, I snapped the face plate in half just removing it from the tray, and I'm pretty careful with that sort of stuff. Be CAREFUL while building.
The beam shield. I was REALLY disappointed with the beam shield, since it was something I was most looking forward to. The piece that connects the shield to the arm doesn't fit snuggly in when the shield is in place, meaning that it is loose and pops off VERY easily. I was not confident enough in the piece to use it, meaning I had to forego the shield which is a shame because it makes the suit look visually striking and is one of it's best looking features.
But seriously, I love how small this guy is. He's almost half as tall as my Sazabi.
But wasn't he gay? He was pretty infatuated with Full Frontal.
Bet he was just REALLY effeminate.
Megalosaro
Banned
Nadia Ronah could be his beard.
Both Angelo and Carozzo are kind of the type to be cuckolded. I don't really put much stock in the theory, of course, but you never know.
Both Angelo and Carozzo are kind of the type to be cuckolded. I don't really put much stock in the theory, of course, but you never know.
Doesn't the novel say he looks up to FF as a father figure?
The OVA doesn't really touch on Angelo at all IIRC; really made him one of the weaker recurring characters.
The most deserved slap:
I feel like this slap comes years too late, though. If Bright had smacked Hathaway around sooner, maybe Hathaway wouldn't have pulled that incredibly bitch move at the end of the movie.
The one slap that needed to happen most, though, was Char slapping Quess. It would've been just dandy to see how it all went down if Quess had found Char as uninterested in her as the rest.
I'm thinking of watching Turn A as my first Gundam. Is my enjoyment of the show going to be hindered since I haven't watched a Gundam show before? I only looked at a couple of other threads and it seems like the show has quite a lot of references. I did watch Build Fighters and enjoyed that, but I don't really know if that would count.
pls no spoilers, I'm scared to look and search further on my own due to fear of spoilers.
pls no spoilers, I'm scared to look and search further on my own due to fear of spoilers.
It's not connected in that sort of way. You can watch it and not have other series spoiled for you.
Megalosaro
Banned
I absolutely adore Turn A, but I wouldn't recommend it as a first series. Plot-wise, it isn't directly connected to other shows, but it's one of those things where you'll get more from it if you watch some shows that came before it first, particularly Universal Century stuff.
Stylistically, it's pretty different from every other Gundam. Much more mellow and upbeat. Again, something you'll appreciate more if you watch other shows first.
Here is the pic of my V2, btw. Excuse the shitty panel lining.
Does the timing work out? Everything post Unicorn is really hard for me to keep straight.
Megalosaro
Banned
It works out fairly well. According to Gundam Wiki, Carozzo was born in UC 0078. That would make him 18 in 0096...
Megalosaro
Banned
What is that from?
distantmantra
Member
Akibastrip 2
Nice. UPS just dropped off my copy, but I'm in the middle of Sen no Kiseki at the moment.
Nice. UPS just dropped off my copy, but I'm in the middle of Sen no Kiseki at the moment.
Valkerionseven
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Yes to both slap suggestions.
God Hathaway bothers me even to this day every time I think about it. What a fucking... just UGH
Found a Gunpla place in San Jose today(Tatsu Hobby, they have an online store with a pretty decent selection too) and ended up walking out with this:
MG Turn A and a couple Gundam markers for panel lining. Wing Gundam Fenice, Crossbone X1, and F91 are all on their way too.
RIP me.
MG Turn A and a couple Gundam markers for panel lining. Wing Gundam Fenice, Crossbone X1, and F91 are all on their way too.
RIP me.
ShinRPGamer
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So my local Anime convention Animethon was this week and I managed to get these for 31 dollars total.
Where should I start?
Where should I start?
did the 1/100 not have it? i vaguely remember it does
http://www.hlj.com/product/ban59767/Gun
Includes two different versions of the face (one half-covered by a clown mask -- this will make sense to you if you've seen the show).
see i remember!
It should be something like this:
1 - Mobile Suit Gundam - You're free to watch in compressed movie or the original episodic format. Personally I prefer the movie version of this.
2 - 8th Mobile Suit Team - Watching this is optional but it's pretty good and is only a 12 episode OVA.
3 - War in the Pocket - like 8th Mobile Suit Team this is also optional but well worth watching and is only a 6 episode OVA.
4 - Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 Stardust Memory - An optional to watch OVA but a lot of people don't like it. Might be better to skip until you finish the main parts of UC.
5 - Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - There's a compressed movie version of this but it's really bad and changes a lot of plot elements so you have to watch the original episodic format for this.
6 - Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ - No compressed movies for this, you'll have to watch the original episodic format.
7 - Char's Counter Attack - A pretty important movie.
8 - Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn - a 7 episode OVA that concludes the UC story.
9 - Mobile Suit Gundam F91 - An optional to watch movie set years after Unicorn.
10 - Mobile Suit Victory Gundam - While this is canonically the last thing set in UC it's fucking terrible and best to pretend it doesn't exist.
Thanks. If there are episodes, I'd rather watch those. Movies tend to suck compared to the episodes.
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Retro_
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0079 > Zeta > ZZ > Char's Counter Attack > Victory > Turn A
Is how i'd recommend going about it
Then go back and do OVA material like War in the Pocket and Unicorn. Watching in timeline order doesn't work as well I feel.
And I'd only watch F91 if you plan to read Crossbone
Is how i'd recommend going about it
Then go back and do OVA material like War in the Pocket and Unicorn. Watching in timeline order doesn't work as well I feel.
And I'd only watch F91 if you plan to read Crossbone
Which he should do since both are fantastic, crossbone especially.
R
Retro_
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F91 is pretty meh overall to me.
But that ending scene where Seabook is searching for Cecily in space is one of my favorite things ever
And Eternal Wind is an awesome theme
But if you're asking for gundam essentials, I wouldn't list it
But that ending scene where Seabook is searching for Cecily in space is one of my favorite things ever
And Eternal Wind is an awesome theme
But if you're asking for gundam essentials, I wouldn't list it
Megalosaro
Banned
Except Igloo. A blight on UC that is.
Angel is supposedly born a year earlier and is 19 in Unicorn, but that's a pretty easy thing to retcon...
I think it works imo, even if ultimately doesn't matter. It's just a fun, cool connection, like Uso being Char's great-grandson.
Wha? The Uso thing is a fan theory, right?
kiunchbb
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The one with most guns and missiles.
Megalosaro
Banned
Nanai's surname was Miguel. Uso's mom's surname is Miguel. In the novel, Nanai was pregnant with Char's kid when he KIA'd. Apparently it was something the production team conceived but never fully implimented
Ah. Okay, I can roll with that. Never had much against Uso in particular.
Tomino didn't want to use the idea, apparently.
distantmantra
Member
Picked up some new Converge figures today at Uwajimaya.
ShinRPGamer
Member
Guess what I got in the mail today...
Only CC2 of Gundam Wing costed more than retail (60 dollars) compared to 42 dollars (G Gundam CC1) and 45 dollars (GW CC1 and G Gundam CC2). Thank you, Amazon based prices
Now on to G Gundam 19!
Only CC2 of Gundam Wing costed more than retail (60 dollars) compared to 42 dollars (G Gundam CC1) and 45 dollars (GW CC1 and G Gundam CC2). Thank you, Amazon based prices
In America.
Now on to G Gundam 19!
ShinRPGamer
Member
Sorry about the glare. I was in a rush to take a picture and was too lazy to take a new one.
distantmantra
Member
We're talking about the video transfer on the discs, not your picture.
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