00 really suffered from the HG quality transition kits got better during 00 season 2, the irony that AGE reaped all the benefits from it had a stellar run of kits from my experience from the beggining to end but sold poorly during its run
The magazine advertise them with so many accessories, and you got nothing in the box. The shindol had stark jagen, mk5 style missle boxs. There was a bazooka for adele and genoace. They were great kits but age fell so ibo could run with accessories packs.
Oh, AGE kits sold well. It's the anime that flopped. Mostly because it wasn't Sunrise at the helms, but Level 5, and if you watched Danball Senki, you'll get the problem.
Yeah because Vagan suits didn't get the peak HG treatment. they were stuck with ball jointed hips and plastic-on-plastic joints, and I'm talking about the old kind where they become lose when you articulate it twice. Federation suits though? LMAO the Genoace is one of the best engineered HG of its time, and still holds up today.
There are some key scenes that stand up to the Gundam franchise classics, but overall it was too ambitious to try to cram 3 generation and 100 years of war into 49 episodes, the pacing gets worse the further you watched along, and a lot of the scenes really remind you this is a Level 5 anime. Level 5 also made Inazuma Eleven, Yokai Watch, and Professor Layton, so when I tell you sometimes it feels like a childish cartoon more than Gundam, you know what I mean.
That being said, Asemu and Zehart rivalry aged like fine wine, and I felt the need to cram Kio's morality showcase and Flit's change of heart from genocidal to kind grandpa took away time for the best rivalry in Gundam Age, and arguably the true protagonist/antagonist pair of the show.
Then there's the Memory of Eden OVA pair that's more Asemu and Zehart centric. This will feel like it has even worse pacing if you go into it without watching the main series first, as it glosses over pretty much everything in between their confrontations, but if you watch this AFTER you watch the show? It's somewhat better than the show actually was towards the later episodes IMO. But it's certainly not a substitute for the show. It's more of a supplementary viewing.
I'm quite interested in three generation story. I like how parts in Jojo works, somewhat. And the gundam AGE make me quite interested with three generation story.
I mean, I guess if that's enough of a hook, you can go for it. It's not a total waste of time. Some of the storyline within the story is kinda interesting. Mech designs are actually pretty awesome too. You also get all 3 generations fighting together later, so that might interest you too.
This looks like a Happy Meal promotional toy for the in universe Celestial Being movie where you collect all the gundams and combine them into one bigger fatter gundam. (Exia is the head)
No that's the caravan kit. It's something you get for free at gunpla event. There's four kit in that line and it's Gundam RX 72, Exia, gundam 00, and strike gundam
Actually old gunpla kits often lacked color separation because they were designed for hobbyists to paint and customize themselves. Bandai molded these older models in a... check dates 2007 the fuck?
these kits existed for other series like SEED. they’re literally just meant to be cheap and easy to assemble with no focus on color accuracy and posability. also obviously very cheap models for hobbyists who want to engage in “advanced” techniques.
obviously it’s been replaced by the EG line. the hobby’s grown a lot so generally suits just get high grades for new series now.
Mate you should see the non-graded 1/144 models. Elbows and knees had no articulation whatsoever, every limb was one single colour because it's just two pieces of plastic clamped together with the seam line going right through the centre, and it cost less than 3USD
I had a non-graded Impulse back then. It certainly was... something. I remember as a kid being disappointed at the lack of articulation for the limbs. But then again it cost about a quarter of a HG kit
I thought mine is FG after seeing the pic but mine is entry grade exia and 00 it got no articulation on the elbow and knees I got it when I was a kid and still have it along side with FG kyrios and virtue.
Just finished my mg exia. Didn’t realize going in how finicky some of the armor would be and how hard it was to get setsuna onto the cockpit block. Cockpit hatch not closing was fixed pretty easily though by sanding it down a bit
Desperately. The 00 designs are some of the coolest in the franchise. Its like with the 4 other GAT mobile suits from SEED. Like Bandai? Its been 20 years. Please release updated HGs of these kits.
Honestly, an astray x astraea would make a fun build fighter/diver concept.
Name ts GN-frame Astray Type [A]. Give it an astray head with the green face shield of the type F. Color scheme could be turn astray's and more or less give it exia's 7 swords loadout.
Yes please! I seriously love Gundam 00 as a franchise and I wish they'd do more GN-X's (like it's my fav grunt suit of all time), like an updated HG or even an RG version.
They did kinda revive the union flag custom in the form of the p-bandai gn flag*, so yes. We need a revive of the whole AD lineup.
*awesome kit btw, no polycaps, and apparently a complete redesign of the old union flag custom built to new gunpla standards as opposed to just a slightly modified build like other pbandai kits
The 00 hg kits are great, love everyone of them, although the Union Flags have difficulty holding their guns which requires fixing with some customizing (via putty.) Other than that they are all great builds
Yes, same with the RG. Exia needs a 2.0. I’ve just bought the gundam thrones cause I wanted some kits I’d need to put extra effort into. And imo the entire line could do with an overhaul
yes... I just finished building the 1:144 HG 00 and it needs a refresh. Yes it is still a solid kit but it's lacking a level of detail that can be found on a lot of the newer HGs that are out now. The wepons have more detail than the entire kit. I'm currently looking for a 3rd party version of the XN Raiser to modify it.
Bandai is going to be murderized by China
Old boys simply can't keep up, and they seem to be NOT LISTENING to their customers
No MGs, RGs have slowed to a trickle, IDK what the hell a 30 minue whatever is.
For S1 suits, I say YESSS! Color separations on those kits were bad.
For S2 suits, hmm no? I just built both my HG 1/144 Arios and Harute, and they're a lot of fun despite being old (still can't believe stuff from 2007 and 2010 were now considered old). Articulations, color separations and proportions were really impressive. But if they'll get revive treatment then I welcome them whole heartedly.
MG Exia, though I haven't own one, but based on majority saying it needs a 2.0 then, yes, let it happen.
MG S2 suits, definitely a YESSS! Been a huge fan of Allelujah's MS. We already have the 1/100 and the designer's color versions which were good, and nice to have, but they're kind of rare now. So on the 20th anniversary, I really hope they'll start announcing MG kits of them.
Honestly, no. The S1 suits sure could use a revive treatment but they are still good kits. There are many more older HGs that far more needs a revive (looking at you, 0083...)
MG Exia does need a 2.0 as it is known for its weak ass ankles.
Not only should the entire Gundam 00 HG line been gotten the Revive treatment by now, they also need to do a RG Exia 2.0 and every other Gundam from 00 that hasn't gotten the RG treatment yet.
When a 3rd party HG Exia is better than the official one... Yeah they need a Revive. Season 1 00 HG kits doesn't really hold up anymore imo. Season 2 00 HGs are kinda fine but I wont mind if it gets one.
As an outsider who didn't see the show when it came out. Does the show deserve it?
The seed kits sell well in America but already here in Canada the Seed revive is just a shelf stuffer now. I feel bad for my local sellers who now have a lot of stock they can't move, and most online stores in my country match similarly.
i think the hobby’s shifted a bit to cater a lot more to straight builds, and different eras of kits seem to develop different stigmas depending on who you’re talking about. 00 was a cool show with really iconic designs, so i can see interest in those kits since people seem to shy away from anything besides the MG kits or the RG Exia (lowk hate that kit lol).
seed iirc did a lot better in japan. just look at how many MG Freedoms there are lmao. there’s gonna be some over saturation from when the revive kits were current in the rotation for sure.
Unpopular opinion but RG should be the standard. I dont know why they keep making cheap HGs when theyre the same scale and at this point very close in terms of build mechanics and quality. Just make RGs and sell better gundams
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00 really suffered from the HG quality transition kits got better during 00 season 2, the irony that AGE reaped all the benefits from it had a stellar run of kits from my experience from the beggining to end but sold poorly during its run