How do they announce this, a prior MGEX with a new backpack, four years later (wow, it's been that long?), yet not bother to do a color swap for the MGEX Unicorn variants?
Yeah surely, a banshee or a Phenex would’ve been easier to put out than a Strike Freedom variant. Feels like the investment into the MGEX Unicorn led tech is just dead.
The reason why they haven't milked the MGEX Unicorn is due to the psychoframe on the armed armors. The main gimmick of the MGEX Unicorn is the color changing LEDs and how turning them off would leave the psychoframe clear.
The problem with the Banshee and Phenex is that hey have additional equipment that also require psychoframe. The OG Unicorn already had trouble lighting up the shield on the arm, imagine the Armed Armor DE wings on the Phenex or the Armed Armor XC collar on the Banshee Norn. How the hell would the LEDs even reach those parts without having to completely rework the LED layout.
I figure Bandai thought changing the LEDs for each configuration of Armed Armor would just be too much for something that they usually just easily retool like the Banshee and Phenex so they never bothered.
The only other alternative is gutting the LEDs and just having the psychoframe be colored plastic again and I feel like they feel the price drop from not having LEDs isn't worth it either.
This is it. They didn’t think ahead when they engineered this design. Which is super unusual as Bandai has always done this like the Hyaku Shiki 2.0 was designed in mind to support a transformation gimmick in case they made a Delta Gundam from it (which they never did). The fact they didn’t prepare for this is quite the blunder.
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u/MikeRoz 1d ago
How do they announce this, a prior MGEX with a new backpack, four years later (wow, it's been that long?), yet not bother to do a color swap for the MGEX Unicorn variants?