At least Games Workshop has the courtesy to have all their models follow that standard. This is like if one day they said "Oh yeah, here's a new Imperial Knights model. It's made entirely of Finecast resin and you need to 3D print your own parts for the head and armor, but the price is only $300!"
After reading the actual description on the site, it sounds more like you actually get two models plus the extra parts for customization and waterslides, so not so bad of a deal but it could be better.
Some of the detailing on the HG Requiem Zaku is in RG/MG territory. It's surreal that this kit is even a HG. The news about it needing glue and painting makes me even more want to see a review of this kit.
I feel like Bandai recently, these past few years, has been pushing merchandise rather than gunpla. While there are a lot of great new developments and releases. The number of random merch is also a lot. I do understand tho. Not everyone that watches gundam wants to deal with building gunpla. They're scared of it. Which is baffling to me that the netflix zaku needs glue and paint? Like I get that for builders that comes standard. But of beginners, it's scary AF.
It shouldn't be scary at all. For every other kind of model kit that's the basic entry level. To those of us that learned to build other models first, it's hilarious to see someone afraid of something so simple. They need to buck up, and learn to do something that's slightly more involved than Lego. The fans are like that because Bandai has taught them to expect something ridiculously easy. Hopefully Bandai will continue to release kits like this and people will adapt to learning the absolute most basic model building skills. Anyone that's afraid of glue should stick to action figures.
Glue and paint isn't the biggest concern in itself, it's more so the price they're asking for. If it was a cheaper typical model kit you can just nab from a random hobby store, sure, buy paint or whatever to touch it up to make it look good since the total price isn't the most expensive. It's not even difficult to glue or sand down parts together; may be a bit messy and you will make mistakes here and there, but that's just like every physical art project ever. Screwed up? Live with it and learn from it. 6500 Yen for an online exclusive kit for you to paint and glue up wouldn't be too bad if you already do own the materials you need to bring it to life but for those who don't, it's more money out of their pocket. Obviously if you're buying anything P-Bandai at all you're at least expected to have a pretty good income enough to pay for it, especially if you're buying it overseas. It doesn't even look like you need to do too much painting or gluing either, but it doesn't change the fact that the prices do add up. For that price point, I'd rather just buy the retail Zaku II Solari and steal some tank parts from a cheapo tank model kit, along with some spray cans and other artsy stuff. It's not going to exactly look like the one being sold, but you can get just as much (if not more) by spending less.
@@simpleanswer8954the glue and paint are scary if you consider the price and the availability. it's a P-Bandai and a 6000 yen model kit, not only it's expensive, but also have limited production
RE: Furuya - If anything, I can see it being a similar 'retirement' in the vein of people like Norio Wakamoto where they don't actively engage/audition for new roles but will reprise older roles (which explains why he's still Yamcha in Sparking Zero but not Daima since the latter would be a new audition) Re: New Robot Spirits stuff I've actually been waiting for them to do a Skygrasper in this line for years. Now, we just need for them to release the Perfect Striker connector parts for it and it'll be perfect, especially with the effect parts.
I'm willing to believe in DAIMA's case it was a last minute recast since everyone was brought back (for the ONE episode where they have all their adult voices lol) except for Furuya. I might be wrong since the timing between the news and broadcast wasn't huge but he has one or two lines so it was very easy to recast him. He has way more lines in Sparking! Zero so it wouldn't have been as easy of a process to have someone redo all of Yamcha's lines
@@nekhronica This and also we know Sparking Zero was in development for 5 years so needless to say the JP recording was done way before the stuff regarding Furuya was announced
@@AzraelThanatosThat's where the EX Model Mu La Flaga Machine Set (or Gundam SEED Mecha Set "1", with quotation marks because there wasn't any more kits numbered like this after that) comes into play, though you may need minor modifications on the Skygrasper itself to fit the Option Parts Set exclusive stuff.
hot take but I think they should really push hard on RfV kits as a gunpla as a mili/armor model line kinda like how they did with Ex model and the Hardgraph lines. Considering the designs it would fit well as these highly detailed and hard to build military kits full of gribblies to glue. Would also love if they made kits for the tanks and jets within the series and a RfV HG gouf custom would probably be the closest we could get to a RG Gouf.
They aren't designs that lend themselves to snap fitting; they would have to redesign most of the armor pieces multiple times to get all of the greebles and chains compatible with each configuration. They've already released the same Origin GM/ Zaku 10 different times each, I don't see them retooling the same kit 3-4 times for a series that might not even be particularly popular. And I assume the only molded red will be the shoulders, but I don't understand why they would specify "painting required." They don't usually do that as far as I know. You take your stickers and deal with it, generally.
Probably just small stuff like battle damage, and small Color details like specs of red or grey. That’s what I’m hoping anyways, you just need paint if you want a 100% show accurate one, but can get a perfect replica of a standard one without it.
As much as the skygrasper is cool I feel like they fumbled on one part. They should included accessories to make the perfect strike gundam like the batteries and backpack adapter to combine the packs.
Being reminded of the Tristan. Oof. If I had to pick a suit that reminded me of fall, i would actually pick Harute. Orange, lots of leaf shapes with its antenna, swords, and sword bits and it fought in the near fall of humanity
4:01 never knew that's where the galbady beta stored its beam sabers. probably one of the most interesting places. i realy like when MS have some diferent placements for their beam sabers/melee weaponry.
Kind of reminds me of the Atlas Gundam's beam saber storage. I'm definitely a big sucker for 'pop-out' beam sabers and weapons rather than the typical back/skirt mounted weaponry.
Well the HG version did give a hint for the beam saber storage on shoulders, but since they're just parts of detailing and not really usable, some people may not notice.
I imagine Furuya has a few roles already in the can or contracts signed, so we may see a trickle of media with him in it over the next year or two. Frankly though I think he should properly retire. He confessed to some REALLY messed up stuff, and hearing his voice now gives me an uneasy feeling. Amuro and Gundam can live on without him.
Honestly even if their shit deals I’m still getting the Zaku’s because my Dad loves them and he started my gunpla journey. Soo i plan on making them with him!!
I think the glue will be for the makeshift tank track armour. Having those as snap fit pieces would look awful. I'd like them to add more option parts that would require painting instead of just releasing slight variants on P-Bandai.
FYI, HGUC ReBawoo (a P-Bandai kit) has parts that required cement. Same as Yonem Kirk's Zaku Sniper, while MG FA Gundam (MSV version, not Thunderbolt) comes with double sided tape to attach some parts of its armor. So this RFV kit is nothing new. For scale modelers using glue and paint is just as expected and natural step as cutting the parts from the runner. We may get used to snapfit in gunpla but believe it or not, in grand scale of modeling world, snapfit is still an anomaly and not the norm. Many oldschool modeler still look at snapfit kits with disdain because of poor quality snapfit kits in the past.
This is precisely the reason why I believe the rfv pban models were likely intended for scale modelers (typically older folks who can swallow the price) rather than the usual gunpla builder who only ever builds gunpla
As you mentioned yourself,old.the hg was this year announcement,so that was unacceptable,the fact they always advertise themselves all kit was a culinary of technology advance in plastic snapfit kit.
Considering how deep Tohru Furuya is in hot water, combined with his old age, retiring is the last option he had left. So I have a very endearing #question for you all: Who should be the perfect replacement VA for Amuro Ray, not helping the fact we are having another Side-F related anime work coming in the holidays as a major drive for the new VA?
NGL the best thing about your videos is just getting to the reading material part and seeing how many of these magazines are still alive and kicking unlike when you see how many have died on this side
Making the RFV Zakus require glue and paint (particularly for the junkyard versions) is the best choice in my opinion, at least if they've put in the effort to make these added details look right: So for instance LeShawn's junkyard Zaku has that left arm shield that's just a thin plate with some tank treads welded to it. If those tank treads were molded into the plate, there could be no undercuts under the treads and the plate might even have to have hollow voids behind them. If they attached them with snap-fit pegs they would probably show on the back side of the plate. Molding the treads as separate parts and then simply gluing them on would offer the best representation of this detail. This is even more true for finer details like the chains strung around the exterior of the lower leg - if those were injection-molded into the surface of a new set of lower leg parts, there would be no under-cut, it wouldn't look very good. If they were injection-molded as separate parts to be attached to the surface of the standard RFV Zaku leg parts, they'd be very thin and delicate, if they made them snap-fit, people would likely break them while attaching them. (Plus they would have to retool the leg parts to be able to attach them...) For the size of these chains it would make far more sense to make them out of metal, either actual metal chains to be strung around by the modeler, or photo-etch approximations of chains to be bent into shape. From the look of them I'd guess they're metal chains, but I'm not sure. But that gets us into the realm of multimedia kits and makes snap-fit for those parts impractical. As for paint, there's a fair bit of color variation between the different Red Wolves machines, color boundaries that don't match the existing part boundaries, and in the junkyard machines there's more variation in each individual machine, reflecting how the Zaku was cobbled together from different Zaku parts. These particular machines also need a fair bit of fine detail and weathering in their coloring to look like the machines they represent. It's probably not worth pressing another set of leg and arm parts to get that subtle color mismatch between the left and right sides of LeShawn's junkyard machine, and painting is really the most viable solution to the weathering and paint wear effects. (Even Solari's Red Wolves machine, while the kit is pretty color-accurate, really doesn't look right without a fair bit of weathering IMO. The brown just comes across too bright and flat.) This is still Gundam but it's a version of it that's more challenging to get right. I really think it would have compromised the quality of the model if they'd made it build like a typical Gundam kit. If it really is 6000 yen for a single model, though, personally I'd agree that's too much. If it's for two kits I think that might be OK. Still more than I'd like to pay honestly, but it's a price I'd potentially be willing to go for.
With Furuya voicing Amuro in the UC Engage video you have to keep in mind that vocal recordings are one of the first steps in production, they are usually done months or even years ahead of time. They are voicing along rough story boards or animatics so that the animation which takes waaaay longer have a chance to animate around the vocal performances. So theres agood chance that the scandal didnt come out when Furuya worked on that project. Would be very surprised if they let him do anything else but thats also Sunrise, Toei already sacced him from One Piece, Conan and Dragonball all works hes been with for a long time (He was the voice of Yamcha afterall). He might be harder to replace as the voice of Amuro the flagship character of their flagship product, but I honestly don't want to see or hear him in new releases ever again, not after what hes done.
Those Zaku kits have a place holder for this Friday’s preorders and after reading the description, it says it includes two models plus waterslides and extra parts. So for instance the chubs/ kale set includes both of their Zakus plus additional parts to make silari’s unidentified unit. So from that it seams those parts will work on her Zaku if you got one separately to make her unidentified unit or use the parts for customization on one of the included Zaku kits plus you get waterslides. So basically sounds like two full kits, waterslides and extra parts for the existing solari model
Whilst the price and P-Bandai branding are worthy of scorn, same with the variants to some extent, I'm not averse to the idea of a modern paint/glue kit and it's something I've wanted for a long time now. I feel something people get wrong when they look back at the older 1980s kits and say things like "oH lOoK hOw fAr wE'vE cOmE" is that them being paint/glue was never a technological limitation or Bandai just not knowing any better, especially since during that era, there were plenty of colour accurate and snap fit Gunpla kits back then (the 1/250 Iropla line, the 1/220 Zeta kits, many of the 1/100 Zeta kits were colour accurate to a degree, the 1/60 Gundam kits were snapfit). Them being paint/glue was a deliberate decision since that was the standard of other non-mecha model kits at the time. Gundam was real robot, mecha made militaristic, so Bandai tried to court an audience of military otakus who were used to having to paint and glue their kits. They only switched to snap fit and colour accuracy when the audience of Gundam grew beyond that and it became more of a household name. The reaction to this (beyond the things that do deserve criticism like the pricing) seems more endemic of the fact that Gunpla has branched off a lot from its original model kit niche and has become something completely different. Like ZakuAurelius has once said, Gunpla in the modern day is in this interesting gray area between model kit and toy/collector's item. I think they also shouldn't have branded these as HGUCs either. They should've released them under EX Model or UC Hard Graph. Maybe even bring back the now retired First Grade line, since the original 1999 FG kits also required paint as they were modern remakes of the old 1980s kits (they still were snapfit tho).
those zaku kits remind me of the weird thing bandai tried to pull with the Jagd Dogas and I think Guncannon Detector in the RE 100 line. The Guncannon detector came with a gun that could be used with a p bandai limited version Nemo. the Jagd Doga Quess type, a premium bandai kit, could be converted to a Sleeves version if you cannibalized a p bandai Geara Doga Unicorn Ver, and then properly painted it all yourself. So two expensive kits and you need to sacrifice one for this particular version, and thats how its shown in the manual. You might need the standard jagd doga too for 100 percent accuracy but i dont remember
The requiem of vengeance zaku should definitely be a 2 kit set. Just that one of the zakus don’t have all the details and have to paint it in yourself 😢
tbh, the RFV would benefit from weathering to look accurate anyway so having to paint a few parts is not that much of a jump. it's not like an 80s kit that you have to paint and glue. how many camouflage kits are there that you have to sticker the camo pattern on
The hyper mega bazooka launcher design is interesting. It is based on the older novel design wielded by Hi-Nu. I wonder if they will be making a kit for that version now.
The English p-bandai listings are up and both of the RFV sets have 2 models and one of them contains a parts set to convert a Solari kit into the unidentified version. They are both the same price though.
I get the disappointment with having to glue and paint, but having come over to gunpla from traditional plastic models, it's really not that bad, and if the conversion parts go where I think they go, glue is probably the best method for attaching all the greebles and not have them fall off the first time you try to pose it.
On U.C. Engage, when you open the game, they introduce the new characters by having them speak one line before appearing on screen. But the new Amuro version didn't speak when the line popped up on my screen. Edit: I used the Rental Quest of the new Amuro version so I can use him in battle. Amuro doesn't talk during skill activation. But he talks after winning the battle. Idk if the line is just a recycled line from previous recordings. It would be weird if it's a new line when his intro and skill have nothing. I think they already cut ties with him.
What is Bandai thinking? They should have had a combo set with a full Chubs, kale, lasean. Then a duo pack with Solari and Lasean makeshift zaku. What’s what I expected like what they did with the black knights or southern cross not whatever this is.
8:55 My personal opinion the new HG Zaku P Bandai is just a Warhammer 40K skilled Gunpla Builders Dream and they never accounted for the after effect of not understanding many Gunpla Fans like the non painted aspects. We are not getting the 2nd version easily just makes me not wanna get thenP Bandai Immediately.
Not to defend him or anything (I will agree that what he did is really bad), but comparing these two is still a bit too much, especially with one almost got away with murder if weren't for social justice.
At first I thought Chubs and Kale would be two Zakus in one box but it doesn’t look like it. From P-Bandai: *To recreate the Zaku II F-type Chubs's Zaku II, you will need to paint the head and waist. *To recreate the Zaku II F-type Keil's Zaku II, you will need to paint the hand parts, legs, and long rifle. This implies that you can only choose one. Otherwise if it was two kits, you would assume that they’d have the proper colors and not need to be painted.
Well I was excited for the vengance suits until now, fuck that. I'm legally blind I have enough trouble putting the suits together as snap together pieces, I can't do all this shit. That sucks I really wanted these, not happening. I'm not sure I want the Solarii or the Gundam EX anymore thanks to this.
Honestly P-Bandai is more than a joke at this point, even if the new Zaku didn’t require glue and paint it’s still *way* too expensive for what is essentially an army builder, very much like the gundnode. For the love of god I’m hoping everyone just boycotts P-Bandai because this is just unacceptable and ass backwards for what gunpla and plamo is all about
I Loved the RFV mobile suit designs. But I don’t love that the kits are p Bandai, the same cost as a MG while being a HG, require painting, and require glue. They should have made those a new line of gunpla, instead of being lazy and not taking the time to design these new gunpla the way they do for literally every single kit they’ve made. Every gunpla builder has glue, so it’s not like we can’t build one. But this isn’t warhammer where you’re paying premium prices for a box of gray plastic that’s not articulated and has to be painted. This is coming from someone that’s played warhammer for almost 10 years before age of sigmar even came out
Man... I remember when these kinds of videos were full of gundam kits... Nowadays it is full of, don't know, some kind of merchandise that just makes garbage in drawers
Even without the love affair scandal, Toru Furuya would have to retire eventually and step down to have another successor take his place. No one is gonna do it til they're 90.
@@TheWarmachine375 Changing iconic Voice Actors is one of those many social rituals that Japanese culture have a lot of difficulty coping with. In Tohru's case I think it will be a slow but ensured retirement, but for many others, they may very well be voicing until they are 90. And I can understand it, especially from a marketing perspective. It's like finding new actors for Darth Vader or Optimus Prime. It's a risky gamble that, in this case, they are obligated to take.
i was looking forward to those zakus, really hope the warnings aren't true. i'm going to guess it comes with a normal solari zaku in different colors, and the runner with the premium bandai parts come in one solid color and need to be glued together. lazy.
I was in tokyo gundam base yesterday. Shelves were pretty much empty on everything , I was there for iron blooded orphans, hg kits , and only saw kimaris and Hugo that it ! It's pretty boring. No stock at all.
Ngl im just gonna wait for some bootleg RFV Zakus. If i gotta spend that much for one kit that needs glue and paint, as well as the possibility of needing to buy two to get both then i ain't buying them.
What do you mean by that? Latest HG releases have inner frames that so far are not falling apart and are packed with accessories Yeah there's no excuse for charging this much for something that not only is P Bandai but is also incomplete But HG kits feel like something entirely new compared to even stuff from 2020
@@kxgr9522 since half way through the g.with line a lot of kits started to have terrible elbow and knee articulations, that barely move more then 90 degrees. While the seed freedom line has thankfully course corrected back to to the old standard, this has sadly come at the expense of color accuracy.
@@LoneWolfInsane I wouldn't say so though, WFM kits have pretty good articulation even late into the line like Schwarzette. Just because some don't have a full bend doesn't mean the articulation is bad because compare them to early 2000's HG Gunpla and the differences are highly noticeable
I called it lol. The netflix gundam is just a bad cash grab lmao. Seem like they're more enthusiastic when it comes to release pbandai than standard release with this one.
9:20 Nah, tristan is just lazy cash grab, this is more like "i bet we can sell it like those 40K warhammer unpainted model kit" + "exotic western gundam" tax like what they did with g-saviour
Ok DIY Paint and Glue the gunpla for higher price is a new low from bandai and this happen because rich hobby fan & scalper patronizing this make it worst damn!!!😬
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One kit, glue and paint required, ¥6000 price tag! What is this, Warhammer?
Those Japanese will still buy it 😂
At least Games Workshop has the courtesy to have all their models follow that standard. This is like if one day they said "Oh yeah, here's a new Imperial Knights model. It's made entirely of Finecast resin and you need to 3D print your own parts for the head and armor, but the price is only $300!"
@@LordCrate-du8zmyou joke, but you know a GW higher up just saw this comment and the planning has commenced
After reading the actual description on the site, it sounds more like you actually get two models plus the extra parts for customization and waterslides, so not so bad of a deal but it could be better.
@@LordCrate-du8zm or just sell a block of resin telling the customers to sculpt and paint the figure themselves.
Some of the detailing on the HG Requiem Zaku is in RG/MG territory. It's surreal that this kit is even a HG. The news about it needing glue and painting makes me even more want to see a review of this kit.
I feel like Bandai recently, these past few years, has been pushing merchandise rather than gunpla. While there are a lot of great new developments and releases. The number of random merch is also a lot. I do understand tho. Not everyone that watches gundam wants to deal with building gunpla. They're scared of it. Which is baffling to me that the netflix zaku needs glue and paint? Like I get that for builders that comes standard. But of beginners, it's scary AF.
It shouldn't be scary at all. For every other kind of model kit that's the basic entry level. To those of us that learned to build other models first, it's hilarious to see someone afraid of something so simple. They need to buck up, and learn to do something that's slightly more involved than Lego. The fans are like that because Bandai has taught them to expect something ridiculously easy. Hopefully Bandai will continue to release kits like this and people will adapt to learning the absolute most basic model building skills. Anyone that's afraid of glue should stick to action figures.
For me it's not being afraid of building.
It's that I suck at making them, therefore it's not fun to do.
Glue and paint isn't the biggest concern in itself, it's more so the price they're asking for. If it was a cheaper typical model kit you can just nab from a random hobby store, sure, buy paint or whatever to touch it up to make it look good since the total price isn't the most expensive. It's not even difficult to glue or sand down parts together; may be a bit messy and you will make mistakes here and there, but that's just like every physical art project ever. Screwed up? Live with it and learn from it.
6500 Yen for an online exclusive kit for you to paint and glue up wouldn't be too bad if you already do own the materials you need to bring it to life but for those who don't, it's more money out of their pocket. Obviously if you're buying anything P-Bandai at all you're at least expected to have a pretty good income enough to pay for it, especially if you're buying it overseas. It doesn't even look like you need to do too much painting or gluing either, but it doesn't change the fact that the prices do add up. For that price point, I'd rather just buy the retail Zaku II Solari and steal some tank parts from a cheapo tank model kit, along with some spray cans and other artsy stuff.
It's not going to exactly look like the one being sold, but you can get just as much (if not more) by spending less.
@@simpleanswer8954the glue and paint are scary if you consider the price and the availability. it's a P-Bandai and a 6000 yen model kit, not only it's expensive, but also have limited production
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RE: Furuya -
If anything, I can see it being a similar 'retirement' in the vein of people like Norio Wakamoto where they don't actively engage/audition for new roles but will reprise older roles (which explains why he's still Yamcha in Sparking Zero but not Daima since the latter would be a new audition)
Re: New Robot Spirits stuff
I've actually been waiting for them to do a Skygrasper in this line for years. Now, we just need for them to release the Perfect Striker connector parts for it and it'll be perfect, especially with the effect parts.
I'm willing to believe in DAIMA's case it was a last minute recast since everyone was brought back (for the ONE episode where they have all their adult voices lol) except for Furuya. I might be wrong since the timing between the news and broadcast wasn't huge but he has one or two lines so it was very easy to recast him. He has way more lines in Sparking! Zero so it wouldn't have been as easy of a process to have someone redo all of Yamcha's lines
Really wish they'd do a HG Skygrasper
@@nekhronica This and also we know Sparking Zero was in development for 5 years so needless to say the JP recording was done way before the stuff regarding Furuya was announced
@@nekhronica yeah they totally will bring him back for when they are adults
@@AzraelThanatosThat's where the EX Model Mu La Flaga Machine Set (or Gundam SEED Mecha Set "1", with quotation marks because there wasn't any more kits numbered like this after that) comes into play, though you may need minor modifications on the Skygrasper itself to fit the Option Parts Set exclusive stuff.
hot take but I think they should really push hard on RfV kits as a gunpla as a mili/armor model line kinda like how they did with Ex model and the Hardgraph lines. Considering the designs it would fit well as these highly detailed and hard to build military kits full of gribblies to glue. Would also love if they made kits for the tanks and jets within the series and a RfV HG gouf custom would probably be the closest we could get to a RG Gouf.
They aren't designs that lend themselves to snap fitting; they would have to redesign most of the armor pieces multiple times to get all of the greebles and chains compatible with each configuration. They've already released the same Origin GM/ Zaku 10 different times each, I don't see them retooling the same kit 3-4 times for a series that might not even be particularly popular. And I assume the only molded red will be the shoulders, but I don't understand why they would specify "painting required." They don't usually do that as far as I know. You take your stickers and deal with it, generally.
My guess the hands and the top middle of the zaku head for chubs needs to be painted red.
they did the same thing with the naked variant of the pink/purple Messer commander type
Probably just small stuff like battle damage, and small Color details like specs of red or grey. That’s what I’m hoping anyways, you just need paint if you want a 100% show accurate one, but can get a perfect replica of a standard one without it.
Love seeing Crossbone and F91 get some love
Edit: HAPPY 30TH ANNIVERSARY CROSSBONE GUNDAM!!!!
The rfv guy came from the Warhammer community, i feel that there being a mini painting like experience might be a nod to that.
As much as the skygrasper is cool I feel like they fumbled on one part. They should included accessories to make the perfect strike gundam like the batteries and backpack adapter to combine the packs.
Being reminded of the Tristan. Oof. If I had to pick a suit that reminded me of fall, i would actually pick Harute. Orange, lots of leaf shapes with its antenna, swords, and sword bits and it fought in the near fall of humanity
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O... K.
Just...
Who the f*ck stole Dendrobium Canon and strap it on Nu backpack!!
Maybe someone from Anaheim found it in one of their warehouses that they were cleaning out and just slapped it on the Nu?
4:01 never knew that's where the galbady beta stored its beam sabers. probably one of the most interesting places. i realy like when MS have some diferent placements for their beam sabers/melee weaponry.
Kind of reminds me of the Atlas Gundam's beam saber storage. I'm definitely a big sucker for 'pop-out' beam sabers and weapons rather than the typical back/skirt mounted weaponry.
Well the HG version did give a hint for the beam saber storage on shoulders, but since they're just parts of detailing and not really usable, some people may not notice.
I imagine Furuya has a few roles already in the can or contracts signed, so we may see a trickle of media with him in it over the next year or two.
Frankly though I think he should properly retire. He confessed to some REALLY messed up stuff, and hearing his voice now gives me an uneasy feeling.
Amuro and Gundam can live on without him.
Honestly even if their shit deals I’m still getting the Zaku’s because my Dad loves them and he started my gunpla journey. Soo i plan on making them with him!!
Just realized that I could just get the Solari Zaku again and mod it to make the LeSean Unit.
Amuro's voice is too iconic
I think the glue will be for the makeshift tank track armour. Having those as snap fit pieces would look awful. I'd like them to add more option parts that would require painting instead of just releasing slight variants on P-Bandai.
Nah, they'll release it as P-Bandai.
Remember how awful their marketing is nowadays.
Today, both RFV Zaku sets were dropped on US PBan, and each page confirms that either kit will include a set of two Zaku models.
19:50 first ever gundam branded knuckle dusters
Aw man, i was looking forward to the rfv zakus
FYI, HGUC ReBawoo (a P-Bandai kit) has parts that required cement. Same as Yonem Kirk's Zaku Sniper, while MG FA Gundam (MSV version, not Thunderbolt) comes with double sided tape to attach some parts of its armor. So this RFV kit is nothing new.
For scale modelers using glue and paint is just as expected and natural step as cutting the parts from the runner. We may get used to snapfit in gunpla but believe it or not, in grand scale of modeling world, snapfit is still an anomaly and not the norm. Many oldschool modeler still look at snapfit kits with disdain because of poor quality snapfit kits in the past.
This is precisely the reason why I believe the rfv pban models were likely intended for scale modelers (typically older folks who can swallow the price) rather than the usual gunpla builder who only ever builds gunpla
The old MG Gelgoog High-Mobility/Cannon kit said you would need paint for the camouflage version.
As you mentioned yourself,old.the hg was this year announcement,so that was unacceptable,the fact they always advertise themselves all kit was a culinary of technology advance in plastic snapfit kit.
Considering how deep Tohru Furuya is in hot water, combined with his old age, retiring is the last option he had left. So I have a very endearing #question for you all: Who should be the perfect replacement VA for Amuro Ray, not helping the fact we are having another Side-F related anime work coming in the holidays as a major drive for the new VA?
NGL the best thing about your videos is just getting to the reading material part and seeing how many of these magazines are still alive and kicking unlike when you see how many have died on this side
stoked for the Galbaldy, hopefully we get a Marasai and Gaplant
Making the RFV Zakus require glue and paint (particularly for the junkyard versions) is the best choice in my opinion, at least if they've put in the effort to make these added details look right:
So for instance LeShawn's junkyard Zaku has that left arm shield that's just a thin plate with some tank treads welded to it. If those tank treads were molded into the plate, there could be no undercuts under the treads and the plate might even have to have hollow voids behind them. If they attached them with snap-fit pegs they would probably show on the back side of the plate. Molding the treads as separate parts and then simply gluing them on would offer the best representation of this detail.
This is even more true for finer details like the chains strung around the exterior of the lower leg - if those were injection-molded into the surface of a new set of lower leg parts, there would be no under-cut, it wouldn't look very good. If they were injection-molded as separate parts to be attached to the surface of the standard RFV Zaku leg parts, they'd be very thin and delicate, if they made them snap-fit, people would likely break them while attaching them. (Plus they would have to retool the leg parts to be able to attach them...) For the size of these chains it would make far more sense to make them out of metal, either actual metal chains to be strung around by the modeler, or photo-etch approximations of chains to be bent into shape. From the look of them I'd guess they're metal chains, but I'm not sure. But that gets us into the realm of multimedia kits and makes snap-fit for those parts impractical.
As for paint, there's a fair bit of color variation between the different Red Wolves machines, color boundaries that don't match the existing part boundaries, and in the junkyard machines there's more variation in each individual machine, reflecting how the Zaku was cobbled together from different Zaku parts. These particular machines also need a fair bit of fine detail and weathering in their coloring to look like the machines they represent. It's probably not worth pressing another set of leg and arm parts to get that subtle color mismatch between the left and right sides of LeShawn's junkyard machine, and painting is really the most viable solution to the weathering and paint wear effects. (Even Solari's Red Wolves machine, while the kit is pretty color-accurate, really doesn't look right without a fair bit of weathering IMO. The brown just comes across too bright and flat.)
This is still Gundam but it's a version of it that's more challenging to get right. I really think it would have compromised the quality of the model if they'd made it build like a typical Gundam kit. If it really is 6000 yen for a single model, though, personally I'd agree that's too much. If it's for two kits I think that might be OK. Still more than I'd like to pay honestly, but it's a price I'd potentially be willing to go for.
I mean I can kind of see why they need glue because the solari one looks like the shoulder looks like it’s actual cloth
I'm holding out for a Berserk Mode Allenby Beardsley Figure Rise or a SH Figure Arts.
With Furuya voicing Amuro in the UC Engage video you have to keep in mind that vocal recordings are one of the first steps in production, they are usually done months or even years ahead of time. They are voicing along rough story boards or animatics so that the animation which takes waaaay longer have a chance to animate around the vocal performances. So theres agood chance that the scandal didnt come out when Furuya worked on that project.
Would be very surprised if they let him do anything else but thats also Sunrise, Toei already sacced him from One Piece, Conan and Dragonball all works hes been with for a long time (He was the voice of Yamcha afterall). He might be harder to replace as the voice of Amuro the flagship character of their flagship product, but I honestly don't want to see or hear him in new releases ever again, not after what hes done.
If im not mistaken, the latest amuro banner doesn't have any voice
Those Zaku kits have a place holder for this Friday’s preorders and after reading the description, it says it includes two models plus waterslides and extra parts. So for instance the chubs/ kale set includes both of their Zakus plus additional parts to make silari’s unidentified unit. So from that it seams those parts will work on her Zaku if you got one separately to make her unidentified unit or use the parts for customization on one of the included Zaku kits plus you get waterslides. So basically sounds like two full kits, waterslides and extra parts for the existing solari model
That launch effect part for the skygrasper looks really good! Its the same effect used by so many mecha anime (not just gundam), I kinda want it.
Maybe the glue is for those chain parts? I suspect they're too thin to peg onto the legs.
Whilst the price and P-Bandai branding are worthy of scorn, same with the variants to some extent, I'm not averse to the idea of a modern paint/glue kit and it's something I've wanted for a long time now. I feel something people get wrong when they look back at the older 1980s kits and say things like "oH lOoK hOw fAr wE'vE cOmE" is that them being paint/glue was never a technological limitation or Bandai just not knowing any better, especially since during that era, there were plenty of colour accurate and snap fit Gunpla kits back then (the 1/250 Iropla line, the 1/220 Zeta kits, many of the 1/100 Zeta kits were colour accurate to a degree, the 1/60 Gundam kits were snapfit). Them being paint/glue was a deliberate decision since that was the standard of other non-mecha model kits at the time. Gundam was real robot, mecha made militaristic, so Bandai tried to court an audience of military otakus who were used to having to paint and glue their kits. They only switched to snap fit and colour accuracy when the audience of Gundam grew beyond that and it became more of a household name. The reaction to this (beyond the things that do deserve criticism like the pricing) seems more endemic of the fact that Gunpla has branched off a lot from its original model kit niche and has become something completely different. Like ZakuAurelius has once said, Gunpla in the modern day is in this interesting gray area between model kit and toy/collector's item.
I think they also shouldn't have branded these as HGUCs either. They should've released them under EX Model or UC Hard Graph. Maybe even bring back the now retired First Grade line, since the original 1999 FG kits also required paint as they were modern remakes of the old 1980s kits (they still were snapfit tho).
those zaku kits remind me of the weird thing bandai tried to pull with the Jagd Dogas and I think Guncannon Detector in the RE 100 line. The Guncannon detector came with a gun that could be used with a p bandai limited version Nemo. the Jagd Doga Quess type, a premium bandai kit, could be converted to a Sleeves version if you cannibalized a p bandai Geara Doga Unicorn Ver, and then properly painted it all yourself. So two expensive kits and you need to sacrifice one for this particular version, and thats how its shown in the manual. You might need the standard jagd doga too for 100 percent accuracy but i dont remember
so crazy hearing about the yamcha VA drama again in a gundam video lol
The requiem of vengeance zaku should definitely be a 2 kit set. Just that one of the zakus don’t have all the details and have to paint it in yourself 😢
Crossbone Anime COME ON
Update- New SEED Freedom movie. FUCK
Stop edging me!!!!!!
at this point i would just be happy getting the other crossbones as rg´s
dude u read my mine....Bandai making all the new Gundam universe and keep ignoring crossbone.....prob still PTSD from F91 movie....sigh.....
@@LoneWolfInsane MG was like size of RG and the RG too tiny to build 🤣🤣
@@hmmdoh7835 Gundam SEED Freedom has way worse development
tbh, the RFV would benefit from weathering to look accurate anyway so having to paint a few parts is not that much of a jump. it's not like an 80s kit that you have to paint and glue. how many camouflage kits are there that you have to sticker the camo pattern on
the Red Wolves Zaku kits needing glue and paint would have been Bandai using it as a gimmick as in "it feels like the 80's again", lol.
Man, you should really cover GBO2, it’s usually so much more exciting things going in the Gundam World
The hyper mega bazooka launcher design is interesting. It is based on the older novel design wielded by Hi-Nu. I wonder if they will be making a kit for that version now.
The English p-bandai listings are up and both of the RFV sets have 2 models and one of them contains a parts set to convert a Solari kit into the unidentified version. They are both the same price though.
I get the disappointment with having to glue and paint, but having come over to gunpla from traditional plastic models, it's really not that bad, and if the conversion parts go where I think they go, glue is probably the best method for attaching all the greebles and not have them fall off the first time you try to pose it.
Glue and paint is required? Better release this under the UC Hard Graph line, lol.
On U.C. Engage, when you open the game, they introduce the new characters by having them speak one line before appearing on screen. But the new Amuro version didn't speak when the line popped up on my screen.
Edit: I used the Rental Quest of the new Amuro version so I can use him in battle. Amuro doesn't talk during skill activation. But he talks after winning the battle. Idk if the line is just a recycled line from previous recordings. It would be weird if it's a new line when his intro and skill have nothing. I think they already cut ties with him.
I hope we get a MG Galbady in the future. I'm checking out P-Bandai and I see the retail MG Sazabi is on there along with other regular kits too.
19:40 the design is very human
Currently holding out for an HG 105 Dagger revive
Pbandai Requiem Zaku required glue just wild.
The other parts for the Ericht figure look like alternate upper arms based on the colour placement on them
Hmmm... I take it that the announcement of the new Gundam series is going to be on next week's Gundam News?
I didn’t appreciate the videos being divided into chapters enough until I didn’t have it.
What is Bandai thinking?
They should have had a combo set with a full Chubs, kale, lasean. Then a duo pack with Solari and Lasean makeshift zaku.
What’s what I expected like what they did with the black knights or southern cross not whatever this is.
Those Zakus aren’t High Grades… they’re HARD GRAPH kits.
Is glue required on tread vest and chains for makeshift zaku?
Is there a website where I can pre order p-bandai stuff or do I just have to wait because I'm from overseas
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My personal opinion the new HG Zaku P Bandai is just a Warhammer 40K skilled Gunpla Builders Dream and they never accounted for the after effect of not understanding many Gunpla Fans like the non painted aspects. We are not getting the 2nd version easily just makes me not wanna get thenP Bandai Immediately.
The Requiem kits do indeed sound like a bad deal for sure
Bandai really just drops face first on the bad decisions button
Toru Furuya’s not retiring…
He’s just to face the same fate as OJ Simpson and Bill Cosby😎
Not to defend him or anything (I will agree that what he did is really bad), but comparing these two is still a bit too much, especially with one almost got away with murder if weren't for social justice.
Furuya is a horrible person, but not as worse as a murderer or a rapist
At first I thought Chubs and Kale would be two Zakus in one box but it doesn’t look like it.
From P-Bandai:
*To recreate the Zaku II F-type Chubs's Zaku II, you will need to paint the head and waist.
*To recreate the Zaku II F-type Keil's Zaku II, you will need to paint the hand parts, legs, and long rifle.
This implies that you can only choose one. Otherwise if it was two kits, you would assume that they’d have the proper colors and not need to be painted.
It should be two kits but it would just be the same parts for both kits
To me it sounds more like you get two base kits, and customization parts and paint is needed to get the specific mobile suits.
I'm going to have to change my Kincade Nau usernames to Kinkedo Now now. 🤔
not including the battery pack is a crime
If only they would revive the strike rouge iwsp or make the iwsp a stand alone striker pack like what they are doing with the gun barrel striker
there's probably a better chance of a stand alone striker pack
Well I was excited for the vengance suits until now, fuck that. I'm legally blind I have enough trouble putting the suits together as snap together pieces, I can't do all this shit. That sucks I really wanted these, not happening. I'm not sure I want the Solarii or the Gundam EX anymore thanks to this.
Honestly P-Bandai is more than a joke at this point, even if the new Zaku didn’t require glue and paint it’s still *way* too expensive for what is essentially an army builder, very much like the gundnode. For the love of god I’m hoping everyone just boycotts P-Bandai because this is just unacceptable and ass backwards for what gunpla and plamo is all about
How is Asshimar not in the polls for Autumn coloured mobile suits?
When is crossbone Gundam and Hathaway part two at
I'll just stay with my Zaku 3 & Zaku 1 and my Zulu they could keep thoses glue kits. Rockon Kakarot197 keep awesome😎✌️
I Loved the RFV mobile suit designs. But I don’t love that the kits are p Bandai, the same cost as a MG while being a HG, require painting, and require glue.
They should have made those a new line of gunpla, instead of being lazy and not taking the time to design these new gunpla the way they do for literally every single kit they’ve made.
Every gunpla builder has glue, so it’s not like we can’t build one. But this isn’t warhammer where you’re paying premium prices for a box of gray plastic that’s not articulated and has to be painted. This is coming from someone that’s played warhammer for almost 10 years before age of sigmar even came out
Has anyone had luck finding the gundam rx 78 ex from nextflix? cant find the kit anywhere.
Wait is it just me or the Gatling shield on the Strike IWSP looks small?
hmm, squeezed tomato.... 21:04 as for Oragne gundam.... errr Gundam Kyrios or Heavy arms? (also Gouf for me).
Is the soda flavored gum any good?
give my crossbone gundam pirate/pirate
Still waiting for the day we get another 7/11 Gunpla kit.
Man... I remember when these kinds of videos were full of gundam kits... Nowadays it is full of, don't know, some kind of merchandise that just makes garbage in drawers
Spot on, literally in every series stupid key chains, soft toys, and other garbage that gets tossed out.
HG Tristan! WOw I forgot that HG exists
Even without the love affair scandal, Toru Furuya would have to retire eventually and step down to have another successor take his place.
No one is gonna do it til they're 90.
Masako Nozawa did the voice for Goku in the Dragonball franchise and she is 88.
@ARMsMaster Yes but not everyone is like Masako Nozawa and the old cast would know when to fold and pass the torch to their successors
@@TheWarmachine375 Changing iconic Voice Actors is one of those many social rituals that Japanese culture have a lot of difficulty coping with.
In Tohru's case I think it will be a slow but ensured retirement, but for many others, they may very well be voicing until they are 90.
And I can understand it, especially from a marketing perspective. It's like finding new actors for Darth Vader or Optimus Prime. It's a risky gamble that, in this case, they are obligated to take.
i was looking forward to those zakus, really hope the warnings aren't true. i'm going to guess it comes with a normal solari zaku in different colors, and the runner with the premium bandai parts come in one solid color and need to be glued together. lazy.
I was in tokyo gundam base yesterday. Shelves were pretty much empty on everything , I was there for iron blooded orphans, hg kits , and only saw kimaris and Hugo that it ! It's pretty boring. No stock at all.
Ngl im just gonna wait for some bootleg RFV Zakus. If i gotta spend that much for one kit that needs glue and paint, as well as the possibility of needing to buy two to get both then i ain't buying them.
not including the battery pack is a crime will be waiting for it to be ¥1500-¥2000
G-Self my beloved.
Glue? For Gunpla? What is this, 1986?
good thing there's the F90
awww not Amuro, and Tuxedo Mask! damn...that's terrible. hopefully it doesn't make Gundam, and anime even harder to sell to Americans.
Bandai's sh*tty deal like that is what drives more people to get bootleg or 3rd party kits instead.
Bandai glazers: nah, i'll keep buying Bandai kits.
Guess I'll wait for the new JMS line then.
@@notani3533JMS, XFS, XD, Star, JJ, they're all ready
More Crossbone? With more waifus? Hell yeah!
That's a terrible deal for gunpla standards, might as well getting third party if glue and paints are needed.
Just give us an MG skygrasper already!
We're screwed. Bandai is experimenting with Games Workshop prices and quality, and are learning that enough people are dumb enough to pay them
Glue? I know that bandai has been craping over the quality of a lot of hg´s kits for a while, but this is a new low.
What do you mean by that?
Latest HG releases have inner frames that so far are not falling apart and are packed with accessories
Yeah there's no excuse for charging this much for something that not only is P Bandai but is also incomplete
But HG kits feel like something entirely new compared to even stuff from 2020
The WfM HG kits were solid releases for the most part.
@@kxgr9522 since half way through the g.with line a lot of kits started to have terrible elbow and knee articulations, that barely move more then 90 degrees. While the seed freedom line has thankfully course corrected back to to the old standard, this has sadly come at the expense of color accuracy.
@@NexuJin They started off really strong but the articulation started plummeting as the line went on.
@@LoneWolfInsane I wouldn't say so though, WFM kits have pretty good articulation even late into the line like Schwarzette.
Just because some don't have a full bend doesn't mean the articulation is bad because compare them to early 2000's HG Gunpla and the differences are highly noticeable
After seeing this video and knowing more...im cancelling my order on the zaku,i aint doning 40k wtf...
6,050 yen price tag my a*s if i was yoshiyuki Tomino I would’ve lower down the price tag and remove the glue and painting required
I called it lol. The netflix gundam is just a bad cash grab lmao. Seem like they're more enthusiastic when it comes to release pbandai than standard release with this one.
Don't you just love premium P bandai limited........
Lost me at glue. lmao. I refuse to gunk up a kit with garbage
9:20 Nah, tristan is just lazy cash grab, this is more like "i bet we can sell it like those 40K warhammer unpainted model kit" + "exotic western gundam" tax like what they did with g-saviour
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Ok DIY Paint and Glue the gunpla for higher price is a new low from bandai and this happen because rich hobby fan & scalper patronizing this make it worst damn!!!😬