Hmm the thing is, Bandai usually will only make gunpla that at least appear somewhere, be it in printed material or non-printed. RX78 ver ka and Wing ver Ka iinm already appeared in linearts long before their MG were made. So unless FA Banshee appeared in at least lineart, big chance it won't be appear as even HGUC.

Usually variations not listed anywhere will only exist as resin kits

^so means chances of a HGUC Nightingale is higher than HGUC FA Banshee

nightingale?? wow... if got sure i will buy 1 even just HG

if somehow FA Banshee appeared somewhere, even as lineart, HGUC or even MG FA Banshee will have higher chances since there is already HGUC Banshee and MG Unicorn. Nightingale is too huge, plus it requires new mold, and not enough fanbase, so the chances are low

True dat but then again if Bandai really wan to, they can just ask katoki to draw 1 and then after several months or year to test its popularity via side stories or just release it to the internet to gauge fanboy reaction, then Bandai could then make it. Another possibility is to go to Sinanju Stein/musha route. Make it game exclusive > manga/novel side story > model kits. I already seeing sometime in the future a Sinanju Stein.....

Then again, because the OVA haven finish yet, by epi 6 or mayb a compilation movies down the line, it could appear. But this route is unlikely. Not 0% probability but highly unlikely since epi 4 deviated abit from the novel chances of having an ori ending has been increase. But lets not talk bout FA Banshee its just a little theory and prediction of mine. We can discuss/argue/debate all we like but it amount to nothing since its neither exist nor confirm.

meh, i not yet see chances MG Sinanju OVA being release.. if i remember there is many Sinanju fanboy as well.. but guess what? seem like they what to release ENTIRE MS in AGE.. and if i remember correctly 00(as its still new series) hardly get a MG kit.. they only release Setsuna's main Gundam plus only one grunt unit(GN-X)... same goes to Wing series 10 years back when they release Wing Zero Custom and KA when other 4 main gundam being ignored as well.. until this 10 year later seem they just realized what fanbase want


Bandai, you dont seem know what we(customer) want... so thats why your milking doesnt go well huhue

Hmm maybe they do use some data from the sales of non-MG counterparts to gauge whether the kit should become MG or not last time. I know last time the HG 1/100 and 1/44 of Wing Zero Custom were sold quite well. And last time maybe they only gauge the popularity in Japan only

i think 00 MG will come later, after the current seed MG completes. unicorn series got MG coz.....only few of them anyway. but will be nice if they do a MG for zaku sniper, with camo, cloak everything.

Im not 100% sure bout this but isn't Sinanju ver ka exactly the same as the ova and novel version? (apart from all those decals of cos). If its exactly the same then there is no reason to release an ova ver. (for now)

1 thing i still dont understand is why do they make 2 version of unicorn? If they can follow Sinanju design 100% from novel to anime, why cant they do the same for Unicorn? The only real difference is the head vulcan anyway.(I dont count the knee stuff since that is a fix not a real difference in terms of appearance).

As for MG, it seems that they follow a specific formula. If its in UC universe 90% of it is gonna be made including obscure grunt suits. While AU only the main character is release. There is not much grunt AU MG to be honest. So far only from 00 and AGE has been release/confirm (I still want a LEO or Serpent godamit).

There's one more difference between Ver Ka and OVA; the knee articulation

err, he said he dont count the knee

i dont own yet the Sinanju KA but majority report got some problem with the waist and hand.. so it is most likely better to have an improved kit..
the gold emblem will replace with yellow emblem instead if want to follow OVA ver correctly

+1
this seems like a lovely idea

that's cos i think a big number of Japs like the UC era. heck, its the longest era, and also one with the most series. so it is only natural that most kits are from HG

i don't think that justifiable for a new kit. almost all kits have their own flaw one way of the other. and to me, the sinanju's flaw is just minor. to be honest, i don't even think it's that much of an issue anyway. don't really have problems with mine.

Yes the famous waist problem. Its too week to support all those upper body weight. Mine snap in half. But those are technical design fault just like Unicorn knee unable to bend much and week v fin, but those doesn't warrant an entirely new kit by itself cos the actual fix is just some small replacement parts. Couldn't Bandai just release the fixed part as a separate product rather than an entirely new kit. They even go as far as making a new box art for it.

Sinanju problem also could be fix with just some new parts not even half a plastic tree worth and new decals. Surely that doesn't warrant an entirely new kit, could they?

then whats the use for MG 2.0 kit? of course you dont need to buy a new version one since you already got it


agree, Bandai's marketing is sooooooooo confusing
you can see they release separate MG Victory Core Booster from MG V-Dash

but not practice this tactic on MG 00 7/Sword and Strike Sword/Launcher

Well the original counterparts of 2.0 kits are very old (even their articulation was beaten by not-so-recent HGUC). Added in the fact that MS that has 2.0 version are popular.

Well, core booster (minus the weapon) mold was already exist from mg v gundam. So they can just create the rest of weapon, and bundle it with core booster. Bandai iinm only produce weapon-only kits as limited items, not as standard release. Bundling weapon pack with a complete unit is quite a clever way to milking also (hence we got 00 Seven Sword) . As for Sword/Launcher pack, I guess they don't want to waste money for MG Skygrasper They did it for PG though

This post has been edited by Exiled_Gundam: Jan 5 2012, 05:25 PM

eh i think 2007 Sinanju Ka quite old already

Haha the first MG RX-78-2 was released back in 1995; 1.5 2000, OYW 2005, 2.0 2008
Maybe Sinanju 2.0 need to wait till 2017