walao u all.. still play toys meh. aduiiii ... better spent the money at Lam Fong concert ticket la. worth every penny   

hensem gile~~~~    

the whole RG SF is nice, but the hand  muz paint it to black....too shiny for me. mcm Austin Power golden hand jer
RG Infinite Justice next plz 

and please.... no more freedom/strike freedom.. huhuhuhu

too much wing/backpack/ailestrike/extension going on there

Ahhhh...rg really is super fragile... Think I won't get another RG anymore... So fast already brokena critical part of the Gp01 core fighter wing... The part that holds the beam saber   Previously I broke the Rg zaku leg joints after few months of posing... The side skirt keeps coming off... And in order to fix it I hv to remove the entire leg... Too many times take in and out..and end up broken..... [attachmentid=3683012]

i went to his website, is it not up to date? because the stocks are lacking
http://www.crux.com.my/hobby/allproduct&fi...18=Product+Line

err... not sure about the first one some can be quite pricey there at TM.. as for GA, reference for market prices are alright, but only for normal releases.. limited ones.... can say it's quite expensive there also slightly higher than what u can get from online sellers or maybe other places

^ not quite slow only recently just found out also, very excited/happy that they finally gave him an anime

also a bit off topic but still kind of mecha.. anyone know when code geass - akito the exiled episode 2 will be out..? i heard it screened in Japan already but still no luck finding subbed i've been waiting sooooo long for episode 2

MG already catching up to PG now as what they did to MG Nu Gundam v. KA
as for PG 50-50 they will discontinue with the line... they more focus on Real Grade line now as less time and less cost to produce
so dont surprised that PG SF might be last PG they make

I do think so. Bandai's last two attempts at PG kits were overpriced and had some poor engineering decisions which have made them consider by almost everyone to be the worst PG kits ever made, despite being the newest ones. Contrary to what you think, the PG line is not Bandai's crown jewel. The PG line catered only to diehard Gunpla fans - it has never been Bandai's primary money maker and never will be.

read my post again, they more focus on Real Grade which is more profitable line than PG.. PG is dead right now.. well not really, they just announced P-Bandai PG Blue Frame... if that what exclusiveness mean by you

summon TheAdmiral for better explanation

NG not so much, its been dead for years now. This used to be a temporary line revived during seed era to satisfy fans who wants 1/100 kits but at he same time Bandai has no immediate plans for MG of those said kits. Things seems to hav change now, Bandai seems to be planning kit releases way in advance prior to its anime, hence NG line has been re-buried.

As for PG, yes it'll be retained but its releases will be sporadic; maybe once every 3 or 5 years for novelty sake. There just isn't any good reason for ppl to buy PG other then size tbh. MG has already reach PG level of intricacy. In the past u can say well PG hav LED, hav sliding armor gimmick, hav fully articulated hands, amazing innerframe details, well new MG already hav all of those + at a cheaper price and bigger range of models to choose from with new scheduled releases once every month. Ppl r finding it hard to justify buying PG and at the same token Bandai finds it hard to justify spending precious time and money and man power to develop PG.

It'll not be dead due to novelty sake, but it'll be few and far in between.

die cast skeleton? crazy and would cost a lot.. plus it would be extremely EXTREMELY heavy.. it will probably crush most people's shelves just standing there... heck i think most wouldn't even be able to lift the box.. even the little die cast in PGs like Wing make him so heavy.. if he were full on die cast... well.... u get the idea

ummm...yes it is. Do you have any idea how expensive a PG Gundam with an entire diecast inner-frame would be? Not to mention that an all die-cast inner frame would make the model kit a posing nightmare - everything would be so heavy that it would fall down from its own weight. You'd be lucky if you could keep an elbow bent.

die cast will nvr be used, it'll drives the price sky high (as if it isn't already) further alienating its existing customer base hurting its sales even more. Also the point of model kit is the building process, be it if the kits is good or bad the building part is where we find enjoyment. Making it die cast means ur taking a big chunk of its point and throw it out of the window.

die cast was a necessity in the past due to tech constrains and even then it was used sporadically not entirely, now its not needed. Especially when u propose the entire frame to be die cast, ppl will ask why do u do it? If its for the sake of being different but at the cost of making it more expensive and taking out a huge chunk of enjoyment out of it, it will shun ppl away from it even more.

This is what I know only la.
1. Size
2. Amount of parts
3. Details
4. Gimmicks
5. Propotion

ok, finally back from taiwan. the gundams there are very cheap. missed MG proto zero by few days so din get to buy. only got the following (mini haul)

- rg justice
- rg freedom
- rg zeta white
- mg rx 78 3.0
- mg strike rouge
- hg build strike
- hg zaku amazing

Business isn't done this way. U dun go mass produce it just cuz u can. If the model cost 50000yen each ask urself how many ppl will buy it? When r u gonna get ur ROI factoring into the time and cost to make 1? When u mass produce something u r taking up an entire production line with that said product, if that product fail u r wasting time, money and man power into developing it, wasting precious resources that r otherwise better spend on making other stuff that r more likely to be purchase by majority of its customer base. Bandai get their profit from volume sales not price per sales. Just cuz u or some extremely rich enthusiast could and would buy 1, it makes no business sense to mass produce it. U'll lose more money then u gain.

There just isn't anything legit we could think of to make PG standout which is why most of us here accepts its fates, be it dead or alive it doesn't matter. 1st off if we had any idea we would be working in Bandai's Hobby Division not chatting up in lowyat forum. Shoehorning things into a product just to keep it alive wont work, we r conscious buyers, even when a kit that cost 7000yen we start to find out why and try to justified it. If shoehorning in a feature just for the sake of making it different and not actually making it any better but at the same time making it 2-3 times more expensive, u'll suffer from consumer backlash.

NO ONE would spend that much money on a PG. PG Strike Freedom and 00 Raiser are already pushing the limits on how much people are willing to spend on model kits, especially for those who live outside of Japan where getting model kits for Japanese retail price is usually a stroke of luck.

There's no cost-effective way for Bandai to differentiate PGs from MGs or even RGs anymore besides number of parts and size. Most people consider the Strike Gundam to be the best the PG line has, and everything it has is matched by current MGs and even RGs.

Awesome PG OO XN-Raiser scratch build.
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More photos here.

Guess what? Your "imagination" would waste Bandai's money. Your "imagination" would result in a PG kit so expensive that nobody buys it. Your "imagination" is overriding your common sense and your ability to listen to reason - reason that has been clearly spelled out to you by multiple people in this thread. Master Grade can do everything Perfect Grade can do if not better, and there's nothing "imaginary" Bandai could do with PGs that they can't just scale down to 1/100 scale to make it considerably cheaper and more profitable for them.

just bcause the name is called perfect grade doesnt mean it is perfect. Pinnacle? Hardly. Again pg has been eclipse by mg, rg and even hg on some level, the only reason pg still exist and will continue to exits is novelty, not because it the "pinnacle".

again u seems to not understand the concept of production line, doesn't matter if u r producing it once every year or once every 5 years, the very fact that u r producing it means u push the other product into backlog, u r taking up time and resources that would otherwise be spend on that said other products that r cheaper for the mass market, that r more popular with majority of the consumers, that will sell more volume which will means more $$$ and faster ROI. Producing pg isn't profitable, ur lost is compounded in that not only will u lose money if it doesn't sell, u'll lose even more for not producing other things in its place.