A rep at Bandai said that the standard price for RE 1/100 will be around 4000 yen. Nighty gets a bigger pricetag for obvious reasons.

You have to apply a soft but steady pressure to the joints on the 3.0 hands when you're first bending them. Otherwise you get what has happened to you.

As for MG Wing Gundam EW, it's a 2004 Master Grade - what did you expect, especially with a gun as big as the Buster Rifle?

That's because it basically is. The whole point of the RE/100 line is so Bandai can make model kits based off more obscure MS designs without having to invest MG-level engineering and money into it.

What the hell would be the point of making a RE/100 Providence? NG 1/100 Providence already exists and is still a solid kit.

There's a reason why that kit comes with a "third leg" attachment. It's the same thing with FA Unicorn - it's a brick kit that's only meant to stand in an idle pose and look impressive just from the sheer size.

Find the Japanese retail price, convert it to whatever currency you have, and presto.

You'd rather pay 200+ dollars for a MG of Nightingale?

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the advanced engineering of kits like Nu ver. ka as well, and I have little love for Nightingale in any form so maybe i'm not the best person to even be discussing it. However, you have to see where Bandai is coming from. Nightingale has never been animated. Even as a Char suit, it has far less recognition than Sazabi or the Zaku II, and Bandai can't take the risk of making a monster like that only for it to financially fail. Then there's the structural issues - Nightingale would run the risk of MAJOR structural danger if made with Nu/Sazabi ver ka type engineering, especially with those giant thruster pods that stick out on the sides.

You can say it about a lot of mobile suit designs, but Nightingale especially was clearly not designed with the intention of it ever being converted to plastic.

I'm just hoping that the Bandai rep who said the Leo from Gundam Wing would be the next RE 1/100 kit after GP04 was telling the truth. That's still kinda BS considering 90% of the kit is already made via MG Tallgeese, but f*** it - I WANT A LEO! I can finally have my personal 3-unit grunt army.

I wouldn't get the idea in your head that Bandai is gonna start making more MAs in 1/144 scale if I were you. Unicorn has been an unprecedented cash cow for Bandai, which is the only reason they would even attempt to take a risk like Neo Zeong. Even hardcore Gunpla fans have trouble justifying 250+ dollars on a HG model kit.

Who the hell thought that was a good idea and how are they still employed?

You know how piss poor Unicorn's knees bend? The original ver. ka was even worse.

That is Build Fighter Season 2 my friend.

It only got announced today.

So it's not Gunpla, but it is Bandai, so close enough. Here's my newest completed kit: Mechanic Collection: Great Mazinger



More picture here:
http://imgur.com/6kjphRE
http://imgur.com/DRIS1uT
http://imgur.com/U9jMPxL
http://imgur.com/m2uaw4Y

An impressive kit for 2001 - full inner frame, and very dense plastic which gives the kit considerable weight. The Thunder Break effect part was stolen and modified from SRC Daizyujin, and the Mazinger Blade was a simple job of gold and silver Gundam markers(originally was all white). Overall, a worthy addition to any Mazinger or Super Robot collection.

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What's wrong with Build Mk. II and Sengoku Astray?

Sorry to go off-topic, but ROFL at Rouge Ootori being a "hard hitter". The ugliest and laziest backpack ever designed - it would have been a better kit if they just gave it the original I.W.S.P pack.

Nope, but I would fully expect one sometime next year.

That's why display stands exist.

Ummm...duh? What were you expecting? No amount of engineering in the world would make Nightingale's design highly articulated.