Series: Super Deformed (SD)
Title: RX-178+FXA-05D Super Gundam
Release Date: ?
Suggested Price: ¥ 800
No. of Parts: 61 + polycaps + paper stickers
Plastic colors: red, gray, yellow, grayish white
Gimmicks: long rifle, removable G-Defenser, G-Flyer mode

Introduction

Contributor: Elliott "Hiddenpower" Solomon
Date: January 13, 2004

Yep, another good old SD kit from Bandai.

Head

The head on this kit is of fairly simple construction; the front and back half pieces, an inside part with the eyes, main camera and red chin then a red and yellow piece for the V-Fin on the head. Thankfully, Bandai didn't omit the rear camera sticker on this kit, which is very considerate of them.

Torso

This is a fairly standard SD torso. It has a simple twisting waist to allow turning independent of the lower body and pegs on the sides for the arms; the beam saber racks are unfortunately molded together with the beam sabers in black, meaning you need to paint white on black (meaning
it's a pain in the arse for people who like to paint their kits). I'm considering the attached G-Defenser as part of the kit so it goes in here;
the main part is pretty much all fixed pieces that can't move, and then it
has a double polycap joint for the two blue parts that go either side of
the Mk II.

Arms

The arms are nicely jointed in the middle and at the shoulder, which gives the kit a good range of motion for whatever you want to do with it. The hands aren't on polycaps though and have just a plastic stick coming out the back, meaning if you play around with them too much the plastic will wear down and they'll fall out (although this hasn't happened in the half year or so I've had the kit).

Legs

The feet have a separate red part for the bottom of the foot and the top so as to save you from having to paint it to look right. They're connected to the skirt armor with a ball joint polycap, which unfortunately is not fully utilized for two reasons, the first being that the skirt armor is in the way and the second being that the G-Defenser on the back gets in the way as well.

Weapons and Accessories

This kit comes with only the long rifle that the Super Gundam has in
the show, the barrel of which is molded all in one piece and all in white, making it easy to paint but (argh!) one-sided yet again. There's also the two little blue parts that fan out on the top and bottom of the kit.

Conclusion

Overall this is another average SD like the Guncannon (which I love so much) and so it gets the same score.

Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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