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Dated June 2022.
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I need help from you little freaks in my phone. What kit should I buy myself so I have a little reward after mid terms?
They’re all around 58-60$ and like I’ve never built a MG before.
Which is like the best out of these to get?? I love them all but least fav is probably wing?? I’ve never seen that series really.
#mg#master grade#gundam#gunpla#plamo#gundam wing#zaku#gundam age#rx-78#gundam advice#hg#hguc#universal century#Bandai
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Lunar Assault
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So I’ve been seeing a lot of people chatting about the new Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance trailer, and there’s a part of it I’d like to throw my two cents in on.
Honestly, in regards to there being a billion Gundam’s running around the OYW, I made my peace with that fact years ago, so it doesn’t bother me. Yeah, yeah it’s a little silly from an in-universe perspective, no matter how many times they pull the “secret prototype” card. But from an out of universe perspective, Gundams sell, and they want it to sell. It’s a rare thing in the UC series that doesn’t have a Gundam in it.
But just for the sake of it, how many Gundams are (at present) running around in the One Year War?
Note: I was originally going to ignore things like Thunderbolt, The Origin and the Sidestories, since they all have a somewhat weird canon state. Then I realised that “Gundams that Canonically existed in the OYW” ≠ “Gundams that you see marketed in OYW sidestories”. So, I’m going to lead with the suits that we know existed, then move on to the other ones. I am, however, ignoring Manga, because I haven’t read everything and we’ll be here all day.
Alrighty, so we start off with the original RX-78 series as built in Operation V (sometimes called the “Vinson Plan”). We have:
RX-78-1 “Prototype Gundam” - As its name suggests, the prototype unit to the entire line. Never deployed to my knowledge, I’m honestly not sure what happens to it. I usually read it as being destroyed during the attack on Side 7, but I’m not certain of that.
RX-78-2 “Gundam” - you know this one. Amuro falls into the cockpit at Side 7 and proceeds to pilot it from then until the end of the One Year War.
RX-78-3 “G-3 Gundam” - apparently recovered from Side 7 and used as a test bed for magnet coating technology. Beyond that we have absolutely no idea what happened to it, since there’s a bunch of conflicting accounts. My usual headcanon is that it was used as a basis for all the MSV suits, but we have absolutely no idea if and where it was deployed.
RX-78-4 “Gundam G04” - deployed alongside unit 5 at the Battle of Solomon.
RX-78-5 “Gundam G05” - deployed alongside unit 4 at the battle of Solomon.
RX-78-6 “Mudrock Gundam” - deployed in the defence of Jaburo and the re-taking of California base.
The other two units are part of the series, but were not (as far as we know) deployed during the OYW:
RX-78-7 “Gundam 7th” - completed and deployed after the war.
RX-78-8 - we know nothing about. There may have been an 8th unit, it may just have been design data, and we have no idea if it was deployed or what it looked like.
Next; The Gundam Ground Types. There were 20 (-ish, some sources say 28) Gundam ground types produced during the One Year War from spare parts of the RX-78 series. This includes:
The units seen in 08th MS Team - 12 Gundam Ground Types were deployed to the Kojima Battalion.
The Ez8 - Deployed, as above.
Blue Destiny Unit 1 - Deployed
Blue Destiny Unit 2 - stolen by Zeon Ace Nimbus Schterzen.
Blue Destiny Unit 3 - Deployed in pursuit of Unit 2.
Slave Wraith - Questionably Canon, assigned to and deployed by Slave Wraith team.
I’m also gonna quickly call out that we have no idea on the various Full Armor units (the FA Gundam, the Heavy Gundam, the FA Ground type, the FA type B etc). Some sources say they were built, others that they were only simulation data.
And finally we have everything else:
Gundam NT-1 “Alex” - Developed at Augusta Base, then moved to side 6, where it was deployed against the Cyclops Team.
Gundam NT-1 “Prototype NT-1” - apparently an entirely separate suit to the NT-1. The prototype to the above. Presumably not deployed.
RX-78XX “Pixy/Pixie Gundam” - Questionably Canon, three units built. Unit 1 deployed in Belfast, Unit 2 in the Gobi Desert (and planned to be deployed at Odessa) and Unit 3 in Africa.
RAG-79-G1 Gundam Marine type - Sometimes known as the “Gundiver”. An underwater-spec unit. Unknown amount produced, primarily because it’s essentially a modified Underwater GM as opposed to a “true” Gundam unit.
And that’s about it for mainline UC. Gundam The Origin intentionally keeps things very vague as to how many Gundam’s exist there, so I’m not going to bother.
Gundam Thunderbolt is a bit of an odd case, since at first glance, it adds three:
FA-78 Full Armour Gundam (Thunderbolt ver.) - deployed by the Moore Brotherhood at Side 4.
RX-79[GS] Gundam Ground type S - produced by the Federation during the One Year War and after, presumably deployed.
RGM-79/GH Gundam Head - a GM with a Gundam-style head in an attempt to reproduce the psychological effect on Zeon forces.
But that last one illustrates Thunderbolt’s position on the matter, which is later made clearer in the manga in regards to the Bull-G, a unit built postwar. The Bull-G is a prototype unit contending for the position of the Federations new main unit. However, it’s actually an upgraded GM, fitted with a Gundam-style head to make it more appealing.
And this seems to be thunderbolt’s position on the matter - after a certain point it comes down to a suit’s performance rather than it being a Gundam. So yes, it adds a bunch of Gundam-style suits, but it also deconstructs that just because a suit looks like a Gundam doesn’t make it special.
Which is honestly a pretty interesting position to take.
#Gundam#One Year War#Gundam requiem for vengeance#RX-78#Gundam Thunderbolt#Full Armour Gundam#Gundam Bull-G
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huevember 8, char kick
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"Gundam Strike" from Kirokaze.
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RX-78's Gundam Hammer
(Gundam: Battle Assault 2, 2002)
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My current favorite models in my collection
(HG aerial is my favorite of all of them)
#gundam#gunpla#gundam aerial#rx 78 2#rx-78#gm gundam#unicorn gundam#g witch#witch from mercury#mobile suit gundam
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Talk nerdy to me
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top 5 variations of the RX-78 because i'm a little hater. prove me wrong (machines that don't have the RX-78 in their name but are obviously inspired by it do count)
That's.... a lot of them. The base RX-78 series has at least 18 models in it, and you can easily add twice or three times that with subsequent models. I'll limit it to up to RX-93, because after this, the departure from the original RX-78 design is big enough IMO.
Well with that said
#1: RX-78NT-1 Gundam NT-1
I mean duh. Aside from the really good story of WitP, this model basically incorporated design decisions that became the baseline of later RXs, like the cockpit or the motors. Also it's one of the first Fed machines to also use Zaku research for improvement.
And most importantly the design slaps a lot.
#2: RX-79[G]Ez-8 Gundam Ez8
Probably the least RX-78 of the list, but it's my favourite overall so here it is anyway. It's rugged, it's made of leftover parts (and even some Zaku parts). It's stripped down to be optimized for use in gravity (meaning it's not even space-worth).
Love it.
#3: RX-93 ν Gundam
I mean, it's a fan-favourite for a reason. Aside from the kickass asymmetrical design, it is essentially the pinnacle of the RX line (not counting the Unicorn of course, which is the literal pinnacle of that line, but as I said it's also far enough of a departure to be considered separate IMO). It's the first Gundam to have funnels (though those are bits but whatever). You can really tell that Amuro participated in the design of this machine.
It's got Psycho-Frame, a tech that wasn't ever designed to be included into a Gundam. Why? Because Char cannot pass up any opportunity to fight Amuro on higher and higher stakes.
#4: FA-78 Full Armor Gundam
Look at this. It's got 3 sabers, 1 double beam rifle, 52 missiles, 1 beam cannon, 5 rocket launchers, more missiles, potentially cluster mini-missiles too, 4 large shields, including 2 held by a pair of extra arms, and is still able to function with a core block.
This a walking armoury. It's literally my warforged character Star, but bigger and in space. Ridiculous.
#5: RX-78GP03 Gundam "Dendrobium"
lmao
#gundam#RX-78#I really wanted to include Moon Gundam as well#Because I mean come on#It's basically an RX-93 but even cooler#but even then I'm not sure it would qualify for this list
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Finally finished my MG RX-78-2 very 3.0!!! Super good kit but I was an idiot and broke the original hands, so I'm using some painted up builders hands until my AliExpress poseable arrive! Either way, great kit, if just a bit fiddly!!
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So I've been getting into Gundam via first getting into Gunpla and, take this with a grain of salt as I've only watched the two Thunderbolt movies, War in the Pocket, Origins and am currently watching Witch from Mercury (and have a cursory understanding of the plot of the original), I feel like the nature of Gundam as a series makes it difficult for me to enjoy it, and by that I mean the Gundams themselves.
See, the set-up of the big scary evil Principality of Zeon and their Zakus and the plucky underdog Amuro and his Gundam doesn't work because Gundams in universe as compared to their opposition aren't underdogs. I'm pretty sure I read that the name 'Zaku' is a bastardised translation of a Japanese word meaning small fish, basically saying the Zakus are jobbers, and while I get on the inverse you have the GM's rhat go down just as easily Zeon don't usually have their equivalent to a Gundam.
A typical Gundam series consists of the main character in a nigh indestructible mech to whom its enemies may as well be butter and (while we're always told that they're skilled pilots) win less by their skill and more by having the more expensive toys.
I feel like this reached its breaking point in Thunderbolt. Daryl is a disabled soldier who's been through hell multiple times and gives his body to be able to pilot something that STILL struggles against a Gundam. Io Flemming (whom I fucking hate and cannot understand anyone liking seriously wtf) is gifted a near indestructible mech and it's even said outright that he earned it not through hard work or skill but by nepotism and being the last man standing. I don't know, Thunderbolt is a lot more aware of this and Io Flemming is baaaasically the antagonist of that movie, Bandit Flower didn't undertand that though.
I think back to Char Aznable, the character who's cocksure assholery originally got me into Gunpla, and I think one of the reasons people likte him so much in comparison to Amuro (other than he actually HAS a personality) is that he pilots a Zaku II (and various iterations of the Zaku II na later some actually scary mobile suits but that's besides the point), the jobber machine, and is STILL one of if not the best pilot in OG Gundam, going up against an invincible, super high tech death machine via his skill and drive alone: In any other series, HE WOULD BE TH3 PROTAGONIST.
I really should not be rooting for Zeon whenever they show up.
Doesn't help that I like maybe 2 Gundam designs and love all the Zeon designs.
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Finally picked up an entry grade rx-78 to try out a cel-shaded look. Pretty impressed with the EG kit overall and really happy with how the cel-shading turned out
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Love this stupid US Rx-78 so much
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