Bandai HGBF 1/144 Beargguy F (Family)

By Far, the most cutest and adorable Gunpla I have! And just in time before it appears in the series, Mirai Kamiki's Gunpla - Beargguy F (Family). And yes, amongst the 3 Beargguys I have this one stands the most. And as said and can be seen on the Boxart that this was based on Beargguy 2 which was never release and didn't even exist only in the show. If you'll look closely in the boxart a blurry picturee of a box named Beargguy II (2) can be seen, well it's never too alte if they are still planning to release it.

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Beargguy F or Family portraits a Mother Bear carrying her Baby Bear around. Mamber is called Mamagguy - colored in white which actually sucks. I don't dislike pure white Gunplas - but I have problems keeping and maintaining them clean. The hardest part was spraying flat clear (matte) over it at the same time keeping it away from dirt in which I failed. Upclose my work is dirty thats why I am planning to obtain another one of this. You may have notice this is the same Beargguy III (San) we all know except it's in white and no large ribbon can be found.

The little one is called Petitgguy, a small cute little Gunpla Bear - flatten it in matte and you'll see he looks too good to eat. What's amazing is it has actual articulation and can stand with proper balancing. Petitgguy has a separate hands for Mamagguy that makes her look like she is holding his child. And aside from those the same arm extender and expression stickers can be found inside the kit. Probably not much of a kit....

Lastly, Petitgguy has a chair like thing that can be attached to Mamagguy's back and be attached to Petitgguy. Then there is to it, and probably the only thing that would catch your attention to buy it is the word "Cute".

P-Bandai HGBF 1/144 Star Build Strike Gundam Ver.RG System

I was down a local toy shop then to my surprise I saw a bunch of P-Bandai on their stocks. I was choosing a various selection from Astraea, to P-Bandai SD's but their is this one thing that really caught my eye and got me pulling out my wallet and showing some bucks. P-Bandai's Star Build Strike version RG System. This post would be shorter since in reality it's the same HG Build Strike we know. And it can be found here.

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First, whats in the box? The regular Star Build Package will include you the Blue Plabsky Wings together with the Star Build Strike unit so in order to complete your kit you have to separately buy the HGBF Universe Booster in order to get the Power Gate. And you'll end up having two Universe Booster. Now, in the P-Bandai version the kit includes both the Plavsky Wing and Power Gate inside the Box - it should have been that way in the first place. Next, ver RG runners are composed of Pearl coated runners, clear parts and not jsut celar but glittery clear parts and some normal parts. Yes, you read it right normal runners. The Pearl coated runners where for the white parts while the clear parts are for the arts that are colored blue and red and of course the Plavsky Wing and Power Gate. The normal runners are for the grey joints and mostly the gun. Now, what exactly did change? Well probably in the series Star Build Strike has this mode called "RG System" wherein he could generate and focus Plaavsky disperssions in some of its parts or somehow like that haha not pretty accurate huh? But yeah thats more to it, in order to identify it RG System has activated parts of it's frame turns to blue. Well, personally I liked this version with the removal of the Pearl coated parts though, doesn't look right with all that shine and stuff but the RG System parts were cool all in all. :)

P-Bandai Online Hobby Shop Exclusive: RG 1/144 GN-001 Gundam Exia (Trans Am Mode) Gloss Injection Ver.

Before anything else, It's been a while since I have updated my blog so for starters here is a P-Bandai Exclusive for you! Basically it's not mine it's a friend kit, so thanks to him for allowing me to play with his toys - Well, mostly it's the same figure as the the first RG Exia which I already posted here with a different colour that can be identified as it's Trans-am mode in the series.

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And mostly that's the only difference you'll get - don't even expect something special inside. No, there is no free toy inside or anything.

And If you're thinking that there was already a Trans-am version of these kits, instead from being an RG - How they are different? Well, basically aside from the details - it's colour is much sttronger and was more accurate than the HG Trans Am kits. Well they are the same Pinkish variant but the gloss effect did a much more realistic effect.

Well it did fit the prefectly good details and yeah, I think this was much better than the normal mode.

And of course, you'll met the same issue as the first one - hard to pose, brittle parts, etc ... And an additional "You cannot top coat me because I am glossy!"

Left - RG Exia, Right - RG Trans Am Exia

Well, If you ask me having both kit is not bad at all since any of the two aint look bad at all.

Bandai - HGBF 1/144 - PPGN-001 Gundam Amazing Exia

Let's get back to Gunplas - this here my friend is Amazing Exia the predecessor of Dark Matter. Took me a while before I finally took the kit and build it since I was too lazy to do so. The PPGN-001 Gundam Amazing Exia is a custom gunpla from the anime series, Gundam Build Fighters, and is based on the incomplete A5 model developed by the Plavsky Particle System Engineering. It is piloted by Meijin Kawaguchi.

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So basically the obvious difference between the two is the color. From the original blue colour of the Exia - mixed with a lighter green chest, pointed shoulders and doubled padded knee caps.

The head was also changed, the GN sword was changed and the addition of the booster was added. This is with the comparison with the original Exia - but in terms of the difference with the Dark Matter - the change was more in the color + the difference within the weapons. Amazing Exia has GN Sword + a sword on the left while Dark Matter has GN Sword with no blade but instead it will act as a gun and thermal blade and 2 Additional swords; Fire and Ice.

Movements was still the same. Articulation are the same - from Exia. Could have been better if the articulation was the same as the Double 00 Kit.

But in terms of the design and colour combination - this one is probably better than the original Exia and Dark Matter.

One thing the Dark Matter didn't have is this Shield.

The generic sword it has - as I said Dark Matter has 2 Swords: Fire and Ice.

GN-Sword - unlike Dark Matter this one has a blade.

Amazing Exia's Shield.

Amazing Booster same as the Dark Matter Booster - looks like Latios and Latias from Pokemon.

Well, so there you go my Amazing Exia done within 5 hours coated in Matte.

Note: this was a quick post so any errors in my post is due to laziness to check and compare both kits.

P-Bandai Exclusive: MG 1/100 ZGMF-X56S/ι Destiny Impulse Gundam R [Regenes]

ZGMF-X56S/ι Destiny Impulse Gundam R or "Regenes" a variant of ZGMF-X56S Impulse Gundam that appeared in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Astray R - a side story published together with Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Astray B to celebrate the release of the HD Remeastered version of the Anime Series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny. Now actually me and my guys have a little info of this so It was so hard to give details - Note: The kit was a P-Bandai Exclusive released way back February 2014. Note: We will try to give more info about the kit, for the meantime everything here will do. Post is pending for updates.

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The Box Art colored in purple -everything in purple - well, one of the ways the Manufacturers do just to say they were exclusives.

The Core Splendor - yes it has a core splendor with a tiny little pilot in front. Anyone know who he/she is? The Core Splendor can be attached at the back. A fact, the core splendor is no longer included in the Regenes Manual - Why? Because it was no longer included in the configuration system of Regenes - No more formation mode although yes it's still possible in the kit.

Silhouette Pack - unlike the other units in the Second Stage Series, this one is similar to Strike which uses Silhoutte packs to adapt in different situation.

DI Adaga - The kit also introduces DI Adaga, a variant of Regenes which has a Mono Eye Setup.

Mono Eye.

Core Splendor Attached,

One of the interetsting things in the kit is it's Shoulder -Torso Connection whcich makes it possible to do a perfect 90 degree rotation upward in the shoulder caps.

No worries though, it is kept hidden, you just have to pull it up to the the 90 degree thing.

And a different leg-waist joint.

There you go, DI Aga with Core Splendor and no Silhoutte pack.

Finally, Destiny Impulse R - well probably not much in the details but arent the colour scheme cute?

To cute that I can't help to pose it like this "chu~".

Silhouute Pack attached.

Articulation were good for the fact it does have an amazing 90 degree shoulder and details are great just don't get lazy in putting those decals. The decals were the most annoying part since they were harder to place.

Probably the only problem you will be facing is the lack of support for the Silhoutte Pack. It was to heavy for the waist so you might need to do a little fixing around.

Bonus: The MS Girl Black Widow R.

Bandai - HGUC 1/144 Gundam Unicorn Phenex ver. GFT [Clear]

Ok, so I won't post any-phenex-related info since this would be anotehr time that I would be posting about Unicorns. In fact I'am getting tired of building the same mold for seven times now - anyway... SO, together with the Lame Gold Phenex this is another variant of Phenex - it's build in clear plastics with tiny glitters inside. Not much of a change then.

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How did I spot this anyway? Actually I had no idea that this variant even exists but I notice that it has a different GFT box. Usually GFT boxes have red lines on the side but instead this one has yellow.

When I first saw the built in other blogs, it really did look ugly and crappy. The combiantion was awful but after finishing I was actually contented - not to mention I had a hard time asking the seller to sell it to me since it was reserved to someone else.

Comparing to the Lame Gold Phenex, they are almost the same - in terms of mold and equips. The package doesn't have the Phamplet though.
Gundam Unicorn Phenex [Lame Gold]

If you do feel dissatisfied, you can always do this - cross-building.