So... we have to hold on to our boxes?On the Gunpla Warfare Discord I manage there has been buzz about this becoming a thing in time, but it would have been better to launch with it I feel. The launch was quite horrible even by Gacha standards...
So... we have to hold on to our boxes?On the Gunpla Warfare Discord I manage there has been buzz about this becoming a thing in time, but it would have been better to launch with it I feel. The launch was quite horrible even by Gacha standards...
I want to take a moment to talk about the unsung heroes of The Federation for a moment. The unsung heroes that are the pilots of the RB-79 Mobile Suit.
The RB-79 is a refit of an initial civilian model construction pod with little done to improve it but slapping a 180mm gun on top of its head. It had paper thin armor for a Gundam so virtually any hit from a distance is fatal and if the gap is closed a pilot was near completely defenseless in close combat as the manipulator arms were simply for lifting and placing girders and materials and are near useless for fighting. The gundams were also among the first mobile suits rolled out by the federation as during the one year war as thousands of these guys were rolled out in desperation.
Imagine being a forklift driver, and one day your country breaks out in war. Then you are told your forklift needs to be used in war, so they slap on a bit of armored plating and a recoilless rifle and tell you you gotta go duke it out with some tank battalions. Thats these guys, they did it, they were expendable, known as "mobile coffins", and their blood and sacrifice was instrumental in defeating Zeon by keeping the federation alive in the early days of the war. Like the PT Boats of WWII, they were expendable. So to me, the real hero isnt the guy who can step in, pilot some hotshot one of a kind mobile suit with top of the line weapons, armor, and specs, its the guy who willingly steps into a tiny suit not even meant for war with a single gun facing off against designed weapons of war, ready to give his all for his country. So salute the Ball Gundam, and its brave pilots who fought and died to save The Federation.
She was supposed to be in Zeta except her VA went on safari.Personally what I've always been frustrated with was the way they never really picked up and followed Sayla Mass after the original Gundam. She was an amazing character and the dichotomy of her life with her brother's should have provided much dramatic tension.
She was supposed to be in Zeta except her VA went on safari.
Honestly, the best bet for a Zeta rewrite involving Sayla would be a live action Universal Century movie series, one that focuses on making things less stupid and full of retcons.
Problem is that Sunrise probably wouldn't approve of it diverging far enough to fix many of the problems (like the fact that Spacenoids seem to go out of their way to prove the Titans were justified in attempted genocide) or rework the really stupid shit (like Laplace's Box).
Four decades after the sci-fi anime series "Mobile Suit Gundam" debuted on Japanese television, plastic models lifted from the saga are as popular as ever. Toymaker Bandai Namco has sold over 500 million of them worldwide, and the factory where they are made is still running at full throttle 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
A new plant will come online in 2020, a fitting way to mark the 40th anniversary
Two new Gundam Build entries were announced a part of the Link Creators segment, Gundam Build Divers Series -Battlogue-(tentative) and a Live Action version of the Gundam Build series by director Katsuyuki Motohiro(Psycho Pass, Ajin), an avid Gunpla fan.
The Build Divers Battlogue series will feature fan voted Gunpla battles from the “Gunpla Big Vote” to be held on the 40th Anniversary webpage in April and the Live Action Gundam Build video, tentatively titled “New Gundam Build Series” will serve as the commemorative video for the Gunpla 40th Anniversary. Neither project were given a release window.
Yeah, but bear in mind, most of the action in Build Divers happens in virtual space. Which means we'll likely see a lot of CG motion cap digital avatars.Here's some more stuff in the Build subfranchise:
Gundam Build Divers Battlogue Anime and Live Action Gundam Build Project Announced
The new Gundam Build entries are a part of the Gunpla Link Project.gundamnews.org
Not feeling real good about that live action thing, mostly because anime to live action doesn't really work well.
Well, its not a certainty that its going to be Build Divers... or Build Fighters for that matter. For all we know, they could create some kind of new Build subfranchise.Yeah, but bear in mind, most of the action in Build Divers happens in virtual space. Which means we'll likely see a lot of CG motion cap digital avatars.
I haven't started on Seed yet
Model Graphix 2012 November issue
Cover story: Interview with Bandai hobby department regarding Gundam Age
Original thread: Search | com.com
-Hino is a new type of person that has never been involved with Gundam before
-Usually when enemies show up all of a sudden inside a space colony, people try to explain why; Hino however thinks this is unimportant.
-What he thinks is important is the timing of the enemies showing up: He has a tendency to think of a story as a sequence of in-game events.
-The staff working on the show had to take Hino's ideas and add the missing logic to them.
-They purposely left holes in the setting so that the fans would bite and speculate, and thought they would use those for getting ideas, but unfortunately this did not work out at all.
-At first they did not find the bad response to Age especially surprising, as this had happened with other Gundam series countless times before.
-However, about three months in (around December) they started to feel that something was wrong
-With other series, this is the point that the viewers start to say positive things, but this was not the case with Age. Even though there were positive things said, the negative things overwhelmed them drastically.
-Even so the staff tried their best to make the show interesting.
-They started to get confidence around the time HG AGE-2 went on sale. Sales also stabilized around this point.
-They found it interesting how many users played around modifying Age kits (more than usual).
-One of Age's unique qualities was being able to see a lot of modded kits while the show was airing.
Stuff from Ishigaki (Vegan MS designer)
-He has participated in other Gundam series and knew from the beginning that the Vegan designs would be unpopular with Gun-ota
-The Vegan designs were order-made
-He remembered how unpopular Zanscar's designs were and himself wondered if it would be a good idea to go with these
Here's some more stuff in the Build subfranchise:
Gundam Build Divers Battlogue Anime and Live Action Gundam Build Project Announced
The new Gundam Build entries are a part of the Gunpla Link Project.gundamnews.org
Not feeling real good about that live action thing, mostly because anime to live action doesn't really work well.
What I never got was why anyone thought doing the anime and game concurrently was a good idea. They should have given the game a few months to work out a rough script, then started making the show.