The chrome fists, beam saber and missiles can shoot from the arms and cannon. One of the more fun aspects of this set is how you can rearrange all the shooting parts on the figure. Only one place is provided for the beam saber on the backpack. I always question the shoulder-mounted cannon on many of these early Gundam toys because as far as I remember Gundam never had a shoulder-mounted cannon in the anime, only a hand-held cannon. Gundam comes with some nice accessories and looks great with all the parts attached to the figure. The knees slightly bend at the joints and the head and arms rotate. Gundam is a nice chunk of weighty metal and is solid throughout but plastic is used for the head, arms and upper legs. The boxed Mobile Suit Gundam includes: 1x Gundam, 1x Shield, 2x chrome fists, 2x beam sabers, 1x rocket launcher, 4x rockets. What came out of the Clover factory in 1978 was a long-faced, ill-proportioned Chogokin style Gundam that bore no resemblance to the sleek Mobile Suit armor that made up the Gundam of what we know today. I am sure the term “ Real Robot” really did not connect with the designers of the toys, with Go Nagai Chogokin style art design the “It” look of 70’s robots.
Unfortunately, Clover based all their Gundam toys off of rough prototype drawings that only closely resembled the final designs that were eventually released and produced for the Mobile Suit Gundam show.Īlso, MS Gundam was most popular with young adults in their late teens and twenties, due to the complex political nature of the show and the Clover Gundam toys were clearly aimed at small children. Honestly, they have made some great toys over the years and an example of Clover toy is a must to have in the collection. First off I do not blame Clover for their failure of the Mobile Suit Gundam toy series.
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM NT EBAY SERIES
The other Gundam misstep from the early days was the toy series that was released by Clover. For example, the first airing of Mobile Suit Gundam was not popular with the public and it wasn’t popular until the second airing of the show that coincided with the release Bandai’s iconic model kit line. But Gundam had a couple of missteps at the beginning that if it was not rectified it could have easily been another little known anime from the late 1970s. When Mobile Suit Gundam was released back in 1979, who would have thought it would be the worldwide phenomenon that it is today.
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