All Gunpla kit reviews

A Titans black sheep that turns out to be one of the most satisfying oddballs in the HGUC lineup.

A stubby cannon-armed brawler that moves way better than its old-school silhouette suggests.

The prototype Gundam that never got the RX-78-2 paint job, finally in plastic.

A muddy brown desert Gundam that moves better than kits twice its price.

The same great Origin-mold RX-78-2, dressed in the desert-worn colors from the movie that redeemed Gundam's worst episode.

The benchmark RG frame in Team Bright's orange, with a decal sheet that finally does the color scheme justice.

The best HG mold Bandai has, dressed up in the colors of a Games that almost didn't happen.

The same legendary frame in a colorway that makes you look twice on the shelf.

The best-engineered MG RX-78-2 ever made, wearing a neon green and black costume instead of its classic colors.

A vending machine coffee promo that smuggled a genuinely excellent RX-78-2 kit into the world.

The best HG RX-78-2 ever engineered, wrapped around a literal anniversary cake.

The original Gundam, built on Bandai's sharpest HG frame yet, dressed up for a special-edition run.

A noodle-cup giveaway kit that turned out to be one of the best-articulated RX-78-2 molds Bandai ever made.

An amphibious oddball that moves better than most HGs twice its price.

A GM's slow climb into a war machine, told through a gatling arm and a head you can swap on a whim.

A lean, close-combat one-year-war Gundam that skips the core block and gets away with it.

A scrappy jungle prototype that builds cleaner and poses better than its budget suggests.

The Thunderbolt cast retools the old Ground Type into a lean, funnel-toting sniper support unit, and the kit backs it up.

The quiet third sibling that turns out to be the best behaved kit of the trilogy.

A gangly psycho-frame testbed that turns its bare skeleton into the whole point.

A budget HG that borrows Unicorn's best trick and actually pulls it off.

A tool-free snap kit that still nails the silhouette Amuro flew into the finale.

Amuro's last Newtype suit, built as a clean, funnel-heavy MG that still holds up almost two decades later.

A cloaked, fanged monster of a kit that turns a gimmick suit into a genuinely fun build.