Mine is pic related, the Victory Gundam. What I like about it is how modular the mobile suit is. It’s the result of years of ms tech late into the Universal Century where now the Gundam is mass produced. In the show the rebel forces are shown to have a stockpile of Gundams in a bunker so they can burn through parts.
Honorable mention to the RX-79 G ground type Gundam from 8th MS Team.
I know I’m gonna get wayyyy too into Gundam when I finally take that plunge and I’ve been trying to make some room.in my life to prepare. I’m already someone without of a room devoted to Star Trek, I’ve got all my Twin Peaks bs, I’ve.just become a Babylon 5 Guy and adding Gundam to this makes a 90s neckbeard
ok so my advice to you, as someone who fell hard down the rabbit hole last year, is to watch only one gundam. watch turn a gundam, it’s the best one, if you search my posts for it you’ll see me gushing about it a million times, and it’s from the 90s and wasn’t successful so it’s impossible to find merch for it (i need the mg turn x reprint or mg sumo so fucking bad but it’s never going to happen)
I’m gonna start from the start when I do it. I got into model building via Trek and I the baubles I decorate with were also built and painted by me it feels more curated and less man child. I’ve got plenty of restraint for merch unless it’s Enterprise or earlier trek stuff, then I legit just want all of it cause I legit love Trek. Finding out how fucking cheap used action figures of annoying characters from bad episodes are has been a bit of a spending sink, but I want art project merch or the dumbest shit they’ve sold. It’ll just give my parents more options come Christmas really.
Gotta be real, I just don’t want anime shit in my house.
yeah i’m watching from the start and mostly having a great time. you’re in for some good scifi when you do get around to it! i learned that when the model kits are fun to build i do not have as much restraint for merch as i thought, but that’s not the end of the world.
i cannot relate, i have a bunch of gunpla and then also regular anime figures of characters i like. i would have more if they weren’t all expensive as hell. but i do respect that
did a tier list (it only includes the main character gundams, so as not to clog the whole thing up with the racist ones from g). top tier gundams are (in no particular order) wing zero custom ew, barbatos lupus rex, v2, moon gundam, alex, and the turn a
bottom tier is all the ones from seed, plus the narrative and the unicorn with all the lights on. what a garbage aesthetic
favorite non-gundam mobile suit is the fucking sazabi. just a perfect design, better than every gundam
favorite non-gundam mobile suit is the fucking sazabi. just a perfect design, better than every gundam
We’re going to need an alignment chart like the one below, but for “what is a Gundam” because if you’re flexible enough the Sazabi is totally a Gundam.
Gundam Wing was my first experience with Gundam, so they’ve all got a special place in my heart. But, “It’s Wing Zero!” Is what pops in my head on a regular basis.
Gundam Wing was my first experience with Gundam
Same. The Deathscythe has a special place in my heart, I had a kit of it as a kid.
As a kid I loved Deathscythe and Epyon, though I only ever got the Epyon kit(3 times!)
The Wing Zero Custom from Endless Waltz with the silly angel wings is such a classic lol
It makes me feel such Rhythm Emotion.
Edit: ah yeah, that’s the stuff.
I’m partial to a lot of the designs from Gundam Wing (which I feel was a visual high-point for the series both in design and in general art / animation quality), as well as the wacky-ass (and yes, at times “problematic”, as in kinda racist) designs from G-Gundam.
In particular, I like Heavy Arms (Custom or regular), Sandrock, Grizzly Gundam (Representing Canada), Zebra Gundam (Representing the entirety of Africa except Egypt for some reason), and whatever Denmark’s doofy fucking whale-transformer Gundam was called. I don’t even actually like that one, but I feel compelled to at least mention it because of how absurd it is.
Yeah G Gundam does encroach into some very old timey racist caricatures of other countries through the lens of Japan.
Zebra Gundam is racist as fuck, which sucks because I think the design is genuinely rad. Also, if anybody hasn’t seen Gundam Maxter, that’s the US gundam from G-Gundam, and it’s fucking hilarious. Chibodee Crocket , the pilot of Gundam Maxter, is canonically the shittiest of the main cast of G-Gundam.
Gundam Maxter, that’s the US gundam from G-Gundam, and it’s fucking hilarious
The football player/surfer/cowboy/boxer lmao
Chibodee Crocket , the pilot of Gundam Maxter, is canonically the shittiest of the main cast of G-Gundam.
He just wants to be loved by his mommies (and Domon)
.
spoiler
Jokes aside, I’m a pretty big fan of the Turn A:
And the Gundam X has a cool asymmetrical thing I like:
I like the Zeta a lot, too, but that feels like a basic b choice.
I like the Zeta a lot, too, but that feels like a basic b choice.
I like the custom zeta from gundam sentinel
The Amuro Karaba Zeta does have a cool color way. I think it was in Green Divers?
In my rush to meme about the Fidel Gundam, I forgot about this dope one.
