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.
It’s not techinically a “gundam”, but damn do I love the Psycho Zaku from Gundam Thunderbolt
Just strap more boosters onto the back and give it a bigger gun.
-Mobile Suit Engineers
My second pick is Wing Zero, because it turns into a fighter jet, even though this functionality is rarely used in the actual show.
i haven’t seen all of the series, and none of witch from mercury yet, but as far as protagonist ‘gundam’ mobile suits i probably like gundam barbatos from IBO the most. this picture is stripped of optional equipment/at the beginning when its a recovered relic, but they get new gear for it all the time. starts out with a freakin’ huge flanged mace as its primary/only weapon.
for mobile suits in general i like the space pirate’s man rodi, also from IBO
in general i like the more practical looking designs, even gundam wing, which is my least favorite series probably, has the Tallgeese and more importantly the derivative Leo
my fav grunt suit is just the zaku ii, which is basically a perfect design. okawara reused some of the design concept for votoms and the showrunners there were smart enough to realize the scopedog could carry a whole show on its shoulders
I have a HG Scopedog preordered and I’m stupidly excited for it lol. Such a perfect little robot.
i preordered it but then had to cancel because i spent too much money on other gunpla in the meantime and outstripped my allotted budget
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.
Hands down the Double Zeta.
That show went hard and a combiner Gundam was so silly but Tomino played it straight.
