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Gundam Goods News
What's new? What's hot? What's coming up? Presented herein is a selection of recent and upcoming Gundam merchandise, both domestic and imported. Please see the other pages of our Goods section for specific advice on ordering different types of imported goods.
Domestic Goods
The big news on the domestic front is that Bandai Entertainment and its AnimeVillage.com online store will be releasing three more Gundam titles over the next year. Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, New Mobile Report Gundam W, and New Mobile Report Gundam W: Endless Waltz are the trio of upcoming titles. Release dates and formats have yet to be announced.
Meanwhile, the Gundam 0079 comic from Viz Communications is continuing on to its second volume, starting in November 1999 and slated to run for five issues - look for more all-new Kazuhisa Kondo cover art in the latter installments. Volume 1 will be compiled into a $15.95 graphic novel, due in January 2000. The graphic novel won't reprint the "Universal Century Insider" columns from the individual issues, so you'll have to pick up the back issues for these original essays from your trusty Webmaster!
In other Gundam comic news, Tokyo Pop (formerly MixxZine) has concluded its serialization of Mizuho Takayama's Blue Destiny comic. The story is now available as a $12.95 graphic novel, which you can order from Tokyo Pop Shop.
Gundam Video
With the conclusion of The 08th MS Team, we're in a slight lull where imported video goods are concerned... at least until the first volume of Turn A Gundam arrives on November 25. In a first for Gundam, Turn A will be available in DVD format as well as on videocassette and laser disc. We'll turn up more details shortly.
Gundam Models
Bandai's twentieth-anniversary bumper crop of model kits continues. In September, look for the 1/144 High Grade Universal Century Qubeley (¥1500) and Harry Ord's gold-plated 1/100 Mobile Sumo (¥2500). Two new figures will join Bandai's MS In Action line - the Dom and the Turn A Gundam, which are ¥1000 each.
In October, we kick into high gear with the 1/100 Master Grade Gundam Alex (¥3000) and Rick Dom (¥4000). The former will include a full set of bolt-on armor, as seen in the Gundam 0080 video series, while the latter will sport remodeled backpack, foot, and skirt thrusters - plus the huge beam bazooka used by Char's Rick Dias in the Gundam novels. A gold-plated Type 100, priced at ¥1500, will join the 1/144 HG Universal Century line. Early reports indicate we'll also see a 1/144 GM Sniper from the 08th MS Team video series, with a hefty long-range beam rifle and a 1/1200 scale model of the mobile armor Apsaras III.
Under the category of unconfirmed rumor are the November and December releases, said to include Master Grade incarnations of the ZZ Gundam and Gundam 0083's GM Custom and GM Quell, plus an HG Universal Century Zugok.
Gundam Games
This should be a great season for Gundam games. Already shipping are Gundam Side Story 0079: Rise From The Ashes for the Sega Dreamcast and SD Gundam: G Generation Zero for the Sony PlayStation. Rise From The Ashes is a cockpit simulation deal in which you lead a Federation mobile suit team sweeping the Zeons out of Australia at the end of the One Year War; it's priced at a hefty ¥6800. G Generation Zero, a sequel to the popular strategy game, is a two-disc set priced at ¥6980. As in the original G Generation, you can fuse mobile suits together to upgrade them, and you can create some all-new mobile suits as a result.
In case you're curious, here's the roster of six original mobile suits from G Generation Zero (some of which you'll see recreated in the October issue of Dengeki Hobby Magazine). From the Z Gundam era, we have the Titans' Gundam Mark IV. The Neo Zeon bring us the nuclear-capable Gigantic and a mass-produced version of Gundam Sentinel's Zodiac. The Zaku 50 is an Anaheim Electronics demonstration model created on the 50th anniversary of the One Year War. The Evil Doga is a Crossbone Vanguard mobile armor, and the Rig Ring a psycommu-equipped Zanscare Empire unit.
Coming up in December is our most eagerly anticipated game release: A PlatStation version of the Giren's Greed strategy game. This incarnation of the One Year War recreation will include many more classic mobile suits, plus custom Gelgoogs for a variety of favorite Zeon ace pilots.
Gundam Books
The twentieth anniversary product boom has brought a veritable tidal wave of Gundam books - including Gundam Biblos, an upcoming catalog of every Gundam-related publication! As a pleasant side effect, we're seeing reprints of many long out of print classics. Coming November 10 is MS ERA 1999, a new edition of the beloved illustration book, with computer graphic effects and some new pictures (¥3500, published by Mediaworks and sold through Kadokawa Shoten). Kodansha, meanwhile, is refashioning its MSV Collection card set; the first volume, devoted to space mobile suits, is due at the end of September (¥2000).
