What is Gundam and Gunpla?

Gundam is a Japanese military science fiction franchise

The first series "Mobile Suit Gundam" was created in April 7th, 1979 by Yoshiyuki Tomino which featured giant robots called mobile suits and a majority of the series often deal with themes about war, violence, ideals, human relationship, politics and space battles. The popularity of the series had birthed a franchise of TV series, original video animations, films, manga (Japanese comic books), novels, video games and most importantly to why you're here...…A whole industry of model robot kits known as "Gunpla".

The RX-78 Gundam (Taken from Pixabay)

"Gunpla" is a portmanteau of "Gundam Plastic Model" which is the common term for plastic model kits that depicts the various robots in the Gundam universe and they grew in popularity amongst mecha anime and model building aficionados and fans in Japan and neighbouring Asian countries during the 1980s. In the 1990s, Gunpla began spreading to the Western continents such as North America and Europe with them being introduce to it by TV, video and manga. In 2015, Bandai had estimated of 450 million units sold across the globe with approximately 2,000 different Gunpla models.

The various RX-78 Gundam Models (Taken from Unsplash)

Now I'm sure you can tell......that I am a absolute fanatic of this franchise....

Till the next post :)

Peace from Andrew

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Going from ZERO

Hello again! Welcome to another review of Gunpla and this time, we step into the world of Master Grade!!! Exciting! I know right? This review will be about my first ever Master Grade and how much I fell in love with the 1/100 scale and grade.

Who is Gunpla Andy?

H ello there! I am Andrew Chung Tam, I'm 22 and a student in my 3rd year of Business Administration at the University of Strathclyde. In our Marketing class for this year, we have have been instructed to create a blog about any that we desire and I was left wondering...…what could I do?! After looking around my room and looking at my model kits, it hit me. I wanted to have my blog be about model kits! Specifically, "Gundam" from the highly popular Japanese robot anime franchise "Mobile Suit Gundam". It is one of my absolute favourite hobbies and I love the satisfaction that hits me when I complete the assembly of the Gundam model kit. Currently, I have range of Gundam kits from various series within the franchise and each one is unique with their own style, gimmicks, lore, quality, articulation. This blog will review the various Gundam kits I have to hopefully inform but most importantly, inspire you to start. I hope you that you will enjoy my blog but for no

Beginning your Journey

Knowledge is Power If you have a good idea of what Gundam and Gunpla is (if you don’t, check out my last post!) and want to begin your journey, I will go over what is to be expected in your model kit and the tools you need to build it.

Gunpla Andy

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