HG 1/144 Gundam Throne Eins review

So here's my next review, and this is for the HG 1/144 Gundam Throne Eins, one of the three season 1 throne series that seem to be the least lackluster kits from the whole season 1 kits from my point of view. A cool looking kit, but it's articulation gets hinder by the armor parts and the equipment it carries. But nonetheless it performs in showing it's only few equipment worth mentioning. This will be a short review due to it not showing anything promising much . Stickers on this kit is just horrible except for the metallic purple parts for the chest. It has a very unique leg design as it doesn't look like it's standing straight but in fact it is.

 Articulation wise, elbow joints move around roughly above 90 degrees. The knee joints also go around above 90 degrees even though it has a double knee joint.

 The beam gun/crossbow has a very interesting look to it. As I said it has 2 horrible folding stickers to be put on the small wings there. Not that a little paint touch up won't help fix that. It has a movable docking stand for the giant GN cannon on it's back. The docking mechanism can be installed but you will need at least some adjustment for the giant cannon and the arm positioning for it to dock well.

 There's 2 joints for you to swivel the GN cannon and the cannon is  installed by a ball joint for movement. As you can see this cannon is huge, and if measured by height this would probably be nearly as tall as a MG kit.

 

 You also get 2 beams sabers to be put on the shoulder mounts, although no beam effect parts are included. The best way is to use any beam saber effect with a rectangular peg instead of a standard round one.

 The only sticker worth using is this,the chest sticker. it pretty much pops out when it's surrounded by all the dark colors.

So the verdict of this kit, I would say pretty much buy this if you are interested in it, but for those try and avoid this, there's pretty much other kits that show off being a long range type better than this one although you will be missing that very nice cannon. There's not much pose you can do with this kit other than having it pose with the GN cannon deployed since that is the main focus of this kit. pretty much that GN cannon would be a good addition to any kitbash or custom build that you have in mind.

HG 1/144 Gundam Throne Eins unboxing

Today I will be doing another unboxing post and this time is for the HG 1/144 Gundam Throne Eins from the Gundam OO series line. This is the first of the three gundam Thrones released for the first season of gundam OO. This unit is the leader unit of team Trinity and piloted by Johan trinity, sadly gets killed at the end of season 1. This kit is a very interesting kit in terms of the main color scheme which is mainly sort of a Dark red brownish color which you will rarely see in most gunpla kits. Out of the 4 kits released under the throne series, yes this includes Arche gundam, Throne Eins for me seems to have most of the gimmick and pose ability  value than the rest which vastly comes from the GN launcher it's equipped with. So let's get straight to the runner and manual review

 

Odaiba Gundamfront visit

Okay, first things first, I'm sure most of you guys know of this place by now and some of you have probably gone there, during my trip to japan last August which me and a friend daringly went last minute with no plan whatsoever, we visited gundamfront at Odaiba, Tokyo. It was really a dream come true and was also one of my things to do in my bucket list. I went there not knowing what to expect except for the 1:1 scale gundam outside the mall and also the usual special limited edition kits they sell there. Came to my surprise was a large hall displaying every single gunpla they had ever made until the current series which was G no reconguista that time. I was amazed and slightly frustrated at the gunplas that was on my wishlist but never could get due to it being out of production. Well for those who wanted to see the hall, I managed to get a few shots of it since my camera was running out of battery. I'm not gonna show you in detail each box of kits they have since this will be a very long post.

 Some really old early production of kits from Zeta series. Notice most of the old kits are single colored. They mostly were intended to adults more I guess.

 One of the very kits that I wanted to get in Japan where the Virsago and Ashtaron from Gundam X. Too bad they couldn't be found anywhere.

I'll certainly bee visiting this place again when I visit japan again this year I hope. I'll also try to get pictures of stores in akihabara where it's ideal to get kits.