We need a MG L-Gaim, Mamoru Nagano was the first to draw a functional Inner frame, without his contributuon, mechas would be filled with nonsense stuff and giant springs like the early drawings of the Gundam inner parts, Nagano created the Internal skeleton idea, it would be nice if the L-Gaim mk1 got a master grade, at least the Mk2 got a R3 kit
I’ve seen 2 Metal Armor Dragonar 4 packs where you get four 1/144 kits for about $50 dollars U.S. and I’ve also seen 2 other kits from another one of those series that comes with 4 kits each as well. I’ve also seen P-Bandai do Aura Battler Dunbine kits as new releases in the last decade or so. And I think I’ve seen a newer version of L-Gaim that was also released in recent years. So I think that Bandai is trying to make these series more popular at least with the model kits.
I have an original L-Gaim Auge model. I built it in high school and painted it to match my 40K Eldar army. I will be stripping it and rebuilding it to match the show I think. I was at the big Hobby Town in our area (October 2023) and saw Xabungle kits on the shelves. I may have to go back for a couple.
And a year later after Kyokai Senki's end, we got a new anime for that series...and it's directed by none other than Masami Obari and plus, it looks like it'll be manly Obari that we've missed since the days of Virus Buster Serge and I'm excited for another shot at manly Obari again: th-cam.com/video/7WDXwzci99s/w-d-xo.html The project is called Kyokko no Souki: th-cam.com/video/M7VfAIL-LB4/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=AnimePreview Also, what a time to enjoy non-Gundam entries again, eh?
Love the historical context here! I definitely need to go searching for some of those series, I've already watched all the Gundam media from the 80s so I'd really love to scratch that itch. Great video!
In my experience, the Layzner kits are the toughest to find (though there's a nice modern Real Robot Revolution kit of it). If you watch any of the animation, Layzner is also the way to go -- half way through, they just give up on sci-fi things and turn into Fist of the North Star...
Thank you so much! Responses like yours is actually a bit unexpected:) I kinda thought this would be mostly a personal indulgence (would've loved it still). Now it's twice as good when you and a good few others really enjoy it!
Hey! Been a viewer for a good few months but haven't commented before. I picked this video because it's still one of my favorite that you've put out! I really appreciate this retrospective of Bandai's model kit history and seeing how the design and techniques developed and carried forward to the modern day. It's a perspective that's not common with other gunpla reviewers who just tend to default to old = no merit/value. Your format is very informative and it really helps me appreciate just how well-designed and engineered kits are these days now that I have a better grasp of Bandai's design decisions from the past thanks to videos like this one. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much, especially for picking this video for the comment because I loved making this video so much! Yeah, I've seen that dismissing of older kits quite a lot and it always made me sad when it's done for dramatic effect to get viewer attention - but it ends up cementing that view into newer fans Comments like yours really encourages me and gets me excited to work on the channel! Thank you again:)
I really appreciate the time and effort you put into these videos and reviews! Your work really stands out to me since you take the time to share knowledge instead of typical review format of "This kit is good/bad because..."
Thank you so much! Especially so because it makes me really happy when people give thanks on a Feature video! I did indeed feel there's a bit of a Galapagos Island problem with many English model reviewers and had that in mind when I started the channel:)
Bandai really learned so much with these shows. Although they weren’t a huge success, when Zeta hit the airwaves they had a whole host of technologies that catapulted them where they are today.
The staff basically gave up half way and then the show became all Fist of the North Star. It's so insane and amazing at the same time, like it was a different show
much surprised that the xabungle line is amazing by today's standards, even the 1/144s have excellent panel / rivet details, along with gun turrets, pitons and cockpits. only downside (of the product line) is that it's not yet snap-built despite having pegs which were probably used for alignment at the time on a different note, I was half-hoping to see a ~monthly post, didn't quite expect a total hiatus
Very good retrospective. It's amazing how Gundam launched this sub genre of SF modeling and how it exploded with all the companies doing it. Yet Bandai didn't rest on their laurels and continued to push the envelope.
Thank you so much! I didn't have the Xabungle when I started making the video, but luck would have it that I ran into one at a store:) I do have a lot of other old stuff though...
Always love toys history. Also, it's interesting that sometime Bandai will upgrade the sculpting of old kits but also a shame that the original sculpt would be unobtainable.
I guess this is your best video so far! So much insight! Would you make a similar retrospective on the 90s series that mentioned here? Patlabor and FGPX?
Either Patlabor and Cyber Formula are so rich in their own histories, I think Cyber Formula is less documented in English circles. I'll definetly do more of these sorts of videos now that I know I can do them 😂 I went into this not even knowing if this would even come together at all
Patlabor first OVA was released in 1988, and the movie which came a year afterwards was a big hit. I remember Bandai released some of the best model kits (no glue required) in those days, and I still have them. The opening soundtrack was so cool. Kawai Kenji wrote the music for Patlabor; you may recognize his name from Ghost in the Shell, Ip Man, and many others. Bandai did not make GPX Cyber Formula model kits. It was Aoshima. The kits are mostly molded in single color, so you need some painting skills.
@@HobbyClubhouse yes i defenetly was. And as some one who loves diving in 2 the old part of dalong it was realy intresting 2 c the evolution from outside of gundam.
Wow I love this video!! I bought the L Gaim 1/144 four pack over the summer and thought those designs were so much fun. I knew about Xabungle and Dunbine, but I'd never heard of these three other lines. Time for me to look for all of these on ebay!
Very glad you found your way to this video:) The Vifam and Layzner kits are surprisingly reprinted quite a lot. I've even seen some Vifam kits in the background of Canadian Gundam's warehouse.
So Gundam wouldn't be what we know it as if it wasn't for these other Mecha series? Hopefully we get new kits of Dragonar since they are essentially gundam's with a different name.
Bandai really wants to branch out beyond Gundam, and each time they try some new gimmick that ends up added back into Gundam kits I actually would love an HG Dragonar... or Layzner... or heck, even Xabungle.
These are my favorite vides of yours. I love the history! Also I'm happy to hear someone pronounce Vifam, haha. I was saying Vee-fam. I got one of the 1/144th kits a while ago and have yet to build it. Dragonar as well, I have the Dauzhen and I was really interested in hearing someone talk about the kits. This is such a well made video! 21:24, this is exactly why I love your videos man!
Wow, Vifam kits really aren't re-printed too often (no reprints since the mid-90s I believe) so that's a bit of a rare kit. You made the right call to pick both kits up whenever you did. I wanted to get a kit from each series for the video but even in Hong Kong, there are limits to the sort of old stuff I can dig up :') Very glad you enjoyed the video, I love making everything in the Feature series!
@@HobbyClubhouse I didn't know that they were uncommon until this video! It's interesting that a shop here in Northern Ontario got them. It's been about a year and they haven't all sold yet so I might have to go get some more now... The 1/144th Round Vernian w/ Sling Pannier I got is dated 2006 on the box. It has a little hole punched info card inside and an ad for some kind of PS2 game.
P-Bandai has been putting out some new kits from Aura Battler Dunbine in recent years. Have you seen any of them before? About 15 years ago I also saw some of the older models and the details were pretty amazing.
It looks like you could _kind of_ approximate that rough patterned plastic with a low grit sandpaper? Especially if it's painted over afterward. Still a pain, no doubt, but modelers back then wouldn't have been totally screwed.
I think sunrise and bandai success make second gundam are code geass, it's took long journey for make success anotht real mecha genre beside gundam. And new there try again with what name again?
You're absolutely right that Code Geass was an amazing success -- though a bit different from what Bandai wanted. The CD sales and product sales were through the roof, but for models it didn't make much of a splash. They found much more success much later with high-end figures but the poor thing still lives under the shadow of the immovable salea titan that's Gundam Kyoukai Senki is their next attempt -- maybe 9th? 10th? time is the charm
Lei time to tell, hope kyoukai seki have good writing story. If have really good story like Code geass, probably will the fourth . I forgot name of the series but in 2013 if i remember sunrise make another attempt to make another real mecha genre but not biggest success like code geass
L-Gaim's products probably sold the best of all the six Sunrise + Bandai works in the 80's, I think I did mention the series as an icon of real robots, maybe it didn't come out clearly. Mr. Nagano definitely made his name with L-Gaim. Bandai keeps trying to sell L-Gaim products but they never seem to sell enough to continue for long (e.g. try tried with High Complete Model, High Grade, R3)
It is your opinion. But for those who grew up in the 80s would strongly disagree with you. SPT Layzner indeed has strange story line mixed with characters as if cross-over with Fist of the North Star. However, the mecha designs have influenced anime such as Votoms, Gasaraki, and even Eureka Seven. Takahashi Ryosuke is behind all these creations.
Votoms came before Layzner, though I get what you mean. I absolutely agree Mr. Takahashi is what wins a lot of fans over in all his works, though I think he's the director. Just his work for the opening of Layzner is already legendary. Kunio Okawara should be the mecha designer for Layzner. He also did Votoms a few years before too
@@HobbyClubhouse Ookawara Kunio (大河原邦男) is the greatest master (ever) who designed all the mobile suits in Gundam. Takahashi san and Ookawara san collaborated in a number of popular anime in the 80s. The role of 監督, which is a combination of director and producer, has full responsibility and vision of everything. The distinctive smaller scale "meka" design (rather than big robot like gundam) came from Takahashi san because he wanted realism. When I was a kid, I loved SPT Layzner, Panzer World Gallient and Dougram, which were all produced and directed by Takahashi san.
I’m sorry man but nobody says gunDAM, except as a joke. Gundum. just like any word ending in DAM. But really , where are you getting all of your pronunciations from? Either use Japanese or use the English version. Not these odd made up names like Vottoms. VOHtums. And either ZaBOONGOOROO or ZaBUNgle.
It’s such a shame that none of these shows became large successes. I’d kill for updated versions from these series, especially L-Gaim
A future Build Fighters series could have a crossover arc centered on these forgotten series.
We need a MG L-Gaim, Mamoru Nagano was the first to draw a functional Inner frame, without his contributuon, mechas would be filled with nonsense stuff and giant springs like the early drawings of the Gundam inner parts,
Nagano created the Internal skeleton idea, it would be nice if the L-Gaim mk1 got a master grade, at least the Mk2 got a R3 kit
I’ve seen 2 Metal Armor Dragonar 4 packs where you get four 1/144 kits for about $50 dollars U.S. and I’ve also seen 2 other kits from another one of those series that comes with 4 kits each as well. I’ve also seen P-Bandai do Aura Battler Dunbine kits as new releases in the last decade or so. And I think I’ve seen a newer version of L-Gaim that was also released in recent years. So I think that Bandai is trying to make these series more popular at least with the model kits.
No only this, I the hg xabungle, I hg dragonar and hg vifam also release in an awesome design and amazing engineering was coming this year
By now, all of them except maybe Layzner have had updates. Layzner did apparently get leaked at one point at least.
Fun Fact: Aura Battler Dunbine was the first isekai anime
I have an original L-Gaim Auge model. I built it in high school and painted it to match my 40K Eldar army. I will be stripping it and rebuilding it to match the show I think. I was at the big Hobby Town in our area (October 2023) and saw Xabungle kits on the shelves. I may have to go back for a couple.
And a year later after Kyokai Senki's end, we got a new anime for that series...and it's directed by none other than Masami Obari and plus, it looks like it'll be manly Obari that we've missed since the days of Virus Buster Serge and I'm excited for another shot at manly Obari again: th-cam.com/video/7WDXwzci99s/w-d-xo.html
The project is called Kyokko no Souki: th-cam.com/video/M7VfAIL-LB4/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=AnimePreview Also, what a time to enjoy non-Gundam entries again, eh?
Love the historical context here! I definitely need to go searching for some of those series, I've already watched all the Gundam media from the 80s so I'd really love to scratch that itch. Great video!
In my experience, the Layzner kits are the toughest to find (though there's a nice modern Real Robot Revolution kit of it). If you watch any of the animation, Layzner is also the way to go -- half way through, they just give up on sci-fi things and turn into Fist of the North Star...
Holy moly this is my favorite video that youve made thus far. Loved it! Great work!
Thank you so much! Responses like yours is actually a bit unexpected:) I kinda thought this would be mostly a personal indulgence (would've loved it still). Now it's twice as good when you and a good few others really enjoy it!
Hey! Been a viewer for a good few months but haven't commented before. I picked this video because it's still one of my favorite that you've put out! I really appreciate this retrospective of Bandai's model kit history and seeing how the design and techniques developed and carried forward to the modern day. It's a perspective that's not common with other gunpla reviewers who just tend to default to old = no merit/value. Your format is very informative and it really helps me appreciate just how well-designed and engineered kits are these days now that I have a better grasp of Bandai's design decisions from the past thanks to videos like this one. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much, especially for picking this video for the comment because I loved making this video so much! Yeah, I've seen that dismissing of older kits quite a lot and it always made me sad when it's done for dramatic effect to get viewer attention - but it ends up cementing that view into newer fans
Comments like yours really encourages me and gets me excited to work on the channel! Thank you again:)
I really appreciate the time and effort you put into these videos and reviews! Your work really stands out to me since you take the time to share knowledge instead of typical review format of "This kit is good/bad because..."
Thank you so much! Especially so because it makes me really happy when people give thanks on a Feature video!
I did indeed feel there's a bit of a Galapagos Island problem with many English model reviewers and had that in mind when I started the channel:)
Bandai really learned so much with these shows. Although they weren’t a huge success, when Zeta hit the airwaves they had a whole host of technologies that catapulted them where they are today.
Also, Fist of the North Star but WITH ROBOTS? Sign me up 😁
The staff basically gave up half way and then the show became all Fist of the North Star. It's so insane and amazing at the same time, like it was a different show
much surprised that the xabungle line is amazing by today's standards, even the 1/144s have excellent panel / rivet details, along with gun turrets, pitons and cockpits.
only downside (of the product line) is that it's not yet snap-built despite having pegs which were probably used for alignment at the time
on a different note, I was half-hoping to see a ~monthly post, didn't quite expect a total hiatus
Very good retrospective. It's amazing how Gundam launched this sub genre of SF modeling and how it exploded with all the companies doing it. Yet Bandai didn't rest on their laurels and continued to push the envelope.
Amazing video. Now we have a new HG Dragonar kit which is a HG with a full inner frame and nearly complete color separation. Hope they do the 2 and 3
I liked that ending dude, great video! I definitely learned a lot more
Thank you so much! I found out quite a few new things myself while making this that I didn't know before
im almost get jealous of the amount of your kit, also nice vid, this was a good dive into the retro stuff
Thank you so much! I didn't have the Xabungle when I started making the video, but luck would have it that I ran into one at a store:) I do have a lot of other old stuff though...
I need a Drumlo. I love that fat-ass bugman, even without having watched Dunbine yet
Man, I really wish you're back with great videos like this.
This is some amazing history. Thanks for making this :)
You're very welcome, so glad you enjoyed it! I had a ton of fun making it
This bring back my memory when i buy my 4th plamokit heavymetal aug and surprise this kit has only yellow plastic and no polycap
This video is so good! No other channel out there makes content like this!
Always love toys history. Also, it's interesting that sometime Bandai will upgrade the sculpting of old kits but also a shame that the original sculpt would be unobtainable.
Fantastic retrospective. Great job on this video, so full of interesting facts!
I guess this is your best video so far! So much insight! Would you make a similar retrospective on the 90s series that mentioned here? Patlabor and FGPX?
Either Patlabor and Cyber Formula are so rich in their own histories, I think Cyber Formula is less documented in English circles. I'll definetly do more of these sorts of videos now that I know I can do them 😂 I went into this not even knowing if this would even come together at all
Patlabor first OVA was released in 1988, and the movie which came a year afterwards was a big hit. I remember Bandai released some of the best model kits (no glue required) in those days, and I still have them. The opening soundtrack was so cool. Kawai Kenji wrote the music for Patlabor; you may recognize his name from Ghost in the Shell, Ip Man, and many others.
Bandai did not make GPX Cyber Formula model kits. It was Aoshima. The kits are mostly molded in single color, so you need some painting skills.
@@Strawberryknight
Patlabor was also based on a manga.
rest in peace Sunrise studio
What a great video! Thanks for putting it together
You're very welcome and glad you enjoyed it! I had a ton of fun making it:)
I really really love how you make this kind of videos.
Very glad you do! I especially like making these Feature videos myself:)
GREAT video! Thank you!
It is always intresting 2 c old 80s bandai kits.
Bet you were shocked to see how alien some of those old ones were
@@HobbyClubhouse yes i defenetly was. And as some one who loves diving in 2 the old part of dalong it was realy intresting 2 c the evolution from outside of gundam.
Wow I love this video!! I bought the L Gaim 1/144 four pack over the summer and thought those designs were so much fun. I knew about Xabungle and Dunbine, but I'd never heard of these three other lines. Time for me to look for all of these on ebay!
Very glad you found your way to this video:) The Vifam and Layzner kits are surprisingly reprinted quite a lot. I've even seen some Vifam kits in the background of Canadian Gundam's warehouse.
@@HobbyClubhouse Thanks for the response! I introduced my friend to the kits from aura battler dunbine, and now they're obsessed!
Thankyou for educating us good sir!! 🥲
You're very welcome! Great you found it interesting:)
@@HobbyClubhouse definitely!! 😂 love what you’ve been producing 😁👍
So Gundam wouldn't be what we know it as if it wasn't for these other Mecha series?
Hopefully we get new kits of Dragonar since they are essentially gundam's with a different name.
Bandai really wants to branch out beyond Gundam, and each time they try some new gimmick that ends up added back into Gundam kits
I actually would love an HG Dragonar... or Layzner... or heck, even Xabungle.
The closest thing thing you can get to the layzner in 1/144 is the super minpla one which is close to 1/144
@@HobbyClubhouse pbandai :(
Xabungle will soon get a non-Bandai kit from Good Smile. Nice to see Bandai is open to licensing out their IP.
These are my favorite vides of yours. I love the history! Also I'm happy to hear someone pronounce Vifam, haha. I was saying Vee-fam. I got one of the 1/144th kits a while ago and have yet to build it. Dragonar as well, I have the Dauzhen and I was really interested in hearing someone talk about the kits.
This is such a well made video! 21:24, this is exactly why I love your videos man!
Wow, Vifam kits really aren't re-printed too often (no reprints since the mid-90s I believe) so that's a bit of a rare kit. You made the right call to pick both kits up whenever you did. I wanted to get a kit from each series for the video but even in Hong Kong, there are limits to the sort of old stuff I can dig up :')
Very glad you enjoyed the video, I love making everything in the Feature series!
@@HobbyClubhouse I didn't know that they were uncommon until this video! It's interesting that a shop here in Northern Ontario got them. It's been about a year and they haven't all sold yet so I might have to go get some more now...
The 1/144th Round Vernian w/ Sling Pannier I got is dated 2006 on the box. It has a little hole punched info card inside and an ad for some kind of PS2 game.
Really love these history lessons
(This is totally me wanting a follow-up on Sunrise's non-Bandai kits by the way)
This is an awesome video. I hope to see more like it in the future
I loved making this video too, so I certainly want to make some more similar ones:)
Just bought myself the Dragonar set 2 while watching this
Prior today , I'm not aware of most of these oldies kits,
my kind of history class :D !
Even though th characters have gotten some new products like Xabungle and Dragonar, most people have forgotten about the model kits unfortunately ._.
An unexpected video but a great one to be sure.
Waiting for votoms scopedog kits review
The big Bandai ones are really good, I really think I'd want one when they reprint those
I am s Chinese so i very interesting for some hobby magazine.....
I hope future will definitely for next old Robot kit....
I hope so too:)
I really need to track down the dunbine models. I absolutely adore those designs
P-Bandai has been putting out some new kits from Aura Battler Dunbine in recent years. Have you seen any of them before? About 15 years ago I also saw some of the older models and the details were pretty amazing.
@@willisjackson7029 i had no idea and now I gotta go take a look
Will you Review the new 1.5 HG L-Gaim kits? I'm a really big fan of the series and would like to see your opinion
Ideon is basically a super robot in a real robot world
the robots from the Xabungle series reminded me of many of the designs in Battletech, an American real robot franchise
SPT Layzner looks like Bowlhead Gundam without a V-fin
Found out Xabungle kits are being made by Good Smile.
Hey I have a Bingo for the Dragonar Bingo game, sadly I seem to be a bit late.
I too, would like a truck with legs 😅
It's called the "Crab Type" even though it looks nothing like a 🦀
It looks like you could _kind of_ approximate that rough patterned plastic with a low grit sandpaper? Especially if it's painted over afterward. Still a pain, no doubt, but modelers back then wouldn't have been totally screwed.
I would have done waaaay better in history class if we were learning about giant robots instead!
This is an amazing video.
This is one of my personal favorites to make too, so I'm always really happy when people discover it and enjoy it:)
For anyone who wants the new L-Gaim in Malaysia Kuching cityone hearties has some
I think sunrise and bandai success make second gundam are code geass, it's took long journey for make success anotht real mecha genre beside gundam.
And new there try again with what name again?
You're absolutely right that Code Geass was an amazing success -- though a bit different from what Bandai wanted. The CD sales and product sales were through the roof, but for models it didn't make much of a splash.
They found much more success much later with high-end figures but the poor thing still lives under the shadow of the immovable salea titan that's Gundam
Kyoukai Senki is their next attempt -- maybe 9th? 10th? time is the charm
Lei time to tell, hope kyoukai seki have good writing story.
If have really good story like Code geass, probably will the fourth . I forgot name of the series but in 2013 if i remember sunrise make another attempt to make another real mecha genre but not biggest success like code geass
I disagree. Heavy Metal LGaim was the best in those days which gave fame to Mamoru Nagano who developed Five Star Stories
L-Gaim's products probably sold the best of all the six Sunrise + Bandai works in the 80's, I think I did mention the series as an icon of real robots, maybe it didn't come out clearly. Mr. Nagano definitely made his name with L-Gaim.
Bandai keeps trying to sell L-Gaim products but they never seem to sell enough to continue for long (e.g. try tried with High Complete Model, High Grade, R3)
It is your opinion. But for those who grew up in the 80s would strongly disagree with you.
SPT Layzner indeed has strange story line mixed with characters as if cross-over with Fist of the North Star. However, the mecha designs have influenced anime such as Votoms, Gasaraki, and even Eureka Seven. Takahashi Ryosuke is behind all these creations.
Votoms came before Layzner, though I get what you mean. I absolutely agree Mr. Takahashi is what wins a lot of fans over in all his works, though I think he's the director. Just his work for the opening of Layzner is already legendary. Kunio Okawara should be the mecha designer for Layzner. He also did Votoms a few years before too
@@HobbyClubhouse Ookawara Kunio (大河原邦男) is the greatest master (ever) who designed all the mobile suits in Gundam. Takahashi san and Ookawara san collaborated in a number of popular anime in the 80s. The role of 監督, which is a combination of director and producer, has full responsibility and vision of everything. The distinctive smaller scale "meka" design (rather than big robot like gundam) came from Takahashi san because he wanted realism. When I was a kid, I loved SPT Layzner, Panzer World Gallient and Dougram, which were all produced and directed by Takahashi san.
Do revie of super minipla xanbungle pls
I actually do want to do that and the Gallier as well. I think I may have seen it in stores here and there... maybe (fingers crossed)
which Gundam is that at 17:40?
It looks like the GBN-Base Gundam from the series Gundam Build Divers. It’s kind of a variation of the Gundam RX-78-2 for that build series.
Interesting video, though calling Getter Nagai series triggers me incredibly.
Technically Nagai was involved with the design phase of Getter.
The contents of this channel made me realize how stupid some others are... cough* mechagai cough*
We respect your time and intelligence here:)
I’m sorry man but nobody says gunDAM, except as a joke. Gundum. just like any word ending in DAM. But really , where are you getting all of your pronunciations from? Either use Japanese or use the English version. Not these odd made up names like Vottoms. VOHtums.
And either ZaBOONGOOROO or ZaBUNgle.