Hey Kakarot197+, this kit would not be produced anymore because the Steel Mold was broken. It wasn't a PR stunt or a way to increase the kit's value, because Bandai doesn't care about that.
Oh, this is one of the first HG kits I had gotten after finding out about Universal Century kits! Compared to the Gundam Wing 1/144's I had to settle for when I first got into Gundam, it was like night and day.
I would have loved this if I saw it in 1990, but I don't think I ever actually saw an HG before I stopped building. I built the F-90, and the no-grade 1:144 Ex-S, which were both from around the same time, but I don't remember ever laying eyes on an HG. Now HG is synonymous with "low-end," but at the time there was a reason it was called "high grade."
lol. Low end as they may be these days, I still love HGUC kits. There's so many designs that you can't get at a larger scale or in RG form, and it's fun having to give the kits a bit more TLC to get them to look right.
if you're not picky about it not being a model, the potential QC issues, and the likely markup this long after the fact... a ver Ka gundam does exist in 1/144 scale in the fix figuration line that can part swap to become a GM late production type.
That's the Jet Core Booster II, a slightly different design. While it's a nice design, it's molded in a single color and you can buy exactly 10 old 1/144 Jet Core Boosters for the price of the EX 1/144 Jet core Booster II.
from what i know, they discontinued this model just because the molding for this kit is broke. make a new molding for old kit is not gonna make profit, when HGUC lineup already out.
I bought one in ‘92 and it suffered from catastrophic QC issues that reminded me of Takatoku’s 1/60 orguss toys. The hip joints and shoulders on the Gundam broke first, followed by all of the flat surfaces (thighs, chest) cracking. I had really bad luck with it. I painted it to look like a G3 color scheme, now the whole thing is in several pieces in a box, disintegrating.
This is crazy but I swear I picked this kit up at a store and remember opening the box seeing the multi colored parts thinking it was amazing but the more I think about it I feel it was just a dream
i have all the old System Injection HGs...including the ones from V Gundam...i have to say the system injection is a pretty impressive thing...dont really see the need for it as good as HGs are nowadays..i could see it having some application in some of the more color heavy Sds when they only give you stickers..makes the models super easy to build too when say the chest vents are already molded in the right color as part of the chest peice...
Oh. umm. the reason the Wing/G/X kits were as cheap as they were was because Bandai was going through a rough patch in the homeland and...well...some quality was dumped to keep them afloat (ever wonder why everything from F91 to X was 14-16m instead of the 18-22m standard of the Early UC? Well. there ya go~
Is that why the majority of gundam in the 90s (wing/x/f91/victory)were around 15m/49ft in universe rather than the average of 18m/59ft plus of regular gundams
I got mine on a Thrift store for equivalent to $6 (The store watcher think its just a scrap) I then got another one thought its already built from a Hobbies convention for equivalent to $4 (Again the clerk think its just an old robot toy) I used the Builders Parts HD MS Beam to replace the toothpick saber since there is an effect part with a hole and became the adapter for the beam blades PS I say equivalent because I lived in the Philippines
When this came out it would have been much more impressive than when we got the HGUC Moon Gundam with no stickers or poly-caps and that sick RG like knee bend.
It was released quite a few years after the HGUC and from what I've seen it's more a downgrade than an upgrade. And on a personal level, I just really hate the proportions of that thing, so there's nothing that I like about the thing. For the Gundam hammer, I recommend the old weapon set as it includes both the regular Gundam Hammer and the Hyper Hammer.
There wasn't full weapons storage capability on the 1/144 scale RX-78-2 model kits after this one for twenty years. Let that sink in. Twenty. Years. They didn't do a 1/144 RX-78-2 with full weapons storage, or even a transforming Core Fighter, until the RealGrade. Even if I was to play devil's advocate and look at the Master Grades, the Ver. 2.0 was the first MG RX-78-2 to have full weapons storage, and that kit came out only two years prior to the RG.
A million years late to this party but I will say that waist swivels DID exist before this kit for 1/144 scale, notably the original (and quite fugly) Gelgoog from the original 1980 MSG line and the Zaku Kai from the War in the Pocket line, but those were definitely the exception rather than the rule. Frankly with how much of a pain in the ass constructing the Gelgoog is and how poor its articulation is, I think adding a waist joint honestly did that kit a disservice by overcomplicating its construction. But even still, this RX kit was revolutionary for its time with how it approached articulation, construction, and molding and is honestly my favorite 1/144 RX-78-2 kit, so its a damn shame the mold is broken so no reprints. In all the 40 years of Gunpla, I think this original line was the one that deserved the title "High Grade" the most honestly.
I counted the time you took to add the core fighter into the B part and A part of the Gundam. It was 30 seconds. Bright will be mad at you coz he wanted it faster than 15 seconds LOL.
3rd party "Real Grade" RX-78-2 Ver.KA Here's my review of the same company's "Real Grade" GM Sniper Custom Ver.KA: th-cam.com/video/sfjaPCzJzzE/w-d-xo.html
@@sentr.e It's an HGUC Gundam made to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Gundam. Unfortunately its articulation is barely any better than the first HGUC Gundam and it looks like a crappy Real Grade. That's the best way I can put it.
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Hot damn, Kakarot
That HG Gundam is as old as I am.
That HG Gundam is OLDER than I am!
I'm 10 and I wish I had that
Same
Hey Kakarot197+, this kit would not be produced anymore because the Steel Mold was broken. It wasn't a PR stunt or a way to increase the kit's value, because Bandai doesn't care about that.
MS Joint was first introduced in the short-lived 1/144 Mobile Suit Sengokuden line from 1989.
blogs.yahoo.co.jp/reostandablaze/49093816.html - I found the manual for the Musha Mark II here.
The manual and the kit's construction and details really show that Bandai back then put a little more heart and soul into presenting the kit.
Not bad for a 1990 kit.
They've reintroduced system injection for their figurerise busts, mainly for the eyes and faces (eyelashes). The results are superb.
I remember seeing this in GameStop around 1998-99, along with the Mk-II. I almost picked it up, now I regret not going through with it!
Oh, this is one of the first HG kits I had gotten after finding out about Universal Century kits! Compared to the Gundam Wing 1/144's I had to settle for when I first got into Gundam, it was like night and day.
I got this kit. But the v fin is broken, some hands are missing and the fin of the core fighter is gone.
I disrespected an artifact worth millions
Oof
😔
@@theguy3851 oof
I recently got one stored away. Fresh in box with everything. I fear opening it and angering the pla gods...lol
I would have loved this if I saw it in 1990, but I don't think I ever actually saw an HG before I stopped building. I built the F-90, and the no-grade 1:144 Ex-S, which were both from around the same time, but I don't remember ever laying eyes on an HG. Now HG is synonymous with "low-end," but at the time there was a reason it was called "high grade."
lol. Low end as they may be these days, I still love HGUC kits. There's so many designs that you can't get at a larger scale or in RG form, and it's fun having to give the kits a bit more TLC to get them to look right.
if you're not picky about it not being a model, the potential QC issues, and the likely markup this long after the fact... a ver Ka gundam does exist in 1/144 scale in the fix figuration line that can part swap to become a GM late production type.
Not even my old 1/100 hg wing Gundam had this good color separation!
I didn't realize I wanted a HGUC core booster, but now I do. Just what I needed, another item on the "Why the hell hasn't Bandai made this yet?" list.
That's the Jet Core Booster II, a slightly different design. While it's a nice design, it's molded in a single color and you can buy exactly 10 old 1/144 Jet Core Boosters for the price of the EX 1/144 Jet core Booster II.
I was kind of hoping you would just keep on piling RX-78-2 after RX-78-2 there at the end, just one after another non-stop
It's really impossible to get a newly boxed HG rx-78 last shot... I really envy you haha, thanks for the video btw, we all gunpla lovers!
from what i know, they discontinued this model just because the molding for this kit is broke. make a new molding for old kit is not gonna make profit, when HGUC lineup already out.
I bought one in ‘92 and it suffered from catastrophic QC issues that reminded me of Takatoku’s 1/60 orguss toys. The hip joints and shoulders on the Gundam broke first, followed by all of the flat surfaces (thighs, chest) cracking. I had really bad luck with it. I painted it to look like a G3 color scheme, now the whole thing is in several pieces in a box, disintegrating.
This is crazy but I swear I picked this kit up at a store and remember opening the box seeing the multi colored parts thinking it was amazing but the more I think about it I feel it was just a dream
Dang, I would love to get a hold of this kit. Just because of the history
i have all the old System Injection HGs...including the ones from V Gundam...i have to say the system injection is a pretty impressive thing...dont really see the need for it as good as HGs are nowadays..i could see it having some application in some of the more color heavy Sds when they only give you stickers..makes the models super easy to build too when say the chest vents are already molded in the right color as part of the chest peice...
Oh. umm. the reason the Wing/G/X kits were as cheap as they were was because Bandai was going through a rough patch in the homeland and...well...some quality was dumped to keep them afloat (ever wonder why everything from F91 to X was 14-16m instead of the 18-22m standard of the Early UC? Well. there ya go~
Is that why the majority of gundam in the 90s (wing/x/f91/victory)were around 15m/49ft in universe rather than the average of 18m/59ft plus of regular gundams
@@mohammadmajlisi1265 Yup. Saves plastic.
It wasn’t just Bandai. The entire Japanese market had crashed at that point.
I still can't believe your panel lines are just with the gundam marker.
Really compared to modern day Gunpla, the technology for the older ones are really good
Back when high grade meant the best of the best. P.s for the beam saber, just cut off the peg and drill a hole a little bit inwards
That Gunpla is 9 years older than me. Damn.
I got mine on a Thrift store for equivalent to $6 (The store watcher think its just a scrap) I then got another one thought its already built from a Hobbies convention for equivalent to $4 (Again the clerk think its just an old robot toy) I used the Builders Parts HD MS Beam to replace the toothpick saber since there is an effect part with a hole and became the adapter for the beam blades
PS I say equivalent because I lived in the Philippines
Helo kababayan
When this came out it would have been much more impressive than when we got the HGUC Moon Gundam with no stickers or poly-caps and that sick RG like knee bend.
This is an awesome kit.
I'm pretty sure the GM Command from 0080 had waist articulation. Regardless, this kit does blow it out of the water on every other detail.
I really love the look and the advanced tech of the 90s kits, barely got a hold of the original hg gundam zz, cant find this one anywhere though sadly
My first hg was the first gh freedom and that also uses a white hand with beam saber mold. Took them too long to use clear beams for hg kits huh.
You got tobe fuckin kiding me.. a working transforming functioning core fighter.. damn you old seeds kit .. damn you
Why so much hate against the G30th? It's the only one that actually comes with the Gundam Hammer.
It was released quite a few years after the HGUC and from what I've seen it's more a downgrade than an upgrade. And on a personal level, I just really hate the proportions of that thing, so there's nothing that I like about the thing.
For the Gundam hammer, I recommend the old weapon set as it includes both the regular Gundam Hammer and the Hyper Hammer.
There wasn't full weapons storage capability on the 1/144 scale RX-78-2 model kits after this one for twenty years.
Let that sink in. Twenty. Years. They didn't do a 1/144 RX-78-2 with full weapons storage, or even a transforming Core Fighter, until the RealGrade. Even if I was to play devil's advocate and look at the Master Grades, the Ver. 2.0 was the first MG RX-78-2 to have full weapons storage, and that kit came out only two years prior to the RG.
Pls do review that 1/100 full action nu gundam
Based from the photos on the internet is has really good proportions
Man I’m digging the art in that manual
4 years and we got an rx 78 that does more than this
This is pretty solid engineering for 1990 jesus
Who would win?
1/144 zeta plus C1(1994) VS hg RX-78-2 (1990)?
Zetaplus C1 just by virtue of its sheer badassery. (I used to have it, I liked it even more than the HGUC RX78-2)
Does Anyone Know? How Much The Value Of This Kit Now? I Got 1 In Perfect Non Build Condition, Fresh From The Box
damn, shame there are no build videos of this thing, i’d love to see all their individual prices of it and how much the “technology” improved 😔
also why the hate on the g30th😭
This kit needs a revive version especially because its Gundam’s 40th anniversary.
Ah yes, the RG of the '90s.
I stil have many kit fron that period. Brand new!
Those model kits have an amazing collector fact due the box art, getting them these days will be cool and avoiding to build.
A million years late to this party but I will say that waist swivels DID exist before this kit for 1/144 scale, notably the original (and quite fugly) Gelgoog from the original 1980 MSG line and the Zaku Kai from the War in the Pocket line, but those were definitely the exception rather than the rule. Frankly with how much of a pain in the ass constructing the Gelgoog is and how poor its articulation is, I think adding a waist joint honestly did that kit a disservice by overcomplicating its construction. But even still, this RX kit was revolutionary for its time with how it approached articulation, construction, and molding and is honestly my favorite 1/144 RX-78-2 kit, so its a damn shame the mold is broken so no reprints. In all the 40 years of Gunpla, I think this original line was the one that deserved the title "High Grade" the most honestly.
I want this kit back in circulation
I've been looking forward to this, nice. Bit gawky, but it's charming.
This is one treat! Still waiting for that third party one though. >v>
I counted the time you took to add the core fighter into the B part and A part of the Gundam. It was 30 seconds.
Bright will be mad at you coz he wanted it faster than 15 seconds LOL.
i think this kit is tougher than other modern hg kit, because it has less movement and less loosen parts
But macross is owned by tacatoku toys who were bought out by bandai
Were bandai going to sue themselves ?
This kit are realy made of love
Love..
My first HG
They didn't include eye stickers, the absolute madlads
The zook looks nicer than hg revive ver.
so what were all the rx -78-2 you showed at the end of the video
Nice old kits
I still have my MK II and Zeta.
27:50 what is GUNDAM ? ☞ Hguc,hg 90,MG ,HG,Mg??
I really don't dig any rx78-2 kits. But to honour the granddaddy my first ever mastergrade build was graddaddy ver ka.
Have a video on the Jestas?
wow! is all I have to say
Which versions of the rx78 was that in the back and at the right of the line up?
One at the back is the MG Ver. Ka. One at the right is the Third Party "RG" Ver. Ka.
ExtremeSManpig Thanks. It would seem I need to get myself one of those
What a funny face of the grandaddy it looks like he is sticking out his tongue 😛
What the actual fuck, its so good
What the name name song in ending
That is an 8 bit version of the sally theme from mobile suit gundam chars counter attack
IT HAS A CORE FIGHTER?!
what stand are you using for that gundam?
Bandai Action Base 2
thank you kakarot197 i really need it for my operation V Hguc 2001 bandai
wohoho
What is that kit on the far right?
Give the timestamp and I can tell you
27:37
3rd party "Real Grade" RX-78-2 Ver.KA
Here's my review of the same company's "Real Grade" GM Sniper Custom Ver.KA: th-cam.com/video/sfjaPCzJzzE/w-d-xo.html
What the heck. I got unsuscribed for no reason a couple of times now. What is wrong with youtube
This is so awesome to😱💕✨🌟
How the hell does this HG have a core block gimmick but the modern hg's don't. Come on bandai!!
i have one. 👍👍👍
Glad I'm not the only one who thinks the G30th RX-78 is garbage. Bandai put absolutely zero effort into that thing.
years late but… what’s with the g30th?
@@sentr.e It's an HGUC Gundam made to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Gundam. Unfortunately its articulation is barely any better than the first HGUC Gundam and it looks like a crappy Real Grade. That's the best way I can put it.
Anyone see the smiley face on the crotch area? :D :D :D
This model is stopped production.
Dang replace that hands with more detailed one and this one is much more good than the HGUC 1st ver.