More like **all of the 00XX OVAs**, that is. Even the Stardust Memory Gundams need an upgrade to the modern standard. Plus, they even managed to cough up the GP04G in U.C. Engage, so they should make a scaled-down version of the RE/100, right?
Poor Kampfer... never stood a stance *still haunted by that scene* I dunno why gundam wiki reference that the GM Custom and GM Cannon II were not base off of the Alex Gundam when you can clearly see the resemblence (GM Custom having the backpack and GM Cannon II having the Chobam Armor)
They weren't CANONICALLY based on the Alex... But they and the Alex were all designed by Hajime Katoki. He has a habit of re-using designs for early UC suits. Even his redesign of the RX-78-2 is basically the GM Custom with the Powered GM's shoulders and shield, a new backpack, and the RX-78-2's head, armaments, and paint job.
@@fripplicious7466 Personally, I don't like how Katoki changed the RX-78-2's shield. What makes it more puzzling is the fact that the G-Fighter Ver.Ka features the shield that HAS the old-style cross on it.
The Alex had so much development and refinement potential. Shame Anaheim keep pushing more extravagant MSs after the OYW. The Feds would have much better in house development capability if they didn't cheap out and bought finished products from Anaheim instead.
John Cole It's just my opinion, but I sort of like the Tristan because it gives alot of modification oppertunities for those who like to mod their kits and don't mind the effort and time needed. But from a straight built, it's crap.
Ray Tsang I agree it does remind me of the FAMAS. Also I dont think it's a beam rifle. It has a magazine which indicates that it fires projectiles (bullets) rather than energy beams.
It was last week when I was resolved in never getting this model kit, pictures online made the head look awful. Then after your review I have to take it all back... Why does your reviews make Gunpla I doubt look awesome?! Your reviews have actually influenced me in buying more then a handful of Gunpla over the last year-ish, Bandai need to sponsor you damn it....
I'm buying this kit this coming March next year, since March is like International Women's Month and Chris Mackenzie is the first female Gundam pilot...
Bullpup Beam Rifle, that's rather unique. This needs a new kit, especially as the spiritual mama to the Duel Gundam and its assault shroud. I like it more with the armor off, but the armor does make sense in that it was a test unit, and they applied the tech from it to the GM Cannon II, so I am sure it helped with gathering test data, like you said.
I think the chobbham armor is basically just padding when they launched the suit at the beginning of 0080. It is just extremely impractical for defense because of how many features it blocks and they'd have to divert resources to collect it if the pilot ejected it during battle.
Also, the Alex was not the last HG to be stuck with a toothpick. The HG Gundam Exia and all variants of the Union Flag are saddled with the useless toothpick and there might be more 00 High Grade kits that have it.
In defense of the CHOBHAM armor, there ARE small vents in the chest section, so the Alex would probably just overhead a bit faster. As for the covered thrusters, well they would only be a problem for maneuvering in zero gravity. Now as for the front skirts, that was unacceptable. It would've been really nice if there were opening ports for the gatling guns in the forearms. Also, the armor DID save the Alex from the Kampfer's most powerful weapon, so at least it did it's job.
Kyle Morgan but 1 little deadly flaw. The armor itself weight the gundam a lot and yeah, it did save the gundam but its because it not ready to deploy. If deployed, the Alex itself can actually dodge kampfer attack and remember the gundam armor is made from luna titanium, even if it took a heavy damage but if the attack is not plasma/laser level heat the body armor will just damaged with holes but will not damage the cockpit
now that we have the Master Grade we now know how the arms fire the arm vulcans with the shield still on, the shield opens just a little bit at the front for the arm to shoot out of
I really want a revive of this. The Alex is one of my favorite Gundam designs. The legs are just sexy as hell, and the arm Gatlings are among the coolest on-board weapon systems on a Gundam ever. Oh well. I had to settle with the Ver ANIME figure.
I think the armor is to make it a shield for other suits Just imagine him getting hit by a missile, protecting a GM, that's not going to damage the gundam.
I really want to buy 1/144 NT-1 kit. This is not that particularly bad kit in my opinion but if bandai decide to release the revive ver in the future then it's absolutely no brainer this kit will be worse compared to the new one.
Still, a vast improvement over the Level 3 HG kit. Currently the Alex is being used as a test case for licensing in China and S. Korea, where larger-scale (more expensive) kits made from resin and vinyl are presently being marketed. Also, the Alex is currently available as a 'fix-configuration' die-cast figure, which offers many more options and is considerably more expensive again. When contracts with these products are fulfilled an RG release of the NT-1 will undoubtedly follow, which will render this kit effectively obsolete.
I wish they'd make either an HGUC Revive or Real Grade version of this Mobile Suit. I don't understand why they haven't, since this is one of the coolest Mobile Suits in the Universal Century Timeline.
The reason why they added the armor was exactly because like the Mrk II it sacrificed armor for mobility theose feddies didnt think it through like had the kampher hit this without the armor it would of melted with that mine chain
It seems to make sense to me. It's heavy armor. Wouldn't you need to put it on a suit that has the thruster power to handle the weight? The Alex has crazy strong movements and thrusters, so it makes sense. Besides, the gatlings are emergency backup weapons.
Do you know if it can purge its armor, or if it can only break off? Also, is it just me, or is this kit actually a little short? not sure if the GM Custom is supposed to be so much taller.
Is that rifle a beam rifle or a projectile based weapon? Looks like a magazine fed gun which indicates that it fires projectiles (bullets) instead of energy beams.
If Bandai would want to be more creative, why don't they produce Build Fighters S3 featuring the Tristan and Alex and their other not-so-greatly-engineered kits. And do revive ver of them. Might help with sales more than releasing kits that are (in my opinion) getting really repetitive already.
I wonder if you could cut this thing up and mix it with the GM Custom to make a less "bricky" Alex... Probably wouldn't be worth all the work though, you would have to basically destroy two kits to make one kit.
pioltjose23 Not a lot in the first series I think. The Gundam didn't get it's magnetic coating overhaul until the final battle at A Baoa Qu, so Amuro realistically wouldn't have gotten the Alex until that same battle in the absolute best case scenario(heck I wouldn't be surprised if the Alex was supposed to be Amuro's Suit for the attack on Zeon's homeland). The big difference would be the Amuro vs. Char fight. The Alex is a humongous step up from the RX-78-2 in terms of potential. Char would have been overwhelmed and killed. Even though that means Char couldn't kill Kycilia, I still think that she'd end up dead or captured given everything that was going on. The big difference is what happens AFTER the first series. -Char- Quattro plays a huge role in the rise of the AEUG. Without his skill they probably wouldn't be able to hijack the MK.IIs. That means Camille wouldn't join up with the AEUG and no Zeta Gundam. The hostage situation wouldn't have happened either and Emma would've remained a Titan. That immediately eliminates a bunch of AEUG aces and Ace Mobile Suits. Apolli and Roberto would've stayed with Axis too (they only joined the AEUG because -Char- Quattro did). With much less force, the AEUG would've been more underground and Amuro probably wouldn't have been able to join them even if he wanted to. But it's even possible that since his Alex wouldn't have been destroyed and his performance record even more radical, his position would've been slightly better so he wouldn't even want to join the AEUG(though I don't consider this likely) And if Blex were to be assassinated as happened in the series, the AEUG would be without a leader. Simply put: the AEUG would be much weaker, the Titans would eventually win, and ZZ would play out pretty much the same but you just have to replace "AEUG" with "Titans" and replace the AEUG people with Titans people =P
It's not the articulation that annoys me, it's the damn rifle and shield. They don't allow for any posing. The Alex is one of my favorite mobile suits and this kit does't do it justice.
i think the armor use when The Alex not operational, to cover up the the machine when still in federation secret werehouse in the OVA ... like a cover for a new car, CMIIW XD # sorry for my bad english XD akakakakak
i like how im the only guy here who actually split the front skirt to be independent from each other just by cutting the thing in the middle like modern kits XD and it works extremely well prolly more then the moderns.!
I have 2 RX-78-NT-1,(One custom painted, and one as a normal) And i must say, the armor is really bad, and the color that is the hand and gatling gun, is weird.
Chobahm armour was used for transit more than combat you see it fight the Kampfer in its armoured form but it casts off its armour I absolutely had a ball ache assembling this kit.. such crappy engineering for bandai... tut tut....
I would hope that they revisit the 0080 kits in the Revive line. The Alex could really use it.
+Frodos Huna *Cough* GM *Cough* *Cough*
zaku ii as well
I'd like an RG of it more tbh.
Especially since we now have G06, G05, and G04 that they could use as a base for a possible revive
More like **all of the 00XX OVAs**, that is. Even the Stardust Memory Gundams need an upgrade to the modern standard. Plus, they even managed to cough up the GP04G in U.C. Engage, so they should make a scaled-down version of the RE/100, right?
If you have seen the anime, you'd want to buy this guy. Oh! and don't forget the Zaku.... *cries in the corner
+CrazyPiPo
i feel ya bro
I lost its v fin :( now it looks like a regular feddy mobile suit
Nameless Protagonist Like a GM
don't worry, i buy you a tasty hamburger dinner for tonight.
CrazyPiPo RIP Bernie the Burger.
I do hope this will get a Revive, given the Kampfer, what many people will pose this with, is clearly a much more up to date model kit.
Yet they were unable to mold the yellow on the leg thrusters separately
So far we only got the MG 2.0.
Poor Kampfer... never stood a stance *still haunted by that scene*
I dunno why gundam wiki reference that the GM Custom and GM Cannon II were not base off of the Alex Gundam when you can clearly see the resemblence (GM Custom having the backpack and GM Cannon II having the Chobam Armor)
They weren't CANONICALLY based on the Alex... But they and the Alex were all designed by Hajime Katoki. He has a habit of re-using designs for early UC suits. Even his redesign of the RX-78-2 is basically the GM Custom with the Powered GM's shoulders and shield, a new backpack, and the RX-78-2's head, armaments, and paint job.
@@gmsloep if it ain't broke don't fix it - Feddy Attitude to mobile suits
@@fripplicious7466 Personally, I don't like how Katoki changed the RX-78-2's shield. What makes it more puzzling is the fact that the G-Fighter Ver.Ka features the shield that HAS the old-style cross on it.
Actually the armor of GM cannon ii was based off Alex’s Chobam armor if you read the wiki
While the Chobahm armor assembly is frustrating, the kit is a huge improvement over the original 1989 version.
The Alex had so much development and refinement potential. Shame Anaheim keep pushing more extravagant MSs after the OYW. The Feds would have much better in house development capability if they didn't cheap out and bought finished products from Anaheim instead.
now you can experience the Alex again with the Tristan! or suffer as it were
John Cole retro is the new modern
And yet this decade+ old kit is a better deal than the Tristan what with getting all the armour plates on top of everything else.
John Cole It's just my opinion, but I sort of like the Tristan because it gives alot of modification oppertunities for those who like to mod their kits and don't mind the effort and time needed. But from a straight built, it's crap.
M E zakuaurelius is doing a series where he updates the tristan with better joints and other stuff.
@@jaketheberge1970 trash to treasure right?
The mg 2.0 of Alex has recently been released. I wish they can also do a revive ver of this kit in 1/144 to fix the chobam armor.
9:45 I always think the NT-1 beam rifle as a FAMAS rifle with a non bullpup design...
Ray Tsang I agree it does remind me of the FAMAS. Also I dont think it's a beam rifle. It has a magazine which indicates that it fires projectiles (bullets) rather than energy beams.
It is!
Famas with a nice looking muzzle
@@miletello1 There are beam weapons with magazines though
@@dethmasheen8683 had to do some digging but you are correct....this in fact a beam weapon.
They should of made a alex custom in build fighters.
hell yeah and did you hear about the ez8 kai for season 2 of build fighters.
Yeah i hope they give a custom heavy arms another hit at the show.
Didn't happen. Sorry.
It was last week when I was resolved in never getting this model kit, pictures online made the head look awful.
Then after your review I have to take it all back... Why does your reviews make Gunpla I doubt look awesome?! Your reviews have actually influenced me in buying more then a handful of Gunpla over the last year-ish, Bandai need to sponsor you damn it....
I'm buying this kit this coming March next year, since March is like International Women's Month and Chris Mackenzie is the first female Gundam pilot...
Bullpup Beam Rifle, that's rather unique. This needs a new kit, especially as the spiritual mama to the Duel Gundam and its assault shroud.
I like it more with the armor off, but the armor does make sense in that it was a test unit, and they applied the tech from it to the GM Cannon II, so I am sure it helped with gathering test data, like you said.
I think the chobbham armor is basically just padding when they launched the suit at the beginning of 0080. It is just extremely impractical for defense because of how many features it blocks and they'd have to divert resources to collect it if the pilot ejected it during battle.
Also, the Alex was not the last HG to be stuck with a toothpick. The HG Gundam Exia and all variants of the Union Flag are saddled with the useless toothpick and there might be more 00 High Grade kits that have it.
He means last HGUC
The HG Aile Strike Gundam was the last 1/144 HG kit, to come with a non transparent Beam Saber(also molded to a 1 piece hand).
Twilight Nocturne actually all hg exias were the last. And maybe the g30th rx 78 2
Built the Alex last night, this pops up on my feed this morning...
Ah yes, your standard milk saber.
I came in here to watch if Tristan and Alex have the same articulation.
After watching this, well, better buy Alex.
The part where you decided to take off the armor kills it.
Heh, now we'd get the HG Alex, HG Alex Arms, HG Alex Chobham Armor as separate kits.
Nice reference will the kampfer mines
Okay, consider me sold on the Alex.
Your panel lining is absolutely amazing!
I really do love the HG Alex, its one of my favorite kits
In defense of the CHOBHAM armor, there ARE small vents in the chest section, so the Alex would probably just overhead a bit faster. As for the covered thrusters, well they would only be a problem for maneuvering in zero gravity. Now as for the front skirts, that was unacceptable. It would've been really nice if there were opening ports for the gatling guns in the forearms.
Also, the armor DID save the Alex from the Kampfer's most powerful weapon, so at least it did it's job.
Kyle Morgan but 1 little deadly flaw. The armor itself weight the gundam a lot and yeah, it did save the gundam but its because it not ready to deploy. If deployed, the Alex itself can actually dodge kampfer attack and remember the gundam armor is made from luna titanium, even if it took a heavy damage but if the attack is not plasma/laser level heat the body armor will just damaged with holes but will not damage the cockpit
I think the G30th still has a beam chopstick even though it was produced in 2009/2010
Liked how you wrapped the Kampfer whip around to remove the armour. Nice touch!
They should make a revive Alex because the Tristan sucks
now that we have the Master Grade we now know how the arms fire the arm vulcans with the shield still on, the shield opens just a little bit at the front for the arm to shoot out of
I really want a revive of this. The Alex is one of my favorite Gundam designs. The legs are just sexy as hell, and the arm Gatlings are among the coolest on-board weapon systems on a Gundam ever.
Oh well. I had to settle with the Ver ANIME figure.
I think the armor is to make it a shield for other suits
Just imagine him getting hit by a missile, protecting a GM, that's not going to damage the gundam.
Can you use the chest armor for the Hazel?
The HG RX-78-2 G30th also came with a toothpick.
yeah it does
Otonashi In my defence, it's no HGUC =P
HaroGenki TNSG247 the extreme gundam really isn't part of the universal century though the manga and games are enough to know why
Btw...is the scale for this kit accurate? It looks smaller than some of my other kits even when the specs say they're about the same height.
I really want to buy 1/144 NT-1 kit. This is not that particularly bad kit in my opinion but if bandai decide to release the revive ver in the future then it's absolutely no brainer this kit will be worse compared to the new one.
I just realized after watching this, mine came with the old 1/144 decal. Really Bandai..
Still, a vast improvement over the Level 3 HG kit. Currently the Alex is being used as a test case for licensing in China and S. Korea, where larger-scale (more expensive) kits made from resin and vinyl are presently being marketed. Also, the Alex is currently available as a 'fix-configuration' die-cast figure, which offers many more options and is considerably more expensive again. When contracts with these products are fulfilled an RG release of the NT-1 will undoubtedly follow, which will render this kit effectively obsolete.
I do like added bulk that that armor brings but execution could had been better.
I wonder if the GM sniper II can wear the chobam armor
Thank for the review..... the finishing of the kit are quite good, doen'st look like old kit....might getting it.
It doesn't look like an old kit, but the articulation will give you a clue =P
Ya...look like need some work to make him more "Flexible" =P
My head canon is that the chobahm armor was experimental and made for ground type units, the rx-79s to be precise, but that's just me
Exia came out in 2007 and included a toothpick beam saber.
Let's face it, the chobam armor on Alex are as useful as buble wrap.
Buble?
11:50
well the armor was only there to keep the alex a Secret and to temporarily protect the alex
the beam rifle resembles the HK G3 battle rifle and stick the carry handle of the FAMAS on top of it...
i have this kit and i like to think the beam rifle is a regular gun with shells and stuff like that
After I finished watching this review, I go back and re-watch the anime. The chopham armor can actually open and reveal the hidden thrusters.
Seeing this guy makes me want to save up for the master grade 2.0. Will you be getting that as well as the Full mechanics Zaku 2 fz?
I wish they'd make either an HGUC Revive or Real Grade version of this Mobile Suit. I don't understand why they haven't, since this is one of the coolest Mobile Suits in the Universal Century Timeline.
Cr33p3rKid i agree. especially because it shares my name.
If the Alex with chobam armor is for the testing on making heavy armor ms and is 100% usable, then the federation might have problem to face Zeon
The reason why they added the armor was exactly because like the Mrk II it sacrificed armor for mobility theose feddies didnt think it through like had the kampher hit this without the armor it would of melted with that mine chain
Thanks for the review I was wondering if this kit came with color correcting stickers.
This is why armor purge exist.
It seems to make sense to me. It's heavy armor. Wouldn't you need to put it on a suit that has the thruster power to handle the weight? The Alex has crazy strong movements and thrusters, so it makes sense. Besides, the gatlings are emergency backup weapons.
Do you know if it can purge its armor, or if it can only break off?
Also, is it just me, or is this kit actually a little short? not sure if the GM Custom is supposed to be so much taller.
I heard that the choppham armor fits on the GM sniper II, with a few cuts inside the armor. If you give it a shot, let me know how it fits!!
have you tried to attach the shield on the circle things on his arm ? maybe it will be more solid
Is that rifle a beam rifle or a projectile based weapon? Looks like a magazine fed gun which indicates that it fires projectiles (bullets) instead of energy beams.
If Bandai would want to be more creative, why don't they produce Build Fighters S3 featuring the Tristan and Alex and their other not-so-greatly-engineered kits. And do revive ver of them. Might help with sales more than releasing kits that are (in my opinion) getting really repetitive already.
Why only SD have the face plate but not the HG?
Extreme gundam, exia, and 30th anniversary gundam also came with the toothpick :p
I'm actually a fan of the chobham armor.
They should make a revive of this kit
Alex Gundam is basically an animated Gundam G-3
Couldn't you just split the bar on the crouch armor with a knife to regain front skirt movement?
hmm you must play darts! I wonder how the Alex gundam compares to a Gundam Mk,II?
Still don't get why come you haven't reviewed the HGUC Kämpfer
I wonder if you could cut this thing up and mix it with the GM Custom to make a less "bricky" Alex...
Probably wouldn't be worth all the work though, you would have to basically destroy two kits to make one kit.
let hope in season 2 of build fighters there's a Kämpfer getting revenge on a alex.
Got this for 20 bucks at a comic store! What a steal!
is it a sticker sheet or decals in the hg kit
😂 I was cracking up so bad when the arm fell apart
The leg armor is a pain in the
wonder how the first series would have been if amuro had gotten the alex.
pioltjose23 Not a lot in the first series I think. The Gundam didn't get it's magnetic coating overhaul until the final battle at A Baoa Qu, so Amuro realistically wouldn't have gotten the Alex until that same battle in the absolute best case scenario(heck I wouldn't be surprised if the Alex was supposed to be Amuro's Suit for the attack on Zeon's homeland). The big difference would be the Amuro vs. Char fight. The Alex is a humongous step up from the RX-78-2 in terms of potential. Char would have been overwhelmed and killed.
Even though that means Char couldn't kill Kycilia, I still think that she'd end up dead or captured given everything that was going on.
The big difference is what happens AFTER the first series. -Char- Quattro plays a huge role in the rise of the AEUG. Without his skill they probably wouldn't be able to hijack the MK.IIs. That means Camille wouldn't join up with the AEUG and no Zeta Gundam. The hostage situation wouldn't have happened either and Emma would've remained a Titan. That immediately eliminates a bunch of AEUG aces and Ace Mobile Suits. Apolli and Roberto would've stayed with Axis too (they only joined the AEUG because -Char- Quattro did). With much less force, the AEUG would've been more underground and Amuro probably wouldn't have been able to join them even if he wanted to. But it's even possible that since his Alex wouldn't have been destroyed and his performance record even more radical, his position would've been slightly better so he wouldn't even want to join the AEUG(though I don't consider this likely)
And if Blex were to be assassinated as happened in the series, the AEUG would be without a leader.
Simply put: the AEUG would be much weaker, the Titans would eventually win, and ZZ would play out pretty much the same but you just have to replace "AEUG" with "Titans" and replace the AEUG people with Titans people =P
***** Agreed and speaking of gundam wouldn't it be cool if the novel version was animated .
pioltjose23 A lot of people would be really pissed at that "twist ending" ~dodges spoilers~
***** It would be really cool to see though, bittersweet endings ftw!
***** lucky I have the novel it was awesome.
It's not the articulation that annoys me, it's the damn rifle and shield. They don't allow for any posing. The Alex is one of my favorite mobile suits and this kit does't do it justice.
How do you modify the front skirts?
Rogue Saber you cut the skirts in the middle
now you need a kampfer.
pioltjose23 I really should. Sometime! Eventually.
You deserve more views :(
So wait, if the armor covers the gatlings, and the beam rifle never appears in the anime, _how the fuck did it fight?_
It purged its armor and then made Swiss cheese out of the Kaempfer with the gatlings.
Good and detail review, nice 👍👍👍
Fun fact theres a full armor gundam alex...
Kinda a shame the Alex barely had any scenes
they need rx-78-nt1 ver 2 wih better joints, kinda like they did with the nornal gundam
bandai will probably release it as part of the all gundam project.
pioltjose23 That'd be pretty cool
***** lets hope
The exia Avalanche has a tooth pick too lol
wiletheridge88 all exias have it. I should know given I own 2.
I heard that the cockpit can open
i think the armor use when The Alex not operational, to cover up the the machine when still in federation secret werehouse in the OVA ... like a cover for a new car, CMIIW XD
# sorry for my bad english XD akakakakak
i wonder how it would fit on the gm quel
Did he just try to kill the Alex?
At least the armor looks cool.
Gundam Alex Ground Type!
A pity the Gundam Tristan is just a remold of this kit...
Thumbs up for a revive version of the not just the Alex, but for the Tristan
How old is this
Came out in 2004.
i like how im the only guy here who actually split the front skirt to be independent from each other just by cutting the thing in the middle like modern kits XD and it works extremely well prolly more then the moderns.!
I have 2 RX-78-NT-1,(One custom painted, and one as a normal) And i must say, the armor is really bad, and the color that is the hand and gatling gun, is weird.
Dose it fit on the gundam ground type?
Chobahm armour was used for transit more than combat you see it fight the Kampfer in its armoured form but it casts off its armour I absolutely had a ball ache assembling this kit.. such crappy engineering for bandai... tut tut....
The armour got blown to shit. The pilot didn't decide to just cast it off.
800th like
Its a terrible action figure but its a great kit!