News: Banpresto New Special Creative Model: Gundam and High Mobility Zaku

Coming in October will be a couple of new entries in Banpresto Special Creative Model series, MSV version of Gundam and High Mobility Zaku. Gundam looks identical to the previous release except for the Kunio Real Type paint scheme. The Zaku on the other hand, has new parts and I really like the coloring.

I do have the anime color version of the Gundam in this series, it's very posable and the design is sharp...I like...

News: Largest Catcher Prize in History, Unicorn Gundam

GA Graphics posted these fabulous pictures of possibly the biggest catcher prize in history, a 350 mm Unicorn Gundam made of soft vinyl that will be coming in October from Banpresto. Looks like it comes with the MS hangar as well...I think they will do a destroy mode as well, and perhaps all these are prelude to the Perfect Grade.

News: Gundam Cafe & Menu

Woohoo! The Gundam Cafe officially opened on April 24, 2010.

It is located at Hanaoka Kanda-cho 1-1, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. It's roughly a one minute walk from the JR Akihabara station.

Not only does it feature state of the art deco and seating,

but they actually serve food and drinks too! What a bonus.

The lunch time (11:30 to 17:00) menu includes, but not limited to, these fantastic four:

LM02: Amuro Ray Pilot Lunch (cream sauce on hamburger)

LM03: Char Aznable Pilot Lunch (tomato sauce hamburger)

LM04: Hayato Kobayashi Pilot Lunch (japanese style sauce hamburger)

LM05: Kai Shiden Pilot Lunch (garlic sauce hamburger)

And for the bar time menu (after 17:00), you can start off with some snacks or appetizers such as:

FM02: Zaku Pickles

FM01: Battlefield Dorritos with your choice of FM01S Char's Zaku Sauce, FM01F Zaku Sauce or FM01X Gundam sauce.

FM12: Jaburo Salad

Then, if you are into pasta, there is the FM18-X Earth Federation white sauce hamburger on spaghetti or the FM19-S Red Comet tomato sauce spaghetti:

Or may be one of these other choices (note that the item number for 23 and 24 should be 22 and 23 instead):

FM11 Ramba Ral Bacon

FM22 Sayla's Thoughts (mediterrean vegetable and tomato rice)

FM23 Lalah's Home Tradition (minced beef on rice)

FM24 Zabi Family Dinner selection - Gihren's Scheme (looks like thick cut beef steak)

For a quick snack, you can get these Gunpla Yaki...or they are in the 1/144 scale, wonder if they will make the mega size 1/48 ones...

And for dessert, new and in limited daily supply is the Haro swiss roll,

or how about Gouf, Acguy, Char Zaku and Gundam flavoured ice cream, or the Gundam Haro Pizza (banana cream cheese pizza).

Don't forget the Jaburo blend (Brazilian?) coffee or a Haro Latte.

And finish the day off with your drink of choice:

Mono Eye, Blue Giant or Red Comet.

Life is good!

News: OO Gundam Movie

Found these screenshots from Tom's blog on the promo trailer for this year's OO Gundam movie, I think it's safe to say there will be another round of action figure assault coming from Bandai in the near future...

You can see more from his blog at:
http://tomgundamland.blogspot.com/2010_01_10_archive.html

News: Robot Damashii V-Gundam and F91

The Robot Damashii line up is coming with full force, releasing later this month is the V-Gundam Full Armor Assault version (or whatever its called), and in April will be F91...

Personally, I love the F91 although I know a lot of people are not fond of it. To me, the F91 really revolutionized the Gundam design and it inspired many works that came after - not very hard to see shades of V-Gundam, Wing Gundam, Wing Zero, Freedom, Strike Freedom...

News: Cospa Gundam Costume

Just in time for Halloween, you can get your favorite Gundam uniforms in Sept from Cospa...9800 yen for EFSF uniform and 12800 yen for Char's.