The best Master Grade Gunpla feature a level of complexity above and beyond what HGs offer. However, they have a price to ...

The real-to-virtual Gunpla scanning technology will have a broader test in Japan. Bandai Namco will hold the second test event for the Road To Gunpla Battle project in Shinjuku, Tokyo. It will set up ...

Perfect Grade Gunpla showcase all the best aspects of Bandai’s model-building experience. They’re flagship sets with a ton of parts and all sorts of gimmicks to discover. Each of these requires a ...

I decided that this would be the perfect year to get into Gunpla. As someone who has shelves upon shelves of collectibles and figures, it seemed like a reasonable addition. Plus I wanted something to ...

Bandai Spirits and Sony Music Entertainment have announced that they will hold the second trial session for High Quality Gunpla Scan in Tokyo in late 2025. The companies will also add more optional ...

Inside a Hong Kong shopping centre store that doubles as his hobby room and workshop, Manson Ng is working on an unfinished model kit. This 250 sq ft (23 square metre) space, crammed full of Gundam ...

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As of this year, the total lifetime sales of Gunpla, or Gundam plastic model kits, has reached the monumental figure of 500 million units. To give some context to that figure, if you were to line up ...

Plastic models of characters from the popular TV animation series "Mobile Suit Gundam," known in Japan as "GUNPLA," (Gundam Plastic Models) were a social phenomenon among young people back in the 1980 ...

On the hottest days of summer 2021, I was looking for a good hobby to pass the time in the great indoors, preferably something that didn’t require me to stare at another screen. I’d long been Gunpla ...

Xavier Lim, equipped with a laptop and notepad, stares at a wall of plastic model kits in a glass case. The Bandai employee who normally works on the importation and exportation of Gundam models has ...