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Just for you, Hub City Geeks, the SpartanNerd and the SpartanTeen have teamed up! Together we created a checklist for evaluating Gundam models!

For now, we are only evaluating Master Grade and higher… We may adjust the checklist in the future.

So without further ceremony, here is our checklist. You can see the checklist in action if you click here

Each item gets a score…

1 Too wrong

2 not right enough

3 could be better

4 pretty good, but…

5 perfect

There are five areas that we will score for our models… Construction, Articulation, Accessories, Playability, and Figure-Specific features. Each area has five criteria.

Construction

Was it difficult considering the level it is supposed to be?

Stupid problems?

Instructions easy to read?

Diagrams clear?

Stickers? Paint

Articulation

stands easily?

moves without falling apart

posable/interchangeable hands

lots of articulation points

Dynamic poses

Accessories

Weapons

holds weapons/appropriate weapons

Stand

expansions

Weapon storage

playability

durable

photogenic

holds weapons?

Reasonalbe Facimile to media representation

Aesthetics

Figure-specific features

morph/ transform/ change form

action feature

LED lights

Diarama

Pilot included? Does he fit in the cockpit or is he in scale or not.

To tabulate the score, we add up all of the values, and then come up with an average.

I have personally build about a dozen Gundams. It has been a few years since I did one…I am only really interested in Gundam Wing. However, there is renewed interest among the Spartan-children for Gundams. The most recent Gundam completed is Unicorn Gundam. I am not going to offer a review, because I did not build the model myself, however, I have some statements from the SpartanTeen. Following his statements, I have lots of photos!

“The Unicorn Gundam falls apart easily, unfortunately, especially in destroy mode.”

“It dwarfs Master Grade Heavyarms,”

“Black Light renders the pink details as orange light.” (The SpartanWife says it’s coral.)

“It takes thirty minutes to an hour to transform into destroy mode. It takes less time to return it to Unicorn mode”

“Gundam Unicorn cannot hold his bazooka very good.”