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太陽系戦隊 ガルダン
Jan. 19th, 2009 12:53 pm...Or "Solar System Squadron Guldan", if your computer doesn't read Japanese.
When the original Mobile Suit Gundam model kits were hot in Japan in 1980, the other manufacturers wanted in on the bandwagon, and this was a knockoff series. But what interests me isn't the main series of kits, but the ones Nissin (yes, the "Oodles of Noodles" company!) marketed as premiums for their chewing gum.
Now, the actual model kits were tiny, crude and somewhat ugly...but they're spawning a "what-if?" idea in my mind. If I were in the design think-tank for these, I'd come up with accessory packs that could fit any and all of them...and then the accessory sprues would be randomly packed along with the robots themselves.
Oh yeah...and these were about the same size as the model kits from established robot anime that inspired the FASA game Battletech. But unlike them, Guldan wasn't from any anime! So no intellectual property conflicts down the road.
I don't necessarily want the Guldan model kits as I have plenty of others around. But it's just a pipe dream I had to share.
When the original Mobile Suit Gundam model kits were hot in Japan in 1980, the other manufacturers wanted in on the bandwagon, and this was a knockoff series. But what interests me isn't the main series of kits, but the ones Nissin (yes, the "Oodles of Noodles" company!) marketed as premiums for their chewing gum.
Now, the actual model kits were tiny, crude and somewhat ugly...but they're spawning a "what-if?" idea in my mind. If I were in the design think-tank for these, I'd come up with accessory packs that could fit any and all of them...and then the accessory sprues would be randomly packed along with the robots themselves.
Oh yeah...and these were about the same size as the model kits from established robot anime that inspired the FASA game Battletech. But unlike them, Guldan wasn't from any anime! So no intellectual property conflicts down the road.
I don't necessarily want the Guldan model kits as I have plenty of others around. But it's just a pipe dream I had to share.
