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The popular alloy toy "METAL BUILD" series published by TAMASHII NATIONS, the collectible toy division of Japan's BANDAI SPIRITS Company, today officially announced the latest product "Z Gundam" from "Mobile Suit Z Gundam ", which is expected to be released in April 2025. information.
MSZ-006 Z Gundam is a next-generation variable MS developed by Rigu after seizing the cutting-edge mobile suit "RX-178 Gundam MK-II" manufactured by Titans and using its movable frame technology. It has Gundam alloy. High rigidity of γ material. The lightweight armor can use a variety of weapons such as beam rifles, beam sabers, and grenade launchers with multiple types of warheads. It is also equipped with a simple brainwave transmission device "biochemical sensor", allowing new human pilots to use brainwaves to assist in driving the body. Improved performance, when fully exerted, it can produce incredible powers such as strengthening beam weapons, forming shields, stopping enemy aircraft... etc.
"METAL BUILD Z Gundam" is designed by ASTRAYS's famous designers Junichi Akutsu and Manabu Shintani, who are responsible for the shape design and deformation mechanism design respectively. Naka , who served as the mechanical animation supervisor of the theatrical animation "Mobile Suit Z Gundam A New Translation" Sheng Wen served as a styling consultant and started to develop a luxurious lineup to give the product a style different from the original setting, and the newly translated "wave piercing machine form" deformation mechanism.
"METAL BUILD Z Gundam", which is about 19 centimeters tall, is equipped with a deformation system. The complex frame is made of alloy parts, and plastic materials such as ABS and PVC are used to present a sharp and handsome armor shape full of details, and the design is different from the original. The metal parts are exposed and the armor deployment mechanism expresses the charm of an alloy toy. The entire machine is painted in rich colors such as semi-gloss and matte and printed with body logos to enhance the heavy texture of the machine.
The alloy frame not only has flexible mobility to create a handsome fighting posture, but also can reproduce the "wave breaker (WR)" form with its high strength and newly translated deformation mechanism. Each part has the unique structural design of the METAL BUILD version, which can achieve complex deformation structures without any flaws. At the same time, under the supervision of Zhong Shengwen, the shape of the wave piercing machine also has the streamlined beauty set in the theatrical version.
Armed accessories include two beam sabers, a beam rifle, a shield, a grenade launcher magazine, etc. The beam rifle has a new design that can also deploy the beam saber at the tail end.
METAL BUILD ゼータガンダム
Reference price: 44,000 yen (tax included)
Expected release date: 2025/04
Product specifications: Finished model made of ABS, PVC, alloy, total height approximately 190mm
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