Kit Review

Straight build + Stickers

Underside view

Various joint accessories

The Valuable Pod main body can be disassembled/combined and used as shown above.

Basically an armament pack optimized for the HGUC Gyan.

With the head swapped out and shoulders, shield, and backpack added

HGBF Valuable Pod - HGUC Gyan action (1/3)

HGUC Gyan action

For HGUC Zaku types, connect the joint parts to the weapon mounting hole on the rear skirt.

Attached to the HGUC Char's Zaku

With joint parts connected to the action base mounting hole.

Attached to the HGUC Gouf Custom

With joint parts connected to the weapon mounting hole on the rear skirt

Pose with attachment to the HGUC Gira Doga

With joint parts connected to one of the backpack mounting holes

Attached to the HGCE Strike Gundam

If the backpack has two mounting holes, it can be attached without any additional joint parts.

Attached to the HGAC Wing Gundam Zero

The 13th Build Custom kit is the Valuable Pod, a flying mecha. It's got Gyan shields on both sides, so you can tell right away it's optimized for the HGUC Gyan — and inside, it stores a new-style Gyan head. Breaking down the main body and hanging all the pieces onto the Gyan gives it a look that's almost like a Gyan custom, and honestly the style is pretty solid ^^

Just like the previous releases, the main body can be broken down piece by piece to be compatible with various HG kits, and a good variety of joint parts are included for that purpose. By making use of the different joint parts, you can connect it to backpack holes, action base mounting holes, rear skirt weapon mounting holes, and more — so there's quite a bit of flexibility there.

One thing to note — the parts that connect the shoulder sections to the main body tend to pop off pretty easily, which is a bit of a nuisance when combining it with different kits... The rest of the parts hold together reasonably well, though.

To sum it up, for HGUC Gyan owners this feels like a pretty cool expansion pack. It works okay with other kits too, but nothing matches quite as well as the Gyan. Even the molded colors, if you look closely, are perfectly tuned to match the HGUC Gyan. In that sense, it's definitely worth recommending to anyone who's a fan of the HGUC Gyan :-)

HGBF Valuable Pod | 2014.7 | ¥800

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.