Kit Review

Straight build + Stickers

HGUC Delta Plus Innerspace Clear Ver. - Various angles (1/6)

HGUC Delta Plus Innerspace Clear Ver. - Various angles (2/6)

HGUC Delta Plus Innerspace Clear Ver. - Various angles (3/6)

HGUC Delta Plus Innerspace Clear Ver. - Various angles (4/6)

Various angles

HGUC Delta Plus Innerspace Clear Ver. - Detail shots (1/4)

HGUC Delta Plus Innerspace Clear Ver. - Detail shots (2/4)

Detail shots

Same weapons and accessories as the standard release

HGUC Delta Plus Innerspace Clear Ver. - This kit has a pretty serious fatal flaw — the yellow-molded frame parts have absol

This kit has a pretty serious fatal flaw.
The yellow-molded frame parts have absolutely terrible durability.
As you can see in the photo above, the moment I tried to move the thigh, the hip joint pin snapped right off. T_T

HGUC Delta Plus Innerspace Clear Ver. - With just one or two movements, things like the side skirt pivot pins, knee joint l

With just one or two movements, things like the side skirt pivot pins, knee joint locking pins, and shoulder joints
— the shoulder armor locking parts, rifle grip articulation, and more just snap apart pathetically.
Long story short, I was trying to take some articulation shots with the arms and legs bent, and a ton of frame/joint parts ended up breaking in the process.
I couldn't even get a proper articulation shot, let alone an action pose. T_T

HGUC Delta Plus Innerspace Clear Ver. - Instead, I was at least able to transform it into Waverider mode through parts-swa

Instead, I was at least able to transform it into Waverider mode through parts-swapping without any actual articulation.

Waverider — bottom view

Together with the standard release HGUC Delta Plus.

Together with the Club G HGUC Jesta Cannon Tri-Star Clear Ver.

This kit is the HGUC Delta Plus Innerspace Clear Ver., released as a Club G (Premium Bandai) online exclusive. It's a version of the standard HGUC Delta Pluswith the plastic changed to clear material — no new molding whatsoever, just a straight clear version.

So the basic build and the Waverider transformation process are the same as the original kit. However, this kit has a serious durability problem. The clear armor parts are hard and trimming the gates is a pain, which is par for the course with clear kits — but the real issue is that the yellow-molded frame/joint parts break way too easily. Just one or two rotations and they snap apart pathetically.

On top of that, the parts that break are all critical ones. The most important joints — the hips and shoulders — snapped the moment I tried to move them, so I couldn't even get articulation test shots, let alone action poses. On top of that, the side skirt mounting points, the knee joint locking pins needed for transformation, the shoulder armor locking parts, and the rifle grip articulation all crumbled apart. As a result, I couldn't pose it in any way at all — though I was carefully able to pull off the Waverider transformation through parts-swapping.

What it comes down to is that the hardened clear armor and the softly-molded joints are grinding against each other tightly, and that's what caused this disaster. It seems like Bandai just swapped the material without thinking it through and ran it through production. If they'd actually built even one test shot, I'd think they would've realized this was something they absolutely couldn't sell...

This has become a textbook example of what kind of disaster happens when you mindlessly churn out a clear kit without thinking it through. As a clear kit, the look itself is pretty nice. That said, if you're still drawn to how it looks and want to build one anyway, I'd recommend just carefully assembling it without moving any of the joints and leaving it as a static display. :-)

HGUC Delta Plus Innerspace Clear Ver. | 2012.6 | ¥2,286

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.