Kit Review

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HGAC Maganac 36-Piece Set - A whopping 36 Maganacs all bundled together.. ㄷㄷ (1/3)

A whopping 36 Maganacs all bundled together.. ㄷㄷ

The Maganac body alongside a full set of weapons laid out.

HGAC Maganac 36-Piece Set - All 36 units with their weapons removed and lined up. It took quite a while to get them all per

All 36 units with their weapons removed and lined up.
It took quite a while to get them all perfectly squared up in rows and columns..

The weapons from the original HGAC Maganac are included in full — 36 sets of each.

The newly added weapons for this kit. 18 sets of each are included.

Three new shoulder types have been added as newly sculpted parts.

A backpack (right) that can hold a beam saber has also been added.

HGAC Maganac 36-Piece Set - The truly all-new sculpts added to this kit are the support arm, long barrel rifle, beam saber,

The truly all-new sculpts added to this kit are
the support arm, long barrel rifle, beam saber, backpack, and open hand.

HGAC Maganac 36-Piece Set - The existing beam rifle, heat tomahawk, shield, and joint parts are all included 36 of each. (1

HGAC Maganac 36-Piece Set - The existing beam rifle, heat tomahawk, shield, and joint parts are all included 36 of each. (2

The existing beam rifle, heat tomahawk, shield, and joint parts are all included 36 of each.

HGAC Maganac 36-Piece Set - The newly added support arm, arm rifle, long barrel rifle, and large rifle come 18 of each. (1/

HGAC Maganac 36-Piece Set - The newly added support arm, arm rifle, long barrel rifle, and large rifle come 18 of each. (2/

The newly added support arm, arm rifle, long barrel rifle, and large rifle come 18 of each.

Likewise, the beam saber, open hand, backpack, and shoulder parts also come 18 of each.

Leftover parts

HGAC Maganac 36-Piece Set - All 36 units configured with slightly different loadout combinations — the possibilities are pr

All 36 units configured with slightly different loadout combinations.
The possibilities are practically endless.

HGAC Maganac 36-Piece Set - Poses using various weapons (1/6)

HGAC Maganac 36-Piece Set - Poses using various weapons (2/6)

HGAC Maganac 36-Piece Set - Poses using various weapons (3/6)

HGAC Maganac 36-Piece Set - Poses using various weapons (4/6)

Poses using various weapons

Action poses with all 36 units.
It took forever just to get this one shot.. T_T

HGAC Maganac 36-Piece Set - Together with the HGAC Maganac Rashid & Auda custom units released through Club-G. Original

Together with the HGAC Maganac Rashid & Auda custom units released through Club-G.
Originally you'd need all 36 of these plus Rashid/Abdul/Auda/Ahmad to make a full 40-unit display..
But since the individual unit kits let you build 2 different machines from one kit, I ended up displaying a total of 38 units.

This kit is the HGAC Maganac 36-Piece Set, a Club-G (Premium Bandai) online exclusive. It's got to be the most outrageous lineup of any Gunpla kit ever released — as the name says, it literally comes with a whopping 36 HG Maganacsall bundled together.

The reason 36 units are bundled together comes down to recreating the full 40-unit force, like Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. The idea is to combine them with the previously Club-G-released HGAC Maganac (Rashid Custom / Abdul Custom)and HGAC Maganac (Auda Custom / Ahmad Custom)to bring the total up to 40 units. However, those two kits are each designed so that one kit can be swapped around to represent two different machines. So if you actually want to build all 40, you'd need to buy two copies each of the Rashid/Abdul and Auda/Ahmad kits.

First off, the sheer volume of this kit is just absurd — the product ships as a single massive carton box. Inside are 6 large Gunpla boxes, and each box is packed with 6 sets of the HGAC Maganac plus 3 sets of additional weapons. The additional weapons consist of a support arm, arm rifle, long barrel rifle, large rifle, and beam saber, along with a backpack, open hand, and 3 new shoulder types. In total, you get 36 sets of the main body and 18 sets of the additional weapons.

The build quality of the HGAC Maganac itself is pretty clean, with solid assembly, articulation, and joint strength. On top of that, mixing and matching the various weapons lets you create virtually endless combinations. In my case, I set up all 36 units with different shoulder and weapon loadouts, and seeing all 36 lined up together is genuinely quite a spectacle.

That said, as anyone can imagine, grinding through the assembly x36 is no joke — you'll find yourself cursing whoever came up with this product concept. (-.-) The base kit itself goes together well enough, but doing it 36 times over is... an ordeal, to say the least. (No further comment needed.) Even after building them, posing all of them and getting the photos was an unprecedented pain in the neck.

Anyway, between building, shooting, and writing the review, it probably took around 100 hours all told. It's a genuinely bizarre kit that'll go down in Gunpla history one way or another. The quality itself is great, but since this thing is really betting everything on pure obsessive fandom, it's hard to recommend to just anyone.. :-)

HGAC Maganac 36-Piece Set | 2019.8 | ¥45,000

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.