Kit Review

Straight build + Stickers

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

HGUC Zaku High Mobility Surface Type (Egba) - Various angles (1/6)

HGUC Zaku High Mobility Surface Type (Egba) - Various angles (2/6)

HGUC Zaku High Mobility Surface Type (Egba) - Various angles (3/6)

HGUC Zaku High Mobility Surface Type (Egba) - Various angles (4/6)

Various angles

HGUC Zaku High Mobility Surface Type (Egba) - Detail shots (1/4)

HGUC Zaku High Mobility Surface Type (Egba) - Detail shots (2/4)

Detail shots

HGUC Zaku High Mobility Surface Type (Egba) - The inner skirt is broken up into separate parts too. That's a level of servi

The inner skirt is broken up into separate parts too.
That's a level of service you don't often see in HG kits.

HGUC Zaku High Mobility Surface Type (Egba) - You can actually apply camouflage pattern waterslide decals all over the bod

You can actually apply camouflage pattern waterslide decals all over the body, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it and gave up. T_T
Even without the decals, it looks plenty flashy and pretty though... (convincing myself)

Weapons loadout

Movable parts on the Type-G Improved Drum Magazine MS Machine Gun

A bayonet can also be attached to the underside.

The bayonet stored on the side skirt using a joint part.

HGUC Zaku High Mobility Surface Type (Egba) - Two heat swords are included — one for storage (gray) and one in the glowing

Two heat swords are included — one for storage (gray) and one in the glowing state (yellow) —
but there's only one handle, so you'll need to swap it back and forth.

The heat sword stored alongside the backpack.

A total of four hands are included.

There's a mono-eye rotation gimmick built into the bottom of the head.

Joint part for a display stand

Leftover parts

Excellent limb articulation

HGUC Zaku High Mobility Surface Type (Egba) - The lower section of the knee joint can be extended via a slide mechanism, al

The lower section of the knee joint can be extended via a slide mechanism,
allowing the knee to bend fully.

Hip joint articulation gimmick

HGUC Zaku High Mobility Surface Type (Egba) - You can get a full kneeling pose without extending the knee joint all that mu

You can get a full kneeling pose without extending the knee joint all that much.

Pose with the bayonet detached

HGUC Zaku High Mobility Surface Type (Egba) - Type-G Improved Drum Magazine MS Machine Gun with bayonet attached action (1/

Type-G Improved Drum Magazine MS Machine Gun with bayonet attached action

HGUC Zaku High Mobility Surface Type (Egba) - Heat sword action (1/4)

HGUC Zaku High Mobility Surface Type (Egba) - Heat sword action (2/4)

Heat sword action

Together with the HG Doan's Zaku released through Club G.

This kit is the HG Zaku High Mobility Surface Type (Egba) released as a Club G (Premium Bandai) online exclusive. It's the Zaku that appears in the theatrical anime film "Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island." While some of the inner frame is reused from the HG Origin Zaku, all of the exterior parts are 100% newly sculpted.

With the exterior made up entirely of new parts, there's a lot of fresh design work applied throughout. It feels like a reinterpretation of the classic High Mobility Zaku in the Origin style. The angular skirts, chunky legs, the bayonet-equipped weapon, and the heat sword stored on the back — reminiscent of a heat rod — all come together to make for a really distinctive new design. The basic inner frame is nearly identical to the HG Origin Zaku, but thanks to the slide-extension gimmick on the lower knee joint, the knee articulation gets a nice upgrade.

For weapons, you get a machine gun with the rather lengthy name of "Type-G Improved Drum Magazine MS Machine Gun," along with a detachable bayonet for the underside. The bayonet can be mounted on the side skirt using a joint part. On top of that, the heat sword that stores in the backpack comes with both a stored-state part (gray) and a glowing-state part (yellow) included at the same time. The only minor annoyance is that there's just one handle, so you have to swap it between the two.

One thing to note — this unit is canonically supposed to have camouflage paint applied all over its body. It's included as waterslide decals, but between the poor decal quality and the insanely complex pattern, I really didn't want to go through that nightmare again and skipped it. T_T (HGUC Jegan Type-D Camouflage Ver. — see that review for reference) The decal pattern is ridiculously complicated on top of tearing easily and not sticking well, so I honestly can't recommend it unless you're a real pro. For camouflage patterns, just airbrushing it on would be way faster and look much better. Either way, it looks plenty pretty and eye-catching even without the camouflage, so you can pretty much treat the decals as optional.

All in all, a fresh and flashy new design with clean HG quality — I had a great time building this one from start to finish. Decals aside, it's a fantastic kit on its own merits, and I'd happily recommend it to any Gunpla fan. :-)

HGUC Zaku High Mobility Surface Type (Egba) | 2023.4 | ¥2,700

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.