Kit Review

Straight build + Panel lining

Size comparison with a cigarette pack — the universal standard. That backpack width is no joke.

Action pose~ Those arms are long~

The arm joints are flexible yet stiff enough to hold poses well.

Arms straight out front!

Spread the arms out to the sides and you're looking at about 30cm..

To get into underwater navigation mode, you have to disassemble the arms and attach the tanks.

The leftover arm parts after attaching the tanks.

Underwater navigation mode

Apparently it can even do an "I love you~" pose..

HGUC Hy-Gogg - Together with the original Gogg in that poop-brown color. Same Gogg lineage, but they look completely differen

Together with the original Gogg in that poop-brown color. Same Gogg lineage, but they look completely different.

With the HGUC Qubeley. The Hy-Gogg is quite a bit shorter, but the width is almost on par.

HGUC Hy-Gogg - With the HGUC RX-78, which you could call the standard reference size. It's shorter, sure, but that width thou

With the HGUC RX-78, which you could call the standard reference size. It's shorter, sure, but that width though..

Straight build photos before panel lining (front view)

Straight build photos before panel lining (rear view)

The 0080: War in the Pocket series has finally started getting the HGUC treatment. The first one out of the gate is the Hy-Gogg, packing Qubeley-level backpack presence. The old kit was pretty decent in its own right, but the HGUC takes it to another level quality-wise.

Like the Qubeley, the Hy-Gogg is short but wide at the shoulders, and those arms are insanely long. As you can see in the photos, stretch them both out and you get about 30cm. The arms are multi-jointed and move with quite a bit of flexibility, and despite how long they are, the joints are relatively stiff and hold poses well — that's definitely a plus. The leg joints, on the other hand, are on the looser side. Part of it is probably because the upper body is so heavy, but the lower half has this vague (?) sense of direction that tends to tip forward or backward when you're trying to find the center of gravity, which is a bit of a letdown. That said, you can spread the legs wide, so if you go with a wide, low-center-of-gravity stance, it holds up pretty well.

For the underwater navigation mode transformation, the two large tanks and the underwater jet pack on the back are nicely done in a snazzy orange molded color. To attach the tanks to the arms for underwater navigation mode, you have to pull the arms out and disassemble them. (See photos)

I'm not sure about everything else, but the arms being so long, large, and flexible really opens up some dynamic poses — that's definitely one of the Hy-Gogg's strong points. On the flip side, the sheer size means it hogs the space of 2–3 other kits on the shelf. In terms of bang-for-your-buck backpack presence, this one's probably among the best out there. ^_^;

HGUC Hy-Gogg | 2003.6 | ¥1,500

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.