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HGUC Qubeley ~ Extra Pearl Version (1/2)

HGUC Qubeley ~ Extra Pearl Version (2/2)

Upper body close-up. The purple on the torso is also a pearl material. So colorful..

HGUC Qubeley ~ Extra Pearl Version - It's not a coating, and it's not just the molded color either — the plastic material its

It's not a coating, and it's not just the molded color either — the plastic material itself has pearl mixed into it.
It's a bit hard to capture in photos, but if you look closely at the shoulders, you can get a sense of some kind of wavy pattern flowing across the surface.

Pearlescent legs..

Action pose

Flying pose

HGUC Qubeley ~ Extra Pearl Version - Alongside the similar special version, the Extra Finish. The Extra Pearl side has a more

Alongside the similar special version, the Extra Finish.
The Extra Pearl side has a more yellowish~, pearlescent color.
The Extra Finish on the left does have a pinkish pearl coating, but the coating layer is a bit thin so it doesn't really show up well in photos;;

The difference in body color..

HGUC Qubeley ~ Extra Pearl Version - A collection of Haman-sama's white Qubeleys. The normal and Extra Finish don't differ al

A collection of Haman-sama's white Qubeleys.
The normal and Extra Finish don't differ all that much, but the Extra Pearl is clearly a step apart.

This is already the 6th HGUC Qubeley. They sure love milking this one;;

Following two normal versions and three Extra Finish variants, the Qubeley has made yet another appearance as a special edition. This time it's not a coating-type "Extra Finish" — it's a kit in a form called "Extra Pearl." When it first showed up, it was also known as a special coating version to commemorate a theatrical release, but strictly speaking, it's a bit different from the coating-type kits.

Unlike kits that apply a coating layer over a standard molded color, this Extra Pearl Qubeley has pearl mixed directly into the plastic material itself. And that pearl isn't just in the white exterior armor — the purple torso, the rear leg sections, and even the gray structural parts of the frame all have pearl mixed in with a dark gunmetal feel, so a wave of pearl flows across the entire body. The forearms, heels, and panel areas do also have a pinkish chrome plating mixed in, just like the previous Extra Finish versions.

With the entire body made up of only pearl-material molding and chrome plating like this, it definitely has a different class compared to the standard version. Pearl molding looks a bit more yellowish than pearl coating, but it really gives off a strong pearlescent feel, and if you look closely at the surface you can see a beautiful wavy pattern.

Wavy patterns in regular plastic molding tend to look pretty ugly, but in the case of this Extra Pearl molding, the waves themselves come across as one beautiful pearlescent effect, so it actually looks great ^^ These waves are especially stunning not just on the white exterior surfaces, but particularly on the purple pearl color of the torso.

The HGUC Qubeley has been around for a while, but since the base quality was pretty solid to begin with, the build quality holds up well enough. That said, the fundamentally weird balance of weak leg joints and stiff arm joints is still there. With the Extra Finish versions, the coating layer applied over the plastic surface reduces the polycap clearance, making the whole body a bit stiffer — but since this Extra Pearl changes the molding material rather than adding a coating, it doesn't get stiffer the way the plated versions do. So if you stand it up, the torso tends to keep leaning forward on you.

This Extra Pearl version is already the 6th official rehash of the Qubeley, yet it was released at ¥3,000 — ¥500 more expensive than the Extra Finish versions that already ran ¥2,500. Part of it is probably the difference in time, and the natural pearl material molding is likely not an easy technique, which probably explains why the price is double that of the normal version — but it still feels a little pricey.

Still, compared to the white Extra Finish version which was a bit disappointing given how little it differed from the normal version, this Extra Pearl version definitely gives off a special feel. It looks noticeably different.

In conclusion.. if you're a Qubeley fan, interested in unique pearl molding, and want something that looks great straight out of the box with just a straight build, this could be a solid choice. Kits with this kind of pearl molding are genuinely rare, after all :-)

HGUC Qubeley ~ Extra Pearl Version | 2006. 3 | ¥3,000

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.