Kit Review

Straight build + Panel lining + Seals

Size comparison with a cigarette pack.

Detail shots

Outer armor removed

Internal frame

Frame detail shots

Backpack frame removed, rear view

Limb articulation on the frame

Shoulder range of motion on the frame

Frame action pose

Cockpit hatch open

Weapons loadout

Shield, rear view

MG Jegan - The hands from the MG AGE series have been reused here. There are 3 finger types, plus one extra right hand for ho

The hands from the MG AGE series have been reused here.
There are 3 finger types, plus one extra right hand for holding the rifle.

The side skirts store the beam saber and hand grenades.

Stand joint parts that lock in with a slide mechanism

Leftover parts

Excellent limb articulation

Shoulder articulation that holds up well compared to the bare frame state

Hip slide gimmick that moves left and right independently

Kneeling pose

Shield's twin missile launcher action

Aerial firing pose

Beam saber action

Together with the HGUC Jegan.

Together with the MG Re-GZ.

MG Jegan - Together with the MG Jesta, released in 2013. They're similar units, but the 5-year-old Jesta actually feels like

Together with the MG Jesta, released in 2013.
They're similar units, but the 5-year-old Jesta actually feels like the higher quality kit.

Straight build

The Jegan from Char's Counterattack has finally gotten the MG treatment. It was definitely a Universal Century kit that deserved one, and with the HGUC having come out 9 years ago, it's a bit surprising it took until 2018 to get an MG release.

First off, it comes in a fairly large box for a 4,000-yen kit and the parts look pretty generous at first glance — but once you actually start building, it goes together faster than you'd expect. A typical MG usually has around 300–500 parts, but the MG Jegan only has 238, which is why. Aside from a handful of very early MGs, it's been a long time since we've seen an MG with this few parts.

That said, a low part count doesn't mean the kit is lacking — overall it uses a simple joint structure and frame, and the armor panels are divided up efficiently enough that it still checks all the boxes you'd expect from an MG. On top of that, it's nice to see they paid attention to details like the V-shaped section on the lower body and the color separation inside the verniers. Honestly, I think this kind of efficient breakdown is better than just splitting everything into a million tiny pieces just to inflate the part count.

The kit is on the larger side overall, fitting for a Char's Counterattack mobile suit with a big design spec, and despite its size, the joints are done entirely in plastic with no polycaps. The joint strength is well-tuned — not too loose, not too stiff. Articulation is solid too, with great limb bend and individually sliding left/right hip joints. That said, even with no front skirts and the hip slide gimmick, the legs don't actually kick up as high as you might expect.

So in terms of overall build quality — construction, articulation, joint strength — there's really not much to complain about. But the detail work does feel a bit plain... Excessive over-detailing can be its own problem, but the MG Jegan is almost completely lacking in the kind of flashy MG-style surface detail you'd expect. The frame covers the whole body but feels a little bare, and the armor panels don't have much going on either — honestly, the overall look is even more plain than some recent RE/100 kits.

You could argue this is just the original MG design and leave it at that, but it's still a valid point of frustration that it feels a bit sparse. There's even a suspicion floating around that this was originally being developed as a RE/100 and then had a frame crammed in to release it as an MG instead — but unlike the looser RE/100 joints, the solid joint structure here is definitely MG through and through.

As you can see in the score breakdown below, this is a clean kit that scores close to full marks in almost every category — but there's nothing that really stands out enough to push it beyond that. A score of 99 means the quality is genuinely good, but it's not quite what you'd call exciting. On top of that, for a Universal Century kit, it's a bit of a letdown that there are no decals — just seals.

Anyway, for longtime fans who've been waiting ages for a Jegan, it's just nice that it finally exists. It doesn't have that hand-crafted mold feel — it's very much a 100% CAD-designed, machine-processed kit. Clean but a little plain, easy to build, solid quality — it's very much a 21st-century Gunpla. :-)

MG RMG-89 Jegan
Category	Rating	Analysis
Seam Lines	★★★★★	Clean parts separation eliminates seam lines. Slide molds even on the weapons.
Molding Color / Color Separation	★★★★★	Color separation on the V-shaped lower body section. Even the inside of the verniers are separated.
Proportions	★★★★★	Solid and straightforward.
Articulation	★★★★★☆	Limb articulation is top-tier.
Joint Strength	★★★★★	Joints are tight and well-fitted throughout, even without polycaps.
Internal Frame	★★★★★	Detail is a little lacking, but a complete full-body frame.
Detail	★★★★☆	Detail that's just a bit short of what you'd expect from an MG.
Weapons / Accessories	★★★★★	Faithful to the basics.
Parts Count / Price	★★★★☆	238 parts total. 59.5 parts per 1,000 yen. Optimized breakdown keeps the part count low.
Uniqueness	★★★★★	The quality itself isn't bad, but it feels a little plain somehow.
Dalong's Point : 99 pts.

* The scoring system used only for MG has been carried over from First 1.0 twenty years ago,
so applying it uniformly even to the latest kits — whose quality has leveled up across the board — is honestly a bit ambiguous.
Since it's just my personal take and can't clearly capture the differences in kit quality over the years,
please don't read too much into it and just use it as a loose reference.
(For kits scoring above 100, take it to mean the quality is much better than kits of the past.)

MG Jegan | 2018. 7 | ¥4,400

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.