OLD First Gundam 1/144 Agg

Release 1982.9

Price ¥300

BANDAI BANDAI Japan product info

Runners

Parts diagram

Manual

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

The gear on the side of the head can rotate.

The articulation is really hard to evaluate — in practice, it moves more like an SD figure.

Cross-section of the arm.

The drill section of the arm can move slightly side to side.

The shoulders are implemented with a ring-and-loop glue-together joint.

OLD 1/144 Agg - The legs use a unique method where you insert the inner parts first, then lock them in place by fitting a sto

The legs use a unique method where you insert the inner parts first, then lock them in place by fitting a stopper onto the fixing pin.

OLD 1/144 Agg - It feels like there are no legs — just feet attached directly to the body, so you can bend them pretty far fo

It feels like there are no legs — just feet attached directly to the body, so you can bend them pretty far forward and back...

Some action poses..

Together with the 1/144 Juaggu.

Similar gray mobile suits — together with the 1/144 Z'Gok and mass production-type Gelgoog.

The Zeon forces' unique design sensibility never gets old! ^^;

This kit is the 1/144 Agg — one of the ultimate examples of Zeon's grotesque design philosophy. With drill-equipped arms, a lower body that looks like feet attached directly without any legs (very SD-like), and a head that seems almost fused with the torso, this mobile suit has proportions completely unlike any ordinary MS.

Thanks to this unique structure, the articulation is extremely limited — and as you can see in the review photos above, it's fair to say there are almost no worthwhile poses you can pull off. But then again, the whole point of this kit is that it faithfully recreates that bizarre appearance, and in that sense, it does a solid job of capturing what makes the Agg so distinctive as a three-dimensional model.

The hip joints are fully exposed on the outside, which called for a pretty unique joint-fixing method. You first insert the inner leg parts onto the hip pin, then fit a stopper onto the pin inside the leg before attaching the outer leg parts. It's actually a decent approach in terms of both stability and ease of assembly — but it's a shame that the joint is barely usable in practice, since those big feet are attached right below the hips with no leg length in between.

Anyway, given the design, this is a mobile suit where a convincing three-dimensional recreation matters more than articulation — and in that regard, it's a pretty well-done old-school kit. :-) [ Updated at 2016.2.16 ]

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.