OLD First Gundam 1/100 Gogg

Release 1982.3

Price ¥800

BANDAI BANDAI Japan product info

Note that some runners are not individually bagged.

Parts diagram

Manual

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

The soles of the feet are plain/blank, as expected.

If you look closely, the mono-eye is actually designed to be movable.

You can slide the mono-eye along a grooved track up and down.

The knee joints use a ratchet-style joint to improve joint strength.

The shoulders also have ratchet-style sub-joints that lock into position at set angles.

The hip joints also use ratchet-style sub-joints.

The multi-jointed arms can be extended and retracted.

OLD 1/100 Gogg - Folding the hands all the way in lets you recreate the underwater navigation mode, but the holding strength

Folding the hands all the way in lets you recreate the underwater navigation mode, but the holding strength isn't great when standing upright, so the arms tend to slide back down on their own ;;

Underwater navigation mode.

OLD 1/100 Gogg - The articulation on the limbs is a bit hard to judge, but it's not as bad as you might expect. That said, th

The articulation on the limbs is a bit hard to judge, but it's not as bad as you might expect. That said, the legs move at a 45-degree diagonal angle, so moving the hip joints makes it hard to get clean poses ;;

The head and waist can also rotate.

The arms can raise out to the side about this far.

Action pose 1

Action pose 2

Together with the 1/144 Gogg.

Together with the 1/100 Char's Z'Gok.

Together with the MG Gogg.

This is the old-kit 1/100 Gogg — a massive underwater MS that brings sumo wrestlers to mind. First off, the sheer bulk of this thing really does feel a notch above other 1/100 kits, and it pulls it off well. Compared to the MG Gogg, the legs are slimmer, but the torso feels even more puffed out — it's definitely a chunky kit.

Aside from the belly area, the color separation on the limbs, knees, feet, backpack, and mono-eye is actually pretty solid for an old kit, giving it a decent straight build result. The mono-eye in particular is reproduced as a movable part, so you can shift it to whatever position you like. The Gogg's signature four-stage arm extension/retraction gimmick is also recreated, letting you fully retract the arms into the shoulders to pull off the underwater navigation mode.

The arm extension and retraction mechanism itself is a nice touch, but when retracted, the holding strength is weak — when standing upright, the weight of the hands causes the arms to slowly slide back down on their own. It's the kind of thing you just have to accept with an old kit, but it's still worth appreciating that they even bothered to include the arm extension gimmick at all.

The shoulders, hip joints, and knees all use ratchet-style sub-joints to compensate for joint strength, which lets you click the joints into position at set angles with a satisfying click-click, helping to hold poses. That said, the hip joints connect at a 45-degree diagonal angle, so when you move the legs, it becomes really hard to keep the kit standing on a flat surface T_T Because of this, you're basically limited to posing with just the waist and arms, which makes the range of possible poses pretty restricted.

All things considered, this is an old kit that earns its marks for recreating the Gogg's signature chunky bulk and underwater navigation mode — and it seems like a fun recommendation for old-school fans who love a kit with some serious heft to it :-)
[ Updated at 2016.4.7 ]

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.