OLD First Gundam 1/550 Adzam

Release 1982.6

Price ¥400

BANDAI BANDAI Japan product info

Runners

Parts diagram

Manual

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

OLD 1/550 Adzam - Views from various angles (1/4)

OLD 1/550 Adzam - Views from various angles (2/4)

Various angles

OLD 1/550 Adzam - Each of the four legs has an internal stopper, so you can rotate the foot section to adjust the height in m

Each of the four legs has an internal stopper, so you can rotate the foot section to adjust the height in multiple steps.

Turn the foot 90 degrees and it moves up and down; turn it back and it locks in place.

All four legs lowered to their minimum height.

You can also bend them outward like this.

The upper and lower gun barrels can also move a little.

Some kind of action pose... ^^;;;

Besides the Adzam itself, a variety of mecha accessories are included.

Includes the Magella Attack, RX-78, Electro-Particle Shells, and the Adzam Leader.

The RX-78 Gundam with its charmingly quirky proportions. Check out that face and those feet~

The shoulder area can move at least.

Magella Attack.

Electro-Particle Shells and the Adzam Leader.

Together with the 1/550 Gelgoog that came with the Elmeth.

Together with the 1/550 Big Zam and Elmeth.

This is a 1/550 scale kit of the Adzam — a mobile armor with plenty of personality even among the endlessly unique mechs of the Zeon mobile armor lineup from the One Year War. As you can see, it's an octopus-like MA with four legs, sporting no fewer than eight mega particle cannons on the top and bottom.

The four legs can be rotated 90 degrees to adjust and lock the height at multiple positions, and they can also be bent outward to a certain degree, giving the kit a surprisingly flexible range of poses. The upper mega particle cannons have movable barrels, while the lower ones can rotate, so the gimmicks feel pretty well thought out for what it is. On top of that, the color separation is done in two colors, so the straight build quality actually looks better than you'd expect from an old-release kit.

A variety of 1/550 mecha are also included — the RX-78 First Gundam, Magella Attack, Adzam Leader, and Electro-Particle Shells. (The Adzam Leader is the Adzam's signature weapon that delivers a plasma electric shock.) The proportions on the 1/550 First Gundam are particularly... unique — there's really no other way to put it than charmingly quirky. ^^;

All in all, this is a kit that does a solid job of delivering both gimmicks and lore accuracy in one package. If there's one downside, the leg joints are pretty loose. Sure, the Adzam only showed up once in the One Year War anime before getting smashed by the First Gundam, but it left quite an impression as a genuinely distinctive mech. As the only plastic model kit of the Adzam in existence, it's a meaningful piece for anyone looking to relive the memories of the One Year War. :-)
[ Updated at 2016.5.25 ]

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.