SD BB Senshi Zakkun - Dalong.net

Release 1987.5

Price ¥300

SD BB Senshi Zakkun - Box art - side view (1/3)

Box art - side view

Group shot of BB Senshi #1–6 box set — the kits that kicked off the SD Gundam series

Runners

Parts diagram

Included alongside the assembly manual are a series guide sheet and a character card.

Manual

Straight build + Stickers

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Front view of straight build before stickers

SD BB Senshi Zakkun - After applying the seals (1/2)

SD BB Senshi Zakkun - After applying the seals (2/2)

After applying stickers

The body without weapons

A bazooka is included as the weapon

28 blue BBs are included — you cock the trigger, then load a BB into the hole on top of the bazooka.

A target board is included along with the main kit.

Target board

Hit the center with a BB and the target board spins horizontally.

A video I filmed myself showing the target gimmicks on all 6 original BB Senshi kits.

Bare-bones articulation — neck and shoulders rotate, and the legs alternate back and forth

Some action poses

Shooting game pose using the target

Together with BB Senshi Gundaman

--- General notes on the first 6 BB Senshi kits -----------------
Back in 1987, the very first 6 SD Gundam kits were released under the BB Senshi label. They were part of the "BB Senshi Survival Game" lineup, where you fire BBs from a spring-loaded bazooka to hit targets. The proportions are that cute 3-head-tall SD style with nice round, chubby volume. There's no color separation — just single-color molding with a few seals thrown in, and the articulation is kept as simple as possible.

The lineup consists of 6 kits: Gundaman, Zetaman 2, Dorakun, Zakkun, Zetaman, and Don — and while the designs differ, they all share exactly the same package contents and structural features. The BB-firing gimmick has a surprisingly decent kick to it — you can shoot in a straight line for about a meter with a satisfying "ping." On top of that, each kit comes with its own target that produces a different hit effect, so there's a real fun factor in trying to nail them with BBs. (See thevideo for reference.)

These 6 kits were later reused as the base bodies for the SD Gundam Musha 7-nin Shuu arc, and today they've become top-tier rare items commanding prices many times their original value. They're pretty much impossible to track down anyway, so it's totally fine to just sit back and appreciate them as a piece of history — "huh, so something like this existed back then" ^^
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This kit is SD Zakkun, released as BB Senshi #4. It's based on Char's Zaku, and comes with a target board as its target gimmick — hit the center with a BB and the board spins horizontally.

The target parts were later dropped, and the body was reused for SD BB Senshi Kageninja Shazaku— it seems like Zakkun, alongside Gundaman, is one of the lead-role suits that defined the very first SD lineup. :-)

SD BB Senshi Zakkun | 1987.5 | ¥300

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.