SD BB Senshi Johnny Ridden's Zaku II

Release 1989.7

Price ¥300

BANDAI BANDAI Japan product info

Runners

Parts diagram

Manual

Straight build + Stickers

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Front view of straight build before stickers

SD Johnny Ridden's Zaku II - After applying the seals (1/2)

SD Johnny Ridden's Zaku II - After applying the seals (2/2)

After applying stickers

The mono-eye can be rotated.

Weapons loadout

There's a spring-loaded gimmick that fires a bullet.

An extra mono-eye seal with a smiling eye expression is included.

You can choose between normal Zaku-style and high-mobility-style backpack/leg parts.

Built as a normal Zaku

SD Johnny Ridden's Zaku II - You can apply the Black Tri-Stars seals to the shoulder shield, but the colors don't match

You can apply the Black Tri-Stars seals to the shoulder shield, but the colors don't match at all.

Very basic articulation — only the neck, arms, and feet rotate.

SD Johnny Ridden's Zaku II - Action Pose (1/3)

Action pose

Together with BB Senshi Perfect Gundam

This kit is the SD Johnny Ridden's Zaku II released as BB Senshi No. 29. It actually came out before the Char custom or mass-production versions, though the kit itself does include standard Zaku II parts as well.

Normal Zaku backpack and leg parts are included, so you can build it as a standard mass-production Zaku II — but the molded colors are pretty rough, so painting seems pretty much mandatory. There are also Black Tri-Stars seals included for the same high-mobility configuration, but those need painting too.

The weapon loadout covers the classic Zaku trio — machine gun, bazooka, and heat hawk — plus a rack that holds three missiles. The machine gun has a spring-loaded gimmick built in. On top of that, there's a mono-eye rotation gimmick and a smiling mono-eye seal included as well.

So the overall package is decent, but a lot of people will probably want a plain normal Zaku — and in 1999, a spring-powered drive and extra weapons were added and it was repackaged as the G Generation Zaku II Mass Production Typeso keep that in mind if you're interested. :-)

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.