Kit Review

Straight build

Size comparison with a cigarette pack.
This is the biggest one among SD kits.

SD Devil Gundam - After applying seals (1/6)

SD Devil Gundam - After applying seals (2/6)

SD Devil Gundam - After applying seals (3/6)

SD Devil Gundam - After applying seals (4/6)

After applying seals

Underside

Waist forward/backward articulation range

Each leg does have its own joint, but the articulation range is very, very limited.

Claw articulation

The shoulders have a joint structure that folds forward quite a bit.

Action pose

Action pose 2

Together with BB Senshi Shining Gundam.
The Devil Gundam really is huge~

Together with BB Senshi Shining Gundam/God Gundam.

After the BB Senshi Shining/God Gundam, I figured the next Mobile Fighter G Gundam SD would obviously be Master Gundam — but Devil Gundam dropped instead, catching everyone off guard. People were genuinely surprised when it was announced, and for good reason: this was the scorpion-form Devil Gundam, a version that had never been released in any other scale before. Sure, the MS-form Devil Gundam had been made into a kit before, but the scorpion form at this kind of impressive size was a first for BB Senshi.

Anyway, it was pretty exciting to see such a unique mobile suit show up as a BB Senshi kit. Once built, it's got well over three times the volume of a typical SD. The upper body is similar in size to other BB Senshi kits, but the massive lower body — with its eight legs and two claw arms — takes up a serious amount of display space.

Including the claw arm gimmick up front, all eight legs are on ball joints with a two-stage articulation structure — but the range of motion on those leg joints is very limited, and they tend to pop off easily while you're posing them. So aside from the claws, you pretty much have to give up on moving the legs and just leave them fixed in place, which is a bit of a shame. If all those legs could move more dynamically, you'd be able to pull off some really wild poses — but being an SD-scale kit, I guess there's only so much you can do.

The elongated waist joint connects the MS-form upper body to the scorpion-form lower body and has a fairly wide range of motion, but unfortunately the joint strength is a bit loose, making it tricky to hold poses. So between the size and the dynamic look of the kit, it's a shame that the articulation is so limited — you just can't get as many varied action poses out of it as you'd hope.

All that said, even if the articulation leaves something to be desired, this is undeniably a rare and fascinating kit just for existing in the first place. It's the kind of kit that commands attention just sitting on a shelf. Honestly, it's not the most satisfying build in terms of hands-on fun, but its sheer uniqueness alone makes it an interesting kit worth checking out. :-)

SD Devil Gundam | 2003.2 | ¥800

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.