Kit Review

Straight build + Panel lining + Seals

Size comparison with a cigarette pack.

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Various angles (1/6)

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Various angles (2/6)

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Various angles (3/6)

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Various angles (4/6)

Various angles

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Detail shots (1/4)

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Detail shots (2/4)

Detail shots

Outer armor removal shot

Internal frame

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Frame detail shots. It's pretty much a full-body frame, minus the forearms. (1/4)

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Frame detail shots. It's pretty much a full-body frame, minus the forearms. (2/4)

Frame detail shots.
It's pretty much a full-body frame, minus the forearms.

The beam rifle has an internal frame too.

Skirt interior detail

MGSD Freedom Gundam - There's actually molded detail on the inside of the front skirt's front/rear parts too. It's a spot you

There's actually molded detail on the inside of the front skirt's front/rear parts too.
It's a spot you'll never see once everything's assembled.

Not all of them, but some parts do have a bit of interior molding.

The sole detail is pretty intricate too.

Weapons loadout

Shield interior detail

The beam rifle can be mounted on the rear skirt.

You can also attach the beam saber to it.

The pegs on the beam saber and beam rifle plug into the palm hole, locking them in nice and securely.

MGSD Freedom Gundam - A movable locking pin has been added next to the beam saber storage slot on the side skirt. Thanks to t

A movable locking pin has been added next to the beam saber storage slot on the side skirt.
Thanks to that, the beam saber will never fall out.

MGSD Freedom Gundam - The rail guns mounted on the side skirts are linked together in a gear mechanism. Just be careful — if

The rail guns mounted on the side skirts are linked together in a gear mechanism.
If you don't push the rear section all the way up when assembling, they won't deploy properly —
so be careful.

Rail gun deployment

The cockpit hatch open gimmick is also included.

Shoulder verniers deployment gimmick

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Clear parts are used for the eyes, cameras, and wings. The face achieves great color separation through

Clear parts are used for the eyes, cameras, and wings.
The face achieves great color separation through parts division alone, no stickers needed.

Fold the lower backpack verniers down,
and a stand mounting hole is revealed inside.

Articulation you'd never see on a regular SD

A hip joint slide gimmick is also included.

There's a thigh slide gimmick too, but —

MGSD Freedom Gundam - it doesn't automatically slide when you move the leg. Instead, you just pull the thigh out by hand when

It doesn't automatically slide when you move the leg.
Instead, you just pull the thigh out by hand whenever you want, regardless of knee movement.

To fully bend the elbow, you need to extend the elbow joint first.

The fingers articulate in three segments.

The side skirts also have a joint that opens outward, for better articulation and proportions.

The front and rear shoulder covers also move slightly forward and backward.

The multi-stage joint lets the waist bend forward quite a lot.

Forward/backward shoulder articulation

A gimmick to extend the wing length by one step is also included.

Wing deployment

Cannon deployment

There's a gimmick to extend the wing mounting sections on both sides outward a bit further.

Using the hip joint slide gimmick, you can pull off a natural kneeling pose.

Cannon deployed pose

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Wings deployed (1/4)

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Wings deployed (2/4)

Wings deployed

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Beam rifle action poses (1/4)

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Beam rifle action poses (2/4)

Beam rifle action poses

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Full burst poses (1/5)

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Full burst poses (2/5)

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Full burst poses (3/5)

Full burst poses

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Beam saber poses (1/4)

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Beam saber poses (2/4)

Beam saber poses

Together with the MG Freedom Gundam v2.0.

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Together with the Full Mechanics 1/100 Freedom Gundam Ver.GCP. The wing shape is similar to the GCP ver

Together with the Full Mechanics 1/100 Freedom Gundam Ver.GCP.
The wing shape is similar to the GCP version.

Together with the RG Freedom Gundam.
The overall size is similar to a 1/144 Gunpla.

Together with the RG Freedom Gundam Ver.GCP.

Together with the SD EX-Standard Freedom Gundam Ver.GCP.

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Together with the SD BB Senshi Freedom Gundam released in 2003. What an incredible upgrade over 20 year

Together with the SD BB Senshi Freedom Gundam released in 2003.
What an incredible upgrade over 20 years.

MGSD Freedom Gundam - Together with the SDCS Freedom Gundam with CS frame. The SDCS has a pretty slim look in its own right,

Together with the SDCS Freedom Gundam with CS frame.
The SDCS has a pretty slim look in its own right, but the MGSD is noticeably bigger.

The evolution of SD Freedom Gundam — BB Senshi (2003), SDCS (2019), and beyond

Straight build

Freedom Gundam has been released as the first entry in the new MGSD lineup. True to its name, it's an SD kit with MG-level quality — the proportions are much slimmer than traditional SDs, and the frame and armor construction are put together with genuine MG-grade precision.

Basically, only the proportions are SD-style — the actual content is pure MG. There's an internal frame throughout the whole body except the forearms, and the detail work is quite refined. The limb articulation is also completely unlike traditional SDs, delivering the kind of smooth, flexible movement you'd expect from an MG. It's packed with premium gimmicks like a hip joint slide mechanism and flexible shoulder and waist joints.

Joint strength is smooth yet solid all around, and since the kit is on the smaller side, there's nothing really worrying about durability. It holds whatever pose you put it in, and despite the relatively short limbs, dynamic posing is totally doable. For aerial poses, you can use a separate Action Base — just open the lower backpack verniers to expose the stand mounting hole. On top of that, you also get a cockpit hatch open gimmick, shoulder vernier open gimmick, and even a thigh slide gimmick. That said, the thigh slide doesn't link to the knee movement like on a typical MG — you just pull the thigh out by hand to extend it.

The wing, cannon, and rail gun deployment gimmicks are also brilliantly executed at MG level. The rail guns deploy with the front and rear sections linked via a gear mechanism — just make sure to follow the manual carefully and push the rear gear teeth as far up as possible when assembling, or they won't deploy straight. The wings also get an extra gimmick that extends the large outer wings one step further, and they hold their position firmly at any angle, which is a relief. Particularly noteworthy is that the notoriously flimsy beam saber storage — a long-standing weak point of Freedom Gundam kits — has been completely solved here. There's a movable locking pin on the outside of the side skirt, so the beam saber is designed to never fall off during posing.

All in all, as an MG kit in SD proportions, this thing is pretty much flawless. It's more solid, more precise, and more stable to pose than any other Freedom Gundam kit out there. Personally, it feels like the most well-executed Freedom Gundam model kit to date. As long as you're okay with the SD-style proportions, this is a fantastic kit I'd recommend to any Gunpla fan. :-)

MGSD Freedom Gundam | 2023.1 | ¥3,900

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.