SD BB Senshi Musha Gundam

Release 1988.12

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 Musha Gundam - After applying seals (1/2)

SD Musha Gundam - After applying seals (2/2)

After applying stickers

The weapons can be displayed on the separately included stand.

Weapons mounted on the stand

Light armor type with weapons removed

Standard Gundam-style eye seals are also included.

A gun that fires a projectile via a spring when you press the switch.

The rest of the weapons.
The sword can be stored in its scabbard.

SD Musha Gundam - There's a spring gimmick where pressing the face mask makes the helmet pop up. This feature was dropped in

There's a spring gimmick where pressing the face mask makes the helmet pop up.
This feature was dropped in later kits, so it's become something unique to this one.

Typical SD-level articulation with rotating head, feet, and shoulders

Action poses

Together with SD First Gundam

This kit is the SD Musha Gundam, released in 1988 as part of the SD Gundam Musha Shichinin-shu series. It's the kit that really kicked off the Musha Gundam series in earnest. At first glance it looks like it's based on the First Gundam, but the actual backstory is a tangled mess. Musha Gundam first appeared in Plamo-Kyoshiro back in 1985, and story-wise it's technically based on the Gundam Mk-II — though its design is such an odd mix that people often assume it's derived from the First Gundam. (We'll skip the complicated lore and just focus on the kit itself here.)

The basic concept is a reinterpretation of SD Gundam in a Sengoku-era samurai style, and the size, molding, and overall limb construction are on par with the old-style SD Gundam kits. A common feature across this early Musha Gundam series is the ability to remove the armor and display it in a light armor configuration, with the detached armor pieces mountable on a separate gimmick. This kit comes with a Gundam torso-shaped stand, so you can display the weapons on it in a pretty cool way.

There's also a classic spring-loaded gun that fires a projectile, plus a spring gimmick where pressing the face armor makes the head armor pop upward. That head armor spring gimmick is actually a special feature found only in this kit among the early Musha Gundam series.

Since the limbs are old-style SD, there aren't many points of articulation and posing options are pretty limited — but for just 300 yen, the sheer amount of stuff packed in here gives it pretty solid value for money. One thing to keep in mind: like the old SD Gundam kits, the seals on early SD Musha Gundam kits have very poor adhesion, so the curved ones tend to peel and lift over time. That said, as the kit that started it all for the Musha Gundam series, it's definitely worth having in your collection if you're an SD Gundam fan. :-)

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.