SD BB Senshi Musha Psycho Gundam

Release 1989.8

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 Psycho Gundam - After applying seals (1/2)

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

After applying stickers

Armor and weapons removed

SD Musha Psycho Gundam - Light armor type (1/2)

SD Musha Psycho Gundam - Light armor type (2/2)

Light equipment type

Additional eye seals with a different design are included.

Weapons include a gun and a golden staff — you can draw a sword out of the golden staff.

The gun has a spring gimmick that lets you actually fire a projectile!

The golden staff can be stored on the backpack.

A brainwashing mask can be added to the face.

A light armor Bison is included as a bonus.

Light armor Bison

Tilt the helmet horn forward and you can equip the light armor Bison with armor and weapons as shown above.

Musha Bison

Inside the Bison there's a gimmick that links the head and tail together.

Move the head and the tail moves along with it.

Very basic SD articulation — only the head, arms, and shoulders rotate

SD Musha Psycho Gundam - Action pose (1/4)

SD Musha Psycho Gundam - Action pose (2/4)

Action pose

Together with SD Musha Gundam

This kit is the SD Musha Psycho Gundam released as part of the SD Gundam Musha 7-nin Shuu hen series. Like its predecessors, you can remove the armor to put it in light armor form, and a light armor Bison is included as a bonus mech. You can also outfit the light armor Bison with the armor and weapons to build it as Musha Bison.

Weapons include a spring-loaded gun that fires a projectile and a golden staff — the staff itself acts as a scabbard, so you can draw a sword from it. The golden staff can also be stored on the backpack, and a brainwashing mask can optionally be applied to the face. As a special gimmick, the Bison has a linked head-and-tail mechanism inside — move the head up or down and the tail moves along with it, which is a pretty fun little feature.

It's a kit that does a great job of giving Psycho Gundam a musha makeover, and with the fun Bison mech thrown in too, ¥300 feels like a real bargain. It was out of print for a while and became quite the rare find, but in 2020 it was reprinted with the blue Bandai Spirits logo as a commemorative release for the SD Gundam BB Senshi World event, making it a bit easier to track down. Either way, this is one of the better kits from the early Musha Gundam lineup and definitely worth recommending. :-)

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.