SD BB Senshi Knight Sazabi

Release 1990.1

Price ¥500

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

Hyper Knight Sazabi after applying seals

The griffon head and rear wings on the right shoulder can be detached.

Combine the two and you can build a separate griffon like shown above.

There's also a gimmick where the tail folds for when it combines with the Knight Sazabi.

Knight Sazabi on its own without the griffon

The griffon head fires a projectile via a spring

You can cut out part of the manual and slot it between the shoulder parts to use as a cape.

Typical SD articulation — only head, shoulders, and feet rotate

The mid-section of the wings is also articulated.

Action poses

Together with SD Sazabi

Together with the SD Musha Nu Gundam.

This kit is the SD Knight Sazabi, released as part of the SD Gundam Gaiden Zieg Zeon arc series. True to its name, it's an SD kit that turns Sazabi into a knight — it keeps the original Sazabi design silhouette as much as possible, with additional armor layered on top.

The basic articulation and parts layout follow the same concept as previous kits. The special option here is a phoenix — you can detach the backpack and the shoulder-mounted weapons and combine them to form it. Technically speaking, the form with the phoenix separated is the Knight Sazabi, while the combined form is called the Hyper Knight Sazabi.

The spring-loaded projectile-firing gimmick is a bit unusual — instead of a rifle-type weapon, it fires from the phoenix head sitting on the shoulder. That said, the phoenix head doesn't stay on the shoulder very well and tends to wobble, and the ball joints on the phoenix wings are loose so they droop downward too.

Another newly added option is a cape, which you make by cutting out a section of the manual with scissors and slotting it into the shoulder area. Being paper, it's stiff and doesn't drape naturally, but this paper cape approach ended up being used in quite a few kits that followed.

Anyway, it's an older kit, but it's got a pretty decent style to it — if you're a fan of SD kits and Sazabi, this one should be a fun build. :-)

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.