SD BB Senshi Gekiryuha Gundam

Release 1996.12

Price ¥500

BANDAI BANDAI Japan product info

Runners

Parts diagram

The manual assembly is different from previous kits.

Manual

Straight build + Stickers

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Front view of straight build before stickers

SD Gekiryuha Gundam - After applying seals (1/2)

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

After applying stickers

Armor and weapons removed

SD Gekiryuha Gundam - Light armor type (1/2)

SD Gekiryuha Gundam - Light armor type (2/2)

Light equipment type

Rotate the face 180 degrees and open the front armor to achieve the Gekiryu form.

A spring launch gimmick is built into the backpack and the Bakuentagekiho.

SD Gekiryuha Gundam - The Bakuentagekiho works by loading a round ball into the launcher, then firing it using the launcher's

The Bakuentagekiho works by loading a round ball into the launcher, then firing it using the launcher's own inertia.

You can also launch it with the wing attached to the backpack.

One leftover part remains.

Typical SD-level articulation — only the head, arms, and feet rotate.

Action pose

Together with SD Daisenkigundam

This kit is the SD Gekiryuha Gundam, released as part of the Shin SD Sengokuden Mushinki Ragang series. Its biggest feature is the transformation into Gekiryu form, which sports a striking silver chrome effect that almost looks like something out of Terminator. In terms of content, two runners from the SD Bakuryu Gundam are reused, though the design feels completely different.

The reuse of parts from the Seven Shogun arc kit and the manual being split into black-and-white and color sections put this in the same package concept as its predecessor, SD Daisenkigundam. The transformation gimmick — opening the chest armor and rotating the head to switch into a different form — follows the same concept as well. And just like that kit, runner reuse means one Bakuryu Gundam part ends up as a leftover, which is pretty similar too.

This kit also packs a unique spring gimmick — alongside the missile-firing gimmick in the backpack, you get the Bakuentagekiho, which launches a red ball using inertia. You can even attach the backpack to the front of the Bakuentagekiho and fire that too, making it a pretty quirky little feature all around.

Anyway, it's a pretty distinctive SD samurai Gundam kit in its own right, and it'd be even better built alongside its companion, SD Daisenkigundam. :-)

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.