I think we can all agree Bandai releases things in waves. Even if something sold well, if they kept releasing similar types of kits people would get burned out. But that doesn't mean they won't go back later and come out with another wave of designs from a particular series.
As an example remember when there was a flurry of G Gundam MG kits? I would've bought a Dragon Gundam but they never got around to releasing it. I don't know how the G Line did as a whole but the fighting frame was pretty cool. Does this mean they will never ever release a MG Dragon Gundam? Maybe, but maybe not. I think that they could very well start releasing them in the future. If they had kept focusing on G Kits people would've gotten burned. But as it is they didn't over saturate their consumer base. They could later go back and release a bunch of new designs, even using the old fighting frame, and it would seem fresh because of the time between waves.
Hey, a Friday post (that's not by me)!
I said it before and I say it again, Bandai is very conservative nowaday to release a kit that's no a recoloring or minor mod. I don't know if you can call them "responsible to stockholders" or "dickless". Whenever they hit a bump in a certain line (MG Speigel as your example, MG PG/PZ for mine) they halt that line. True, tie in helps but sometimes it's hateful to have to wait for tie ins to come out to rejuvenile a line...
I like the G Gudnam frames too, but it's true that after Speigel it's harder to push another MG Gs that'd sell well... I'd vote for Nobel/Noble, but the frame wouldn't work for it.
Wonder if there's a ZZ model revival as this year is ZZ's 20th anniversary, but it's DVD set is out and the first portion of the year would probably still be the period for Z III.
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Boaz
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