>>>>>>>>>>>> Yes recolors, minor vars and ver.2's extend the lifetime of a design. But you are still staring at a shrinking market in the face. I am part of the fraction that will start to lose interest once 0079 is done in HGUC. Bandai will have to do something very special for me to buy yet another 1/144 Gundam (hmm Gundam + Core Booster pack would do it for me).
In fact I am almost there already. The old Zock is very serviceable. The old Acguy is clunky but it would be preferrable to a supersized Acguy. EX is taking care of the non-humanoids; (Samson looks fantastic!) oh I gotta finish the Gunperry. So when HGUC vanilla Gelgoogs come out I will start to retire from gunpla. Looking at that robo-sumo video from a while back, I could help but think gunpla is really 20th Cen. kiddie toy, it's about time to move on! >>>>>>>>>>>> I have considered moving on at times too. I still get kits, but I honestly could walk away now and not bat an eyelash. I am mainly a 0079 Era MS fan. I like a few designs in other UC series. With the sole exception of the Manga Astray, I actively dislike the direction the newer designs are going. While I am a diehard mooneye fan, I could careless about the Seed versions. And don't get me started on the new Gundams... At this point I don't know what else I have to anticipate kit-wise. There are a few I wouldn't mind getting but very few that are must-haves like the MG Acguy. My question is what dream kits does everyone else have that would reinvest them in Gundam, or mecha modeling in general? For myself I can say that I would buy any of the following kits: PG Dom *** (Not that Glorious Series crap, I want a full on PG quality Dom) PG Gelgoog MG Gabthley MG Jagd Doga MG Denan Zon *** MG Daghi Irusa *** MG Kapool HGUC GP-02A HGUC Sazabi HGUC Nu Gundam HGUC ZZ Gundam HGUC Xamel HGM Alpha Azieru *** These would actually be must haves for me Outside of Gundam I would really love the following kits from Macross: PG Size/MG quality - Fully Transformable SDF-1 MG Queadlunn Rau (TV colors) MG Tomahawk MG Regult with all the option packs MG Regult Scout -------------------------------------------------- The Gundam Mailing List MK-II [email protected] Archives: http://www.gundam.com/gml Help: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this in the BODY: help list
