Sorry, taken me a while to reply. That name idea sounds good. I'm starting to learn most of the main cast, but now there's a bunch of new characters being announced.
On the designs- I've gotten a pretty good grasp on them but that's probably because it's become one of my key Gundam interests. Whilst everyone else is trying to figure out what powers the latest Zaku variant, I'm wondering if Musha so and so is related to Musha such and such. Figuring out what the designs are based on can be pretty difficult. Especially on the ones where they've only used a few elements, like the Musha Grand Gundam in SD Gundam Force. Speaking of designs, it seems Bandai are treating this more like a standard toyline. New scans have come out showing a Dendrobium Orchis-like carriage for the GP03 character. As for numbering- you're right, it was shot to heck a while back. Probably the biggest part of that is the GG kits, which despite essentially being BB Senshi seem to have their own seperate subline. Then you have all the boxsets, like the ones collecting teams (Char Customs, White Base, Jaburo invaders) including some on the Musha side (for Mushmaruden 2, there's a set which collects the lead Wakamaru with his team mates who are all much older kits). For the Musha kits, the packaging usually has double numbering- the kits numbering in the overall BB line and its number in the series. So, like the recent Sazabi is BB 303 and 04 in the Sangokuden line. In recent times Bandai tend to work in a style of Musha/Real Type/Musha/Real Type. So, the first kit might be Retsumaru, the next SD Strike Gundam and the next Rekka Musha Gundam. For Sangokuden, I wouldn't be suprised if they do stop any non 'Musha' kits for a while. At least until they unveil an SD Exia probably half a year from now. > Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 14:22:36 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [gundam] Some new info on Sangokuden's Tallgeese > > Grant White wrote: > > Sorry about that, I was in a hurry when I posted and I have trouble learning > > the names these series use. So rather then botch them and possibly offend > > someone, I just go for the quick and easy until I'm sure. > > It's ok, I know what you meant, but other readers may get confused. > To be honest, I know them by the Chinese names (often forgetting > what's the "players" e.g. Sazabi) and since I don't know pinyin so > well, every time I write a post I have to look up Wikipedia for the > proper spelling in pinyin. It's either that, or go to HLJ/Wiki to > look up the romanji name, since... unfortunately, HLJ might have > inadvertently set the precedence for using romanji (Ryuubi) instead of > pinyin (Liu Bei) as the standard Anglicization. > > So... it's not easy for me either :) > > If you need a general name like Musha so-so, please use Sangoku so-so. > Since Musha is a well-defined existing SD series based on Japanese > history-legends. And like you said, there are Musha Gundam, Zeta and > ZZ already, so Sangoku Gundam, Zeta and ZZ are unambiguous names easy > for those of you who funked Chinese history in school ;-) > > > I'd say the kits are worth picking up. It is kind of boring that we have yet > > another musha Gundam, Zeta and ZZ but I've just built Sazabi and he looks > > really nice. > > Actually I want and assembled Liu Bei Gundam after the last post, it's > a nice kit. Just like the Keroro kits, I cut myself once during > construction. The no-tools-needed kit is > > I would hope that, there are sufficient difference between the Musha > designs and Sangoku designs that a gaijin who's paying attention can > tell the difference. So far, I can't honestly make that assertion. > Differences between Chinese and Japanese designs are subtle to start > with, and we have (presumably) Japanese designers creating > Chinese-influenced Gundams. For now, if you know what you are looking > for, certain cloud motif, spiral pattern and flame design, you can > tell apart Sangokuden and Musha, but it's not fool-proof. > > > The numbering issue annoys, especially because it dilutes the whole big deal > > they made over BB 300. It feels like something held back SD during 2006, but > > the execs were dead set on celebrating the 20th anniversary with something > > special. > > It's kind of like 300 home runs for a baseball player isn't it? > Making 300 is a big deal but someone making 296 isn't inferior to > someone making 302 (you need to look at RBI, strike-outs etc). It's > just a psychological threshold, once you make it, it's not so > important any more, because no one decides to retire after 300, > there's always the next milestone. > > The whole idea of BB#300 might or might not have been diluted even > before they delayed #296-299. Has Bandai never skipped (permanently) > some numbers between 1 and 295? Has Bandai produced some SD kits that > didn't occupy a spot in the numbering scheme? I doubt Blu Duel Gundam > was truly the 295th SD model kit produced by Bandai. I think MG #100 > was the same story. > > Hey I just had a thought, will Bandai try to produce the Sangokuden > kits in consecutive numbers? If they are making 10 or more kits in > this line, are they suspending the other SD kits? If not, how will > they be numbered? There may be another break in consecutive numbering > in the near future. > > -- > Dr. Core > -------------------------------------------------- > 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 _________________________________________________________________ Get free emoticon packs and customisation from Windows Live. http://www.pimpmylive.co.uk
