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Ever since «Mobile Suit Gundam» (Kido Senshi Gundam) first aired in Japan in 1979 and launched the «Real Robots» mecha anim genre, the Gundam franchise has been closely and almost exclusively associated with the hobby of plastic model-Gundam Universe gets into the action figure action
Ever since «Mobile Suit Gundam» (Kido Senshi Gundam) first aired in Japan in 1979 and launched the «Real Robots» mecha anim genre, the Gundam franchise has been closely and almost exclusively associated with the hobby of plastic model-making ---colloquially called «Plamo» for «plastic model»---to the point that it earned its own hobby subgenre, «Gunpla» for «Gundam plastic.» Through its decades of the Universal Century canon and its alternative realities--- including the wildly popular «Mobile Suit Gundam Wing» (1996), the gritty «Mobile Suit Gundam: O8th MS Team» (1996), the divisive «Mobile Suit Gundam SEED» (2002), the noirish «Mobile Suit Gundam 00» (2007) and the kid-friendly "Gu...Keep on reading: Gundam Universe gets into the action figure action Read more