【MOBILE SUIT Ζ GUNDAM】Marasai made into MG with a completely new design! MG RMS-108 Marasai made into a 3D model packed with gimmicks, such as back-of-the-head details visible through armor gaps!

RMS-108 Marasai appearing in “Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam” is made into a 3D model as MG (Master Grade) with a completely new design. It is a kit that makes you want to gaze at it again thinking “Was Marasai this cool?”. Differing in direction from heroics like Gundam types, rounded armor, a powerful physique, and a silhouette drifting somewhere rugged are truly impressive. While leaving a weapon feel typical of mass-production Mobile Suits, it also solidly possesses individuality recognizable as Marasai at a glance. Being MG with a completely new design, rather than simply reproducing old designs in a large size, that it is crafted so fine parts can be enjoyed as a 3D object is a major highlight.

What I want to pay attention to in this kit is not only armor visible from the outside. For example, at the back of the head, internal details can be checked through gaps in the armor, making you realize “Is it made this far?” even when casually going around to the back. Rather than completing only the figure seen from the front, giving persuasiveness as a mecha up to the head and the back of armor can be called fun typical of MG. Gazing at structures on a part basis during assembly, and enjoying the interior through exterior armor after completion. Because different fun is born during production and after completion, it is a single unit suited even for people who want to spend time thoroughly assembling.

What makes you feel Mobile Suits as “giant humanoid weapons” is the cockpit hatch that can be opened and closed. It is possible to seat a figure inside, and being able to imagine size differences between humans and machines is the interesting part. Gazing at Marasai standalone makes you seem about to forget the giant size, but by having a small pilot figure fit inside, you can re-realize that it is a model scaled down from weapons appearing in the show. Crafting that makes you think “Even though it's a part almost invisible from the outside, do you reproduce that far?” is precisely the real pleasure unique to plastic models that cannot be savored just by gazing at completed products.

Speaking of Marasai, the presence of the camera eye is after all indispensable. By equipping a separately sold LED unit in this kit, the camera eye can be made to emit light, and lighting it up changes the head's impression considerably. Imagining the camera eye glowing in a dark place, that alone seems likely to drift a sense of tension typical of Mobile Suits in the show. Furthermore, because a round forming joint for display is included as well, rather than just standing it upright, ingenuity can be added to display ways too. Specifications where you can think up to “how to show” after assembling will be a pleasing point for people who want to enjoy display.

Another thing that cannot be missed is that attachment parts for equipping a separately sold Ballute Pack are prepared. First completing Marasai in normal state, and after fully enjoying that figure, adding equipment to develop into a different style. Such step-by-step ways of playing are possible. Not ending once completed, but being able to change display atmospheres by additional equipment is attractive even as a collection. If lining up with multiple Mobile Suits conscious of the worldview of “Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam”, scenes different again from standalone display seem likely to be seen.

Contents include 16 molded parts, along with foil stickers, dry decals, Tetron stickers, and assembly instructions included respectively. Adding fine markings can heighten the machine's amount of information further. Not only enjoying forms unique to Marasai, but being packed up to details lurking in the back of armor, cockpit, response to camera eye light emission gimmicks, and expandability to additional equipment is the interesting part of this MG RMS-108 Marasai. Rather than enjoying only the moment completed, picking up parts, knowing structures, and getting closer to the figure of a giant Mobile Suit little by little. Wanting to savor that process itself, it is a kit not to mention Marasai lovers, but also people attracted to mechanical charms of mass-production Mobile Suits to pay attention to.