Bandai · 1980 to 1989 · International release
Gunpla: The Original Kits (1980-1989)
Bandai's first Gundam plastic model kits, launched in July 1980 with a 300 yen 1/144 RX-78 Gundam and quickly followed by 1/100 and 1/60 versions, warships, mobile armours and dioramas. The boom carried through the Mobile Suit Variations side range in 1983-84 and the Zeta Gundam, Gundam ZZ, Gundam Sentinel, Char's Counterattack and War in the Pocket kits of 1985-89. Early kits are glue-together with simple articulation and few colours; collectors prize first-run boxes and the cheaper Best Mecha Collection numbering on the small kits.
212 toys: 212 model kits, across 12 waves.
Mobile Suit Gundam - 1/144 and small scale1980
Mobile Suit Gundam - 1/1001980
Mobile Suit Gundam - 1/100 Real Type1982
Mobile Suit Gundam - 1/601980
Mobile Suit Gundam - dioramas and 1/72 Mechanic Models1981
Mobile Suit Variations (MSV)1983
Model kit · 1983
Model kit · 1983
Zeta Gundam1985
Model kit · 1985
Model kit · 1985
Model kit · 1985
Model kit · 1985
Gundam ZZ1986
Gundam Sentinel1987
Char's Counterattack1987
Full Color Model1988
Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket1989
Original or reissue?
Bandai has kept many of these moulds in production and reissued them repeatedly, so check box printing and copyright dates to tell an early 1980s run from a later reissue.
- RX-78 Gundam (1/144) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- Ball (1/144) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- Char's Gelgoog (1/144) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- Lalah Sune's Mobile Armor (1/550) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- Mass Production Gelgoog (1/144) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- MS-06 Zaku (1/100 Real Type) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- MS-09 Dom (1/100 Real Type) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- MS-11 Gelgoog (1/100 Real Type) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- RX-77 Guncannon (1/100 Real Type) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- RX-78 Gundam (1/100 Real Type) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- MS-05 Old Zaku (1/100 Real Type) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- RGM-79 GM (1/100 Real Type) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- MS-06E Zaku Reconnaissance Type (1/144, Zeta range) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- MS-06K Zaku Cannon (1/144, Zeta range) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- MS-06V Zaku Tank (1/144, Zeta range) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- MS-07H Gouf Flight Test Type (1/144, Zeta range) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- RGC-80 GM Cannon (1/144, Zeta range) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- RGM-79 GM Sniper Custom (1/144, Zeta range) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- MS-07B Gouf (1/144 Full Color Model) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- MS-09R Rick Dom (1/144 Full Color Model) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- MSM-07S Char's Z'Gok (1/144 Full Color Model) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- MSM-07 Z'Gok (1/144 Full Color Model) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- MSN-00100 Hyaku Shiki Gold Version (1/100) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- MSN-00100 Hyaku Shiki Gold Version (1/144) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- RGM-79 GM (1/144 Full Color Model) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- RX-77 Guncannon (1/144 Full Color Model) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
- RX-78 Gundam (1/144 Full Color Model) has notes on telling an original from a reissue.
Values
Loose and carded or boxed copies are valued separately, from the median asking price of current eBay listings for genuine originals (reproductions, reissues, customs, lots and parts left out). Asking prices, not completed sales.
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