Gunpla is doomed 

Same

If you can sculpt you can alway repurpose it. Grab some lacquer thinner and a glass container with a non plastic lid. Cut up some runners and put it in the jar. After a few days you have a putty like consistency. Paint after sculpting.

Dunno if they'll accept any runners, but passed a Warhammer/GW store the other day and they had a bin for runners and paint pots.

You can always make sprue and nubs into sprue goo

Long sprues plus some heat make decent stands for models.

At least in the US, a lot of national parks have banned or are on the way to banning single use plastics.

Fun fact: most gunpla are made of PS/ABS(poly styrene, and acetylene butyl styrene) The latter of which is the single most recyclable material on earth. It’s easier to make into new products than metal or paper. It’s also naturally anti-microbial because the cells are so small.

This issue isn't consumer single use plastic, but manufacturing single use plastic.

The single use plastic band is the biggest b******* ever. Because water bottles are exempt from it somehow. Nonsense laws

Yah, plastics aren't going away. It's a byproduct of oil production and may be reduced, but it's not going away.

How fragile? Thongli like?

I still think plastic will be produced in the future, we need it for all kind of things (in medicine, pharma, food storage..). The main Co2 source is from energy generation, not plastic parts.

​@@koweedate very brittle

That's why Limex is not suitable for joints 🗿

@@alfianfahmi5430 try and build the big trex kit. Oooof

Thanks for saying this! Consumers aren't the problem 99% of the time, just like how pollution isn't a population problem

agree. plastic is way too efficient and practical. we're thinking backwards. instead of trying to replace or reinvent plastic, our science should focus on how to safely deal with plastic waste

Bandai needs to expand on it's plastic recylcing campaign where they have bins for throwing the runners in and they use it to make ecopla

We already have commercially available plant based resins.

Yes and no... Plastic is a byproduct of oil, so it's kinda limited to oil stocks tbf.

@@Enemy0fMine1415 .... thinking plastic is still oil based lol. just like the dumbasses that are making laws that they have no fucking idea what they are talking about..

Was going to say the same since. Nerds in the US have been trying to turn corn into plastic for about 2 decades now and have made some serious progress. On top of all of that the whole plastic debacle is pointed at disposable plastic, which Gunpla is not.

It's corn! It's got the juice.

I don't see plastic ever going away too versatile, can be quality, easier, and cheaper to make than mostly other materials. They will probably develop so that all plastic is recyclable and dissolvable quickly.

@@gerogyzurkov2259 Pretty much heading that way already

As someone that plays “Airsoft” a lot of our ammo is literally compressed “cornpla” which is biodegradable fun

Also, it seems that ever since the "fan content ban", a number of war hammer fans have started to jump ship to the likes of Gunpla, or Tamiya, leading to EVEN LESS sales for GW.

3D printers are the bain of GW. If they weren't so crappy no one woukd bother printing so they doom themselves.

@@duelgundam hah, funny you should mention that lol... I've been doing gunpla myself and honestly, it's been some of the best model making experiences I've ever had.

Well runners are, thats why alot more plastic recycling boxes are popping up in hobby shops

That wont stop the government to target plastics heavy companies

@@raellaneta6832 such nonsense.... Bandai will keep doing what it wants

@@kingpatatochip3357 That just means people need to be more creative with what's left over. I use runners to make stands and pins for broken parts that don't need metal pin rigidity. Takes some effort, but it's better than tossing it.

​@@kivulifenrirwaiting for someone to come up with a consumer filament extrusion system. I have a few 3d printers and would love to be able to shred and repurpose runners. Being able to print action stands using the leftovers would be fantastic.

That's kind of the point - the fact that plastic doesn't break down over time is why many countries are trying to move past it. Among the many other products they don't want to waste away in a landfill, they don't want the toys and long unused products of long dead people taking longer to rot and break down than the people themselves did.

@@Madara8989 Never thought Of it that way. While we are alive we just want stuff like this that last forever for some reason

@@mikloridden8276 it sounds like its all gonna be more about the experience of building it rather than the end product, which is an interesting trade-off.

@@Madara8989 What like water, Oxsgen,Steel and gold? people throw those away all the time and they don't die and never will.

That's the dilemma: metarial that degrades slowly is preferable to customers but bad for environment, while faster one won't pollute the environment for too long but also won't stay on your shelf for too long.

I got one at work that was about four thin slices of potato that was in a airtight foil package. This needs to go!

It would be hard, but if you make companies have to cover the cost of disposal and recycling, they'll probably start looking for an alternative pretty quickly.

@@thuranz2773 No, that would just kill businesses silly. We need an alternative first. Then you can punish those that refuse to change.

@@fen4554 Plus you have to consider that Japan recycles a ton of the plastic that they use and recycle it.... there are other countries that dont recycle and throw it everywhere so ^^

The problem isnt the production country its the consumer country, they could always move the production into a country with lax enviromental laws, but if they ban the final product sale that could be a problem. I dont see any chance of a plastic toy and hobby ban in the US ever.. at least not in my lifetime (next 40-50 years) but EU is very possible.

I was thinking the same thing. Bandai should open this up worldwide, so that people can send in their broken old Gunpla plastic for recycling, so that it can be molten & reused.

they'll advertise alternatives to plastic if there's hype and profit to be made. The environment, yes, they don't care, but indirectly, it will be good for the planet if consumer demand pushes them to adapt.

They don't. It's your typical virtue signaling

Because it's a pride month? 😅

No

I guess the point for it was to not stand the test of time lol

Oh no, the figures have to be made out of full diecast

paper crafting gundam is not that good. it looks ugly af.

You’re gonna need lotsa tape

There are other plastic alternatives that have proven way more durable. If you've ever built a lego set with foliage pieces, you've experienced one of the nicer plastic alternatives. It's just as durable as the old stuff they used to use for those kinds of parts, but are wholly renewable.

@@ToxicAtom Yup, if Lego can do it any company can.

Nah pretty sure GB M shutdowns because it becamos boring, dumb gacha rate too. Imo only Mihoyo did gacha right lol

@@ry0usama511 yup, Bandai Namco ruined their own game. 😢

@@ameeruliskandar993 I loved the game but I have to agree with this

@@echo3568 i'm still upset it shut down

@@Viper-jr4sp same. It might not have been perfect but it was enough

if you live in Japan, you can turn them in for recycling- it's a shame that there's no efficient way for them to do that outside of Japan.

@@LordofCicadas yea it's just as difficult to return spruces to japan as it is difficult to purchase gunpla; if i want a specific gunpla i have to wait 6 weeks for online stores to have it available. i guess the majority of gunpla fans are in japan or in asia

No they're not. They'll become brittle over time.

why?

I’m terms of priority gunpla would be on the low side. Medical technology that needs certain parts to be plastic would probably take precedent.

the gunpla industry

@@CJWproductions sorry about that auto correct

@@Doc51499 that too I didn’t realize that at the time, but other than those two properties plastic can pretty much go the way of the dodo

@@lordskull372 what autocorrect

Don’t you dare give them ideas

I'll already died if they do that

Go for it

it's not only Bandai factory, it's also us, sprues are the biggest problem, if you have 10 kits, that's around 100+ sprues of garbage, now imagine everyone in this hobby trowing away all those plastic bags and sprues... are you getting the picture?

Im working for a massive industry, with a lot of stuff relying on cleanroom grade materials. The amount of double layer, single use plastic packaging and bubblewrap is absolutely insane. That's a worldwide thing for anything medical or technology related. A bunch of nerds throwing sprues in the bin pales in comparison. There is a bit of madness in there too though, that at least where i live, coloured plastic is classed as unrecyclable by default. Even though model quality polystyrene is super easy to shred into pellets for new injection molding. Recycling regulations and laws leave a lot to be desired. In that part of the industry is still so much progress to be made, but as long as "throw away, buy new" (even/especially on a massive scale) is cheaper than the recycling cycle, nothing will change. For a scale model, warhammer figure or gundam, I often wonder why the parts arent already stamped out of the big runner frames with just the nubs and numberlabel left attached. That way, 90% of the plastic waste wouldn't even have to leave the factory of origin. It would already be sorted by colour in the production line, ready to be fed back into the molds. Lego is slowly changing from plastic to paper bags to ship the parts in. Gundams could use this tactic too. Parts sorted per bodypart for easy building. Sorry for the massive, rambling textwall😅 If you're still reading, here's a cookie: 🍪 Cheers! (Edited for typos)

​@@ironelemental9367they shouLd stamped parts out. But they are lazy as f8ck also.

@@joaoduarte4552 I don't think you realize just how much plastic waste goes through industry. You could take all the sprues that this hobby has ever generated, melt it down, and you wouldn't have half of what one large petroleum company would waste in a day. It's kinda like power. People in the 80s thought light bulbs were the problem. Today we think it's A/C. But that's all a drop in the bucket compared to the power usage of industry. And that's the behavior that we can't easily stop.

The moment 3rd part resin kits become mainstream its over for Bandai unless they go real hard into giving people what they want.

Yep. Huanying and Daban keep pooping out kits that are on par with Bandai's. (E.G MG Dynames, MG Slash Zaku Phantom, Nu Gundam Ver. ka China Version and lot more)

For real - as an MG collector I’m feeling a lack of love. I understand the profitability of high grades and their marketing towards children but damn, I just want an MG ECOAS Jegan. I like all my model kits to match sizes for display

> its because Bandai doesn't put iut enough MG kits each years They likely aren't doing this because MGs don't sell nearly as well as HGs and RG kits. The hobby is moving away from MGs because they're just too expensive for both Bandai to make and for the average builder to collect.

@@brothatscrazy3418 I wonder how gunpla lasted 4 times longer than bionicle despite bionicle never got mogged by third parties.

Thing is that metal minis are even more expensive than plastic minis, and people are already complaining that GW overcharges for their stuff

I didn’t know that! That’s actually pretty cool.

Yeah didn't know that. But I do imagine why due to larger supply and law restrictions on plastics

But nobody knows how long they are going g to last?

I knew there was a reason I kept hoarding stuff!!