It's definitely very impressive, I filmed and talked about this kit technically before the full announcement and those extra promotional images are really something to behold, they knocked it out of the park with this 2.0.
I feel like real grades lost their DNA in real aircraft with the two tone colors yet ultimately still a lot featureless flat areas, as well as the little things on the original RX78s knee, for example, that looks like a shock absorber or landing gear for kneeling poses, and now they're just like "gunpla but more detailed in a gunpla builder kind of way" Edit: wow they really went for the semi monocoque look which is very lore accurate, I take back my statement. Early mobile suits didn't have full inner frames and I don't think many people pay attention to that.
The RG line is my favorite line. I definitely like the improvement's they've made to the kits over the years. Earlier RG's rely heavy on the MS joint, they sort of have half an inner frame but you're right the frame wasn't as detailed as the MG's or even the RGs we have now.
I love that in the 2.0 the chest vents are not sunken like in the 1.0, and the shoulder armor proportion are like the first PG! It's about time Bandai I hope the standard RG RGM-79 will be based on 2.0!
It's definitely one of the better takes on the design for sure. I like it a lot better than the 1.0. Looks more bulky and "real" to me if that makes sense.
Looking forward to getting one as I have at least one in every popular grade minus the 1/48 which still eludes me to this day! I love how it looks like a mini PG. Now, this makes me wonder, I think it makes sense that they would revisit the Zaku II as well and make a 2.0 version. One can hope!
The local hobbytown always has a 1/48 in stock for whatever reason lol, It really is just a big HG but it's a nice piece for a collection. I'm genuinely excited for a 2.0 of RG's I'm just hoping they sprinkle a 2.0 in here and there with regular releases. The Sinanju is a design that desperately needs a 2.0.
At that point you just have master grade. But I see your perspective, the MG line I find to be really inconsistent. On one hand you have anime accurate MG's like 2.0 RX-78 and on the other you have kits like the Freedom and Justice that have great surface detail and packed in decals, similar in design cues to a RG. I'm not a huge 1/100 fan but that's why we have different scales and grades. Each grade has a purpose
@@JoesGunplaGarage agreed! Different strokes for different folks. Bandai seems to be the most consistent for their HG line, and RG is rather close in overall philosophy. Yet even in that line, you have some very simplistic looking kits with no surface detailing (Tallgeese, Exia) and then some overdone ones such as the Gundam 1.0. I rather like the busy look, but not the fragility.
HG is their money maker, easy to engineer and produce. I'd be curious to see what their design philosophy is behind RG. this RG2.0 is drowning in surface detailing and like you said some other kits don't have as much of it. I hate giving credence to the "early real grade" complaint but the advanced MS Joint tends to be the culprit to many issues people had with RG's. Interesting enough the Gundam 2.0 doesn't have the advanced MS Joint at all, so I'm curious if they're going to drop it altogether and move on. Im hoping we see this design iteration of the RX-78-2 in 1/100 scale, I like it quite a bit more than the 3.0. I'm also excited to see what's in store for RG now that 2.0 is officially a thing.
@@JoesGunplaGarage The MS Joint system is a cool throw-back to some early "HG" kits of the 1990s. Cool in concept, but 1/144 is far too small for this system to work. If they give it up, all of us would be happier; we all know about the Sinanju RG. The 2.0 RG is quite on the top of my to-buy list, even though I'm adamantly against MGs (Zeong was excepted thus far). The future looks bright for this line; a shitty reality for fans of MG or even 1/100 (where are the 1/100 WFM kits?) Bandai's tech, even in plastic quality has come light years since my childhood. The Pokemon kits don't require any tools at all. Seconded; I'd love to see the RG 2.0 design in 1/100 scale. Besides the 3.0, they haven't bothered to MG any RGs, which annoys me; great designs such as GP01 and Zeta are stuck in small-scale. If they do make this kit, I hope that they don't re-use the 2.0's frame again.
Gunpla was not selling well. That's why it got cancelled and died. It was the women fans who kept alive in communities and Bandai buying it from Clover.
@@wulf8889 Clover had a toy line, not model kits. When Bandai got the rights to the franchises toy line, they created the model kits that we now know today.
