Mobile Suit Sizes Across the Gundam Universes 

Here for them F-90/91 & V Gundam Short Kings! 👑

The main thing that limits MS that cannot directly be compared to electronics is the issues of material strength and efficiency of construction. Electronics do not have to manage massive amounts of movement and the stresses that their own weight put on them as they do.

what the fuck i did NOT realize the zock is 23 god damn meters tall.

Anyone besides me find the pixie being 18 meters tall is funny cause ever since I played GBO2, every piece of media I've seen of the pixie in, it is hunched forward instead of standing straight up so it looks smaller compared to just about any suit from the oyw lol

2:31 yeah ofc theres big mobile suits, thats why the bad guys were called the "titans" in the show

I love how Gaia Gear is mentioned. Even though it's not officially mentioned as canon, but more and more people add this series to the U.C canon

Bio brain Armoro: Miniaturized mobile suites are for noobs.

The size increase in late UC can be similar case to our mobile phones. As tech gets better, people want to cram more in the thing, so despite it being the same size as before again, the machines of super late uc are just far superior.

That’s some cool amount of information thanks bro What kind of funny is that MS got more bigger ass time went on then got smaller and then bigger again that’s just hilarious.

try comparing 1/144 kits with anything else and scales are thrown out the window. tanks and cars will vary from 1/72 to 1/35, planes would go from the rare 1/144 to the more common 1/60. while naval ships would fly from the miniature 1/1700 to the gigantic 1/350 this makes a diorama builder's worst nightmare as standard scales are ignored for companies hyping their own franchises or products

A more fun and proper size comparison. The RX-78 is just shorter than an F-18 Super Hornet is long; an F-22 and F-14 are 62ft. If you've been to an airshow you've seen something close in size to a Gundam. The animators play it fast and loose with the scale on screen imo. Gundam scale feels like Godzilla at times rather than sleek fighter jet. I think other shows like FMP, Macross and Patlabor scale the best visually but, their MS are supposed to be shorter than Gundam.

The five Gundams of Gundam Wing, the "Short Kings"

I love how in Iron Blooded Orphans Gundam frames are literally identical, so it's only armor that differs between Barbatos, Gusion/Rebake, Kimaris/Vidar, and Flauros/Ryusei-Go

Lore-wise in UC Colony. They made the MS smaller around the time of F91 series bc the increasing size of MS make their development more costly for companies. SNRI started this revolutionary trend of smaller MS with smaller costs but almost has the same production to rival Anaheim Electronics in the market.

F91 , Crossbones and Victory sizes have to do around Jupiter Gravity for thier high mobility. Fun fact in a SD gundam manga Musha Gundam Musha Senki: Transformation of Light there's a gundam like character called the Demon Emperor the full height is about 146128.21KM, oh and it crushed a planet with it's hand,.

huh, the Exia always felt short to me. Surprising to hear that not only is it normally sized, but it's also pretty much just as tall as the 00

Thank you for having including some clip from Gundam Evo (this game need to be remember❤)

love the clean kakarot197 presentation

Fun fact: A Non-grade 1/100 Guntank R44 is about the same height as an average High Grade. It served as a base for D-50C Loto which in HG is almost the same size as Core Gundam.

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11:30 that's a Zoid right there!

another great vid bro

Amazing video and topic! I do wish you had mentioned some more outliers here, like the Wad (MRC-U11D Walking Dumpling) from turn a Gundam at just 7 meters. The wikia page on the AMX-109 Kapool (Turna a Gundma verison) actually has a gif showing a captured Wad, which is recolored red and renamed Armadillo, being catched in the arms of a Kapool as if it was a doll, and with the Turn A Gundam towering behind the Kapool. Speaking of the Kapool, Turn A Gundam claims it is 14m tall, unlike the Capule from ZZ which is 16.5m tall in MS mode, and 9.9m in MA mode When the Kapool is in the later mode, it is the only MS that can kind of fit in the smaller Gallop's hatch from Turn a Gundam: it needs to retract its arms & head, while keeping the legs to the front. And not leaving behind the ZZ/Turn A references, the AMX-102 Zssa (ZZ) or G-M2F Zssan (Turn A) has a head height of 15m in ZZ, the same number being given for its overall height in Turn A Gundam, essentially making it a miniaturized size MS decades before the concept was properly introduced (same goes for the Lotos on Unicorn). Anyway, if you want to see the atrocious case of gunpla getting in the way of MS design, look no further than the Geymalk. If you google ANIMEDIA’S GUNDAM ZZ PART 2 TIDBITS, you will be taken to zeonic republic's site, where among many odd bits of info he points out that the Geymalk was originally meant to be a Queen Mantha/Psycho Gundam size (40m range) unit...BUT in order to make a model kit of it ,the request was put to turn it into 22m MS. The worst part? The model kit got cancelled, so the Geymalk was miniaturized in vain. As a weird detail: according to older sources, both the Geymalk and Queen Mantha were classified as "mass production MS", despite their size. This is one of the reasons that I consider that Haman's Neo Zeon was the peak of Zeon remnants movements, where their resources were the most plentiful, but the quality of their pilots left too much to be desired. Didn't want to skip this part: the SNRI was the driving force behind the miniaturization of MS, as a way to reduce costs and improve mobility of MS, a topic that is central in the F90 mangas. This involve SNRI and Anaheim Electronics being constantly at odds with this idea, with the SNRI considering Anaheims first attempt at the concept, the RGM-109 Heavygun, a failure, little more than downsized Jegan, leading the SNRI to its now jab at the concept in the form of the F90 Gundam. Moving on, before the events of F91, we had a couple of Oldsmobile Wars, where Mars bound Zeon remnants used their OYW era size MS (though completely modernized on the inside) against the EF's mix of older large MS (ex: Jegan) and handful of miniaturized MS, with the older models perform bad against the Oldsmobile units, while the miniaturized ones performed better. A fellow fan of Vagan MS! I also like their unique take on MS, and specially like the 3rd era units like the Danazine and Reganner that completely broke the mold of the humanoid MS. There are a few questionable designs (like the magical girls MS and space lemon with arms MA), but I generally liked most of them. Also, love their ship designs! On a similar note, despite the bad reputation of the film, G-Saviour actually had more pieces of media, which I generally consider much better than the film, including a novel version of the later which sought to better integrate it with the previous 2 universal centuries. The prequel radio dramas are short, but help provide a better world context, and the sequel PS2 game is a completely unrelated story (set a year later in UC 0224) that is more centered around the use of AI with MS, in other words, the Mobile Dolls of U.C., which I think not many people realize exist, even among those who watched the film, as the CAMS-13 MS Rai used by the main enemy pilot is actually a MS version of the mass produced CAMW-13 MW Rai, an autonomous mobile weapon (the AI computer can be replaced by a pilot cockpit). The PS2 includes their (IMHO much better looking) successor models, the CAMS-14 MS Raid and CAMW-14 MW Raid. But I digress. These are all MS on the 17-19 meters height range, with the most notable case being the RGM-196 Freedom, which at some point we got lineart for its U.C. 0196 blue EF incarnation, which show us how the EF began going back to larger MS (Freedom is 17.01 meters tall) from their previous known mass production model, the RGM-122 Javelin (14.5m tall) introduced in U.C. 0133. Crossbone Dust (U.C. 0169) tries to fill the gap between Victory Gundam (UC 0153) and Gaia Gear (UC 0203) /G-Saviour (UC 0223) adding Mad Max like setting that is meant to explain the technological regression that took place during the later half to the 2nd U.C. It do should be noted that despite the regression in size, these MS do have beam shields, even the early EF Freedom, but the almost 3 decades old units used by Gaea have lost many of the parts that allowed them to sue them, forcing them to resort old & much worse equipment. One more unexpected thing to add: the pitch video for G-Saviour, long considered lost, resurfaced on youtube a few years ago, with many people considering its CG better than the film, and with a different plot, involving a crime syndicate using CCMS-03 Bugus (in this version their rifles are beam weapons) to attack the New Manhattan colony. It's very short and there are some placeholder assets, but I almost wish they had gone with that kind of story instead. Similarly, the PS2 game story is more about a military unit hunting down an enemy CAF unit across the Earth sphere, which takes them to locations such as the Sydney crater, Kilimanjaro and the ruins of Angel Halo. Lastly: can't believe you mentioned the incomplete Zeong, but not the (Perfect) Zeong with legs, which stands at 30.1m, making it the tallest MS designed during the OYW, half the size of the Big Zam. Would love to talk more on the topic, but this comment is long enough as it is.

The biggest current HG kit: Seed's Destroy Gundam, it is as big as a PG or tad bit bigger

gaia gear needs an anime. The fact there is a scene with an old gaplant (one of my favorites from zeta) almost brings a tear to my eye. What was once a newtype made mobile suit, top of the line for its time. Reduced to literally a hunk of garbage. If only they could have seen it in action.

now memory is getting bigger again in size because of heat from physics limitation

You forgot g savior

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Personally I think it's good that they keep the heights pretty standard. There's no reason for them to just be getting larger and larger, before you know it, they'll need megazord teams or whole crews. I still wanna see a Gundan go against a Megaduece. Those are actually bigger, too.

One thing I think this video fails to communicate is that the proportions of mobile suits have relatively similar proportions. That means that the taller mobile suits are actually way bigger weight and bulkwise.

he forgot the destroy gundam...😊

We gotta remember that mazinger z does get taller lmao

Wait wut gurren lagann is 12 meter? I thought it was 5 meter

What about g-savior ?

EREN attack titan is also 18m

To be fair the bigger that machine the bigger the targer

The smallest ms comes from build fighters

Nah, Gundam got smaller again because models are getting to big and expensive no one is buying.

Wheres thunderbolt suits

it's pretty obvious that the shrink in F91 came about because then BANDAI can pass off 1/144 size kits as 1/100.

theres also quite a few lore reason for the sizes as well.. tho im not very knowledgeable in UC, from OG to zeta and ZZ, they basically just size up the engine to get more output, having more and more powerful beam weapons n stuff without having enough tech to miniaturize the them.. the SEED, most designs are derived from the main 5 suits and or stolen data of them, so its not too surprising.. for Wing, almost all suits were made from the data of Tallgeese.. the Leo and all the grunts were mass-produced copy of it, while the scienctist who designed Tallgeese later use the data and their own research to create the Gundams, you can pretty much call the Tallgeese the Grand-daddy of the Wing timeline