Mobile Suit Variations

It crested sort of at its highest point in 1983, and then it entered a downward trajectory.

Even without new Gundam media, Bandai had continued to produce new Gundam kits with their Mobile Suit Variations, or MSV line, which provided alternate designs to the original Universal Century mobile suits.

34 of those released from April 1983 to December 1984, mostly in the 1/144 size, with some 1/100s, a few 1/60, and one 1/250, which was the Perfect Zeong, which offered a full body for the Zeong that Char pilots in the headpiece of in the final episodes of Gundam.

I love the idea of that, that it's such a big mobile suit they had to do it at 1/250 scale.

Yes.

Uh, all right.

The eighth entry in the series of MSVs was the 1/144 RX-78-1 prototype Gundam.

That released in June 1983 for just 400 yen, what a steal, and it was a recolored version of the Gundam with gray and black coloring.