MegaHouse Gundam Girls Generation : Aida Surugan

Day three of the October One-Off Week and we turn our eyes towards the seemingly forgotten-by-now television series Mobile Suit Gundam Reconguista in G. Taking place in yet another odd timeline (the Regild Century) everything in G-Reco is far off the beaten track which is probably why it seems to have become a bit of a dark horse in today's toylines. We've only seen a handful of Shokugan or Gashapon figures from this era and most of them are of course the main Gundam-esque G-Self mobile suit. At the time I was pretty certain we would be drowning in similar G-Self figures with different backpacks but it never happened. Instead the series slipped away from the shelves already in 2015, with the exception of the one we are looking at today which came out in 2016.

The MegaHouse GGG or Gundam Girls Generation figure series (there is also a Gundam Guys Generation counterpart) is primarily dedicated to Gundam Build Fighters characters. The first six figures feature Aila, Rinko and China from Build Fighters and then Fumina and Mirai from Build Fighters Try. Aida comes in at number 07 and there is also a GGG DX figure for Kudelia Aina Bernstein from Iron Blooded Orphans.

Although GGG is a non-scale series the Aida figure is approximately 17 centimeters tall which puts her around 1:10 scale. This size is somewhere in the middle between typical Gashapon character figures and the larger 1:6/1:7 scale figures from MegaHouse and Banpresto.

The packaging of very good quality and even features a little extra starfield cardboard piece as a backdrop for the figure when stored in the box. The sandwiching of the figure between two plastic inserts keeps it neatly and safely in place.

The figure comes with a hexagonal translucent blue baseplate which has two pegs which go into the right foot. Since this is a small figure there are no stability concerns here and MegaHouse also did not design any additional support is pieces. And as you can see from the pictures, the sculpting and paintwork is really spot on. The texture of the flightsuit is especially successful and looks very convincing.

The Gundam Girls Generation figures do not come with any articulation or optional bodyparts. While not uncommon for other figure series to feature alternative parts such as alternative faces or expressive arms the only tweaking you can do here is to let Aida carry her helmet or not.

It is too bad that this awesome figure has no companions to display with. I have never seen any figures, including garage kits, of other characters from G-Reco. There is supposedly a bust of Bellri Zenam released as a resin cast in 2015, I have so far never spotted it on the market. Sometimes I wish Gundam figure collection was more like Star Wars, where every non-essential background character present even in a single scene seems to get their own figure eventually. With Mobile Suit Gundam it is usually the same couple of faces all over again.

There aren't a whole lot of figures from the G-Reco universe available. Except from a couple of super-deformed figures in Gashapon NEXT and Converge we also have the G-Self as an Assault Kingdom figure and the Megafauna Assault Cruiser which somehow made it into the Cosmo Fleet Special Collection.

Overall, if you enjoy Gundam character figures and figurines this one comes highly rcommended. It has really good detail and paintwork, although the 1:10 scale means it doesn't really pose well with many figures out there. GGG figures are only a couple of years old and are generally available on the market. Prices vary greatly with popularity; Fumina tends to sell at around ¥8000-¥9000 but I picked up Aida for ¥3000 which is a much more agreeable price.