It has now been three years since the Gundam Converge line was rebooted and while we have seen a lot of rehashes of old figures I think a commendable lot of effort has been put into expanding the mobile suit line-up. The freshly announced volume #19 is another strong entry in this tradition with five never before seen mobile suits and only one of them from the "classic" Universal Century era. Instead this has its main focus on Victory Gundam with three machines, followed by entries from War in the Pocket, Gundam Wing G-Unit and Crossbone Ghost. The line up for volume #19 will be:
1. EMS-TC02 Phantom Gundam
2. LM312V04 Victory Gundam
3. LM312V04+SD-VB03A V-Dash Gundam
4. ZMT-S37S Zanspine
5. RGM-79SP GM Sniper II
6. OZX-GU02A Gundam Geminass 02
The Phantom Gundam is also getting partnered up with a CORE release of the XM-XX Ghost Gundam itself. This CORE set will also feature Phantom Light option parts for the Phantom Gundam figure so ideally you may want to pick up a second figure of that one. Converge volume #19 is scheduled for release in May and the Crossbone Ghost will follow in June. Damn, it is getting hard keeping up with all the planned releases and here I am still trying to secure volume #17 for review...
I was so excited when they announced Cossbone Ghost & Phantom Core release! Bandai’s Ensemble version looked so badass I was seriously praying they would do the same for Converge especially with the purple translucent flames! By the way I have to thank you for your blog, I’ve been following for almost two years since building my own collection. You’ve been a huge help!
ReplyDeleteIt is great that Converge has reached such a level of maturity that Bandai dare experiment with releasing less common mobile suits and not just giving us endless rehashes of the Sazabi and Nu Gundam and so on. For me personally I wish they would dive deep into the Cosmic Era and start working on all the cool grunt suits from SEED like the Daggers and the GINNs. Among EX-figures I keep hoping for a Messala. :)
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