Unifive Universal Century All Gundam Key Holder (Bandai Museum Limited)

Last year I reviewed some of the Banpresto keyring figures sold under the Unifive All Gundam brand. One of the them was a Bandai Museum limited edition, where I commented on the fact that I expected it to be a different mobile suit. I had only seen it for sale once many years ago and was beginning to think that I had been hallucinating the whole thing. Then suddenly it casually appeared over at Mandarake this winter and so here it is; a confirmation that there are at least two figures (perhaps even more?) in this limited series.


As you can see we are looking at a Full Armor Gundam variation in Char's or rather Casval Rem Deikun's custom colours. This suit is supposedly known as the FA-78/C.A Casval's Full Armor Gundam. Has this thing ever starred in a game or Manga? Very little information can be found about it at the Gundam Wiki or MAHQ, in fact I am not even sure of the official name. Here I simply edited what was written on Bandai's 1/100 Master Grade box cover (which is the only other appearance I am currently aware of).


There is not a whole lot to this figure. It is a solid soft plastic figure attached to a useless metal strap so that you can have it dangle from your phone or school bag. I immediately removed and discarded the strap which is attached through the common technique of a screw driven into the figure's back pack.


The All Gundam figure range may be simplistic but man is it detailed, and the paint applications are very detailed for such a small item. Many of the smaller figures skimp on the paint apps on the flip side but since this figure is designed to dangle freely I guess they felt the need to paint it fully all over. Just look at that hand grasping the dual beam rifle, you have a separately painted handlebar and there is even a piece of pinkish red collar peeking through. The blue speck on the left knee does look like a mistake though and as you can see the paint has been chipped here and there. The legs are a bit bent on this figure and you may want to put it on a base to straighten it out.


Here we have both the RX-78/C.A and the FA-78/C.A from the Bandai Museum set. The two have very similar barcodes which leads me to believe they were released in tandem back in 2004 (4 983164 58874 3 and 4 983164 58875 0 respectively). I wouldn't be surprised if there are indeed more figures in this set, especially if they are repaints from regular retail releases. For some additional context and size comparisons, check out the review of the other figure here.