The Bandai Glitter x Glamours line features various female characters from all sorts of anime themes and we have seen them here on the blog a couple of times before; I believe this latest offering is the third Mobile Suit Gundam-themed appearance. The figure was released as a prize item sometime in the spring of 2024 but you should be able to easily find it on the secondary market, expect prices somewhere in the ¥1200-1500 range.
The flowery theme on the box is consistent with the previous Gundam-figures in GxG and is one of the highlights of the product in my opinion. I really the colourful layout and you'd better because as you can see a lot of space and money is wasted on selling you a near empty cardboard box. In this day and time you'd think manufacturers would be more interested in cost-saving measures when it comes to shipping Chinese factory air around.
It is not like the voluminous box needs it space to secure the figure in a blister-sandwich either, we have a multi-compartment plastic bag stuck inside some cardboard padding and it does the job just as well. This figure comes preassembled, you just need to press the back end of the left foot into the provided support piece and you are done.
Well, there is not a whole lot to say about this figure, I think the images speak for themselves. The sculpting is excellent, the paint-applications are on point and there are no unsightly bends or deformations present. The support piece is bordering on being too small, you will need a very flat and sturdy surface to display this figure. I would advice against putting it high up on an unprotected shelf as the slightest vibration could potentially cause it to topple over. Having said that I am really pleased to see it in place of the typical large diameter circle base which keeps figures well apart from each other, with figures like this you will be able to group multiples together to form interesting scenes. I do wish the support piece was made in a different colour though, preferably clear.
Whenever I encounter figures such as this I always wonder why Gundam Converge or Ensemble cannot be more consistent in their paint applications or avoiding bent components. Personally I would much prefer un-poseable statue-like mobile suit figures to articulated but low-grade painted or sloppily applied details that we tend to see these days. Let model kits be model kits and figures be figures.
The Lunamaria Hawke figure is a companion release to this previous SEED Freedom version Lacus Clyne. As you can see both the boxes and the figures display very nicely together, I would love to see more figures like these but in flight suits. I had some reservations about the first Gundam-themed GxG figure (Gigi Andalucia from Hathaway's Flash) but these two are solid options for a display that won't eat too deeply into your wallet. For those with endlessly deep pockets you may want to check out Swimsuit Lunamaria from the MegaHouse GGG-line released last year.
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