Question - what do you do when your three year old children love your Gundam model kits (or “your Gingums” as they both call them), but you don’t want them to play with them like they’re toys? Not because you’re anal about keeping your kits pristine and perfect, mind you, but because you don’t want to have continuously reattach parts when they fall off - and because you’re still a little worried about them choking on a piece.
You might think the answer is “just get them some sort of robot action figure. Anything will do”. But you’d be wrong - they know their Gingums. They know the colors, the design of the head … You can’t pull a fast one on these tykes. It has to be the real thing.
So a Gundam action figure it is. Except in my experience, those aren’t super easy to find. They exist, but I don’t think we get them here in the States as often as we get model kits. Thankfully Target started selling them back in the fall alongside a handful of model kits, and as luck would have it, my local store had one left in stock.
Here it is - A “Gundam Universe” action figure of the Strike Gundam:
