And no, it's not made out of gold. But the winning bidder must be made out of money. According to Itai News, a completed RX-93 ν Gundam model sold for 926,001 yen (US$9,261) in an online auction. Bidding started at 100 yen, which is about one dollar.
http://kotaku.com/someone-wants-to-pay-9-000-for-a-gundam-model-1466547288
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Okay, then. As Japanese site Gigazine points out, this year is the 30th anniversary of Gunpla (Gundam plastic model kits) with the first one going on sale in July 1980. The made-in-Japan Gundam plastic model kits are, according to robot expert Matt Alt, the rolex watches of plastic model kits. The. The site recently visited the Gundam plastic model factory in Shizuoka.
http://kotaku.com/5536020/where-are-gundam-plastic-models-made
Plastic Gundam model kits are manufactured in Japan or China by Bandai, which has an exclusive license in manufacturing and marketing them around the world. The models are typical of Plastic models; sprues of injection-molded Polystyrene (PS) parts which must be cut out before assembly.
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Late 1970s–1980s. Mobile Suit Gundam debuted in 1979 and the first Gunpla kits came in 1980, following the show's cancellation. Nearly every mecha in the series was made into a model kit, from mobile suits to support aircraft and space battleships. Parts came in up to three different colored sprues.
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5,923 pages on this wiki. A Gundam is an advanced, high performance mobile suit, often constructed to be much more powerful than the standard production mobile suits. They are generally equipped with the latest experimental technology available at the time of their construction. The definition of a Gundam varies from one timeline to another. In most series it is used as an acronym to refer to something, however in all but the most recent series these acronyms were derived after the fact and do not appear at any point in the animated works.
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Gundam (Japanese: ガンダム, Hepburn: Gandamu) , also referred to as the Gundam Series (ガンダムシリーズ, Gandamu Shirīzu) is a science fiction media franchise created by Sunrise that feature giant robots (or mecha) called mobile suits, with titular mobile suits that carry the name Gundam..
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The protagonist's mobile suit of a series usually carries the name Gundam. The main suit in each series usually sports a mainly white and blue color scheme, with yellow and red accents, and sports at least one pair of yellow or white V-fins on its head.
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To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Mobile Suit Gundam, Bandai released the MG RX-78-2 Gundam ver. 2.0. While this model is closely designed after the anime art, it features radical improvements over the previous Gundam kits in terms of engineering and build quality.
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RG MS-06F Zaku II. by 10 reviews The MS-06F Zaku II Real Grade is the same great kit as Char's Version, except green. Just ... by 10 reviews. $29.95. © GundamPlanet.com. 2014 All rights reserved. All product and price information may be subject to change.
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when was gundam made
The Gundam was made in 1979. Mobile Suit Gundam was made in 1979.