Shopping Guides

Happy Almost New Year! This month’s shopping guide has something special: just when I thought there wasn’t going to be a Perfect Grade release this year, one slid in just…

December is prime Gunpla-building season. At least where I am, it’s cold enough to make a day off spent inside building a much more preferable activity. Ideally, with a mug…

Welcome back for the second-to-last shopping guide of the year! I’ve been writing these posts since 2014 (!!!) and they have gotten me really attuned to Bandai’s release date patterns.…

Sorry y’all, I’m sure this is some kind of record for me being late with the shopping guide. It slipped my mind and I think that’s partly because Gundam Build…

It was so awesome to see so many of you at our Otakon panels last month! We really appreciated all of you who came to our midnight panel “39 Years…

Last month I told you that John and I were moving! Now the move is done, and the Gunpla is about half unpacked. We’ve had relatively few casualties to that…

There’s a good reason for this month’s late shopping guide: John and I are are moving! It’s hectic to be sure, and one of the most important pieces of the…

Happy summer! The weather has been warming up, so I’m getting ready to finally tackle a fully-painted build. I’ve been planning for ages to redo a Z’Gok in colors that…

How was your April? John and I had an especially good one because we went to Gundam Base Tokyo, the new redesign of Gundam Front Tokyo in Odaiba. I wrote…

Spring is here. That means Gundam Build Divers is finally airing! I reviewed the first episode for Anime News Network if you want to see what I thought. Generally, we’re…