Product Description
Includes
- Shenlong Gundam
- Beam Glaive
- Extension parts for Dragon Fang
- Manipulators
- General weapon-holding (1 pair)
- Open-palm (1 pair)
- Angled weapon-holding (1 pair)
- Shenlong Shield
Kit Features & Gimmicks
Articulation
- The head can swivel/tilt on a double-sided ball-joint neck.
- The torso can tilt frontwards (slightly)/backwards and/or sideways on a double ball-and-socket joint construction.
- Shoulder joints can swing frontwards.
- The arms can...
- Swivel on a ball-and-socket joint.
- Raise horizontally.
- The upper arms can rotate.
- The arms and legs feature double-jointed elbow and knee parts.
- The Dragon Fang's extended mode arms are jointed, allowing articulation.
- The manipulators can swivel on a ball-and-socket joint.
- The waist can rotate 360 degrees.
- The hip joint axis can swing frontwards.
- The upper thighs can swing frontward/backward on a peg, raise horizontally and/or rotate on each piece.
- The front, side and rear skirt armors can lift up to avoid interference with the leg articulation.
- The ankles can tilt sideways and/or pivot back and forth.
- The front feet can pivot backwards.
Weapons/Other Gimmicks
- The hands are swappable.
- Beam Glaive can...
- Be wielded by either the default or the angled weapon-holding hands.
- Mount onto the backpack for storage.
- The Dragon Fang can convert into extended mode.
- Shenlong Gundam can mount onto any Action Bases (Sold separately)
Tips & Tricks
- For better results, some or most of the details are needed to be painted and panel-lined with Gundam markers and/or Mr. Color paints.
- Topcoat (Mr. Hobby recommended) can be used to protect applied stickers and if any, marking decals and/or painted details.
Customizing-based tips
- The gel stickers from the Legend BB Victory Daishogun can be used as the Shenlong's front shoulder armor crystals.
Notes & Trivia
- This item is first revealed at the third day of the HOBBY NEXT PHASE 2022 Spring online event.
- Despite appearances, none of Shenlong's parts are shared with the HGBD Gundam Jiyan Altron kit.
- Prior to its potential announcement, the hypothetical Gunpla is previously ridiculed by the fandom (while started in Japan, this has become more widespread to the international circles) as an "unreleased kit" in favor to release another units such as the HGAC Leo and the HGAC Maganac (or any other non-Gundam series mecha), or being ultimately relegated into a Bandai Hobby Online Shop exclusive rather than being a regular retail item, possibly knowing that Bandai had acknowledged Wufei's notoriety due to his characteristics and actions in the show. This joke was originated from a banner promoting all of the HGAC and RG Gundam Wing model kits (as of February 2021) with Shenlong obviously omitted, posted by both Bandai Hobby's Twitter and Facebook sites.
- However, the mockery has came back to full force on August 28, 2022, as the sample posted by Bandai Namco Korea's YouTube channel reveals that the crystals on the shoulder armor and the central chest uses metallic green foil stickers instead of color-coded pieces.
