Product Description
Includes
- Destiny Gundam
- 1/100 Shinn Asuka figurine (Sitting)
- "Arondight" Beam Sword
- Beam effect parts
- Long-Range Beam Cannon
- 1 pair of Beam Boomerangs
- Beam Boomerang effect parts
- Beam Sword effect parts
- Manipulators
- Poseable (1 pair)
- Beam Sword-holding (right)
- "Palma Fiocina" Open-palms (1 pair)
- High-Energy Beam Rifle
- Shield
- Beam Shield effect part
- 1/100 Shinn Asuka figurine (Standing)
- 1/100 Stellar Louisser figurineÂ
- Display Stand
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Kit Features & Gimmicks
Articulation
- The head can swivel on a ball-and-socket joint, or slightly pivot back and forth on a hinge joint.
- The upper torso can slightly tilt back and forth if the stopping point panel is flipped up.
- Shoulder joints can raise upwards, or slide out and swing frontwards.
- The arms can...
- Swing on a rod joint.
- Raise horizontally.
- The Beam Boomerang holders on the shoulder armors can pivot up and down.
- The upper elbows can turn.
- Both elbow and knees are double-jointed.
- The Manipulators...
- Can swivel on a ball-and-socket joint.
- Feature 3+1+1 articulation on each finger.
- The waist can rotate, though it can be hindered by a few skirt armor panels.
- Front and waist skirt armors can swing up and down to avoid interference with the legs.
- The upper thighs can swing frontward (and backward in a very limited extent due to the non-poseable rear skirt armor) on a peg, raise horizontally and/or rotate on each piece.
- The ankles can slightly pivot back and forth/tilt sideways.
- The front feet can pivot.
- The wings are jointed, allowing some articulation.
- The joints can slightly extend for a wider poseabilty.
- The Beam Sword and Beam Cannon racks are jointed, allowing some articulation.
Weapons/Other Gimmicks
- The hands are swappable.
- Since there is only a pair of dorsal parts, you must remove and attach them to the other.
- Any of the weapons can be wielded by the poseable hands.
- Each palm features a molded tab for gripping stability.
- By flipping the lower crotch's stopper backwards, the hip joint axis can be extended for widening the legs.
- The Wings can be unfolded.
- Beam Sword can be optionally removed from the weapon rack as a handheld weapon.
- Long-Range Beam Cannon can be wedged out with the weapon rack to form firing mode.
- Beam Boomerangs can be optionally removed from the shoulder armors as handheld weapons.
- Beam Boomerangs can attach with two different effect parts.
- High Energy Beam Rifle's foregrip can swing left and right.
- The front sight can be removed to reveal mechanical details.
- Beam Rifle can mount onto the rear waist armor for storage.
- The bottom section of the physical shield can slide down.
- Beam Shield can be optionally mounted onto either of the dorsal parts.
- Destiny Gundam can optionally attach onto the included display stand (or Action Base).
Tips & Tricks
- For better results, some or most of the details are needed to be applied/panel-lined with Gundam Markers and/or Mr. Color paints.
- Topcoat (Mr. Hobby recommended) can be used to protect applied stickers/marking decals and if any, painted details.
- The middle, ring, pinky fingers can be sliced off for individual articulation. (NOTE: May decrease gripping stability.)
- The Gundam Decal for MG Destiny Gundam / Destiny Gundam EBM can be applied to this kit.
Variants
Italicized items are exclusives.
- Later reissues of the kit from September 2018 onward will feature a blue Bandai Spirits logo.
- MG ZGMF-X42S Destiny Gundam (Extreme Blast Mode)
- MG ZGMF-X42S Destiny Gundam (Clear Color Ver.)
- ZGMF-X42S Destiny Gundam Gunpla 30th Anniversary Ver. - Released on December 3, 2009, as part of the Gunpla 30th Anniversary ​MG Clear Parts Campaign, this limited-edition Master Grade kit features a new clear colored runner, which consists of the lower legs, lower forearms, shoulder parts, and Beam Boomerangs.
- MG ZGMF-X42S-REVOLUTION Destiny Gundam (Heine Westenfluss Custom)
Notes & Trivia
- First Destiny Gundam kit to utilize the stylized appearance in the Anime, rather than Kunio Okawara's design.