The big scale 1-60 HY2M 'Glorious Series' Char's Rick Dom and Rick Dom contains genuine bling-bling parts :-) As compared to the previous releases for both Char's Rick Dom and Rick Dom, I think the only changes would probably be the packaging and the decals. Anyway, building these models will test more on your electrical and wiring skills rather than assembling and painting models. Not sure whether Char's version is a special coated one or not.
By the way, do you know that Char's Rick Dom only appears in the original novel version of Gundam UC0079? In that novel, Amuro Ray died in combat when he was piloting G3 Gundam. Imagine if Bandai sticks around with that original idea in the anime version, we will never get to see Char's Counterattack. Of course all of us know Bandai is smarter than that. The company most certainly knows that red sells better than grey, else why isn't G3 Gundam being popularized.
SD Verde Buster is a really cool model. I don't know when Bandai fix it, but there's no more hollow-single-molded parts for SD models anymore, at least for this one. I think that's good news for the fans, since the models will look much nicer with 'complete' parts. This SD version of Verde Buster can mimic all actions of the HG unit, and I'm sure the upcoming SD Blu Duel will have the features, provided that Bandai fix the problem of the bulkiness of the armors.
All images are from The Gundam Base Side 1.
