Assembly of the BB Kingdom!
As you all know, the new BB Gundam series will be based on the Romance of the Three Kingdom, the famous Chinese literature of war and heroism. Not sure whether the story will be made into anime, or will be just in manga, but in terms of the BB models, I have already posted about the three main characters/Gundams: Liu Bei, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu quite some time ago but more are pouring out of Bandai's factory.
Liu Bei (刘备) Gundam. Seems like they design him to be a powerful warrior instead of the general-commanding-from-safe-distance as seen in the story
Guan Yu (关羽) Gundam, look at the beard :-)
Zhang Fei (张飞) Gundam - at least the red color scheme looks aggresive enough :-)
At the recent Shizuoka Hobby Show, more characters from the series are on display, and I'm quite sure we'll be seeing most of them, if not all, before the end of this year. Anyway, some of the designs really make me laugh, like Zhang Fei is based on Z Gundam, while Lu Xun (陆逊) is Zeta Plus A1, and Zhou Yu (周瑜) is Hyaku Shiki. In the Gundam universe, all of them are MSs under A.E.U.G. or Karaba; In the real story of the Three Kingdom, Lu Xun is the general of the kingdom Wu (吴) after the death of Zhou Yu, and Zhang Fei is one of the many powerful knights of Shu (蜀), Liu Bei's kingdom. Since he is being characterized as being extremely short on temper in the story, I was expecting his design to be of God Gundam or Gouf Custom, but the Zeta-refit is quite cool nonetheless.
Zhou Yu is Hyaku Shiki, makes me wonder what's the criteria to decide who's which MS
Lu Xun Gundam - Being a variation of Z Gundam, I wonder if he's transformable
Sun Quan (孙权) is the king of Wu. The best design of all the BB Gundam in this series so far?
Also, some non-Gundam characters are coming up as well. Shi Ma Yi (司马懿), the head military chancellor of Wei (魏), and he's Sazabi in disguise! Cool! Also, Xia Hou Dun (夏侯惇) is Den'an Gei from Gundam F91. Since most of them are villain characters from the Gundam Universe, it's quite obvious that Wei is the enemy in the anime series, as it is in the original story as well.
Cao Cao (曹操)'s design, pretty villainous indeed, being the king of Wei
Xia Hou Dun, one of Cao Cao's top generals. Does he look like he's going to be a good guy with this kind of design? I guess not :-D
Shi Ma Yi the white Sazabi. Reminds me of Saruman the White
Lu Bu (吕布)'s design - Too bad for him, he's supposedly a very handsome and skillful warrior in the story. Well, at least the halberd is loyal to the original design.
On the other hand, a new design on SD Sazabi. I wonder when are we going to get a new SD Sazabi kit, I mean the real stuff. Should be quite cool as compared to the first one ages ago.
No caption for this Gundam, but judging from him holding a feather fan, I think this is Zhu Ge Liang (诸葛亮), Liu Bei's famous all knowing military adviser!
All images are The Gundam Base Side 1.
