Bandai, ThreeZero announce new collaboration

Bandai is partnering itself with ThreeZero to launch a new 1/12-scale mech figure based on a design by Kunio Okawara. If the name sounds at all familiar, he is the man who's helped design many of the mecha in the Gundam franchise, including the original RX-78-2 Gundam mobile suit. The figure was unveiled at C3 Hobby Show in Hong Kong recently, and it has a decisive sengoku-jidai-era samurai look to it ... though Andres Cerrato mentions that the original illustration looks a lot like some of his Gundam F91 work.