Beargguy III Ver. 囍 (Double Happiness)
The event-exclusive teddy bear that trades engineering ambition for pure charm, and wins anyway.
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Beargguy III Ver. 囍 (Double Happiness) · 1/144 · 2015
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I bought into this one for the colorway, not the build, and that turned out to be exactly the right expectation.
The Double Happiness scheme (red, gold, and that 囍 character worked right into the design) is genuinely one of the nicer looking Beargguy releases, but underneath the paint job this is the same 2013 Beargguy III mold, which was never built to impress anyone with its inner workings. If you know that going in, it is a delightful little shelf piece. If you are expecting an MG-style engineering flex in HG scale, you will be disappointed.
Best for: Build Fighters fans and Beargguy collectors who want the festive exclusive colorway on their shelf, not builders chasing a technical showcase
What it is
This is the KUMA-03 Beargguy III (SAN), China Kousaka's stuffed-toy-turned-Gunpla from Build Fighters, done up in a red and gold Double Happiness scheme that debuted as a Gundam Docks at Hong Kong II exclusive. The kit snaps together clean, no glue needed, and the four-color runners mean the base shape reads correctly straight off the sprues before you even touch the festive paint job on this variant. Building it feels less like assembling a mobile suit and more like assembling a toy, which is the point. The face swap with the opening mouth, the movable ears, and the little Ribbon Striker on its back all sell the personality immediately, and that personality is why people buy this kit in the first place.
The catch
The articulation is limited and the engineering is genuinely simple. The half-spherical shoulder armor just slides around rather than integrating with a real joint, and reviewers of the base mold have called the kit lackluster as a piece of model engineering, fine for holding a basic pose but not built for dynamic action shots. The included play features (extension arms, paw-mounted beam effects, a mouth beam cannon) are fun novelties rather than functional gimmicks with real weight behind them. And because this is the Double Happiness exclusive rather than the standard retail release, it is scarcer and pricier on the secondary market than a normal HGBF kit, so you are paying a premium for the colorway and rarity, not for extra parts or engineering.
Who it's for
Grab this if you collect Build Fighters kits, love the Beargguy character, or want a low-stress, high-charm build to break up a run of serious frame-heavy kits. It is also a genuinely good pick if you want to hand a first build to someone who wants something cute rather than a gritty humanoid Gundam. Skip it if you are chasing an engineering showcase or serious posability for a display diorama, the base mold simply was not designed for that, and skip it too if you are not willing to pay exclusive-release prices for what is fundamentally a colorway variant of a kit from 2013.
The build story
What the build is actually like, and the engineering worth knowing about.
This goes together fast and without drama. It is a snap-fit kit with no stickers required to sell the core design, the four-color runner setup means the plastic itself carries most of the color story even before you factor in this variant's painted festive scheme. Gate placement is unremarkable but nub cleanup is minimal given the low part count, so this is a quick, low-frustration sit-down build rather than a weekend project.
The standout parts are entirely about character, not chassis. The opening mouth with swappable expression faces, the flexible Ribbon Striker on its back, and the ball-jointed extension arm pieces that combine for a longer reach all work exactly as advertised and photograph well. Articulation itself is the weak link, double-jointed limbs and swiveling thighs give it some range, but the shoulder armor just rotates around the joint rather than moving with it, and nobody is posing this thing for dynamic action shots. Value is fair for a licensed character-specific mold, but you are buying personality and a rare colorway here, not part count or engineering depth.
Lore & trivia
- 01Beargguy III is a custom Gunpla built and piloted by China Kousaka in Gundam Build Fighters, modified from her earlier Beargguy II
- 02The name is a pun, in Japanese the number three is pronounced 'san,' which doubles as the honorific san, so 'Beargguy III' also reads as 'Beargguy-san'
- 03In the anime, China built the suit around the concept of a stuffed toy becoming a robot and actually filled it with cotton, which led to an unexpected outcome during its battle with SD Knight Gundam
- 04This Double Happiness version debuted as an exclusive release for the 2015 Gundam Docks at Hong Kong II event, with the 囍 (double happiness) character worked into its red and gold color scheme
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