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EB-08 Reginlaze (Standard Type)

A grey-suited Gjallarhorn grunt kit that only really works if you already own the mold it was cloned from.

MechaGrade Score

2.9/5

Reginlaze (Standard Type) · 1/144 · 2017

GradeHG

Scale1/144

Released2017

Runnersn/a

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The verdict

This one is honest about what it is, a P-Bandai recolor of the Julieta's Unit Reginlaze mold in flat grey plastic, and that honesty is also its biggest problem.

The engineering underneath is the same solid HGIBO frame that made the original a sleeper favorite, ball-jointed neck, swinging shoulder blocks, elbows that bend past 90 degrees. But you are paying exclusive-channel money for a suit whose only real distinction from its donor kit is a plainer paint job.

Best for: IBO completionists building out the Seven Stars Union background suits, not first-time buyers looking for a standout HG

The full review

What it is

The Standard Type represents the everyman Gjallarhorn Reginlaze, the mobile suit that Seven Stars elites like Iok Kujan and Julieta Juris flew before their personal color schemes and upgrades got attached to their names in the show. Bandai built it by taking the existing HGIBO Julieta's Unit Reginlaze tooling and running it in grey plastic instead of her signature purple and red. That means you get the same competent 1/144 frame, a suit with real shoulder movement, a ball socket neck, and legs that swing forward at the hip rather than just hinging, which was one of the nicer surprises in the original release.

The catch

The elephant in the room is that this is a P-Bandai exclusive recolor of a kit that already existed, so if you own Julieta's Reginlaze there is genuinely very little new sculpting or panel work to discover here. Community chatter around the release leaned on words like lazy for exactly that reason. On top of that, the grey standard colorway hides detail rather than popping it, and builders note you will want Gundam Markers or Mr. Color paint to bring out the vents and panel lines that the molded color alone does not sell. There are no dramatic weapon upgrades bundled in either, you are largely relying on parts from separate HGIBO option sets if you want the fuller loadout.

Who it's for

Buy this if you are running a Gjallarhorn display shelf and want the anonymous rank-and-file version standing next to Iok's and Julieta's named units, that visual contrast between a personal machine and its stock counterpart is genuinely satisfying to build out. Skip it if you already have the Julieta's Unit kit and were hoping for new sculpting, new weapons, or a meaningfully different build, because you will be building the same frame again in a duller color. New HGIBO builders are better served starting with one of the named Reginlaze releases or a Gundam Barbatos kit first.

What works

Reuses the genuinely solid HGIBO Reginlaze frame, with a ball-socket neck and shoulder blocks that swing forward, giving better pose range than a lot of HG grunt suits
Elbows bend well past 90 degrees so it can hold weapons in believable two-handed grips
Cheap, small P-Bandai footprint that slots easily into a squad display of multiple Gjallarhorn suits

Worth knowing

It is a straight recolor of an existing mold, so there is nothing new to build if you already own Julieta's Reginlaze
Flat grey standard colorway underplays the panel lines and vents compared to the more contrasted original release
Limited included armament, fuller loadouts mean tracking down parts from separate HGIBO option sets

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The build story

What the build is actually like, and the engineering worth knowing about.

The runners here are the same as the earlier Julieta's Unit release just recast in grey, so gate placement and nub cleanup are the known quantity that mold already established, nothing surprising in either direction. Fit is the usual HGIBO snap-together standard, snug in the joints without needing glue, and the smaller 1/144 parts clip cleanly without much flash to trim.

The frame's best trick is that swinging shoulder block, which lets the arms rotate forward instead of staying pinned to the torso silhouette, and combined with the ball neck joint that gives the finished kit a wider range of dynamic poses than its plain looks suggest. Colored panel lining or a marker pass on the vents is basically required homework, since the standard grey molding does not separate detail the way a multi-color runner would.

Lore & trivia

01The Standard Type represents the base-issue Reginlaze that any qualified Gjallarhorn pilot could fly, before Seven Stars elites like Julieta Juris and Iok Kujan had personalized color schemes and loadouts assigned to their named units.
02This release was a P-Bandai online exclusive, sold only through Bandai's direct P-Bandai channel rather than general retail, which is common for recolor and variant kits in the HGIBO line.
03The kit shares its tooling with the earlier HGIBO Julieta's Unit Reginlaze release, changing the plastic color from her purple and red scheme to a plain grey to represent the unnamed line-standard machine.