HGMobile Suit Gundam 00

Petit'gguy Graham Aker White & Placard

A ten minute palate cleanser that turns a rival pilot's colors into a shelf-warming little bear.

MechaGrade Score

3.4/5

Petit'gguy Graham Aker White & Placard · 1/144 · 2017

GradeHG

Scale1/144

Released2017

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The verdict

This one is exactly what it looks like: a tiny, painless, genuinely charming novelty kit, not a real build in the Gunpla sense.

I like having it on the shelf and I do not regret the twenty some dollars, but I would never point a new builder here expecting them to learn anything about the hobby. It exists to be cute, to reference Graham Aker's uniform colors for Gundam 00's tenth anniversary, and to sit next to a message card. It does that job well.

Best for: Gundam 00 fans and Petit'gguy collectors who want a low effort, high charm desk piece rather than a serious build

The full review

What it is

The Petit'gguy line takes the round, ear-flapped mascot body (descended from the Haro/BB toy lineage) and recolors it to match a specific pilot or suit, in this case Graham Aker's ace-pilot white with his trim colors, plus a little plastic placard you can slot a message card into. Mine went together in about ten minutes with a nipper and nothing else. The head, ears, and each limb sit on their own ball joints, so it rocks its head and waves its arms a bit, and the placard clips into either paw or the display stand. It is genuinely a nice little thing to have parked next to my main builds, a bit of levity that doesn't demand a workbench session.

The catch

There is basically no build here to critique in the normal sense. Skill Level 1 means minimal cement, no paint required, and the part count is tiny, so if you are coming to this expecting anything like a real kit experience you will be done and slightly underwhelmed within minutes. The articulation is limited to small tilts and rotations at the ball joints, nowhere near a posable figure, and the placard gimmick is charming for about the first display change and then mostly just sits there. Price to plastic ratio is not kind either, you are paying character-license money for a very small, very simple object.

Who it's for

If you already like Gundam 00 and want a cheap, fast, low-stakes thing to build between real projects, or you collect the Petit'gguy line and want Graham Aker's colors on your shelf, this delivers exactly that. Skip it if you are new to the hobby and want to learn actual Gunpla skills, or if you only buy kits for the building experience itself, there just is not enough kit here for that. I'd call it a supplementary purchase, not a destination one.

The build story

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

Assembly is Skill Level 1: a small handful of parts, no cement needed, no stickers to fuss over, and the whole thing is done in well under fifteen minutes with just a pair of nippers for gate cleanup. There is nothing here that will challenge even a first-time builder, which is the point.

The ball joints at the head, ears, and each limb let it tilt and rotate a little for personality on the shelf, and the included placard slots into either paw or into the peg holes on the Jigsaw display stand if you own one. The 3mm peg compatibility with the wider HGBC accessory line is a nice touch for anyone already collecting these.

Lore & trivia

01The Petit'gguy line borrows its round, ear-flapped body design from the Haro/BB mascot lineage that has run through Gundam merchandise for decades.
02This colorway was part of a wave of Petit'gguy figures Bandai released to mark the 10th anniversary of Mobile Suit Gundam 00, each one themed after a different pilot's suit colors rather than an actual mobile suit.
03Graham Aker is Celestial Being's rival ace pilot and the Union's Flag squadron leader in Gundam 00, best known for his obsessive rivalry with protagonist Setsuna F. Seiei.
04The included placard can hold a small message card and pegs into the Jigsaw Stand display base alongside other Petit'gguy figures for a group shelf display.