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A-Type Mission Pack for F90 Gundam F90

A beam bazooka, a pair of expanding shoulder pauldrons, and a whole new reason to pull the F90 back off the shelf.

MechaGrade Score

3.7/5

A-Type Mission Pack for F90 Gundam F90 · 1/100 · 2019

GradeMG

Scale1/100

Released2019

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The verdict

I like this pack a lot more than I expected to for something this small.

It is not a kit on its own, it is an add-on for the MG Gundam F90, and once I understood that going in, it delivered exactly what it promises: a proper assault loadout with real posing value. The beam bazooka and the ball-jointed thruster backpack are the stars here, and they genuinely change how the F90 reads on a shelf.

Best for: F90 owners who already have the base MG kit and want the assault configuration with real weapon presence

The full review

What it is

This is one of the Mission Pack expansions from Bandai's F90 A to Z project, built to snap onto the MG 1/100 Gundam F90 you have to own separately. The A-Type turns the F90 into its Assault configuration: a beam bazooka that racks on the skirt when not in use, propellant tanks for the forearms and legs, and a backpack with shoulder armor that extends and retracts on its own hinge system. Building it took me under an hour, and the moment I clipped the thrusters onto their ball joints and racked the bazooka for the first time, I understood why people collect these packs instead of just building the base suit once and calling it done.

The catch

This was a Premium Bandai exclusive, so pricing and availability run higher and less predictable than a shelf kit, and it got a 2023 reissue precisely because the original run dried up. It is a genuinely small kit: modest part count, no inner frame of its own, nothing to build if you do not already have the F90. The molded color separation is good for what it is, but this is an accessory set, not a showcase of engineering the way a full MG is. If you want one impressive standalone kit, this is not it.

Who it's for

Buy this if you already own or plan to own the MG Gundam F90 and want to build out its Assault loadout, or if you are chasing the full Mission Pack collection the way a lot of F90 fans do. Skip it if you do not own the base F90, since none of these parts function without it, and skip it if you want one kit that stands entirely on its own merits. This is a collector's add-on done right, not an entry point.

The build story

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

The runners are small and the gates are placed where you would expect on a Bandai accessory set, mostly on the undersides of the armor pieces and inside the sockets, so cleanup is quick and low-risk. Nothing here fights you the way a full inner-frame MG can. Parts fit onto the F90's existing hardpoints without any looseness, which matters since this pack lives or dies on how securely it locks onto the base suit.

The backpack thrusters on ball joints are the clear engineering highlight, letting the whole assembly rotate and angle independently of the F90's own back unit. The beam bazooka's holster mechanism is genuinely satisfying to click in and out, and the propellant tanks give the forearms and legs some visual bulk that reads well as an assault loadout rather than just bolted-on greebles.

Lore & trivia

01The F90 stands 14.8 meters tall, notably smaller than the RX-78-2's 18 meters, a size reduction achieved through Yashima Heavy Industries' micro-honeycomb structural material.
02The F90's core design concept is the Mission Pack system: dedicated equipment sets attached across 11 hardpoints on the suit, with as many as 26 different packs conceived across the setting.
03The A-Type pack can be combined with the D (Destroy) and S (Support) mission packs to form the composite Mission Pack ADS configuration.
04The external generator mount structure pioneered on the F90 was later carried forward into Crossbone Vanguard suits like the Denan Zon, becoming a defining feature of later Universal Century mobile suit design.