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AMS-119C Full Frontal's Geara Doga

The same brilliant Zeon frame, dressed for the Sleeves' commander and cast in a paint job that earns the reissue.

MechaGrade Score

4.1/5

Full Frontal's Geara Doga · 1/100 · 2015

GradeMG

Scale1/100

Released2015

Runnersn/a

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The verdict

This is the standard MG Geara Doga's excellent inner frame wearing a P-Bandai exclusive coat, and that inner frame is still the star of the show.

I went in expecting a reskin and came out impressed at how much the sleeve armor and color scheme change the read of the suit on the shelf. The core engineering here was ahead of its time when the base kit launched, and this variant does nothing to get in its way.

Best for: MG builders who want the definitive Neo Zeon grunt frame in Full Frontal's personal colors, and Unicorn fans who care about screen accuracy over price

The full review

What it is

This is the AMS-119C, the souped up Geara Doga that Full Frontal's honor guard flew around in Gundam Unicorn, done up as an MG with the sleeve shoulder guards and the red and grey Sleeves paint scheme molded in rather than left for you to hunt down in paint. Underneath the armor is the same frame Bandai built for the original MG Geara Doga, and it is a genuinely clever piece of engineering for a Zeon mono-eye suit. Popping the armor off and just posing the bare frame is half the fun. It stands on its own without a stand, which for a suit this bulky is a real accomplishment.

The catch

This is a P-Bandai exclusive, so expect secondary market pricing well above a retail MG, and don't expect to walk into a shop and find one. The power pipe pieces are soft rubber-ish plastic that never quite wants to sit flush and can look loose or twisted if you're not careful during assembly. The bundled machine gun reads a little undersized in the hand for how big and heavy the rest of the suit is. Head articulation is also the weak link, it basically turns side to side and that's it, everything else on the suit moves far more freely.

Who it's for

Get this one if you already love the Geara Doga silhouette and want the Full Frontal specific colors and sleeve parts without doing the repaint yourself, or if you're building out a Sinanju and honor guard display and want the escort suits to match screen canon. Skip it if you just want a good Zeon MG for a reasonable price, the standard release MG Geara Doga gives you the same frame and the same fun build for retail money instead of aftermarket markup. This is a fan's pickup, not a first MG.

The build story

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

This is a long build with a lot of steps and no single tricky sequence, it's just a lot of frame and a lot of armor plates stacked in order, so plan to spread it across more than one sitting. Gate placement is standard Bandai MG, nothing buried in awkward spots, though the rubber-feel power pipe pieces need a bit of patience to seat correctly and are the one part of assembly that fought back.

The frame is where the design work shows. Hip, knee, and shoulder joints give the bare inner frame a wide pose range, and once the sleeve armor and shield go on you still keep enough of that mobility to hold dynamic stances without a stand. Color separation is handled through molded plastic in the reds and greys of the scheme rather than leaning on stickers, and the decal sheet fills in the unit markings. The trade-off is the head, which barely swivels, and the accessory loadout feels a size class below the suit it's attached to.

Lore & trivia

01The AMS-119C is an experimental high-performance Geara Doga variant that first appeared in the Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn PS3 game and later UC side material before showing up in the anime as Full Frontal's honor guard machine.
02In the Gundam Unicorn story, Geara Dogas from the Sleeves escort and haul equipment during the operation to steal the Sinanju Stein from Anaheim Electronics, with Full Frontal himself sortieing separately in the Sinanju.
03This kit was released in July 2015 as a P-Bandai exclusive recolor and parts variant of Bandai's original MG 1/100 Geara Doga, adding the sleeve shoulder armor and Full Frontal unit colors on top of the same base frame.
04Full Frontal, the pilot this variant is themed around, is depicted in Unicorn as a Cyber Newtype built around remnants of Char Aznable's psycho-frame imprint, commanding the Sleeves in the Sinanju.