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Mission Pack B-Type & K-Type for Gundam F90

The Formula Project's whole gimmick, in one accessory box: heavy bombardment on one arm, a mega beam shield fortress on the other.

MechaGrade Score

3.8/5

Mission Pack B-Type & K-Type for Gundam F90 · 1/100 · 2020

GradeMG

Scale1/100

Released2020

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The verdict

I love what this pack represents more than any single part in the box, and that is the whole point of the F90.

This is not a mobile suit kit, it is an equipment expansion that only works if you already own the MG Gundam F90, and once you understand that going in, it delivers exactly what it promises. B-Type turns the F90 into a walking artillery battery, K-Type turns it into a mega beam shield bunker, and swapping between them on the same frame is the most fun I have had with a modular Gunpla concept in a while.

Best for: F90 owners who want the full mission pack fantasy without buying a second whole kit

The full review

What it is

This is one of Bandai's Mission Pack expansion sets built specifically for the MG F90, and it comes packed with both B-Type (Bombard) and K-Type (Keep) hardware in a single box. B-Type loads the shoulders and legs with heavy bombardment units on top of backpack cannons and arm-mounted grenade launchers, turning the F90 into a suit that can put ordnance downrange from almost every angle. K-Type flips the script entirely, handing the suit a mega beam shield and shoulder armor packing three I-field generators for a defense-first loadout. Clipping either set onto the F90's eleven hardpoints and watching the silhouette change that dramatically is genuinely satisfying, it is the closest Gunpla gets to a real toy weapons-loadout system.

The catch

The F90 itself is sold separately, so this pack is functionally useless on its own and only makes sense as a second or third purchase for someone who already committed to the base suit. It was also a Bandai Hobby Online Shop / P-Bandai exclusive, which means pricing and availability run higher than a normal retail MG and secondhand markups are common. Because this is an accessory expansion rather than a full suit, you are not getting a complete articulation or engineering story, you are getting weapons and armor add-ons, so do not expect the review depth of a standalone MG here. Some of the smaller ordnance and grenade launcher parts are fiddly to clip on and can feel like they are held by friction more than a confident joint.

Who it's for

Buy this if you already own the MG F90 and want to lean into the mission pack concept that defines the whole line, this is the pack that gives you both the loudest offense and the toughest defense configuration in one box. It is also a reasonable pick for F90 completionists chasing multiple mission packs to display side by side and swap on rotation. Skip it if you do not own the base F90 yet, or if you were hoping for a self-contained mobile suit build, because there is no frame or body here, just the hardware that clips onto one. New builders should start with the base F90 and treat this as the reward purchase once that kit is already on the shelf.

The build story

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

Assembly here is quick compared to a full mobile suit kit since you are building armor plates, cannon housings, and shield hardware rather than an inner frame, and gate placement on the review copies I read about was reported as clean with minimal visible nub marks after cleanup. The trickiest moments come from the smaller bombardment and grenade launcher pieces, which clip onto the F90's shoulder and leg hardpoints and can feel a little loose until everything locks into its final position.

The real engineering story is in how the F90's eleven hardpoints accept these packs without a single new peg or tool, which shows how well the base kit was designed around this exact modular concept from the start. K-Type's mega beam shield is the standout accessory of the set, big enough to actually block the suit's profile in a defensive pose, while B-Type's spread of cannons and launchers gives you enough weapon variety to build an entirely different display pose than the stock loadout.

Lore & trivia

01The Gundam F90 first appeared in the 1990 manga Mobile Suit Gundam F90, developed under the in-universe Formula Project as a small, lightweight prototype suit built around the mission pack concept.
02Three F90 units were built in the fiction, Unit 1 through Unit 3, each fielded with a different starting mission pack configuration before the modular system let them swap loadouts in the field.
03The F90's mission pack system and its lineage of variants directly influenced the design philosophy that led to the F91, the suit most fans recognize as the F90's spiritual successor.
04Bandai has released the F90's mission packs as an ongoing wave of P-Bandai exclusives over several years, with B-Type and K-Type first hitting in March 2020 and later getting a reissue.