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Mission Pack D-Type & G-Type for Gundam F90

An armory expansion pack that turns your F90 into a gatling-toting brawler or a shield-carrying escort, your choice.

MechaGrade Score

3.6/5

Mission Pack D-Type & G-Type for Gundam F90 · 1/100 · 2020

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Scale1/100

Released2020

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The verdict

This is an accessory kit doing exactly what an accessory kit should do, and doing it well, as long as you already own the MG Gundam F90 to plug it into.

You get two complete loadouts in one box, a Destroid Type built around a swinging Mega Gatling Gun and leg boosters, and a Guard Type with a big shoulder shield and a beam weapon that flips between sword and rifle. Neither half is a showstopper on its own, but together they nearly double what your F90 can do on the shelf.

Best for: F90 owners who already love the base kit and want two more distinct loadouts without buying another mission pack twice over

The full review

What it is

I went in thinking of this as a weapons sprue and came out thinking of it as two small builds. The D-Type gives the F90 a genuine profile change, leg-mounted booster pods and a hip-swung Mega Gatling Gun with enough range of motion to actually aim it, plus a scattering of crackers, grenades and rocket pods clipped to the frame so the suit reads as a heavy-firepower brawler the moment it's assembled. The G-Type is calmer and more elegant, a broad shoulder shield that flips up out of the way for posing and a multi-beam weapon that swaps cleanly between sword and gun form. Both halves snap onto the F90's existing mounting points without any surgery, which is exactly what a mission pack should deliver.

The catch

The obvious one first: this kit does not include a Gundam F90 body. It is Premium Bandai exclusive, so it was never on general retail shelves and secondhand prices run well above what a comparable amount of plastic would cost as a standalone release. Reviewers who directly compared it to earlier mission packs (O-Type and U-Type) called it a smaller step, less dramatic in silhouette change even though the parts fit and the engineering are just as sound. The Mega Gatling Gun's mounting arm is long and thin, so heavier poses need a light touch or it droops over time, and the small grenade and cracker pieces are fiddly to clip in without marring the surrounding armor panels.

Who it's for

Buy this if you already have the MG F90 on your shelf and want it to do double duty as two different characters instead of sitting there as one static loadout. It rewards people who like swapping gear between builds and who find the F90 A to Z concept charming rather than gimmicky. Skip it if you do not own the base F90, since none of this clips onto anything else, or if you are hunting for a single dramatic centerpiece kit, because this one is a supporting act by design. Collectors chasing a complete Mission Pack set should expect to hunt secondhand listings and pay a premium over what the plastic alone is worth.

The build story

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

The parts count is modest compared to a full mobile suit kit, and it shows in how fast the build goes: gates are placed on non-visible mating surfaces for the most part, though a few of the smaller grenade and cracker pieces have nubs on faces that show once mounted, so a hobby knife and a little patience pay off. Nothing here fights you the way a full inner-frame MG does. It is closer in spirit to building two accessory sets back to back than to building a suit.

The engineering payoff is in the swap mechanisms. The G-Type's multi-beam weapon folds between a two-handed sword stance and a rifle grip without needing you to swap parts, and the shoulder shield hinges up and out of the way so it does not block arm articulation, which a lot of shield-heavy kits fail to solve. The D-Type's Mega Gatling Gun pivots at the waist mount through a wide arc, so you can bring it up to a firing stance instead of leaving it dangling at the hip. Both packs use the F90's stock joints, so articulation is whatever your base F90 already has, this kit just adds mass and options on top of it.

Lore & trivia

01The Gundam F90 stands about 14.8 meters tall, notably smaller than the 18-meter RX-78-2, thanks to a micro-honeycomb structural material developed by Yashima Heavy Industries that let its frame and armor be built lighter without losing strength.
02Its central design idea is the Mission Pack system: dedicated hardpoints across the fuselage let a single F90 body swap between dramatically different weapon and equipment loadouts, which is the entire premise behind releasing D-Type and G-Type as an add-on kit rather than a new suit.
03The F90 A to Z Project, the source material for this kit, is an ongoing Bandai/Sunrise design push to give all 26 lettered Mission Pack concepts (A through Z) full mechanical designs by Kunio Okawara and turn each into an MG release.
04The G-Type's multi-beam weapon and shoulder shield were designed specifically to cover an escort and close-protection combat role, distinct from the D-Type's suppress-then-melee doctrine built around its Mega Gatling Gun and grenade/rocket loadout.