MGUniversal Century

MSR-00100S Hyakushiki-Kai

The gold suit's blue-collar cousin, built on a proven mold and dressed down for the front line.

MechaGrade Score

3.7/5

Hyakushiki-Kai · 1/100 · 2016

GradeMG

Scale1/100

Released2016

Runnersn/a

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The verdict

This is a P-Bandai exclusive for people who already love the Hyaku Shiki mold and want the mass-production spin on it.

It takes the excellent MG Hyaku Shiki Ver 2.0 engineering, swaps in a new head, shoulders, and partial backpack, and hands you a suit that trades the iconic wing binders for a plain missile launcher. I like it more than I expected to, but it is a kit for completionists and Zeta-era fans first, casual shelf-builders second.

Best for: Zeta Gundam collectors and Hyaku Shiki fans who want the mass-production variant next to their original gold kit

The full review

What it is

The Hyakushiki-Kai Mass Production Type takes the well-regarded MG Hyaku Shiki Ver 2.0 frame and reskins it as the grunt version from the Mobile Suit Z Gundam side material. New tooling covers the head, shoulder armor, and part of the backpack, and the whole thing molds in bare gold plastic instead of the chrome-plated finish the flagship kits get. Sitting it next to a Ver 2.0 Hyaku Shiki on the shelf, I get why people collect both. Same bones, same satisfying double-jointed elbows and knees, but a different read entirely once the wing binders are gone and a six-tube launcher is riding the back instead.

The catch

Bare gold plastic looks great fresh out of the bag but it scuffs and shows handling marks more readily than a plated finish, so careful part handling during the build matters more than usual. This is a reworked 2005-era mold, so surface detail and engineering read a notch behind Bandai's newest MG releases, and I ran into a few sink marks on the underlying frame parts that needed sanding before I was happy with them. It was also a Bandai Hobby Online Shop exclusive, so pricing and availability run higher than a standard retail MG.

Who it's for

Buy this if you already have or plan to build the Ver 2.0 Hyaku Shiki and want the mass-production counterpart standing next to it, because the kit even throws in parts to assemble the original color scheme if you want options. Skip it if you are looking for a first MG or want the flashiest Zeta-era suit on your shelf, since the aesthetic here is intentionally toned down and the plated-gold flagship kits look more impressive out of the box. This is a second-kit purchase, not a starting point.

What works

Inherits the Ver 2.0 Hyaku Shiki frame, so double-jointed elbows and knees plus a 360-degree waist twist are all still here
Includes extra parts to also build the original Hyaku Shiki color scheme, so you get two suits' worth of options in one box
Newly tooled head, shoulders, and backpack sections give the mass-production look real presence rather than feeling like a recolor

Worth knowing

Bare gold plastic scuffs and shows handling wear more than the plated chrome finish on the flagship Hyaku Shiki kits
Sink marks on some frame parts need sanding before painting or clear-coating
Losing the wing binders for a plain missile launcher makes it a quieter, less dramatic build than the original

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The build story

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

The build leans on the Ver 2.0 Hyaku Shiki engineering underneath, so assembly feels familiar if you have built that kit, with the same satisfying snap into the inner frame before armor goes on. Gate placement is mostly clean thanks to undergating on the new mass-production parts, but I still found sink marks on a few of the reused frame pieces that wanted a pass of sandpaper before the bare gold plastic would look right under light.

Articulation is the strongest reason to build this one. Double-jointed elbows and knees, a waist that rotates a full 360 degrees and tilts side to side, and shoulder joints that pull out and swing forward add up to genuine dynamic posing, not just a static gold statue. The 6-tube multi-purpose launcher and beam gatling gun give you a different weapon loadout than the standard Hyaku Shiki, and having the parts to switch back to the original scheme on hand makes the part count feel like real value for a P-Bandai release.

Lore & trivia

01The kit reuses the MG Hyaku Shiki Ver 2.0 frame and updates it with newly molded head, shoulder armor, and partial backpack parts unique to the Mass Production Type.
02In the fiction, the mass-production version drops the Hyaku Shiki's signature wing binders in favor of a single 6-tube multi-purpose missile launcher, reflecting the cost-cutting behind mass manufacture.
03It was sold as a Bandai Hobby Online Shop (P-Bandai) exclusive in bare, uncoated gold plastic, a deliberate contrast to the chrome-plated gold finish used on the flagship Hyaku Shiki releases.
04The box includes extra parts that let builders assemble the original, non-mass-production Hyaku Shiki Kai color scheme as an alternate build.