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RX-93 nu Gundam

A 45th anniversary flex kit that turns the nu Gundam into an actual machine you build in sections, not a toy you snap together.

MechaGrade Score

4.6/5

Nu Gundam · 1/60 · 2026

GradePG

Scale1/60

Released2026

Runnersn/a

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The verdict

This is the most ambitious PG I have ever put hands on, and it earns that ambition more often than it strains under it.

The Ultimate Unit System, where you build the head, chest, arms, waist and legs as self-contained mechanical units before marrying them together, changes how a kit feels in your hands, it stops feeling like assembly and starts feeling like engineering. It is not a casual purchase or a casual build, but if you have the money and the hours, it delivers a centerpiece that nothing else in Gunpla currently matches.

Best for: Veteran builders and deep-pocketed UC fans who want the definitive nu Gundam as a display centerpiece, not a first PG

The full review

What it is

The PG Let looseed nu Gundam is Bandai's flagship kit for Gunpla's 45th anniversary, and it plays like one. You are not building a suit and then a frame underneath it, you are building interlocking mechanical units, head, shoulders, chest, arms, hands, waist, legs, each one a tiny complete machine before it ever gets buttoned into the whole. Metal parts show up in the head vulcans and inside the V-fin, the inner frame is visible and posable before a single armor panel goes on, and the fin funnels get real internal articulation across three distinct deployment states. At roughly 557mm assembled with funnels, it fills a shelf the way only a flagship PG can. It is genuinely one of the best-engineered kits I have covered.

The catch

None of this comes cheap or fast. US retail sits around $699.99, and a straight build without customization or LEDs runs dozens of hours of focused work, this is not a weekend kit. The LED unit that lights the psycho-frame and internal components is sold separately, so the full cinematic effect the marketing promises costs more on top of an already premium price. The part count and the unit-based construction also mean early mistakes compound, if a sub-unit goes together wrong you may not catch it until a later assembly stage exposes the problem. This is a kit that punishes rushing.

Who it's for

If you have built a handful of MGs or PGs already and you want the nu Gundam done as well as it has ever been done in plastic, this is the kit, full stop. It rewards patience, mechanical curiosity, and a willingness to treat the manual like a real assembly guide rather than a suggestion. Skip it if this would be your first Gunpla, your first PG, or your budget realistically caps out under a few hundred dollars, there are excellent RG and MG nu Gundam options that get you most of the character for a fraction of the cost and time. This one is for builders who already know they love the process, not people testing whether they do.

The build story

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

You feel the Ultimate Unit System from the first sprue. Instead of stacking a generic inner frame and armoring over it, you build each body region as its own small project, complete joints, complete internal detail, complete articulation, before it ever connects to its neighbor. That pacing makes an enormous kit feel manageable in stretches, even though the total time investment is real. Gate placement and part fit on the units I have seen discussed are clean for a kit of this complexity, though the sheer part density means cleanup adds up fast across a build this size.

The engineering payoff is where this kit separates itself. The inner frame looks complete and posable before armor goes on, metal parts in the vulcans and V-fin add real weight and presence, and the fin funnels are not decorative, they have working internal mechanisms and can be displayed in three different states. Articulation on a suit this size holds poses well thanks to the frame-first construction philosophy, and the optional LED unit lighting the psycho-frame is the kind of feature that turns a finished build into something you photograph in a dark room just to see it glow.

Lore & trivia

01The nu Gundam was largely designed by its own pilot, Amuro Ray, inside the story of Char's Counterattack, making it one of the few UC suits framed as its ace's personal engineering project.
02Its signature weapon is an array of six back-mounted fin funnels, remote beam weapons controlled through a psycommu system that reads the pilot's thoughts.
03The novelization of Char's Counterattack confirms both Amuro and Char are killed in the climactic psycho-frame event that pushes the asteroid Axis away from Earth, a darker ending than the animated film leaves explicit.
04This PG Let looseed release was built to mark Gunpla's 45th anniversary and launched in January 2026 as one of the line's most technically ambitious kits to date.