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How did Bandai market Gundam in the 90’s?
In the mid 90's bandai made a hard push to get into the American market, but how could they convince kids to watch these anime shows and buy their toys? By Americanizing the product of course.
• NEW 2014 Gundam Model ... - Gundam Planet Commercial Parody
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Well, Char does need to raise funds for his next colony drop...
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
Corporate funding for a colony drop is beat for beat the plot of CCA
@_GeneralMechanics_
5 ай бұрын
@@colonydropmodels He bought off the leaders of Sweetwater three times faster than the Federation.
Level G, not done yet 😂
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
Killed me when I heard him say it
@_GeneralMechanics_
5 ай бұрын
@@colonydropmodels It's what I say about what I'm not currently working on in my Infinite Backlog.
Level 1. 300 hours, interrupted by bouts of existential dread and stifled tears.
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
Interrupted by family for me but we start where we start hehe
The battle damaged toys were sick, they had amazing paintwork and are collectors items now if you find them boxed, they go for a lot.
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
Finding something like that boxed would be wild, probably just in some guy's attic at this rate
The unicorn kicks go crazy yo 😂😂😂😂
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
The fact that they got both the banshee and the unicorn made me cackle
90’s Gunpla commercials were Build Fighters before Build Fighters 😂😂😂
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
The template of the time
I always laughed at the "Level of Commitment" ad campaign because by the time it came out, I had already built almost everything they released in the West for Gundam Wing multiple times, two Perfect Grades, a few Master Grades, and the HGUC GP03 Dendrobium. It was my 100th kit, I even kept a journal that tabulated the time I spent: 16 hours over 30 days.
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
Oh damn that must have been a nice find back then, I missed the recent re-issue for dendrobium so I gotta hope a scalper sells one for under a grand lmao
@_GeneralMechanics_
5 ай бұрын
@@colonydropmodels 00F! Sorry you haven't gotten it yet but don't go breaking the bank, it has to come out again some day. I was lucky to get one directly from Hobby Link Japan when it first came out! I built it back when the only tools I had were a pair of clippers and an x-acto knife, and mostly used rapidoliner ink and very little paint. That was over 21 years ago, and I've made a lot of improvements to my techniques and painting skills. I'd give it a total makeover now if they made a Real Grade GP-03S.
Man i haven't seen some of these commercials in some time. I still have my Battle Damage Zaku 1. I remember trying to build my first Gunpla as fast as I could when i first gotten into Gundam.
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
I think I built my first RX78 in one sitting tbh, now it takes me 3 separate build seshes to finish one high grade
@_GeneralMechanics_
5 ай бұрын
@@colonydropmodels I worked on two Real Grades simultaniously (two Astray Red Frames for the purpose of making one into Powered Red using Future Model Weapon Girl 01), and it took me over a month after I backlogged the project for almost seven years. I keep photo records of what I do, and I start the albums when I get the kits.
"spicy cheese the jalapeno" 🤣
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
SCHPICY CHEESE
@_GeneralMechanics_
5 ай бұрын
@@colonydropmodels The Char Menu at McDonalds: it runs through you three times faster.
A Gundam commercial should just show a guy with three half built Gundams and a back stock of ten unopened boxes.
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
Gotta keep it real lol
I remember that whole level system and the badges too
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
They had badges as well? Imagine going to a con and seeing a guy dripped out in them lmao
@InfernalTobias
5 ай бұрын
@@colonydropmodels oh yes I still have an old VHS of Gundam that came with a product pamphlet and the skill level thing was there with badges
I remember that commercial. Sold me on model kits.
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
If it works, it works!
One of my personal favorites from Japan was the Zeonic Toyota collab with the Toyota Auris, with how Char comes down with his Zaku 2 to switch out to drive that instead.
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
The fact they did a newtype moment for that commercial killed me when I saw it the first time
That char burger be lookin' grubbin' yo!
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
The mcdonald's jalapeno burger looks good af
Never forget, Andrew W.K. mad an entire Gundam UC themed album!
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
Woah that's dope, looks like covers of the first series tracks but I'll be keeping my eye on that
@zondervonstrek
5 ай бұрын
@@colonydropmodels I have a copy, its weird but in the most wonderful way.
@_GeneralMechanics_
5 ай бұрын
@@colonydropmodels Yeah, it's pretty good. He even recites the opening narration and Gihren Zabi's "Heil Zeon" speech.
Honestly the military style commercials might work since 08th ms team proves that fans like that stuff
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
This is true, I would love a kit that is a gundam hangar setup
Gunpla was the biggest pain in the ass to get in the late 90s early 00s. Especially if you lived in a small city without any anime stores in it. We had one store in my whole town that sold some of the old school HGs and that was it. Once we had a walmart sell the old HG wing gundam but it was one of the worst kits i've ever built.
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
Must have felt like the wild west out there lmao. I bet if you went to a convention they'd try scalping hard with kits if you went anyways
@3rdimpact918
5 ай бұрын
haha the old HG Wing Gundam kit was my first one, still got the box
I freaking love that commercial! It did it's job too!. level 5 ten hours gundam what is your level of commitment. ? Ah it's so cool seeing it again years later.
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
Yeah it's wild seeing how they used to advertise these kits, a commercial I remember from my childhood is lightsaber toys and those ads had zero sauce
"GP02, requesting assistance! " "For the rebirth of the ideals of Zeon. For the success of Operation Stardust! Solomon I have returned!"
@elliotyourarobot
5 ай бұрын
You got 5 minutes.
South America getting anime since the 70s and none of the toys :😐
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
They got one hookup but not the other
1:06 because why wouldnt the cable go there? Gunpla is freedom!
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
Customizing kits by cable placement? Very goot
I recommend everyone to look into the marketing pitch for Doozybots to see the opposite side of the coin of this shit. It was Sunrise's attempt, of their own volition, to introduce Gundam cartoons to the Western market and the result is laughably trite and inept. Special mention goes to the kid in the wheelchair whose Doozybot form is... the Guntank. Kid can't even walk in his robo body.
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
The wheelchair kid in the guntank? Jesus lol
@FurnaxIkki
5 ай бұрын
@@colonydropmodelsLowkey once you witness it you can't ever forget that shit.
I remember that awful, awful commercial. I thought it was a fever dream, but lo and behold there it is.
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
I found a kid show my family watched while finding these commercials, and it felt like a fever dream that it was a gundam show
Gundam in the UK on TV was just Gundam Wing that was it it was'nt until this year G Gundam got a Blu Ray and it never aired on UK TV. The Models lots was hard to find too not many shops stocked them and we stoped geting then right before US got G Gundam ones nothing SD Gundam Force made it to UK.
great video, you got my sub
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
Ayy, hopefully I can keep it
1:36 -- my soul just died from cringe. You: "I think that it works."
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
I'll be cringe til the day I die
Think the burger commercial was stretching it? Take a look at the Char custom Toyota Auris, goofy.
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
Lalah in the Zaku ii flying by was so good
Supaisu chisu to harapeño!
1:37 💀💀💀
No the Toyata Zeonic comercial, 0/10
Nike x Unicorn in size 16 US is dummy expensive
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
Damn and I thought size 12 would be hard enough to get lol
Jalapeno
@colonydropmodels
5 ай бұрын
Schpicy cheese and jalapeno