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Gundam ishaving a western renaissanceright now.
More and more people are signing up to build big robot baddies for numerous reasons.
Some of this interest comes frominfluencers, whether organic or working as paid partners.
These are big, beautiful models that barely count as miniatures.
Sure, theyre not at a 1:1 scale with their fictional counterparts, but theyre big bois.
Most tower over an Imperial Knight.
What Is Gundam Assemble?
In short, we dont know.
All weve got to go on is the short teaser video and asparse website.
People are just excited about mini Gundam.
And there’s a good reason for that.
Make it smaller, more affordable, and easier to store?
Youve got a recipe for excitement.
The problem is, this sounds like my own, personal hell.
This might not be true for you.
If you disagree, thats because we engage with this hobby in different ways.
It likely means that Gundam Assemble is Your Kind Of Thing, which is exciting!
But for me, its not.
Despite this, Im quite competitive.
I love building lists, almost as much as I enjoy building miniatures.
Imagine its the Drake meme.
Or the swerving car meme.
Are all memes the same?
I like building strong lists, and then trying to come up with creative conversions to represent those units.
Despite rarely battling, I find myself sucked into this capitalist cycle.
Gundam is an escape from this.
I can buy whichever suit I think looks coolest and not worry about how it performs on the tabletop.
Im a filthy casual, and thats just how I like it.
New year, same me and all that.
I hope you all enjoy Gundam Assemble.
It sounds like the perfect miniatures game for the majority of people.
But I dont need another Warhammer right now.
I need Gundam to be Gundam.
So Im going to stick to the bigatures.
