Gunpla #51 - P-Bandai RG Tallgeese III Review

Youtube review: https://youtu.be/jMT4p-5nKHY

Hello, guys. It’s me again with the gunpla review, and the kit which I would like to review this time will be: the premium bandai exclusive, real grade, tallgeese III from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz. Tallgeese III is one of the most anticipated pbandai real grade kits of 2019.  I bought this kit directly from premium bandai hobby site, with the price of 3024 Japanese yen (excluding tax), which is around 300 yen more expensive than pbandai Tallgeese II which was released earlier this year, for a good reason. Anyway, without further ado, let’s start with the review of the kit.

As you can see, this is the out-of-the-box look of Tallgeese III, with panel lines and all sticker markings applied on the kit. While maintaining most of basic frame and colors of the original Tallgeese Endless Waltz, you could clearly see some major differences between this kit and its retail brother. With bigger shoulders and slimmer head piece, Tallgeese III looks more robust, compared to Tallgeese I and II. Similar with previous Tallgeeses, this kit mostly has glossy body armors with some flat surfaces for the cockpit, shoulders, head, hips and backpack. It also has at least two shades of blue, which could be easily seen on the backpack thrusters.  In contrary with Tallgeese I and II which both have dark frames, the main body frame of Tallgeese III are primarily consists of white and creamy-color parts.

Anyway, the most striking features which make Tallgeese III looks so much different with its brother units obviously, are the weapons. Instead of a dober gun and round shield, this white mobile suit has a mega canon and shield which are much bigger than the original Tallgesee. The mega canon has nice details and color separation, and similar with the dober gun, it also connected to special articulated joints to Tallgese III right shoulder and it has extension gimmick to switch between compact mode and canon mode. The shield, on the other hand, while still retaining to host the beam sabers, also has another weapon in the form of heat rod. This weapon could be extended by part-swapping the spike at the end of the shield with fully retracted heat-rod parts. This rod extension was built along a wire cable, and has 7 segments which could be moved and curled easily. Unfortunately, the rod on this RG kit was shorter compared to the MG version.  Nevertheless, the addition of these two weapons truly makes Tallgeese III looks much more menacing and badass compared to Tallgeese I and II.

 Similar with Tallgeese EW, this kit came with standard clench hands, open hands, weapon holding hands and a special right hand to hold the beam saber. It also came with a small figure of Zech Marquise, and several left over parts from the original Tallgeese.

The articulation of this kit is basically same with previous Tallgeese. If you have built RG Tallgeese before, you may notice that the joints of torso and limbs are mostly tight and quite harder to move, hence making quite hard for posing. These tight joints however, make the kit so solid (and somewhat stiff enough) once you set it into a pose.  The backpack thrusters, beam canon and heat rod on the other hand, are quite easy to move and play with.

 As other RG kits, Tallgeese III came with sticker markings. While these kind of stickers are basically ugly and annoying, I should admit they looked good on this kit, basically because the white background color of the kit greatly conceal the plastic film of the stickers, making them look more natural except on some dark color surfaces.

And finally, the verdict about this kit.  In my opinion, this kit is one of the best RG kits of 2019, and if you are a fan of wing series, especially Tallgeese, you should pick this kit up. It looks so badass and compared to previously released P-Bandai Tallgeese II, this Tallgeese III is definitely a much better kit, with the better aesthetics, accessories and values considering the price difference between those two.

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OZ-00MS2B Tallgeese III

Pros:

• Great design with much more details than previously released RG Tallgeese EW/II
• More badass weapons and gimmicks
• Good stickers for an RG kit

Cons:

• Heat rod is shorter compared to MG version (or DM version)