Not sure if it was intentional or not but I love that you gave livery that resembles the 7-Eleven Hess trucks. (Edit: or just 7-Eleven I guess? Reminds me of the Hess trucks, at any rate.)
@RamadaArtist I can't say it was intentional I just built, painted and decal'd it with more or less the original colors. It's definitely 7/11 inspired as this 3rd party kit was a bootleg of Bandai's collaboration with 7/11.
I got almost all of my gunpla from AliExpress, didnt get anything bootleg, only some damaged boxes, but in Brazil we can't buy gunpla locally without paying around 5-10x the retail price. On Ali I usually get them for 1,5 - 2x the price, which is not great but still affordable
@@alfalanceer17015 It's a decent place to get them, just made 110% sure that "Bandai" is written on the listing and description, better if it has a picture of the box with the bandai logo on it
Same here man, started buying original Gunplas on Aliexpress last Black Friday, and it's been downhill from there. Unfortunately it seems more and more possible that the government is going to tax everything, even under 50 USD, then our fun is over. On the other hand, ML is showing prices good enough to compete.
That moment you realise how lucky you are to have not one, but two shops to buy Gunpla from... (Forbidden Planet International and the originally from here, Travelling Man! If you know Forbidden Planet, you basically know Travelling Man!)
There's nothing to worry about when ordering gunpla from aliexpress if there's a bandai logo and name in the pictures and discription of the auction. I've both tens of sets regular releases and premium bandai kits and had no problems except for the damaged boxes
Good to know. I think for this video it was a little bit of dispelling apprehension and I hope people come away realizing that besides the box it was a good experience I had
Yeah me too, I bought 3 kits, the only ones I have, the shipping is cheap even with the slight damage to the boxes tho I can live with it. Meanwhile with hlj I'd have to pay 2x plus wait for them to arrive in the warehouse, and with the local dealer who has good prices I'd have to wait 6 months to a year for a kit that's not in stock which is ridiculous considering they don't have that many in stock to begin with.
@@darkmard if they don't say it's bandai than it's a bad bootleg. Usually theres also daban that's so and so, but some of their kits are awesome like the pgu rx78 that's half the price of the bandai one and if you're lucky it's perfect, if you're not it might have small fitting issues. They also make a 1/60 nu gundam based on the metal build figurine and the mg ver ka. What was I talking about again? Oh yeah, if it says daban for example it's a bootleg, just make sure it says bandai.
I've been wondering about this for a while, I still don't plan on buying any from AliExpress, but I was fairly surprised by the quality of the kit in the video. Thanks for for answering the question I've had for a while now!
I remember buying a 3rd party IWSP for my HG Strike from Aliexpress. The box was damaged a little from a corner, but it wasn't nearly as beaten up. Then, I bought the Hi-Nu's mega bazooka launcher. That one came up wrapped up in fancy plastic bubbles and the box was basically intact. I guess that box condition depends on who you're buying from and luck 😅
Why my comment was deleted? Sorry, the video was made without any actual research, aliexpress is awesome. If you're not an north american, it's heaven. I have 28 kits all bought in aliexpress (all bandai) and not all bootlegs are bad. I didn't get why my comment was deleted, sad ngl.
I didn't delete your comment? I'm sure some of the companies that advertise on there are legit non bootlegs and good but I'd assume they're likely at or around their usual msrp. The idea behind the video was to get one that was super cheap and a knock off to see if it was still an okay experience
Nice vid! Good to have videos like this floating around the net for us budget buyers! One critique I have is that your music when doing the showcase of the completed model was too loud, made it tough to hear you.
About 5-6 years ago I bought a hg barbatos and mg supernova heavy arms from wish. They're the first two model kits that got me into the hobby and they're still standing strong. I'm not sure how much wish and ali differ but i wouldn't mind purchasing from either site again
I got my Calibarn and 08 RG from there, they actually tell you when its a bootleg, but my local package company wants to give me my water decals until the date AliExpress gave me
I actually buy those bootleg gundams if i want to experiment or practice... I made one SD Exia with LEDs both in the head and chest.. and it was my first try on weathering... Turned out quite good
The only place I can find the extra metal etching parts for MGEX Strike Freedom, so first Ali order ever. Was due this week but were near zero F and had snow so everything is delayed
I've purchased a few things from there and never really had an issue at least no more than ebay or temu. I have however purchased mainely third party and motor nuclear kits that cant be found in bandais lineup. I am of the opinion however that if the kit you are looking for is ridiculously overpriced from bandai then it's your choice to support it or not.
I bought my first Ali kit a couple weeks ago. It's a WM HG Astray looking thing with a giant sword. Price was about half of what it would cost here for a Bandai kit. Still I wouldn't recommend it. It's all ABS, which means it's a tough springy kind of plastic that doesn't want to stay connected. It's unpleasant to work with, I had multiple issues with fitment and sanding it is harder. Details and edges are all soft and blurry compared to the real thing. Also this might become an issue when painting, abs can degrade and crack when using certain thinners. They included waterslides which is nice though. I would rather buy a nice real Bandai kit for the price of two of these.
Aliexpress also has real gunpla, but you need to pay attention to the listing, and know what the bootleggers print. I've bought most of mine from there and the only 3rd party one i got was on purpose xD
Don't buy if it's too cheap. Check if the ad says it is a Bandai product or if it has the logo on the pictures. Check to see if the ad calls it a Gundam, not a "Fighter" or something like that. Be careful any listing that has a lot of different gunpla under only one listing, especially if they are from different shows. (The most common nowdays are ad that have Seed, 00, IBO and Unicorn suits under one listing) And you kind of just need to kind of keep up with the news from the 3rd party world to know what they are producing. (Not that all 3rd parties are bootlegs, one of the suits i want the most is the Daban Full armor MKII xD )
I used to buy 3rd party kits from aliexpress pretty frequently when money was tight. Boxes were always in rough shape, and Gao Gao kits were usually the worst of the top 3 companies, but their Zaku kits held up well, and the Sinanju as well. I always got mg kits as hg's were notoriously bad. Daban and Momoko were the best at the time. It was nice to see them expand out from direct knockoffs. Regardless quality has gone up in the last 5 or so years.
@gustavom656 makes sense but hey for a $5.00 experiment to mess around with I'm fine with the quality never expected it to be like my bandai kits or for it to show up at all
@@ichishoto Honestly even the worst kits can be fun. The MG Sinanju from Gao Gao cost me only $20 but I had hours of fun. No different then when I did the MG Sazabi from Bandai, but that one cost me $100 lol
@aculdra41554 exactly it doesn't matter what the build is if you're having fun but by the same token if everyone jumped ship from bandai we wouldn't be getting new shows and kits and what not. I think if you're looking for a kit to just mess around with people should give it a go. I had a good experience
Well, the box looks as bad as the typical first-party Gunpla box off of Amazon. I bought a few from there before realizing I should switch to specialty stores.
As someone who prefers most Kotobukiya designs to Bandai anyway, (and thus am conditioned to enjoy lower build quality and extra work on the backend to get everything fitting correctly,) and especially as someone who mostly only buys kits with the goal of doing a bunch custom work to them and then putting them into dioramas and static displays... This kind of stuff is deliriously tempting. The idea that I could furnish an entire army for the cost of a single AoZ P-Bandai kit is hard to ignore. (Plus, what better opponent to face off against the two Haze'n-thley II-Rah kits I still haven't put together yet?)
Not entirely sure I could trust Aliexpress with package handling after seeing that box, then again it's not like I can order anything there cause the site is banned in India 😂
So to put my input here, I have bought many times from ali express for 3rd party and official gunpla, and honestly not had one bad experience with it. Sometimes the external box for shipping can be skuffed or had dents but the actual box has been ok and never missed any part for the kits. I'm not saying they will always be great (tbh what delivery service is) but otherwise they have been my go to mostly for 3rd party and p bandai because there aren't many other sites where I can fins them for an alright price.
Yeah it was a good experience for me as well I did specifically go for the cheapest I could find for the experiment and although the box was a little messed up everything went together pretty much as expected
@@ichishoto kinda funny cause at first they felt like a very scammy shopping site haha, my partner has bought a few things and some never came or took months, guess it depends abit on the product too
@@SeanyBoy589 I think less the product and more the seller. That's part of why I did this so people who have considered it but were maybe a little too weary of it could have a visual representation of what you potentially get
@@ichishotoholy crap I was joking I knew Bandai did an RX-78 but when I searched 7-11Gundam an Entry level Strike version popped up, that's 1 for 1 with this.
It was the only option to buy gunpla in Brazil during covid... And when you don't have option, aliexpress is actually very good 😂😂😂 BTW they do sell original bandai gunpla too
Oh absolutely I'm talking about the kits that are so cheap you don't know what you'll get lol but yeah they definitely have a place and if you can't get them by any other means 100% order it up on there!
@@ichishoto its based more or less on the complexity of the kit, it the kit is made out of many small pieces ur in a world of pain and cutting. And of course the delivery can be the big killer especially when you don't get the retail box....
@kingrat3110 I can only imagine. If the look of my box was an indication of the shipping I'm sure any other larger kits would have cracked runners, missing parts or just poor quality control for tolerances
What about buying original bandai there? I recently bought an rg 35 Wing Gundam for $31.5 free shiping, wich is way less than amazon in my country ($58.9). The box came really well protected, still it looked stomped, so I asume it was indeed a damaged box item since the beginning.
my first and last time buying gunpla on aliexpress was for that destiny kit that emulated the metal build a few years back. I receive the box and its a bootleg mg destiny without the boxart to hide the fact. I opened a case that lasted without kidding 1.5 months with to and fros with the seller who didn't want to give back the money, harassed me by email with pics of his kids and all, had to provide continuous proof that the product wasn't the correct one. and each party has one week to make their case over 4 weeks. to hell with aliexpress their system and their sellers.
from my experience theres generally a hierarchy when it comes to 3rd party companies. I'd say the one you bought was from GaoGao and id say they're bottom of the line. Id say daban is the middle and so on. Id say if you want to actually get decent knock offs id suggest looking into daban kits.
Is this cheaper than the EG Strike? The MSRP for the regular package EG Strike is 700 yen, which is under $5 these days. I don't know what the final cost would be after shipping or local distribution. Lately, I've been seeing people knowingly buy knockoff Gunpla from Temu for prices that are slightly higher than the Japanese MSRP of the actual kit.
I haved realy bad expiriance with non Gunpla kit the shop whas bad it misplased rails and dident wanted to do any thing about it shame culd be good kit but the missing runer whas important for all model parts (
Sorry you had such a bad experience. I'm sure there's a ton of people who have had good or bad experiences so I wanted to give it a shot and see what would happen
i live in the eu so aliexpress is the best way to buy p-bandai. had no problems so far. The only issue that i had, was buying what i thought was a knockoff hg crossbone x3 but turned out to be just a knockoff hg x1. Should have know that this would happen when i tried looking for the kit on other websites but found no other websites.
Bandai keeps releasing kits people already have, that no one wants, or keep forcing square peg in a round circle with the aerial. When we ask for a particular model kit, Bandai gets angry or ignores the consumer. But if third-party vendor comes out with a kit that we want and looks amazing. Bandai is quick to get the lawyers... Our gunpla hobby is pain. Great video.
Less a sin and more a lot of people are apprehensive of the super cheap gunpla advertised if the quality is there or if they'll somehow get scammed. I had a positive experience that's what it's all about dispelling that it's all crap
Overall a fun experiment
Not sure if it was intentional or not but I love that you gave livery that resembles the 7-Eleven Hess trucks. (Edit: or just 7-Eleven I guess? Reminds me of the Hess trucks, at any rate.)
@RamadaArtist I can't say it was intentional I just built, painted and decal'd it with more or less the original colors. It's definitely 7/11 inspired as this 3rd party kit was a bootleg of Bandai's collaboration with 7/11.
yup, there's plenty of those 7/11 gunplas
I think it’s aliexpress policy to stomp on every package shipped out to offset the cheaper prices.
It just may be the case they call it a "perk"
Every thing I got in a box of aliexpress had a good box
Looks like a copy of the 7'11 version.
100 percent!
711 Entry Grade Strike
100% only the no name version
I got almost all of my gunpla from AliExpress, didnt get anything bootleg, only some damaged boxes, but in Brazil we can't buy gunpla locally without paying around 5-10x the retail price. On Ali I usually get them for 1,5 - 2x the price, which is not great but still affordable
For sure it's difficult depending on where you're located over all I think aliexpress turned out great even if I got a bootleg kit
Oh another Brazilian! Well I'm looking to buy my first gunpla in aliexpress too
@@alfalanceer17015 It's a decent place to get them, just made 110% sure that "Bandai" is written on the listing and description, better if it has a picture of the box with the bandai logo on it
Same here man, started buying original Gunplas on Aliexpress last Black Friday, and it's been downhill from there. Unfortunately it seems more and more possible that the government is going to tax everything, even under 50 USD, then our fun is over. On the other hand, ML is showing prices good enough to compete.
That moment you realise how lucky you are to have not one, but two shops to buy Gunpla from... (Forbidden Planet International and the originally from here, Travelling Man! If you know Forbidden Planet, you basically know Travelling Man!)
There's nothing to worry about when ordering gunpla from aliexpress if there's a bandai logo and name in the pictures and discription of the auction. I've both tens of sets regular releases and premium bandai kits and had no problems except for the damaged boxes
Good to know. I think for this video it was a little bit of dispelling apprehension and I hope people come away realizing that besides the box it was a good experience I had
Yeah me too, I bought 3 kits, the only ones I have, the shipping is cheap even with the slight damage to the boxes tho I can live with it. Meanwhile with hlj I'd have to pay 2x plus wait for them to arrive in the warehouse, and with the local dealer who has good prices I'd have to wait 6 months to a year for a kit that's not in stock which is ridiculous considering they don't have that many in stock to begin with.
@vali69 I'll admit I'm pretty fortunate with my local shops so I imagine depending on someone's geographic location aliexpress is the best option
Was this kit advertised as Bandai or was it clear it was a bootleg before purchasing it?
@@darkmard if they don't say it's bandai than it's a bad bootleg. Usually theres also daban that's so and so, but some of their kits are awesome like the pgu rx78 that's half the price of the bandai one and if you're lucky it's perfect, if you're not it might have small fitting issues. They also make a 1/60 nu gundam based on the metal build figurine and the mg ver ka. What was I talking about again? Oh yeah, if it says daban for example it's a bootleg, just make sure it says bandai.
Me: “Jokes on you, I’m into these kits!”
Lol everyone has their kryptonite.
I've been wondering about this for a while, I still don't plan on buying any from AliExpress, but I was fairly surprised by the quality of the kit in the video.
Thanks for for answering the question I've had for a while now!
Glad to be of service
My Stepmom got me an HG Unicorn off of Aliexpress. The box was thick cardboard, held together with staples, and the kit didn’t hold together at all…
My heart goes out to her
I’m assuming it’s by Daban
I remember buying a 3rd party IWSP for my HG Strike from Aliexpress. The box was damaged a little from a corner, but it wasn't nearly as beaten up.
Then, I bought the Hi-Nu's mega bazooka launcher. That one came up wrapped up in fancy plastic bubbles and the box was basically intact.
I guess that box condition depends on who you're buying from and luck 😅
I'm going to guess box condition is more luck than anything else either that or how disgruntled the employee is on the day your order comes in
most of my 112 gunplas i got from aliexpress and they were all original 100%
Glad to hear it but even the bootleg ones have a place and that's what the video is all about a good experience being had with them
@@ichishoto I would buy mine from certain sellers who buy bulk from Japan and sell em in China both online and in walk in stores
One of the things some of the 3rd party kits do is a nice sheet of water slides. Not every bootleg kit has them but a good amount do.
Why my comment was deleted?
Sorry, the video was made without any actual research, aliexpress is awesome. If you're not an north american, it's heaven.
I have 28 kits all bought in aliexpress (all bandai) and not all bootlegs are bad.
I didn't get why my comment was deleted, sad ngl.
I didn't delete your comment? I'm sure some of the companies that advertise on there are legit non bootlegs and good but I'd assume they're likely at or around their usual msrp. The idea behind the video was to get one that was super cheap and a knock off to see if it was still an okay experience
Yep, you can buy original bandai rare kits way cheaper there depending on your country. Are you from Mexico?
@atata9 nope I'm canadian
@@ichishoto sorry I was asking the comment OP his user name is Hispanic Gustavo
@@atata9 @gustavom656
I think atata9 has a question for you 🫡
"you're being stupid" lmao
I was I bought something off aliexpress
Nice vid! Good to have videos like this floating around the net for us budget buyers! One critique I have is that your music when doing the showcase of the completed model was too loud, made it tough to hear you.
Looks better than expected, good color scheme
I bought a WfM Lfrith Jiu kit on AliExpress, and it was surprisingly not a knockoff
That's awesome
I think your shipping company is to blame for scuffed box, all my packages from Ali are in perfect condition
That's the 7-Eleven colaboration Strike Dagger!
You betcha except 3rd party bootleg editon lol
About 5-6 years ago I bought a hg barbatos and mg supernova heavy arms from wish. They're the first two model kits that got me into the hobby and they're still standing strong. I'm not sure how much wish and ali differ but i wouldn't mind purchasing from either site again
I got my Calibarn and 08 RG from there, they actually tell you when its a bootleg, but my local package company wants to give me my water decals until the date AliExpress gave me
Cool video. Thanks for the honesty
I actually buy those bootleg gundams if i want to experiment or practice...
I made one SD Exia with LEDs both in the head and chest.. and it was my first try on weathering... Turned out quite good
That's awesome to hear I'd love to see some of your experiments sometime!
I bought a couple third party WFM Weapon Display bases from Aliexpress for a couple bucks a pop and they were a lot better than i thought they'd be
Glad they worked out for ya
The only place I can find the extra metal etching parts for MGEX Strike Freedom, so first Ali order ever. Was due this week but were near zero F and had snow so everything is delayed
I've purchased a few things from there and never really had an issue at least no more than ebay or temu. I have however purchased mainely third party and motor nuclear kits that cant be found in bandais lineup. I am of the opinion however that if the kit you are looking for is ridiculously overpriced from bandai then it's your choice to support it or not.
Absolutely agree that it is a choice for the individual to make especially with overpriced kits or kits that are out of print
I bought my first Ali kit a couple weeks ago. It's a WM HG Astray looking thing with a giant sword. Price was about half of what it would cost here for a Bandai kit. Still I wouldn't recommend it. It's all ABS, which means it's a tough springy kind of plastic that doesn't want to stay connected. It's unpleasant to work with, I had multiple issues with fitment and sanding it is harder. Details and edges are all soft and blurry compared to the real thing. Also this might become an issue when painting, abs can degrade and crack when using certain thinners. They included waterslides which is nice though.
I would rather buy a nice real Bandai kit for the price of two of these.
Aliexpress also has real gunpla, but you need to pay attention to the listing, and know what the bootleggers print. I've bought most of mine from there and the only 3rd party one i got was on purpose xD
100% the idea here was to grt the cheapest piece I could find it just happened to be a bootleg lol
any tips ?
Don't buy if it's too cheap.
Check if the ad says it is a Bandai product or if it has the logo on the pictures.
Check to see if the ad calls it a Gundam, not a "Fighter" or something like that.
Be careful any listing that has a lot of different gunpla under only one listing, especially if they are from different shows. (The most common nowdays are ad that have Seed, 00, IBO and Unicorn suits under one listing)
And you kind of just need to kind of keep up with the news from the 3rd party world to know what they are producing. (Not that all 3rd parties are bootlegs, one of the suits i want the most is the Daban Full armor MKII xD )
@@ichishoto that's fair, i think everyone should build a bootleg, just to appreciate the quality of the real ones xD
@Hestroah1337 for sure I definitely feel that bootlegs have their place!
I used to buy 3rd party kits from aliexpress pretty frequently when money was tight. Boxes were always in rough shape, and Gao Gao kits were usually the worst of the top 3 companies, but their Zaku kits held up well, and the Sinanju as well. I always got mg kits as hg's were notoriously bad. Daban and Momoko were the best at the time. It was nice to see them expand out from direct knockoffs. Regardless quality has gone up in the last 5 or so years.
I still have no idea what company made the kit I bought lol
@@ichishoto You built an gaogao, that's why was this awful.
@gustavom656 makes sense but hey for a $5.00 experiment to mess around with I'm fine with the quality never expected it to be like my bandai kits or for it to show up at all
@@ichishoto Honestly even the worst kits can be fun. The MG Sinanju from Gao Gao cost me only $20 but I had hours of fun. No different then when I did the MG Sazabi from Bandai, but that one cost me $100 lol
@aculdra41554 exactly it doesn't matter what the build is if you're having fun but by the same token if everyone jumped ship from bandai we wouldn't be getting new shows and kits and what not. I think if you're looking for a kit to just mess around with people should give it a go. I had a good experience
Well, the box looks as bad as the typical first-party Gunpla box off of Amazon. I bought a few from there before realizing I should switch to specialty stores.
As someone who prefers most Kotobukiya designs to Bandai anyway, (and thus am conditioned to enjoy lower build quality and extra work on the backend to get everything fitting correctly,) and especially as someone who mostly only buys kits with the goal of doing a bunch custom work to them and then putting them into dioramas and static displays... This kind of stuff is deliriously tempting. The idea that I could furnish an entire army for the cost of a single AoZ P-Bandai kit is hard to ignore. (Plus, what better opponent to face off against the two Haze'n-thley II-Rah kits I still haven't put together yet?)
I got Lucky when I buy my rg Unicorn from aliexpress, box was intact from the three layers of plastic protection
That's always nice when you've got an intact box lol I like to turn them into posters!
Not entirely sure I could trust Aliexpress with package handling after seeing that box, then again it's not like I can order anything there cause the site is banned in India 😂
@@KisekiFan for the like 5 bucks cad that I spent I didn't mind the box being a mess lol
Gundam evolution…. 😢
Hopefully they release the fan deconstructed version soon
$5 what can you say?
So to put my input here, I have bought many times from ali express for 3rd party and official gunpla, and honestly not had one bad experience with it. Sometimes the external box for shipping can be skuffed or had dents but the actual box has been ok and never missed any part for the kits. I'm not saying they will always be great (tbh what delivery service is) but otherwise they have been my go to mostly for 3rd party and p bandai because there aren't many other sites where I can fins them for an alright price.
Yeah it was a good experience for me as well I did specifically go for the cheapest I could find for the experiment and although the box was a little messed up everything went together pretty much as expected
@@ichishoto kinda funny cause at first they felt like a very scammy shopping site haha, my partner has bought a few things and some never came or took months, guess it depends abit on the product too
@@SeanyBoy589 I think less the product and more the seller. That's part of why I did this so people who have considered it but were maybe a little too weary of it could have a visual representation of what you potentially get
Decent for some kits to practice painting i suppose
Exactly even if it's a bandai knock off it's great to have cheap models to try different techniques on!
They're good for kit bashing
Looks more like the 7-11 Gundam with that wonky color palette.
Oh it was definitely a ripoff of that brand deal
@@ichishotoholy crap I was joking I knew Bandai did an RX-78 but when I searched 7-11Gundam an Entry level Strike version popped up, that's 1 for 1 with this.
It was the only option to buy gunpla in Brazil during covid...
And when you don't have option, aliexpress is actually very good 😂😂😂
BTW they do sell original bandai gunpla too
Oh absolutely I'm talking about the kits that are so cheap you don't know what you'll get lol but yeah they definitely have a place and if you can't get them by any other means 100% order it up on there!
Bought a wing gundam from temu fitment waa spot on and joint are a bit stronger than bandai wing gundam
Hey good to know improvements have been made
Tbh i recommend it but try doing some research first and try limiting urself to hg, dont go for rg or mg.
Yeah all the horror stories seem to be rg or mg kits.
@@ichishoto its based more or less on the complexity of the kit, it the kit is made out of many small pieces ur in a world of pain and cutting. And of course the delivery can be the big killer especially when you don't get the retail box....
@kingrat3110 I can only imagine. If the look of my box was an indication of the shipping I'm sure any other larger kits would have cracked runners, missing parts or just poor quality control for tolerances
What about buying original bandai there? I recently bought an rg 35 Wing Gundam for $31.5 free shiping, wich is way less than amazon in my country ($58.9).
The box came really well protected, still it looked stomped, so I asume it was indeed a damaged box item since the beginning.
@@atata9 I think the general consensus is just that aliexpress doesn't usually ship gunpla packages nicely
my first and last time buying gunpla on aliexpress was for that destiny kit that emulated the metal build a few years back. I receive the box and its a bootleg mg destiny without the boxart to hide the fact. I opened a case that lasted without kidding 1.5 months with to and fros with the seller who didn't want to give back the money, harassed me by email with pics of his kids and all, had to provide continuous proof that the product wasn't the correct one. and each party has one week to make their case over 4 weeks. to hell with aliexpress their system and their sellers.
This is exactly what I was afraid of happening or just not getting a product at all. So I chose the cheapest one I could find.
Was it advertised as entry grade or as high grade?
@dusanfilipovic5316 it was listed as hg. But definitely got an eg level of detail
Some AliExpress stores are legit.. that being said, out can find some deals. But If the price seems way too good to be true it is
bootleg is my sh*t , it's all i can muster to buy. (ofcourse im still rooting for bandai if u have the means to go original , then go for it.)
from my experience theres generally a hierarchy when it comes to 3rd party companies. I'd say the one you bought was from GaoGao and id say they're bottom of the line. Id say daban is the middle and so on. Id say if you want to actually get decent knock offs id suggest looking into daban kits.
Interesting
Glad you found it interesting
You painted it but left of the safety nubs 💀
Some People like that design than cutting it off.
Is this cheaper than the EG Strike? The MSRP for the regular package EG Strike is 700 yen, which is under $5 these days. I don't know what the final cost would be after shipping or local distribution. Lately, I've been seeing people knowingly buy knockoff Gunpla from Temu for prices that are slightly higher than the Japanese MSRP of the actual kit.
It cost me $5.00 CAD or 3.73 USD. Buying locally would have cost about 15 cad
I haved realy bad expiriance with non Gunpla kit the shop whas bad it misplased rails and dident wanted to do any thing about it shame culd be good kit but the missing runer whas important for all model parts (
Sorry you had such a bad experience. I'm sure there's a ton of people who have had good or bad experiences so I wanted to give it a shot and see what would happen
Awesome video 👍
Thanks I appreciate it!
i live in the eu so aliexpress is the best way to buy p-bandai. had no problems so far.
The only issue that i had, was buying what i thought was a knockoff hg crossbone x3 but turned out to be just a knockoff hg x1. Should have know that this would happen when i tried looking for the kit on other websites but found no other websites.
Oooh yeah gotta be careful with reviewing what you're ordering
Trust me... after goog paint job... there is no diference
Are you new to this hobby? Damn
Newish. It's only been maybe a year or two.
7/11 flavored
I like them 7/11 flavors
I downloaded temu to browse their crap. I could bring myself to buy anything when I could by a real hg for the same price
Same here when I saw the aerial was more expensive then the cost to go to my local supplier I noped out hard
I want gundam evo buuur
Time to learn to code and help the people with the revival version
@@ichishotohope you’re in side 7 king, good video
@@Lancer_ thanks means a lot
They ripped off the color scheme from 7-Eleven eg strike .
100 percent even the stickers
Bandai keeps releasing kits people already have, that no one wants, or keep forcing square peg in a round circle with the aerial. When we ask for a particular model kit, Bandai gets angry or ignores the consumer. But if third-party vendor comes out with a kit that we want and looks amazing. Bandai is quick to get the lawyers... Our gunpla hobby is pain. Great video.
LOL so buying gunpla from Aliexpress become sin -_-
Less a sin and more a lot of people are apprehensive of the super cheap gunpla advertised if the quality is there or if they'll somehow get scammed. I had a positive experience that's what it's all about dispelling that it's all crap
third company even made gp02 mg so many third company making kit they even produced wfm kit bootleg even better
mIne was on ebay..
Hey man I think you're missing a tooth
Hey man yeah I am
1k likes for you awe.
Thank you it was a fun little video to make