Another great Gundam designs for Ensemble that end up at Premium Bandai series. Gundam Seed have been lavished with some good entries for MS Ensemble which majority of them locked into P-Bandai and the Druggies Trio Gundams are no exception. Slated for August 2021 release, Gundam Ensemble Boosted-Man set which consist of Forbidden, Calamity and Raider Gundam will be released for whopping price of 8500 Yen.
With that amount of money you could get almost 2 Box worth of or 3 Sets of the regular Gundam Ensemble. So each of the Druggies Trio Ensemble practically worth 5 of the regular version. With the gimmicks i could see they worth 3 times of the regular units but 5 times is abit too much.
While they serve as the antagonist units in SEED series piloted by psychopaths, i have personal fondness with the Druggies Gundam. Each of them no doubt had an advantage over the first generation GAT-X Gundams but they definitely stood no chance against Justice and Freedom Gundam. In the SEED series the Boosted Man is a desperate attempts by OMNI to create pilots who are capable to fight with Coordinator on equal grounds. The project proved out to be successful but comes with nasty side effects as the Boosted Man pilots are mentally unstable and require frequent medical treatment which is the source of their nickname as Druggies. I still had fond memory using the Druggies unit in Rengou vs Zaft especially Calamity Gundam who could pepper the opponent with plenty of dakka.
In the near future, I could see Bandai will probably consider making Ensemble for the Extended trio at some point but that will be likely another P-Bandai release.
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