For a long time Bandai have been treating Huckebeins as thorn on the side and tried any means to sideline Katoki's stepchild of Gundam whenever possible. But as SRW OG Lineup being resurrected, Huckebein got into the queue pretty early with no foul play whatsoever starting with Mk-II and now Mk-III got the opportunity to show up along with AM Gunner Unit as P-Bandai item. Sold for 4500 Yen. HG Huckebein Mk-III will be scheduled for January 2024 while AM Gunner will be sold for 7700 Yen costing 12200 Yen in total for the whole set.
Costing 1.5 times of the Kotobukiya's Huckebein, I would expect Bandai will be more than capable to improve where Kotobukiya left off considering the the old version had some issues on the Hip and Arms articulation. One thing that Bandai did different is definitely the AM Gunner which Kotobukiya didn't able to bring up when they had the SRW OG License even though they did make Boxer Unit and I am still surprised Bandai to be rather generous on AM Gunner pricing considering they can sell it for more than 10000 Yen if they feel like to. In SRW OGs AM Gunner is a very good artillery unit capable of Long Ranged sniping coupled with high mobility able to rain barrages of bombardment with its Graviton Cannons and Homing missiles. Though I recall it has some issues in evasion when being attacked if unupgraded. Just like Boxer Unit, AM Gunner is used by Ryoto Hikawa who is the official pilot of Huckebein Mk-III but any SRW Alpha Protagonist will do actually. As someone who owned Huckebein Boxer before, I am more than happy to double dip Bandai's Mk-III because my modelling skill didn't do justice for my Boxer back then and I am very interested with the AM Gunner unit myself.
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