Anime/tokusatsu themed apparel brand Bandai Fashion Collection or Bancolle! has announced the Premium Bandai release of two new acrylic logo displays from the Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn series.
Acrylic Logo Display EX is a series of decorative logos from various franchises such as Gundam, Kamen Rider, Ultraman and Godzilla. The acrylic standees are approximately 10 mm thick with a machined surface, which gives it a bold presence and a sense of luxury.
Acrylic Logo Display EX Mobile Suit Gundam UC Londo Bell Mark
Price: 1,320 yen
Release date: July 2022
Introduced in the 1988 Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack film, Londo Bell is an auxiliary unit within the Earth Federation Forces, commanded by the esteemed Captain Bright Noa. Londo Bell’s primary role is responding to anti-Federation activity; their flagship is the Ra Cailum. Londo Bell is the prominent Earth Federation faction depicted in the Unicorn series, along side ECOAS.
Acrylic Logo Display EX Mobile Suit Gundam UC First Earth Federation Government Mark
Price: 1,320 yen
Release date: July 2022
The Unicorn series opened with a flashback to UC 0001, depicting the beginning of the Universal Century era and the establishment of a united Earth Federation government. The ceremony at Prime Minister Ricardo Marcenas’s residence, Laplace, was tragically attacked by terrorists, kicking off the events that would eventually lead to the heavily sought after “Laplace’s Box.”
Beginning in 2010, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn(or Mobile Suit Gundam UC) adapted the bestselling novel of the same name into a seven-part OVA(original video animation) series directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi and scripted by Yasuyuki Muto. The novel was published by Kadokawa Shoten from 2007 to 2009, penned by Harutoshi Fukui with character designs by celebrated animator Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and mechanical designs by Hajime Katoki.
Story
Universal Century 0096. Three years after the last conflict between Neo Zeon and the Earth Federation Forces, the tentative peace of the Earth Sphere is about to be shattered again. Cardeas Vist, the head of the powerful Vist Foundation, has decided to hand over “Laplace’s Box,” the secret of the Foundation’s prosperity, to the supposed enemy, Neo Zeon. Banagher Links, a student at the space colony Industrial 7, rescues a mysterious girl who calls herself Audrey Burne. Audrey is seeking to prevent a war, but it seems she has come too late. As Banagher’s home colony is devastated by the attacks of the enemy mobile suit Kshatriya, he finds his strange destiny and is forced to fight in the formidable weapon system known as the Unicorn Gundam.
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