{"id":3196,"date":"2001-03-13T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2001-03-13T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2001\/03\/13\/bandai-plans-for-gundam-models\/"},"modified":"2001-03-13T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2001-03-13T14:51:00","slug":"bandai-plans-for-gundam-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/bandai-plans-for-gundam-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandai Plans for Gundam Models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bandai revealed at the 2001 Toy Fair that they will be importing numerous Gundam plastic model kits to the US between now and July, including many &#8220;old-school&#8221; original Gundam mecha.  The kits will be re-packaged in American packaging and clearly labeled with a skill classification of 1-5.  Skill level 1 kits will be the smallest and least expensive kits and are estimated to require under an hour to complete.  Skill level 5 kits are those intended for experienced kit builders and will be the most expensive and detailed kits, requiring 2 hours or more to build.  To let consumers gain experience and grow with their kits, the model &#8220;levels&#8221; will be released sequentially with level 1 kits available now, and level 5 kits not available until mid summer.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.figures.com\/databases\/action.cgi?setup_file=fignews2.setup&#038;category=actionfigures&#038;topic=72&#038;show_article=119\" target=\"_blank\">Figures.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandai revealed at the 2001 Toy Fair that they will be importing numerous Gundam plastic model kits to the US between now and July, including many &#8220;old-school&#8221; original Gundam mecha. The kits will be re-packaged in American packaging and clearly labeled with a skill classification of 1-5. Skill level 1 kits will be the smallest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}