It comes with just the condenser.:(

Finally seeing the new Exia, here's the differences:

- No more exposed GN Conduits
- Thigh more similar to the 00 Gundam's
- Shorter GN Sword with GN Katar blades
- From other images, it seems the rear GN Beam saber racks were deleted
- Vents on the shoulders

GN Beam sabres attatched to where the GN Blades used to be.

I'd imagine nu gundam O Gundam ver 2 to be in the movie, with Exia S2 avalanche :D

You're right, missed that one :D

Seems a somewhat extensive yet jerry-rigged repair of the Exia, which is a good thing.

What will most likely prompt people to get the Exia-kai would be the normal colored GN-Sword III to be attached on the normal coloured OO-Raiser.

Same that the shade of blue would still be not compatiable for those who have the Designer Colours ver of OO-Raiser. So, another relase of the Exia-kai after this ?

Edit :- Looking closer, people can rig up the Exia-kai if they have the OO and Exia on hand here by just kitbash the upper torso of Exia with the lower torso of OO. And I bet that is exaclt what Bandai will be doing for the official release of the kit.

Except that the Exia's GN Sword is not even the same as the 00 Raiser's. They have similar green blade edges, but the Exia's is just its GN Sword with upgrades, whereas the GN Sword III is a completely new weapon (The latter doesn't have the shield part for instance, and it's gun form is much larger).

Wow. So it's actually a different sword?

Man, this will be the 3rd Exia I buy

Techically you can kitbash the EXia-Kai out from existing models if you know how to.

For the sword, it's just the GN-Sword III's blade attached to the GN-Sword I's shield. Not a difficult thing to mod out if you ask me.

Not a very difficult mod indeed, but not very accurate either. For one, the Exia "Kai" (tentative name) GN Sword has a shorter, more deeply tapered blade, and its blade edges actually expand near the root unlike the perfectly straight GN Sword III.

I'd rather just wait for Bandai to suck my money out with a complete non-Trans-Am 00 Raiser set.

Something tells me otherwise when you factor in Bandai's tendency to resuse parts when and where possible.

I know Bandai's practice of reusing parts, but only for weapons that are actually the same. For weapons or parts with slight differences, they go out of their way to make new parts for them. Trying to guess which parts Bandai will reuse and not reuse for years now, I can say that Bandai has surprised me lots of times now in what they reuse and not reuse. (Some of my guesses regarding Nadleeh reusing certain parts of Virtue were flat out wrong for instance :heh:)

i want the 1/100 of the Exia kai

Well if they want to reuse more parts, they could probably throw out releases of HG 1/144s and some 1/100s model kits of the mecha/variants for 00V, 00F, and even 00P towards this year's end and the whole of next.

The movie will ensure that Bandai will be keeping the momentum going for about a year more. Look at them releasing SeeD kits long after the series having done with.

Man, I'm really excited for the new movie suits. Want to see a perfect version(means no 0 Raiser or other equipments) 00 Gundam

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I temp. forgotten about that movie in 2010, still a bit excited here and there on G00's ending. That will be nice to see what more HG 1/144s Bandai will release to milk us even further. :p

Oh you can be sure that Bandai will milk us all with tons of new kits when the movie is out :heh:.

reborns gundam is made from left over kyrios body

Man somehow I got the feeling that bandai going to milk us with 00V 00P 00F kit until 2010. and after the movie they're going to milk us again :heh:

That will suit me perfectly, a wider range of kits to select from.. but then again, time is the problem.

I was kinda hoping they had release all the 2nd gen Gundams, as well as the 2nd/3rd gen variants. Of course not to mention repeated grunt suit variants..