1/144 HG GN-0000 00 Gundam

The successor unit to the GN-001 Gundam Exia. As the premier unit in Celestial Being's 4th Generation of Mobile Suits, "00" (pronounced Double-O) possesses many of the previous generations' standard features, including the GN Drive and Trans-AM System, as well as introducing newer innovation such as the revolutionary Twin Drive System. The system utilizes two GN Drives with compatible GN particles production as the basis for the system's operation, with their productive synergy generating GN particle emissions which exceed anything produced by a single unit.

History
After the fade of Celestial Being, Ian Vashti and engineers quietly designed and built 00 Gundam. 00's most unique feature is its use of dual GN Drives. The theory and application was drafted by Aeolia Schenberg himself nearly 200 years ago. He had the foresight to anticipate developing GN Tech to a level where the GN Drives can be utilize to a new level of power by synchronizing dual drives; the compatibility between two drives was proven to be a challenge. Ian compared other GN Drives onto 00 and all of them failed to reach 80% compatibility, except for Exia's GN Drive. Because Setsuna and Exia were missing for five years, they couldn't test its compatibility to 0 Gundam's GN Drive until season 2. After Setsuna/Exia barely surviving combat with A-Laws, Tieria/Seravee taken Setsuna/Exia back to Ptolemy 2 for immediate testing. A-Laws was tipped off by Wang Liu Mei as her way of testing the capabilities of Celestial Being. With only Gundam Seravee functional, their situation looked bleak. Ian's twin drive synchronization trials with Exia's and 0's was only 70%. Tieria theorized that activating Trans Am could boost the energy output and balance the drives, but the idea was considered too dangerous by Ian as it could blow up both drives and kill everyone on board Ptolemy 2.

Appearance
Since the series is brought up in the future, Double O looks is very different from the conventional gundams from the past series. This kit has a very slim type of body. And compare to exia, It has two twin drives mounted on the shoulders.

Colors
Gundam 00 colors are commonly used by main characters. Basically Blue, Red, White, Yellow and Grey. Blue colors are on the body, shoulders and on the wrists. White colors are on the head, "twin Drive", arms, top of the hands, waist legs and top of the feet. Yellow are on the "Antennas" and on chest (exhaust). Red colors are on the abdomen part, chin, and lower feet. Grey colors are commonly on joint parts and palms.

Articulation
Very pleasing to this model, its articulation is very unique and this is the first to introduce. Usually model kits legs cannot split, but this one can. A new type of leg joints and feet joints that are commonly applies to the shoulders are now applied to the legs and feet.


Accessories
This gundam has only one pairs of weapons called GN sword II and a pair of beam sabers mounted on the lower back. The weapon can convert into unique GN Riffles. It dosen't look like the common riffle which sword flips revealing its nozzle. Its too bad that his weapon is very limited.

Availability on the market and Costs
Compare to the other kits on the series, Double O only costs at a low price. $10.39 or 1000 yen (according to Hobby Link Japan). Its Availability is limited only since it is very popular as of now it is very rare to purchase this model kit.

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