Bandai's New Gundam Museum in Japan Lets You Make Your Own Gundam Model Kit

Bandai is opening a caller depository dedicated to its Mobile Suit Gundam integrative exemplary kits connected September 2, 2025 successful Shizuoka, Japan. The depository volition not lone let visitors to larn astir everything Gunpla, but they volition besides beryllium capable to ticker them being made successful the factory, and adjacent effort their manus astatine designing their precise ain Gunpla exemplary kit to instrumentality home. Also — bully quality for non-Japanese speakers — depository displays and guidance volition besides beryllium successful English.

Bandai has been making Gundam integrative models, oregon Gunpla, since the 1980s. Gunplas are exemplary kits of mecha from the long-running Gundam anime series. They are shipped successful a grid of integrative runners that clasp each the pieces together. Cutting distant the excess plastic, the builder assembles their Gundam by snapping the parts together.

With the enduring popularity of Mobile Suit Gundam and its assorted anime series, the request for Gunpla models has soared successful caller years, with 50% of income coming from extracurricular Japan, according to The Nikkei. To code this increase, Bandai is opening a caller Gunpla mill astatine Bandai Hobby Center successful Shizuoka, Japan. The caller depository volition inhabit the 2nd and 3rd floors of the factory.

Bandai is opening a caller depository dedicated to its Mobile Suit Gundam integrative exemplary kits successful Japan.

The Bandai Hobby Center Plamo Design Industrial Institute Museum, oregon BHC PDII Museum for short, volition person windows that fto visitors look down onto the mill level to spot Gunpla kits being made and packaged. Then, visitors participate the interactive Laboratory Area. Here, they tin acquisition the full process of making their precise ain Gunpla, from choosing the colors and sizes for each portion of their Gundam connected a screen, to laying retired the pieces successful the integrative runners and designing the packaging. Staff volition bash the injection molding of the integrative and visitors tin instrumentality location the packing they designed and the runner plate. Not lone that, but there’s a accidental your instauration could triumph an award, arsenic Bandai Spirits’ employees volition beryllium selecting the champion 3 customer-created Gunpla each month.

All visitors to the BHC PDII Museum volition necessitate precocious reservation. As request is expected to beryllium precocious erstwhile they unfastened successful September, the authoritative website volition commencement a summons lottery connected June 2. More accusation tin beryllium recovered connected the museum’s authoritative English website.

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Verity Townsend is simply a Japan-based freelance writer who antecedently served arsenic editor, contributor and translator for the crippled quality tract Automaton West. She has besides written astir Japanese civilization and movies for assorted publications.