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Bandai Has a New Life-Size Gundam — as Unbuilt Plastic Model Parts

Gundam — well, this time as oversized plastic model kit parts, still attached to their sprues.

Visitors to the BHC PDII Museum will be able to tour the new Bandai plastic model factory and experience plastic model deg. The museum will also display 50 years of plastic model manufacturing and the latest technologies in the manufacturing process.

Guests can use a guest ID card to decide the shape and color of a plastic model, its mold design, and its package design on a touch screen, and see a demonstration of the molding process.

The BHC PDII Museum will open on September 2 in Naganuma, Shizuoka Prefecture. The museum will be open between 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tickets cost 2,860 yen for adults, 1,100 yen for children, and free for preschool children and younger ($20.00 and US$7.70 respectively). The museum requires a ticket reservation for entry. Tickets went on sale on June 2 at 12:00 p.m. Japan Time.

Bandai Spirits began production on its Bandai Hobby Center Shinkan factory in 2020. The factory was built to meet rising demand in Gunpla models inside and outside Japan. The factory is set to open on July 24.

Sources: Email correspondence, Gundam.info's website, Mantan Web