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The term Gunpla refers to the plastic model kits of mecha, characters, or vehicles from the Japanese Gundam franchise, marketed by Bandai; it is a contraction of "Gundam plastic model." It first appeared in 1980.

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All Gundam models are characterized by two essential properties:

- the parts are interlocking

- and they are molded in colors.

Gunpla are classified into ranges (called "grades") according to their quality and/or size. The main ones are:

NG No Grade (1980), although the term only appeared much later, it retrospectively refers to the first models released as early as 1980.
HG High Grade (1990), the first premium quality range at a 1/144 scale.
MG Master Grade (1995), of superior quality to the HG High Grade with, for example, the internal mechanics fully modeled at a scale of 1/100.
PG Perfect Grade (1998), the most technically advanced range at a 1/60 scale.
FG First Grade (1999), inexpensive clip-on range.
HGUC High Grade Universal Century (1999), popular reissue of Universal Century Robots.
EX-model (2001), a range dedicated not to robots but to vehicles and related flying machines.
MS Mega Size (2009), 1/48 scale range.
RG Real Grade (2010), similar to MG Master Grade with an advanced internal skeleton but at a so-called 1/144 scale like the "HG High Grade".
RE/100 Reborn One Hundred (2014), new range of 1/100 scale gunpla.
Super Deformed Gundam or SD Gundam is a Japanese animation franchise whose works are parodies of the Gundam saga, adopting the graphic codes of super deformed.


The exhaustive classification is however much more complex, since it depends on the scale (ranging from 1/550 to 1/35), the improvements (the master grade range thus exists in version 1.5, 2.0 and 3.0) and the special events (a Ver.G 30th range was released for the thirty years of the franchise for example.