Bandai 30 Minutes Missions

[hachi]

Has anybody been following this line from Bandai? Is this based on a series or game? It has a simpler look compared to gunpla which makes it seem 'fresh' to me.

https://hlj.com/search/go?w=*&filter=itemgroup:30MM201903&cnt=30

[chyll2]

I dont think it is based on any series but the design are close to the current mobile suit designs they have. I am seeing that as a Frame - arts from Bandai

[Big s]

I checked them out last week while preordering some other items. I guess you buy a main robot kit and then you customize it with weapon sets and specialized armor sets. But I don’t know what it’s from if anything.

[hachi]

I was curious there seem to be lots of options. I hope it goes down in price later on after release so I can try it!

[Big s]

They don’t look expensive at all, but if they drop down in price I’d be tempted due to the customization options.

[Big s]

Thought these were more than an interesting addition to the line. Seems that Armored Core is gonna be customizable and will allow part swapping with other kits. 
here’s the first two kits and additional parts pack for their thirty minutes missions line

[Wolf-1]

To my knowledge 30MM is Bandai's way of attempting to mix models with gaming similar to that of Warcraft 40K.  Since I've never actually played the table-top, turn based systems I can't speak for how well the system works or doesn't.  I have seen these kits sold at Gaming stores typically dedicated to the miniature table games.  I have purchased a couple of the weapon packs and integrated them into my HG Gundam set-ups and one of their winged transports.  Lately, I have found that I'm gathering up their Bridge & Building sets to go along with my Tomitec buildings as well.

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1 hour ago, Wolf-1 said:

To my knowledge 30MM is Bandai's way of attempting to mix models with gaming similar to that of Warcraft 40K.  Since I've never actually played the table-top, turn based systems I can't speak for how well the system works or doesn't.  I have seen these kits sold at Gaming stores typically dedicated to the miniature table games.  I have purchased a couple of the weapon packs and integrated them into my HG Gundam set-ups and one of their winged transports.  Lately, I have found that I'm gathering up their Bridge & Building sets to go along with my Tomitec buildings as well.

I haven’t seen anything related to gaming with the regular kits. Just a lot of model builders customizing them.

 think the Armored Core kits are the only ones with any type of attachment to really anything. 
 

All that being said, I’m sure a lot of builders use the kits or parts for gaming and if that’s what people want to do with them then that’s their choice. If they bought it and built it, then they can use them however they want

[renegadeleader1]

3 hours ago, Wolf-1 said:

To my knowledge 30MM is Bandai's way of attempting to mix models with gaming similar to that of Warcraft 40K.  Since I've never actually played the table-top, turn based systems I can't speak for how well the system works or doesn't.  I have seen these kits sold at Gaming stores typically dedicated to the miniature table games.  I have purchased a couple of the weapon packs and integrated them into my HG Gundam set-ups and one of their winged transports.  Lately, I have found that I'm gathering up their Bridge & Building sets to go along with my Tomitec buildings as well.

30mm is a reference to the socket hole on the kits that makes most accessories and add ons universal across Bandai's model kit brands as well as some other company's like Kotobukiya and Max Factory as well as the kits being relatively quick and easy to build hence the name 30 Minute Missions.

 

It absolutely 100% has nothing to do with the 30mm scale wargaming hobby.

 

That being said there is a relatively new game called MechaTop that integrates 1/144, 1/72, and 1/100 kits into a table top game that was inspired by Gundam Build Fighters a little while back.

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53 minutes ago, renegadeleader1 said:

30mm is a reference to the socket hole on the kits that makes most accessories and add ons universal across Bandai's model kit brands as well as some other company's like Kotobukiya and Max Factory as well as the kits being relatively quick and easy to build hence the name 30 Minute Missions.

 

It absolutely 100% has nothing to do with the 30mm scale wargaming hobby.

 

That being said there is a relatively new game called MechaTop that integrates 1/144, 1/72, and 1/100 kits into a table top game that was inspired by Gundam Build Fighters a little while back.

I always just assumed that with the simple construction that it meant that it would only take 30 minutes to build. I guess I was wrong on that one

[Wolf-1]

14 hours ago, renegadeleader1 said:

30mm is a reference to the socket hole on the kits that makes most accessories and add ons universal across Bandai's model kit brands as well as some other company's like Kotobukiya and Max Factory as well as the kits being relatively quick and easy to build hence the name 30 Minute Missions.

 

It absolutely 100% has nothing to do with the 30mm scale wargaming hobby.

 

That being said there is a relatively new game called MechaTop that integrates 1/144, 1/72, and 1/100 kits into a table top game that was inspired by Gundam Build Fighters a little while back.

I didn't mean to imply that they were intended to go along with 30mm wargaming; only that I've seen people at gaming shops with the kits and running games.  I presumed that the games were designed to run about 30 minutes, hence the name.  This town has one shop that dabbles in Bandai's various model lines, 30MM included; in another shop in town, dedicated to tabletop gaming, the kids are getting together with these kits and doing things; whether or not it's official or some fad that has taken hold here locally I can't say, only that they are indeed being incorporated into tabletop gaming.  

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The socket is only 3mm. I don’t know why that didn’t hit me earlier. 

[kajnrig]

Aw yeah, some more prototype shots of Kotobukiya's 30MM... Armored... Core... wait a minute!!!

Yes, that's Kotobukiya's (presumably 1/72 scale) model kit also of the Steel Haze, Rusty's AC from Armored Core 6. I imagine it'll be a size class bigger than the 30MM and feature a more involved build because of it. I wonder if it'll have blade effects parts as well...