Colony Drop: A Gundam Podcast

0146: Boom in the Pocket

In 1989's MSG 0080: War in the Pocket, Zeon's Lt. Col Killing orders Col. Von Hellsing to nuke the Side 6 colony known as Libot after the Cyclops team failed to destroy the Federation's new prototype Gundam via conventional means.  As luck would have it, the Federation captured Von Hellsing's ship before the nukes could launch and spared Libot from annihilation.  In this episode, we discuss what might have happened if Killing's plan to nuke Libot was successful.  Brian sees this as an early version of Operation Stardust that inadvertently gives rise to a much earlier showdown between the Titans and Axis Zeon in the asteroid belt.  Isaac sees an occupied Zeon with its people forced to choose a side, with factions like the Crossbone Vanguard, the Zanscare Empire, and the Jupiter Empire rising earlier.  Plus, we wonder if AI and nanotech should qualify as WMDs; find out what happened to Lt. Col Killing; and argue about asteroid lasers and hot lava missiles!  Welcome to Alfred's Nightmare!

0145: The Gundam Credit Card

Would you sign up for a Gundam co-branded credit card?  We sure would!  We discuss all the perks and discounts that such a program should have, including the cards that already exist in Japan and Hong Kong!  Isaac envisions a travel sweepstakes and an ace pilot leaderboard, while Brian demands Bandai complete the Gundam spending synergy circle.  Plus, we discuss Kou Uraki's 0083% debt problems, the Nutcracker Squad out to get those who possess the SEED factor, and the Tomino-san credit rating agency. 

Gundam Visa with Mitsui Sumitomo Bank: https://www.smbc-card.com/nyukai/affiliate/gundam/index_lp.jsp

Gundam Visa with Dah Sing Bank: https://www.dahsing.com/html/en/credit_card/card_products/program/gundam_card.html

0144: Mobile Fighter G Gundam Review Part 1

Join us at ringside of the 13^th Gundam Fight as we review the first half of 1994’s Mobile Fighter G Gundam!  As the Gundam franchise’s first alternate universe, this show had it all – love, anger, sorrow, abstract nanotech villains created to solve 1990’s environmentalism’s worst nightmare, and much more!  Plus, in a shocking turn of events, Brian’s son allies himself with the Dark Gundam! Isaac continues his streak of baseball references before demanding more samurai motifs!  Let’s get things started!  Gundam fight all set!  Ready?  Go!!

0143: News Bonanza Summer 2025

Anime Expo and San Diego Comic-Con 2025 bestowed so much exciting Gundam news upon us that we absolutely must talk about the implications.  Whether you like anime, cards, manga, minis, or movies, Bandai/ Sunrise are coming for your wallet in every way possible and we are here for it!  Plus, Isaac attempts another baseball analogy and demands Bandai sell a mushroom cloud mini for Natural use only!  We hope to see you all in theaters for all of these special events coming your way!

Anime Expo / San Diego Comic-Con news recap: https://en.gundam.info/news/video-music/02_14637.html

New Mobile Report Gundam Wing Anniversary Video -Operation 30th-: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueB0oNajuEg

New Mobile Report Gundam Wing 0.5: Half Preventer-7: https://en.gundam.info/about-gundam/series-pages/gundam-w/news/publications/02_14594.html

Gundam Eight: https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_Eight

Gundam Card Game: https://www.gundam-gcg.com/en/

Gundam Assemble: https://global.bandai-hobby.net/en-us/site/gundam-assemble/

0142: Gundam Trivia at Anime Expo 2025 *AUDIO*

Gundam Trivia @ Anime Expo 2025

Recorded July 5, 2025; LA Convention Center Panel Room 402AB; 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM

Attention Gundam fans! Are you a Newtype fighting for spacenoid independence? A Coordinator trying to fulfill your Destiny? A fan of mobile suit Clan Battles? If so then come test your Gundam knowledge with the Colony Drop Podcast! We’ll have trivia for all levels and you might win a prize! Gundam trivia all set! Ready! GO!

Watch the VIDEO version here: https://youtu.be/PEny3XtWFFw

0141: GQuuuuuuX Review

We set our thrusters at maximum and head into the Zeknova that is Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX!  After coming down from our Kira-Kira high, Isaac muses at Mash donating his leg and bemoans the lack of total Zeonic victory he was promised, while Brian is incensed at the continued pattern of bad parenting across the timelines and delivers a PSA on spray paint safety.  Plus, we discuss the Zeon civil war, Char's need for a haircut, Shuji's true identity, and a cameo from Australian Isaac!  

0140: Headcanon Head Scratchers (aka Gunundrums) Vol. 1

We dive into those random topics about Gundam that never quite made sense to us to the point where we had to make up our own headcanon to fill in the blank.  These are Gundam's headcanon head scratchers, or as Isaac calls them, Gunundrums!  From light-hearted subjects like General Revil's age and part time gig as a mall Santa, or elite h4x0r Kira Jesus Yamato forgetting Athrun's phone number; to serious lore tidbits like the lack of Minovsky bombs and large capital ships, we lay all our Gunundrums out on the table.  Plus, Brian unexpectedly earns a position with Blue Cosmos by inventing snow cone machine nukes!  What are some of your Gunundrums?

0139: New Gundam Settings

Stop us if you've heard this Gundam setting before: In the near future, humans have largely fled a ravaged Earth in favor of giant space colonies where they war amongst themselves using giant robots called mobile suits.  We've been there and done that several times over - in fact we are doing it right now in GQuuuuuux!  So let's think of something new: What are some fresh new settings that future Gundam series might explore instead?  We discuss a wide range of ideas including the asteroid belt, black holes, Saturn, and Proxima Centauri, among others.  Plus, we eulogize Stargate Universe, Isaac demands justice for Pluto, we discuss all the steampunk genres (who knew solarpunk is a thing?), and Isaac unleashes his inner armchair astrophysicist on black holes and entropy.  Where would you set the next Gundam series? 

P.S. Gundam Trivia is confirmed for Anime Expo 2025 in Los Angeles, California!  Come join us on Saturday, July 5, 2025, 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM, Room 402AB!  

0138: Top Five Ugliest Mobile Suits

We host an ugly pageant for mobile suits across the Gundam multiverse in order to crown the one true ugliest mobile suit of them all!  From mobile suits with proportions that give you the ick, to Zanscare Empire amphibious mobile suits that leak, we spare no strain on our eyes to bring you this list.  Plus, Isaac takes a firm stance on the color brown and identifies a new Mega Man X maverick named Karnage Kangaroo that was living in the Universal Century all along!

"Nobody likes tentacles." -  American Isaac, 2025

0137: MSG 00 The Movie -A Wakening of the Trailblazer- Review

In 2010, Sunrise graced the world with the best Gundam film ever made: Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie -A Wakening of the Trailblazer-.  After five years of covering Gundam, we finally review this masterpiece to give it the credit it so rightfully deserves.  So buckle up and join us aboard the Ptolemaios for the last time as Allelujah fights Waymo; zombie Ribbons takes a WWE chair shot; Setsuna grabs the Metal Cap and joins the Borg; and the T-1000 gets renamed the Extraterrestrial Living Metal Shapshifters.  Someone should really check on the Azadistanis... 

Happy AFD, listeners!