30 May 2011

Rello Zulu

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Custom fan-made MG model cover art from pixiv

When 1st April comes a bunch of April Fool's jokes come here and there, and many would get forgotten easily. Among those that fly around during this year's April Fool's, one did catch my attention, and possibly some Gundam fans too. This was the Rello Zulu (レロ・ズール).

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The joke has its origin has a "leak" from the official Gundam Unicorn twitter page, which posted several mecha design linearts seemingly for upcoming episode 4 of Gundam UC OVA. Most of them look rather normal, except for the top right one as seen in the picture above.

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Here's the said lineart zoomed in, and you can see that it is supposedly Angelo Sauper's custom MS, known as the Rello Zulu.

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A clean lineart derived from the "leaked" pictures. Image from here

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For those who are not familiar with the origin of such bizzare joke design, this Rello Zulu is literally a hybrid of Angelo Sauper's Geara Zulu...
Image from MAHQ

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... And the funny looking Zakrello, which only appeared in the TV series version of the original Mobile Suit Gundam.
Image from MAHQ

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And somebody actually made a model for it too. XD
Image from gf-site, requires registration/log-in to access.


Despite it being a one-off April Fool's joke, it did give a good laugh to the fans. It might look silly and bizzare, but I would welcome it with a smile on my face should it make a cameo appearance in future episodes of Gundam UC OVA. And thanks to Yui (aka yui_style) for showing me this. I can't believe you actually thought this was genuine though XD And I feel sorry for you that somebody beat you to making a custom model for itbefore you can even get started XDD

6 comments:

  1. Haha, that looks kind of goofy.

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  2. @ korewagundam:
    Indeed! This is one crazy design even as a joke one since the Beargguy from Gunpla Builders!

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  3. I saw it somewhere date 2 April, and just thought it was reeeeeeeeal, and reall look forward for Angelo in UC#4 to become another "neta" character just like 00's Colasour XD

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  4. @ Yui:
    Hahahahaha I now tend to treat the days from 31st March to 2nd April as April Fool's because of that. ^^;

    Haha Colasour really is an amazing gag character back in Gundam 00 XD I wonder whether Sunrise will nevertheless put Rello Zulu in as a cameo appearance of some sort for episode 4. If they do then part of your wish shall come true then XD

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  5. What a funky looking thing~

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  6. @ Yi:
    This Rello Zulu does give a good laugh for both Gundam and non-Gundam fans for its funky appearance!

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