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Originally Posted by 2ndSndWve

Yes, but SOMETHING other than the name has to make it a Gundam.

The colours, weapons, and the fact that the face still vaguely evokes the Gundam look wasn't enough? The V fin exists, just move down, simultainiously evoking the red chin of classic Gundams while the red and white below the eyes successfully put the right colours in the right areas to evoke the face. The fin on the back of the head adds that detail the camera "mohawk" would have taken up, without being the cameras. And the green turn A puts that colour as a focal point in place of the camera. The moment you open your mind to new ideas the shear cleverness of the head really shines. It hits so many of the key points of the typical Gundam RX-78-style head without actually having any of those points.

I knew it was a Gundam the moment I saw it, before I was even into Gundams. Just because it's differnet doesn't make it an affront to the franchise. That small, limited thinking does more harm than good. It's that fear of leaving your comfort zone that causes most Gundams to be entirely generic.

Mock all you want, but Turn A will never be lost in the sea of samey Gundams, all copying eachother like insecure teens following a fad. It's incredibly unique, stylish, and heavily evokitive of the classic Gundam look without becoming the shallow parody of it most Gundams end up.

In semi-related news, I just paid for the HGUC Ez8 and Gouf Custom. In the interest of fairness, Ez8 is my example of different-but-typical done right. Helped by it's origin as a heavily-modified RX-79, it's got the typical Gundam face, but a totally unique helmet/head.