My Understanding Of Johnny Ridden Is That Hes A Blonde One Year War Ace Zeon Pilot That Uses A Red Zaku

My understanding of Johnny Ridden is that he’s a blonde One Year War ace Zeon pilot that uses a red Zaku who gets VERY upset if you confuse him for the OTHER Zeon ace pilot that uses a red Zaku

Kinda surreal how I can watch a YouTube video I like and see an ad, and then later I turn on the tv to catch the news and see the exact same ad.

Minor Arcana by CASIMIR ART

I assume (out-of-universe) because Star Wars pre-dates the internet as we understand it, it was never considered. I’d assume there’ve been attempts to integrate it over the years but they just haven’t stuck.

I think it was mentioned in one of the old West End Games sourcebooks that there does exist a “public” galactic communication service (like video-chat)? But again it’s reliant on the infrastructure being present and it’s specifically noted to have significant time delays depending on where you’re contacting (and be very expensive depending on what service package you use in what location). I’d be fascinated to know how all the Jedi communicators work under that system (I think I recall reading that they essentially piggyback of existing services automatically, since you don’t want a Jedi to be out of contact because they can’t afford the fee), given that they’d presumably have a lot of the same technical issues.

I also know there’s been mentions of a “holonet” and one of the Separatist Leaders, Po Nudo, was head of the “Hyper-Communications Cartel” which defected to the CIS, but that’s typically used synonymously with either “Galactic news” or propaganda, so it could be a communications thing, it could be a sort of proto-internet or it could be just, the news.

EDIT: I forgot to include a picture of the guy.

This is Po Nudo. He’s the guy giving you the news that Big Republic doesn’t want you to know about.

You wanna know what’s really happening in the mines at Kessel? Here’s Po Nudo with the exposé.

Do you want to know where Count Dooku gets those luscious cloaks? Po Nudo’s got you covered.

What’s in store for the Separatist Alliance now that Grevious is dead and the war’s drawing to a close? Po Nudo, asking the real questions with Darth Vader, in a exclusive interview!

It's my headcanon that there's not a galactic-wide holonet. That infrastructure just isn't there. Individual planets like coruscant probably have a holonet, sure, and some core worlds are connected to each other, but for a lot of the galaxy, most of the galaxy even, the average person just doesn't have access to a galactic equivalent of Earth's internet.

It could be that they’re based on different art pieces I think? So depending on the source depends on the colour.

Or it could be different dye prices for the plastic, so one becomes cheaper based on the prices at the time they were made?

It could just be overall colour compliments, but that doesn’t feel likely.

Hey Gunpla nerds, I have a question, if anyone is willing to shine some light that would be awesome!

Recently I’ve taken to trying to collect every single Char Custom suit, by that I mean one of each per available grade (i.e. a HG, RG, MG, PG, and Mega Size Zaku; a HG and MG Gelgoog; a HG Nightingale; etc)

After finally cleaning off a shelf to put the collection near each other I’ve noticed something… something rather odd.

For some reason each Char suit has one of two different color pallets.

Exhibit A. The Zaku II Brothers

Now my lighting isn’t great but I think this displays my point quite well. The RG and MG Zaku both have a light pink-salmon as their main color, with a saturated crimson for their vests and skirt armors. The HG on the other hand, is starkly more… well red. Granted that was also hot off the runners, the red has cooled to a salmon color, but still not as pink as it’s more detailed counterparts

Exhibit B. The Z’gok Brothers

Here the Z’goks have almost the exact opposite issue. The MG and HG have the redder salmon color, while the RG is a lighter pink. Of course the colors are everywhere with the RG so I am just referring to the upper body

Finally Exhibit C. The HG Rick Dom and HG Gelgoog

Now the lighting is worse here because they’re both on a lower shelf, but as you can see by their baggy leg armor thats right next to each other, the Gelgoog is, again, a darker salmon compared to the pink Rick Dom

I had noticed these differences while doing work in my room and absolutely not while drifting off, staring at and thinking about my model kits

One last piece of evidence I have come across is the age of the kits. The youngest 2 red salmons are from 2023 (Zaku Revive) and 2006 (Gelgoog) while the oldest Pink suit is from 2007 (MG Zaku II 2.0), And even the Rick Dom is actually from a 2015 kit. Assuming the Revive is simply replicating the plastic color of the original 2000s kit, so…

What’s up with that? Why did Bandai just decide to make Char’s suits more saturated in 2007? This is the question I have been pondering for a while…

And yes it’s kinda petty to look this far into “why my plastic different?” But at the same time it’s just a bizarre and petty change too. Why not keep the red? Why switch plastic colors after 2006 and only switch them back for recreating older kits? It’s so mind boggling …