Fiction · Mobile Suit Gundam · head-height reference
How tall is RX-78-2 Gundam?
The RX-78-2 Gundam’s published head height is 18 meters. The marker ends at the central helmet, allowing projecting details to remain visible above it.
18 m
Reported fictional height- Measurement
- Published fictional head height · excludes projecting equipment
- Subject or version
- Mobile Suit Gundam · head-height reference
- In feet, rounded
- 59.1 ft (1 ft = 0.3048 m)
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A little more perspective
Bandai’s HG Universal Century RX-78-2 manual labels the fictional machine’s specification “HEAD HEIGHT: 18.0m.” This record represents the original Mobile Suit Gundam design. The manual’s separate 1/144 product scale does not turn the plastic model’s physical size into the fictional machine’s height.
Head height is a chosen endpoint. A tall V-fin, antenna or backpack component can extend farther upward without changing the listed 18-meter specification. The illustration uses an explicit helmet anchor so that these details are not silently counted in that value.
Quick facts
Bandai lists the RX-78-2 Gundam at 18 meters to the head. Its projecting crest and backpack equipment are kept outside that measurement endpoint.
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