Gundam Try Zeta

Gundam Try Zeta
Gundam Try Zeta (ガンダムトライゼータ)
Unit Type
Custom Mobile Suit
Profile
Other Names	Gundam ZZZ
Design Base	MSZ-010 ΖΖ Gundam MSZ-006 Zeta Gundam
Manufacturer	Minato Sakai [GBFT]
Known Pilots	Judau Ashta Shiro Amada
General Characteristics
Head Height	19.86 meters65.157 ft <br />781.89 in <br />
Max Weight	70.2 metric tons
Standard Armaments
Fixed	2 x Minovsky Zanber High Mega Cannon 2 x Wing Shield
Special Attacks
Solo	Choken Minovsky Try Burst High Mega Knuckle Lio Gunbeam
Real World
Mechanical Designer	Kunio Okawara
Appearances*
Television	GBFT: First Seen in Episode #8
Game	Gundam Try Age

The Gundam Try Zeta is a mobile suit from Mobile Suit Gundam: Try Age.

Technology & Combat Characteristics

The Gundam Try Zeta is a gunpla version of the MSZ-010 ΖΖ Gundam styled after super robots such as the "Brave" metaseries and Daitarn 3. It features a lion-shaped chest and a super robot-style large sword.

Armaments

• Minovsky Zanber

A pair of large physical blades modified from Double Zeta's hyper beam sabers. These blades can be combined to form a Super Sword (choken) with the blades separating into a cross guard and generating a gigantic beam saber.

• High Mega Cannon

Like the ZZ Gundam, the Gundam Try Zeta has a high mega cannon mounted in the center of its head.

• Wing Shield

Defensive armament that is equipped on both forearms.

Special Attacks

• Choken Minovsky Try Burst

The Gundam Try Zeta uses beams from its chest and both hands to stop the opponent's movement, and then combines the two Minovsky Zanbers into a giant light sword to slice them.

• High Mega Knuckle

• Lio Gunbeam

The Gundam Try Zeta's Lion head opens and fires a gigantic beam, comparable to the High Mega Cannon

History

The Try Zeta is a gunpla modified from a ZZ Gundam of unknown grade. The builder is unknown, but proposed a story for how these modifications would have come about in the setting of the Universal Century:

In alternate event of Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ's episode 25 The Face of Rommel, the MSZ-010 ΖΖ Gundam was heavily damaged after the battle against Desert Rommel's MS-09H Dwadge Custom. However, the Gundam Team manages to repair it using parts from MSZ-006 Zeta Gundam with help from an old man who called himself Dr. Gundam. The addition of the lion head to the front of the chest was for increased intimidation. The logic was that Zeon remnants had already feared Mobile Suits with Gundam faces, so the lion face would make the MS appear even more fearsome.

Gallery

Gundam Try Zeta's first animated appearance

Notes & Trivia

• In Gundam Build Fighters Try, the Gundam Try Zeta is holding the super sword yet both Minovsky zanber are clearly visible on its backpack.
• According to its official description, the Try Zeta incorporates the infamous Tem Ray circuit.
• The in-universe builder of the Try Zeta's gunpla jokingly mocks the lion head when firing the Lio Gunbeam, wondering that "if the cockpit is still in the chest like the ZZ, would the pilot be exposed while it fires?" This would recieve a tongue-in-cheek reference in the 最強機動 Gundam Tryon 3's High Grade gunpla, where an optional sticker for the inside of the liger head is included, depicting what appears to be a pilot just within the Liger's mouth. Alternatively, this could be another Brave series reference, since the pilot of GaoGaiGar enters the cockpit through the lion head on its chest as well.
• While not confirmed, it is heavily implied that Minato Sakai's Try Zeta was later built into the Tryon 3, as both share a similar overall concept as well as a few attacks/weapons, notably a large sword which uses a beam blade, a beam cannon built into the animal head on the chest, etc.