Apparently, every year for the last few years, legendary mecha designer Kunio Okawara creates a new Gundam design based on the current animal of the Chinese calendar. According to my research, Okawara’s done either six or seven animal designs so far, including this year’s design for the Year of the Snake:
If you take all of those designs, and then toss in a few gold/clear/color variants for good measure, then you’d have enough to do a blind bag series of toys. And that’s exactly what Bandai’s started to do with them:
The official name of this thing is the “Gundam QMSV Chinese Zodiac 2025 mini blind box”. Let’s see what’s inside.