Bandai Gunpla 40th Anniversary Store in Paris

29 May 2022 · Paris

The Bandai Hobby Store in Paris announces itself with a bold Gunpla 40th Anniversary logo mounted across the entrance glass — gold, blue, and the silhouettes of Mobile Suits that have been on shelves since 1980. Below it, rows of model kit boxes fill the display shelving from floor to ceiling: SD, RG, MG grades stacked and lit under the shop's LED strip, a Haussmann facade reflecting in the door behind. The store is both a retail space and a small monument to forty years of scale-model culture landing in the middle of a French boulevard.