The initial concept of the RX-78 was a reinforced steel gun, an early design from Yoshiyuki Tomino's Freedom Fighter Gunboy series. The series was later changed to Mobile Suit Gundam and Kunio Okawara was given Tomino's concept to form the final design for the anime. Okawara made several designs prior to the current configuration, a samurai-style design for the anime in 1979.
One common question is why the enemies of the series keep referring to the RX-78-2 as White when the unit is a mix of red, white and blue. Tomino responds in his novel that the original Gundam was colored in shades of gray and white, made with a lot of gray coloring. However, Sunrise didn't like the color and insisted that the unit be painted in a bright, eye-catching color, like the Super Robot anime of that time.
Despite the "original" Gundam design, the RX-78-2 design was expanded to become the second of the 8 Gundams, after the RX-78-1 model and later the RX-78-3-8 model. Designed by Okawara between 1980 and 1983 for Mobile Suit Variations. Other mechanical designers were added and added design variations, including Yutaka Izubuchi with the RX-78-NT-1, designed in 1989 for the Mobile Suit Gundam 0080, and Shoji Kawamori and Katoki Hajime with the 1992 Gundam Development Project design for the Gundam 0083. RX-78 -2 has also been redesigned several times by several artists. For example, the Katoki Hajime Gundam version (referenced by fans and Bandai as Ver.ka) became popular enough to be made as a plastic model kit sold by Bandai and a resin-based garage kit sold by B-Club. Okawara himself redesigned Gundam for Yasuhiko Yoshikazu's original character design in the Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin manga, a retelling of events at the start of the series. Although almost identical to the one in the anime, the Gundam in this manga has some minor differences in its weaponry, the vulcan pod on its shoulder, and the ability to change the beam sword on its shoulder into the same cannon as the Guncannon. In addition, the fifteenth installer of the Gundam Evolve series features another design of the RX-78-2, a high-decoration version of the iconic machine based on a "modern" aesthetic design.
The continued popularity of this model prompted Bandai to create a 1.5m scale model, which was to be sold in Japan in 2007.
The Gundam Expo in Hong Kong uses the final shot of the RX-78-2 in its logo. (https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/RX-78-2_Gundam)
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