>>10387395RE 1/100 is not really a gimmick. it started as a line to dump MGs that will become too expensive to produce or too unpopular to sell well as an MG.
as such, many of the earlier RE 1/100s are basically finished MGs that their details were just hollowed out.
but the line died because of Bandai's stupidity. instead of making the line a halfway MG, they should have made it a cheap 1/100 army building line (no american would pass up on buying 100s of cheap $10~$20 Leos to make a Wing diorama