Premium Bandai Restocks HG Rick Dias and HGUC Efreet, Plus the Ball Type K Set – Preorders Open November 10

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Premium Bandai’s Gunpla restock slot lined up four kits for preorder starting at 11:00 a.m. JST on Tuesday, November 10, 2026. The HG 1/144 Rick Dias (Quattro Bajeena Custom) is $16, the HG 1/144 Rick Dias is $16, the HGUC 1/144 Efreet is $17, and the HGUC 1/144 Ball Type K (The 08th MS Team version) & Ball (Shark Mouth version) set is $13, all tax included. Buy all four and you are looking at $61.

The detail worth zeroing in on is the bracketed tag stuck on the end of each product name: [2nd Run] or [3rd Run]. When a made-to-order Premium Bandai item sells well, the store opens the order window again and again, and the running count gets written straight into the product name. This time the black Rick Dias is on its third run, the red Quattro Bajeena Custom is on its second, the HGUC Efreet is on its second, and the two-Ball set is on its second. In other words, all four are kits you could already have bought once before, and this round is a safety net for everyone who missed out.

There is a second wrinkle: the shipping months are split. The Quattro Bajeena Custom, the Efreet and the Ball set are all slated to ship in April 2027, but the black Rick Dias alone is set for May 2027. Preorder everything on the same day and the boxes still arrive a month apart. That has direct consequences for shipping fees and payment timing, so I have broken it down in detail below.

Personally, every time I spotted the Ball Type K box on a shelf in Akihabara I thought the same thing: for a Ball, this kit is weirdly elaborate. The winch and the headlight come as newly tooled parts. Thirteen bucks for two Balls, one of them wearing the MS IGLOO shark mouth. A guy with two divorces behind him has no business giving financial advice, but kits like this are the ones that stay on my shelf the longest.

*Prices in this article are converted from Japanese yen at ¥153 = US$1 (November 2026 rate).

Every price, point total and shipping month here follows what is listed on the Premium Bandai product pages as of November 10, 2026. These are made-to-order kits, so the premise is simple: miss the window and there is no way left to buy them at retail.

What are the order terms for the four Premium Bandai restocks? Prices and shipping months

All four opened for preorder at 11:00 a.m. JST on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, sold exclusively through Premium Bandai under its Hobby Online Shop banner. Prices, reward points and shipping months break down as follows.

The four kits together come to $61 (tax included), with 92 reward points in total. Four 1/144 boxes across HG and HGUC for that money sits in genuinely approachable territory for Premium Bandai exclusives. The cheapest of the bunch is the two-Ball set: $13 for two machines works out to under $7 apiece.

What do [2nd Run] and [3rd Run] mean? When were the previous order windows?

The [Nth Run] tag attached to a made-to-order Premium Bandai item tells you how many times that product has been opened for orders. Of this round’s four kits, only the black Rick Dias is on its third run; the other three are second runs.

So when did the previous windows open? Tracing the official announcements, the most recent order period for each of the four looks like this.

Building that table, the Efreet was the entry that surprised me most. Its first run opened on October 15, 2026, and the second run went live less than a month later. For anyone who sat out the October window, or who grabbed only the Gundam Pixy and Efreet Kai from that same wave and let the base Efreet slip, this is a remarkably quick second chance.

The black Rick Dias, meanwhile, is on run three. Its first run (shipping August 2026) and second run (shipping October 2026) both opened in June 2026, and after roughly five months of silence we get this third pass. The red Quattro Bajeena Custom is on its second run, its first having opened at 11:00 a.m. on June 2, 2026. The black version racking up one extra run presumably comes down to demand: mass-production colors are the ones people want in multiples. The Dias looks great in a row, so that tracks.

How do the two HG Rick Dias kits differ? Black versus the Quattro Bajeena Custom

The differences are the color scheme and, this time, the shipping month. Nothing else. Both run $16 tax included, both are 1/144, and both are Premium Bandai exclusives.

The Rick Dias is the AEUG’s frontline mobile suit from the TV anime Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, model number RMS-099. Developed by Anaheim Electronics, the black standard unit wears the mass-production colors flown by Apolly and Roberto, while the red machine is the personal unit of Captain Quattro Bajeena, the alias of Char Aznable.

Based on the HGUC Rick Dias, the red exterior sections of the head, shoulders, arms, waist and legs have been reshaped to hew closer to the original design art and are reproduced with newly tooled parts. The black machine color flown by Apolly and Roberto is reproduced in molded color.

Source:Dengeki Hobby Web

This part quietly matters: the HG is not a simple recolor of the old HGUC. It is an updated kit whose main exterior sections were retooled to sit closer to the design art. Included weapons are the Clay Bazooka, the Beam Pistol and the Beam Saber. A standing pose with the Clay Bazooka shouldered gives the kit a bulk you would not expect from an HG, and dual-wielding the Beam Pistols nails the Dias silhouette. It can also ride the separately sold HG 1/144 Dodai Kai, which lands for anyone looking to restage Zeta Gundam’s in-atmosphere dogfights.

If I have a gripe, it is that collectors who want both colors get them a month apart, in April and May. Wanting to line up two of the same machine and then waiting an extra month is mildly maddening when you are trying to plan a build schedule. Then again, the chance to lock down both on the same day is rare enough on its own.

What makes the HGUC Efreet worth it? What $17 buys you

The long configuration of its dedicated shotgun, and a two-sword stance with the Heat Sabers. Those two things are the core of the HGUC 1/144 Efreet ($17, tax included).

The Efreet is the rival machine from the video game Mobile Suit Gundam: Cross Dimension 0079, positioned as the prototype that later led to the EXAM-equipped Efreet Kai. As a kit it builds on the earlier Efreet Kai release, with newly sculpted parts for the head, shoulder armor, waist armor, backpack and weapons.

Swapping the stock section lets you reproduce the dedicated shotgun’s long configuration as well. Using the included open hand makes a two-handed grip possible. Two types of blade are included for the Heat Saber, and the sheathed state can be reproduced too.

Source:Dengeki Hobby Web

A swappable shotgun stock, two blade options for the Heat Saber, and a sheathed display state. You rarely get this much loaded into a 1/144 HGUC. The shoulder spike armor is color-separated in molded plastic right down to the spikes, so even a snap-fit build reads exactly like the design art. Even as a painter, the Efreet is the kind of kit I want to snap together once first and see where it lands.

One caveat: if you want to restage the series’ climactic duel, the Efreet’s opposite number, the HGUC 1/144 Gundam Pixy, is sold separately. The Pixy’s first run opened on October 15, 2026, with shipping set for February 2027, but it is not part of this November 10 wave. The Efreet alone has advanced to a second run, so anyone without a Pixy may be waiting a while before the pair can share a shelf.

What comes in the Ball Type K and Shark Mouth two-unit set?

For $13 tax included you get one RB-79K Ball Type K and one RB-79 Ball (Shark Mouth version), two machines in the box. Each one also comes with its own display stand.

What makes this set fun is that the two units come from different productions. The Ball Type K appears in Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, while the Shark Mouth Ball is from Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO. Cramming two machines from separate shows into one box is exactly the kind of nerve you only get from Premium Bandai.

The distinctive arms and booster of the RB-79K Ball Type K from Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, along with its unique winch and headlight, are fully reproduced with newly tooled parts. The complex coloring is faithfully reproduced in molded color as well.

Source:Dengeki Hobby Web

New tooling for the winch and the headlight. For a Ball, of all things. I think that same thought every single time. The Shark Mouth version, for its part, includes the shark mouth marking seen in MS IGLOO episode 3 plus markings such as the playing-card symbol from episode 5, with added parts reproducing the arms, the window section and the booster. That means swapping markings to turn it into a different machine is a legitimate way to play with the kit.

On the downside, a Ball tends to look lonely on display by itself. It is the kind of machine that only conjures the atmosphere of a battlefield once it stands beside a GM or a Zaku II, which makes this one best suited to people with HGUC kits already on hand. Flip that around, though, and if you have a diorama going, $13 to add two machines at once is a cheap afternoon.

When is the order deadline? Three things to watch when you preorder

As of November 10, 2026, none of the four product pages lists an order deadline.

This is the part that trips people up every time they buy made-to-order Premium Bandai goods. The order opening is stated plainly; the closing date never is, and in some cases the window simply shuts once the production allotment is filled. So it is not that there is no deadline, it is that there is no telling when it will land. If you genuinely want one, moving early is the only real defense.

1. No deadline is listed — orders can close early depending on the production allotment. All you can do is check the official page each time
2. Shipping splits into an April group and a May group — the Quattro Bajeena Custom, Efreet and Ball set arrive in April 2027, the black Rick Dias in May 2027. Separate deliveries can mean separate shipping charges
3. Delivery is roughly five to six months out — an expiring credit card or a change of address after a move can derail payment or delivery. Long-lead made-to-order items always carry this trap

On top of that, once orders close on a Premium Bandai exclusive, there is effectively no way left to get it at retail. Once it hits the secondhand market, prices run well past list as a matter of course. Paying $33 or more for a $16 kit and regretting it afterward is, honestly, a road I have walked a few times myself.

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Verdict: $61 for all four, and if you are on the fence, take the safety net

Let’s recap. Four kits opened for preorder at Premium Bandai at 11:00 a.m. JST on Tuesday, November 10, 2026. The HG 1/144 Rick Dias (Quattro Bajeena Custom) is $16 tax included, 24 pts, shipping April 2027; the HG 1/144 Rick Dias is $16 tax included, 24 pts, shipping May 2027; the HGUC 1/144 Efreet is $17 tax included, 25 pts, shipping April 2027; and the HGUC 1/144 Ball Type K (The 08th MS Team version) & Ball (Shark Mouth version) set is $13 tax included, 19 pts, shipping April 2027. All four together run $61 tax included.

The real story this round is those [2nd Run] and [3rd Run] tags. The black Rick Dias is a third run; the red Quattro Bajeena Custom, the HGUC Efreet and the two-Ball set are all second runs. The Efreet moved to a second run less than a month after its October 15, 2026 debut window, which makes this an unusually fast second chance for anyone who just missed it. Since no order deadline appears on the product pages, locking in whatever you already know you want is the safe play.