Official "Gundam" store opens in London, drawing long queues

An official store selling plastic model kits from Japan's robot anime "Mobile Suit Gundam" series opened Friday in London, becoming the second "Gundam Base" outlet in Europe after Germany.About 200 products were on display inside the shop and customers holding boxes of "Gunpla," as Gundam plastic model kits are known, formed queues to purchase them. Some waited for hours outside before the shop opened."There's so many kits I found here that I didn't expect to see," said a 22-year-old man who had waited with his sister for about five hours.The Gundam anime series became a huge hit after its …READ FULL ARTICLE