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Curious question.
Can we extend this to the SEED and SEED Destiny MSes, MAs and Gundams of those series?

Yeah I suppose it's an idea maybe later should propose the idea for a mech subsection or stuff, since the guild has spare gold in it anyway sweatdrop

Those are cool Zero's Wings are a slight blend of EW and his rifle isn't exactally the same.

I like the giant claw on Deathscythe.

You're confused, I see. Take a look at the model number of the Gundam in question: "XXXG-01W." That's the Wing Gundam.

No, it's not an error on the part of Bandai.

If you'll remember correctly, Katoki's designs for Endless Waltz aren't actually meant to be "custom" machines, nor updates to the Gundams made between the series and Endless Waltz (as some of the non-canon manga would have us believe). Rather, the Endless Waltz designs were supposed to be the exact same Gundams as the ones we see in the series itself. They're simply alternate renderings of existing designs, if that makes sense: they were retconned.

Katoki then went back and redesigned the five Gundams from the television series so that they would jive with his designs from Endless Waltz.

The new line of figurines is based on those Katoki redesigns.

Here is another image of Katoki's redesign of the Wing Gundam:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a310/NowhereManXP/xxxg-01w.jpg

Well damn that re-design has a strong bearing resemblance to Wing Zero then.

And as for EW Bandai still counts them as official but eh I liked the TV designs more anyway.

Perhaps.
Besides the UC comment isn't a bad one in that sense that some fans think of the Gundams and other MSes in that sense.
Still dislike EW designs their arnaments seem to be downgraded in some cases.

Wing Zero: looses transformation ability and thus the Wing Vulcans from Neo Bird Mode.

Deathscythe Hell: Looses the Buster Shield it once had as well as the new cloack not fully covering the body unlike the origional DH.

Altron: It lost it's flamethrowers.

Sandrock: Lost the heat seeking shoulder mounted missles along with the beam machine gun.

So there were reasons I disliked most of them and the redesigns for those 4 still seem weird, considering they also rewrote part of the show history also.
Bandai and Sunrise can do it as much as they want but they can't ignore the other designs either. ninja burning_eyes
Tallgeese 3 was different though.
And Heavyarms was practically the same just a different colour scheme and double up on arnaments.