Bandai Hobby is the plastic-model arm of Bandai Spirits, the division that turns licensed properties into kits a builder assembles at the bench. Its center of gravity is the Bandai Hobby Center in Shizuoka, the model-making heart of Japan, where the company's Gundam kits and the wider catalog are developed and tooled. In the Japan Finds taxonomy it sits beneath Bandai Spirits, which in turn sits under Banpresto, gathering the grade lines, the 30 Minutes system, and the Figure-rise character kits under one roof. Where the prize lines hand a collector a finished statue, Bandai Hobby hands them the build.