Gundlander is part of the SD Gundam franchise, a subfranchise of the popular Gundam anime.
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The series has a fantasy setting with characters designed to resemble monsters and is mainly merchandised in Bandai's Gashapon line.
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With Musha Gundam having a Japan Sengoku setting and Knight Gundam having a middle age Europe setting, Gunlander is something different as it has a prehistoric, ancient civilization setting.
Similarly, with Knight Gundam developing from Carddas and Musha Gundam developing plastic model kits, Gundlander choose the capsule toy Gashapon Senshi as a development platform. The series has transformation and combination gimmicks, technologies that were passed on to future Gashapon figures.
But the series was not popular as the story has a complex constitution and is difficult to understand. A portion of the manga has not been published in takubon. Similarly to its other two counterparts, the characters are portrayed as living beings not robots.
A single BB Senshi model kit was produced from the line, depicting the character of Superior Lander.