Is Blue Destiny Unit 1 a GM or Gundam?

Is Blue Destiny Unit 1 considered a GM or a Gundam? And this topic if for Unit 1 ONLY. I want to know if it is or not and why. I don't want to hear "Oh the skirt looks the same as the Gundam Ground so therefore it is a Gundam."

My take. BD1 is a GM because simply of the head it has. It's a GM's head, not a Gundam. Plain and simple. If Unit 1 was a Gundam, why doesn't it have a Gundam head? Or at least a Gundam face?

It's a GM, hence its code name: GM Blue Destiny Unit 1; source

For me, this along the fact it uses GM head instead of Gundam head already enough proof that it was considered as GM class not Gundam Class.

BD unit 1 with EXAM system = incredible performance and extremely unstable + time limit.
Gundam with magnet-coating = high response and stable + no time limit.

I don't like gamble to win. So i choose gundam.

in my eyes its just an upgraded version of a standart groundtype gm

It's a GM. From my guess, the reason why a GM was used to test out the EXAM System was because it was cheaper to modify, instead of building a whole new mobile suit.

So yes, in simple terms, it's a ground-based GM.

RX-79 GM. Blue Destiny Unit 1

look at the name it's using RX-79 same like Ground Gundam

based on the core it's a Ground Gundam only the head is GM since this is a test unit.

it's a Gundam WITH GM head.

the armaments same like BD 2 and 3 except those two are using Beam Rifles. you can say this is an entirely different MS. it's not a GM since the armaments and design are too far for being a GM itself. it's kinda complicated whether this is a Gundam or GM. but based by the armaments, design, the name, and also the core which is similiar to Ground Gundam, it's a Gundam with GM head, not a Ground GM.

The difference between BD1 and the Ground Gundam GM Head is that the GM Head was just using a GM head as a replacement for the destroyed Gundam head because the Ground Gundams had no spare parts because they were spare parts themselves from the RX-78-2. However the Blue Destiny is a COMPLETELY different unit. And it was built as a GM, not a Gundam.

That's right. Keep tell them about it. Because this will make confusion which is gundam and which is GM. This case will be same between Hazel-GM Quel.

Hazel was built as a Gundam and the GM Quel was obviously built as a GM. There is no confusion. In a nut shell, if a mobile suit was built with a Gundam head from the very beginning, it's called a Gundam. If a mobile suit was built with a GM head from the beginning, then it's a GM. Plain and simple.

Please don't use the RX model number naming for proof, since that didn't happen with Guntank and Guncannon. >_>

Yes, the BD-1 is made Based On a Gundam[G], but are you sure that they did Really intend to make it as a Gundam?

Don't you think that there's a possibility that they made GM to "look like a Gundam"?

Because if you really believed that Based ON = The same, then I can say that the GM Custom = Gundam Alex, because the production was Based On Gundam Alex

Point is:
Don't look at the physical appearances, but more into "the paperwork" for it.
analogy: I made a car that looks like a Ferrari 360, but I named it a Lamborghini Murciélago.

"see the point?" it's still Lamborghini even though it looks like a Ferrari 360
SO, Physical Appearance doesn't matter one bit

Too bad the BD-1 didn't appear in in Gundam Vs Gundam NExt, since their is a Pilot skills that can only activate if the MS is a gundam. This will surely be easy too confirm.

The RX in the serial number doesn't mean a thing. The Guncannon and the Guntank both have RX in their serial numbers but they aren't Gundams. And for the Zeta Zaku, the Zaku's head was ONLY used as a temporary head because the Argama didn't have another Zeta head to replace the destroyed one and they needed the Zeta to help Judau. BD-1 was built as a GM while BD-2 and BD-3 were built as Gundams. Who cares if all 3 units were equipped with the EXAM, it doesn't mean anything. BD-1 had the GM head when it was first build so therefore it's a GM because it never had a Gundam head in the first place.

The Zeta Zaku point is useless. If you're gonna say that the BDs are Gundams just because they were built using the Ground Gundam's design, does that make the GM Grounds Gundams too? They have similar bodies to the Ground Gundam so does that make it a Gundam? No. GM Grounds are GMs. And from what Kaimax said, does that make the GM Custom the Gundam Alex then? They both look similar so does that make the GM Custom a Gundam? No. The GM Grounds and GM Custom were built as GMs and so was BD-1. You have no proof that BD-1 was ever a Gundam to begin with. Sure it may feature a similar design to the Ground type but this design is shared with the GM Ground types as well but they aren't called Gundams at all. Your stance will lead to all of the Ground types to be called Gundams when they're not. Gundams that use different head like the Zeta Zaku and the "GM Head" are only so because they have no extra heads and are using whatever was around as a replacement. So for these two ONLY, yes they are Gundams but for everything else, no they were either built as Gundams in the beginning or as GMs.

The way I see it, you're not really making an ass of yourself. I can believe that you honestly thought BD-1 was a Gundam so it's natural for you to give supporting facts why it is even though they proved otherwise. For discussions like this, you'd have to research more. And that's pretty much it.

what does GM mean?

if you don' know, then you need to at least watch Gundam the anime first.

it's name of a Mobile suit (robot/mecha) that is in the anime Gundam.