Category: Toys
More from Yamato’s booth. This time the Navy schemed VF-1A Cavalier thanks to GA graphics website and scooped my Major Tom.
UPDATE: ADDED MORE PICS AFTER THE JUMP!
Thanks to Noel (BlackAces) via Graham for these pics of the VF-17D Battroid and the VF-17 Super Fighter.
Wonder Festival 2012 continues as Noel’s photos — via Graham — this time reveal Yamato’s plans to reissue the 1/60 VF-1S Roy Focker, VF-1J Hikaru Ichijo and the VF-1D Trainer, this time with “option parts”, i.e. side-covers and elevating seats for Battroid mode.
Price 10,290 yen, out April (VF-1D) and May (VF-1S), 2012.
Images here:
UPDATE: MORE PICS AFTER THE JUMP!
Previously seen as line art only, the prototype of the 1/60 Speaker/Gun Pod Gamma is displayed at 2012 Winter Wonder Fest.
Cf18 posted a recent interview at the Japanese site, GA Graphics, with the toy engineers that is currently designing the 1/60 VF-4G Lightning at Yamato. Accompanying the interview is a good number of renders and CAD drawings. Some we’ve seen before, but now with much more clarity.
More images after the break.
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A couple of weeks ago, VF5SS and I got together to discuss the 1/55 VF-1 Valkyrie toy, a highly influential, internationally bestselling and memorable toy from 1982, with a highly complex background to match.
For your listening pleasure, we hereby present the story of Takatoku’s masterpiece, the 1/55 VF-1, from prototype to toy, to bootleg, to reissue.
I believe a great deal of this information is new to English-speakers, since a lot of it is taken from the following Japanese sources: Figure Oh #130, #77 and #134; Model Graphix #318, and Shoji Kawamori Macross Design Works.
LISTEN HERE: Streaming version on Youtube.
More links & info after the jump.
2012 marks a special milestone for the Macross franchise. 30 years ago this October, Super Dimension Fortress: Macross was debuted on Japanese TV. Since then it has spawned sequels, movies, OVAs and countless merchandise including the unforgettable classic, the Takatoku 1/55 VF-1 Valkyrie.
To celebrate the anniversary, Bandai visual is releasing 2 box sets of SDF: Macross in Bluray. One as a standard set and the other is called the complete edition. Yamato has also announced that they are releasing a web shop exclusive of the long awaited VF-4 valkyrie in 1/60 scale. Stay tune we wait for more merchandise announcements through out the year.
Happy Anniversary from Macross World!