Shawn

I pulled up my own inventory tracker sheet and have this (1982-1984 only) 253 kits 124,800 Yen

Now that makes a lot of sense! Arii or Imai or Nichimo would drop a flyer in the shipment cases about their upcoming releases I think you solved that one!

Just FYI, if you are an Orguss fan and have not yet ordered the Figure King magazine yet....DO IT. It is just awesome-covers all the Takatokus, Ohsatos, tons of Line Art, interviews, Model kits, and collectibles...it is AWESOME. It is the definitive ORGUSS collectors book! If you are a fan of the Macross Package Art book, you can find the same artists did the model kits (Suzuki and Takani)

Somebody get a Small Lake and a YF-19...quick!! That is the perfect picture

I want Mechanic Clear Fast Pack (@$55 max) special web order, then a Cannon Fodder tan VF-1A regular release in mid year to round out the 1/48 VF-1 TV lineup. They SHOULD have started out with a generic VF-1 template valkyrie. You then sell chestplates and heads and ventral fins and circle thingies on the legs and tailfins. Maybe even a little magnetic plate for the fuselage side for the 001/011/012/013 numbers or any other combo you want. Didn't someone already do that in the Robotech toy world? Then everyone will need to buy 6x of the same basic core valkyrie, and you then sell nothing but Livery packages. Someone mock that up in photoshop already 😛 I mean hasegawa did the chest thingy...Bandai an follow it up and make a million of them. I'll sacrifice the air brake gimmick to keep it simple. Yamato had it close with their No-Paint...its just NO ONE wants to do their decals and stickers...but PLUGIN items? Pretty sure people would be interested.

I just wanted to see some crazy interpretations like Fast Pack Boosters becoming the feet, and the valkyries engines nozzles turning into hand clamps. This is what I'd imagine an AI art generated piece might look like (sorry Suzuki...Imai made you do some weird stuff sometimes LOL) Totally understand the additional considerations needed of new tech applied to other types of work, didn't mean it in that way. We can return back to our escape from reality here and talk about planes and robots again

What the heck is this in the corner?

I DEFINITELY want to see some AI generated variable fighter concepts...that has some crazy potential.

Unbelievable amount of effort in this restoration. I had no idea the amount of detail they packed into the cockpit. It truly seemed like they cared about making it look extremely complex inside. I'm an amazed at your level of patience, and laughed when I see you discovering NEW blemishes that your brain tuned out during the process. This is beyond anything I could imagine doing myself. Kudos on your efforts on this. And come on...we ALL have to be thinking about how this was delivered.

On the back of one of an 1985 Japanimation magazine, I saw this on the bac. It looks like its a flyer from Arii, regarding their 1984 Summer to December releases. The GMP and Galvion art has been seen before on their respective boxes, but that Strike VF-1 Gerwalk is new to these eyeballs Never seen it before except for this advertisement. There is an amazing amount of detail in the VF-1! I believe Masami did the HEWAT Lineup (bottom pic..the yellow Skull tends to be his trademark)...but I can't quite tell if this is Masami or Suzuki or another artist.

Have we ever found any more information about the Arabic valkyrie? Using google translate on the phone, I sometimes get the very top line to say 'Sally Tek 1/' The rainbox type box is similar to a Joons release. The large main title on the box and instruction manual says Metamorphosis Robot "بوت التحول" from @glane21's post from 2007 or so

Yeah-can confirm the smooth goggle on the kits you mentioned. Can only suspect they were trying to go for a smoother blend of the head in fighter mode The 1/72 Imai Battroid kit (and subsequent Bandai versions) has a defined goggle...you could perhaps swap it with some work Nice catch...one just tends to ignore/accept things like that after looking at it for 40 years are without asking hmmmm.....

Great find-I love the larger picture. And it is just like you said, it is the toy on the sprues. The canopy is the exact same color.

Macross Valkyrie Lady! (copy of the Bandai kit from 1985) https://mypi.ruliweb.com/m/mypi.htm?nid=237467&num=2057

Copy of the Imai 1/144 kit by Apollo https://dprime.kr/g2/bbs/board.php?bo_table=figure&wr_id=82714&sca=&sfl=wr_subject&stx=마크로스&sop=and&page=2&scrap_mode=

It is funny-I asked to see the inside of the box, and obviously all the sprue parts in the catalog ARE from that kit. They are too large for any of the other boxes, and the 3009 part number is overlayed on them. The bags of screws and springs are on the front left in the plastic bags, the redish clear canopy in the middle in front of the small 0201 box, and the VF-1J red decals on the right. Maybe it is easier to ask around if there is a better scan the Popeye Catalog anywhere?

@nightmareB4macross seems to have already answered my question on screws or glue

Do you remember if they assembled the 1/55 model kit with screws or did they use glue? I wonder if it had springs for the arm shoulder ratchets? Hopefully one day we can find someone with pictures again. Thank you for all this wonderful information!

HOLD ON...Just HOLD ON... @transjet I misread your original post So the VF-1A on the left is the Model kit of the Takatoku 1/100 toy but you said the Yellow Box is a model kit of the 1/55 Takatoku!???!?? Are there ANY pics of the inside of this box!? OMG

Found some more awesomeness Arii 1/100 1997 Release. This actually says Tatsunoku on the box. Was this an official release? Some books Shitajiki another book (DYRL)

Looking through the pages, it seems these are the release years for the various valks. They continued right up to 1997! (all listed in the articles at the very bottom) https://m.blog.naver.com/PostList.naver?blogId=tenetron&categoryNo=175&listStyle=post&logCode=0

Very interesting! I had no idea Bandai might have outsourced some Gundam to Korea. That box side is definite proof that SOMETHING happened, officially licensed or not. It is fun but incredibly difficult to try and piece together history from 40 years ago from people's memories, rumors, and internet posts . There are probably bits of truth and exaggeration in every story. Using your links I found another post of that very cool Sally Robot Tek model (based on the Takatoku 1/100 toy) https://m.blog.naver.com/tenetron/220044071569 I love finding out all about the non-Japanese Macross history around the world. Can't wait to see what is discovered next. Do you know if there are any online markets where one could try and buy any of these Macross based alternative items?

@transjet - you seem to very knowledgeable on the items-what do you think of this information on this site? (it is in one of the messages) https://www.etoland.co.kr/plugin/mobile/board.php?bo_table=etohumor02&wr_id=118937 참고로 이 표절작을 만든 건 바로 스폰서 때문이다. 전작인 꼬마어사 똘이가 그다지 흥행에 성공하지 못해 낭패를 겪던 김청기에게 뽀빠이과학이란 업체에서 일본의 프라모델, 그러니까 바로 발키리 모형을 보여주며 이거 나오는 로봇 애니메이션 만들면 제작비를 대주겠다고 하여 만들게 된 것. 뽀빠이과학이 만든 이 짝퉁 모형이 파이터, 가워크 및 배틀로이드로의 완전변형은 물론, 어떤 형태에서도 스탠드의 도움 없이도 자세를 유지하는 등 당시 작품이라는 것이 믿기지 않을 정도로 품질이 우수하였고 이에 감탄(?)한 일본 반다이가 표절을 문제시하지 않기로 합의하였다...는 썰이 있다. 그리고 뽀빠이과학은 짝퉁으로 만들던 제품을 당당하게 JOON's라는 상표를 달고 발키리 제품으로 하청 수출까지 해냈다(...). 당시 구매한 이들은 어처구니없게도 일제보다 이 짝퉁판이 품질이 좋았다는 평을 남길 정도였다. 그런데 이 짝퉁완구에는 엄청난 비화가 있다. 사실 마크로스 VF-1J 완구의 원래 제작사는 일본의 타카토쿠사 인데 몇년 뒤 미국에 마크로스 애니를 로보텍으로 개명후 방영을 하였다. 로보텍 애니가 현지에서 엄청나게 인기를 끌어서 완구를 현지에 판매하기 위해 재생산을 하려 했으나 하필이면 완구 제조사인 타카토쿠가 부도가 나서 공중분해된 지 오래라 완구 판매가 불가능하여 이 때문에 마크로스 제작사가 그야말로 초비상이 걸렸다. 그러나 시기가 적절하게도 뽀빠이과학이 짝퉁을 만들어서 판매한다는 사실을 알게 되었고 관계자들이 한국으로 급파되어 현지상황을 확인한 후 표절건에 대해서는 묵인한다는 조건 하에 뽀빠이과학이 이후 직접 정식 라이센스를 얻고 로보텍이라는 이름으로 완구를 수출하게 되었다. 로보텍 이후 생산된 물량 중 내수용은 스페이스 간담V 라는 이름을 사용해도 무방하다는 마크로스 제작사의 답변이 있던 것인지 90년도 초반까지 생산된 물량은 <스페이스 간담V>라는 이름으로 계속 생산이 되었었다. 이후 SBS에서 <출격!로보텍>이 방영되었을 땐 스페이스 간담V라는 이름을 버리고 미국에 수출했던 로보텍이란 이름과 포장으로 그대로 국내에서 판매하게 되었다. For reference, it is the sponsor who made this plagiarism. To Kim Cheong-gi, who had suffered a frustration because his previous work, Little Eosaurus, was not successful, Popeye Science showed a Japanese plastic model, that is, a Valkyrie model, and said that he would pay the production cost to make a robot animation. This fake model made by Popeye Science was incredibly excellent in quality and admired that it was a work at the time, including complete transformation into Fighter, Gawwork, and Battle Lloyd, as well as maintaining a posture without the aid of a stand in any form. There is a low tide that a Japanese Bandai has agreed not to question plagiarism... And Popeye Science proudly put the brand of JOON's on the product it used to be a counterfeit, and even exported it to the subcontractor as a Valkyrie product (...). Those who bought it at the time were ridiculously enough to leave a comment that the quality of this fake plate was better than that made in Japan. However, there is a tremendous secret story about this fake toy. In fact, the original maker of the Macross VF-1J toy was Takatokusa in Japan, and a few years later, Macross Annie was renamed as Robotec and aired. Robotec Annie was incredibly popular locally and tried to reproduce toys to sell them locally, but it was a long time since toy maker Takatoku went bankrupt and decomposed into the air. . However, it was learned that Popeye Sciences made and sold counterfeits in a timely manner, and under the condition that the officials were dispatched to Korea to confirm the local situation and tolerate plagiarism, Popeye Sciences later directly obtained a formal license and acquired a toy under the name of Robotec. Was exported. Among the quantities produced after Robotec, there was a response from the Macross maker that it was okay to use the name Space Gandam V for domestic use, and the quantity produced until the early 1990s was continuously produced under the name <Space Gandam V>. Later, when <Sort!Robotech> was aired on SBS, the name Space Gandam V was discarded, and it was sold in Korea under the name and packaging of Robotec, which was exported to the United States.

Wow-I love seeing these old Hobby Store videos! Thank you for posting that!!

Wow that catalog is awesome, thank you for posting it! I would love to find these kits!! So crazy.