Bariaburu Faita

I remember seeing the 3 shot missile launchers above the shoulders of the gerwalk mode, on a Kawamori drawn poster before. So some of those discrepancies may be based on pre-production drawings.

Sure, but I work late on Friday so it has to be Saturday or Sunday

The established pattern for Macross movies, since DYRL is to be a parallel world story. A chance to do things that were cut due to budget reasons(like multiple quarters in Frontier), and to streamline the story. And, for Bandai to demand a new more powerful Valkyrie to be made so they can have an exclusive license to sell it.

This is a fairly typical reaction, as far as I`ve seen. Several other news and variety shows have done similar man on the street interviews asking people what they thought about Scarlet Johansen playing the part of the Motoko Kusanagi. For young people not overly familiar with the source material, they are mostly positive in those interviews. I work in a factory in Japan, so I have a lot of coworkers in the 30-40 year old range that are mecha and anime fans. I asked around, and the reactions were mostly positive. The one negative, was from an older fan, who followed the original manga. He was upset that it looked too much like the anime, both movie and series. He considers those to be unfaithful to the original manga. But he was fine with Scarlet Johansen playing the part of Motoko Kusanagi.

like most things at Comic Market, it is self published by a fan, if putting some xerox copies in a ziploc bag could be called "publishing" He goes by the circle name Company.

From Comic Market 91 by Kurobousidan circle

Here is an interesting item I found at the recent Comic Market 91. It is an expansion for a fan made table top pen and paper tank battle simulation called "Tankhunter". This expansion adds Mecha from Macross, but also borrows some units from Southern Cross and Megazone 23, but renames some them to fit in the Macross universe. The artwork is also borrowed from various Robotech sources.

just curious, how much was the monster selling for at MWC?

yes, but its from Japan, so shipping will be higher and you will also need a proxy buyer.

here too, this place might be a little more reliable: http://hlj.co.jp/product/hap68000

there are still some places that have cases of 10 in stock, like this place: http://wfwave.com/kit-19119-マクロスメカジオラマ+10個セット(食玩).html you could use a proxy service to buy it. but I have never bought from that store so can`t be sure of their reliability.

Next time you are in Japan, visit Osaka and I will show you around and help you find what you dont have yet.

Its the Macross Mecha Diorama blind box candy toy set made by TOMY a couple years back. 5 piece set consisting of: VF-1S, VF-1J, VF-1A, Quedluun-Rau, and Regult. Each having one piece of the Monster

since its not the Robotech version of the SDF-1, I would assume not.