Bariaburu Faita

Considering that for the longest time M2 had zero product support, its a great improvement.

That's minor for any Macross title

Yes they are event exclusive. Whatever the next event is, they will likely be for sale there.

drool. i collect these. have about 10 of them from various animes.

are they event exclusives? can't seem to find them on the usual websites.

i want the SMS and Skull Squadron so bad.

Open this spoiler and you'll ruin the ending....quite possibly the only thing not given away by all the trailers....

One and only warning......

"Death" of Superman.....uh-huh.....was that even necessary? Is there anyone thinking he won't "resurrect"?

They are empty. They are just collapsible packing crates with Macross themed markings.

Thanks for the shots. Forum software for whatever stupid reason rotates phone pictures. What are in those packing crates?

Here are the pics for the merch section. I decided against posting them originally because I felt it was not part of the main display, and was too low quality to see the individual items well. It was a mix of event exclusive items from the last year or so, like the recent Snow Festival. Not sure why, but the pictures rotated 90 degrees when I uploaded.

about half a dozen Ishtar figures, 2 transforming VF2SS toys, art cards, buttons, clear files, etc,...

what merchandise support for MII?

I agree, they are too primitive at this point. But the seed has been planted, in 30 more years, they can advance to be exactly as shown in M2. Given the recent merchandise support for M2 I believe they are setting up the possibility for a rebooted M2 a couple decades down the line.

The Sv-262's Lilldraken drones? I can't say I agree... they're physically connected to the airframe of the Draken "mothership", and used like a Ghost Booster until ejected. That'd put them more in the same category as the VF-0's Raid configuration from the final episode of Macross Zero or (most closely) the VF-27γSP Super Lucifer from the Macross Frontier movies. The VF-27γSP had the ability to detach its QF-5100D Goblin II booster for independent operation in the same manner.

The VF-2SS Super Valkyrie II's bits are never connected to the airframe... they're launched separately, and aren't capable of being operated autonomously. By in large, they're bits in the Gundam sense except they're computer-controlled instead of controlled by psycommu (so sort of like the GN Fangs in Gundam 00). The VF-4ST Super Siren's funnels in the Macross II prequel video game (for PC Engine) Macross: Eternal Love Song did start out docked to the fighter, but they weren't autonomous either.

Now that is a positive and worthy project. Instead of trying to replicate it, do something slightly different. MW has a large toy and modeling community, so a Macross TOY and MODEL museum would be most impressive. JVMacross has every Takatoku Macross toy, and that in my mind is more impressive than a complete set of Yamato valks. How about people temporarily donate their collections to display next MW Con for display?

Come on gang, I bet if we pooled our resources with something like kickstarter or even patreon, we could do something like that here! Sure maybe we wouldn't have 90% of the rare stuff from the actual museum, but we could make an event out of it...Maybe something like MacrossWorld con! It would be like a Macross museum but without all the hardcore stuff the actual museum has.

The Squire drones on the Drakken stood out the most in my mind.

Well, I feel a little better about not being able to make out all of it...

Yes, I have... several times, in fact.

Other than the apparent hint at an enemy songstress, I didn't really see anything that could be characterized as a distinct nod to Macross II... at least, not in the way Macross 7 Trash, Macross the First, and a handful of other official and fanmade titles have. Did you have something particular in mind?

Most people have the original Protoculture plate and handwritten song translation? The original photo album shown on the original SDFM TV anime? Full cosplay costumes for Minmay, Sheryl and Ranka? Original production art from unreleased products? Glovals Pipe? Large prints of Tenjin art? Event limited items from the last couple years of Japan exclusive Macross events?

I am sorry but I have to respectfully disagree that most people on this forum could make this Museum exhibit. In fact, I would say that no one on the forums owns all the items shown here, so zero people could make this same exhibit.

With the exception of that 1:1 scale VF-1 cockpit most of us have all the stuff they've got on display. Rent an art gallery for a night and you can make your own Macross museum.

And it looks like its from Macross E manga.

In the Delta section, the last photo on the bottom right, with that black and white pic of what looks to be an unknown guy in a Delta Squad jacket and a unknown girl in what looks like the suit Reina was wearing when she jumped out of Chuck's 31 before she "transformed". Could it be they were the original crew of Delta 05 before they went the way of Gilliam and its later handed to Hayate and Freya?

Or it could just be concept art.

Uh... Have you seen the Delta preview episode yet?

Yes, like Sketchley said its unfortunately already done. Where are you at now? Will you be in Osaka area anytime soon?

Bariaburu Faita, where was this at? I'm in Japan now, and want to check it out before I leave. Please let me know! Thank you.

I agree, I expect a generous bounty at the next Comiket.

I can see doujinshi having a field day with all the possibilities. And I must say Reina looks cuter without her earphones. I'll go with the Reina x Makina x Regult since those 2 seem to always be touching each other to make the "W". That scan would make a nice poster if it was cleaned of all the text and extras.

I directly spoke to Producer Kawamori and asked him a question about Macross II being on the official timeline at the first Macross Museum Talkshow. His reply was that "they are all parallel worlds".

Now since he didn`t explain exactly what that means, here is my opinion on what that means.

Each Macross show, story, event, etc,... exists in its own pocket universe. Each show has its own timeline where there are past and future events that fit with what happened in that specific show.

The setting for the Macross Museum indicated it was set in 2060 and made the events of DYRL sound like they actually happened. But from what was shown in Macross 7, it was supposed to be an in universe fictional movie.

Thus there are 2 separate universes where DYRL is either real, or fiction. Plus very likely many many more.

Also, the 2 Macross Museums exist in separate timelines, in the first one, somehow the museum curator was able to find out about events 30 years in the future, while the one for the second one did not.

These are the in universe explanations, the real world reasons could be as simple as some staff members not knowing a detail about a past show and making a contradiction. And "They are all parallel worlds" is just a catch all excuse for the contradiction.

Not quite.

The broad strokes of the universe and the technical aspects are the official continuity, but the media productions are considered to be "based" on historical events and dramatized.

Considering Producer Kawamori`s official stance is nothing is cannon, and everything is cannon. Yeah, its not very strict.

I thought nowadays the franchise is not as strict about what's canon anymore as it was decades ago.

Also further confusing the issue, is that each Macross show takes place in a different universe from the others. Each has different rules, in some Zolans can mate with Humans, and in others they cant.

Just the costumes

I chose "to be in" the VF-1S DYRL Hikaru back when Macross the Museum was in Tokyo last year. The new things that were not in the previous would be the Delta stuff. Were the Minmay, Sheryl and Ranka manequins there at Nagoya?

Are you in Osaka now? I can help

Help! I want to buy the Blu ray from Tsutaya. I already went to two Tsutayas over at Osaka not one has them (one is rental shop only).

I'll be in Tokyo this weekend. Which Tsutayas in Tokyo are best to look for this Blu ray? Thanks!

From an anonymous but knowledgeable source, whose name starts with T and ends with O:

Is art from an upcoming delta manga.

That is another very rare doujin, published in august 2004. so very difficult to find now.

which means about 30 seconds on google to find

http://page7.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g131541461

Looking macross doujin, something like this one

This section was very difficult to photograph without people in the way. Very popular for some reason.

This is the entrance to the museum, where it introduces the setting, taking place in 2060 showing artifacts from the DYRL era. This area had the only no photograph sign, on the protoculture artifact with the lyrics to Ai Oboeteimasu and the english translation.

And here is the main attraction, where you can either have someone take a picture of you in the 1/1 VF-1 cockpit, or pay 1,500 yen for a professional photograph taken, photoshoped to whichever model you want.