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21 minutes ago, MikeRoz said:

You could have tagged me, I already took a better picture of that shelf last night - not sure if it has all the detail you need though.

Still can’t tell. But it looks like the 1st BD release. 

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13 minutes ago, azrael said:

Still can’t tell. But it looks like the 1st BD release. 

Pretty sure that's the box for it behind the VF-0.

Also, here's the Macross II kickstarter news from Otakon.

https://www.fandompost.com/2023/07/29/animeigos-macross-ii-anime-blu-ray-kickstarter-sets-2024-release/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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5 hours ago, MikeRoz said:

Looks like it's the Japanese release of Mac0

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Nice shot!

It is the Zero's japanese BD-box, indeed.

Seems other Otakon pictures I'd seen here and at TFW, also showed japanse BDs of M7 and Plus (just standalone movie-edition, tho).

It gets kinda weird to just be displaying these BD media as props-only.  They should be playing at least some previews to market these stuff to people there unfamiliar with the shows.

Maybe next time, they'll invite Arcadia to show off their 1/60 lineups of Plus, 7, and Zero toys...

 

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13 minutes ago, treatment said:

Nice shot!

It is the Zero's japanese BD-box, indeed.

Seems other Otakon pictures I'd seen here and at TFW, also showed japanse BDs of M7 and Plus (just standalone movie-edition, tho).

It gets kinda weird to just be displaying these BD media as props-only.  They should be playing at least some previews to market these stuff to people there unfamiliar with the shows.

Maybe next time, they'll invite Arcadia to show off their 1/60 lineups of Plus, 7, and Zero toys...

 

or heck, maybe entice them to start to sell some of those toys again, do another production run?  I would not mind another crack at any of the Macross Zero line of Valkyries and re-release the SV-51 to e-tailers outside of Japan.  BBTS had Nora's SV-51y for over $400 USD.....way too much money.

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34 minutes ago, treatment said:

Kawamori tweets...

Inspiration for the Ghost in the SDF-TV (QF-3000E Ghost ?) :

https://twitter.com/kawamoriexpo/status/1689969407236390912

https://twitter.com/kawamoriexpo/status/1689789393886916608

FYI
He went to the National Museum of the US Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

He's just talking about the X-24 in the 1st tweet (or whatever it's called now).

2nd tweet is, obviously, about the X-29.

If anyone was looking for Macross news-type stuff from the tweets, there's nothing. Just Kawamori being a tourist. 😝

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4 hours ago, treatment said:

Inspiration for the Ghost in the SDF-TV (QF-3000E Ghost ?) :

Yup... the Martin Marietta X-24A, which was created specifically to test the kind of lifting body design that Kawamori would use for the QF-3000E Ghost.

The Martin Marietta X-24B also pictured there (the wedge shaped one) is the inspiration for the Advanced Valkyrie design called the VF-X-7 Ghost Valkyrie.  (See pg052 in Kawamori's Macross Design Works book.)  The X-24B was also kind of a proof of concept for the lifting body design later used by Rockwell International for the US's Space Shuttle Orbiter.

 

4 hours ago, treatment said:

Inspiration for the YF-19:

Yup, there's a section about the YF-29 being inspired by the Grumman X-29 in This is Animation: the Select: Macross Plus Movie Edition.

The X-29 was a proof-of-concept for forward swept wing and canard configurations.

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Not sure if this the right thread, but has this been posted yet?

https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/latest/2023/10/8/seiko-celebrates-40-years-of-macross-with-skull-leader-inspired-watch

Yen 44k.. for what some are saying for a rather basic Seiko watch. At least the face is at least not as bland as the 35th Anniversary version.. Just the right amount of subtlety imho.


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