What will Hasegawa do next?

[Bolt]

1 hour ago, SteveTheFish said:

Frank Miller refuses to allow his works being licensed.

You had me going there...

 

[SteveTheFish]

31 minutes ago, Bolt said:

You had me going there...

 

Crap. I meant to say George Miller, not Frank Miller. I always get those two mixed up. 😄

[Big s]

52 minutes ago, SteveTheFish said:

Crap. I meant to say George Miller, not Frank Miller. I always get those two mixed up. 😄

I knew which miller you were talking about, I tend to confuse names as well

[Graham]

On 9/22/2025 at 5:43 PM, Big s said:

Yeah, those look great. Looks like you don’t need to do much at all to give it the basic appearance from the show 

 

On 9/22/2025 at 5:25 PM, GMK said:

Hasegawa has released pics of the unpainted, assembled kit. 

This looks awesome, even unpainted. I have zero painting skills so I might actually pick this up as it looks so good.

[Graham]

On 9/30/2025 at 10:54 AM, SteveTheFish said:

At Aoshima, we were hoping to do an all-new tooling for the Mad Max Interceptor, and if we could've gotten the license then I'm sure it would've been retooled to make both the black Interceptor and regular yellow/blue pursuit cars, plus the modified version from the 2nd movie. Who knows? Maybe even a stand-alone Ford Falcon model car. Alas, I was given a definite "NO" from the movie studio. Frank Miller refuses to allow his works being licensed. He probably saw too many Jar Jar Binks pajamas and the whole nightmare of Star Wars licensing and refused to go down that route. 

Big Mad Max fan here. 

 

[Graham]

Now, back to our regular Hasegawa content. 😅

[SteveTheFish]

I'm planning to attend the All-Japan Model Hobby Show on the 17th. I'll take pictures and video of the event and share pics here of the new stuff. I hope to get closeup pictures of their VT-01 figures of Hikaru, Minmay, and Misa. 

[Bolt]

20 minutes ago, SteveTheFish said:

I'm planning to attend the All-Japan Model Hobby Show on the 17th. I'll take pictures and video of the event and share pics here of the new stuff. I hope to get closeup pictures of their VT-01 figures of Hikaru, Minmay, and Misa. 

Awesome news! Looking forward to seeing your  picks 

[Chas]

That's terrific Greg! Thanks for letting us know. Now I won't have to searching in hopes of finding pics of those figures!

[Papa Rat]

1 hour ago, SteveTheFish said:

I'm planning to attend the All-Japan Model Hobby Show on the 17th. I'll take pictures and video of the event and share pics here of the new stuff. I hope to get closeup pictures of their VT-01 figures of Hikaru, Minmay, and Misa. 

Exciting stuff. Have fun. 

[SteveTheFish]

Thanks. I wasn't able to go last year, but I went the year before and I hung out and had pizza with a guy I know who is responsible for brokering the deal between Big West and the villainous Harmony Gold after catching HG lying in a court trial. (They were using Valkyrie designs from DYRL and claiming that they were from TOS and since the info on the case was available online, he caught their subterfuge!) He now works for Big West and we're now finally getting Macross internationally. I swear, if HG spent more effort on making anime fans happy than going after people with their stupid lawsuits, maybe we'd begin to respect them.

[Thom]

10 hours ago, SteveTheFish said:

...I swear, if HG spent more effort on making anime fans happy than going after people with their stupid lawsuits, maybe we'd begin to respect them.

If they had spent money on actual writers instead of lawyers...

[GMK]

VT-1D Gerwalk

 

[electric indigo]

More TV Rau:

 

[Papa Rat]

46 minutes ago, electric indigo said:

More TV Rau:

 

Love to see it!

[VF-1A Grunt]

I see the head sprue has both the Milia face and the blank visor. We should see a regular female Rau in the near future.

[SteveTheFish]

So I went to the All-Japan show yesterday and had a great time with Adrian from Big West and Egan from Anime News Network. We went out for Mexican food afterwards and talked for a couple of hours until I had to get back to Shinjuku and take the long, 3 hour journey back home (I was too cheap to take the shinkansen).

Rest assured, the new Q-Rau has a TOS Millia figure!

So I asked the Hasegawa rep why we didn't get a Kamjin with the Glaug kit. He basically said that the scale is off, and it would not have looked right. I think they are given the dimensions and they make their model accordingly. This kinda reminds me of the dilemma with the Snowspeeders from Empire Strikes Back. I wonder if the actors were sitting Indian-style in the life-size props because there is just NO leg room afforded. 

This 1:12 resin figure of Minmay looks like the version of her from the Macross The First manga. That's the dress she has in the first volume, with her China dress opened in front to show cleavage. I'm sure I'll get this kit when it comes out.

Valkyries look so cool with just the legs extended. I love that look.

The figures of Hikaru, Minmay, and Misa are gonna be plastic. I was expecting resin.

[Papa Rat]

9 minutes ago, SteveTheFish said:

So I went to the All-Japan show yesterday and had a great time with Adrian from Big West and Egan from Anime News Network. We went out for Mexican food afterwards and talked for a couple of hours until I had to get back to Shinjuku and take the long, 3 hour journey back home (I was too cheap to take the shinkansen).

Rest assured, the new Q-Rau has a TOS Millia figure!

So I asked the Hasegawa rep why we didn't get a Kamjin with the Glaug kit. He basically said that the scale is off, and it would not have looked right. I think they are given the dimensions and they make their model accordingly. This kinda reminds me of the dilemma with the Snowspeeders from Empire Strikes Back. I wonder if the actors were sitting Indian-style in the life-size props because there is just NO leg room afforded. 

This 1:12 resin figure of Minmay looks like the version of her from the Macross The First manga. That's the dress she has in the first volume, with her China dress opened in front to show cleavage. I'm sure I'll get this kit when it comes out.

Valkyries look so cool with just the legs extended. I love that look.

The figures of Hikaru, Minmay, and Misa are gonna be plastic. I was expecting resin.

Thanks for sharing! 👍

[Chas]

Thanks for the pics Greg!

Plastic figures with the VT-1 is fine with me. In fact I prefer it that way. 😁

[SteveTheFish]

I'm compiling a video of the footage I took at the event. Bandai only allows photos but NO videos, and now Kotobukiya has that same policy. Volks didn't want videos either, even though their booth was just a table. I really don't get it. Plus the event has become such a social event for me that I'm constantly running into people I know and talking for quite a while. There's a lot of photos and video I wanted to take, but didn't have a chance.

[Chas]

Well  whatever pics and footage you got, I will greatly appreciate all of it.

[Big s]

1 hour ago, SteveTheFish said:

So I went to the All-Japan show yesterday and had a great time with Adrian from Big West and Egan from Anime News Network. We went out for Mexican food afterwards and talked for a couple of hours until I had to get back to Shinjuku and take the long, 3 hour journey back home (I was too cheap to take the shinkansen).

Rest assured, the new Q-Rau has a TOS Millia figure!

So I asked the Hasegawa rep why we didn't get a Kamjin with the Glaug kit. He basically said that the scale is off, and it would not have looked right. I think they are given the dimensions and they make their model accordingly. This kinda reminds me of the dilemma with the Snowspeeders from Empire Strikes Back. I wonder if the actors were sitting Indian-style in the life-size props because there is just NO leg room afforded. 

This 1:12 resin figure of Minmay looks like the version of her from the Macross The First manga. That's the dress she has in the first volume, with her China dress opened in front to show cleavage. I'm sure I'll get this kit when it comes out.

Valkyries look so cool with just the legs extended. I love that look.

The figures of Hikaru, Minmay, and Misa are gonna be plastic. I was expecting resin.

Thanks for the info. I wish I could’ve suggested asking if they’d do other Macross characters in resin like the Mirya or Minmay

[GMK]

Some pics from All-Japan  

 

 

Edited Saturday at 08:56 PM by GMK

[Papa Rat]

29 minutes ago, GMK said:

Some pics from All-Japan  

 

 

I’m Ready! She’s beautiful. ♥️

[Bolt]

20 hours ago, SteveTheFish said:

So I went to the All-Japan show yesterday and had a great time with Adrian from Big West and Egan from Anime News Network. We went out for Mexican food afterwards and talked for a couple of hours until I had to get back to Shinjuku and take the long, 3 hour journey back home (I was too cheap to take the shinkansen).

Rest assured, the new Q-Rau has a TOS Millia figure!

So I asked the Hasegawa rep why we didn't get a Kamjin with the Glaug kit. He basically said that the scale is off, and it would not have looked right. I think they are given the dimensions and they make their model accordingly. This kinda reminds me of the dilemma with the Snowspeeders from Empire Strikes Back. I wonder if the actors were sitting Indian-style in the life-size props because there is just NO leg room afforded. 

This 1:12 resin figure of Minmay looks like the version of her from the Macross The First manga. That's the dress she has in the first volume, with her China dress opened in front to show cleavage. I'm sure I'll get this kit when it comes out.

Valkyries look so cool with just the legs extended. I love that look.

The figures of Hikaru, Minmay, and Misa are gonna be plastic. I was expecting resin.

Thanks !

So why no more Macross speaker podcast??

[Big s]

49 minutes ago, GMK said:

Some pics from All-Japan  

 

 

This is probably the kit I’m most excited for this year or maybe even this decade and possibly this millennium so far. Can’t wait to get it in hand, and really curious about the Mercy Rabbit box art.

Hopefully shipping will be a little cheaper by release time🤞

[wm cheng]

On 10/14/2025 at 2:02 AM, GMK said:

VT-1D Gerwalk

 

Great!  After waiting 20yrs I finally start building my old VT-1 with the help of Arbit's 3D sculpted Minmay in the back thinking that they would never do this after so long!  Nice, I would have thought they would include the tent or the 4 thrusters under the forward fuselage for this release.  They would have gotten my wallet if I didn't just build this last year - argh.

[Big s]

33 minutes ago, wm cheng said:

Great!  After waiting 20yrs I finally start building my old VT-1 with the help of Arbit's 3D sculpted Minmay in the back thinking that they would never do this after so long!  Nice, I would have thought they would include the tent or the 4 thrusters under the forward fuselage for this release.  They would have gotten my wallet if I didn't just build this last year - argh.

That’s the way it always goes. I had a resin 3D printed cannon set for a Geara Doga heavy weapons set come in and a week later Bandais is showing off that there is an upcoming Geara Doga heavy weapons set type at the recent hobby show. I was just thinking about how much work it would be to smooth out the resin one, but I already bout it and probably will just stick with that 

[SteveTheFish]

Here's my video of the event. Attending the hobby show is increasingly becoming a social event for me, and as such I spent more time standing around talking and less time documenting the event. Plus I was having many problems with my lousy video camera.

https://odysee.com/@stevethefishdotnet:2/2025-All-Japan-Model-Hobby-Show-全日本模型ホビーショー:e

 

Edited yesterday at 12:10 PM by SteveTheFish

[Papa Rat]

2 hours ago, SteveTheFish said:

Here's my video of the event. Attending the hobby show is increasingly becoming a social event for me, and as such I spent more time standing around talking and less time documenting the event. Plus I was having many problems with my lousy video camera.

https://odysee.com/@stevethefishdotnet:2/2025-All-Japan-Model-Hobby-Show-全日本模型ホビーショー:e

 

Thanks for the tour!

[Thom]

3 hours ago, SteveTheFish said:

Here's my video of the event. Attending the hobby show is increasingly becoming a social event for me, and as such I spent more time standing around talking and less time documenting the event. Plus I was having many problems with my lousy video camera.

https://odysee.com/@stevethefishdotnet:2/2025-All-Japan-Model-Hobby-Show-全日本模型ホビーショー:e

 

Thanks for that! Always love seeing what kits they have coming out. Shame about the others not letting any videos be taken in their booths. You'd think they'd want free publicity!

[Big s]

1 hour ago, Thom said:

Thanks for that! Always love seeing what kits they have coming out. Shame about the others not letting any videos be taken in their booths. You'd think they'd want free publicity!

Oddly a lot of hobby and toy shows end up with a few booths that don’t allow pics or videos. It even happens with games as well. Sometimes it’s due to licensing and other times it’s due to incomplete items and other times it’s something that just can’t be explained by reasons unknown 

[Shawn]

So is that the package art in the background?
Mercy Rabbit is back for this one?

[SteveTheFish]

7 hours ago, Shawn said:

So is that the package art in the background?
Mercy Rabbit is back for this one?

Apparently the previous artist (whom I like a lot better) has been replaced by Mercy Rabbit, who has an unbridled passion for the color purple, inexplicably. I do not know what's up with that, nor have I ever heard of Mercy Rabbit before seeing this artwork at the trade show. "Hey, this Valkyrie is orange and beige, but somehow I'm gonna make it look purple and if you don't like it then you're a kaka-poopoo head so shut up." Yeah, I like the other artist better.

9 hours ago, Thom said:

Thanks for that! Always love seeing what kits they have coming out. Shame about the others not letting any videos be taken in their booths. You'd think they'd want free publicity!

YW. Bandai allowed photos, but not videos. A Kotobukiya rep requested that I not video either, at least not where their FAG stuff was. I guess their girl kits are such a hot item that they don't want people lingering around in their booth making videos. However, Kino Kousaka was allowed to do so. Then again, they make models based on 3D scans of her and she's a celebrity in the Japanese modeling community. I didn't see her at the show and she was probably finished recording before I even arrived. Her channel has plenty of good coverage of the event, if you don't mind her using the word "kawaii" to describe pretty much EVERYTHING. Don't get me wrong; I like her and her videos, but it gets annoying how Japanese women over-use the word "cute" to describe everything. I'm glad my wife is not like that, but my daughter falls into that trap a little. 

It seems like everyone is getting into the FAG phenomenon these days. (Hey, that's Kotobukiya's acronym, not mine!) Of course it started with their Frame Arms Girls, then their Megami Device series, Bandai has their 30 Minutes Sisters (their Gun Gal didn't seem to be successful), Aoshima has the VFG series or whatever it's called, Doyusha is importing some Chinese competition for such kits, and now even Hasegawa is joining that scene. There are modeling magazines dedicated to such kits now. 

On the days open to the general public, Bandai's booth gets swamped with people and that must be why they had such a huge, relatively empty tradeshow booth. They just want people to take pictures and move on, instead of recording themselves talking about the kits.

To bring this back on topic though, I'm just glad that Hasegawa are not strict about media.