What will Hasegawa do next?

[LocusPocus]

Dear Hasegawa,

next year for Christmas I want an SV-51 battroid. DD or Nora don’t care, VF-0’s just standing around waiting for the party. Promise to be good

[KOG Water Dragon]

I asked to get notified when a Death Stranding kit was back in stock. I've been getting an email to let me know the item has come back in stock every day for like a month now.

[Papa Rat]

2 hours ago, KOG Water Dragon said:

I asked to get notified when a Death Stranding kit was back in stock. I've been getting an email to let me know the item has come back in stock every day for like a month now.

Hahaha. They need some IT help

[Big s]

4 hours ago, KOG Water Dragon said:

I asked to get notified when a Death Stranding kit was back in stock. I've been getting an email to let me know the item has come back in stock every day for like a month now.

At least they’ve been letting you know , and knowing is half the battle 

Edited January 12 by Big s

[kajnrig]

Hasegawa made a Death Stranding kit? I heard of the trike, but I thought that was Koto or Moderoid...?

[Big s]

2 hours ago, kajnrig said:

Hasegawa made a Death Stranding kit? I heard of the trike, but I thought that was Koto or Moderoid...?

I’m pretty sure it’s the Kotobukiya kit. I think it was more of a continuation of the HLJ complaint subsection of this thread

[KOG Water Dragon]

4 hours ago, Big s said:

I’m pretty sure it’s the Kotobukiya kit. I think it was more of a continuation of the HLJ complaint subsection of this thread

This.

[kajnrig]

On 1/12/2026 at 3:51 PM, Big s said:

I’m pretty sure it’s the Kotobukiya kit. I think it was more of a continuation of the HLJ complaint subsection of this thread

On 1/12/2026 at 8:23 PM, KOG Water Dragon said:

This.

Ah yes. In hindsight the context clues are obvious. "Hasegawa Death Stranding kit," oof.

[Big s]

1 hour ago, kajnrig said:

Ah yes. In hindsight the context clues are obvious. "Hasegawa Death Stranding kit," oof.

Yeah, at this point the thread should be renamed from What Will Hasegawa do Next to What Did HLJ do Now

[KOG Water Dragon]

On 1/11/2026 at 7:49 AM, LocusPocus said:

…just rechecked my moderoid mospeada preorders, as suspected they have again mysteriously disappeared…done w HLJ

That's weird. Mine are still in place.

[LocusPocus]

…yes, it tis’ have been ordering kits for years and no issues whatsoever until late summer 2025. No biggie there are other vendors it’s just inexplicable is all.

[GMK]

[Big s]

1 hour ago, GMK said:

Can’t wait to get it in hand.

[Bolt]

2 hours ago, GMK said:

Very nice! I'd like to see the box size comparison to the Queadluun-Rau . Actually, my wallet is wondering..

[Big s]

23 minutes ago, Bolt said:

Very nice! I'd like to see the box size comparison to the Queadluun-Rau . Actually, my wallet is wondering..

I’m pretty sure it will be fairly large. The kit might not be as bulky, but maybe more parts due to weapons and extra hands.

[GMK]

Not sure if this is a new or a re-release?  VF-1 weapons set in 1:48 scale.

 

Edited Sunday at 11:00 PM by GMK

[Big s]

5 minutes ago, GMK said:

Not sure if this is a new or a re-release?  VF-1 weapons set in 1:48 scale.

 

Yeah, I think it’s a rerelease, but I may be getting confused with the 1/72

[kajnrig]

Rerelease. This came out long after the 1/72 weapon set did; a quick way to tell the difference, since they are so similar, is that the micro-missiles for the missile box come as individual missiles on the 1/48 (pictured) and a single piece on the 1/72.

 

IIRC the 1/48 also excludes the pilots since they are included with the base 1/48 fighter kit.

[Chronocidal]

Still the most reliable source of DX VF-1 weapons.  

[SteveTheFish]

I was at Wonder Festival and saw the N-Ger in-person. I still haven't gone through the photos yet, but last night I uploaded a video. 

 

[Chas]

1 hour ago, SteveTheFish said:

I was at Wonder Festival and saw the N-Ger in-person. I still haven't gone through the photos yet, but last night I uploaded a video. 

 

Awesome video Greg!

Thanks so much for taking the time to do this, (so I can enjoy seeing all these great kits that I'll likely never be able to own/build🤣)

Seriously though I do love being able to live vicariously through your camera!

[SteveTheFish]

2 hours ago, Chas said:

Awesome video Greg!

Thanks so much for taking the time to do this, (so I can enjoy seeing all these great kits that I'll likely never be able to own/build🤣)

Seriously though I do love being able to live vicariously through your camera!

You're welcome! Of course, this was just my bias, focusing on older anime and video game items. I saw some GKs where people were crowding around, taking photos. I couldn't recognize the characters, so I just passed by. Then after hours of walking around, I met up with friends and their friends. They showed me the stuff they bought and it was all sorts of cool stuff I'd passed over without noticing. There was an animation mistake in one episode of Macross where an animator really messed up with Kakizaki's VF-1A head, adding additional cannons on the sides of the head. my friend Adrian found a resin head of that mistake, which can be added to a Hasegawa (or maybe a Plamax) Valkyrie kit. 

Oh yes, and someone had 3D printed a pilot figure for the Hasegawa Glaug kit, but I was too late and it was sold out by the time I found it. Drat! Although for a 3D printed figure, I think the seller was asking for too much. I'd like to see someone design one for Cults3D or Thingyverse to go with the Hasegawa kit. 

I took pictures of the event too. I'll make a gallery and put it on my website. Hopefully later this week. There is ONE Windows program I miss in Linux, and it is Photoscape. I really wish there was a Linux version of this program. It can run photos through batches. It can auto enhance, auto contrast, resize, and rename photos in batch processes. Very easy to use. I still have yet to find a program like that for Linux.

Edited 6 hours ago by SteveTheFish

[Big s]

1 hour ago, SteveTheFish said:

There was an animation mistake in one episode of Macross where an animator really messed up with Kakizaki's VF-1A head

I remember that in a still shot . That’s pretty hilarious and a cool add on part

[tekering]

6 hours ago, SteveTheFish said:

Adrian found a resin head of that mistake, which can be added to a Hasegawa (or maybe a Plamax) Valkyrie kit. 

Some Robotech fans call it the VF-1P. 🤪