Heavy Weapon Type -

[nightmareB4macross]

Was the HEWAT series of models just a creation by Arii, or were these intended as an expansion team for SDFM?

Boxes have no notables to DYRL. But there is a VF-1D with Super Parts. Additionally, all the character images from all boxes in the series have SDFM characters. And at no point is there ever any reference to the term STRIKEVALKYRIE.

Apologies if this has been answered before, but I can’t find the answer.

Thought it might have been interesting to see DYRL types in SDFM continuity.

[Big s]

The VF-1D was probably just them milking the mold instead of making a VT-1D

[Seto Kaiba]

4 hours ago, nightmareB4macross said:

Was the HEWAT series of models just a creation by Arii, or were these intended as an expansion team for SDFM?

Boxes have no notables to DYRL. But there is a VF-1D with Super Parts. Additionally, all the character images from all boxes in the series have SDFM characters.

As far as I can tell, the moniker "Heavy Weapon type" is something that Arii came up.

That said, these kits are clearly DYRL?-branded.  You can see the logo next to the "Macross '84 Summer" roundel bears the movie's title 愛・おぼえていますか.  They might be reusing Mikimoto's character art from the TV series but the logos are clearly movie-specific.

Why there's a VF-1D in this assortment is another question entirely... since the VF-1D was entirely omitted from the movie version as it had been replaced by the VT-1.  Probably just Arii milking the molds as much as possible.

 

4 hours ago, nightmareB4macross said:

And at no point is there ever any reference to the term STRIKEVALKYRIE.

Well, yes... that's to be expected.

After all, you won't find the terms "Strike Valkyrie" or "Strike Pack" in the film's contemporary official media.  That was a bit of branding that Takatoku Toys came up with as a way to differentiate the movie's beam cannon-equipped Super Valkyrie variant from the regular Super Valkyrie configuration.  Official publications from the era refer to it as スーパーパック・ビーム砲付き (Super Pack - Beam cannon-equipped).

I want to say it's until the late 90's or early 2000s that the term "Strike Valkyrie" finally gained official traction.

 

 

4 hours ago, nightmareB4macross said:

Thought it might have been interesting to see DYRL types in SDFM continuity.

Well, then I have... *checks calendar*... thirty year old good news for you.

Ever since '95 and This is Animation Special: Macross Plus, the DYRL? designs have been established to exist in the same continuity as the TV series ones.  The TV version VF-1 is how the VF-1 looked in its Block 1 to Block 5 production specification, and the Movie version is how it looked for the remainder of its production run (Blocks 6-17).  Officially, the "movie version" VF-1 was already entering service when things went to hell and Earth got glassed by the Boddole Zer fleet.  

[nightmareB4macross]

@Seto Kaiba thank you for providing all those great details.

Like a bonehead I totally missed the DYRL ‘84 Summer marking.  

Thank you.