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“Macross: Do You Remember Love” & “Macross Frontier Movies 1+2”: Triple bill theatrical screening in July; plus “DYRL” TV Special to air

This has been known for a while but I figured I ought to front-page it sooner rather than later, plus new details keep being added every so often.

To celebrate its much-hyped Blu-ray debut next month, “Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love”, the movie that showed impressionable 80s kids that “you can still fight when you’re drunk” * is back on the BIG SCREEN, yes, in Technicolor and all that jazz, for a limited time only.  To differentiate it from the last Tokyo screening in 2010, this time they are using the newly remixed 5.1 channel soundtrack, so you can experience it in a completely fresh way.

Not only that, but it’s running back-to-back with screenings of the two “Macross Frontier” movies (“Itsuwari no Utahime/The False Songstress” and “Sayonara no Tsubasa/The Wings of Farewell”), to round off a monster triple-bill TRIANGLER of a Macross movie marathon.

So bring your friends, your mega-size popcorn and your deodorant, because we’re in for a dusk-till-dawn test of hardcore sci-fi-robot-action-romance-all-singing-all-dancing-space-opera-schoolgirl-slapping endurance!  “The women must not penetrate!”

Shinjuku Wald 9 (katakana-pronounced as “Baruto 9”, bizzarely) will be hosting this triple screening on three nights, details follow.

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Megaroad Launch Ceremony Announced

While some sort of event has been alluded to in recent months, the first details of the Megaroad launch ceremony were announced via the Macross Fanclub yesterday.

Titled ‘First Long-Distance Immigration Fleet, Megaroad Launch Ceremony 2012‘, the event will be held on September 2nd in two parts.

Currently confirmed guests (with more to be announced) include Megaroad Captain Mika Doi (Misa Hayase), as well as Megumi Nakajima (Ranka Lee) and Aya Endo (Sheryl Nome).

Standard tickets are 4500yen, with special tickets (which come with some sort of as of yet unannounced merchandise) costing 5800 yen. The event is limited to Macross fanclub members only, although even then ticket sales will be decided by a draw, meaning they will be more difficult to get that a bandai valk preorder.

Discuss here.

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Firebomber Concert in November, Tokyo and Osaka (UPDATED)

Wow… Fans in Japan should be happy about this!

To celebrate the 30th anniversery of Macross, the Fire Bomber band from Macross
Seven will be having a concert on November 23rd in Tokyo followed by a
show on the 24th in Osaka. The last Fire Bomber reunion concert was in 2009 and the one prior to that was 2007.

Both Chie Kajiura(Mylene) and Yoshiki Fukuyama (Basara)  have been
confirmed of the show.

General public ticket sales start on September 1st.

Source: http://www.ota-suke.jp/news/72458

Yoshiki Fukuyama has also announced via his website and the Official Macfross Fan Club that he will be doing a tribute tour:  ‘Yoshiki Fukuyama Sings FIRE BOMBER ~ A Tribute to Nekki Basara~.’

The tour will kick off on September 1st and include 8 shows over the course of four weeks at different cities throughout Japan. The last solo Tribute concert that Fukuyama did was in 2005, although he has been known to spring the odd impromtu Macross gig on fans, as he did during Christmas in 2010.

 

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New Banpresto Macross F Figures

Scooped a few days back by forum user CF18, and later followed up on with further pics by Reivaj and nanoplasm, Banpresto has revealed the latest additions to their Macross figure lineup. These are ‘prize figures’ for UFO catchers (commonly found in most game centers in Japan).

The first of these are a new 3-figure set in the ‘Chibi Kyun Chara’ lineup – ‘ Macross 30th Anniversary Songstress Collection.’

Next up are nurse versions of Sheryl and Ranka.

Finally, in a crossover that no-one imagined, a Sheryl in Basara-cosplay figure! Here’s hoping that this is only the first of several such figures because its looking great!

Being Prize Figures, these technically cannot be sold, but most good online figure stores tend to get a carton or two so they shouldn’t be too hard to get for anyone who is interested.

More pics can be found in the original thread in the forums.

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30th Anniversary Events in Nagoya

Much like in Tokyo, both the 1:1 VF-25 Valkyrie and Macross art exhibition will be held in Nagoya.

The VF-25 goes on display from tomorrow (June 1st) and artist extraordinaire  Hidetaka Tenjin is again overseeing the iconic valkyrie’s construction and detailing.

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Yamato 1/60 VF-4G Partial Battroid Configuration

Thanks to Sketchley for posting this pic.

 

Judging from this scan, I should ask for the day off ahead of time if I want to transform this baby.

Discuss here.

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SDF Macross — Blu-Ray Box is out NOW!

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Hello, what’s this?  Oh, it looks like Macrossworld scoopmeister Tochiro has taken some photos of his beautiful carpet.  Lovely… but wait!  There’s some STUFF on it, innit guvna’!  Could it be the uber-deluxe limited edition 30th Anniversary Blu-Ray Box Set of “Super Dimension Fortress Macross” complete with booklets, storyboards, postcards and the kitchen sink??  Perhaps!  Let’s see what he has to say…
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Bandai Visual: “LEND US YOUR TREASURE!”

OK, now THIS is insane.

http://b.bngi-channel.jp/macross/

As we know, Bandai Visual are including a bucketload of reproduction posters with the Macross: Do You Remember Love Blu-ray Limited Edition box, amongst a ton of other stuff. However, there are some ultra-rare things that they are still trying to hunt down — AND THEY’VE CALLED UPON THE FANS FOR HELP.

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More Miscellaneous 30th Anniversary Promotions/Campaigns…

Happy Macross to you, boys and girls!

Yes, it would seem that the celebrations are in full force for the 30th Anniversary of everyone’s favourite Fortress Exceeding Time and Space.

We have all heard about the two exhibitions currently being held in Tokyo — “Macross The Design” in Shibuya and “Super Dimensional Exhibition” featuring the 1/1 scale Messiah Valkyrie.  But there are other things happening, too.  Here’s a round-up of some of the local events coming to Tokyo.

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New Stock Photos of Tamashii Web Shop Exclusive Renewal VF-25 Armor Packs

Bandai’s Tamashii Web Shop has put up new images of the upcoming exclusive Alto and Ozma Renewal Version VF-25 armor packs.