Macross World
Oh yeah. In my excitement over the Orguss Blu-Ray announcement, I didn’t notice this little thing hidden inside the Macross Plus boxset.
I’ll just put this here and let you guys in the Toy Forum discuss and speculate for about a year or so. 😛
http://youtu.be/r0h1jw4Skvk
No details yet, none that I can translate anyway. We’ll update this as soon as we have something solid, but member IXTL found this in the ToysDaily forums.
EDIT: It’s a fake! A Joke from a Toysdaily member. https://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=39316&p=1049731
GO RTHK!
More images after the jump!
Thanks to Cdisdope for this scoop. Ripped from the pages of Hyper Hobby magazine is an illustration of Arcadia’s first official venture into Macross toys territory.
Good Smile Company & Max Factory’s 1/7 Sheryl Nome figure went on pre-order today, meaning that a price for the highly detailed rendering of the infamous Black Bunny/White Bunny scene from ‘Macross Frontier: The False Diva’ has also been announced.
The figure will retail for 19800yen and is currently scheduled for an October 2013 release. And you know a figure has gotta be good when it gets its own commercial!
Wallet hurting? Commiserate with the rest of us in the FORUMS!
Late last year MW member DarrinG contacted me and asked if I had any more of my 1:60 scale Super Happy Figures and specifically asked for the TV series characters. I thought I was out of them but rummaging through my extra resin box it turned out that I had almost a full set that were just sitting there waiting to be part of someone’s collection. I responded to his PM and told him that I had a few left and his response was pretty much “I’ll take them all as long as they’re TV version.” It made me wonder what the hell was brewing over there and why did it sound so urgent. It turned out that he commissioned a hangar and he was looking to fill it with Macross toys, vehicles and figures. It sounded like a really cool project and naturally, I was interested to see this project in its finished form. Last week, he contacted me to tell me it was done and sent me some pictures. I asked him if I can put it up on our front page. I also sent him a list of questions regarding the project…
As previously reported HERE, Yamato, the company that brought fans the greatest Macross toys ever is undergoing some changes and forthcoming Macross-licensed items will now be sold under the Arcadia brand.
The evolution of Yamato’s Macross products have always been somewhat synchronous with the growth of Macrossworld as a fansite, seeing as they both began at around the same time, making this transition all the more poignant.
This sign of the changing times gives us an opportunity to look backand reminisce all the elation and/or frustration that Yamato’s products have given us over their 13-year journey exceeding time and space.
Thus MW member VF5SS and I (Renato from the Macross Speaker Podcast) got together for a talk session where we powered through Yamato’s entire back-catalogue, with a smattering of insights on the company philosophy and the changing nature of the market taken from an interview I personally conducted with Yamato Toys staff in June 2012.
The host page on CollectionDX, including a long list of links to every Yamato Valkyrie review on the site is here:
Veef_Show_Episode_51:_Retrospective_Yamato_Toys
Direct download links are here:
And discussion threads are HERE (Movies and Series Forum) and HERE (Toys Forum)
As previously announced, two Macross-themed talk/stage shows were streamed live through Nico Nico on Sunday, courtesy of Max Factory and the Good Smile Company to promote the new Macross 30 game, some Nendroid figures and a Sheryl statue, featuring the Macross newcomer, Haruka Chisuga and friends.
Click the link below to see and read the highlights of the two shows!
Not to be outdone or overshadowed, images of the Bandai VF-171 Armor Packs are also surfacing on the internet. It’s ridiculous how much sexier these birds look when they get covered up. It’s like a reverse strip tease.
