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Well the M7 valks was 4980 yen in 1995. And I really doubt that toy sold well - on top of the poor look, it is a singing robot! Even around here the concept is not appealing to everyone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-29 YF-19 was base on that.

LOL you never saw how programmers dress at work?

May be I simple don't buy into this Gundam vs Macross mentality. I am sure no one at Intel mind if someone wear a CPU promo shirt to a GPU design meeting. And it is not like Kawamori-san is an outsider of Bandai. Looking back at his impressive profile, Bandai Visual is the backer of nearly all the anime that he played a major role. And given what we saw in Ajuna and Aquarion, he still get lots of creative freedom.

I don't know how did you come up with that crazy fanboy non-sense. That is just a company unitform. You don't wear suit to design a toy. And Kawamori-san has been working with Bandai for more than 10 years - he designed the 0083 Gundams, on top of many other thing. He has better understand of their cooperate culture than any of us. Actually Bandai divide their anime properties to multiple child companies, and these day there are many Gundam toy lines directly compete with each other. From their toy department they have the near-dead MSIA and Gundam Fix. From the hobby department they have the gunpla, hcm-pro and super-hcm-pro. In hobby magazines their different names are clearly listed with their products. In rare case they also license Gundam to other company - Mega (formerly Megablock) made that LEGO-ish Gundam and Zaku.

And what do those Macross 7 line have to do with today's market? It was 1995, and market of premium toys for adult collector didn't exist. Bandai made the first Master Grade Gundam model that year, starting a premium model line that target adults but still friendly to kids. The Soul of Chogokin started in 1997, banking on the young money making adults grown up with the 70's mecha anime. Personally I am happy that Bandai intead of Yamato is handling Macross F products. Yamato VFs have great sculpture but the product quality is rather random. Many people has been burned by borken pieces on the like of Garland and VF-0, and now completely avoid their products.

Do we really need this kind of Intel vs AMD fanboy junk here? What the hell did those people do that deserve being called a dick?

A more formal Japnese report: http://ga.sbcr.jp/mreport/009274/ Nothing new to us.

Gurren Lagann WF early release edition http://www.geocities.jp/hetare_d_max/galle...agann_WFPE.html The green drill is unique to this version.

Official Pics from Japanese toy shops http://www.toysdaily.com/discuz/viewthread...3720&page=1

Yeah the Japanese toy makers are doing these alot lately - there are multiple versions of toys for Votoms, Patlabor, Mospedia. Oh well sometime it is good to have direct competition.

The new Saber you saw is probably the new "Figma" from a different company. http://www.figma.jp/products/2008/fig0804-02.html And I don't hink IDOLM@STER has turned into adult video yet...

Yamato will have no time to help anyone since they will be busy with all kind of strange stuff: http://www.toysdaily.com/discuz/thread-54856-1-2.html

OTOH midnight slot means less censorship over blood and nudity.

It was a bit hard to find ARX-8 pics.

One day only. It's over. http://www.kaiyodo.co.jp/wf/index.html If someone going to lineup for hours among thousands of otaku just to get you a book, he/she is way more than just good friend.

Who is the Macross World rap at WF? We need a good scan of this! Source: http://www2.moeyo.com/img/08/02/24/3/361.html

Clean pics. Look carefully - fast packs with YF-19 and YF-21! Fast packs for YF-19 have different colour then those in Yamato 1:60, so which colour is correct?

Looks like they are pulling a little trick here: The cockpit already have enough room for two pilots, like thr 1:60 YF-19. It will not cost much for them to make VF-1D and VT-1.

This is the best news since we learn Bandai will handle Macross F. DX Chogokin is their high-end line - they finally have a chance to give Macross the products it deserves. The last Bandai DX Chogokin, also a Shoji Kawamori design: Expensive, but big and nicely done. http://www.geocities.jp/hetare_d_max/galle...X_Aquarion.html http://www.geocities.jp/hetare_d_max/galle...yosemeType.html http://honowo7.hp.infoseek.co.jp/aq01.html http://cms.or.tp/~gamu/goukin/gouki/akueri2/akueri2.html http://cms.or.tp/~gamu/goukin/gouki/akueri2/akueri22.html How big are the VF-25 suppose to be? VF-1 or VF-19 size?

Please use this thread to discuss Macross F products: http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=24361 For your question, those prototypes are from Bandai, and you can make out the Bandai logo in the signs.

Some pics. NSFW source: http://otasuke.new-akiba.com/event/review/11302

I wonder if that is a model, toy, or both? The two with no fast packs are standing on standard Bandai MG stands for 1:100 Gundams, but the one with fast (or armour?) pack is using the stand that is identical to the one included in Soul Spec Dragonar-1. Models at 1:72 should be great - most old Bandai and Hasegawa models are 1:72 scales.

Don't forget the important information.

Mirroring some of the better pics here. More to come. The #7 shows the scale - looking good here.