Full Metal Panic! Action Figures

[F360]

10 hours ago, NeoVanguard said:

Looks like Hoobyshop2go.com   finally has the Gernsback for Pre-order.   Don't think I have ever tried this company online, but I have bought from their physical store before.  At least its USD $267.41,  cheaper than where I preordered from. 

https://hobbyshop2go.com/en/metal-build-m9-gernsback-ver-iv

Shows that they are in hongkong ,  if you convert the price , they are charging 29356 yen. 

If you live in hong kong you can preorder it direct from hk p bandai .  They post the M9 for preorder on all the Asia p Bandai sites now .

https://hlj.com/product/ACA82139

oops post wrong link

heres the correct one , u fortunately its sold out at hk p bandai now

http://p-bandai.hk/item/item-1100008152

 

Edited August 7, 2018 by F360

[eXis10z]

6 hours ago, F360 said:

Shows that they are in hongkong ,  if you convert the price , they are charging 29356 yen. 

If you live in hong kong you can preorder it direct from hk p bandai .  They post the M9 for preorder on all the Asia p Bandai sites now .

https://hlj.com/product/ACA82139

 

The link leads to 1/60 VF-1J Valkyrie Milia Fallyna Jenius Type with Super Parts Premium Finish Ver. (Limited).

[F360]

2 hours ago, eXis10z said:

The link leads to 1/60 VF-1J Valkyrie Milia Fallyna Jenius Type with Super Parts Premium Finish Ver. (Limited).

Argh!!  Bad copy and paste , 

http://p-bandai.hk/item/item-1100008152

but looks like its sold out now in hk.

 

[chyll2]

SG store got it.

 

http://sg.p-bandai.asia/tamashiiwebshop/item-1000001946

[kajnrig]

Aoshima 1/48 Laevatein Last Battle Version model kit up at HLJ:

https://hlj.com/product/AOS00955/Sci

December release, ~$70

[NeoVanguard]

It would be great if they have the flight pack for the Metal build Laevatein..   Maybe when the next season of the FMP comes out on tv, Bandai will make one...

[Sanity is Optional]

Argh, why couldn't they have a standalone flight pack for the 1/48 Aoshima, like they did for the flight pack Arbalest?

[F360]

1 hour ago, NeoVanguard said:

It would be great if they have the flight pack for the Metal build Laevatein..   Maybe when the next season of the FMP comes out on tv, Bandai will make one...

they kinda did a couple of years ago.    still waiting. ........ 

The old Laeavatein and the new Laevatein also have the same attachment points on the back too so that's somewhat a good sign that it's coming in the future.  

hopefully.

[NeoVanguard]

Did they ever end up selling it?  It was at Tamashii Nations 2015 display but never noticed it for sale anywhere....   You know just like how they had a DX-VF-31E  on display 3 years ago but they still haven't released it.

[Sanity is Optional]

Good Smile's got a couple more Savage kits up for pre-order:

Grey one with a hammer

Tan one with a knife and rocket launcher

[Sanity is Optional]

Bandai apparently is making a Deployment Booster for their 1/60 Arbalest.

Images from 58th All Japan Model and Hobby Show.

Spoiler

 

[sumyumgoy]

Cool!  Is there a way to find out approximately when it will be released?

[kajnrig]

On 9/29/2018 at 7:00 AM, sumyumgoy said:

Cool!  Is there a way to find out approximately when it will be released?

So... two months late, here's a preorder link (for a February release): https://hlj.com/1-60-scale-hg-arbalest-ver-iv-with-emergency-deployment-booster-ver-bans56756

There's also an "Aggressor Squadron" M9 (March release): https://hlj.com/1-60-scale-hg-gernsback-ver-iv-aggressor-squadron-bans57066

And while I'm at it, re-linking the 1/48 Laevatein + Booster kit: https://hlj.com/1-48-scale-full-metal-panic-invisible-victory-arx-8-laevatein-last-battle-mode-aos00955

[sumyumgoy]

Thanks @kajnrig!  Slowly getting back to building models so I grabbed them to compare with the metal builds.

[Seto Kaiba]

Tangentally relevant for the discerning collector... GA Graphic apparently has a Master File tech manual coming out for the Geotron M9 Gernsback slated for a mid-January release:

https://www.amazon.co.jp/フルメタル・パニック-マスターファイル-アーム・スレイブ-M9ガーンズバック-マスターファイルシリーズ/dp/4797398574/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=4797398574&pd_rd_r=56c21e5e-0b8c-11e9-bfa3-0d237f864cec&pd_rd_w=ud002&pd_rd_wg=5HO9U&pf_rd_p=a4de75e6-d8f7-4a34-bd69-503ea4866e6c&pf_rd_r=E8EGD5RT5TQ265VWM502&psc=1&refRID=E8EGD5RT5TQ265VWM502

[CF18]

Zenmarket delivered, thanks F360 for pointer.

 

 

Manage to fit 14 Robot Spirits into one Detolf shelf.

[F360]

44 minutes ago, CF18 said:

Zenmarket delivered, thanks F360 for pointer.

 

 

Manage to fit 14 Robot Spirits into one Detolf shelf.

glad to help, 

nice setup for your FMP figures.  kinda wonder what's on the top shelf of that detolf

[CF18]

2 hours ago, F360 said:

glad to help, 

nice setup for your FMP figures.  kinda wonder what's on the top shelf of that detolf

https://www.goodsmile.info/en/product/4660/Full+Action+Model+Chamber.html

 

Chamber from Gargantia.  Not really related to FMP but the Chamber A.I. reminds of ARX-7/8's Al . 

[no3Ljm]

An upcoming Master File book to add to your Gernsback collection.

https://www.taghobby.com/archives/336634

 

[hachi]

On 2/20/2019 at 11:12 PM, no3Ljm said:

An upcoming Master File book to add to your Gernsback collection.

https://www.taghobby.com/archives/336634

 

I'm tempted just to see the line art (it will have it right?), but I have no budget for this. I'll put this in the list of 'maybe' future purchases and forget for now.

[Seto Kaiba]

On 2/20/2019 at 10:12 AM, no3Ljm said:

An upcoming Master File book to add to your Gernsback collection.

https://www.taghobby.com/archives/336634

 

5 hours ago, hachi said:

I'm tempted just to see the line art (it will have it right?), but I have no budget for this. I'll put this in the list of 'maybe' future purchases and forget for now.

My copy just rolled in this morning, practically still warm from the printing press.

 

It's not quite what I had expected.

Indeed, in the most erect of dick moves the MITHRIL M9 Gernsback isn't even on the actual cover... just the obi.  It feels a bit like false advertising since that's the M9 that everyone's most familiar with from the light novel, anime, manga, etc.

Virtually all of Master File Arm Slave: M9 Gernsback is about the mass production Geotron M9 Gernsback used by the US Army.  Most of the coverage is of the initial production type M9 Gernsback (front left) that appeared only briefly in the ninth volume of the Full Metal Panic! light novel in the hands of Delta Force.  The M9A2 Gernsback Enhanced (facing right) and M9A2SOP Gernsback Sigma Elite (top center) from Full Metal Panic! Another figure less prominently, but still get a decent amount of attention.  All mention of MITHRIL and the M9s it used are crammed into the last ten pages, which is mostly "amateur photos" of them in the field.

Not a bad book by any means, but I feel like more attention should've been given to the MITHRIL XM9D Falke, XM9E Gernsback, and ARX-7 Arbalest.

 

EDIT: Will post some photos of the contents later today.

Edited February 25, 2019 by Seto Kaiba

[hachi]

13 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

My copy just rolled in this morning, practically still warm from the printing press.

 

It's not quite what I had expected.

Indeed, in the most erect of dick moves the MITHRIL M9 Gernsback isn't even on the actual cover... just the obi.  It feels a bit like false advertising since that's the M9 that everyone's most familiar with from the light novel, anime, manga, etc.

Virtually all of Master File Arm Slave: M9 Gernsback is about the mass production Geotron M9 Gernsback used by the US Army.  Most of the coverage is of the initial production type M9 Gernsback (front left) that appeared only briefly in the ninth volume of the Full Metal Panic! light novel in the hands of Delta Force.  The M9A2 Gernsback Enhanced (facing right) and M9A2SOP Gernsback Sigma Elite (top center) from Full Metal Panic! Another figure less prominently, but still get a decent amount of attention.  All mention of MITHRIL and the M9s it used are crammed into the last ten pages, which is mostly "amateur photos" of them in the field.

Not a bad book by any means, but I feel like more attention should've been given to the MITHRIL XM9D Falke, XM9E Gernsback, and ARX-7 Arbalest. 

 

EDIT: Will post some photos of the contents later today.

Annnd I just lost interest in the book lol

[JB0]

16 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

 

Virtually all of Master File Arm Slave: M9 Gernsback is about the mass production Geotron M9 Gernsback used by the US Army.  Most of the coverage is of the initial production type M9 Gernsback (front left) that appeared only briefly in the ninth volume of the Full Metal Panic! light novel in the hands of Delta Force.  The M9A2 Gernsback Enhanced (facing right) and M9A2SOP Gernsback Sigma Elite (top center) from Full Metal Panic! Another figure less prominently, but still get a decent amount of attention.  All mention of MITHRIL and the M9s it used are crammed into the last ten pages, which is mostly "amateur photos" of them in the field.

That is terrible and amazing at the same time.

 

From an in-universe perspective, it makes sense. I mean, Mithril's basically a myth, and how would you get documentation of their elite custom mecha anyways? And there'd be wildly more documentation of the "real" version even if all else was equal.

But from a real-world perspective... it isn't a screw-job, it's a screw-career.

Edited February 26, 2019 by JB0

[Seto Kaiba]

9 hours ago, hachi said:

Annnd I just lost interest in the book lol

Despite name-dropping the main Full Metal Panic! series on the obi, it does seem to be written more with fans of Full Metal Panic! Another in mind.

 

6 hours ago, JB0 said:

From an in-universe perspective, it makes sense. I mean, Mithril's basically a myth, and how would you get documentation of their elite custom mecha anyways? And there'd be wildly more documentation of the "real" version even if all else was equal.

Most unhelpfully, Master File Arm Slave: M9 Gernsback omitted the Master File/Master Archive series's usual dated foreword.  

When it was active, MITHRIL was an open secret among the NATO brass and SpecOps units.  Civilians were dimly aware of it only via conspiracy theories, which MITHRIL encouraged to discredit anyone who attempted to publicize their existence.  This book appears to have been written in-universe a couple years after Full Metal Panic! Another (2011-2012), so by then MITHRIL had been a defunct organization for 15+ years and its few surviving staff had moved on to the private sector or disappeared.  I guess the MITHRIL section is that there's not a MITHRIL AI operating anymore to discredit people who had photographic evidence of MITHRIL operations like the highly public confrontation in front of Tokyo Jindai HS.

[Seto Kaiba]

Attached are some shots of the book's contents... it has an abnormally large number of full-page images, but they're pretty well done.

 

(Since it's not immediately clear what this diagram is... that is the M9's Ross & Humbleton APR2500a palladium thermionic reactor.

I rather liked this diagram, which shows the movement of the mechanical articulations inside the M9's knee joint.

The US Army M9 Gernsback mass production type eliminated the two 12.7mm chainguns in the head in favor of replacing the XM18 wire gun in the right arm with a single 12.7mm rotary cannon.

[hachi]

17 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Attached are some shots of the book's contents... it has an abnormally large number of full-page images, but they're pretty well done.

* snipped*

(Since it's not immediately clear what this diagram is... that is the M9's Ross & Humbleton APR2500a palladium thermionic reactor.

I rather liked this diagram, which shows the movement of the mechanical articulations inside the M9's knee joint.

The US Army M9 Gernsback mass production type eliminated the two 12.7mm chainguns in the head in favor of replacing the XM18 wire gun in the right arm with a single 12.7mm rotary cannon.

 

Thanks for posting these, Seto. I like those diagrams, but does not move me enough to purchase. The logic to set this in-universe does not make sense to me. Maybe the makers were just scratching an itch to do these 'real' versions? At least I don't have to worry about missing out on this book.

[Seto Kaiba]

4 hours ago, hachi said:

Thanks for posting these, Seto. I like those diagrams, but does not move me enough to purchase.

Not gonna lie... I'm rather disappointed with this book too.  It's well-written and informative, but I was expecting something more connected to the original light novel and/or anime.

(Also, I think the M9/M9A1 and M9A2 heads are kind of ugly.)

 

4 hours ago, hachi said:

The logic to set this in-universe does not make sense to me. Maybe the makers were just scratching an itch to do these 'real' versions?

Writing the book as though it were an in-universe mass market publication wasn't a creative choice unique to Master File Arm Slave: M9 Gernsback.

All of the SoftBank Master File and Master Archive books I've read so far have been like that.  I'd assume it's a trait common to the entire line, including the other one-offs they've done for Dragonar, Vifam, and VOTOMS.  The Macross Master File books are the most blatant about it, identifying their in-universe publisher and year of publication in-universe on the cover and even including a dated foreword from the in-universe publisher at the start of the book.  Most sci-fi tech manuals are written as in-universe publications in my experience.  They're just following the line's established and well-entrenched style, though I guess that's a detrimental approach for Full Metal Panic! since the story's focus is on an elite paramilitary outfit that officially doesn't exist.  

(MITHRIL's strategy of suppressing evidence of their existence online by using bots to get the poster dismissed as a crackpot conspiracy theorist seems to have worked fairly well if their existence is still just a conspiracy theory 15+ years after the organization was destroyed in a surprisingly public show of force by AMALGAM.  About the only entity to actually acknowledge their existence is Ebisu Heavy Industries from Full Metal Panic! Another, who apparently reverse-engineered their TAROS from "a white AS of unknown affiliation that was destroyed in Tokyo" (the Arbalest).

 

Spoiler

Being written as in-universe publications is why Variable Fighter Master File self-disclaims as not official setting material.  Several of the books are written years into the future from the "present day" of the most recent series.  The VF-25 book that was released in 2011 is dated 2065, the VF-31 book is dated 2072, and the most recent VF-1 book was dated 2075.

 

[Guyffon]

Totally forgot about this thread until bumping into it recently, sold the old laevatein and bought the latest one and 2 gernsback to round out the squad, now hoping that the falke and amalgam AS are released

[sumyumgoy]

Nice!  It looks like there are a few more Gernsbacks down there awaiting action 

[Sanity is Optional]

Falke and Codarl would be awesome additions, The Falke might get made as a TWE, since it shares the frame of the rest, but the Codarl is less likely.

[Guyffon]

Those at the bottom are aoshima 1/48 using the MB base stands as base diorama, their quality is not very good thus relegated to that, i don’t mind the wing set for the laevatein since there was a prototype for it show some years back

[hachi]

To be honest I'm not really a fan of Sagara but this review makes me really want that Arbalest with the booster. If I had the painting skills/equipment I'd love to paint a digital camo pattern on it.

 

 

[kajnrig]

In case you wanted to read the light novels these designs come from, a company called "J-Novel Club" are re-releasing the FMP! novels with a brand new translation.

https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2019/03/18/j-novel-club-announces-full-metal-panic-novels-and-more

You can read a preview on the product page: https://j-novel.club/s/full-metal-panic

I had thought that only the manga had been localized, but I guess some of those volumes I passed by in the Borderses and BnNs were actually the novels.