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Imai's Robodatchi line from the early 80's has a couple surprises, I just found an new one this morning, and it got me going down the rabbit hole a bit.

When the Macross Package Art book came along, it mentioned the Robodatchi Pit-In kit-which is a recolorized Macross factory)

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So while the Factory was a direct copy of the factory, other kits were 'inspired'...back when Gerwalk wasn't a copyrighted term but a general term LOL

Here is the Air Combat box. A Gerwalked variety of kits.

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And the Enterprise variant
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And then, not to beat around the bush anymore, they flat out called one Space Gerwalk
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The new discovery today was there is a VF-1S Battroid snuck into the lineupimage.png.7a3b118bc03fc74e3c222798590bdd32.png

 

This VF-1S is in the Space Shuttle kit (among others). It is directing/controlling the grappler arms in this pic at top
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Here is a painted version
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I also found it in this version (climbing the tower)
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And bottom right corner here!
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Just thought it was cool to find this out after all these years 

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OMG!!! Those are the absolute CUTEST things I've ever seen!!! @Shawn I LOOOVE the artwork on the boxes! My favorite I think is the cross-eyed little 2001 POD guy with the arms! 😍

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