Macross Themed Robodatchi kits

[Shawn]

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)

 

 

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.

 

And the Enterprise variant

And then, not to beat around the bush anymore, they flat out called one Space Gerwalk

 

 

The new discovery today was there is a VF-1S Battroid snuck into the lineup

 

This VF-1S is in the Space Shuttle kit (among others). It is directing/controlling the grappler arms in this pic at top

 

 

Here is a painted version

 

 

[Shawn]

I also found it in this version (climbing the tower)

 

And bottom right corner here!

 

Just thought it was cool to find this out after all these years 

 

[derex3592]

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! 😍

Edited July 24, 2023 by derex3592