Yamato v1 VF-1D kit - interesting piece of history

[Shawn]

This auction is up for another few hours

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/x1173464532

 

This was an official VF-1D conversion kit from Yamato sold at Wonder Festival 2002, with a run of only 30 kits (rare!)
It was done by Nishikawa, who then designed the Yamato 1/48 line up!

At this time in Yamato's existence, they only had the DYRL license, so they could not sell a VF-1D variant.
This was a way for you to convert your existing v1 VF-1 DYRL toy into the TV VF-1D!

They did get the TV license the next year and did a mass release, but for those who like the weird and rare stuff, this is a nice bit of Macross toy history to have!!

Here are a few pics of the finished modification kit from my old archives I found on a hard drive, 2002!! 

 

 

[jenius]

Thank you for explaining this. I checked out the auction assuming it was a 1/48 conversion and was surprised when I looked a little closer. A fun little bit of history. 

[Shawn]

I've not seen that kit up for sale in 15+ years. 
I know the v1 valks don't get a lot of love these days, but they were appreciated back in the day, and this kit is a very niche part of Macross toy collecting history!