Macross World
Oh yeah. In my excitement over the Orguss Blu-Ray announcement, I didn’t notice this little thing hidden inside the Macross Plus boxset.
I’ll just put this here and let you guys in the Toy Forum discuss and speculate for about a year or so. 😛
So, technically the official release date of Macross Plus on BD is not until tomorrow, but here’s a sneak peek at some of the goodies on their way to you original roughnecks of Dalmatian High School who pre-ordered.
Two pieces of new art have been announced that will be used on merchandise at the upcoming Macross the MUSEUM.
The first of these is the previously previewed cockpit illustration by Hidetaka Tenjin.
It will be available as a wallscroll (8190 yen), B2 poster (525 yen) and artcard (630 yen).
Sponichi Annex has reported that voice actor Kenji Utsumi passed away from cancerous peritonitus at a hospital in Shinjuku at 15:01 today.
Utsumi’s most famous role was that of Raoh from Fist of the North Star, but he was also known by Macross fans as Colonel Millard Johnson from the OVA and movie editions of Macross Plus. He was aged 75.
The Macross Plus Bluray boxset drops in a little over a week and Bandai has released a couple of trailers for it. Unfortunately these aren’t in HD and so don’t really give any idea of what sort of visual quality to expect, but if the theatrical screening of the remastered Movie Edition was anything to go by, fans are in for quite a treat next week.
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Arcadia’s newest Macross product page recently went live and it’s for the 1:1 scale replica of Basara’s iconic guitar from Macross 7. Previously seen as a potential Yamato Toys release, we’ve been getting images of this guitar in trade shows and at the Yamato open houses for quite a while now. We’ve even had reports of Yoshiki Fukuyama handling the guitar in one gig.
Tentatively priced at 350,000円, this fully functional collector’s piece is obviously aimed at the biggest and most well to do Fire Bomber fan. According to the page, Mr. Fukuyama himself had input as far as the guitar’s body design. The guitar will be hand made and made to order. It also warns that each piece will take several months in production. Each run will be done in quantities, the first run will be limited to ten. A case, 4 picks and guitar strap will be included, with each item emblazoned with the Fire Bomber logo.
The remastered Bluray Boxset of Macross Plus hits later this month and the Macross SpeakerPODcast crew have gotten an advance look at the Movie Edition on the big screen! What’s changed? What’s the same? Why doesn’t Guld like flying? Why is Renato singing so much? All that and more, coming at you straight from the source, here on Part 2 of Episode 9 of Macross SpeakerPODcast!
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Timestamps and more after the JUMP!
Thanks to Vi-RS for posting the box art for the Hasegawa 1/72 scale 30th Anniversary VF-1A, scheme designed by Tenjin.
Beginning June 3rd, Docomo smartphones will be offering a new service called ‘Macross Concier.’
Basically, this provides the subscriber with their choice of a Sheryl or Ranka voice for their smartphones equivalent of Siri. This appears to be the same basic tech that was used for the Misato Kusanagi news service that used to be offered on the Japanese Playstation Network.
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