Macross World
As part of the ongoing (although dwindling to a close) 30th Anniversary, Haruhiko Mikimoto and Risa Ebata have drawn a set of 5 character portraits for the Macross Official Fan Club.
Titled ‘Oshare Macross – Red Carper Ver., the designs are based on the theme of A ‘Celebrity party to celebrate Macross’ 30th Anniversary’. The 5 new pieces of art (3 by Mikimoto, 2 by Ebata) feature Minmay, Basara, Mylene, Sheryl and Ranka all dressed up for a night out on the town.
Yamato has re-opened Pre-Orders for their 1/60 scale VF-4G. It will be available to Japan based fans from their online shop from November 27 to December 5, 2012.
Almost 13,000 fans in Japan voted for the top Macross songs of all time and at the top of the list was Sheryl Nome’s “Diamond Crevasse” as sung by May’n. In fact the top 10 of the list was dominated by the Galactic Fairy Songstress. The only other song to break the top ten with another singer is “Lion”. Even then that number is a duet between Ranka Lee (Megumi Nakajima) and Sheryl Nome. Macross Frontier tunes take up half of the list of 43 songs. The streak is broken at lucky number 13 with the song “Do You Remember Love?” as sung by Mari Iijima as Lynn Minmay. Fire Bomber chimes in at number fourteen with “Totsugeki Love Heart”.
What’s your top Macross songs of all time?
Here’s the rest of the list.
“Joysound” will open 3 Macross themed karaoke rooms in Ikebukuro on Thursday, November 22. The rooms will be designated as the “Ranka Lee” room, The “Sheryl Nome” room, and the “Fire Bomber” room. The price of renting the rooms is 150 for 30 minutes. To celebrate the opening they will present the first 2000 customers with a “Macross Original Clear File”. Hmmm… sounds like a good stage for our podcasters to get inebriated in during one of their recordings.
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From the far flung past of September 2012 comes… EPISODE 6 of MACROSS SPEAKERPODCAST!
After the craziness that was last episodes M.ALTcast, the crew takes things down a notch to discuss the first set of 30th Anniversary events.
Hear what Miyatake has to say about Macross on Bluray, Richard’s encounter with Aya Endo, why Chie shouldn’t wear pink, and Renato’s first hand account of Noboru Ishiguro’s Memorial Service.
Also debuting this episode is the very first MACROSS VOX POP. These are small, 5 minute interviews that members of the cast do with fellow Macross fans that they stumble across in Japan.
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Banpresto announced the follow up to their “Macross Diva Collection” to be released o the third week of March 2013. The first of the Series was released earlier in September. A set that included Minmay, Ranka and Sheryl. The follow up set will include the two frontier divas accompanied by their Macross 7 rocker counterpart Mylene!
So… A week and a half has passed since the latest theatrical Macross release. Why is there no front page write-up? Well, there are probably a multitude of reasons. Number one being, unfortunately, that this movie is barely a movie at all.
However, that doesn’t mean that we should deny it any presence here, nor that we ignored its release.
Read on for the full lowdown on this… thing, in spoilerific detail! You have been warned!
(Yeah… Spoilers for those who have never watched Macross 7 — otherwise…)
Check out GeekExchange.com’s article on our 2012 Convention. Thanks guys!
Oct. 21, 2012 – I woke up that day thinking, “Hmmm. MacrossWorld Con is today, I should get started on that 1D custom and take it there.” Two hours later I was done and walked out the door.
Wait… that was the dream I had before I actually woke up.”
Oct. 21, 2012 – I woke up that day thinking, “Oh crap! It’s 10am? WTF? I stayed up until 4am painting the figures and putting all the final detail on the 1D. I still have to clear coat the figures and glue some final pieces.” At 12pm, an hour after the con started I was still gluing some parts. The phone rings…It’s Bigkid, must be some con emergency or else why would he be calling?
“Hello?”
“Hey, we brought your binaltechs to the con instead of waiting for the TF meet, how much do you want to sell the Smokescreen for?”
“What?”
“Smokescreen…”
“I got glue all over my iphone… let me call you back!”
“wait!…”
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep…
“Awww, crap!”
It’s early Sunday afternoon, why is it gridlocked? Freakin’ L.A. traffic.
This year I decided to not be a part of the MWCon committee, so I wasn’t required to be there at a certain time. Actually I decided two years ago that it was too much work for me and that I would just sit back and enjoy the next one. I’d like to think that that was the reason we didn’t have a con in 2011, but the fact of the matter is that Kirik just had a kid and certain responsibilities were just building up for the rest of the guys. Maybe they were caught up in the moment of the 30th Anniversary of Macross and decided they wanted to do it once more this year. But in my case, I didn’t have a good time at the 2010 Convention even though everyone was saying it was the best con ever. It was certainly the most successful. We had amazing displays, a great location in the heart of UCLA, more than doubled the attendance. In fact, the hall was super crowded like never before.
So it was decided that we were going to do a smaller event this year. A call back to the days where we just sat around, ate crappy pizza and talked toys, models and customs. Sounds good to me.