The story behind this was that I got a Macross VF-1S Strike Valkyrie from DYRL for Christmas 23 years ago. A day after that, my mom came up to me while I was playing with it and she told me that she couldn’t wait any longer so she decided to give me the gift that was supposed to have been given on New Year’s day. That gift was a GBP-1S Armored Valkyrie kit for my Strike Valkyrie. You could just imagine me leaping into my mother arms and smothering her with Thank You’s and kisses. Hopefully my wife and I will also get the chance to do something that awesome to our son on his Christmas day.
In the Macross TV series this armored pack first appeared in Episode 9, the very famous Miss Macross episode which Lynn Minmei won and that set her on the road to stardom and separation from Hikaru Ichijo. Hikaru was the flight officer in standby in case an attack came along during the Miss Macross Pageant. Of course the Zentradi had to come along so he was called away from watching the pageant. During that time he had the GBP-1S armor installed in his VF-1J when he went out to investigate.
This however wasn’t the first time that the Armored Pack appeared in the Macross timeline, as Roy Fokker wore an earlier version of this fighting DD Ivanov in Macross Zero. The more recent appearance of the Armored Pack was with the VF-25’s of Macross Frontier. The difference being this time is that the VF doesn’t have to be in Battloid mode in order to use it which was the limitation of the previous incarnations.
Macross creators also seem to like to use the same color scheme for the Armored Pack of Blue, Grey and Red. Yamato Toys however released a realistic camouflaged version of the armored pack in their 1/48 scale series, one in urban camouflage, while another in jungle colors.
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