Update: 01/26/2010 More pictures of the Basara Nekki’s Fire Vakyrie were posted at the Amiami blog.

Update: 10/06/2009 Hobby Link Japan has their’s up for pre-order already at 6,650 yen.

Update: 10/04/2009 Hobby Search has it up for pre-order already selling at 6,650 yen.

Japanese online behemoth, Amiami seems to have beaten other popular online sellers to the punch by having listed the 1/100 High Metal VF-19 Fire Valkyrie for presale on their site.

Update: 10/18/2009HWJapan also has it up for pre-order, cheaper too at 15,040.Yen.

Update: 10/14/2009 Hobby Search has this up for pre-order already here and its going for Y17,860.

Yamato Toys seems to be going into full swing using their license to produce Macross 7 products by announcing right away a new product in this line a few days after announcing that they were making 1/60 VF-22S of Max and Milia Jenius.

Bet you didn’t see this coming, a rendition of the VF-11C Thunderbolt Cannon Fodder from Macross 7.

Update (10/03/2009): New blog post at Amiami here. Judging from the better photo featured in this post of the VF-27 which shows its size in relation with the other DX toys from Tamashii, its starting to firm up the evidence that this is actually the much anticipated 1/60 DX Chogokin VF-27…Woohoo! Notice how similar it is in size to the VF-25S armored of Ozma Lee found on the shelf.

Update (10/02/2009): More updates from the Amiami and hobby stock blog found here, here and here

Update: Additional blog posts at Hobbystock found here, here, here and here

First shots of Tamashii Nations Autumn 2009 show at Akiba Square are already up at Hobby Stock and Amiami.

Of particular interest to me is this shot of a VF-27 Lucifer. Which begs the question, is this a 1/72 model kit or a 1/60 DX Chogokin of the VF-27 Lucifer? I’m asking this because Tamashii usually handles the DX Chogokin and not the 1/72 model kits of Bandai. Not to mention that the published product line-up of Tamashii for the show didn’t say anything.

Update: 10/18/2009 HW Japan also has it up for pre-order, here and here. And its cheaper too at only 15040 yen.
Update: 10/14/2009 Hobby Search has these two up for pre-order already here and here and its going for Y17,860.

Yamato toys just posted on their site pictures and product page of the VF-22S of Maximilian Jenius and Milia Jenius from the Macross 7 series. Guess this means that Yamato Toys finally obtained the Macross 7 license to produce toys based on that series. Earlier this year, Yamato Toys released a 1/60 scale version of Gamlin Kizaki’s VF-22S seen in the Macross 7: Dynamite OVA.

It was announced last week at the Macross Frontier Blog that Macross Chronicle Magazine No. 31 was already on sale.

Macross Chronicle 31 will feature the Quadluun Row from the Macross SDF1 series in its Mechanic Sheet portion. I’m actually confused with the Quadluun series of mecha with regards to what the last three letters of its name are. Some articles refer to it as Quadluun Rau (used by female Zentradi in Macross SDF1) while others Quadluun Rea (Macross Frontier’s Clan Clan’s mecha). Now in the very Official Macross Chronicle that gives further explanation to the series, they refer to it as Quadluun Row… weird. I’m inclined to think that its just a typo and that it should really be spelled as Rau.

Was having a discussion with a friend who loved anime and our topic touched on Macross Frontier. She had never watched any of the Macross series nor movies before but she heard that Macross Frontier was a great anime. A diehard fan like me would just love to get another one into our fold, our discussion however was cut short before I could continue with my discourse on the wonders of Macross.

I saw this little interruption as a fortuitous event, since I could have ample time to better arm myself with factoids to show her what Macross is all about without giving up much in terms of plot elements to spoil it for the first time fan that she was. I am not saying that this list is perfect, but for me this is what made Macross great and worth watching

In Macross 7, before breaking out into a set, Fire Bomber lead singer Basara Nekki screams to the ecstatic crowd: “Ore no Uta Kike!“. In Macross Frontier, the intergalactic songstress, Sheryl Nome pays homage to Basara Nekki by screaming “Atashi no Uta Kike!” before singing. So what’s the difference?

Not much really, they all mean the same thing, an impolite and informal way of saying to somebody: “Listen to My Song.” The difference is in the use of the gender form of the pronoun “My.”

Here’s an interesting factoid I found out last week. I learned this while watching an episode of Genesis Climber Mospeada. As I was watching the Rainy Boy Episode I noticed that the voice of the main antagonist sounded familiar. True enough when I checked with Show Hayami’s file, there it was.