Update: Up for pre-order already at some online hobby shops.

Just saw this today at Amiami Blog in their coverage of the Yamato Toys booth at the 2011 Summer Wonder Festival (Wonfes).

Was excited by the news this July that Bandai was doing a version 2 of the DX Chogokin 1/60 VF-25F Messiah Valkyrie of Alto Saotome that originally came out in December 2008. The version 2 is scheduled to be released by October of this year, pre-order had already started in some online hobby shops based in Japan.

1/100 Fighter mode only rendition of the venerable VF-25F Messiah Valkyrie of Alto Saotome from the Macross Frontier anime. This is a great desktop model that you can keep in your workplace because its small enough to not clutter up your desk and can be easily stowed in your drawer to save it from being stolen *snicker* I just love the design of the VF-25 Messiah by Shoji Kawamori, never gets old for me and kinda makes me want to boom de yadah boom de yadah…hehehe

Was looking at some old pictures in my computer and found this screen capture I made when I was watching an episode of Macross Frontier. Though its designation was never mentioned, I’m assuming that the cannon fodder variant of the Messiah would be known as a VF-25A. This is the cannon fodder variety of the VF-25 Messiahs being used by SMS squadron.