All picture were taken at the 49th Japan Mokei Hobby Show held at Makuhari Messa from October 8 to 11.  It is Japan’s largest model kit show with all of the major company of the model kit business repersented.

We wil start with the Bandai booth. As expected the main attraction was Gundam in this years’ case the OVA version of Unicorn Gundam as well as the Perfect Grade Double OORizer were what most people there were here to see.

The first fully new Perfect Grade Gundam model kit produced in over 5 years the Double OOriser promises to be the most complex and highly detailed Perfect Grade ever produced to this point.  For those interested according to the Bandai the Perfect Grade Double OOriser model kit will have over 1000 parts in 63 sheets of parts.

The model kit version of the VF-25 Lucifer used in Macross Frontier was also on display in the Frontier section of the Bandai space.

Wave also had a few noteworthy items such as their 1/100 scale Destroid Monster model that is scheduled fo next year.  The Macross part of their Beach Queens PVC figures were announced but to the disapointmenmt of some fans no Misa figure was there to be seen. The characters on display were Minmay from the original Macross as well as Mylene from Macross 7.

More pictures will be posted soon.

All picture were taken on August 30 at the second day of C3 Hobby.

Company Booths 

Mecha Section

Bandai

Takara Tomy

Volks

PVC Figure

Good Smile Company/ Max Factory

Square Enix

Amature Section

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After a 1 year hiatus due to the now infamous escalater accident at Tokyo Big Sight last year WonderFest has returned .  The world’s largest amature garage kit show it was held this year at Makuhari Messa about a hour by train from center Tokyo.  Considered the largest Wonderfest ever 3 halls were used this is how it looks a hour before it starts.

Some information on these events and the items that are sold by amature dealers at them for those interested.

Many or most of the item that can be seen here were made by a amateur dealer and will be sold only at Wonderfest. This is due to the special one day licences system used at these event and are by no fault of the people who made the items. As for the small production numbers as most licences holders will allow only a certain amount of one item to be produced and sold at each event in most cases the amount being sold will be the maximum amount allowed. Please take these things into consideration before complaining about the items and the numbers that are produced of each item.

As there are way too many items to post at once we will split  the post into 2 to 3 post that we will be putting up over this week ,

First up will be the mecha section.  
One point of interest was the fact that  Tastunoko for the first time in a long while approved of  one day licenses for Mospeada items.  A few item such as the saddlebags for the Beagle Ride Armors as well as a Invid  Iigaa were produced for the show. Both apparently sold out pretty quickly.

First we pick up the items that were on display at the Yamato booth. There were many item such as the blue Patlabor Ingram USA Ver on display for the first time.  A Rot Folker Macross Motercycle Helmet suitable for use on the road was on  display for the first time but was a no picture allowed item.

The T-Rex booth had the Saddlebags for the Begale Ride Armor as well as the add on parts for the Yamato 1/60 VF-1.

Wave : The Patlabor and Macross series as well as the famous Five Star Story kits where on display.

Alter: A uncolored sample of the Arm Slave M9 Gernsback and Rk-92 Savage the follow ups on there recently released Full Metal Panic!  ARX-7 Arbalest was displayed.  

CM’s: Colored samples of the Mospeada figure collection was on display. 

Revoltech: The few of the new Yamaguchi type Revoltech figures were seen for the first time.   

Amateur Dealers

This will be all for the mecha section we will be back soon with the photos of the character figures etc.

Special Notice: As July 20th Monday is a holiday we wil not be in the
office on that day. All business will resume as usual on July 22th.

As most of the stuff in Tokyo Toy Show is kid based this will cover mostly mecha items seen there. All photos were taken on July 17th.

Basically Tokyo Toy Show is filled with things like this

Or this

Bandai Booth 

As a bit of information the blue VF-25 Alto Ver will be the color variation that will be used in the new movie. As for the Robot Damashii Monster it will come at 12 cm and be transformable.

Robot Damashii (Non Macross Frontier)

1/6 Akira Kaneda’s Bike: From the Project BM! a collaboration between Bandai and Medicom Toys

The Tekkaman Blade and Big O from the Chogokin Damashii Series as  well as the Samurai Troopers figure were on display.  

 The line of make your own SIC Kamen Rider figure called Jibun Damashii was on display.  Having already sold out in a matter of days the second release was also announced as the famous Char aka “Red Comet” of Gundam lore.

Others

Hot Toys

All pictures were taken at a CM’s event held in Tokyo on May 22.

More details  will be posted later.

Item: 1/60 VF-22S Sturmvogel II (Gamlin Ver)

Made by Yamato

Retail Price; 21800 yen

Scheduled Release Date: June

 As it is a 1000 piece limited item we will not be able to take as many orders as possible so we strongly recommend if you want to purchase the item that you order as soon as possible. We will take new orders if or when we can confirm we will be getting more stock of this item. At the present we may not know until after May 25th if we will be getting any more.

Link to 1/60 VF-22 Gamlin
http://www.over-drive-inc.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=1414

For those interested in the 2 different color patterned YF-19 it will be posted as soon as we get the official information regarding it.

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