A business show was held by Yamato at the TFT building in Ariake on September 4th and 5th.  The main attraction at Ariake that day was the huge Tokyo International Gift Show with over 200,000 visitors that was being held at the Tokyo Big Site that day. Using both halls it’s so large it would probably take a whole day just to walk around  and see everything.   The show by Yamato was held near the Big Sight to attract the many people that would be attending the Gift Show.

The main topic of the business show was to explain the concept of the GN-U and MMB (Moe Moe Blocks) toy series.  While the GN-U series has already been released and is well known the MMB series was explained for the first time. 

Lets take a look at the GN-U-Dou presentation first.

The first major announcement was of the VF-11 Thunderbolt and VF-19 Excalibur the two store limited version GN-U-Dou that will be released in December.  To be painted in the color pattern seen in the PS2 game “Macross VFX2″ it was announced as quote “The first of many limited versions”.

Next Yamato outlined their plans for the GN-U-Dou series for 2009 and how the series would evolve next year. First to answer the demands for more extra weapons and parts,  a extra weapons and parts set for some of the earlier models will be released early next year.  Also a much asked for display base that can hold the toys up in the air will also be released next year.  Finally it was announced that from the models that will be released from April of 09 that a improved torso unit would be introduced which will improve the twisting ability of the torso considerably.

At the end the release schedule for the first half of 09 was revealed.  Six new toys, two display stands, six weapons sets and two limited versions are scheduled for the first half of 09.   The GN-U-Dou VF-1S (Roy Focker Ver.) from “Macross: Do you remember love?” and  God Sigma Gravion from “Gravion” were also both announced for a spring of 09 release. 

Part two will be the presentation on the new line of toys the  MMB (Moe Moe Blocks)

First the concept of the toys.  The toys are designed so that all the parts from any character is interchangable.  They will be highly poseable and affordable.  It will be released in two lines with the  bisoujo line to be called  “Angel Device” while the military line is to be called  HAB (Hyper Armored Block).  The Angel Device line  is to be released starting in November while the HAB line will start shipping in early 09.

 In the end we were all allowed to take pictures of the products and ask questions.  The box of the store limited  GN-U-Dou’s were put on display for the first time.  A still in development version of the GN-U-Dou VF-1S mentioned above was also seen but was off limits to any photography.

The improved torso unit mentioned above can be seen in the picture on the far right of the second row. The one seen on the right side of the picture is the body with improved torso unit. The picture on the right corner of the third row shows how the torso will bend better.