Posts in "Mecha"

Looks like Mirai has a new ride. The VT-1 super ostrich has always been my favorite Valkyrie from the Macross series. Its shorter in length than other Valkyrie and has two distinguishable boosters on the top. I love the design and colors and have alw...

More giveaways! But before that, some background on the giveaway... Once upon a time back in 2004, I used to write about Gundam every day! I was still a salary man at Amazon and actually had time to make Gundams. A load of Gundam fans gathered to th...

Spotted over at FG - a RX78 Gundam completely made of runners only. For those who don't do any Gunpla modeling - a runner is the bit where all the parts are attached to and is usually thrown away. What do you do with your runners?

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Bandai held an event in Akihabara earlier this month called Tamashii Features where they displayed a load of their goodies including their Robot Tamashii and S.H.Figuarts line.

Sorry to have kept you waiting on this. Bandai just got back to AFA with the prizes for the Bandai World Gunpla Competition.

Has to be the best Optimus Prime mod out there - posted at figure.fm by Crefigz.

Sayonara Gundam - dissasembly of the 1/1 scale Gundam in Odaiba. If only they rose the right arm when they took off the head...

We've had Good Smile Company x Danny Choo, Kotobukiya x Danny Choo and it gives me great pleasure to announce Bandai x AFA x Danny Choo. Muhahahaha! Cant be bothered to copy/paste so head along to the official site for more details of this Bandai off...

While I'm stuck indoors working on the DC to MG migration, Akibahobby-san is out n about taking a load of pics for us at the Gundam Expo being held at Tokyo Big Sight this weekend (last day tomorrow) - check out his pics which include this 1/35 scale...

A bunch of Gunpla from the Wonfes - finishing off with some Patlabor at the end of this post and continuing to look at the other Mecha related photos including Gurren Lagann in this post over at figure.fm

Some of the Transformers stuff on display at the Wonfes - more coverage later on here and over at figure.fm.

Video of the opening ceremony of the 1/1 scale Gundam at Odaiba. Many festivities and a load of fans gathered at the venue this weekend. I didn't make it for the opening but will go again. The best time to go will be at about 7PM.

The fence has now been removed and you can see the 1/1 Scale Gundam in full action via AkibaHobby.

Extreme LOL - very sweet indeed! Why make your own coffee when you can have this adorable Hina robot do it for you. Clockwork is the person who developed Hina and the specs are below:- Height: 36cm Weight: 1.1kg Servo: KRS-788HV×20、GWS-PICO-STD×1 P...

Discovered that comrade Yoshimu-san had an FG account and stumbled across these most interesting Gunpla N Pantsu photos that he took. For those who don't know, FG is a social networking site for figure/model collectors and creators. You need to be a...

Update: Now includes HD video (day time). The Gundam Odaiba now lights up at night. All thats left I think is the steam shooting out from the joints. More pics at Pink Tentacle.

Update: The night time shots I took tonight are up in the Gundam Odaiba photo article. Its complete and Punynari has more pics at his burogu! (update: and more!) Cant wait to see it with my own eyes! As for the location - it should be right here. <...

Update: Its complete! Father of many Dollfie daughters Punynari updates us with more progress on the 1/1 scale Gundam that's being built in Odaiba - more pics at his burogu. Gundam dolphin looks great. Up skirt shot. Love the decals. This is going...

More and more samples seems to be arriving by the truckload of late and I thought I'd pick out all the "boys toys" from the lot starting with Iron Man.

Punynari gets along to Odaiba and takes a few pics for us of the 1/1 scale Gundam thats currently being built - more pics at his burogu. From the looks of these photos, it looks like they've done a really good job in making RX78 look more than decen...

Some progress photos of the 1/1 scale Gundam RX78 thats being built in Odaiba. They currently got the frame up for the legs and also have many other bits n pieces lying around the construction site. RX78 will be ready on the 11th of July. While you...

Got some spare Lego lying around at home and not enough dosh to buy a Valkyrie? If so then get along to Kaisun who has all the steps needed to make this Valkyrie - which even transforms to Gerwalk and Battroid mode. As for my fave Macross series? Th...

T'was only yesterday when I said to myself that I'd love to get my hands on a Hot Toys Iron Man and in no less than 24 hours later a sample of the Iron Man MK III arrives from one of my sponsors! ^^;;; Mmmmm. Rabu mai jobu desu ^^; The chest and pal...