[Shin Densetsu]

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Originally Posted by Xcaliber037

Thanks Shin! Dude that looks sick. Do you know where I can get more info about viewing the movies? If I remember correctly there was some issue with distribution to the US.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like anyone has the license to release Frontier stateside. It may require Big West negotiating with Harmony Gold, and Big West does not want to do that. The BIG rumor, from 2008 IIRC, was that the Frontier TV series was going to be brought stateside with Toynami bringing over Tamashii's Macross Frontier and Origin of Valkyrie toys over stateside, with a Toynami sticker on the box(same thing Toynami did with Aoshima's Ride Armor figures for Mospeada). Unfortunately, plans fell through, and yet AGAIN, the fandom lost.

The plan was to not only bring over the Tamashii Macross toys, but to also introduce a line of 1/55 VF-1 toys, using the Tamashii molds but with all new head sculpts, in Robotech packaging. The only prototype shown was the VF-1D at SDCC.

Unfortunately, all that is left of Macross goods stateside(as in domestically released) are Toynami's 1/100 VF-1 toys and 1/100 vinyl Zentraedi mecha.

Now I don't know if Toynami is steal dealing with Tamashii, as Tamashii/Bandai Hobby's goods are now domestically distributed here by Bluefin. Will Bluefin be able to bring over Japanese Macross toys? Don't know, the last thing AFAIK that HG secured were the transforming Revoltech VF-1's by Kaiyodo, which received underwhelming reviews across the boards.

If you have a blu-ray player, you can order the blu-ray discs from Japan. It'll be sometime before movie 2 is on blu-ray however, as it premieres on the 26th.

BTW, latest scan by CYBERGUNDAM BLOG shows what may be, hints at FAST packs which may explain why this release will cost ¥17,850 yen.