Space Battleship Yamato Jersey - Par Deux

More Space Battleship Yamato uniforms on the horizon, the white-blue Sanada version and the yellow-black communications officer version.

I got a few question on where to get these, they are currently (12/30/10) available on AmiAmi website, search under key word Yamato or something, their url is http://www.amiami.jp/shop/?set=english.

News: Space Battleship Yamato Uniform

Coming from a manufacturer called Dive in late Nov will be these fancy Space Battleship Yamato replica uniforms to celebrate the upcoming live action Yamato movie starring Takuya Kimura.  Two styles are available, Susumu Kodai and the Black Tiger fighter pilot versions, 14800 yen each.

News: Soul of Chogokin Andromeda

The most exciting news from the Toyko Hobby Show 2010 on a personal level is probably the announcement of the pending release of Soul of Chogokin GX-58 Andromeda from the Space Cruiser Yamato franchise. Only the test model is shown but it looks rather promising.

The item will be in the same scale as the recently announced Soul of Chogokin Yamato renewal version, which measures about 425 mm.

The price is hefty, but I quite like the look on both of them, especially the double wave cannon on the Andromeda...

News: Bandai New Space Battleship Yamato Chogokin

Judging from these pictures, this looks to be a new design chogokin of the Space Battleship Yamato. Scheduled to release in Nov for 22000 yen, this baby will just be in time for the release of the live action movie with the same title, starring still Japan's most recognizable movie and pop star Takuya Kimura.

These may be pictures of the prototype, but the shape is decidedly different from the original Yamato chogokin. The display stand itself is a piece of work, I really like the way you can change the angle of display. The lights on the engine seems much brighter, and it also comes with a few more aircrafts such as the medical one (the old version came with the zero, 2 black tiger & 2 tiger II). It also has that missile drill thing...

Review: Taito Super Mechanics 1/665 Space Battleship Yamato Flash Edition

By now, you probably have heard that there is a new CG Space Battleship Yamato movie on the horizon, after producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki won the court battle on legal rights over Leiji Matsumoto.

The marketing machine is picking up speed too, with Bandai has re-releasing a few sets of mini plastic kits under the Yamato banner, and is also re-releasing their Soul of Chogokin Space Battleship Yamato.

So, I thought, what better time than now to do this review.


Here is Taito's Space Battleship Yamato (Flash Edition), released in December 2008, for 1500 yen. Not a typo, it's 1500 yen.

This is made in high quality plastic, with a light bulb inside the ripple cannon bay (hence, flash version). There is also an accompanying piece to this ship, the wave motion trigger, which I will review shortly - in fact, to show what this combo can do, I am planning a video review, my first.

So basically, you get a pretty well made ship with a decent "weathered" paint job, that lights up, and made sounds if you also got the trigger.

The 3 main turrets rotate, and the cannons in the main and secondary turrets can move up and down (in unison though). The landing gate in the 3rd bridge (under the ship) can be opened.

For 1500 yen, it's a real steal. To make it more complete, I will try to source out some vehicles like the cosmo zero (still sounds like a drink to me), cosmo tiger/tiger II, or a tank...

Just a word on the paint job...it's not going to be as good as a DIY, for 1500 yen, there is a limit to expectation, but I highly recommend this even though there are slight imperfections here and there.

Unlike the Soul of Chogokin version, the mini turrets do not rotate or move.

You'll noticed I also got extra weathering on this side of the ship.

The overall shape and sculpt is very decent, very sharp. This also comes with a display stand.

It begs the question, why didn't the 4500 yen Robot Damahii Nirvash Spec 2 come with a stand.

I got mine from Anime-Export.com, they may still have stock.