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Chiba Shibori & Plastic Model Rock Festival 2019

With practically all hobby and model shows here in Japan, both professional and amateur, having been cancelled for the last 12 months, we thought this might be a good chance to look back at two amateur hobbyist shows from late 2019 – Chiba Shibori and Plastic Model Rock Festival.
While we discussed both of these in podcasts at the time, I never got around to posting photo galleries of them and figured that now was as good a time as any to do so.
Both included a smattering of Macross-related offerings, with Chiba Shibori in particular including Wankoro‘s now infamous 1/4000 scale SDF-1 along with a highly detailed chunk of South Ataria Island.

SPEAKERPODCAST EP.139 – Taking notes on the Designer’s Note

After making our way through some of the latest news, not to mention the chaos of release day for Bandai’s DX Chogokin VF-1S Roy Focker Special, we’re joined by Renato this episode to go through the recently released “Shoji Kawamori Macross Designer’s Note” and discuss a talkshow that was held to commemorate the first anniversary of the passing of veteran mechanical artist Syd Mead.

Yutaka Izubuchi, Shoji Kawamori & Kazutaka Miyatake at the Syd Mead talkshow.

Genesis Climber Mospeada Popup Shop

Well, it’s been a pretty crazy month for Mospeada fans.
First, a new Entertainment Archive “mook” was announced for the series.
Then, late Thursday July 30, news broke regarding the Genesis Breaker project (first hinted at during Summer Wonder Festival 2019).
The following day, Hakaba no Garo Gallery at Nakano Broadway opened a limited-time popup shop for the original Genesis Climber Mospeada, complete with a high-level concept overview of the story of the new Genesis Breaker project.

The SpeakerPODcast Crew was at the popup shop as it opened to snap the gallery of pics below.
First, however, lets look at the information on display regarding Genesis Breakers…