If you don’t dig this,you have something wrong with you.
I can’t read any of that, but I like it! [8D]
Is this a new movie that’s coming out? If so, when?
I don’t believe so,but I wish it were.The roll around from bow to stern is my favorite part.
It’s used in a commercial for pachinko, currently running on TV over here right now. I wish it was something more noble than that, but there it is…
Still, it is indeed very cool!
So if it can fly in space why does it go underwater? what’s with the modernish fighters flyiing around in space. WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE A BATTLESHIP?!?!?! I’m so confused. [%-)]
What a teaser!!! I wish they would make a full length feature like that!!!That and Robotech. I loved watching the Star Blazers cartoons as a kid. My neighbor and my older brother used to build the old ban-dai kits as well. I used to love going over there to see them hanging from the ceiling. I do believe this is what influenced me into building models. All this at age 4…
Falschimjager,
Why does it look like a battleship? Because it is one, the Yamato. The details are a little fuzzy (it’s been almost 25 years since I read the comic), but for some reason to save the Earth, the IJN battleship Yamato is salvaged and turned into a space vessel. Rather than raise it, an undersea base was built (or perhaps already there, fuzzy memory) and once the conversion was complete, it was launched from the ocean floor. Cool then and cool now.
Well that was awesome!
Really wish there was a full length movie in that syle. I suspect the only people interested would be ones like me, who were kids in the 70’s and grew up on Starblazers.
I’ve been eying this kit for a while. I saw a video demonstrating the built kit. Pretty cool. Just can find it right now. [:(]
Thanks for the link, TD!
When I started playing the vid, my wife started humming along with the music. 
She said that when she was in grade school, the band played that song; she described the kids playing their accordions and small xylophones. I can just imagine all those little Japanese kids feverously hammering away playing that song… just like we did in the US when we played the theme to Star Wars!
lol
Thanks for the link! It’s been years for me, too, since I heard the theme. I used to watch “Star Blazers” every afternoon with a bunch of friends in high school.
For anyone who isn’t familiar with the plot, the Wikipedia article is a pretty good synopsis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato
After Kimba, the White Lion, Tobor the Eight Man, Marine Boy and Speed Racer, this was the coolest cartoon from Japan that I had ever seen. The plot and the characters were as three-dimensional as many regular movies. I’ve been waiting for a good deal on the DVD set, but it’s still pretty pricey.
"We must/be strong and brave
Our homes/we’ve got save
If we don’t/in just one year
Mother Earth/will disappear
Our Star Blazers!"
No idea how in went in Japanese, of course.
If Toho’s still around, someone should be bugging them to do a new Yamato movie. Yeah, I know they wrapped up the story and had that 2520 project, but did they let little continuity issues stop them from making new Gojira movies?
Gundam’s been going for decades. Macross has been going for a little over 25 years. Evangelion’s getting a makeover in the form of 4 movies. It’s about time Yamato got a revival. The fact that the big kit they released last year sold so well despite a $400 price tag should be a hint that the interest is still there.
there used to be a guy here called J-hulk/brian who got that kit probably over a year ago. he was last seen posting some pix of it but that was it…
Love the vid, it looks like the makers got their inspiration from the latest Battlestar Galactica special effects.
I found this little gem, it’s some guys having a laugh with the theme tune from my favourite japanese TV show from that era.
What with the success of the Transformers movie, it seems that a live-action Gundam movie or Starblazers would be a natural. Gundam has been francise for how many years? How come no live action film? No doubt it would cost abit- but what a success the right film could be.
They did. And they called it Gundam Savior. And it sucked… They need to do more full CG ones along the lines of Gundam Igloo like what Square did for Final Fantasy.
you guy’s might like this.
Yes, that is cool, their are rumors floating around for the past few years about doing the Yamato series as a live action movie. With current CGI it would a wonderful thing to see. Who knows if the New Star Trek Movie does well this may finally happen, I just hope it not a flop like so many programs from our childhood that made into live action films. Keep us posted on these little gems.
I was just looking around on youtube for the video originally posted at the start of this thread and found something.
Apparently there is a new Yamato movie coming out in Japan if it hasn’t already been released! In addition to the Big Ship herself, there’s a “Blue Noah” in the preview I saw that looked very strongly influenced by the “Yamato 2520”.
Figured I’d mention it for you fellow Yamato/Star Blazers fans. Hopefully there will be kits and maybe even an American DVD release.