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One set allows you to display the Yamato level and the second allows you to display it at an angle as if it's taking off. Two sets of arms are included for the base.

A dock for the included remote control is in the rear-center of the base. The base just needs the arm attached and it's ready to go. The first thing I did is assemble the stand so I had somewhere to safely rest the Yamato.

2x Metal anchor with die-cast metal chains.

The bonus drill-missile is packed into a plastic bag and stored in a plain white cardboard box. Inside, the ship itself and the (unattached) deck guns are packed in a styrofoam coffin with the stand and extra parts stored in vacuum-formed trays. To make the first release a little bit more special they included a bonus accessory, Deslock's drill-missile, and a foil sticker is on the front of the box to let you know it. Bandai will usually re-issue sold out SOC releases again a few years. Nothing fancy, just bright, clean images of the toy and it's features decorate the box. The Yamato ships in the usual 4-color, photoshopped imaged box that most SOCs do. It's unusual but it certainly seems appropriate to give the Yamato the SOC treatment given its venerable history in Japan. Yes I said 'robot toys.' You see, with the 57th release in the SOC line they have broken the trend of 'robots only' and released their first spaceship in the line. The SOC line (for those unfamiliar) is Bandai's premium line of high quality robot toys. Except this time it gets the Soul of Chogokin treatment.

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With all the frenzy over a live-action movie of Space Battleship Yamato Bandai decided now was the time to release a new toy of the legendary spaceship. I am 100% certain we will see it here stateside before 2011 ends. As of the time of this review the film has been cleaning up at the box office and is already slated for international release in France, Germany, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesiam and Thailand. In December 2010 a live-action version of the first season of Space Battleship Yamato has been made into a live-action feature film. It is a complete and thorough site dedicated to both the Japanese and English language version of this time-honored series. For a complete breakdown of it all I would suggest hitting the fantastic website. The history and saga of the Space Battleship Yamato franchise is fairly long and complex. For the most part, no matter where in the world you saw the show, we all grew up with the same characters and beloved tale. While some violence, references to alcohol, brief nudity, and sexual humor were edited or changed, the show remained relatively intact and unaltered for its US airing. The US wouldn't see the English adapted version, Star Blazers, until 1979. The first season began airing in late 1974 in Japan. She says that her planet has a device, the Cosmo-Cleaner D (Cosmo DNA), which can cleanse Earth of its radiation damage.' The capsule yields blueprints for a faster-than-light engine and an offering of help from Queen Starsha of the planet Iscandar in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Earth's space fleet is hopelessly outclassed by the Gamilas and all seems lost until a message capsule from a mysterious crashed spaceship is retrieved on Mars. Humanity has retreated into deep underground cities, but the radioactivity is slowly affecting them as well, with mankind's extinction estimated in one year. 'Set in the year 2199, an alien race known as the 'Gamilas' ('Gamilons' in the English Star Blazers dub) unleash radioactive meteorite bombs on Earth, rendering the planet's surface uninhabitable. The plot of the show was pretty straightforward. It certainly is a part of the 'Nerd DNA' that makes me the fella I am today. For those of us that saw it back in the day, it made a pretty big impact on our childhoods. If you grew up here in North America, Australia, or Italy you probably knew it as the cult classic, Star Blazers. In Japan it is to their culture what Star Trek is to ours, a pop culture icon. If you where a child of the late 70's/early 80's you are most likely familiar with Space Battleship Yamato.

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