We have some new commercials! All embedded below. The Hunter Wolf commercial's diaroma was shown before the commercial itself, in this tweet from Zoids Official. They also posted the diaroma setup for the Grachiosaurus commercial, along with the colosseum, which if I'm not mistaken is also shared with the Wild Liger commercial.

- Old Commercials

    TakaraTomy have posted some other commercials. Some of the very old ones. These are worth a mention just for nostalgia's sake! Megatopros and Gorem.

    On December 14th, TakaraTomy published a video called ZOIDS WILD Eastern Front. This dark, gritty promotional video took a lot of people by surprise, and is worth a watch. It's part of Zoids Wild Battle Wars, which refers specifically to a series of diaroma style images created using customs of the Zoids Wild line.

    The video was directed by Taguchi Kiyotaka, who has worked on a wide variety of series. Two major players of the Tomy team during the NJR Days, Yutaka Tajime and Takashi Nakase were credited as planners for the video. Shuu Katayama, the current figurehead of Zoids Wild even made an appearance, voicing "Soldier B."

    TakaraTomy is holding its first Zoids Wild custom contest for residents of Japan, from January 31st ~ February 28th. Participants can create customs, then take either photo or video of their creation through the ZFX feature of the Zoids Wild app. They can then submit them to twitter under one of three hashtags: One for children, one for parent/child teams, and a general division for adults. Some of the prizes are simple, like additional ZFX Effects, and some left entirely ambiguous. More details will be announced later.

    Please note that this contest is for residents of Japan only, although there is no limit to the number of entries a person can post. Entries are expected to be new photos, not previously published ones. Winners will receive a notice via SNS. Prizes are expected to be sent out mid-April 2019.

Employee Only Custom Contest

    Around the same time as this announcement it was revealed that TakaraTomy had their own employee custom contest, where participants and their families could create custom creations to be displayed in the building. Preceded only by this adorable Christmas Death Rex. They've posted so many creations (and continue to add more) that I'm not sure where to begin. So, link spam.

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Model Kits Official Zoids Wild   2019-01-08 03:00:00

    CoroCoro has continued its habit of posting last minute drawings from the manga artist on their website. This was skipped over for the special, understandably, but there are plenty of others! Let's see... Gallagher and his Death Rex, Gannontoise Wild Bike Version, our team dressed up in Death Rex Costumes, Death Rex eating some zoids cookies, Gallagher not pulling off the Zoid plushie nearly as well as Caviar, Salt and Hunter Wolf, Christmas Liger & Rex, Arashi, A fancy Death Metal Catalga, and finally a nice game of jenga~

    The second volume of the Zoids Wild manga released on December 29th, 2018. It includes Chapters 1 ~ 8, the short "Arashi and Liger" that featured in the Awakened Wild Liger's booklet, and a Zoids Wild special from CoroCoro Comic that included talk about the model kits. The book also had some of the images that've been featured on the CoroCoro site as part of the last minute drawing campaign. A teaser page for Chapter 9 was also posted on twitter.

    We've got a few more Wild related images. Starting with a new cosplay by AnimaReal, of Emperor Gallagher! There are two versions. The standard version and the background version for phone resolutions. We also have a Wild Blast reference for Bacon. Last but not least, we have a new drawing for Episode 14 on the CoroCoro website!

    With Episode 14 of Zoids Wild we got a new opening and ending theme song! Quite exciting, as it implies the series has a decent number of episodes left to go. Of course, we kind of guessed that from the lack of Death Metal Zoids that've gotten an episode so far. The opening, "Defiance" by Jae Joong takes on a whole new tone for the series. Battles and imagery that are starting to look more serious and a little reminescent of Zoids Genesis.

    The new ending, "blue moon" by Shoko Nakagawa offsets that serious tone by giving us a look into some casual hangout time between the main characters. Who can draw the Wild Liger best?

    The Zoids Wild App section (Under Games > Mobile Games) has received a decent sized update. This'll help members get started on the game, but we still have a lot of work to do!

    Zoids Section: A Zoids section has been added and includes some of the earlier colors you'll see in the game. Most don't have stats right now and we don't have a section set aside for the Lumberjack Zoids yet.

    Missions Section: A missions page has been added for most of the starting missions. This list includes the Japanese names so that you can find the exact mission you're looking for.

    Introduction Section: The introduction section includes all of the tutorial segments at the beginning of the game. Read this first if you're confused about how to play.

    Story Section: The story section so far is just the opening story bits, but we'll be turning this into a full story translation/walkthrough as we progress through the game. Please be advised that the translations are rough guesses based on Google Translate, but it should get the point across.

    A new page has been added to our side bar under Encyclopedia. A Zoids name list! This will include the English and Japanese versions of Zoids names as well as some of the common phrases needed to accurately search Yahoo Japan/etc. A HUGE thanks to Maiasa Liger, who generously donated the PSD they made! This is linked at the top of the page for reference.

    With this update we've also extended the Zoids Index list, which now includes a more complete list of Zoids and variations. Spelling errors have also been fixed.

    A lot of people have asked how I and a couple of friends have seen Zoids Wild so early. We have a subscription to FujiTV, now renamed ForJoyTV.com, a recent IPTV service. This subscription costs $30/month (or less, for longer subs) and provides a multitude of Japanese TV stations, including many popular anime stations like TBS, MBS, TokyoMX, etc.

    The online stream isn't the best (lots of video lag) but the downloadable app for PC/etc. includes flawless 1080p streaming for these stations. The subscription does not auto renew, for those wondering. Not only can you watch earlier broadcasts up to 2 weeks old (so no worries if you missed your show) but you can download it to the app for easy future viewing.

    Zoids Wild airs at 2:30 PM PST / 5:30 PM EST every Friday, on TBS and MBS. I personally recommend TBS for the less distracting timestamp color. We all know there are anime download sites out there, but the sub is worth it if you like anime (and Japanese TV in general) and wish to watch at the same time everyone else does! The last episode was absolutely amazing and it was so hard not to post spoilerrific images everywhere.

    The latest CoroCoro silver-peel limited is the Awakened Wild Liger: Guren Version! This Liger uses the Awakened Wild Liger as a base, which sports an improved motor with 20% higher speed than the normal model kit. The Guren replaces all of the blue parts with translucent red. It retains the gold chrome blades and gold painted claws/teeth, which are also seen in the upcoming standard Awakened Wild Liger.

    Animareal, responsible for the beautifully realistic Zoids: Field of Rebellion artwork has returned to render the Zoids Wild Death Rex! It's fantastic to see this group returning. The image was in celebration of the Death Rex's major reveal in Episode 13. A short ad using the image has started airing in Japan on billboards, etc. to hype people up for the model kit release.

    A ton of photos were posted by the modeler, SigemikanZ. This kit looks amazing up close, where you can see all of the tiny details. We'll link all of the relevant tweets below, with the last being a picture from the Anime Zoidswild channel.

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    All of this Death Rex celebration follows the Christmas Toy Tradefair, where TakaraTomy showed off their new Death Rex! Along with the September and November/December release kits. Even Hunter Wolf was there, although photography wasn't allowed for the kits not yet officially announced.

    Following these celebrations, they've also posted a teaser of the October 2018 issue of CoroCoro Comic. This shows the Death Rex right before it's about to wake up. The anime twitter has also given us the stock anime images of the Death Rex.

Death Rex Video Reveal

    With hype around the Death Rex building, TakaraTomy has also put out a promotional video, which illustrates some close up views of the model kit. This longer version, seen on the CoroCoro Youtube Channel hints at a reveal coming up on October 15th. This will likely be a full reveal of the model kit, but we'll see!

    In last week's episode of Zoids Wild (episode 12) Gallagher showed up on his own special color Gilraptor. This Zoid looked familiar. We saw a custom of it at the initial press release sitting in the back of the display, ridden by its pilot. Although it was shrugged off as a random custom at the time, perhaps we'll get to see this Zoid in the future! A teaser of this Zoid, which first premired in the September/October issues of CoroCoro was posted online. The manga version has the middle claws replaced by giant spikes, frequently used for stabbing people.

    Lots of images for Zoids Wild! For anime renders we also have the Catalga, a transport Zoid that'll haul others behind it much like the Gustav. It's the first revamped old world Zoid design, based on the Molga base. A recent tweet has also gathered up anime images for the Raptor, Knuckle Kong, and Triceradogos. The Raptor is a new image we haven't seen before.

    We also got some concept sketchs, the first being of Caviar hugging his crocodile plushie, which he cuddles with every night! The second is a Grachiosaurus early design concept. It seems that earlier on in the design process, the Grachiosaurus had bones located at the base of its neck to help support the weight.

    There've also been a couple new images in the collection of pre-episode airing sketches on the CoroCoro website! This is well worth checking out. The images are drawn by the Manga's artist, and there's even articles with the staff of Zoids.

    TakaraTomy has posted a video illustrating some other ways to combine Zoids Wild kits. This time it's a little more coherent, with the Kuwaga being the best of the bunch. The kits are designed to combine using common pegs. This is our second video example, but a recent booklet called the Book of Adventures has surfaced. It not only shows off example customs but also a couple of screencaps from the upcoming Switch game.

    Zoids Wild Wave 4 has gone up on pre-order! This wave includes the Stegosage (4,500 yen) and the Gusok (1,200 yen). The Gusok will boast a rolling gimmick that we saw earlier in the Valga.

    Although not officially part of Wave 4, the Awakened Wild Liger is also up for pre-order! Scheduled to be released November 10th. The Awakened Wild Liger will feature white pearl armor, blue metallic armor, gold plated mane claws, and gold painted regular claws. It'll also have a motor that allows the Awakened Wild Liger to move faster than the standard kit, and include a CoroCoro special booklet, which'll contain article and manga stuff. Chances are, this booklet will consist of stuff that was printed in CoroCoro Comic up until this point.

    The Zoids Wild anime section has been updated to include all relevant information up to Episode 6. This includes character profiles, Zoid profiles, and encyclopedia entries. Eventually we may need to split the encyclopedia entries into multiple pages but for now, heavy load warning.

    The Zoids Wild manga has updated with Chapter 3! This begins the first chapter involving the Gabrigator battle, oddly fitting timing considering this week's anime episode was the introduction of the beast. Fair warning that there's a lot of toilet humor in this chapter. This is kind of just par for the course for the comics in corocoro. Bare with us!

    We've added a section for the Zoids Wild app! This is still in its infancy; I've barely begun to parse through all the Zoids, missions, etc. For now it contains the first part of the game's introductory tutorial. This is still incomplete and we'll be going through it and adding notes to help people along.