Takara Tomy held an exhibit at the Shanghai Wonder Festival 2025 event, with their booth featuring a giant RMZ Blade Liger! Its been a bit since we've seen some of these giant Zoids, so it's nice to see them make a return. The venue sold some T-shirts featuring RMZ box art graphics or the T-Spark logo, and also had a sale of more RMZ Blade Liger Mirages.

 Takara Tomy exhibited quite a few products at the Tokyo Toy Show, which Dengeki Hobby posted coverage of. There are photos of the new Synergenex museum collabs of Gabrigator and Dimepulsar, the new Hunter Wolf MPD, etc.

 Two new Synergenex kits have been announced as part of the Great Extinction Exhibition, scheduled to be held at the National Museum of Nature and Science. The venue will open on November 1st and run until February 23rd, 2026. The new kits are Redonda Gabrigator Rare Bone Ver. 2025 and Dimepulsar Rare Bone Ver. 2025. It seems 'Rare Bone' has become a label applying to these museum kits in general, with these two kits featuring particularly unique color schemes. The exhibit, which is focusing on the five mass extinction events throughout prehistory, will include displays for Dimetrodon and Redondasaurus replicas, among others, thus the choice in Wild kits.

 The Okinawa illustrations for the Popup Tour have been revealed, featuring an adorable Shield Liger + Blade Liger illustration and more character art. (Organoids in hats!) A second scene features a nice ocean hangout. The tour is starting to wrap up, but it was such a fun event to follow.

 The T-Spark label had an exhibit at the Animation-Comic-Game Hong Kong 2025 event, where they displayed lots of items, but also sold an event-exclusive Blade Liger Mirage! Though this kit sold for 299 HKD (roughly $38 USD), it was so limited that the second-hand market prices are already quite high. A number of them were raffled off through the Takara Tomy Mall, but this was done through random drawing, rather than direct sale. Rather unfortunate for the rest of us that may want one, but hopefully it'll see more releases going forward. The box seems to vaguely reference the stylings of the old Blade Liger Mirage Kanon Spec. from the old days!

 Its been such a fun ride following this traveling Popup Tour! The Hokkaido venue featured an Emperor's Holiday episode themed set, along with the Dibison. There's also now a Fukui Loft exhibit running, which is great timing with the Fukui Dinosaur Museum collaboration. Fukui features the Death Stinger and a large dinner scene of Prozen, Hiltz, Raven, Rease, and the Organoids and Zoids. Some goods from previous venues will also be resold at this event. A fun meal and archeology theme art was also revealed, further celebrating the Dinosaur Museum timing! Last but not least, the official X account posted pictures of the venue. The tour is planned to finally come to a close in Okinawa in late August.

 A brand new Zoids Wild recolor has been announced! This one came out of left field, but the new Fukui-Raptor is on sale at the Fukui Prefecture Dinosaur Museum, where sales began on May 31st. Their X account posted a grayscale shot of the prototype, though it's overall the same as the normal Zoids Wild Raptor, with colors swapped to fit the 'bone' theme that many of these dino exhibit limiteds use. As I'm sure you've guessed, this Zoid was chosen to celebrate the Fukuiraptor, the "Thief of Fukui", which was an early cretaceous species first discovered in a quarry in Fukui Prefecture. There's currently no info on if this kit will be sold online at a later date.

 The pop-up tour has continued to pop out absolutely adorable artwork for Zoids Chaotic Century. Kagoshima has quite a huge cast of characters in their art, showing lots of Zoids and Characters hanging out. There's not a lot to say here, but they're just... very cute! The Gojulas is the Zoid-of-choice this time around.

 So over the past few years we've been enjoying US distributors getting ahold of Kotobukiya kits, and even some exclusives. Well, in an exciting turn of events, both Takara Tomy's T-Spark and Kotobukiya have both officially launched western support for the franchise!

 One of the nicest things about T-Sparks website is that, while it doesn't have many Zoids now, you can view the elaborately decorated official pages for them in English and pre-order directly from the site. It's worth noting that there's occasionally content on both sites that's present on the JP version but not the English, such as concept art, so keep an eye out.

 While Takara Tomy's US store may not have many kits at the moment (seemingly looking forward rather than covering already released kits), Kotobukiya's been carrying TT merch for the past while even in Japan, so they've got you covered. Many of the RMZs, AZs, and other kits are now available state-side through Kotobukiya US (not to be confused with Koto US). The store has competitive arrival times for pre-order items, and like other state-side distributors, it carries exclusive. There's also a free shipping deal for first time buyers spending over $50.

 This event, T-Spark Zone was held from January 17th to January 19th, giving an early look at some of the products announced at the time. It included displays for RMZ, AZ, AMZ, etc. Zoids Official posted a view of the Zoids stands as well as close ups of AZ Sea Panther, RMZ Command Wolf Irvine, RMZ Canory Molga which was replaced as RMZ-009 by Iron Kong, but will get here eventually, AMZ Fuhrer (including wild form and frame). Dengeki Hobby also posted an event overview with some Trinity Liger closeups, and Hobby Watch posted another overview.

 The popup tour has been going strong, longer than I think anybody expected! Fukuoka (January 31st ~ February 11th) featured Moonbay and her Gustav, including them as a cute little ramen stand. Saitama (February 19th ~ March 3rd) featured the Desert Arcobaleno Gang and Storm Sworder and a nice mid-day lunch scene. Niigata (March 14th ~ March 23rd) featured Irvine and his Command Wolf and a scene of him having lunch with the Helic Republic crew. Hiroshima (April 3rd ~ April 16th) features a lovely autumn scene with Raven, Rease, and their Organoids and Zoids, as well as the Geno Breaker along with a lunch scene. At this venue they've also launched a new diorama addition, featuring the Blade Liger being fired out of the Gravity Cannon! They still plan to hold venues at Hokkaido, with even more beyond that! With all the custom illustrations these tours have been an absolute delight.

 You can view a full list of goods on their website. A special mention goes out to these adorable Sieg and Shadow plushies.

 We've got our first look at the painted sample of the RMZ-008 Command Wolf Irvine! The RMZ Command Wolf already looks so good, and this is no exception. Pre-orders are expected to start in February.

 On the 17th ~ 18th, Takara Tomy will be hosting a T-Spark Zone event. For those who aren't aware, T-Spark is the grand label that currently encompasses a lot of the current Zoids products, including AZ, RMZ, and more. The promo page for the event shows us a new image for the Trinity Liger, which highlights the leg armor's gimmick of flipping forward to deploy two blades over the paws. A second post by Dengeki Hobby shows the Liger in a roaring pose.

 In another big twist for the upcoming Zoids lines, Advanced Zi has announced its next kit, the Sea Panther! Now this is an interesting choice. Takara Tomy had commented about wanting to convert their old wind-up Zoids into motorized ones, and thus far, the Molga was our main example of that. Now a new wind-up kit is being transformed, and we can't wait to see more! The Sea Panther has been a long-requested kit by Mercy Rabbit, who reminded us of some Sea Panther promotional art they did back in the day. Tanimeso also showed off their Sea Panther Zi-girl promo art. The T-Spark Zone page mentioned earlier also shows off our first painted sample of the kit.

 The popup tour has been in full swing, moving from one location to another. Each location has gotten its own custom art for products and promotions, including Dogo Onsen (here's another, Umeda Loft, Gairosu-tei, Sakae Loft (with Organoids, and Sendai Loft. They've also posted lots of various product images as well as some photos of the venue itself.

 The 25th Anniversary is in full swing, with a popup tour currently ongoing! There's also a dedicated page for a special talk show coming on September 14th. The event will include live dubbing by the main cast, behind-the-scenes stories, and more. Attendees will receive an original tote bag and two Wixoss x Zoids collaboration cards. They also held a poll to see which episode people wanted to see shown at the talk show.

 Aside from the talk show there's also the popup tour. There's a huge list of goods being sold at the event shop and other displays at the venue including production art, character billboards, and more. In addition, the show started streaming (on Japanese streaming services) on the 15th of August. You can get a look at a lot of the event goods and such from this helpful Famitsu article. Pictures of the venue show off some amazing anime scene dioramas, including the Episode 33 scene of the Blade Liger Vs. Geno Saurer, the episode 34 defeat of the Death Saurer, the episode 41 battle between Schwarz's Iron Kong and Thomas' Dibison, and the triumphant episode 48 scene where the Lightning Saix finally throws off its armor!

- Promo Video

 It seems Wendy's First Kitchen (in Japan) is now collabing with Takara Tomy. During this event period, diners can receive one of three promotional postcards. The restaraunt also has some of the old VHS cover art up for display as well as story boards and the upcoming AZ Death Saurer model kit!

 The second brand launched under the T-Spark label is the Realize Model series, a series of highly poseable 1/100 scale model kits with a huge potential lineup for Zoids. Unlike the Adamas Machina brand, this one seems focused on the Zoids series. Two painted samples (Blade Liger, Geno Saurer), three prototypes (Command Wolf, Helcat, Molga), and a variety of other Zoids have been teased, including Shield Liger, Command Wolf LC (Irvine?), Saber Tiger, Great Sabre / AT, Iron Kong, Red Horn, Dibison, Hel Digunner, Red Horn BC, Lightning Saix, Storm Sworder, and most excitingly, Trinity Liger.

 These silhouettes are at this point just teasers. We don't know if these are final decisions for the line (after all, we saw other silhouettes that never manifested as kit products before, such as Command Wolf being teased at the start of Zoids Wild.) The potential of getting game Zoids is a thrilling possibility, and with enough support for this series, we may just get there!

 For those curious about the size, 1/100 is the same scale as Kotobukiya's (not Supernova's) Zoids Aggressive (ZA) action figures.

 Zoids, the classic TV anime series is celebrating its 25th anniversary and it seems Takara Tomy has plans to do a variety of projects for it. We don't yet have images of any of it. However, this includes a collab with Wixoss, a card game in Japan that formerly collabed with Zoids Wild, which produced some rather cool art. (Fun fact, the same artist who worked on the Wild cards does a lot of Digimon stuff too, for those Digimon fans out there.)

 A special talk show is also planned for around September 14th, which we're looking forward to. There's also a pop-up tour which we don't know much about yet, but is planned for August 29th ~ September 18th. Paid streaming of the series is expected to begin this summer.

- Project PV

 There was a TV Anime "Zoids" Staff Talk Show" held on the 22nd of March, where people could go and hear members of the original anime staff talk about the series. This event got a unique graphic (seen in the link) as well. They discussed matters such as development and the CG process, but unfortunately, they didn't allow media coverage at this event so we know virtually nothing about what was discussed. Here's hoping for a review later!