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- Dengeki Hobby Magazine Update!
A few new issues have been added to the
Dengeki Hobby Magazine section! This includes February 2005 (Gairyuki concept art, Helcat Grappler custom, some old Mercy Rabbit art, etc.), December 2005 (Murasame Liger Shinobi Custom, Zoids Generations, Zoids Genesis customize part concept art (including their potential combination into a kangaroo Zoid), etc.), and November 2006 (Zoids Generations + customs). In addition, the January 2010 issue, which focused around the HMM Buster Tortoise was reuploaded with new scans that are much less bleached out than the old ones.
- Smack Zoids! B-Part Update!
Hey, who here remembers the Geno Maxi? That's right, get a small taste of extra Eisen Dragoon lore and learn about some of your favorite early 2000s concept rexes in the most recent
Smack Zoids update! For this section I opted to include some of the model stuff because it provided a couple details I found interesting. I'm not sure yet if this'll be included for other updates or not, as it's usually just customization notes like this one.
- OJR Zoids Graphics Update!
The first volume of the
OJR Zoids Graphics (under Books) has been added! With this volume, I've elected to switch from the reader format to an in-page format like our other books. Originally I'd started with translated images. As novel as this idea is, the Graphics are going to continue to add in story content and materials that I'd like to be able to reference directly without having to include the entire page (such as location images, character images, etc.)
We already provide the pamphlets in both English and Japanese as a courtesy because of how rare-expensive it is to collect them all, but having to provide it in
three different formats is a bit much, especially when one of those formats
dramatically increases the work time required to make an update happen. That aside, this volume delves into the beginnings of Zoids Lore, with lots of interesting art, so take a look!
- Hobby Japan Magazine Updates!
Two new pages have been added to the
Hobby Japan article, one for 1988 and one for 1990. These pages contain some of the Hobby Japan EX volumes that delve into some interesting customs from back in the day, including original artwork!
- Hobby Japan Web articles!
Hobby Japan web has posted some more Zoids articles for public viewing! First off is the
RMZ Molga from the August 2025 issue. Second up is the
RMZ Helcat from the same issue, with a delightfully spooky looking diorama image. Both of these kits are great, and I'd highly recommend them.
- Figure King's 40th Anniversary Interview!
During the tail-end of 2022, Figure King, a magazine in Japan, published an issue discussing the currently-ongoing Zoids 40th Anniversary. This included a look at the franchise's history over the past 40 years, along with product lineups from various series, tons of cool concept art (including some never released before), and an interview with two of the current staff members, Yutaka Tajima and Takashi Nakase. We've added a cleaned up machine translation of this article to our
Assorted Magazines article. It's a fun read, for those who enjoy hearing about the development process!