Takara Tomy confirmed that it will release a special Zoids model kit of the Gatling Fox designed after the Hololive VTuber Shirakami Fubuki. Pre-orders for the kit will be first held physically at the 40th Anniversary Great Zoids Exhibition 2023.
The exhibition will take place at Gallery AaMo in Tokyo Dome City on October 7-22, 2023. One person can order up to three kits — each priced at ¥6,050 (~$40.60) — with an additional shipping cost of ¥1,200. Takara Tomy warns that if the stocks are sold out at the event, there will be no future resales for this kit.
Shirakami Fubuki has been known to have Zoids as one of her favorite franchises. In 2020, the VTuber made a tweet mentioning the Gatling Fox that appeared in Zoids: Wild ZERO. Three years later, her dream collaboration has become a reality.
The Hololive VTuber crossover is just one of the numerous projects Takara Tomy has prepared for Zoids‘ 40th anniversary. The exhibition venue will feature more commemorative merchandise, including a Hunter Wolf with a Patlabor crossover design. The company is also providing Zoids crossover content for Imagineer’s mobile game Medabots S.
Takara Tomy will release and ship the 1/35 scale Shirakami Fubuki Version Gatling Fox Zoids model kit in mid-April 2023.
