Zoids Wild!!

[Hanyoutai]

Zoids Wild: A new anime set to debut this summer has been announced by TakaraTomy, after a 2 week countdown on their front page! The fact that the countdown was Zoids wasn't much surprise to anyone, but many people were holding their breath on what it could possibly be. The Zoids anime is aimed at a younger audience, using characters from the "Code Z" mentioned in CoroCoro magazine and all new Zoid designs, which rather than piloted, are now ridden by the heroes.

(A huge thanks to Falcarius for translating various details below!)

You can watch the trailer here!

Official Twitter: Zoids Official

Zoids Wild Anime: Scheduled for June 2018
Zoids Wild Toys: ETA for June/July 2018
Zoids Wild Manga: Scheduled for April 2018
Planned Releases:
- Anime
- Model Kits (8 currently confirmed, 9th possible with the Death Rex)
- Manga (Released in Corocoro)
- Nintendo Switch Game
- Zoids Wild App
- Zoids Wild Arcade Game
- Zois Wild Exclusive Store (with various related goods)

Articles, Pictures, and Videos:
- Article: Robo Start (Article 2)
- Article: Game Watch
- Article: Dengeki Hobby
- Article: Robo Start (Article 1)
- Article: Tag Hobby
- Article: Figsoku
- Article: Insider Games
- Video: Presentation Part 1
- Video: Presentation Part 2
- Video: Presentation Part 2


Other Details:
- The series will be aimed around the idea of 'excavating' old Zoids in the forms of their skeletons, which will then be rebuilt into the existing Zoids.
- The Zoids themselves are smaller, and are now ridden instead of piloted.

Current Sales Information:
- Wild Liger (June 2018, 3000 Yen)
- Gilraptor (June 2018, 3000 Yen)

Model Kit Details:
- 1/35 Scale
- Come in Motorized and Windup varieties
- Comes with translucent pilots/riders
- Come with detailed box information, but no battle story
- Use 3mm pegs, making them compatible with some earlier model parts
- Reconstruction Documents (manuals) come in full color
- Kits will be sold pre-cut from the sprues in plain baggies they called "Excavation Packs"
- All kits confirmed so far are motorized one way or another
- All kits have 'Wild Blast' special moves.
- Some Wild Blasts are motorized features, smaller Zoids require you to manually adjust the armor.
- Wild Liger will have 29 skeleton pieces, 25 pieces for the body, and a motor.

Confirmed Kits:
- ZW01 Wild Liger: Medium Motorized, Chomping jaws, mane blades flip forward/flick
- ZW02 Gilraptor: Medium Motorized, Wings/blades move forwards and backwards, Eyes move under armor

- Brachios Type: Extra Large Motorized, Deploys Hammer Bones to neck then smashes them down
- Cannontoise: Medium Motorized, Shell opens, cannon fires
- Gabrigator: Medium Motorized, Crumnble Jaw enlarges and bites
- Scorpear: Poison Spear moves forwards
- Rhinoceros Beetle Type: Small Windup, Chest armor turns into Giganto Horn, then pinch
- Stag Beetle Type: Small Windup, Dual Scissors open and close

- Death Rex was shown at the event, but isn't "officially" confirmed for release yet.

Director: Norihiko Sutou (Pokemon Advance Generation, Diamond & Pearl, and BW)
Composer: Mitsutaka Hirota (2011 X-Men, The New Prince of Tennis, etc.)
Animation: OLM (Youkai Watch, Inazuma Eleven, various Pokemon series, etc.)

Anime Details:
- Aimed at young boys 10 ~ 12 years of age
- Will be aired on MBS and other stations
- Set on a desolated Earth in 20XX
- Involves battles for survival, including between teams Freedom and Death Metal

Characters: Freedom
- Arashi: Wild Liger
- Onigiri: Cannontoise
- Fenne: Scorpear
- Rhinoceros Beetle and Brachios are implied to be part of the Freedom group

Characters: Death Metal
- Gallagher: Death Rex
- Dorake: Gilraptor
- Caviar: Gabrigator
- Stag Beetle is implied to be part of the Death Metal group

Fun Zoids Facts:
- With Phase 1 (1983 ~ 1991) and Phase 2 (1999 ~ 2006) they want to make Phase 3 (2018~) the most successfull.
- It was revealed that Phase 1 sold over 19 million products for 39 billion yen in sales
- Phase 2 sold over 25 million products for 44 billion yen in sales
- Phase 3 is hoping to be the most successful yet, aiming for 50 billion!

App Details:
- Includes games and ZFX
- ZFX is the ability to record, edit, and upload videos of your kits, where you can add overlaying effects
- Contests will be planned for ZFX videos
- High rated videos may win special prizes

Figsoku, a popular hobby blog that often has early release information, has posted a teaser about an upcoming Zoids product. Let's hope this pans out. More information will supposedly be released next month, likely in CoroCoro.

[SteelRain]

Oooh, new design/s! Bit different from what we're used to, going by the face alone, but I kinda dig it. Green eyes and red lighting make me think Imperial, so maybe some more Battle Story? Anyone got any idea what the text says?

[Enbahan]

Looks interesting! Here's hoping for new Zoids!

[kpstormie]

Almost looks like a cross between a Sabre Tiger and a Lightning Saix...I'm cautiously optimistic. Do we know it might be a new line and not just another kitbash custom or anything like that?

I just don't wanna get all hyped up like I did when Field of Rebellion came out, that's all.

[kpstormie]

Okay, so I ran the image through some converter online that pulled the characters off so they could be ran through a translator and got this:

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Words that stuck out when I ran it through Google Translate are "constitution" and "state separation"  Google will only do so much and a native speaker or translator would have to decipher the rest to make sense of it...curse my lack of understanding Japanese.

Something tells me it's okay to speculate about a new Battle Story addition or something!

[pika247]

I'm not getting my hopes up too much, but attention has been gotten!

[Leon35]

Does anyone/any website have access to CoroCoro that will be able to be able to post scans?

[RPZ41]

If anything the Japanese community will post scans on Twitter.

Wonderfest is coming up soon as well, so we may get a hint as to what this entails then. If not CoroCoro will just give us the full scoop.

I do hope it’s a new line, even if it will destroy my wallet.

[Leon35]

Just some quick expectations/hopes

1) Motorized vs Poseability

I love the engineering behind motorized kits, just not their execution. Walk cycles are usually awkward or barley functional, and bigger zoids are often lopsided. I hope the new kits take a page from Dos Godos or the Masterpiece Zoids. And if not, abandon the motorized aspect altogether. I say this only because all non-HMM Zoids lines since Rebirth ended with cancellations, and it would be nice for Zoids to stick around longer this time.

2) Scale

While I know this is an unpopular opinion, the MSS line is my favorite toy line from the whole series. The kits were very affordable, well painted, and well put together. I prefer zoids at the 1/144 scale, as I no longer have shelf space for 1/72 Zoids. I would even settle for 1/100.

3) Quality & Price

Anything on par with HG or 1/100 Gunpla kits. Decent color separation, good engineering, affordable, interesting builds

4) Modular Weapons and armor

Since 2015, Bandai has been redesigning older HG models in order to bring them up to the same level of quality as newer ones. Bandai sells weapon and armor packs that are compatible with nearly every HG since. The skill ceiling for kitbashing is lower because of the ease of part interchangeability and universal joints. No Zoid designs, new or old, should return without the same intention.



Basically, all I want is for Zoids to avoid the same pitfalls that have led to it fading into obscurity and cancellation so many times before.

[Hanyoutai]

Scans usually show up on Twitter.

No, we don't have any concrete information, and we don't know that it's not some kind of custom. It doesn't appear to be a kitbash though. There isn't a single part that I can find that matches any existing Zoid model kit. The teaser on Figsoku says "New Zoids Development!" I've changed the first post to read 'Product' instead of 'Line' like the title to cause less confusion.

There's a lot of wild speculation in the comments on Figsoku, but I think it might do more harm than good to post any of it here, since I'm pretty sure it's all just conjecture anyway.

To me it looks like some kind of wolverine with the long incisors~

"X物をXうするとい眼、黄金に光る牙、すベてを切リ裂くツメ、そして...野生の王者たる"XX"!! メカか野獣か?
次号、ヤバいXXがキミの日常にやってくる!!"

"XX, With glowing golden fangs, and claws that can rip through everything... This Wild King "XX"!! What is this mechanical beast? Next issue, XX will come to your everyday life!"

Or something like that.

OCR just won't pick up japanese text this small most of the time. I took another crack at it, but the text is very incomplete since X marks the kanji I couldn't make out the radicals for. Poor Google Translate, goooo.

My hopes are for an action figure series. I wouldn't mind motorized, certainly wouldn't say no to it, but it's... it's just not working-

[Vig]

So that's what this is, I just saw it being retweeted around and though oh awesome kitty zoid without really thinking too much into it. Guess I'll just keep en open mind and hope for the best. Really really hope it's something though because it's beautiful.

[empirewolf13]

So it may not even be a zoid ? Or does it for sure say zoid ?

[Hanyoutai]

I don't think there's any doubt. Figsoku said it was a Zoids development. You can also see the huge Z from the Zoids logo over the image. The rest of it may be cropped, but I'd be very surprised if there's another Zoid-looking series that starts with Z and has the same split-in-half logo design. The series also quite often refers to the zoids as 'Mechanical Beasts' in the written media.

I'd try to pick up the magazine, but honestly I don't know which iteration of Corocoro it comes from, since there are multiples. Corocoro Aniki, like the Masterpiece Zoids debuted in, maybe?

[Snowflake]

It looks weirdly chibi. The head is right up against the forearms

[Maethius]

Falcarius! Can you give this a read?

Looking at the larger shot on ZPH, the cap looks like hard plastic (weathered) but the structure of the legs feels like Blox... the detail is minimal, and there doesn't seem to be a real knee joint. Could be chibi. I was wondering if it is a new release or just an ad for a custom to be published next issue... they've done that before.