The Dengil Empire received a lot of design attention, but no model kits whatsoever. This was an arena that fans had to completely fill on their own with DIY garage kits in later years. All known Dengil models are presented here.
Plenty of new products were readied for Final Yamato, but the enormous amount of competition from other anime was consuming a lot of resources. The experience of Yamato III had shown that children were pretty much out of the picture by this time, so all the products were oriented toward older fans.
Merchandising for Final Yamato was light for two basic reasons. First, the fans were getting older and second, many of the previous items were still available. This allowed the new product line to aim for a higher degree of sophistication since they would most likely appeal to older teens and adults.
Part 8: Finishing Touches Final Yamato gave Bandai and its Yamato customers one last spin on the dance floor. Of the kits that concluded a very successful ten years, only one was new, but now that Bandai had become an industry leader, there was plenty more to come.
In 1985, previously-unseen Yamato animation appeared exclusively at Taito game centers in Japan, in a now-extinct Laserdisc game based on Final Yamato. It’s no longer possible to play it, but enough pieces survive for us to examine this amazing artifact from beginning to end. [2 pages]
In 1981 and ’83, Bandai released two Yamato games unlike any that had come before. Between them, both games gave players the opportunity to recreate all the saga’s major space battles using cardboard chips, a space backdrop, a set of rules, and a pair of dice. See these games in all their boxed-up glory here.
