It’s never too soon to start the hype for the year’s biggest biannual figure and garage kit expo, and Kaiyodo kicks things off in their typically sparse style with a minor update to their official Wonder Festival page. We get a first glimpse of the new Wonda and Reset designs that will grace the event catalog on February 24th, as well as some interesting attendance statistics: they expect 43,000 people to come to the event this winter (up from 36,500 two years ago), and will be occupying five of the six East halls of the Tokyo Big Sight. As the event approaches the next official update we can expect will be over at Kaiyodo.net, so we’ll keep an eye open early in the new year for that. If you’re looking for some time to kill in the interim why not check out our coverage of Wonder Fesival 2007 Summer? (no more)
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Looking forward to it already, i should be at this one! :)
woohoo! Guess I should plan some fund transfers so I can be ready for the rush after the event. Looking forward to potential gundam 00 kits and assorted others!
>>InsaneLampshade
Awesome, hope to see you there!
>>gundamjehutykai
I’m sorry to say that no Gundam kits have come from any recent Wonder Festival, as Bandai has a strict policy against circles selling Gundam-related merchandise outside of Bandai sponsored events (such as the yearly Chara Hobby).
Thankfully, as we reported over the summer, they seem to have relaxed this restriction when it comes to some of their other properties (Code Geass in particular). Perhaps a sign of less rigid restrictions overall, though as long as they make so much of their money from their hobby divisions (both plamo and character figures) I’m not holding my breath.