Day 2 of Tokyo’s Wonder Festival 2010 brings some pictures of the Kotobukiya Booth‘s Evangelion related items. They had the Asuka, Rei, and Mari “Rebuild” statues that were also seen at the Kotobukiya booth at Wonder Festival last year along with a new Asuka statue of her in the “Test” plugsuit. However, probably the most interesting item is a set of Entry Plug Chopsticks that open up on the end to expose a tiny pilot inside. There are Asuka, Shinji, Rei, and Mari versions of these chopsticks. The expected release for these chopsticks are December and will sell for around 1260円.

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The 2010 Wonder Festival, an annual event to showcase and sell garage kit models among other things, started in Tokyo today. As to be expected, there were many Evangelion related items, including a rhinestone covered Evangelion Unit-01 head (pictured to the right). Another neat looking item is an Evangelion Unit-01 based on the design from ANIMA:

There’s also Asuka, Rei, and Mari figures, which is to be expected:

Fraulein Mari, Expected release on October 1st

Expected release in October

 

That's kind of cool

• Hobby Stock (Rei, Mari, and Asuka figures)
• Akiba Hobby Photos, and more (nice Black Rock Shooter figures and some cosplay)
• Dengeki Online, some more
• Moeyo and Dealer photos (WARNING: some of these may not be safe for work)
• More Photos (nice Lupin figures)

The “Life-Sized Evangelion” attraction at the Fuji-Q High Land amusement park in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan, near mount Fuji, has been completed. The entire attraction covers a 1460 square meter area and costs 150 million yen to make, which includes life-sized Seele monoliths, a life-sized entry plug that you can get in, some life-sized statues of some characters, and of course, a life-sized Evangelion Unit-01. The Eva is only a bust, about 9m high and 16m across, but it does open its mouth and breathe out some smoke. Oh, and there’s also some cosplay going on as well as the Augmented Reality. Currently, only the media has access to this Evangelion Pavilion. It will be opened to the public on Friday, July 23rd and the grand opening will be streamed live on Fuji-Q’s Ustream channel, scheduled at 7:30pm EST on July 22nd.

You can watch the completion movie at the fujiq.jp website. The previous movies during the construction:

• http://eva.fujiq.jp/movie1.html
• http://eva.fujiq.jp/movie2.html
• http://eva.fujiq.jp/movie3.html
• http://eva.fujiq.jp/movie4.html
• http://eva.fujiq.jp/movie5.html

And here are lots of pictures:

• http://response.jp/article/2010/07/15/142851.html
• http://gamez.itmedia.co.jp/games/articles/1007/15/news090.html
• http://mantan-web.jp/2010/07/15/20100715dog00m200018000c.html
• http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1007/16/news016.html

Source: Evangelion Urgent News

As an update to the ReelAnime 2010 announcement, Madman’s site has been updated with screening dates and locations for Evangelion 1.0 and 2.0, King of Thorn, Summer Wars, and Redline. The site also says that the English and Japanese voice actresses of Asuka, Tiffany Grant and Yuko Miyamura, will be at the Australian premiere of Evangelion 2.0 at the Dendy Newtown in Sydney on Thursday August 5th at 6:30pm.

• ReelAnime 2010 screening details

The Great Hotel Hakone, part of Prince Hotels and Resorts, located in the Hakone region of Japan, will start serving a set of lunches (between 11:30am to 1:00pm) with an Evangelion theme for 1,000 円.

There’s the “Lilith Pescatori” (pictured to the right), an “Adam Beef Curry”, and a “Garlic Char-Siu Ramen” (no idea how that’s Evangelion related, maybe the eggs are A-10 headsets?). There will be a limit of 15 dishes per day. Aside from fancy lunches, the hotel has a golf course, tennis courts, hot springs, and all the other stuff you’d expect a nice hotel would have.

Adam Beef Curry

Garlic Char-Siu Ramen

It seems even though the locals in Hakone protest, the tourism industry is still willing to tap into the lucrative marketshare of Evangelion fans. Who can blame them? They also sell Rei Ayanami and Asuka straps for 840円 at the hotel’s gift shop.

• Great Hotel Hakone
• Eva-themed Lunches

After announcing it 10 months ago, Madman has finally released information about their screenings of Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance in Australian theatres. The film is headlining their (almost) annual anime film festival, which will begin in September this year. King Of Thorn, Summer Wars, and Redline will also be screened during the festival. Madman has also stated that there will be limited screenings of Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone during the festival.

• Madman Blog Announcement
• ReelAnime Website

Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance (Japanese with English subtitles) will be screening in Montreal at the Fantasia Film Festival 2010 on July 10th at 12:00 PM at the Concordia Hall Theater. The screening will be the original 2.0 on 35mm film. The Concordia Hall Theater is located on 1455 de Maisonneuve O. in Montreal. Tickets will be $8 and can be bought either at the theater, by phone, or over the internet at admission.com (French).

The Fantasia Festival is North America’s largest film festival which plays genre films from all over the world. Fantasia Film Festival 2010 will last from July 8th to July 28th and include films such as “Gintama: The Movie”, Mamoru Oshii’s 2009 short film “Je t’aime”, Katayama’s “King of Thorn” and “Space Battleship Yamato Resurrection” among the list of over 100 films to be screened during the 22 day span.

• Evangelion 2.0 Film page.
• Ticket Info

Run’a Entertainment, who you may remember from the Evangelion race car article, has entered a Kawasaki ZX-10R painted to look like Unit-01 in the Coca-Cola Zero Suzuka 8-Hour Endurance Road Race, the third race in the 2010 QTEL FIM World Endurance Championship Series. The race lasts from July 22-25. Racers Shinya Takeishi, Tamaki Serizawa, and Yoshihiro Konno will ride the bike. See more pictures at the links below.

• ANN article
• Cinema Topics Online (original source)
• Eva Racing website

Evangelion: Complete 2.0 is being released this summer. Early orders will receive a woven bag and a film strip as a bonus. The books have over 650 total pages as well as art and posters by Sadamoto. It will, however, cost you a hefty 12,600円. You can find more details as well as (pre)order the book from here.

Forum member NAveryW was at Fanime 2010 and attended the Gainax Panel hosted by Hiroyuki Yamaga (Director of Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, Mahoromatic, Wings of Honneamise). He was kind enough to supply us a synopsis. (Click on “Read the rest of this entry” for to see the synopsis)
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