50th Anniversary Exhibition, Hakata

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Exterior of the Marui Department store in Hakata, featuring a video billboard.

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Admission: standard price was ¥2000 for adults, ¥1000 for children. A ¥4500 yen ticket would get you an acrylic stand with an illustration by Hideaki Anno. A ¥10000 ticket would get you a set of six collectible “crew tickets.” Everyone who entered would get one of four bookmarks with production images (bottom left).

At right: new members who signed up for a Yamato-themed credit card with EPOS would get a set of 6 character quote cards.

Entrance to the exhibition space.

First display inside the exhibition space.

First section: “The Birth ” featuring pre-production development art.

Second section: “Take Off” featuring production art for the first four episodes.

Display case with art and storyboards from the first two episodes.

The rest of the exhibition was divided up as seen in previous venues, with a chronological presentation of production art and artifacts.

Background art paintings

Production materials from the final episode

Display case with production materials from Farewell to Yamato

Display case with production materials from Final Yamato

Exhibition store entrance

Some of the new products used illustrations by Kenji Tsuruta and Hideaki Anno.

Buttons with famous quotes (set of 85, ¥500 each)

A few REBEL 3199 products also snuck their way in.

Special event: on Sunday April 26, a pair of lectures were held with special guest Yutaka Izubuchi, whose design and directing credits stretch from Yamato III all the way to Yamato 2199. The entrance ticket featured an illustration by him done many years ago for a doujinshi project.