| “ | Fly! Shooting Proud Star! | ” |
— Shinkuro Minami in Hyper Dash! Yonkuro
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The Shooting Proud Star (シューティングプラウドスター, also known as 誇星 in the manga) is a Mini 4WD PRO car released by Tamiya in 2015.
It was featured in the manga Hyper Dash! Yonkuro as Shinkuro Minami's machine.
General info
The Shooting Proud Star is the sharper and modernized version of the Dash-3 Shooting Star which produces less drag. As with its predecessor, it has the CoroCoro Dragon mark and the stylized '3' mark on the bodyshell.
The main air-intake has been extended to the middle and above the canopy. Side air-ducts are also incorporated into the bodyshell and designed to dissipate heat from the batteries while running. The bodyshell is mainly in white with blue stripes and some silver parts. The damper props was also present but with a much simpler design.
It was also the first Mini 4WD car on the MA Chassis to have large-diameter wheels (the white 4-spoke MS-type II) and Avante-type slick tires equipped by default. Like the Blast Arrow, the sub-parts of the chassis were molded in blue color.
In the manga
In Hyper Dash! Yonkuro, Kaidanji Sumeragi shows the Hyper Dash machines (including the Shooting Proud Star) to the Dash Warriors members, however, he thinks it's not the time to give them to his team, much to Yonkuro and everyone's surprise.[1]
During the race between Yonkuro's Dash-1 Emperor and Kill Crow's Night Seek Trigger inside Tamiya Plamodel Factory Shimbashi shop where Mr. Sumeragi works, Kill Crow becomes frustrated and couldn't accept the fact that Yonkuro's car overtaken his car. He attempts to detonate his own car using his cellphone but fortunately, Shinkuro arrived just in the nick of time and knocks the cellphone off of Kill Crow's hand with his new car, the Shooting Proud Star.
Kill Crow however managed to detonate his car with his wristwatch, causing an explosion from inside the model shop. Luckily, Shinkuro, along with Yonkuro, Mr. Sumeragi and Omaezaki, escaped unscathed, while Kill Crow goes missing.[2]
During the race on the first course of Dark Dominion Castle race at Shinkuro's house (which was taken over by Dark Dominion, much to Shinkuro's dismay), Yonkuro's Emperor got damaged by the dragon series Mini 4WD cars. Fortunately, Shinkuro's Shooting Proud Star, now attached with the Shooting Container Booster (Which itself contains the reinforced parts for Yonkuro's Emperor), arrived in just time to provide and modified the Emperor into Rise-Emperor.[3]
Like the rest of the Hyper Dash machines, it was equipped with the MA Chassis made of carbon-mixed nylon plastic.
Technical Info
Length: 156 mm
Width: 97 mm
Height: 49 mm
Chassis: MA Chassis
Gear Set(s): 4:1
Gallery
Boxarts
Car views
Images
Artworks
Trivia
- It was chosen to be a cover car for the 2015 season of Tamiya Japan Cup.
- It is the first MA Chassis car to be equipped with large-diameter wheels by default.
- It is the first Mini 4WD car to be designed by Hiroyuki Takei since Dash-3 Shooting Star.
- In the CoroCoro Aniki's 2nd issue, the sketch design of Shooting Proud Star used the MS Chassis instead of MA Chassis.
- The Eternal Ryusei Kaiser card that was included in the DMX-22 Super Black Box Pack of the Duel Masters TCG was based on Shooting Proud Star. Interestly, Hiroyuki Takei was the one who did the card's artwork.
See also
References
- ↑ Hyper Dash! Yonkuro chapter 1
- ↑ Hyper Dash! Yonkuro chapter 2
- ↑ Hyper Dash! Yonkuro chapter 3