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  1. MacrossJunkie
    Yeah, it was only a week or two ago that I recall replying that $40 or so for DHL shipping seemed about right, in response to a post about DHL shipping being around that much. Then I get hit with this. I could understand another 20-30% markup or so over time, but this seems really sudden and this is a 85-90% jump in rates.
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    For the super tight shoulders, has anyone tried using some lubricant or would that just end up taking it to the opposite extreme?
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    Ugh... finally got my shipping quote from Mandarake for the Hikaru VF-1S I ordered. ¥7810 for DHL shipping. Wow, what the heck? I thought it would be around $40-44 for DHL as I've had in the past for similar sized/weight packages. Did they up their rates dramatically?
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    There's a separate symbol for after tax yen? I had no idea. I can't recall ever seeing it either. I tried googling it to see what it looked like but can't find anything about it.
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    It was a lot less than ¥40,480. I looked at my order receipt for the VF-0D from HLJ from back in 2014 and it showed ¥33,120, not including shipping.
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    The way I do it is I push down on the larger of the two doors a bit. Enough for me to pick at the smaller door with a fingernail and lift it up. After that, the big door is no problem. I too liked it initially for the better color than the ridiculous choice they went with for the first release. I naively thought that they could achieve what they showed in the official pics and the ones on display in the toy shows, but that was just wishful thinking. I'd have preferred if they just did the tampo printing (that's where most of the extra price went anyway if we're going by past PF releases that just had tampo prints added and no weathering). I hate straining my eyes and trying to cut out stickers perfectly and also try to perfectly align and place them so having it all done ahead of time like the Bandai releases would have been a godsend. I'm not going to complain that the price for a more complete tampo printed toy from Arcadia costs more than a Bandai DX release which all come fully tampo printed out of the box. The size of the two companies just can't be compared after all. It is what it is and I was willing to pay the premium for the tampo printing done on the premium finish. After receiving it and seeing for myself how it looks, I just wish they left out the half arsed weathering which wasn't really needed if they couldn't do it properly. I didn't pay attention to their past weathered releases, but now that I look at pics of them, they were comically bad too. Either far too heavy or looked like it was done by someone who had 40 cups of coffee in the span of two hours.
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    Which actually makes it worse, but they probably didn't/couldn't spend a whole lot of time on each one. We're probably talking about factory workers just being told what to do and not having people who have skill in custom weathering handle this. There are some areas that look particularly bad like the near solid black "streaks" on the air brake that are actually nearly non-existent at the point of origin and ending in a black pointed blob at the end away from the hole. They didn't even bother to wipe the touch points where they touched the brush to the panel lines to let the fluid flow through the panel lines so there's these round little touch points all over. You could probably argue that some of it is part of the weathering, but the way it looks, it seems less intentional and more like lack of care. Oh well, perhaps I'll just end up trying to fix it myself if I have the time and inclination to, though that can quickly turn into a nightmare trying to fix mistakes on already weathered toys.
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    Got my 0D from NY on Monday. Just opened it up. I'm not sure how I feel about the weathering as the official pictures and what they had displayed at shows looked a lot better, but I guess it's about what one should expect from a mass produced toy.
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    Ordered a Hikaru 1S from Mandarake a few hours ago... hopefully. Current status is checking stock and still waiting on an email for shipping cost. It was a store front item, but is listed as unopened but damaged packaging for 26,000 yen. That's a better price than at NY at least. If my order actually goes through, I'll have to worry about finding the FAST packs next.
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    Yeah, come to think of it. Back in the days of the Yamato 1/48 VF-1 releases when I used to be able to buy them from American online retailers, they'd usually arrive 2-3 months after the Japanese release because they'd be shipped via ferry.
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    Dang, I'm surprised the box isn't in worse shape than that, to be honest. I hope the contents came through intact at least.
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    Same, the web monitor I had put on BBTS dinged last night so I picked it up quick, It's my first and only one though. When are these supposed to come? The site says July, but I assume that hasn't been updated.
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    These Bandai pre-orders really do seem to get worse and worse with each release. I don't get why there's even a pre-order if they decide to make a miniscule amount that won't even satisfy 10% of the demand. These things are literally selling out in seconds each time. You'd think someone would have a clue and say "hey, we should make more!" But the boss probably says, "more profits?! Fired for that crazy talk!"
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    Well screw this. I'm saving $200+ I guess.
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    Lost it at HLJ. Spammed add to cart until it worked, but the cart page was really slow.
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    Sigh... I remember now why I took a 2 year break from this hobby. I might extend this to 3...
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    And clicking on Add to Cart from the search page for HLJ just gives me "The product wasn't found. Verify the product and try again."
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    hlj product page just won't load.
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    Access restriction due to high traffic...
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    Nope. I ordered mine on Sept 2019 and it's still in "Preparation in progress" and has been for many days now.
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    I swear, they must have one person packaging and shipping everything. ... and that person is a paraplegic trying to control robotic arms using voice commands.
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    They better not go down before shipping my VF-0D!
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    I made the mistake of clicking that link instead of relying on my web monitor. My page got stuck in spanish and I couldn't figure out how to change it back. It was gone by the time I figured out how. lol.
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    I did. However, Nippon Yassan still has made no movement with this. Not even a processing order status. Is this the same for everyone else that ordered from them? I'll get back into weathering when I get a new airbrush. The one I was using is having airflow issues and I haven't been able to get proper support with regards to fixing it. Edit: okay wow... I just went back and read through the last couple pages. I guess NY has been really dropping the ball here....
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    Man, I'm really late to the game here. I'm glad the 31A is a web exclusive so I didn't miss out on it, but wtf is the deal with the 31J Kai? That makes no sense whatsoever...
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