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  1. MacrossJunkie
    Is that basically an upsized version of the masterpiece seekers? That toy must be massive being at 1/48 scale.
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    Well, a lot of stores do that and it still doesn't help... They buy up the stock at the normal price and then sell it at a marked up value later.
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    That Zeta looks amazing. I told myself I would just get the Eta and that would suffice, but now that I see the pic for it, I want that too... I'm digging that gun as well. Didn't they say something to the effect that if the legioss does well in sales, then they'd likely do the tread?
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    Here's something I've been wondering about. A good majority of North American sites I go to have some form of captcha, like type the characters you see in the box or click all the boxes that have X. However, none of the Japanese sites (that I've gone to anyway) implement this. Wouldn't that stop the automated bot scalpers or at least reduce them if they used some sort of anti-botting captcha scheme?
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    Could be also to also extend the bullet travel through the gunpod and so provide greater accuracy and exit velocity. Out of universe, it's probably just because it's a cool gimmick.
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    I randomly saw his transformation vid for the Legioss being suggested on youtube, so I got curious. Prior to that, I had no idea the Sentinel Riobot version existed and thought it was an old vid about one of the older Legioss toys at first. I watched it out of curiosity and was surprised it was something completely new and was blown away from the engineering of it and how they managed to get the fighter proportions done so well. I blame him for my purchase of one too. If I hadn't seen it, I would have remained blissfully ignorant of its existence.
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    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?
  9. MacrossJunkie
    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.
  21. MacrossJunkie
    Lost it at HLJ. Spammed add to cart until it worked, but the cart page was really slow.
  22. MacrossJunkie
    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."
  24. MacrossJunkie
    hlj product page just won't load.
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    Access restriction due to high traffic...
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