Scyla
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I wonder how many (if any) of the items preordered from amiami are sold by NY.
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I feel your pain with the high markup but now I feel slightly better for ordering a YF-29 just a few days before the announcement of the reissue. Strange. I think I should order another VF-25S when it's got a re-release just to have some spare parts if anything gets damaged on my display Valkyries. I already have a broken metal hip bar on my Alto that needs a replacement. Damn I should start do learn 3D modeling or Japanese to resolve the issue myself. I'm really hoping that my preorders show up in good shape and not missing any parts or are broken/bend right out the box.
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Psst don't tell me that will eliminate the whole fun of finding out. But now I'm a member of the secret society of secret things. *puts on an acolyte robe and hums*
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Man I' really stoked what the whole deal is with those PMs going around the MAcross World. Is it a secret treasure map to Bandais warehouses? An IE zero day exploit to allow shopping without any lags or the fear of getting booted out at the check out? A secret telephone number where you can reserve as many DX Chogokins as you like for the tiny price of your worthless Gajin soul? A drug that makes you believe you're Scrooge Mc Duck and instead of swimming in a pile of money you're swimming in a sea of Renewals? What is it? Its a mystery packed inside a mystery packed inside an enigma. But I will find out! *grabs the Indiana Jones hat and whistles a song*
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True but the situation that you pay more for a preoder than for a direct order is still strange to me. But that's the dynamic of the market and scalpers speculate and lose I guess.
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Look who's playing secret society here. It's kinda funny that Bandai (and the market) created a situation where you have to fill a preorder in for a markup and then you can buy it after release cheaper (see YF-29). Shouldn't it be the other way round? *dreams of the nice amiami preorder discounts*
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I'm glad that I have one already. Now I can sit back and watch the World burn. Macross World that is.
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If not Yamato then definitely Bandai. I have a few Transformers Masterpiece toys and in my opinion they are inferior to Bandais offerings (DX Chogokin Renewal Valkyries <=> Takara tomy Masterpiece) Yeah I know paint scratching is an common issue from Bandai items but the paint jobs on some of the Sideswipe Masterpieces were just horrid. Thanks but no thanks. And even if they could make Macross popular in the West due to HG has a sudden change of heard or would be burned out of reality with Balefire I shiver to think what Hasbro or even Toynami would do with the license. I honestly think that Bandai would achieve the best results with the help of some external design teams. On the other hand Bandai is such a huge company that the probably never green-light projects like Yamato did with all the obscure Valkyries and color shemes. You would probably need a small company run by fans for fans like.... Yamato
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Hm Lucas Messiah is scheduled for June and the preorder window opened in March right? So assume that the preorders for the reissue might start on the first of April. Ehm I mean on Monday. *cough*
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I assume that the prices will go down a bit if the whole buying frenzy is over and people realize that the don't need all the Valkyries that the ordered in a hurry. If you can't get a toy at MSRP maybe it would be a smart move to wait a few month before resorting to ebay. I guess the Yamato prices are at a peek at the moment. Everyone in the business is thinking that now is the time to make a bag full of money because of the uncertainty of the situation.
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Yes I'm glad that nothing changed on the other hand it's sad the didn't change anything because it would made the bird better in my opinion. Where did you order it from Blues?
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Thanks. I was actually looking for a stand where I could display the Valk in all three modes. But since it's gonna be my only Yamato Valkyrie (hopefully ) I could invest in a Masters Light House and put it on my desk hm...... but it might be a little bit too large for it.
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I feel the same way. With a shorter nose cone and filled gaps between the canards and the wings you pretty much have the T-50. The J-20 has a very stretched fuselage (especially in the jet engine part) that you don't find on the YF-30 in my opinion.
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Really? Can you post that email or point me in the direction where to find it. I'm trying to collect all the data available regarding the Bandai distribution madness. Thanks for the clarification.
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Seems like my VF-19S got shipped today. I must say I'm a little bit excited about the toy itself. Still have no idea where I can get a affordable priced stand for the Excalibur.
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They sure don't but maybe they wont stock the DX Chogokin Macross toys anymore because they don't want to cope with Bandais distribution system anymore. It was just an explanation why there would be additional stock even if HLJ had decided not to sell the line anymore.
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I guess this is bad news for the VF-27 Renewal. Or good news because they do it after the reissues. I don't know. What I know for sure is that I hate the reissue because now I'm no longer one of the few people with these awesome toys. *cries manly tears* Glad to hear that. Hope this shows that Bandai recognize that the Renewals are highly desired items and crank up the production numbers this time. After the preoder slot for the YF-29 reissues I doubt that but one can dream.
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I assume that was because some of the customers who preordered the YF-29 canceled their order. HLJ could have decided to abandon the DX line with the RVF-25 because of the preorder madness that gets worse with every release.
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This looks great. I curious how shapeways parts feel like. Your head looks really smooth. Does it come this way or do you have to sand it down a lot? Just have experience with the HP DesignJet 3D printers. What I don't like are the sliver accents on the head. from the pictures it seems they are the only parts on the plane that have this color. Black or white accents would work much better imho but that are personal preferences I guess.
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I thought the board members who can read Japanese said that in the magazine article Bandai announced the Packs for the CF version.
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I thought the same thing about the color but then I guessed he is talking about the RVF-25 CF not Lucas plane.
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Personally I don't understand MISB collector especially when the toy does not have a flip-top box. But just because I can't understand it doesn't imply that is a wrong way of collecting. What ever floats your boat I guess.
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I'm sure your order is fine.
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I'm glad if the Macross line was profitable for Yamato because that means that Arcadia will try to release more Macross stuff (or at least try to secure the molds and licenses). If Yamato really went bankrupt then it was due to the other toy lines. The discounts show that the shops that carried Yamato toys could not sell the batches that they ordered from Yamato. It is true that this is a problem for the shop not Yamato at first as you said. So I assume if shop XYZ (fictional numbers) ordered 50 units of Valkyrie ABC and could only sell it partially and they had to sell the rest at a discount. If the shop did not make a profit overall then it would make sense to me if they only ordered a smaller batch with the next release. That said almost all Macross 7 releases were on sale at some point. And I heard it several times on this very message board that people said they wait with their purchase until an item goes on sale. They where certain that the given toy would be available for discount at some point. I want to make clear that I don't blame anyone for this behavior! I don't know any sales data from Yamato or retailers but I get the impression that the Macross toys sold not as well as they expected. I don't know if it still was profitable. I'm hoping for the best.
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I would grab my VF-25S Renewal and run for my life. Then sell the Valkyrie on ebay and buy a new home from the earnings.
