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Personally I prefer the sleeker more aircraft like forms of Bandai offerings to the chunkier squatter forms of Arcadia (of course it was line-art designed that way). However I find the Bandai's more "playable", they seem more durable due to the die-cast content and more replica like due to the amount of tampo printing. The Arcadias look more like "toys" because they are rather bare in terms of marking and chunky, but the transformation process makes you have to treat them with kid gloves - so they don't play like toys. I feel this is the worst combination, looking like toys, but you have to really be careful with them (maybe its partially because they are so expensive!). But I want my toys to look like replicas that I can actually "play" with.
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Wow! It looks like they've addressed all my concerns about the Arcadia version, sleeker (less chubby), no intake lip and more tampo. I was never happy with my Arcadia YF-19 - especially considering how much I had to pay for it, but with the pre-order shenanigans I don't know if I can even get a hold of one of these. No matter how much it is, its not going to cost more than Arcadia - and it looks better (win, win!)
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Thanks Duymon! Ordered my 3... man, they've jacked up the shipping! They must be in huge boxes...
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Can anyone tell me anything about this? http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4499231493/ref=pe_620922_174472542_em_1p_2_im Is it models or drawings/artwork of the mechanics? Does anyone have it? Is it worth getting?
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Any reports on the black triangles?
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Macross Δ (Delta) - announcement thread
wm cheng replied to renegadeleader1's topic in Movies and TV Series
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I don't have a VB-6 either, but there's no rush to pre-order this right? It will be open right up and past American Black Friday? Just in case it goes on sale then?
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Ah, perfect! What a great idea, mind if I copy you?
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Isn't it just greed and profiteering? I don't think foreign sales even registers on their radar (especially with the licensing issues) so comparing the yen to foreign currencies is kind of mute. Don't they just cater mostly to sales within Japan?
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I'm looking forward to this one - nicely different, really lends itself to more of a tank/armored vehicle kind of weathering. Especially with all the nicely tampoed markings that Bandai provides!
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Oh ok, thanks! It seems like its been a while since we got our YF-30 - I'm looking forward to this one.
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It's out already? I didn't get any shipping notice, only Payment OK.
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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
wm cheng replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
Wow! Beautiful as always!!! Almost enough for me to take mine out of the case and weather and decal it... Love dark valks! -
Is this going to be a replay of the renewal pre-order madness or is this a sane and sensible pre-order?!
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Thanks, at just over 3,800 to ship EMS, HLJ is only 900Y cheaper than NY - not bad considering NY will save me $40-50 in customs/duties/brokerage.
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So how much is HLJ charging for shipping? (by which method?) NY charged 4,700Y for EMS.
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Thanks that's good to know. Wow, $20-30 as a min. - what country is that? I thought we had it bad in Canada.
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Can't wait to see what you do with your 1/350! Its funny how much more detailed the 1/500 is than our old 1/350 - kind of puts it to shame.
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Does anyone know what the cancellation policy is on NY? https://www.nippon-yasan.com/cms.php?id_cms=10 It doesn't say anywhere but it does say I have 15 days to pay when I receive the payment notice before your order is cancelled. Does that mean I can just cancel it anytime before I receive payment notice (15 days before release?) ie; if HLJ does their Black Friday sale and IF the VF-0 is include and IF its actually a sale of more than $40-$50 off.
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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
wm cheng replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
Yeah, I saw that a while ago, but I thought it was just too fussy and involved too many steps. I'm trying to send it out to a dry transfer manufacturer - we just used them on the last show I was on to do a control panel button lettering and it turned out pretty good - but of course that lettering was 100X bigger than what I want to do. And because its a small personal project, its on their backburner - argh. -
Well, actually its my floppiest valk in my collection. I love they way it looks (although it still has the giant trench panel lines of the 1/48 era toys) but I can't even pick it up without the neck/forward fuselage flopping down, let alone zooming it around the room. I sure hope they've improved it since the original VF-0 - otherwise I'd sure be disappointed if they just stuck delta wings onto the old toy and decided to charge twice as much! Please, pls can someone beg on my behalf on twitter to Mr. K to make water-slide decals available as an option (I'd gladly pay for them!)
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1/48+fp's, 1/60+fp's, 1/72, 1/2k, 1/3k,1/100 and now 1/144
wm cheng replied to VF-18S Hornet's topic in Toys
Congrats MJ! That's the best looking YF-19 I've seen to date. Having all those markings really elevate it from a ridiculously expensive kids toy to a real adult collector's item. It looks simply fantastic, you should be proud. I can't wait to start in on mine... someday... I've re-traced all the Arcadia stickers in Illustrator to vector files, and I'm hoping to try out a guy that does "rub-on" transfers to see if he can do a opaque white now that Alps printers are no more but its taking forever for him to get back to me. I wish Anasazi was still around... (I'm so NOT looking forward to the VF-0D having to source out decals for that puppy especially since its a dark valk). It's been so disheartening to see mine naked especially after how much I had to paid for it. -
Unfortunately I know you're right... but its MW, I can bitch & complain can't I?! It really bugs me, can't they just include water slide decals as well - how much more would it really costs them to include that? AND what's with providing stand adapters to stands that they never include nor can we actually buy anywhere in stock? They're just laughing at us sayin' haha you can never use these adapters. I just don't get why everyone hates Bandai, for 1/3 the price they tampo print EVERYTHING and include a stand. You lucky U.S. people... you just don't understand the woes of paying an extra $40-50 per toy every time to the government that actively tries to prevent things you want from entering the country just because it doesn't have French on the label.
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Thanks Charger69 - just bit the bullet on ONE. Came out to the same price as the YF-19 shipped - at least I'll save $40-50 in duties with NY - I can't imagine HLJ will have a $40-50 discount. This better be better than the YF-19... - I'm only giving Arcadia one more chance because I do love the VF-0D design so much. Please, please tampo print more than just the UN Spacy Kites.
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Wow, still no stand at that price... just a stinking stand attachment, really?!
