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    Woohoo!!! Me too - and I might get an extra week off from work to do this custom FB2012 paint scheme before I start back!!!! This has jumped to the front of my work bench. So excited.
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    Did someone say decals?! As in waterslide... or only stickers??!
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    Every time I go to try and pay, I get a site is down for maintenance - is anyone getting this message?
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    Nothing I see so far says they are models. Really over the top thick trench lines for the panel lines, their layout is nonsensical in terms of real world aircraft. I really don't see the difference between these and the Yamato toys other than less sturdy hinges. I am however overjoyed that Hasegawa will take on the VF-25 line though - now they "know" aircraft and can produce "real" models!
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    So those that ordered with Nippon Yasan when can we expect a request for payment (for those that didn't pay out right away)? Should we expect a request for payment ahead of time or a few days after the 25th? They will send an e-mail to request payment right? They don't expect us to go to their website to do it do they?
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    DX VF-25G

    wm cheng replied to zulu's topic in Toys

    I wonder why there are still so many VF-25Gs around but there is like no VF-25S anywhere other than hugely inflated prices? Are they really having that hard of a time selling out the VF-25Gs?
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    Thanks! (its hard not to take some of the comments personally)
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    I thought it look fantastic (but I always knew it would). ILM really out did themselves (although there was a little too much Transformer motion in the last shot). I thought it look visually spectacular. It comes out on my birthday! Please everyone, at least go see it to make up your minds (if anything, at least show Hollywood in the pocket books that there is indeed a market for robot movies - then they might make something you'd like, or at the very least, pay for my toy collection )
  9. wm cheng
    What? I didn't know about it either. Thanks for the heads up now though. Ended up getting it here; http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=NEOBK-1388324 Shipping is cheaper than Amazon.jp and had some points leftover from the Macross BluRay.
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    Yes, definitely! UPS is worst than FedEx, but both are ridiculous (I've had to pay more than the cost of the item being shipped on more than one occassion!) It really is highway robbery and its not like I live in an igloo in the middle of the arctic circle?!
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    Imagine if this was a Valkyrie?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iAvG0buqa2Q#!
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    Woohoo!! Love 72nd scale, but I guess it will be Bandai eh? Oh well, they did ok with their EX kits, just still rather "anime" looking.
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    Hey if you drove it up here I would give you a personal tour of my model collection ;-) Good thing I bought 5 - the brokerage would have been the same if I only bought 1. They work great! A little loose maybe (I would guess that's the tolerance of the 3D printing process?), but nothing a piece or two of paper within the openings couldn't take care of. Very sturdy, more so than the stands themselves, you might be able to shave down some of the side walls a bit or add some "ribbing" (vertical strips) within the holes to take up that looseness that can be "compressed" when the pegs slide into the hole. The VE-1 leans a little due to the looseness and the off-centre axis of the Yamato adapter's peg, but I'm sure a pieces of paper wedged inside the opening will cure that - I just wished Yamato placed the stand adapters closer to the toy's natural centre of gravity!
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    What you're seeing and criticizing is the result of "many hands" at work and the results of enumerable meetings with comments from every executive in the industry. That is the unfortunate reality of a "Hollywood" movie nowadays. Everyone who has a say (or stake) in the film will always put his/her "stamp" on the designs - regardless if its educated or not. That's why there is little coherence in today's Frankenstein designs - we are not a monolithic culture like Japan was in the 70s and 80s. So one must always take that into consideration when comparing designs. I'm just surprised that it's really Guillermo's uniquely "Mexican/Spanish" take of giant robots that has still come through this horribly reductive process - and its just slightly different to the mainstream Hollywood robots out there! (which is a remarkable feat if you ask me!) Trust me, anyone can design in a vacuum, it's precious few that can survive the arduous process through production. (unless you've got a powerful dictator with good taste like Steve Jobs on your side)
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    THANKS EXO! Just got my stands and I can't wait to try them out. However a little word of warning for Canadian residents. I was dinged with a $15.31 customs, duty and brokerage fee from UPS at the door! It was $10 alone in just brokerage fee, then $4.01 GST and an additional $1.30 in "brokerage GST" (WTF?!), so it all ended up costing $53.74cdn for five of them, or just over $10 a piece (a little shocking in the end). I wished I knew, I would have paid it anyways for these great parts, but I just hate being nickled and dimed every step of the way!
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    Hey, they used some of my bits and pieces SketchUp designs directly in that blueprint!! Too bad its an older outdated version, I don't get why Marketing doesn't co-ordinate with the rest of production?! Gettin' excited, it comes out next year on my birthday too.
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    Hey, you can't say its a Bay-bot! (and that's a good thing - even if its old school ;-)
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    Then you can make one on Shapeways to adapt to the Gundam stands too! ;-)
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    Thanks so much EXO! Just ordered the 5 set bulk pack (shipping Dec 3).
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    YES! there should be a hottest list...
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    Why does everyone hate You Only Live Twice? I loved that, am I the only one? That volcano set by Ken Adams is legendary... stainless steel monorails and central spine cantilevered stairs in the 60s - he's a futurist!! Little Nellie - aw come on, who doesn't want a rocket launching gyrocopter that you can pack up in your briefcase! It perfectly played up the space race of the 60s and the cold war suspicions by the superpowers. Its the most often copied and alluded to elements of James Bond in all popular culture (evil stroking the white cat, flesh eating paranahs, in Japan Men come first...) come on! Ok, I'm off my rant box now... calm down...
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    Wow! amazing... but over $900 when finished, assuming they are still in publication for 85 weeks...
  23. wm cheng
    How much is HLJ's EMS rate?
  24. wm cheng
    THANKS! Exo - are those clear? Do shapeways print in clear? I didn't know the gundam stands come in clear either. They look fantastic! Can't wait.
  25. wm cheng
    Woohoo! Can't wait to see it. Thanks so much EXO! How much do you think it will cost?
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