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  1. Thanks for posting those. I wanted to do a Hi-Metal R review but I checked my Dual Model review for reference and discovered that it was not complete and what was there wasn't 100% correct. So then I pulled out all of those toys and now I have a great review of a toy no one has been concerned with for decades and still no review for the relevant toy. Sigh. The HMR is still high on my 'to-do' list.
  2. Maybe the invoices are going out by order date, I still don't have one and I checked all my inboxes to be safe. W00t, it just arrived... but definitely confirm what you get. My billing address was in Hong Kong (which isn't correct) and my shipping address is probably the first address I ever registered on their site and hasn't been relevant for three years. The shipping address on the invoice wasn't even active when I placed my order so where they pulled it from is a real mystery. I emailed them and asked them to update it. I'll also see if I can expedite the shipping so I can get a review up sooner than later but that might be asking too much. I think KC should shut down their web store... it's in bad need of an update and not inspiring confidence.
  3. I didn't get an invoice for my battlepods... Should I be concerned? Shows as "processing" in my order history.
  4. Bbts has it up now too so seems like exclusive in Japan but normal retail through WWM.
  5. Glad I wasn't alone there, I had to switch browsers to log into AE. I think we need to purge our cache or something after AE made a change to their site.
  6. It's TWE, if you placed an order it's likely from a retailer with a TWE account and you're in good shape. It remains to be seen if it will make it to other countries and, if it does, how.
  7. With the exchange rate and shipping times, it makes sense to grab from Japan when you can. If it's not SDF Macross or DYRL, it should be a worldwide release. It will be curious to see how the first WWM TWE item goes... (if it goes at all).
  8. A-E shows sold out to you once you buy it because they limit TWE to one per customer. It's still available for those that didn't grab one.
  9. BORING! Nah, after the VT-1 comes out I'll catch up on the DX VF-1 releases.
  10. All quiet on the bbts front, and I'm assuming it will be for a bit. I wonder if I'll get this up before the dx YF-21.
  11. It's a pale gray, would look white under bright photography lights.
  12. I got mine from bbts so I'm guessing I'll be waiting for a bit.
  13. Regular retail release. When I check the Tamashii link, I still see it listed as all regions though it looks like grogall is seeing something different.
  14. Happy about this... but it probably means I should re-buy a set of the old armor so I can compare it to the renewal version.
  15. HMR is like 1:90 scale. The Yammy V2 was 1:60... haven't looked at mine in forever to see if there are color variations.
  16. Are you looking for a source for the 'he decided to undermine it"? No, at that point it becomes my observation of how the force evolved over his films becoming less a spiritual power that could be tapped by true believers* and more a biological construct. I believe it was an interview with Spielberg where he says "I told George that The Force was so popular it could become a new religion!" but there are hundreds of similar things that were said. * Clearly there was more to it, even in A New Hope, but it's delightfully ambiguous.
  17. George Lucas got spooked after A New Hope when people started telling him that the idea of "the force" was so compelling it could become a religion. He then decided to undermine it with stuff that made it less and less compelling and/or inclusive before going full anime trope cliche with Anakin's "his magic score just hit 20K!" I just showed my kids The Phantom Menace last night.... OMG it's bad but the kids were mostly entertained and that was what George was going for. I just want to give them some primers so I can watch the animated Star Wars stuff with them.
  18. It's swappable.
  19. I bet this one can stay WWM. It's not DYRL (technically) and it's not SDF Macross so it's probably in the clear. It being WWM is the only thing I can think of that justifies it being done.
  20. Maybe now that this is out, Arcadia will finally be allowed to do a reissue.
  21. jenius

    Hi-Metal R

    When we were excited about BW going international, we didn't realize it meant a bunch of boring reissues.
  22. Definitely copied from kits, not sure if they paid the kit makers something but I would hope so. That doesn't impact the licensing though or that the toy versions were made and distributed by Toynami. Still, all these DYRL releases were more than a decade ago. Toynami has been off the DYRL license for a long time.
  23. No, Toynami did DYRL superposeables and 1/100 way back in the day, and Popbox did the DYRL Hikaru and Max figures, but that was well before the licensing issues were settled and HG was left only with Robotech specific rights.
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