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Can someone just ask Bandai why they're being such a bunch of A�
jenius replied to Lupin The Third's topic in Toys
Sorry, I don't know anyone who actually works for Bandai. It sounded like a friend of mine was out drinking with either people from Yamato or people from FREX or TREX or whoever it is that did the designing. Even my buddies in Japan have had a hard time preordering some of the newer Bandai items. -
The 17D just became the worst selling Yamato valk ever.
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My video review is now up on youtube and both videos have been added to the post on anymoon. If you haven't checked it out yet you should! The article has a bit more color than the videos.
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Yeah, wasn't easy for me to find on YouTube either.. I must need to tag things better or get more popular or something.
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Sorry, its on YouTube and I'm at work so I'm not able to figure out how to do this on my phone. Try this
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I put up a transformation video last night for anyone still having issues in beautiful 1080p. I'll update my anymoon post with embeds of that and the video review later tonight.
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The 1/48s probably no, it's been a while since we've seen one (we may see a 1/48 V2 at some point though... stranger things have happened). The 1/60 V2 Max might get re-released... history tells us that generally when the secondary market gets pretty hot on a toy Yamato eventually gives us a reissue.
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I noticed the same thing with the swing bars but it was pretty minor.
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I have preordered through a friend in Japan.
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I agree, this needs more white. In battroid the little chest cover flap should be black with the jolly roger not the section above it. Its a neat scheme... I'll try to get it, but I think it could be better.
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My post is up on anymoon. I'm hoping to have a video review up tomorrow. I'm also planning on doing a separate video walk-through of transformation separate from the review as hopefully a sort of instructional video. We'll see when I can get the videos up though... this toy takes so long for me to transform still that it's hard to find enough free time for it.
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You're very lucky, I didn't even get mine to GERWALK before the first wing fell out.
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No, but the chest is an absolute bear to transform, you sure you have it all locked together right?
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Talking about msrp in terms of dollars isn't wise since the Japanese economy looks to be hitting some hurdles and the exchange rate may be different six months from now. I'm guessing 27,000 yen.
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I hear yamato will announce msrp at wonder fest 7/30
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I'm guessing you can pop out those parts on the 35 Max toy to install red shoulder custom armor that was never sold separately? At any rate, I've got my DMZ-01 review up on anymoon. It's kind of a placeholder right now as I'm just going to update that one review with thoughts on all the DMZs eventually. Please let me know if you see anything I failed to mention.
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I got an email from YesAsia cancelling my preorder... fortunately the next email I received was notice the other one I ordered was prepping for shipping. Man Bandai... you are not making this easy.
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Was that Corvette driver just being too shy with the accelerator? It looks like the first time he couldn't get the tires to spin at all and the second time he hooked up when he definitely didn't want to. I've never drag raced at a track but generally when I want my tires to spin I just rev the motor up and drop the clutch... do you do it differently when you're in the blocks? I'm a little out of touch on the art of it all, I've been driving an all wheel drive four banger with an automatic trans for about a decade now.
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I hear they're planning for this to be released on the last possible day in 2012 so maybe that'll help.
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For now I'm passing on the 19F and 17D but if a YF-29 Focker comes up I'm going to do my darnedest to preorder!
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That theory works better if the V1s sold worse. The original V1 releases sold well enough to warrant reissues. The shelf-warmers of the group were the movie version Alto super parts bundle and to a lesser extent the Luca and Michael valks. The Ozma armor bundle was a rather quick mover also. From what I hear, Bandai has been very pleased with the Macross Frontier license in general despite several toys not hitting sales expectations... the V1 DX toys were not one of those which is why they get the renewal. Here's my guess at what happened: The economy tanked. Bandai reduce the number of plants they were working with. Since there are fewer plants they reduced production quantities so that they could continue to turn out product to support multiple licenses. As a byproduct, they've also reduced standing inventory further reducing storage, taxes, and various other overhead costs.
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That sounds like the worst idea ever.
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It's cool, it's always mentioned in the Macross threads how similar it looks to the VF-4G... it is quite possibly inspired by it.
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No, it's a Conbat from Mospeada. IIRC it's the vehicle Yellow crashed on Earth in, the non-transformable fighters of the second earth reclamation mission.