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In the Japanese version, IIRC, Rey goes delirious from a lack of water.

I believe someone's speaking Robotech...

$4.40 per and there are 12 total (3xYF-19, VF-1J, and VA-3 + 3x Chase?). This does not sound like $50 well spent... meh, but what toy does seem like money well spent?

If memory serves HG wanted to release Yamato (and other manufacturer) products in the US and collect a licensing fee. BW/SN stepped in and said that any company that deals with HG/Tatsunoko will lose the rights to do business in Japan. So, this is the tale of two or more greedy companies, not just one.

Yes, every time the sword is shown it scares someone new. At this price point you should also get the dragon they were battling.

Oh I definitely agree, they definitely should have responded to at least let you know their stance on the matter. Customer service should be a fairly simple thing, I did it for a bit back in my dotcom days (although there certainly are an amazingly high number of people in this world who seem to get no greater entertainment than by harrassing customer service reps). Toynami doesn't get off the hook like Yamato does with the whole "We don't speak English" bit. If I were looking at them from a business perspective, I suspect they hire a bunch of CSR mules when they release products and then lay them off after the initial hot streak of sold/returned items. I had all my experience when toys were new releases. Again, not defending the practice.

at the price, I'm guessing all that is standard.

Toynami considers the Aoshima Legioss an Aoshima product if I'm not mistaken. I imagine if they did contact you they would tell you to contact Aoshima and Aoshima would tell you you're out of luck if you're outside of Japan. I have had MANY interactions with Toynami 'cause I have gotten MANY bum MPCs and Toynami replaced them all quickly for me. From what I understand their service did diminsh though. My MPCs had turn around times from 2 to 5 weeks but I've heard about people waiting much longer for Toynami to issue replacements. I think people were waiting 8 weeks + to get replacement cups for their 1/100 stands. EDIT - Not trying to defend Toynami's stance on the Aoshima here, just letting you know what I think is their reasoning behind not servicing it. As far as I know, the Aoshima Legioss is a Japanese product that is imported to the US by individuals in much the way Yamato products are. This wouldn't be the same as the Mega House product where I imagine Toynami would act as a distributor and thus be on the hook for servicing the item.

Wow, I missed the page where everyone else noticed that the price on these was 3000 Yen. Uh, I REALLY hope something gets revealed that makes me want these things about $12 more each than I currently do or else I'm going to be waiting to see these in the anime store bargain bins.

no, there is no news on a reissue. Seeing as the CF just got released I'd say you've got at least four to six months before you should even ask this question again. That's just my guess though.

The comment from collectiondx on that same article states the guy thinks he remembered hearing the $50 mark.

I believe they said it wasn't getting released until Q3..

In case anyone else isn't clear, before NY Toy Fare things looked like this: 1) CMs 1/18 Ride Armor Release in February 2) MH 1/15 Ride Armor Release in late Feb, Early March 3) Beagle 1/10 Ride Armor release in Q4 4) Toynami 1/12 Ride Armor release in Q4 (I might be screwing up the scale on these last two) After NY Toy Fare the situation is this: 1) CMs 1/18 Ride Armor released in February 2) MH 1/15 Ride Armor release expected in MAR in both Japan (through Mega House) and internationally (through Toynami) 3) Beagle OR Toynami Ride Armor release in Q4 in both Japan (through Beagle) and internationally (through Toynami)

If Bandai has Mac7 rights couldn't they make the VF-1 in Miriya's colors?

Is that English packaging? I see some Japanese writing on it and was under the impression it was just the Japanese box with a Toynami sticker slapped on it.

What I'm eager to hear about is how the landing gears on the Tread are being dealt with. Early pics had them just kind of loitering there... I hope they're at least removeable.

Of course that's all true, and I have no problem with capitalism being brutal, but it just seems like an incredibly inefficient way of doing things. This is already an elitist hobby (we're burning money on toys) and to make it that much less accessible just seems dick. To use that model in a way that benefits random Internet savvy folks in Japan instead of the company producing the toys seems less than ideal. Meh, hopefully it all evens out with some patience and everyone who wants it can get it at a "reasonable" price.

I was incredibly tempted to get the 25th anniversary valks from Kevin but I had money issues at the time. Those issues are now gone and I'd be amongst the first to preorder if this bird becomes available.

MacrossMan, that's probably something you should PM someone about.

As to the question about whether or not Yamato's distributions have been similar in the past there are only three valks that got odd treatment: 1) LV1 was limited in supply right from the get-go but it could be ordered by whatever company (in the greater Japan neighborhood) wanted to sell them. 2) CannonFodder VF-1A had some funky ordering convention that made sellers think it was going to be limited edition... either that or sellers just all got shady and tried to scare every one into preordering. Maybe one of our resident sellers could explain what all that hooplah was but it seemed that Yamato made everyone order in a different manner than usual which caused some buzz. 3) CF 1/60 TRU was obviously only available at TRU. In the end all became readily available. This seems like we'll probably get hit with at least a bit of a premium as it sounds like you'll have to pay shipping twice, once to the re-seller in Japan's house and then again to you. Hopefully we have some crafty sellers here (Kevin?) who have friends in the area who can get a big bulk buy together and then ship them via boat to us so the premium isn't too high.

No, that black mecha is from another show. I think it is the blurry green leg... that gun looks a wee bit like a destabilizer.

I've got no problem with the ones currently available. They probably weren't easy to get so why not make a buck? I just wish that when these were released to the general public they were actually made available to the general public.

Yes Exo, but not all are website exclusives that only ship to Japanese customers directly from Yamato as seems to be the implication here.

Who? I'm with DnD on this one (until we hear otherwise). It sounds like this is being set up so the couple decent re-sellers we know won't be able to get this through their normal channels and we'll be stuck jumping through hoops. CMs is doing the same thing to us with their green Legioss/Tread.

That'd be good news, I'd really like to see the feature. I like the look a lot but it's a shame it appears to have so many decals instead of tampo printing and relies so heavily on impfect transformation. A non-moving visor would be one more let down to heap onto the list.