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    FromJapan came through for me. Thank goodness. Zenmarket failed. No high expectations, as they have not been very good with time-critical orders this whole Covid season. When Zenmarket failed, I ordered straight with Luna-Park. That was before I saw the Hobby-Genki link, & wished I have ordered with them instead. Hopefully Luna-Park delivers, fingers crossed come July next year.. Just a side-note, for NY to sell out so early, they must have changed their policy somewhat on taking as much orders as possible & hopefully try to fulfil it somehow. Not that it matters much, as they are already pretty much off everyone's list.
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    What a bit of a curveball the fan racer makes haha.. As this item is going to be released only in July 2021, will mean it will be outside the Paypal protection window for all the upfront payments now, so really need to look doubly hard to PO at all the new alternative stores carrying it. No doubt, using Paypal backed by CC means there is that CC protection as a fall back, but I suspect not all CC are that painless to file back a claim. Really depends on your issuing bank..
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    Just got notice from AE today about my TV Supers being in stock as well. So I suppose not all stocks arrive to them at same time, which is understandable depending on their methods to get around the P-Bandai order limit.
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    Love the edit you did there @no3Ljm
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    When blown up on the big PC screen, it's the best vicarious experience!
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    Another great pic! What figures are those? Never seen them before..
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    Great pic @tekering!
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    Minmay to be Tamashii Web Exclusive
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    Here's hoping this DX YF-21 will not be stillborn like the Hi-Metal version they showed off years ago. What a shame it would be since this DX was shown already all painted up and look to be nearing release instead of just an early prototype grey mold..
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    Tenso can be pretty pricey, when all the fees are added up. Other proxies, for eg FromJapan or Zenmerket are ultimately a fair bit less in fees as compared to Tenso. Difference is, with Tenso, you do the buying yourself and have it forwarded to your Tenso address. For the other proxies, you give them the link to the item you want & they do the buying for you, but this whole process has a typical elapsed time of a few hours. So, Tenso would be good for items with time sensitivity (PO nights!), whilst other proxies work just fine if you know item is still going to be up for some time.
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    Macross Miniatures

    MKT replied to EastwindS2k's topic in Toys

    Another great post! I love how you are tackling the peripheral aircrafts in Macross..
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    Looks like the Fewture Garlands are turning out to be a bit of a dud.. Prices just keep falling. New ones can be picked up at Mandarake for only 20k yen. Double or triple helpings anyone? https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1148741359&ref=dos&keyword=art storm garland&lang=en No doubt, the hefty shipping costs for it during these times likely contribute to its further price drop..
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    Yup it was from Mandarake, at 12k yen. They still have the normal paint version for Priss: https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1148924269&ref=list&keyword=Yamato bubblegum crisis&lang=en I’m really hoping Arcadia would revisit the Motoslaves next, just as they did for the Garlands.
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    1/55's revisited

    MKT replied to kanata67's topic in Toys

    Somehow, looking at these pics are so satisfying! Love the old-skool chunky poses
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    I'm still quite on the fence for the rest of squad. Despite how they appear in the anime, on the toys the flatter colors on the bikes look incongruous with their respective metallic-colored hardsuit figures.. On other hand, if another metallic version Priss comes up, I would be more inclined to go for it again for different mode display..
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    This just arrived: I had always hemmed & hawed on the rare instances a Yamato Motoslave becomes available. On one hand, I like Aramaki’s designs of all his transforming bikes, yet Yamato’s Motoslaves always look just a bit too plain & drab in its colours. So when a Priss metallic version showed up at Mandarake recently, which I did not even know existed before this, I had to grab it. And what a beauty it is! The metallic candy red, plus the additional paint detailing on other areas really makes the bike pop. How I wish Yamato also released metallic versions of the other bikes.. Now to see if the Figma versions will ever see the light of day, after being previewed some years back..
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    Ditto on both points above..
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    Hi-Metal R

    MKT replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    If the line's a slow seller, the problem can be easily solved by making all remaining releases a Tamashii web exclusive. Let the fans complete the collection after so many years.. I've been casually collecting the SHFiguarts Street Fighter line, and there were quite some shelf warmers with rather steep discounts. Yet that didn't stop Bandai from continuing the releases under web exclusives, all with increasingly higher prices. The latest, Sagat, is already the 4th straight web exclusive for this line..
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    Love the color you used for the low-vis custom. This shade of grey is perfect & looks better than the 1/60 version.
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    More and more I'm thinking I should at least start picking up some painting skills, so won't be so much bothered about paint imperfections or scratches. But maybe I'm not bothered enough yet to pick it up.
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    Bingo! Because this describes about roughly same experience I had many years ago. I had a couple of figures being out in a room with indirect but still bright ambient light for about couple of years, and then one day I noticed they started to turn just ever so slightly yellow. I removed them to another room that have no sunlight at all, and in just a matter of short 1-2 months, it yellowed significantly. @BlueMax mentioned on previous page that exposing yellowed items back into ambient light reverses the yellowing to some degree. So it seems UV light both causes & reverses yellowing. Now I am sitting here wondering, perversely, if I should just have left my two yellowed items out in the bright room. Yes, they would continue to yellow, but perhaps not as rapid as if I removed them into a dark place, if that makes sense at all..
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    What a great weathered piece @MacrossJunkie! It's rare to see a black piece that really pops & stands out like that. I for one love the SV-51's gangly battroid mode. Perhaps not as much if its the only valk around, but more as part of the large variety of valks Kawamori gave us over the years. Many are unique enough in its own way & stands out in my personal head cannon, and the SV-51 is really one of it!
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    I second this. Bandai's valks, especially from Frontier era, do tend to have more random, minute imperfections - scratches, dents, warped pieces, loose pieces, inconsistent panel gaps etc. It feels like they are more loose in visual QC during assembly stage at the factory. Which I think are not that out of place compared to other general non-Macross toys & figures. It's just Chogokins are on average pricier, even more so now, that the expected standards are naturally much higher. Yamato/Arcadia really shoot for higher standards, and one of the things I'm always impressed with are the small, & generally very consistent panel gaps. But sometimes it feels they push tolerances too far, and failures are always more structural in nature in terms of materials selection or assembly process.
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    I think there’s been a small resurgence in popularity for Kaneda’s Bike ever since Ready Player One came out couple years back. So it drove the prices up for these even further.
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    Macross Miniatures

    MKT replied to EastwindS2k's topic in Toys

    Always a pleasure to see your pictorial updates!
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