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Nice! Yeah, that’s the one I was thinking of. He also had Lego adapters and all kinds of others but that one is the most useful to us, as well as the Q-Rau ones he had.

Yeah, @ChaoticYeti had a goldmine of parts for collectors in general and such a loss to not have those designs available in some form. He really took the time to engineer parts to work better as he went along too so it would be a real shame to have to start over. I’d definitely be in on buying more adapters and other parts if they were available again. Another note on the Bandai DX adapter design I noticed is it doesn’t like to be tilted vertically much. In my setup pictured earlier, it is at the limit of what I think it can safely be angled at. If the Archi adapter was a tighter fit, it might work better but this is mostly a design difference between Bandai and Arcadia where the Arcadia designs allow for more dynamic setups. The Bandai connection is designed for some banking ability and just a very mild vertical tilt that their stands are set at.

My order says they are requesting to cancel it, lol.

NP! There are some items I just don’t remember if I have extras or any of but that one I know for sure.

I think that’s what Yeti did but also redesigned it to be more robust. I wonder if anyone saved the images of all the adapters yeti offered.

Lol, I know I don’t. Smart move for checking though.

Yeti used to make the adapters. It would be great if Archi can start making more adapters like that.

Yeah, if needed, I think you could use some thin rubber sheets to accomplish what you need and then you might not need to worry about bolt length. Just to clarify, I think the Archi stands are great and I was mainly pointing out differences from Yeti that I noticed. Advantage with no washers is also a cleaner look and I like that the adapters are printed “clear” whereas Yeti didn’t start doing that until later.

You just broke it down perfectly! Welcome to my life!😂

The lack of the washers is worse imo. The smooth acrylic has no buffer/friction between them without the washers so you need to tighten more to prevent slipping. Not a huge deal especially since the arms are thicker on Archi compared to Yeti but worth pointing out since I never noticed it mentioned before. If you plan on printing your own, it may be an issue with the length of the bolts provided so I’d say just don’t worry about it. You’ll be fine.

Meanwhile, I finally got one of the Archi Stands So far so good! Only thing is even though it came packed really well and has the typical acrylic protective film that you need to peel off, mine still had a scuff on the base. Another difference from Yetistands is these don’t come with printed washers which really help with the connections feeling more secure as opposed to bare acrylic attached to each other. Either way, glad these exist because they put all other available stands to shame.

That’s understandable. Yeah, my guess is Arcadia A will do it but yeah, I’d want to know for sure too.

Could you just check the adapters with your Valks? The only ones I remember are a small rectangle version (Arcadia a) or the octagon version (Arcadia b).

A full size acrylic arm for HMR could be overkill. I haven’t tried yet but it would be really cool if the stand arms from Tamashii stages or any other stand arm with that standard size could peg into the holes on the acrylic arms. I think some of the old Yeti stand bases had holes that fit like this too.

Man, am I glad I never cared about any of my toys of anything matching. I'd rather have variations to make things look more interesting. That being said, I have every HMR release anyways so I guess I won't have a problem matching anything if I really wanted to.

Wow, thanks! I definitely still need it.

Note the shipping weight...this was a smaller item but I compared to HLJ's quotes for a similar item and these prices are still lower. I had a DX from sent from them with also very low shipping prices but those prices were from a couple years ago so I don't think they are worth comparing.

No doubt about it! Like I said, even if you have a card that charges foreign transaction fees, it's still going to be lower than what PayPay charges.

Seems on par or better than most places. Here is the last quote I got, which was last year: Shipping weight 500g FedEx International Priority 2,603 yen approx. 5 days EMS 3,150yen approx. 4 to 12 days UPS Worldwide Express Saver 3,453yen approx. 4 days DHL Express Worldwide 3,589 yen approx. 5 days

If you are letting PayPal do your conversions, you're doing it wrong. Get a CC that has no international fees (or even one with fees) and let them do the converting because they will give you the current actual rate. This has been discussed many times so just look into it.

Yeah, I think they offer the best overall value for Macross still. You probably know better than most but I even think the PF are a great deal considering how long it takes to do those details yourself. The time it takes is worth more to me than they charge and they do a better job than I have patience for. I personally just don’t care about those details much so I only get certain ones. But I also think most Macross toys from Arcadia and Bandai are a better value than most other toys out there in general.

I like low prices as much as anyone. But I think Arcadia provides some great value still.

The good thing is Arcadia seems to charge the same price as they did around 10 years ago so with the exchange rate and inflation, we are getting them for less today than they were then. Not as cheap as Yamato days but still not bad. I’m in for both if they do it.

I wasn't paying attention before and didn't notice this had a shiny canopy. I like it!