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That’s some cool stuff! Whet the heck are they going to release the Angel bird and cf I ordered a few years ago?😆

There are all kinda of real guns designed like that. People are just more articulated than most toys. Also, a Mech shouldn’t have any need to hold a gun in any conventional manner as long as it has a means to point and shoot.

I read somewhere recently that KC has their own factories now. If any truth to that, it might give them more flexibility to do whatever kinds of runs they want.

Agree with all this but also worth noting the US Dollar is currently around the strongest it has been in at least the last five years vs. the Japanese Yen.

Arcadia FWMFW!

That’s some issue you got…next time, it might be better and easier to tighten the loose one with some Future/Kiki. 😜

Until you do what we suggested and buy both, we have failed our jobs.

What’s this I hear about hiding packages from the front door? What a bunch of pansies!😝

Personally, I don’t even care about Hikaru’s 1J and the Roy 1S is my favorite stand-alone Valk but the GBP is always an iconic piece itself. The only true answer is to get both now before it’s too late and you have to pay more. If I had nothing and just wanted one Valk to represent Macross, I’d get the Roy 1S. If I had a few Valks except those two, I might opt for the 1J/GBP set. Good thing is, I have them all and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Good luck deciding!

Wait, you have to plug these in too? They couldn’t even make a battery compartment?

Yeah, my packages were always good from them and I saved thousands of dollars over the years because of their low prices. Too bad they had to go down the drain. Hopefully we’ll get more domestic shops carrying Macross in the near future.

NY ain't got nothing on those Meghan/Patricia CS videos! But I gotta say, my last shipment from NY was packed nicely with that blue bubble wrap sealed tightly all around with custom made box to fit perfectly!

Seems like he’s well aware of the joint.

Nice! That's such a great movie!

I’d have to see this data you speak of and I don’t doubt it’s true in cases. Reliability depends on a lot of things and a big part of it could come down to how the owner takes care of their car. Time will also tell because there hasn’t been enough time to really say how long a new car will last since that much time hasn’t even passed yet. I have good friends that are mechanics that show me exactly where newer cars are skimping on quality and I can see and feel it in many cases. @last_raven mentioned he works in the industry and seems to be saying the same. I can see that technology has improved many aspects of cars and can give a perceived amount of quality in certain aspects. I think the difference might be more apparent in higher end cars from before compared to today as technology is replacing material quality and workmanship and many cars are becoming more similar since they are mostly being made all over the world by shared factories. Cars that used robust mechanical solutions made of metal have new solutions made with electronics and plastic. Cars are glued together instead of welded. I had cheap cars back in the day that were “reliable” but they also felt like cheap tin cans that literally fell apart over short periods of time. Yeah, from my experience, American cars have gained the most perceived value and quality compared from around the 80s-90s to today. Meanwhile, a Mercedes Benz of today seems barely better or even in some cases worse than a Toyota. But I have a Benz from the 80s that I still drive almost everyday and it still works mechanically as well as it did in the 80s. It required nearly zero maintenance other than regular oil changes and has never left me stranded once in over 30 years.

Haha, totally agree. My cars are all over 10 years old (most over 20 years old) and they are better made than anything comparable or even most higher end cars made since. It's such a simple matter of the unsustainable system of ever increasing profits we created for ourselves. The easiest way for corporations to maintain the model is to keep cutting costs where ever they can and quality is one of the main cuts. Definitely for the car industry where it also serves to make their products more disposable so they can sell you another car after you realize your "new" car is a pile of junk after a few years while cars made back in the day are still running strong after 20-30 years and more. Some car manufacturers are trying to force people like us to buy their crappy new cars now by eliminating supply of parts for older cars so yeah, more junk for everyone!💩

Wow, sucks to hear about the slop on this release. I like all the DX releases since the 31 but there is still a big difference IMO compared to Yamato/Arcadia Valks which are so precise and not sloppy.

This makes a lot of sense to me. The claims that a shop would go out of their way to buy items on the second market to fulfill orders especially at a loss or significant reduction in profit seems quite unbelievable. Even more so when the same shops are also claimed to be scammers by the same people.

Yeah, I don't know if there are such a thing as store fanbois. The only thing I really care about from any store is if they deliver what I want for the lowest price. NY did that for me for a long time and saved me thousands of dollars. I cut back on using them once they seemed to raise their prices and had major delays on delivery but it was a good run for me while it lasted. Nin-nin on the other hand, I wouldn't touch long before NY had any issues. I wouldn't be surprised if they were involved in some way but at this point, I don't care since neither are of any use now.

Oh nice! That is a beautiful piece!

T minus 10 mins for my showing.

More importantly, are they anatomically correct?

I have a bunch of those too and use them as the base layer of my stacks so any less durable boxes are on top and more protected. The problem is if I bought enough of those boxes, it would take up even more room and cost me a ton of Valks worth of money.

FWIW, this is a pic of one of my spaces from over a year ago: I can't even get an angle like that to photo anymore and I have another equivalent space filled to the brim and a garage that is completely filled floor to ceiling minus a spot for one car.