Slave IV
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On 8/29/2021 at 6:09 PM, jenius said:
That looks WAAYYYY too familiar right now. I tried to put a spreadsheet together as I move to chronicle the toys and which boxes they were in... probably tripled the amount of time moving took.
39 minutes ago, ErikElvis said:Yeah I was considering putting a spreadsheet together but it’s just a time issue. We’re having trouble moving as it is. This is not fun.
Haha, moving with crazy collections is such a pita. I spent days and rented a uhaul separately just to move parts of my collection myself. Spreadsheets would have taken years to do, literally. I ended up taking pictures of some boxes with part of their contents and a long time ago, I had a contents list that I wrote up and put in boxes or wrote directly on them so I could know what was in them. I still have no idea what’s in most of them.
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More Joes with upgraded weapons.
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10 minutes ago, sh9000 said:
Cool. The main 3 that I’m still looking for are the Tesla Cybertruck, X-Men X-Jet, and Premium TMNT Party Wagon.
Hot Wheels and Matchbox.
Keep your eyes out for this too!
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3 hours ago, sh9000 said:
They've released it in at least 2 different colors. One in dark blue and another in maroon.
Ah, that what I thought. Will try to find this one too!
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4 minutes ago, sh9000 said:
Hot Wheels.
Aw man, is that Subi new too? I feel like they realeased it before right?
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57 minutes ago, borgified said:
Tomato soup valks right @Slave IV, as it adds more flavour into the mix.
Yeah, I'd rather just have a yellow valk. What's wrong with yellow? Gives you more reason to collect em all!
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I never got the point of the peroxide treatments when the figure will just yellow again.
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22 minutes ago, jvmacross said:
At this scale you want a posable Minmay?...Bandai couldn't even be bothered with a seated Minmay...
Oh, I don’t even care. Just a joke because there are a lot of people who complain when they see tiny details that don’t match source material.
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Who’s going to complain that they got Minmei’s arm positions wrong?😂
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1 minute ago, Saviant said:
Thanks I was only given 4 months to live when I was diagnosed, if I didn’t end up in hospital I wouldn’t of survived 2 months. That was how close I was, but I am here living in what form I can. Some days it is bad pain and all that others is good so I take it as it comes
My heart and blessings go out to you. I took care of my mom while she fought cancer and was there to the end.
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27 minutes ago, Saviant said:
I finally completed a valkyrie I always wanted , VF-1D with super parts. Finding a set of them for a decent price was a challenge.
Also got a VF-2SS, I regret selling my first one so needed another.
And also finally got myself a dream car, always wanted a turbo sport car and since I was diagnosed with terminal cancer I thought it was the time to get and enjoy with whatever time I have left.
Congrats on the pickups! So sorry to hear about your illness. That’s tough…F cancer!
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Mandarake and AmiAmi have the best packaging. HLJ is inconsistent but decent. There was a time when a lot of their items came loose in a box with an air pillow and they moved around and got slight damage. Cdj and from japan have pretty good packaging. AJ is getting better and when they shrink wrap the item to a board glued to the box, it helps but they were using paper thin boxes for a while. It really helped that DHL was so fast to reduce chances of damage. I know no one cares but NY always wraps items with bubble wrap and tape and then fills in space with paper and size their boxes to the items inside.
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27 minutes ago, borgified said:
@Slave IV - I question you on the quote that the Miata shares the same platform as the Z4.. 🤔 The present Fiat (and the suped up Abrath model) shares the same Mazda Eunos/Miata chassis, however the present Toyota Supra shares the BMW Z4 chassis (that's why you see BMW's guts and trim reused on the Supra but with the Toyota logo emblazed on it).
As much as I do like the Eunos/Miata, my heart always preferred the Suzuki Cappuccino/Daihatsu Copen/Nissan Figaro.
You are absolutely right, my bad! The Supra/Z4 was even more surprising to me. I haven't been keeping up with car stuff lately as I prefer the older days of "analog" motorsport. Let me feel the road and what the car is doing and control it myself. Only tech I really care about is quattro and I'll also take the mechanical versions over the digital.
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35 minutes ago, vlenhoff said:
It took me over 7 years to find this exact one, with the right trim, and packages. I got it a few months ago, and it is a blast to drive. This is the "fat one", and the most disliked MX-5 in the Miata community. I changed the overlysoft and blown Blistein suspencion with MeisterR coilovers, got light rotary forged wheels & lugnuts, and beefed up the cooling tank with a racing one. I changed all it's fluids using youtube, and I just gave her an oil change and tire rotation yesterday. Not sure this qualifies as a toy, but honestly it is smallest thing on the road when I am driving >.<
Ha ha, the funny thing is... If you replace the windshield and you don't change the seals which hold the front windshield cowl, you WILL get a leak over your carpets. I have only bought Manual transmission cars my entire life. Hard top was a necessary thing for me, and I love the profile of it. The MX-5 It is a fun toy, including its tiny rev happy engine. It is amazing how much speed can carry through the corners tho. always wanted one of these, and finally I got it for the right price.
What I am getting trouble finding is a 1:18 scale Autoart with retractable hard top, for a fair price. These days it is easier to find a 1:1 scale, than it is to find a 1:18 scale. 😩
Going back to toys. I was able to score this fella
I don't really follow Miata's but I like "fat" cars, especially if it means wider stance or beefier tires. Part of why I did the OEM Widebody conversion on my S4. Sounds like you have the right idea making the changes where it counts when it comes to a driver's car. All I know is Miata's have always been fun cars and I was surprised when I heard the newest shares the Z4 platform.
Nice pair of Valks there too!
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6 hours ago, vlenhoff said:
Man these Gijoe figures are looking great! I wanna get one or two, but you know how the rabbit hole gets deep really quickly.
BTW, this might be small enough to be considered a toy.
For sure! Have fun driving that in the canyons. That’s what I’d be doing every chance I had.
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I got this sweet gun that made it finally worth it to open Classified Flint!
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1 hour ago, Lolicon said:
Bandai creates artificial scarcity to increase demand. It's nothing new.
Well, considering all our toys are artificial, their abundance or scarcity is also always artificial. The point is, there is no reason for Bandai to make more than they are in the current market unless the reason is so collectors can get the items easier at the expense of Bandai losing profits from other products they could be making more money off of. Somehow, I don’t think many successful companies would go that route to please a minute fraction of their customers.
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Pretty much as the last two posts pointed out. I think the numbers are so low for Macross that any excess produced will lead to a period where either retailers have stock sitting around (Arcadia) or resellers not being able to move at higher prices. Once that initial stock dries up, Macross items become rare due to the low numbers to begin with so anyone who missed out is looking at prices inflating significantly. This market is too niche for anyone to expect companies to just "make more" whenever they fail to secure a preorder.
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9 hours ago, sqidd said:
Just slightly below eBay pricing. Man, the Roy's are shelf warmers. Who would have thought?
I really doubt this is a case of not as many people buying Roys though. I think it might be a perfect example of how small the real Macross collecting community is. People always complain about how hard it is to get preorders and it's true but I don't think the easy answer many people express of "make more" works. I'm willing to bet Bandai does look at sales numbers and makes adjustments based on projected sales and they probably did produce more Roys than they did for some others. It's just such a small community that even if they made a relatively small amount more for the production world, like let's say 1000 more units than usual, that makes a huge difference in how long stock lingers and all the people who collect Macross and want the figure to end up getting it. When you calculate the extra amount of profit the small numbers generate for Bandai, I think it is easy to see why they will usually tend towards producing less. It's much easier and more profitable for them to free up factory resources for things that sell in greater numbers with higher profit margins.
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55 minutes ago, Pontus said:
Not exactly toys, but I'll have fun building them and organizing displays for my Macross, figures, and Aliens in them. I got 3 detolfs and a cabinet to put them on. Should be over 7' with storage below and no displays sitting unseen on the floor. Gotta get some LED strip lights tho.
Look forward to seeing that all set up!
40 minutes ago, sh9000 said:Target. I checked my collection pics on Toyark yesterday and I have 1 spare '94 Audi Avant RS2.
Sweet!
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5 minutes ago, eggy99 said:
Props to both @sh9000 and @jvmacross. I thoroughly enjoy these DX artwork composites.
Next challenge: Also replace the VF-1S Roy lurking in the background. 😂
Might as well add the Regults as well. Maybe some strategically placed HMR will work for the bg figures?
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1 hour ago, sh9000 said:
Marvel Legends Korg.
1/12 scale food and items.
Hot Wheels and Matchbox.
Ah, you found my two most wanted HW! Where?
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4 hours ago, sh9000 said:
Hot Wheels.
Found 6 more. Now I have 10.
Cool! That 300SL is sweet too. Need to find one of those as well.
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44 minutes ago, sh9000 said:
Marvel Legends TFATWS John Walker Captain America.
Another Marvel Legends Ultron. Ultron unleashed and Ursa Major now complete.
Hot Wheels and Matchbox.
$1 Army figures to use the guns with my Classified Cobra figures.
Those are sweet guns for $1. Better than what they come with.
Macross maintenance.
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I've used Future Floor polish on metal joints and it works great. Should all be similar stuff and is just an acrylic based coating and it is really good with capillary action to coat joints in tough to reach places. Kiki's comes with an applicator tip but if you use another product, just use a toothpick to drip the fluid as close to the joint as possible and then move it all around to coat it. Then leave it alone for at least a day to dry and repeat if necessary.