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Just got a Tamashii Stage Act Trident Plus Clear for my HMRs for 456 yen shipped.

My points were expiring on CDJ but 456 yen shipped is a nice price.

Great deal! I just got one myself and was thinking about another.

Max has the exclusive stand included in the box...nice to get that and Milia's too.

Gone at hlj but up at NY!

https://www.nippon-yasan.com/figures/17787-hi-metal-r-vf-1j-super-valkyrie-maximilian-jenius-custom.html

They did raise the price a bit but still the cheapest option.

N-Y will cancel your preorder for non payment really quick for high demand items. Should more pop up it will not be the same low preorder price , it will be japan market rate pricing .

Sucks, I've been hoping they would reopen preorders at their price since it's so much lower than everyone else. Been F5ing the page whenever I can for weeks now.

NY recently had a sale for about $130 + shipping so that was a decent deal you got. I almost bought another but it was sold out before I could make up my mind.

Ok, I wasn't lucky enough to get one at NY but perhaps if they are cancelling orders, more will pop up there? Sorry for those who lost there's though.

Did some shops request payment for Max already? How could you lose a preorder that quick? They all give at least a couple days to pay up don't they? Now I'm paranoid I missed a payment request email.

In case you didn't know...that pose was taken from the Killing Joke comic book and later recreated on a Transformers comic cover.

Well done, sh9000, well done!

I checked my email literally minutes before an FiginStock alert came through for Max. An hour later gone again. Damn I would kill for text alerts at this point.

You talking bout HLJ or some other shop? Looks like it's still available at amiami as of right now.

Yeah you figured it out. Inexpensive and still looks ok to me. I'm going to cut up the thin straws and see how it looks as missiles for the Armored Valkyrie.

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Very nice! Look forward to seeing more...Missile effects for the armored Valkyrie are a must!

Did you use a glue gun to make those effects, sh9000? Either way, very clever.

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Makina...zoom, enhance.

Lol, I don't want all these figures but I have a feeling I might buy them all when available.

Damn, missed it again!

Yeah, I was kidding and definitely appreciate the offer! I basically missed the boat with 1/48 Valkyries so I give up. If I can find one for cheap enough, I'll buy just to use the GBP armor I have sitting around with nothing to go on.

Shameless plug: I'm selling my 1/48 VF-1J Milia! http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=44268

Taking advantage of a person during weak times?

Haha, thanks for the notice but unless I come across a deal too good to pass up, I think I'll just be happy with the HMR versions I'll be getting soon and hope for Arcadia to reissue the 1/60s. Your price is really good but just a bit more than I'm willing to spend on it.

Some people don't know this but the WRX was only sold in manual from 2008 to 2014.

That is such a great thing...It has to do with the AWD because all the autos used to be coupled with the VTD AWD system instead of the viscous coupling system on your cars.

And yeah, my wife said she's never seen the look I had on my face when I found a receipt for a 1/48 VF-1J Max that I must own but never remembered I bought. I still need to find it from my storage but it's one of the grails of my collection. Only wish I had a Milia to go with it but glad to finally be able to make the pair with the upcoming HMR versions. Hopefully Arcadia will be releasing their 1/60 versions too.

Yeah man, there were some tough tough times. Ex-wife, Mon, and Dad in 6 years. You can never prepare for this. I am sorry to hear about your Mom, it is never easy. I know your Mon wanted you to be happy. No words i can say will make you feel better, but always remember, she wanted you to be happy.

Thanks a lot! Similar thing for me...It was actually losing my GF of years (just break up, no death), then my Grandma passed away, then my Mom...all within a couple years. Hit me hard. Then, just earlier this year, my aunt who was the last woman from that generation and looked just like my mom passed away from a freak accident. Crazy stuff and now that I have two kids of my own, I sometimes think about the day when they will have to deal with something similar. Anyways, we do the best we can while we can and that's what counts.

Maybe this whole collection craze we have has something to do with holding on to things that won't go away. All I know is it definitely brings me happiness to collect and I really enjoy sharing my collection with my kids. Even when kids were nowhere near being in the picture in my life, I always had the thought in the back of my mind that someday I would pass my collection on to my future kids.

I am moving, and i found a few things.

9 FAST PACKS for 1/48? [one was on display]

8 GBP armors for 1/48? [one was on display]

5 brownie VF-1A 1/48? [one was on display]

4 VF-1S 1/48?[one was on display]

2 Low Vis 2 1/48?[one was on display]

2 Stealth w/armor 1/48?[one was on display]

2 VF-1j 1/48?[one was on display]

3 VF-1S hikaru?[two were on display]

4 VF-0S Roys![one was on display]

oh, and that Mospeada thing from toynami... I do remember that...

This not to count the other 1A an 1S and 1js , low vis, and other assorted 1/60-1/100 valks on display. I was going through a war back then! It is amazing what you find when you are moving. I had difficult times back then... family loses... so i guess i kept buying the same thing over and over, I guess. I've lost memory of how many things i got during that period. i just stored them away and forgot about them. I can't believe there are so many! I knew i got doubles at one point, but oh man. I guess i got more than doubles! Sad as it sounds, it sort of felt like Christmas when i found these. My mouth was wide open, and then i noticed i had a full smile on my face. I felt i had to share this. A collection from a darker era,still there in the boxes. I don't know what possessed me to get so many of these. I don't understand why would someone get so many of the same thing. I guess this is why i enjoy it when i see sh9000's pics. I was building an army...

So, should i sell these? Or should i keep it as the army it was meant to be?

I don't feel like selling them. i think i may create a huge display in the future.

oh, and then... i found these

I don't even remember getting the Miria, so i was pleasantly surprised! Two Cfs too!

Since this is collection display tread, here are some of my old pictures:

This was my old display. i wonder if the new one will ever be as good as this.

The Subaru corner was later replaced by the SDF-1 corner. You can never have too many Subarus xD

Sweet!

I know exactly how you feel...I have two room sized storage sheds filled to the top in boxes of stuff I've amassed over the years. Every time I open a box, it's like uncovering buried treasure and it always brings a smile to my face to find gems I forgot I had. I also had a tough time myself when my mother passed away a few years ago after several years of battling cancer and it's times like that where you forget about everything else you did just prior or during the crisis.

I would keep most of that myself but probably not more than two of each item. If you are willing to sell sometime, I really need a 1/48 valk and preferably a low-vis variant since I also recently uncovered a low-vis GBP armor that I've had stored away but no Valk to go with it.

Looking forward to seeing your future display sometime!

Also, nice taste in cars!

Damn, you guys are really tempting me on these Metal Build Gundams...How good are they? Would these be considered the definitive non-model figures for Gundam? Is there a lot of metal or is it just a name like "Hi-Metal"? I'll also check out some reviews when I get a chance.

Would love me some transforming hover tanks and Aurorans, which have always just seemed to a riff on the VF/Orguss-type transformation, which I love.

I think it would be cool if Bandai started up a subscription service a la Mattel's Master of the Universe collector club. There's a fee and then you get access to exclusives. Shoot I wouldn't mind getting "one of each" of everything that comes out of this line.

Nooooooo! No subscriptions!

Sweet!

Yeah, the Regult pods have to come with Regults or it will totally suck.

As for the 2SS, I don't care about it but at this point, I'm all in on any HMR Macross release. Much cheaper to collect these than 1/60 versions so I'm hoping they rerelease the Macross 7 figures and do them all as well...plus SHF figures so I can finally have my Sivil!

Nice Transformers collection and cabinets!