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Some figures I got recently from AmiAmi, damn box that Klan Klang was in is huge!, no wonder the shipping was so expensive in DHL service(Y8000), I wished the Arcadia 1/60 VF had at least some portion of the heft this V1 versions had,  overall so happy to have all of them specially that little Jehuty.

No sure if KlanKlang is supposed to be in scale with the Frontier 1/60  Valks cause of the size, nonetheless is effing beautiful and new just a little damage in the front of the box. 

So are you ready to pay your  PO of the  VF 0S Premium ? , I mean is Nippon Yasan what can go wrong right people right ?

Received my notification some hours ago:

On 5/31/2018 at 12:50 PM, Arthurius said:

So I ordered on the weekend the VF-2SS used from Amiami.  It came 117 USD shipped (edit), 12,728 yen.  Did i make a mistake?  Was still offely expensive for me even with the discount, hope it will be worth it.  I do really like my 3x VF-1 (S Messer, A Hik, Elint), all much cheaper.

Well it depends,  if its an item A and Box B you are literally getting a new figure 100%  well that for me at least  I'm getting all the time new figures in this category and so is a very a good price since is below of the MSRP tag, if its is an item B and box B  most of the time those come with opened box but the item is I think in perfect condition also sometimes this category even comes with a sealed box so is absolutely not bad either and the price is even lower,  for items C I tried to avoid those.

it looks like I will be getting another Messer, already have the original but still  the box will be a new design with that Movie version tag

I thought this wouldn't be another PO madness but this Messer PO ended instantly! 

5 minutes ago, F360 said:

The lil Drakens aren't included.  They will be release as a TWE in the future 

you will only get the extra attachment clips and the Hayate pilot for this release.

whaaaaa? so this is just literally a re-release of Messer

56 minutes ago, sh9000 said:

It’s like $20 tops for just those extra pieces.

Well actually those lil drakens will be kinda free since the original Messer release had the same MSRP of this new Messer, this youtube video this time around fits perfectly I think

Does it have any diecast  at least in the motorcycle ?, not sure if you have any VF 1S Arcadia 1/60 Valk so you can compare the heft to it,  these two factors for me are one the most important parts in a figure, I have the Arcadia Hikaru VF 1S  and when I grabbed that Valk in fighter mode I felt I was going to break that thing It felt so light and for me that was a huge disappointment this are the reasons I didn't get the Arcadia Max and Milia, I mean this figures aren't cheap and not  having a good heft like a DX Chogokin valkyrie at least is a total disappointment.

52 minutes ago, Kuma Style said:

Nope. There's absolutely no reason I read in the description of the new version to warrant a double buy besides blowing money to blow it.

I see , when I got my MB Lavaetein last week I was stunned how awesome the figure is, diecast in figures is a must for me with such prices, so no regrets waiting for the new one since I think is exactly the same mold not to mention more expensive ,  now I'm considering getting the MB ARX 7, that picture you took with the both ARX's looks awesome!
 

33 minutes ago, Kuma Style said:

Got another Lavaetein in the mail yestersday so had to shoot em together:



 

Is the new version of the Lavaetein ?, really looking forward a comparison of the v1 with the v2.

A new DX VF 31F Messer ?, most likely is the exact same mold , I thought I would never said this for a  new Macross DX Chogokin release but I think I will skip this one I'm happy with my original Messer, also aesthetically speaking the Valkyrie doesn't look very good with those mini jets attached in my opinion 

The colors not even combined with those things

Not sure if this was a human error or a machine error since Bandai manufacturing is almost all automated , the issue I had with my HMR Hikaru VF 1A it was that the leg covers the ones that  have a rectangular shape were attach in the wrong side covers of the leg inside the plastic tray, I only needed to swap those and that's it, but seriously this is not cool at all for all other users experiencing same parts.

Thank god for AmiAmi cardboard boxes, today I received my Metal Build ARX-8 Laevatein v1 but the box was heavily damaged and also the figure box was damaged too, overall this was all my fault cause I went against my not to do rules and one of those is Not to go cheap when sending from Japan, I choose SAL registered to save  some cash and well this is the result , I always used for other past items EMS or DHL from AmiAmi and those came in Perfect condition, this Metal Build was a Item A box B description so in other words if it wasn't for the delivery option I took this would be perfectly new Item not to mention it took like a month to arrived, the good thing is that the Metal Build figure and accessories inside weren't damaged at all after some inspection even thou the plastic inside and  styrofoam was damaged too. I'm just wanted to share this experience with you all so you consider put alot of thinking your delivery options when buying your figures, valks, robots, etc, since you know these collectibles aren't cheap, this is my first Bandai Metal Build and when I grabbed the robot for the first time it was so effing awesome! high quality diecast figure to the max  

41 minutes ago, PsYcHoDyNaMiX said:

Although this is for a YF19 the Arcadia yf19 has its own thread.  

 

Ops sorry for that, with all the YF 19 PO madness of the past weeks totally forgot about that thread and I end up posting here since is the first thread that comes to mind regarding the YF 19.

Arcadia YF 19 at AmiAmi if someone if interested

http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=FIGURE-002551-R&page=top%2Fsearch%2Flist%3Fs_keywords%3Dmacross%24s_sortkey%3Dpriced%24s_st_condition_flg%3D1%24s_st_list_newitem_available%3D1%24s_st_list_preorder_available%3D1%24pagemax%3D40%24getcnt%3D0%24pagecnt%3D1

Sealed Kairos in Jungle store if someone interested 

With the whooping price of Y58,320 

http://jungle-scs.co.jp/sale_en/?page_id=121&id=2314440

On 5/3/2018 at 9:37 PM, Lolicon said:

On a side note, the price of the VF-19 Advance increased after the YF-19 preorder? 

https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1087838829&ref=list

This is one is  for Y30 000 and it looks like is in a very condition just a small dent at the lower left corner and another in the upper right seeing it from behind,  

https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1064325144&ref=1077603760

15 % off everything in EBAY with this code : PMAY4TH

It ends today a 4 pm, purchase has to be min $50 and capped to a $100 max discount.

GO GO GO

15 minutes ago, no3Ljm said:

Not to rain down on your parade. But if you haven't encounter any problems with them yet, then you're one lucky guy.

I agree with all the things you said. I've been using AmiAmi too ever since. But I had a run-in with their customer service and it's not as perfect as HLJ. But it's definitely better than NY's. 

 

Definitely true no web store is perfect still hope I never encountered  any issue with them in the near future

11 hours ago, GabrielV said:

Had the cancel/coupon email from HLJ this morning.  My YF-19 order has been removed.

Now my hopes ride with my AmiAmi order.

 

I prefer 100% AmiAmi all the way! pretty much you have your figure 100% guaranteed if you have your order with them , super fast shipping and the packages are very well protected, they process the order pretty damn fast too, I  haven't had any issue with a single order so far and I have been buying some expensive stuff from them lately, last thing I order expecting to arrive next week is a Metal Build Leviathan.

for me AmiAmi is my number 1 store to buy my figures at  the moment, sorry if I'm praising them too much but they definitely deserve it 

58 minutes ago, no3Ljm said:

If it's US-based, then they're probably get their stocks from US distribution company BlueFin. And for sure, they've been alotted certain numbers of it.

So you are saying I'm definitely getting the MB Aile Strike Noel ? , I hope the Metal Build gods hear you !

sorry for being off topic but I found a link for the MB Aile Strike and is US based, I heard good things about this website when preordering, they say if you PO before the closing date is pretty much guaranteed you will get figure. I just ordered one after my cancellation at HLJ ,  lets see what happens: 

here is the link:

https://www.eknightmedia.com/ms-gundam-seed-aile-strike-gundam-metal-build-action-figure-by-bandai-tamashii-nations.html

Is kinda weird they have the Closing date all the way to May 16 since this is such a hard to get figure , I wonder how they are getting it

Well no Aile Strike for me now my order got cancelled from HLJ, well at least I got my PO of the YF 19 from AmiAmi main reason I stay up all night .

39 minutes ago, sh9000 said:

I don’t plan on selling anything after the DX YF-19 comes in.  I’ll still keep the Yamato YF-19, Arcadia YF-19, and Bandai VF-19 Advance.

same here, I even still looking for other old YF 19 figures, like the Prototype Bird of Prey.

Some comparisons I wanted to attach of  the new YF 19 to VF 19 Advance