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Mandarake charge actual shipping like other stores, so combined shipping will be cheaper. Open means used. They don't sell obviously broken stuff but they can't check everything.

You mean like this one? That one is actually some what reasonable since it include the super and armor pack. Anyway here are the base price: DXv2 VF-25S - 14000 yen ~= US$180 Armor for Dxv2 VF-25S - 8190 yen ~= US$110 The DXv2 VF-25S is all sold out in regular stores and is going for > $300 on eBay. But DXv2 VF-25F also went through a period of limited supply but was restocked a few weeks after initial release, so the DXv2 VF-25S may see a restock too. The armor part is a Japanese web limited item so you should add $10 to $20 for proxy service fee. The armor part is still at pre-order status from Bandai, i.e. someone living in Japan can still order more. These proxy shops in Japan may pre-order the armor pack and ship to us for a reasonable mark-up: * http://www.tokyo-hunter.com/ * http://dv8cag.com/ ** http://hobbyclick.jp/store/ http://www.anime-export.com/ http://biginjap.com/ http://www.nippon-yasan.com/ http://yokattaweb.jp/index.html * Are the shops I have ordered from before and got my items without problem. ** I only used their eBay store before, no problem. I have no experience with the other stores. There is also a group buy in the trade forum here if you live in USA. New? Just get the v2, unless you to want to buy my v1!

++ How long did it take for HLJ and AmiAmi to get ride of all those VF-22 at 40+% off?

Leg only gerwalk mode.

Oh in that case I got 3 mails - 2 from info@anime-export.com : "AE Anime-Export : Thank you for your Order N. xxxxx" and "AE Anime-Export : Payment for order n. xxxxx received thank you!" and 1 standard paypal receipt from paypal. You need to contact them now about your issue.

http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/en/ My shop review: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=29101&view=findpost&p=953910

Insane, just like some eBay price. There are a few at mandrake for around 35000 yen if you really need one now.

Did you receive 2 emails from them, one for the order and one for the payment?

http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN968698 I had that on my default browser tab and it was already "order-stop" this morning (9am EST) like all the other shops except A-E, likely because A-E only allows one unit per customer. A-E pre-order was also closed sometime in the afternoon. If you missed it, keep checking. Also email your favorite stores to get them to order more from Bandai.

Well it's my first order with A-E. I hope they can actually get them. The situation in Hong Kong is quite a frenzy. Most of those Hasbro stuff are also MSRP at less than $20 and probably cost them $4 each to bulk make and ship, and they can market them to the whole planet. These high-end $200+ "thing" are completed models that adult fans would buy, not some toy that a parent would buy for their kids. They would loss money if they made 2000 units from the factory but all the shops in Asia could only sell 400. Which is why we are not seeing the Yamato Phalanx and more stuff are going the direct web order route. Bandai didn't made enough YF-29 in the first batch probably because the movie wasn't doing well, and it was the first of the DX-v2 from a different designer so most people waited for the reviews after the disappointments with DXv1. I expect any more YF-29 and VF-25 DXv2 re-color will be web limited.

The 2012-05 product list? The top list are new products, the botton list after the red text are re-issues.

YF-29 reissue is 100% confirmed on the 2012-05 release list from Bandai's own web site: http://tamashii.jp/item/201205.php

It is a store chain with multiple shops all over Japan. They specialize is re-selling anime products - toys, manga (so much hentai, site is blocked at my work), anime. They are good for items you may have missed out earlier or items that is hard to find in regular stores. Price is close in eBay in general but you can find good deals if the item is not popular in Japan.

All the text were the same from the original release - they were comparing it with the 1:2000 HDP model.

Yeah according to Cyber Gundam Blog: http://blog.yahoo.com/cybergundam/articles/617369/index Not confirmed with shop listing yet, but likely to be true - it would be 11 months after 1st release, and the re-issue most likely will not come with the poster.

They should make a SD Macross.

Official site: http://www.hasegawa-model.co.jp/hp/catalog/macross_series/65796/index.html

Gamu Toys review: http://gamu-toys.info/goukin/gouki/dx20/dx2001.html http://gamu-toys.info/goukin/gouki/dx20/dx2002.html Damn it do I sell my DXv1 Ozma armor set and get both v2+armor, or just get armor for my DXv2 Alto?

Huh? The Bandai high end toy quality are about the same - SOC vs Metal composite vs DX Macross. And Bandai is equally tight-ass about re-issue of quickly sold out items i.e. Metal Grade 00 v.s. YF-29.

Just saw it listed in some shops: http://www.amiami.co...T-2199&page=top http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10173158 http://www.hlj.com/product/HSG65796

This just blow my mine. Can you see the big difference? There are quite alot of color difference between the two, and they better have painted missiles on both instead just all red as shown on the Ozma armor. But the big one I just noticed is the way missle hatch opens on the chest armor. In the anime that hatch had been shown to open either way with both units. We had a bit of a debate here years ago but Bandai settled it with the DXv1, VF-100 and 1:72 model all used the middle hinges, but now decide to surprise us with a little more than color difference between the 2 unit. Also the pre-order deadlines for the super packs is at Jan 16th. http://p-bandai.jp/tamashiiwebshouten/a0011/b0010/item-1000013284/ http://p-bandai.jp/tamashiiwebshouten/a0011/b0010/item-1000013285/

Probably Macross 7 Blu-Ray Box, a few months after the SDF Macross BD set.

The Yamato 1:60v2 VF-1J with grey goggle was originally came only with the GBP-1A Armor bundle set: http://www.hlj.com/product/YMT00198 It was later sold as a stand alone later on Yamato's web shop and on HLJ: http://www.hlj.com/product/YMTGK-07

About the perfect memory reprint: "縮刷版" means it's a reduced size version or pocket edition, right?

I am well aware of that. No they need the pylons. They don't usually use them for stealth, but they must be able to carry reaction missiles when needed, and those missiles are still huge at 2059. 2nd that. The only problem with removable missile is the tab/plug v.s hole location - the side with tab/plug will be more ugly, but good sculpturing can hide them in plain sight as "high tech stuff".