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I have one of the green Future Trunks ones. That general style doesn't seem to be quite as readily available as it used to be though. Sometimes I wear one of my various Punisher shirts and occasionally I get comments. Really in America you gotta sport an 80s cartoon like TFormers, HE-MAN, GI Joe, etc shirt unless you're at like a con for someone to really approach you or make a comment. Usually I just wear humorous shirts but I also have a few J-list shirts (chikan chui, Sake-bito, Osake, tobacco wa hatachi ni natte kara, etc). Some of those get some "looks". My Japanese teacher used to get a pretty good kick out of them and to me they're like the western equivalent of engrish shirts which I hope to get some of when I go to Japan.

I honestly never even entertained the thought that Toynami would release the dark version because it's been so long since the Asian version was released. Not sure if this is good news or not. MH MOSPEADAs are my favourite though and I wouldn't mind them making more.

Now if only it was more grey like in the eye catch!

Alright so I've been emailing Joseph Tsai (Tokyo Hunter) and with shipping to me he has given me a quote of 16,500 yen. 13,000 yen is his quoted price without shipping for those not in Nor-Cal. I have of course asked his permission to post this here. Check out his page if you want (here). I have not yet used his service so I can't really review and/or critique it but I've seen him recommended on several occasions on other boards. Now I'm going to have to decide if I want this just to leave it white and because of the exclusivity of it. Obviously it's not worth all the associated cost just to repaint the damn thing. Not too much time either...

Well obviously it didn't stop HG/Toynami from doing the VF-1R. Obviously Yamato isn't either of those companies but it could potentially stop them if they need the licensors to sign off on the products they release?

If only that were true. I've taken passwords out of so many magazines by just skimming them. I know Warhammer Online did this a lot before not sure if they still do though.

Well it's infinitely better than just a bunch of whining overly dramatic posts about how Yamato is needlessly gouging the hands that feed them IMO. At least it's semi productive, not a witch hunt and may alleviate/calm some peoples fears with some different perspectives. I'm all for hardly ever taking anything seriously even IRL though.

If that were actually true it almost might be worth it just to get to talk to and hang out with Yoshiki Fukuyama. Oh you meant SEX? well ummm..... Too bad Marie Antoinette never really said "let them eat cake" and Yamato free stands suck anyway.

Gun Sniper needs more Red

So I take it you're against the notion the Japanese government is entertaining about putting a stimulus package together to bail out some of their smaller failing companies? I guess no one is learning. oooh we could talk about how the overall Japanese dept is supposedly over 200% of their GDP and Americas is much lower... but wait GDP also figures in the amount the Government of the country SPENDS! Welcome to governmental book cooking I wonder when people will finally realize eventually you won't even have any perceived money to throw at all the problems? Japan has been trying various stimulus approaches since at least the 90s and has never been wholly successful. The strengthening of the currencies of countries with capital-account surpluses underscores the dangers of intensifying global deflationary pressure. Take the example of Japan. As capital is repatriated by nervous Japanese investors, the yen strengthens. Yen appreciation exacerbates Japanese deflation, thereby resulting in a dynamically unstable increase in desired cash holdings that further exacerbates deflation and currency appreciation. This deflationary cycle coupled with a collapse in Asian growth caused Japan's economy to contract at an astonishing 12 percent annual rate during the fourth quarter of 2008. Japan has shown again that currency appreciation in a deflationary world is extremely dangerous, just as Sweden's experience after 1992 demonstrated the benefits of currency depreciation for a small, open economy not facing a global contraction. Japan's experience during its "lost decade," and more recently during the current crisis, provides powerful evidence of the dangers of allowing deflation to emerge and persist. Japan's experience during its "lost decade," and more recently during the current crisis, provides powerful evidence of the dangers of allowing deflation to emerge and persist. Japanese officials exacerbated their country's woes by exaggerating the scale of fiscal policy packages designed to stimulate the economy, while also failing to acknowledge and address the reality of a dysfunctional banking system. During the 1990s, Japan announced numerous stimulus packages that boasted values as large as 4, 5, and 6 percent of GDP. These efforts intensified after a disastrous decision in the spring of 1997 to effect an increase in taxes on consumption. Japan's pattern of inflating stimulus packages by including multiyear expenditures and expenditures on items that would otherwise have been undertaken anyway is disconcertingly similar to the approach of the Obama administration in articulating its $787 billion stimulus package. Beyond that, the Obama administration made a crucial strategic error by electing to implement an inflated stimulus package before attacking the daunting problem of fixing the financial system. During 1998, even as Japan implemented massive fiscal stimulus packages, it announced a support program for troubled banks equal to 12 percent of GDP (the equivalent of $1.71 trillion in current U.S. dollar terms). But the economy continued to shrink in nominal terms. The stimulus packages were not ever fully carried out, and the financial rescue package, like U.S. packages so far, was opaque, reactive, and unsystematic. Japan languished in recession until the world economic recovery after 2002 because it failed to recognize the extreme dangers arising from a byproduct of persistent deflation and negative nominal GDP growth. When the value of all the goods and services produced in the economy is persistently falling, profits shrink, investment dries up, and consumers spend less in anticipation of further cuts in prices. Ominously, the annualized drop in U.S. nominal growth was 4.1 percent during the fourth quarter of 2008--a virtual collapse from the positive 3.4 percent growth figure for the third quarter. Year-over-year nominal GDP growth fell to 1.7 percent. By the first quarter of 2009, year-over-year nominal U.S. GDP growth will drop below zero for the first time since 1958. Negative year-over-year nominal GDP growth is virtually unknown in the postwar period outside Japan, save for two brief episodes in the United States during 1954 and 1958 that were tied to external factors. Persistently negative nominal GDP growth tied to a global economic slowdown and intensifying deflation is a phenomenon not seen globally since the Great Depression. In Japan, year-over-year nominal GDP growth fell to -2 percent during 1998 and remained negative for over two years after the poorly timed 1997 consumption tax increase, the Asian crisis, and poor implementation of stimulus and financial rescue packages. With the benefit of hindsight, it is probably fair to say that Japan did everything wrong in dealing with a postbubble financial and economic collapse. Poorly designed fiscal stimulus packages with inflated numbers attached; opaque, reactive, and haphazard measures to try to restore a functional banking system; and a failure, proactively, to address an emerging deflation all doomed Japan for more than a decade of low growth and massive wealth loss. For its part, the Bank of Japan eventually ended up cutting interest rates to zero by 2001, but it did so only reluctantly with announcements couched in promises that the minute prices started to rise again, it would abruptly reverse the low rates and easier liquidity conditions. The most disconcerting aspect of the American response to the crisis (and to varying degrees the responses of other industrial countries) is the persistent repetition of mistakes made by Japanese monetary and fiscal authorities as they struggled to contain the economic and financial damage from the bursting of Japan's asset bubble in 1990. This is especially disquieting since many of the leading U.S. policymakers today, including Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and National Economic Council chairman Lawrence Summers, were advising the Japanese aggressively to reflate after 1998 in order to contain the damaging deflation that had emerged. Let us hope they heed their old advice now because, if anything, the problems facing American policymakers today are considerably more daunting than the problems that faced either Swedish or Japanese policymakers. Today's world losses are far larger and more widely dispersed than those confronting Swedish and Japanese authorities. The Swedes had two advantages. They chose to deal with the financial crisis first, and they had the option of stimulating the economy through a sharp currency depreciation, which helped to avoid intensifying deflation. The Japanese mishandled stimulus packages and financial rescue packages, but most damaging, they allowed deflation to emerge and persist for far too long. If nothing else, the experience of the Swedish and Japanese with their financial crises confronts U.S. and other G7 policymakers with sobering realities in 2009. So, too, do the lessons of the Great Depression. http://www.aei.org/outlook/100012

It also used to say September(?). Too bad I already had a bunch of items ship but can't wait to get my hands on this.

I hope so. I've had this on preorder for what seems like forever.

Well we could try going through Tokyo Hunter or something? Personally I'm kind of hesitant to use 3rd parties for ordering JPN online exclusives.

Just to throw another factor in there with a non toy related example.. Keep in mind Japan is experiencing a lot of deflation/appreciation of the yen. I have already seen articles claiming if things don't start going the other direction Toyota will soon be losing money on any car they export. The Japanese government is trying to depreciate the value of their currency to turn their exporting situation around but who knows how that will go. When I first start majorly importing Japanese products a dollar was about 150 yen. Right now a dollar is about 90 yen. Also I'd have to agree Bandai got the license because of their overall sponsorship of Macross Frontier. Although I'm sure they have more money to throw around too.

Well HLJ has confirmed "this item is only available directly through Yamato online shop". So take that for what you will.

Cool if this is easily obtained maybe I can muster the courage to do the purple on grey colour scheme I've been wanting to do for a while.

before nugundamII spams his ecksbawcks hueg Gundam collection... Here's some of my MSIA/EMSIA when they were put up. Here's a pic with some stairs a friend who works with plastics made me. btw I have some Zoids too nugundamII but not nearly as many as you and none of the actual model kits. I'd show some off but they're packed somewhere because they take up way too much space. I really like my Liger Zero and it's armors and it's too bad I never got that highly articulated metal one. Did you? I have some hopes for revoltech Zoids but we'll see where that goes. Also is that a DCS-J you got there?

Yeah, mines like a 1001 or something. The extra cache is probably the reason it works for you then.

My JPN fat won't output video for the UMD movie. Are you using a newer model PSP? I've even tried ripping the UMD iso to the memory card and it still won't display the video on the monitor. Screenshots are easy. You can take those with the screenshot feature included in custom firmware without using a monitor at all.

Well with shipping added that's about how much it would cost for me to get one from HLJ at the current dollar to yen exchange rate. Definitely a lot of pesos though.

I don't remember if I posted any of these before but I stumbled on some pics I have with a friend and my old 1/60s on a USS Flagg Here's just a few unshooped We plan on doing some more but we're waiting for a few of this year's releases first.

I kind of felt the same way. Though CHirico had a whole team of "abnormal survivors" or whatever with him it would of been more in the vein of the original if they at least regularly took damage and or replaced ATs throughout their encounters. I'd like some more AGs personally but ANY merchandise would be welcome as it's all basically dried up. Given the economy I don't expect much but there surely will be something.

I live in California and we are supposedly "over due" for a big quake. A few of my Gundam gashapons fall over enough already by themselves, so I try to be pretty conservative in placement. This reminds me i need to change the fishing line on my 1/6 scale Ultimate Soldier little bird I have suspended from the ceiling.. I assume you were credited? I've seen your hanger before miriya but it's still impressive. You might want some endust too though if that 51 is any indicator

Bring on the Votoms merchandise. As always it's a pity they will never localize the dvds.

Some awesome setups in here for sure but you guys have visualizing the worst case scenario in an earth quake.