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  1. Shaorin
    OH. MY. GOD. this beauty was worth every penny. entire orders of magnitude better than YAMATO's previous efforts, let alone any transforming toy/model i have ever had the pleasure to witness first hand. Perfection in itself, and photos truly don't do it justice. no wonder YAMATO ran themselves under producing these works of art. my personal favorite Valk to date...
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    looks like it got held up 200 miles away in my hometown of PORTLAND, but it should definitely be here tomorrow, though!
  3. Shaorin
    very sorry to hear, Godspeed...
  4. Shaorin
    tomorrow it will most likely be!! i'll be busy with a doctor Appt. in the morning too, Shoot...
  5. Shaorin
    the Hikaru Ichijo doll with matching VF-1 cockpit they supposedly have in the works, i would presume...
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    OH!! don't even get me started on that!!!! i have a malaysian boot set that contained the entire CLANNAD saga, T.V. series, after story, OVAs and movie, and i've seen it all. indeed, that movie was a DISASTER.. an attempt at retelling the T.V. story in a VERY shitty way, to be quite sure. i haven't the faintest what the hell the staff for that turd was thinking. on second thought, i've a pretty good idea, after all; the CLANNAD movie was a TOEI production, and it does indeed bear an UNCANNY resemblance to another of their works of around that same era, the "Mamotte Shugogetten" OVA series. indeed, character design in the CLANNAD movie bears a striking similarity to the Minene Sakurano chara design of Shugogetten. so much so, that Nagisa, lead female chara of CLANNAD, as depicted in the movie, is aN ACTUAL dead physical ringer for "Shaorin" the lead female protagonist of the Shugogetten Manga/Anime, and the overall story treatment and atmosphere of the movie quite strongly resembles that of the late-1990's Shugogetten T.V. series (and allegedly the early-2000's OVA as well, ) that established, i'd say with certainty that TOEI ANIMATION was the absolute WORST production house that Visual Art's/Key could have possibly chosen to produce that gawdawful theatrical movie treatment, YMMV, a serious blemish on what should have been an incredibly emotional heartfelt series, start to finish...
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    ohboyohboyohboy!!!! hope customs don't slow it down much;
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    yeah, i thought about doing that once... didn't look right to me, though... "CLANNAD" was the last Anime i watched, maybe a couple months back, and, while very good in many respects, it was ultimately disappointing, too many things that could have been written better, IMHO...
  9. Shaorin
    indeed! it's already left the HK mainland...
  10. Shaorin
    'kay, i just paid the shipping difference to HKC... should have my baby in a matter of days now!!
  11. Shaorin
    find a pro modeller and have them weather your copy up for you. probably would blow YAMATO's weathering job totally away...
  12. Shaorin
    oh my god, i just skimmed through this ( http://www.modxtoy.com/v1/index.php?showtopic=133978 ) and it just hit me like a hammer just exactly how awesomely perfect the -19S actually is!! now i really know for sure that i am not to be disappointed in the least bit by this beauty, and this -19S is likely to become (and remain indefinitely) my no.1 Valk toy of all time...
  13. Shaorin
    anybody ever consider drafting up replacement wrist joints for KAIs on SHAPEWAYS? the wrists are notoriously fragile on these things, particularly when attempting to swap out hands. i just busted the left wrist on my sister's SOLID SNAKE attempting to do just that, and though i got it back together with some super glue well enough, it would be nice to get a set of more durable replacements in their "Strong and Flexible" in a shade of black...
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    gonna see if i can upgrade to the faster shipping option before HK collectibles gets it out. i'm already finding myself impatient!!
  15. Shaorin

    New Yamato addict...

    Shaorin replied to plastik's topic in Toys

    kind of developed a lingering bad attitude towards the VF-1 FAST PACK system myself, as, for a good period there, in the latter half of the 1990's, FAST PACK equipped VF-1 kits were all i could ever seem to find anywhere. i had wanted the ARII/BANDAI 1/100 VF-1S and BANDAI 1/100 VF-2SS variable kits for years there, but never found either available, and, even if i had, both kits forced one into build-up as FAST PACK variants only, despite how simple it would have been to include option parts for standard configuration. granted, BANDAI's "B-CLUB" did indeed produce a set of standard config resin option parts for the -2SS, but in the pre-internet (for me) days of the '90s, how was i to know such a thing existed, let alone hope to even find a copy? and finding the single, first ever variable VF-1 kit i ever obtained, a 15th Anniv. 1/72 VF-1J MAX T.V., was a total confidential shot in the dark...
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    yeah, it's kind of like coming full circle, after a fashion; my very first ever "variable" VF was that awful old BANDAI 1/100 of the -19S, back around 1996ish. 15 years on, Yammie's 1/60 treatment will be my latest, and quite possibly last, Kanzen Henkei VF. going out with a bang, at least...
  17. Shaorin
    license enough to produce for SDFM/DYRL at the very least, no?
  18. Shaorin
    well, i'll finally be joining the -19S club in two weeks or less, and none too soon it seems! boy i can't wait!!
  19. Shaorin
    i should be in for a serious treat when i finally get one heading my way, then...
  20. Shaorin
    'kay, that was uncalled for on my part, i apologize...
  21. Shaorin
    Mahoromatic is a Wandafuru series, so says i... who cares if something has made it to BRD. just about any Anime looks and sounds good enough on DVD, and can usually be had far cheaper too... and a damned fine one at that. i need to get around to getting the series on DVD...
  22. Shaorin
    what do you mean? i haven't posted any images in this discussion so far, nor have i yet had any reason to... big Rodge on that one...
  23. Shaorin
    y'know, i could swear that i have long had this nagging mist of a vague childhood memory of hearing one of the instrumental ROBOTECH BGMs at some time in my early childhood. perhaps i caught an ep. or two as a wee tot (4/5ys. of age) during the series' original 1985/'86 syndicated T.V. broadcast, i dunno...
  24. Shaorin
    perhaps... though i know a goodly chunk of MW membership, past and present, whose fandom goes all the way on back to 1982...
  25. Shaorin
    my own long but relatively undistinguished history with MACROSS; 1988/1989ish; given a very poorly built-up/painted ROBOTECH DEFENDERS "VEXAR" (IMAI/BANDAI 1/72 VF-1S Focker VARIABLE TYPE) by a cousin of mine. i must've had it all broken by the time i had it home, and rapidly forgotten thereafter, but was my first brush with the venerable SDF MAC. VF-1, to my personal recollection, anyway. 1994; caught my first real, lasting exposure to MACROSS via an ARII 1/100 GERWALK VF-1J Hikaru T.V. kit that my father bought me at the very same hobby shop that he had once been buying the many TAMIYA 1/35 military armor kits he was building in the late 1980's. 1995; i found and built several more BATTROID, GERWALK and FIGHTER MODE 1/100 ARIIs, while discovering the T.V. series itself via the $15.00 double-episode 1990's FHE ROBOTECH VHS editions that my local SUNCOAST VIDEO was stocking. from there, i discovered MACROSS II and PLUS via the MANGA VIDEO movie edition VHS releases of both OVAs. (still have both cassettes) 1996; i got my very first "variable" VF in the form of the awful (IMHO) BANDAI 1/100 VF-19S parts-forming kit, 1997/1998; i got my first "variable" VF-1 in the guise of the 15th Anniv. re-release of the IMAI/BANDAI 1/72 VF-1J MAX T.V. VARIABLE TYPE, and got my very first real MACROSS toys in the form of the BANDAI 1/65 DX VF-19kai and VF-17D (which i still have) 1999/2000, i got my first "Chunky Monkey" VF-1 in the form of a TRANS-FORMERS "JETFIRE" with none of it's armor/accs. and a missing right arm, which i got replaced for $20.00 thanks to Jerry Tsai's long defunct VF-1x.com. 2001; i picked up my first and only YAMATO 1/60v.I, the first release VF-1A DYRL Hikaru. 2002; i got my first and only two YAMATO 1/48 VF-1s, the first two releases, DYRL -1A Hikaru and -1S Focker. 2008; my first 1/60v.II, VF-1J Hikaru T.V. (1st Ed.) 2011; 1/60v.II VF-1S Focker DYRL, (1st Ed.) 1985 BANDAI HCM 1/72 VF-1J Hikaru T.V. 2012; 1/60v.II, VF-1J Hikaru T.V. (recent Ed. with improved hip lock ) to replace my first copy which broke on me, and a 1/60v.I YF-19 (1st Ed.) 2013; (PLANNED ASAP) 1/60 VF-19S EXCALIBUR E. Force
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