TFunster

just got em all back from the framing store and stuck on the wall last night! hard to get a good picture in the hallway, but I wanted a place where I'd see them often but where they weren't' getting too much direct sunlight, even with the UV-resistant glazing. big shoutout to Capricorn Framing in The Holy Land (SF).

That’s exactly where you saw it! I was there last year on my engagement trip and took the fiancee out to Nakano sneak a look. Dude has a pretty incredible collection. I hit a major life milestone recently, so I figured it was time to take advantage of the exchange rate.

oh man, i'm gonna be in tokyo for this and will absolutely be picking up one of these goofy walkure containers and probably a towel 😅

As an Old Macross Fan who found the non-Walkure aspects of Delta pretty forgettable, this second movie is fantastic. the robot fights are fun and well animated, but the plot and character development really shine. plenty of fanservice for all the fellow Old Guys here that finally set Delta more firmly in the rest of the franchise both in personnel and thematically. i would have loved to see what they could have done with the events of the movie over multiple episodes instead of the last ~13 episodes of Delta TV series we got instead. i know a lot of folks here look down on anything that came out after the Reagan Administration, but man this was a pleasant surprise.

Thanks for the input! The USD exchange rate is at a 5+ year low, which is a big reason I'm considering a multiple-listed item. I don't think the seller would give me a ~20% discount any other way haha

i've been lucky enough to justify a really great cel, and i was wondering if the experts here had opinions on this piece: I already have another cel from the same scene that i love, and this would be a great companion. however, this would be by-far my most expensive cel so I came here for a "sanity check" before bidding.

somebody waited 40 years to get their hands on the Minmay Upskirt 🤣

the article I linked has a short description of how it using money laundering through auctions work. they aren't selling items to themselves (that's a "wash trade" and is more common among NFTs and other sham assets), but selling it to others anonymously.

i had the same reaction until a friend who worked for a pretty sizable auction house told me a "super-majority" of bidders on all art or collectibles auctions never took actual physical possession of the items anymore, and instead were sending them through freeports for money laundering purposes - even on "just" four and five digit auctions!

high-dollar art auctions have long been a favored tool for money laundering. my guess is that it's finally trickled down into smaller dollar amounts, and i doubt Russian financial sanctions have helped.

I bought the complete ADV/Harmony Gold DVD release of SDF Macross with the volume 1 box in 2008 (oh gosh, was it?), and it's been sitting on a shelf ever since. I've long upgraded to the superior blu-ray version, and doubt i'll ever watch any DVD ever again. I get the impression that these box sets are worth a few hundred bucks, and would be interesting in selling mine to fund a cel worth framing instead. Sadly, none of the ADV boxes are on ebay right now, so I can't get a sense of what mine is worth. Does anyone have any experience here? Thanks!

that’s a tidy return on investment there!

oof, thanks for the info! i figured the price was stupid high and was going to make a "reasonable" offer, but thanks for the warning. we'll keep an eye out for similar pieces on YJ. Who is a good US proxy service nowadays?

My gf got curious about my framed Minmay I picked up in 2008 which you can find in my post history, which led to a conversation about cel collection and checking out a few auctions. She loves the art in this current eBay auction and she thinks it would look great with the rest of the art we have on display in our home. It's obviously just background characters, but I'm not saying no to girlfriend approval for more Macross on the walls. My only concern is separating the cel from the paper backing for framing and display. I know it's theoretically possible, but I've never attempted it and the cel is quite old. How risky would it be to try to separate as a first-timer? Would it even be worthwhile to separate the cel from the backing? Also, do we know if the seller is a member here? P.S. - you in the mood to sell that Hikaru layer yet? We'd love to come to Seoul to pick it up!

Look what just got back from the framer! One of my favorite scenes from DYRL. My girlfriend thinks (knows) I'm a nerd but I'm unrepentant. I just need a quality (read: stupid expensive) FB2012 cel now and then I'll be happy.