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    Hah, bravo! I was already blown away with the flaps, but you keep adding more levels to this.
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    I had to think about that one a moment, that first image was definitely not the new set you were talking about.
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    Hah, fair enough! I can't imagine they'd be "easy" to implement either, since the wings aren't nearly as thick as an F-14's.
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    Doing the spoilers next?
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    I'm not going to claim to be any sort of expert on animation production requirements in Japan, but I could see it potentially being some annoying limitation of the contracts involved in the transfer of the footage of both versions into an HD format. The other thing that occurs to me is that maybe the rights to the dub are somehow tied to the combination release, and they don't have permission to release them separately, or that it doesn't make financial sense to try selling them individually. It would be silly, but I could imagine the voice rights being so prohibitively costly that the OVA on its own would already cost nearly as much as the combination pack.
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    Apologies for the zombie resurrection, but just received an interesting email from Master Replicas. They are running out the remaining stock of their Trek ships, but it looks like they are planning to continue some of the other franchises they've picked up, and look to be expanding in the future. Happy to see they are continuing the BSG line, and expanding more on the Stargate products, but the last section has me intrigued. "Ships from one of the greatest games ever made" has me incredibly curious, because it's such a broad subject to cover, and I have no idea what genre they might even be talking about. Given the recent sequel, I could easily see them making some Homeworld ships, but I would be absolutely over the moon to see anything from something like the Wing Commander or Freespace franchises. There are probably a lot of other options in arcade shooters as well, but I can't say those sorts of franchises would fit the sort of "collection" format they tend to focus on. The "classic sci-fi TV series" could also be any number of things, but I'm crossing my fingers for Babylon 5. The wild variety of designs from that show would make it easy to build a collection from. I'm kind of struggling to come up with more candidates than that though, outside of maybe a ship or two from Buck Rogers. I know there are a lot more series they could pull from (Space Above and Beyond, maybe?), but I don't know of a lot of really popular ones with more than one or two ship designs they could market. I'll need to expand my display space if they start making too many more classics though.
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    That might be where some of the price discrepancy comes from then. I was just looking at the 40k yen as the normal retail price, but it looks like every retailer selling it is just adding a typical proxy fee on top of the MSRP for ordering directly from Bandai.
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    Macross 30

    Chronocidal replied to Tochiro's topic in Games

    I never tried any of the PSP ones, but based on what I read of the controls, Macross 30 was a huge leap in functionality. I did try the DYRL game included in the Blu-Ray release, and that felt very frustrating to play in comparison, but the combat for 30 was much better. I think the only "bad" part was that the battroid sections never felt as natural as any of the fighter or gerwalk sections, and it never felt like you had a reason to use battroid, unless it was a specifically contrived requirement that forced you to use it.
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    There might be an inverted percentage involved in that 66%, since I think it should be 33%. But no, it's not accounting for shipping, tax, or whatever other international blood sacrifice we're paying to Bandai to get them to ship things here. Raw shelf price of about 40,000 yen comes to about $255 right now. BBTS is adding $95 on top of that, plus $4 shipping. Coupled with a local tax rate of about 10% (calling California the worst case scenario, because let's face it, it is), that's about another $35 on top, which while I've never used it personally, I'm betting would probably cover slow boat shipping. Ends up being roughly $290 vs $390. Definitely not a 66% difference, but depending on tax and shipping, you're still looking at a difference of up to $100. You might be able to work that down to closer to $50 depending on circumstances, but however you look at it, they're really not making the import options attractive. It almost feels like a tolerance test to gauge just how desperate international customers are to actually get any of these products imported.
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    Yeah, the local markup makes this way more expensive. That's about a $100 markup over my copy from Japan, and that's not even taking sales tax into account. The free shipping at BBTS does help a little, but even then you're still saving over $50 importing it. To be sort of fair though, I think the original cost at release for the combined VF-25S and proxy-bought armor set was about that much when all was said and done.
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    I really think the VF-1, and maybe Macross releases as a whole, threw an orbital strike-sized wrench into Bandai's typical mentality and approach to exclusive items. When all of your exclusives are one-off custom upgrades to individual mechs that you don't plan on re-releasing, yeah, single-issue exclusives make more sense. Once you cross that bridge into releasing vehicles that all use the same standard set of equipment, you've introduced a huge problem to that way of thinking. You've now made an item that every release in the franchise can use. If you intend to keep releasing more things that can use those add-ons, you'd best revisit the idea of making more. At this point, I think they're finally at least slightly waking up to the ridiculous market situation their practices have produced. As insanely overdue as it is, if we're finally getting a reissue of Ozma's armor pack in any form, I think pretty much anything is possible. I think what prompted them to release as many runs of the missiles as they did though is a byproduct of their past history. Collectors know how Bandai behaves, and so they may have attempted to stockpile all the missiles for all of the VF-1s they ever planned to buy in the future. Bandai was probably not prepared for that level of demand, because the orders they received could very well have exceeded the number of DX VF-1s they had even produced by that point.
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    Oh I definitely remember how dark that transfer was, I had to max out the brightness on my old TV when I watched it.
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    And.. oof. Those giant stacks of plates for legs do not look even remotely conducive to any sort of ability to pose. Looks like we're getting another action torso.
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    I'm really hoping this release does fix that issue, but I've also never really been much of a fan of the 4-part story. I found the movie cleaned it up and streamlined it nicely, and since I saw it first, part 4 will forever feel weird for not having the same ending sequence.
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    It is a pretty minor issue to correct though, since the HMR doesn't pin the wings like the Yamato 1/60, and they just click in and out of place, so there's really no risk of damaging them. It would probably be pretty easy to make a permanent mod, I just didn't feel like messing with what worked. It's about as simple a mod as you can get, just about a quarter-inch square of a business card, doubled up, and bent so it wraps under the shoulder, and up through the gap next to the wing hinge, pressing it down. It'll fall out any time you transform it, but I keep this one in fighter mode on a shelf anyway.
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    Might have to just wait this one out, since they basically just flipped off the customers and made it an international webshop release. It'll probably show up down the road at various places like the HMR Max VF-0S.
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    I wouldn't be surprised if they do that later, but what I would like clarified is the situation with the dub.. and it's probably been discussed before. Did they lose the original dub audio for episode 4? The way this one is described sounds like it has two dub options for that episode. Really though, I'm mostly just happy to see the old Manga subs back for the movie version. The re-translation for the 2013 release felt weird after growing up with the other one.
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    Funny, with the current exchange rate.. that's about the same price as the new release.
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    Pretty much this, honestly. I would have rather picked it up from a Japanese vendor, since we're probably paying the same import premium we get applied to everything reaching the US these days, but the entire reason to pick it up locally is to actually get all of the materials in English. And.. looking back? The Japanese release in 2013 cost me about $170 shipped. If $20 is the premium to get it imported and fully translated, I don't feel too bad about that.
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    I think my one persistent nitpick with the HMR VF-4 is that they just completely leveled the wings. At least the Yamarcadia mold had them slightly drooping, but the HMR's are just straight across. I didn't make any permanent mods, but I ended up jamming a folded clipping of a business card into the hinge to force the wings down to match the upper surface of the inboard sections.
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    I will add that I'm.. "satisfied" that the artbook is significantly larger than the one included in the original Japanese release, but mostly I'll just be happy to be able to finally read it.
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    Up on Crunchyroll, but sheesh.. $190. Also, the search is broken. "Macross Plus" doesn't bring it up, doesn't even appear in the "Macross" listing, had to search "Macross Ultimate" before it came up. https://store.crunchyroll.com/products/macross-plus-movie-ova-blu-ray-ultimate-edition-5037899090312.html
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    Sheesh, that would have been the best option if anyone would have announced when those were going up. Stupid ninja listings. Just one is probably plenty though, I just like having a backup in case Bandai does a Bandai.
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    I'm actually kind of tempted. I already have the Japanese release, but I'd like to get the complete dub and sub options, since that one didn't include them all, and the new subtitles for the movie were.. a bit weird. I don't really feel bad double dipping on this one though, it's my favorite of the franchise.
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    I think the VF-0S Max release might have been the only other one, but obviously not a DX. I think that one did later wind up going to Amazon and places like BBTS, so who knows where this one will wind up in the long run.
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