Matt Random Posted January 1, 2020 Posted January 1, 2020 Not to mention you stay up all hours of the night hoping to get the new one just because it is "Malibu Stacy - now with a new hat!" - err, new head. Quote
borgified Posted January 1, 2020 Posted January 1, 2020 (edited) Anyone waiting for the next DX pre-order madness? Hopefully next announcement be in offered during sometime in Q2/Q3 of this year. Edit: Changed to Q2/Q3 unless Bandai decides to give us a curveball. Edited January 1, 2020 by borgified Quote
sqidd Posted January 1, 2020 Posted January 1, 2020 17 minutes ago, borgified said: Anyone waiting for the next DX pre-order madness? Hopefully next announcement be in offered during sometime in Q2/Q3 of this year. Edit: Changed to Q2/Q3 unless Bandai decides to give us a curveball. I'm hoping that we get the VF-1S Roy as well as the YF-21. When the Roy is released I'm planning on doing a "timeline display" with most (I'll leave out the garbage) of the VF-1S Roy's from the Chunky Monkey till current. Quote
sqidd Posted January 1, 2020 Posted January 1, 2020 1 hour ago, DewPoint said: Happy New Year! I will argue that Valkyries are very "Doll" like. A lot of you baby them, play dress up with armor/missiles/SSP, and depending on which ones you have, you can play Mommy/Daddy or romance dating with them. You can even get a hanger to play house! 42 minutes ago, Matt Random said: Not to mention you stay up all hours of the night hoping to get the new one just because it is "Malibu Stacy - now with a new hat!" - err, new head. So, if we get hammered while playing with toys are we having "Tea Time"? Quote
Anasazi37 Posted January 1, 2020 Posted January 1, 2020 2 hours ago, Lolicon said: Because they're 30k now! I just snagged a new one on AJ for 25k with free shipping to my Tenso address. Right now they seem to be hovering around 26-27k plus domestic shipping. I had been holding off on buying one, hoping to snag it on Mandarake instead for 25k, but when their price jumped to 30k, it was time to move. Quote
DewPoint Posted January 1, 2020 Posted January 1, 2020 54 minutes ago, sqidd said: So, if we get hammered while playing with toys are we having "Tea Time"? If you got snacks/food to go along with it, then yes! Totally! Quote
crackpot Posted January 1, 2020 Posted January 1, 2020 6 hours ago, Lolicon said: Because they're 30k now! And yet someone still bought it. Damn. Quote
MacrossMania Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 11 hours ago, DewPoint said: Happy New Year! I will argue that Valkyries are very "Doll" like. A lot of you baby them, play dress up with armor/missiles/SSP, and depending on which ones you have, you can play Mommy/Daddy or romance dating with them. You can even get a hanger to play house! MISB collectors don't have this problem. I honestly have to head scratch sometimes. Trying to figure out how collectors get so many long hours playing with their toys out of the box as grown adults. I've found that my imagination, once boundless in childhood, is definitely restricted these days. i tire easily when handling them, not to mention their origami transformations. Still, they do look good on display out of the box. Quote
sqidd Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 1 hour ago, MacrossMania said: MISB collectors don't have this problem. I honestly have to head scratch sometimes. Trying to figure out how collectors get so many long hours playing with their toys out of the box as grown adults. I've found that my imagination, once boundless in childhood, is definitely restricted these days. i tire easily when handling them, not to mention their origami transformations. Still, they do look good on display out of the box. There is a third kind of collector. I'm what I would define as a "art" collector (I have a lot of actual art too). Not very much of what I have as far as toys goes is about being tied to a show/characters (aside from SDFM). I get toys because I think they're pleasing to my eye. I can't say I even enjoy transforming them for transformation sake. For me it's all about the presentation/display. Transformation/posing is a tool to complete that goal. For most toys if it has multiple modes, I get one for each mode and display them simultaneously. If I'm not too turned on by a mode I don't get one for that. I very, very rarely change my displays up once they're done. -I don't buy for nostalgia (aside from SDFM). -I don't buy for character tie ins. -I don't have any drive to finish a line/set. If there are six in a series and I really dig two, I get just those two. -I don't have anything I don't display. -I don't buy to "play with". I barely have time to un-box/transform/display as it is. I'm not passing judgement on any form of collecting. I understand the drives for all of them. I just do it the way I do it because it makes me happy to look at them. Quote
nightmareB4macross Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 Well, I think for some of us we collect for various reasons and it’s not just to collect. My tendencies are as a hobbyist: - Collect the series or buy what I like. I usually do the former for most of my purchases. - Nostagia. New and vintage. - Mechanical design and visual appeal. - MIB, open and play, display, customize, whatever comes to mind when purchasing. And method exercised during purchases usually leads to multiples. - Buy extras for the kids to play with aside from what I buy for myself. - Army build, to mostly customize. While I do like to collect, my display itself is limited by me as don’t want to display everything all at once or I feel I would get bored of it. Cycling my collection throughout the year helps keep things fresh and appealing no matter the age or subject. My collection has a purpose, to basically tell a visual story of what I like and who I am. I think that’s how most collectors are. Quote
Lolicon Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 One just sold for only 24k. https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1124877545&ref=list&keyword=マクロス Quote
F360 Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 There seems to still be some for under 24000 yen on yahoo auctions for the vf-1s There’s even a couple listing of full combo sets around 40,000 yen (Dx vf-1s+super parts set + missiles set) Quote
SpaceCowboy Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 Still no word on when the preorder for Roy goes up? Quote
DYRL VF-1S Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 12 minutes ago, SpaceCowboy said: Still no word on when the preorder for Roy goes up? Yup. PO night was yesterday. Got cartjacked 10 times but finally scored on AJ at 4:32 AM. I haven’t seen playasia post yet though. Quote
Darth Mingus Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 1 minute ago, DYRL VF-1S said: 15 minutes ago, SpaceCowboy said: Still no word on when the preorder for Roy goes up? Yup. PO night was yesterday. Got cartjacked 10 times but finally scored on AJ at 4:32 AM. I haven’t seen playasia post yet though. Got one on Amiami at 2:18 AM EST. NY's stupid wait system would't even let me on the site. Quote
sqidd Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 7 minutes ago, DYRL VF-1S said: Yup. PO night was yesterday. Got cartjacked 10 times but finally scored on AJ at 4:32 AM. I haven’t seen playasia post yet though. 5 minutes ago, Darth Mingus said: Got one on Amiami at 2:18 AM EST. NY's stupid wait system would't even let me on the site. Wait, what? The PO was last night? How did I not know anything about it? I can't find anything on NY or AmiAmi. Are you guys doing April Fools on Jan 2nd? Quote
SpaceCowboy Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 Seriously? Goddamnit! I literally don't check this site in a few days, and I miss my 10 second window. Bandai is killing any desire I have in this crap... Quote
sqidd Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 1 minute ago, SpaceCowboy said: Seriously? Goddamnit! I literally don't check this site in a few days, and I miss my 10 second window. Bandai is killing any desire I have in this crap... I think they're joking. I can't find a listing for the PO. Quote
peter Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 1 minute ago, sqidd said: I think they're joking. I can't find a listing for the PO. FFS, I $hit myself a little thinking I missed it, lol! Quote
peter Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 They're 26,000 on https://www.amazon.co.jp/ right now. Quote
derex3592 Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 Roy pre-sale on New Years eve --that actually would have been hilarious...LMAO! We could have actually done our drinking pre-order game!!! Quote
Anasazi37 Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 1 hour ago, sqidd said: I think they're joking. I can't find a listing for the PO. We haven't even seen a preview of Roy yet at a Bandai event--just Hikaru, Max, and Hayao. So, my head was telling me they were of course joking, by my heart convinced me to check anyways because, well, it's Bandai and they've done crazier stuff than this in the past. Quote
F360 Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 On 1/1/2020 at 3:09 AM, efisher said: LOL! At least they don't put doll in the description box like CDJapan does. yeah, Cdjapan's normal "stuff doll" description can get a bunch of jokes going at the office But they use "figure" this time for the dx chogokin vf-1s . Quote
SuperHobo Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 11 minutes ago, F360 said: yeah, Cdjapan's normal "stuff doll" description can get a bunch of jokes going at the office But they use "figure" this time for the dx chogokin vf-1s . My favorite description from CDjapan is "personal use toy" for any gokin or valkyrie I get from them. My mail-carrier always gets a kick out of it and so do I. Quote
F360 Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 27 minutes ago, SuperHobo said: My favorite description from CDjapan is "personal use toy" for any gokin or valkyrie I get from them. My mail-carrier always gets a kick out of it and so do I. lol. that is some expensive "personal use toys" getting multiple and different colors too Quote
SpaceCowboy Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 (edited) Always use the indefinite article "a" personal use toy, never "your" personal use toy. Edited January 2, 2020 by SpaceCowboy Quote
DYRL VF-1S Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 Yeah sorry for the heart attacks. I couldn’t resist. Well done @Darth Mingus hehe. Trust me, there will be posts here with source URLs when it’s announced. Quote
505thAirborne Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 4 hours ago, derex3592 said: Roy pre-sale on New Years eve --that actually would have been hilarious...LMAO! We could have actually done our drinking pre-order game!!! That would have been Epic!! Quote
DYRL VF-1S Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 4 hours ago, derex3592 said: Roy pre-sale on New Years eve --that actually would have been hilarious...LMAO! We could have actually done our drinking pre-order game!!! Indeed! Quote
VF-1J まったく Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 Out of curiosity, what was the MSRP on the Super Strike Parts set? I've seen it listed for 9200円以上 on NY and other sites. Quote
Slave IV Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 5 minutes ago, VF-1J まったく said: Out of curiosity, what was the MSRP on the Super Strike Parts set? I've seen it listed for 9200円以上 on NY and other sites. That’s the best price you are going to get. MSRP I think is 8800 yen but you have to pay tax, which puts it over 9200 already without shipping. NY offers fantastic deals on TWE items. Quote
Lolicon Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 Hikaru before the final battle, after b****-slapping Minmay. Quote
sqidd Posted January 2, 2020 Posted January 2, 2020 4 hours ago, derex3592 said: Roy pre-sale on New Years eve --that actually would have been hilarious...LMAO! We could have actually done our drinking pre-order game!!! A shot for every time you get cart jacked? We'd all be dead! Quote
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