davidwhangchoi Posted November 7 Posted November 7 1 hour ago, Chronocidal said: With the way Bandai manages their releases, this might come out cheaper than buying a set of missiles separately. wow this is dirt cheap. 20,000yen!?! i hope all vf-1's going forward are this price point. Quote
Chronocidal Posted November 7 Posted November 7 So.. I admit, I was actually joking about it being cheaper than buying a missile set for a VF-1 you already own.. But wow. Granted, that's not accounting for the Tamashii Tax, but still. Between the exchange rate and markup on the missiles, yeah, it's cheaper to do this than get a missile set, if all you want is the TV missiles. Obviously, you don't get the DYRL boxes and RMS warheads. But still. Pretty funny. All I'm really hoping is that this beats some sense into the blockheads responsible for the missile situation, and they make use of the adjusted packaging to give us TV missiles with all of the TV valks from here on out. Quote
seti88 Posted November 7 Posted November 7 (edited) oooh thats a nice price point for a valk with missiles! 20k-ish yen....sigh...hmmm....another hikaru? my wallet has been drained by audio chifi... Edited November 7 by seti88 Quote
Chronocidal Posted November 7 Posted November 7 Being totally honest, I'm halfway tempted to sell one of my first release copies, and just trade it out for this one, since it will have the later mold improvements like the fixed nose cone. Quote
Lolicon Posted November 7 Posted November 7 Speaking of missiles that cost as much as the valk... https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1277685811&keyword=マクロス&lang=en Quote
davidwhangchoi Posted November 7 Posted November 7 1 hour ago, Chronocidal said: Being totally honest, I'm halfway tempted to sell one of my first release copies, and just trade it out for this one, since it will have the later mold improvements like the fixed nose cone. i did that and got the armor valk combo 5 hours ago, jenius said: It's a bit more expensive than a standard release. nice, with the yen rate as it is today, i think it's worth it for 2,000yen more. 10 minutes ago, Lolicon said: Speaking of missiles that cost as much as the valk... https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1277685811&keyword=マクロス&lang=en i do need the square box micro missiles though. I reckon Bandai will be more greedy and re-release the strike packs to include the square missiles if they decide to do a repackage and perhaps include the mechanic parts that pretty much copies Yamato. Quote
Radioguy Posted November 7 Posted November 7 I'm still looking at those 1/48 Hasegawa missile sets sitting in a corner. I swear I'll get around to modding those. Quote
Chronocidal Posted November 7 Posted November 7 (edited) 1 hour ago, Radioguy said: I'm still looking at those 1/48 Hasegawa missile sets sitting in a corner. I swear I'll get around to modding those. I need to get on this as well, and develop a good pylon mod to get them to attach directly to the unmodified wing. I'm almost kind of tempted to just mod the pylons themselves to attach to the Bandai weapons, but the Hasegawa ones are much more detailed. I forget how many packs I actually picked up, but fortunately the number of missiles of different types works out pretty well for arming up a good number of valks at once, since the opening loadout from DYRL was two boxes and two dual reaction missile mounts, but Hikaru used four boxes in the finale. I think you can equip the entire DYRL opening group and Hikaru's 1S with four missile sets, which leaves you enough TV missiles for pretty much all of the appropriate TV versions as well: Roy, Hikaru's 1J, Max's 1A, and the theoretical TV Kakizaki, if it ever happens. Edited November 7 by Chronocidal Quote
grogall Posted November 7 Posted November 7 Ja, The missile situation is pretty bad, even after three releases! And it's only going to get worse if they release a VF-1A Canon Fodder in the DX series without any missiles... They had better come up with a better solution soon! 🤬 Quote
themarvelknight Posted November 7 Posted November 7 I don’t think it would be too difficult to give their future releases the appropriate missile load out, especially for TV releases. I can understand separate missiles for DYRL releases but for TV, it doesn’t make any sense at all to me. I could be wrong but I think every other manufacturer included missiles. Even if they bumped up the price a bit to include them, I think most collectors would still buy the release. Quote
jenius Posted November 7 Posted November 7 Missiles plus a flight stand for 2000 Yen is reasonable but it's a store exclusive so I don't think we should get too optimistic that it will set a precedent. Those things are what makes the exclusive special. Hopefully I'm wrong. Quote
Chronocidal Posted November 7 Posted November 7 Yeah, I'm not terribly hopeful, but I'm just thinking of this in terms of what the path of minimal effort on Bandai's part will be, in terms of what changes they will need to make to the packaging going forward. Just in terms of prior releases, the Angelbirds release gave us a box big enough to contain the bonus flight stand, and the normal stand tray was updated to contain the extra tails. Assuming they use that box, and don't repackage the flight stand with missiles, the most likely option for where they will pack them is to re-design the normal stand tray to contain them in place of the extra Angelbirds tails. That would give them a ready-made standard display stand tray capable of adding the TV missiles to any future release as a pack-in. Will they actually do it? Who knows. What occurs to me though is that the TV missiles are the least labor intensive of the weaponry (no assembly and minimal paint/tampo), and adding them to future TV releases in a redesigned tray using an existing box is far cheaper than another production run of the full missile set. Quote
jenius Posted November 7 Posted November 7 The 50th release is a normal box with a flight stand so I'm hoping they can keep pulling that off. We'll find out soon! Quote
grogall Posted November 7 Posted November 7 58 minutes ago, jenius said: The 50th release is a normal box with a flight stand so I'm hoping they can keep pulling that off. We'll find out soon! Until then you may want to do a review of the two trainers!?.....🤗.....Please! Quote
Shawn Posted November 7 Posted November 7 Since they proved they can do missile inclusions with the upcoming Store-Only release VF-1J, I feel they missed their chance to include chrome plated missiles on the 50th, that would have been cool. Maybe it had to do with plating perhaps being worn off during attachment/detachment. Quote
Radioguy Posted November 7 Posted November 7 11 minutes ago, Shawn said: Since they proved they can do missile inclusions with the upcoming Store-Only release VF-1J, I feel they missed their chance to include chrome plated missiles on the 50th, that would have been cool. Maybe it had to do with plating perhaps being worn off during attachment/detachment. I did buy silver chrome Gundam markers...I think. Quote
Angesdad Posted November 7 Posted November 7 The secondary market price (Mandarake) for a missile pack has gone up to 22k yen, the same as VF-31J super…insane. Quote
Duymon Posted November 8 Posted November 8 At this point I don't mind having naked DX valks if I want fully loaded valks in 1/48 I have my Hasegawa fighters models Quote
grogall Posted November 8 Posted November 8 (edited) Quick! Mandrake has missiles for 21,000 yen, I'm just glad I got my last two for 14,000 but if I look at the Mandrake site they have sold at least 10 for 22,000 yen.... I think I'm good with 6 sets plus 4 TV super packs giving me missile for 22 VF-1's. Edited November 8 by grogall Quote
vladykins Posted November 10 Posted November 10 Hmmm I have some missiles I'm not using- I might be tempted to put them up for sale with these prices. Quote
herkulease Posted November 11 Posted November 11 With this being a physical store exclusive and they only have 2 store locations(Osaka and Tokyo) how many do we think they will produce? I don't recall if anyone ever got a general sense with the previous releases what the production numbers were. Obviously won't be 100K but I can't imagine something as low as 1K. Quote
Sandman Posted November 11 Posted November 11 Is there a way to get the 1J online or is it in person only? Quote
jenius Posted November 11 Posted November 11 Usually this is an 'in the store only' sort of thing. Quote
no3Ljm Posted November 12 Posted November 12 (edited) 32 minutes ago, herkulease said: With this being a physical store exclusive and they only have 2 store locations(Osaka and Tokyo) how many do we think they will produce? I don't recall if anyone ever got a general sense with the previous releases what the production numbers were. Obviously won't be 100K but I can't imagine something as low as 1K. Since nobody knows the exact production numbers, my best guess is it's probably more than how many they sell during Tamashii Nations Events since those are exclusive to members or sometimes thru lottery. Good thing though, it's being sold to everyone at the store and not for members exclusive. Think of it as a 'sold while supplies last'. Edited November 12 by no3Ljm Quote
Shawn Posted November 12 Posted November 12 I'm not completely sure its open to the general public at the Tamashi Nations store (the vf-1j store exclusive) Google translate makes this seem like its a lottery you entered last week, find the results if you won or not tomorrow, then pick up on the 15th. I THINK https://club.tamashii.jp/topics/tnstokyo_items_241031.php Quote
Chronocidal Posted November 12 Posted November 12 Man.. Bandai is just allergic to making their products actually available to the people who want to throw money at them. Quote
Shawn Posted November 12 Posted November 12 the manual is now online, nothing special. I want to see if its darker like the Takatoku 1/55 Gray, or if its lighter as in some of the more recent pics. https://tamashiiweb.com/images/item/item_0000015096_StkjfnYa_300.pdf Quote
MKT Posted November 12 Posted November 12 It will suck in some ways if the white turns out to be the same as previous. I imagine many buyers would have gone in expecting it to be a different shade exactly as per pics. Quote
grogall Posted November 12 Posted November 12 (edited) 7 hours ago, Shawn said: the manual is now online, nothing special. I want to see if its darker like the Takatoku 1/55 Gray, or if its lighter as in some of the more recent pics. https://tamashiiweb.com/images/item/item_0000015096_StkjfnYa_300.pdf Yes, that's my basic question as well! Would skip it if it's just the stand and have to hunt one down if there is a colour difference.... Hopefully one of our Japanese members will grab one and take some comparison picks! Or somebody post it online.... Also hope the show something new at the event! 🤗 Edited November 12 by grogall Quote
no3Ljm Posted November 12 Posted November 12 16 hours ago, Shawn said: the manual is now online, nothing special. I want to see if its darker like the Takatoku 1/55 Gray, or if its lighter as in some of the more recent pics. https://tamashiiweb.com/images/item/item_0000015096_StkjfnYa_300.pdf BARUKIRI rules!!! Quote
Shawn Posted November 12 Posted November 12 They are appearing online for sale now (but not released until the 15th). Looks like 30k is the average opening salvo for resellers, which comes to about $200 US. Quote
jenius Posted November 12 Posted November 12 I'm sure it will drop significantly in a few weeks, that's what happened to the 50th scheme. Quote
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