Bandai DX Chogokin 1/48 VF-1

[davidwhangchoi]

2 hours ago, Shizuka the Cat said:

DX Chogokin 1/48 VF-1A TV Max pre-order madness:  April 8, 2019

 

AVAILABLE NOW

249.99 usd  @ Loopaza  https://www.loopaza.com/dx-chogokin-macross-delta-vf-1a-valkyrie-maximilian-jenius-custom.html

26,459 yen  @ CDJapan Proxy Service  http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/NEODAI-55157

27,500 yen  @ Nippon-Yasan  https://www.nippon-yasan.com/figures/27881-super-dimension-fortress-macross-dx-chogokin-vf-1a-valkyrie-maximilian-jenius-custom.html

29,990 yen  @ Nin-Nin-Games  https://www.nin-nin-game.com/en/japanese-import-hobbies-toys-game-character/31513-macross-vf-1a-valkyrie-maximillian-jenius-use-dx-chogokin--4573102567222.html 

 

NO LONGER AVAILABLE

16,280 yen  @ Nippon-Yasan  https://www.nippon-yasan.com/figures/27881-super-dimension-fortress-macross-dx-chogokin-vf-1a-valkyrie-maximilian-jenius-custom.html

17,100 yen  @ Hobby Search  https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10605111

18,000 yen  @  AmazonJP   https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B07QC9VHJC/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=AN1VRQENFRJN5&psc=1

18,000 yen  @ CDJapan  http://mag.cdjapan.co.jp/?4_--_3284216_--_1885_--_9

18,000 yen  @ HLJ  https://hlj.com/dx-chogokin-vf-1a-valkyrie-maximilian-jenius-use-bans56722

18,000 yen  @ Anime Export  http://www.anime-export.com/product/43703

18,450 yen  @ AmiAmi  https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=FIGURE-047859

18,468 yen  @ Nin-Nin-Games  https://www.nin-nin-game.com/en/japanese-import-hobbies-toys-game-character/31513-macross-vf-1a-valkyrie-maximillian-jenius-use-dx-chogokin--4573102567222.html 

18,470 yen  @ PlazaJapan  https://www.plazajapan.com/4573102567222

259.90 usd  @  Kurama Shop  https://www.bandaionline.com/dx-chogokin-vf-1a-valkyrie-maximilian-jenius-custom-action-figure/

262.19 usd  @ YesAsia  https://www.yesasia.com/us/dx-chogokin-macross-vf-1a-valkyrie-maximilian-jenius-use/1073347399-0-0-0-en/info.html  (free international shipping available)

27,324 yen  @ Rakuten Global Market  https://global.rakuten.com/en/store/speedwagon/item/10002943/

29,399 yen  @ CDJapan Proxy Service   http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/agency/yahoo/product/puremiamuserekuto_4573102567222

31,800 yen  @ CDJapan Proxy Service  http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/NEODAI-55157

nice list!

[nightmareB4macross]

2 hours ago, claude grant said:

Thanks for your diligence in keeping fellow collectors informed Shizuka, but I for one am no longer interested at these current prices.  Way to ruin a good thing Bandai. 

I'll wait for 2-seaters now (if they ever decide to do them).

I’m with you on this Claude.

Besides I honestly don’t think Bandai will ever go this far with their DX line. So in the meantime I have this to hold me over.

 

[borgified]

Stumbled into this comparison between the DX VF-1J  and the 1/48 Yammie VF-1J (box only for now).

According to his own words, a further detailed review will follow.

 

[vlenhoff]

On 4/18/2019 at 3:36 PM, nightmareB4macross said:

I’m with you on this Claude.

Besides I honestly don’t think Bandai will ever go this far with their DX line. So in the meantime I have this to hold me over.

 

^ ^ ^ I know this 1D is a custom 1/48. Is this the reason why the cockpit/nose can separate? I've never seen a Yammie 1/48 with detachable cockpit/nose 

[no3Ljm]

3 minutes ago, vlenhoff said:

^ ^ ^ I know this 1D is a custom 1/48. Is this the reason why the cockpit/nose can separate? I've never seen a Yammie 1/48 with detachable cockpit/nose 

So Roy can hold it.  

 

[vlenhoff]

I actually set up this display one week before the 1A max was announced. Premonition? 

Edited April 20, 2019 by vlenhoff

[beatsing]

9 hours ago, vlenhoff said:

I actually set up this display one week before the 1A max was announced. Premonition? 

nice pic.  Notice the line down the middle of the metal feet on the bandai on the left, and the lighter gray plastic feet on the yammie has no vertical line?

[nightmareB4macross]

10 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

So Roy can hold it.  

 

You got it.

the connection point collapses back into the rear of the cockpit. So that it doesn’t obstruct the connection between the body and the fuselage. 

here an old picture from when it first created around 12 years ago.

In my gallery there are pictures showing all the steps and parts to build this. It’s always been a labor of love and completed lunacy on my end to make this possible.

[vlenhoff]

3 hours ago, beatsing said:

nice pic.  Notice the line down the middle of the metal feet on the bandai on the left, and the lighter gray plastic feet on the yammie has no vertical line?

Yeah, what about it?

[vlenhoff]

3 hours ago, nightmareB4macross said:

You got it.

the connection point collapses back into the rear of the cockpit. So that it doesn’t obstruct the connection between the body and the fuselage. 

here an old picture from when it first created around 12 years ago.

In my gallery there are pictures showing all the steps and parts to build this. It’s always been a labor of love and completed lunacy on my end to make this possible.

ok cool , it is a 1/48 custom, thanks. 

[beatsing]

7 hours ago, vlenhoff said:

Yeah, what about it?

is that line on the metal feet supposed to look like that?  If it was plastic I'd think it was a seam line, but not sure what that vertical line is on the metal foot?

[kkx]

8 minutes ago, beatsing said:

is that line on the metal feet supposed to look like that?  If it was plastic I'd think it was a seam line, but not sure what that vertical line is on the metal foot?

I believe that feet if cast metal, so that is most likely a seam line.

[Sanity is Optional]

It's a mold line, as in it's where the two halves of the mold met.

[Lolicon]

I keep my valks clean so they don't get lines of mold on them. 

[beatsing]

4 hours ago, Sanity is Optional said:

It's a mold line, as in it's where the two halves of the mold met.

Bandai has gotten the parts on models sprues to have mold lines not on the front/displayed side, but hasn't done that for metal parts.  Their newer Master grade kits have clean parts now.  Is that what we're talking about here?  

[no3Ljm]

1 hour ago, beatsing said:

Bandai has gotten the parts on models sprues to have mold lines not on the front/displayed side, but hasn't done that for metal parts.  Their newer Master grade kits have clean parts now.  Is that what we're talking about here?  

Yes, the vertical line you see on the feet is a soldering line where they fuse the two halves of the feet. It's also hard to compare plastic mold such as how they produce their Gunpla to how they do it in metal.

 

[vlenhoff]

I think it is a plot by bandai not to give us perfect metal feet. It is a foot thing....

and a metal thing...

[beatsing]

4 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

Yes, the vertical line you see on the feet is a soldering line where they fuse the two halves of the feet. It's also hard to compare plastic mold such as how they produce their Gunpla to how they do it in metal.

 

Thanks.  I didn't know the that the processes were that different.  Just a comparison, the metal feet on my ostrich hmr don't have the vertical line on the front middle, and it's also a VF-1.  Is it because the hmr feet are small and the dx feet are large and have to be soldered together?

[beatsing]

4 hours ago, vlenhoff said:

I think it is a plot by bandai not to give us perfect metal feet. It is a foot thing....

and a metal thing...

ha ha it is bit nitpicky.  I just noticed because the yammie has clean lines, and my HMRs that have metal feet have clean molds for the metal feet

[no3Ljm]

2 hours ago, beatsing said:

Thanks.  I didn't know the that the processes were that different.  Just a comparison, the metal feet on my ostrich hmr don't have the vertical line on the front middle, and it's also a VF-1.  Is it because the hmr feet are small and the dx feet are large and have to be soldered together?

Probably it’s because it’s bigger.

Who knows, maybe Bandai will find a way to do it differently in the future and decides to reissue everything again that will ruin our collections, OCD’s, and budget. In the end, like @vlenhoff said, it might be Bandai’s plot.

 

[vlenhoff]

The funny thing is i rarely noticed it, and now i can't unsee it. 

[no3Ljm]

53 minutes ago, vlenhoff said:

The funny thing is i rarely noticed it, and now i can't unsee it. 

Wrong thread. Hahaha!

 

Edited April 21, 2019 by no3Ljm

[sh9000]

I think I saw it last time saying sold out but the missile set is available again for preorder at NY for 4400 JPY.

https://www.nippon-yasan.com/figures/26995-dx-chogokin-missile-set-for-vf-1-limited-edition.html

[beatsing]

21 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

Probably it’s because it’s bigger.

Who knows, maybe Bandai will find a way to do it differently in the future and decides to reissue everything again that will ruin our collections, OCD’s, and budget. In the end, like @vlenhoff said, it might be Bandai’s plot.

 

I've handled this valk in person, and I didn't notice it until that pic next to the yammie.  It's a nitpick. I'd still like to get my hands on a Max, or at this rate, the next valk.

 

I think if Bandai reissued with the swingbar as one solid piece, that'd ruin the collection, ha.

[beatsing]

19 hours ago, vlenhoff said:

The funny thing is i rarely noticed it, and now i can't unsee it. 

like the frog face on Tomahawk, ha ha

[beatsing]

2 hours ago, sh9000 said:

I think I saw it last time saying sold out but the missile set is available again for preorder at NY for 4400 JPY.

https://www.nippon-yasan.com/figures/26995-dx-chogokin-missile-set-for-vf-1-limited-edition.html

Is there another preorder going on?  NY has that ticket system to wait just to log on?

[easnoddy]

NY is garbage now.

[spacemanoeuvres]

13 minutes ago, easnoddy said:

NY is garbage now.

The ticket system sucks for sure

[Alphahorizon]

Seems NY is out anyways.

[easnoddy]

It would be one thing if their ticket system was at checkout time. But even accessing a page you get put into the queue. Even if you have no intention to buy.

[chyll2]

latest listing from mandarake for DX 1/48 VF-1J, sold for 35,000 yen

[nightmareB4macross]

1 hour ago, chyll2 said:

latest listing from mandarake for DX 1/48 VF-1J, sold for 35,000 yen

Hmm. So I was looking at Tabao and I noticed a few listings with prices as low as 65.00 (yeah, buyer beware). But some sellers have pictures of 10 DX in one shot. Tabao is very tempting but is it really true or worth it?

For as much as I use a Google translator it still all Chinese to me. How does one order on Tabao to validate any prices?

Thanks in advance to all.

[Jwwu]

Don’t use Taobao for this. I prepaid in full many months ago for the DX Vf-1J and the Taobao store did not get stock for me. 

The super cheap entries now could be pre-orders for the VF-1J which hasn’t even had a re-issue announced. 

[ScrambledValkyrie]

12 hours ago, chyll2 said:

latest listing from mandarake for DX 1/48 VF-1J, sold for 35,000 yen

Wow, that’s a lot. Though they appear to be selling for well over $400 US on EBay.

[Ipsquitch]

13 hours ago, chyll2 said:

latest listing from mandarake for DX 1/48 VF-1J, sold for 35,000 yen

The way Mandarake displays prices is a bit odd though. I check the site pretty often, and when the 1J is actually available for purchase, the price has always been right at 30K. However, after it sells, the listed price jumps up. I think that 35K price was a high watermark at one of their shops, but the typical price is down to 30K when it's their online shop selling it.