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18 hours ago, Duymon said:

hot Dayam that was expensive. Couuld care less about missiles I'd never use

Thank god Amzn JP doesn't charge until shipping like everywhere else :D

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Are you sure, have you looked at your credit/debit card account?

This was my strategy too, because I didn't want to pay upfront but Amazon has already charged me. And to add insult to misery, I even went ahead and ordered the reissue Legioss Eta which was also been charged.

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On 11/28/2024 at 6:35 PM, Duymon said:

hot Dayam that was expensive. Couuld care less about missiles I'd never use

Thank god Amzn JP doesn't charge until shipping like everywhere else :D

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They charged me immediately...

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At least, the Yen to USD exchange rate is pretty damn favorable for us Yanks right now.

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9 hours ago, weiser21 said:

Dunno if this is the right place to post this.

It certainly was ten days ago, when the Amazon.jp listing first went live... 😉

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Anyone had their Sentinel Ride Armor crack at the swivel joints at the rear of the bike? Flipped my Houquet bike over to access the kick stand and found one completely cracked and the other with what seems to be a hairline crack developing. The figure has been rarely messed with. This now makes all four that suffered cracks, so extremely disappointed to say the least with the build quality.

 

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I've never opened my Houquet but I was excited thinking it had redesigned swing bars that would be less likely to crack... This is obviously a bummer.

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On 11/29/2024 at 8:39 PM, Mommar said:

They charged me immediately...

Charged me immediately as well.  So much cool.  At least they have that price guarantee where they'll give you the best price once the product releases.  I guess that's something.  I find the shipping from Amazon JP to be fair to the US as well vs some other Japanese retailers.  I just paid nearly 110 USD for 2 sets of Ozma Valks.  

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On 12/4/2024 at 10:17 AM, dragontype said:

Charged me immediately as well.  So much cool.  At least they have that price guarantee where they'll give you the best price once the product releases.  I guess that's something.  I find the shipping from Amazon JP to be fair to the US as well vs some other Japanese retailers.  I just paid nearly 110 USD for 2 sets of Ozma Valks.  

The price at Amazon was already lowered, I forwarded them the link to another shop and they dropped it.

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Welp, decided to give the Tread a little “extra” firepower:

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Still gotta paint it up and may need to jerry-rig a way to extend the length between the trigger and the handle.

But it should work for the big burly bastard.

And the barrels rotate!

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1 hour ago, Convectuoso said:

Sentinel is advertising this as ROBOTECH

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Thing is expensive. I wouldn't be surprised if they aren't getting the numbers they expected. They maybe just trying to catch robotech fans attention.

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I always thought it was only the missiles that were a “Japan shipping address only” exclusive.

But the Tread itself is available to any location (sans missiles).

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The normal Japanese stores aren't listing it and say it's only available in Japan. In the meantime, some international stores have listed it like bbts. It's a mess that sentinel should figure out. If I could order it on HLJ today, I would.

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3 hours ago, Mog said:

I always thought it was only the missiles that were a “Japan shipping address only” exclusive.

But the Tread itself is available to any location (sans missiles).

I tried finding it on the usual Japanese sites like hlj and hobbysearch and they wouldn’t list them . Hobbysearch has a weird work around to view their Japanese only items and I think I posted it a page or so back. Basically you have to go to the url and erase the English part, then the Japanese version of their site comes up and I did find their listing for the rerelease of the legios, and the basic tread. It wouldn’t show on the English version of their site. It’s the same trick you have to use to view their Bandai model kits.

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So weird that the Japan-only rule is being enforced more tightly than Macross releases. At least with the Macross international embargo, the Japanese web stores are still able to list them for international customers, but not this Tread. 

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55 minutes ago, MKT said:

So weird that the Japan-only rule is being enforced more tightly than Macross releases. At least with the Macross international embargo, the Japanese web stores are still able to list them for international customers, but not this Tread. 

Also odd that their rerelease of the legioss is mixed in there, while aoshima just did a rerelease of the legioss transforming kits with no issues. I really don’t know the reasons here for the decision 

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did anyone going through amazon japan get a weird message that it was out of stock after hitting the place order button?  yet the order seemed to have gone through because it shows up in your list of orders?

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7 hours ago, MKT said:

So weird that the Japan-only rule is being enforced more tightly than Macross releases. At least with the Macross international embargo, the Japanese web stores are still able to list them for international customers, but not this Tread. 

Exactly! Even when BigWest and HG were at their most contentious, it was never difficult to order from a toy from Japan and have them ship it internationally. Very strange what is happening here and I can only assume it's driven by Sentinel. If I had to guess, they received a strongly worded letter from HG saying they need a license to sell internationally and they have WAY over-reacted to that. Of course, then they go and tweet about Robotech so... that seems to dispute my guess. 

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Didn't see this posted yet so….

He seems to have some trouble pegging things in but the figure still looks pretty good, if a little loose in the knees. Nothing a little Kiki wouldn't fix.

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I'm glad to see they used a current conversion rate when pricing the tread on amazon US. It'll be about the same or cheaper than ordering from Japan even with taxes. 

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Release from Japan sources will get sent out around August.

US sites will get them from the slow boat, and then ship them out from US.  So, whole process will probably take you out to October.

So, lower price from vendor on Amazon US, but will take longer to receive it.

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19 minutes ago, davidwhangchoi said:

300 is pretty good price

So, I've been waiting to get a Legioss for years. Is the Riobot the one to get?

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