Big s Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 1 hour ago, Chronocidal said: I hadn't even considered how weird that is. If their stock is that restricted by Bandai, why are they even allowing more than one per customer in the first place? Or is Bandai being more generous with this one because they don't expect it'll sell well overseas? 1 hour ago, KOG Water Dragon said: The limit of 3 on the new VF-22s could be a mistake or it could be a sign they expect a large allotment. I'm genuinely curious to see what happens. I'm seeing that all the Gundam and Armored Core stuff I have on pre-order is also limited to max 3 per person. Definitely some weird stuff going on and yeah, not sure if it’s a mistake, but I’m so backlogged that I won’t feel too bad if I have to wait a little. I kinda have a couple odd things going on here. The 3 per customer is definitely different from how they usually do things at Hlj for Bandai stuff. And then there’s the fact that these are standard releases. Neither of those two things were what I expected to see last night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronocidal Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 44 minutes ago, Big s said: Definitely some weird stuff going on and yeah, not sure if it’s a mistake, but I’m so backlogged that I won’t feel too bad if I have to wait a little. I kinda have a couple odd things going on here. The 3 per customer is definitely different from how they usually do things at Hlj for Bandai stuff. And then there’s the fact that these are standard releases. Neither of those two things were what I expected to see last night Just to be clear, waiting "a while" could be up to a year. HLJ has made absolutely no attempt to explain to me why my YF-21 is still backordered, beyond a copy-pasted "filling orders in the order received" excuse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big s Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 8 minutes ago, Chronocidal said: Just to be clear, waiting "a while" could be up to a year. HLJ has made absolutely no attempt to explain to me why my YF-21 is still backordered, beyond a copy-pasted "filling orders in the order received" excuse. Sorry, I should have probably should have gone into detail. If they don’t have some or all the order, I’ll just cancel out and get the rest here. They’re usually easily available in the states about three months after release anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PointBlankSniper Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 6 hours ago, KOG Water Dragon said: That's why Hobbysearch flat out doesn't carry Bandai on their website anymore. That's not exactly true. Ignoring the hyperbole that clearly ignores non plamo items which are clearly still there, there are in fact still plamo items still there. Hobbysearch has been able to circumvent bandai's restrictions with part of the 30 minutes missions line. I don't know how or why, but I'm sure there are other a small amout of other bandai restricted items on there. That is just the english side. The japanese pages still have full listings of the latest plamo and gunpla releases, so if you wan't to go the roundabout route of using a proxy like buyee to buy from the jp side of hobbysearch, you should still be able to get your bandai plamo from them. For w/e reason, the jp pages can have different prices from the items available on the english side, even before jp tax though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big s Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 35 minutes ago, PointBlankSniper said: That's not exactly true. Ignoring the hyperbole that clearly ignores non plamo items which are clearly still there, there are in fact still plamo items still there. Hobbysearch has been able to circumvent bandai's restrictions with part of the 30 minutes missions line. I don't know how or why, but I'm sure there are other a small amout of other bandai restricted items on there. That is just the english side. The japanese pages still have full listings of the latest plamo and gunpla releases, so if you wan't to go the roundabout route of using a proxy like buyee to buy from the jp side of hobbysearch, you should still be able to get your bandai plamo from them. For w/e reason, the jp pages can have different prices from the items available on the english side, even before jp tax though Even the 30 mm are still locked away. Although I wouldn’t worry about using them since if you delete the English part of the URL, it shows all the available Bandai kits and all the good stuff is already order stopped. the only kit type items they’ve had available for outside Japan are the trading kits. Probably because they kind of fit more into the toy section Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommar Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 4 hours ago, Chronocidal said: Just to be clear, waiting "a while" could be up to a year. HLJ has made absolutely no attempt to explain to me why my YF-21 is still backordered, beyond a copy-pasted "filling orders in the order received" excuse. It's probably a little more expensive but they'll get it to you. HLJ tried that with my Sinanju Stein 1.5 and USAGS got it to me within a week. https://www.usagundamstore.com/products/macross-plus-hg-1-100-yf-21-1-100-scale-model-kit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chronocidal Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 Honestly, the YF-21 is past the point I care now, that's the same price I got one from Amazon, and it was here in a day. I think if HLJ is going to be this bad about actually delivering on orders, they should stop offering the items for sale at all, unless they throw a massive disclaimer about how long it may be to receive it. They just need to be honest, and tell people what the restocking rate is so they can have realistic expectations on how long it may take to get an order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh9000 Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 Ordered 2 of each. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOG Water Dragon Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 5 hours ago, PointBlankSniper said: That's not exactly true. Ignoring the hyperbole that clearly ignores non plamo items which are clearly still there, there are in fact still plamo items still there. Hobbysearch has been able to circumvent bandai's restrictions with part of the 30 minutes missions line. I don't know how or why, but I'm sure there are other a small amout of other bandai restricted items on there. That is just the english side. The japanese pages still have full listings of the latest plamo and gunpla releases, so if you wan't to go the roundabout route of using a proxy like buyee to buy from the jp side of hobbysearch, you should still be able to get your bandai plamo from them. For w/e reason, the jp pages can have different prices from the items available on the english side, even before jp tax though Ok, didn't realize they still had some dribs and drabs of Bandai product. But all the Gundam stuff is unavailable, all the Macross stuff is unavailable, the 30mm Armored Core line is unavailable, and I don't see residual listings for Bandai's Patlabor or Dunbine stuff (though those are old and could have been delisted previously perhaps). There's a few other Bandai lines I don't follow, but I suspect they're unavailable as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh9000 Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 https://www.entertainmentearth.com/product/macross-7-vf22s-sturmvogel-ii-maximilian-jenius-use-high-grade-1100-scale-model-kit/blf2777017 https://www.entertainmentearth.com/product/macross-7-vf22s-sturmvogel-ii-milia-farina-jenius-use-high-grade-1100-scale-model-kit/blf2777015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no3Ljm Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 HG 1/100 VF-22S Sturmvogel II Water Decal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh9000 Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 I checked my order history at HLJ and I cancelled preorders there for every HG 1/100 release. I might end up doing the same with Max and Milia especially if Entertainment Earth has one of their sales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big s Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 3 hours ago, sh9000 said: I checked my order history at HLJ and I cancelled preorders there for every HG 1/100 release. I might end up doing the same with Max and Milia especially if Entertainment Earth has one of their sales. Maybe by the time they do have a sale, you might also have some extra points to cut the cost even further Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolt Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 17 hours ago, no3Ljm said: HG 1/100 VF-22S Sturmvogel II Water Decal I'm really glad for Bandai's steady stream of all things Macross. But for the most part , none of it is a must have or, especially, my scale preference. There are a few exceptions, of course. But their QC's and Availability issues don't make them any more desirable, unfortunately. These kits do look easy and fun enough, so Bandai is winning some hearts there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOG Water Dragon Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 54 minutes ago, Bolt said: I'm really glad for Bandai's steady stream of all things Macross. But for the most part , none of it is a must have or, especially, my scale preference. There are a few exceptions, of course. But their QC's and Availability issues don't make them any more desirable, unfortunately. These kits do look easy and fun enough, so Bandai is winning some hearts there. Yeah... really would have preferred 1/72 to be in scale with all the Hasegawa, Plamax, Wave, and older Bandai stuff. Hoping Hasegawa will do some new fighters in 1/72 eventually, but at least Plamax said something about a YF-29 right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big s Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 2 hours ago, Bolt said: But their QC's and Availability issues don't make them any more desirable, Availability is a little iffy from Japan, but pretty easy stateside. I haven’t heard of any QC issues with their kits at all. I think the only one that had an issue was the hg zeta plus, but that got fixed fast and only caused a slight delay a few years back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casual.Plamo Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 On 9/2/2024 at 11:34 AM, KOG Water Dragon said: Yeah... really would have preferred 1/72 to be in scale with all the Hasegawa, Plamax, Wave, and older Bandai stuff. Hoping Hasegawa will do some new fighters in 1/72 eventually, but at least Plamax said something about a YF-29 right? I'm the other way around lol Bandai's 1/100 releases is giving me the urge to buy Wave's part forming 1/100 kits 😆 Damnit.... can I even afford to collect/build another new line???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big s Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 13 minutes ago, Casual.Plamo said: I'm the other way around lol Bandai's 1/100 releases is giving me the urge to buy Wave's part forming 1/100 kits 😆 Damnit.... can I even afford to collect/build another new line???? The wave kits are a bit more fun than the hasegawa ones, but not quite as fun as the plamax kits. Definitely gonna need some paint on the wave kits though and some seam work, but their battroid is fun to pose, just doesn’t get quite the same degree of articulation as the plamax battroids do in the knees Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolt Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 On 9/1/2024 at 10:53 PM, Big s said: I haven’t heard of any QC issues with their kits at all. I think the only one that had an issue was the hg zeta plus, but that got fixed fast and only caused a slight delay a few years back. Yes, I was mostly referring to Bandai's Macross offerings in general. Which includes their 1/60 scale. 10 hours ago, Casual.Plamo said: Damnit.... can I even afford to collect/build another new line???? This is what it's come down to for me. I've hoarded so much Macross toys and kits over many year's . They're mostly in storage as i have only so much display space. So I've decided to stick primarily with 1/72 , as it's the most fun for me. And I've let go of quite a bit. Of course I have exceptions, but i have other expensive hobbies too, so it's time to slow my roll on buying so much Macross and enjoy what i have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casual.Plamo Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 12 hours ago, Bolt said: This is what it's come down to for me. I've hoarded so much Macross toys and kits over many year's . They're mostly in storage as i have only so much display space. So I've decided to stick primarily with 1/72 , as it's the most fun for me. And I've let go of quite a bit. Of course I have exceptions, but i have other expensive hobbies too, so it's time to slow my roll on buying so much Macross and enjoy what i have. I am a bit luckier in that I only buy model kits and not figures/toys 😅 But yes, having more than one hobby does hurt the wallet(golf for me)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big s Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 2 hours ago, Casual.Plamo said: I am a bit luckier in that I only buy model kits and not figures/toys 😅 But yes, having more than one hobby does hurt the wallet(golf for me)... I like the toys, but I prefer the kits. They just look better and strangely enough hold up well over time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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