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25 minutes ago, sqidd said:

My daily @LUNA PARK update. 5 days since shipping label created. No movement.

I’m at 11 days 😪

Hello,

Looking for an Arcadia VF-0S Premium Finish edition, MISB.  Shipping would be to Toronto, Canada, but also have access to mail forwarding service in the US.  

Thanks!

6 hours ago, BKPMacross said:

Has anyone ordered the Roy DX from Luna Park and actually received their item?  They sent me a tracking number on Nov 30th but it still says shipment info received. 

Mine was also info received on the 30th, finally had movement on December 10th and received it on the 14th.

Anybody's order with Lunapark still stuck in Shipment information received status with DHL?  Mine's been sitting in that status since last Sunday.

On 11/22/2020 at 4:45 AM, jenius said:

Same here... but it seems likely to happen given a couple more DYRL releases. We're bound to see a DX VF-1A Max and Hikaru some time soon, maybe a 1S Roy DYRL and, dare we dream, a 1S Max? Any couple of those will likely trigger a SSP reissue at the way Bandai is going and how well the parts have been selling.

When Bandai do release them again is probably when NY will finally honor the people they've screwed over so far...a year and a half since paying and going...

9 hours ago, vf1 said:

Thanks a lot for the tip!  I'll try this next time too.  Great you could avoid customs for the YF-19.  I bought the same item from Umeda I believe a few weeks ago and was hit for full customs charges to Canada.  I find some stores like Nippon Yasan, My Kombini and Nin nin game are willing to declare a lower value.  Another store I haven't tried is Amiami, but I think they also clearly state that they will not on the FAQ section.  For my Kakizaki VF-1A DX toy, I purchased from Amazon and prepaid the customs fees.

Fellow Canuck here, I've ordered from Amiami roughly 10 times in the last year, they never declare the full value and haven't paid duties once when shipping via EMS.  If I recall correctly, they marked the value of the Sentinel Legioss as 1200 Yen.  DHL is a cheaper shipping option with Amiami, but DHL will always nail you for duties plus their service fee.  Amiami is now my go to store since NY is such garbage now.

57 minutes ago, kaiotheforsaken said:

HLJ has the premium finish 0D as of this post.

Got one, thanks

45 minutes ago, jenius said:

You have a fun definition of 'normal'.

Mandarake shipped on the 24th and departing Japan the next day is not normal?  Better than normal?

Am I one of the few that actually liked Batman Forever?  Val Kilmer probably wasn't the best choice for Batman but I watched it as a young teenager and thought it was pretty good.  Batman and Robin on the other hand...

On 6/23/2020 at 9:28 AM, TangledThorns said:

Check out Joel's TIGERLAND if you hadn't seen it. It stars Colin Farrell's in one of his earliest roles and is really good in it too.

Tigerland is a great Vietnam War movie, great cast besides Colin Farrell, Clifton Collins Jr., Cole Hauser, Michael Shannon, etc...

Looks like EMS is back to normal?  Just had a couple of orders from AmiAmi and Mandarake shipped via EMS to Canada leave Japan within a few days, 1 in the case of Mandarake.

Amiami order paid for and shipped, so this is what it feels like to get things shipped on release date...no word on my second copy from NY, anybody get payment request yet?

10 minutes ago, Rhubarbarian said:

I've messaged them about mine a couple weeks ago (mine should have been from the December batch, too) and just got a "yeah, we don't have it yet" e-mail in response. The good news is that NY will eventually send you some SSP, but... when that will be will be anyone's guess. They sent me my VF-1S about a month and a half after release, but due to a shipping error I ended up getting it middle of February. 

I still don't get that response, how do they not have it yet but people here are clearly getting there's shipped to them.  

10 hours ago, Slave IV said:

Haha, on the 51 thread, @OptionZero just reported that NY gave him the fixed legs parts for just the cost of shipping when he didn’t even buy it from there. AmiAmi and several other shops wouldn’t even help their own customers with it. That sounds like great service from NY to me. As for the shipping issues, they have also given people free upgrades. All sounds pretty good to me. I don’t expect any service when buying products for the Japan market only so anything is going above and beyond from any of these shops. If people don’t like a shop, just stop using them instead of complaining all the time.

Yeah, I ended up with okiniland for Kakizaki. I have no loyalty to any shop when it comes to price. Whoever gives me the lowest price and can deliver gets my business. Will see how it goes next time a Macross item goes up for preorder. DX 29 should be a good test. 

I'd like to stop using them, but the problem is, they still have my FREAKING money.  As per someone's previous post, NY even stated they're only out to help select individuals, that's great, what about the rest of us that threw 300$ at them expecting a product, yet got nothing, won't even entertain a refund.  So yeah, people have the right to complain because as you yourself stated, who ever can deliver gets the business.  NY is not delivering and people are upset, make sense to you?  How about I sold you something on the MW forums, you paid me 300$, and I held it for 6 months before shipping it to you.  You wouldn't be too happy, would you?  You wrote in another post is getting a toy really at the top of people's priorities at times like these?  I'd say yes because I'm sure some people have been severely impacted by what's going on and could either use a refund or at the very least the goods delivered to resell for much needed cash.  Can't buy much food on NY store credit.   

I don't get the horseshit that NY is trying to feed here.  This is the response I got from the customer service this morning. 

Date: 2020-05-14 14:59:24 Name: Marine

Message:

Dear customer,

Thank you for your message

We apologize if we were unable to send your order upon release of the product.
After checked your order with the Delivery Center we regret to inform you we won't be able to ship your order on time.
We will receive our stock with delay, therefore your order will be sent approximately two weeks late.

But yet they were sending out orders 3 weeks ago?  What gives with these guys? 

4 minutes ago, RedComet said:

Wait, what country are you in? EMS to the US hasn't moved in almost a month for one of my Mandarake packages...

Canada

5 hours ago, borgified said:

If your packages ended up leaving the floor of the post office till the Monday (6th) then it became a three week wait till it got shipped.

My two packages by EMS via Amiami and Manda are still at the post office as of the 29th both in posting/collecting. Most likely that they will get shipped a week/two weeks after the Golden Week Holiday. 

I ordered a couple of things from Manda, 1 from Complex, the other from Nayuta, both shipped with EMS.  Both were shipped out yesterday, the Complex one went to arrival at outward office of exchange after 3 hours, the other is still in posting/collection.   I guess JapanPost must still be working.

I wonder if this is going to impact how expensive this hobby is already.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2020/04/09/japan-ditches-china-in-multi-billion-dollar-coronavirus-shakeout/#22cd1b4d5341

6 hours ago, wm cheng said:

Yep same here in Ontario, its a crap shoot.  Sometimes its $60-100 per package (nasty surprise), sometimes its nothing.  I find better luck with EMS though.  Couriers (FedEx & UPS) is guaranteed to have Customs, Brokerage, Import Fees applied though.

I live in Ontario too and try to avoid Manda and HLJ as much as possible as they always declare the full value on their packages.  Amiami and NY (30+ orders) always declare something small and have never been nailed by CBSA when shipping with SAL or EMS.  

Hey sorry off topic here but wondering if anybody has had any issues with NY lately?  My MP-47 Hound has been sitting in Preparation in Progress since Jan 6th and there’s been lots of similar complaints on their Facebook page recently.  

On 10/26/2019 at 1:09 PM, Digitalfiend said:

I paid $32 CAD for my missile set from FromJapan and $49 CAD for my Max from AnimeExport.  Both shipments arrived in 2 business days.  AmazonJP definitely has the cheapest shipping at 1600 JPY for DHL.

Did you get dinged for duties and taxes for any of the packages?

WTF, NY is selling the VF-1A for 24000 yen now and a lot of us paid the mark up of 27500 yen after PO night...mother effers...

MyKombini finally put it up for sale, 23990.

https://mykombini.com/en/macross-robotech/16052-dx-chogokin-vf-1a-valkyrie-maximilian-jenius-custom-macross-bandai-spirits-4573102567222.html?search_query=macross&results=106

8 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

I'll qualify this with one caveat.. they have to do Wraith Squadron as well. 

I loved all the books, but always preferred Allston's brand of humor and drama to The Corran Horn Show.  

@ The Corran Horn Show, but you gotta admit he made for a solid character in the New Jedi Order and everything after that.  I, Jedi was also a really good read.

https://heroichollywood.com/rian-johnson-star-wars-trilogy-freedom/

Star Wars is so screwed.

"Star Wars: The Last Jedi writer/director Rian Johnson is ready to hop back into the iconic galaxy far, far away with his own trilogy separate from the Skywalker Saga, and it looks like he has full creative control."  

3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

After Lucas and his minders turned out three hit films and the property lapsed into a period where no new development occurred for over a decade, people kind of forgot that our boy George succeeded because his creative output was being aggressively filtered.  He was given a free rein, and the godawful mess that aggressive filtering had kept the audience insulated from started to leak out all over Star Wars.  We got Phantom Menace and the racist caricatures infesting it, the memetically awful child Anakin, famously wooden acting on the parts of multiple actors, and a pair of sequels with the worst love story this side of Twilight.  

Racist caricatures in The Phantom Menace?  I’m guessing you’re talking about the Gungans or maybe the trade federation?  I have no idea but I don’t see George Lucas as a racist.  You can literally find a form of racism in any movie you watch, if you’re looking hard enough to find it.  To be honest, I don’t know how anybody walks into a movie trying to find out all the social injustices that are portrayed in a movie unless it’s something very blatant and intended.  Our society is shifting in a way that soon everything will be offensive to one person or another and movies still just plain suck. 

4 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

From where I stand, the problem is Star Wars fans.  Not just the fandom in general, but the promoted fanboys working on Star Wars as well.  Nobody outside of Star Wars's die-hard fanbase gave a damn that Disney got rid of the Expanded Universe, but for that (admittedly large) demographic it was a thrown gauntlet and a lot of them went into TFA determined to hate it regardless of its quality or lack thereof.  The people working on the films, who grew up with Star Wars, are developing the kind of stories THEY want to tell... which is, yes, in "bad fanfiction" territory.  There are some good ideas among the heavily derivative dross, but they're unpolished and the Disney corporation is sanitizing it all to ensure that there's nothing in there which might deeply offend general audiences because Disney is all about family-friendliness.  Just like the Star Wars Expanded Universe, they tripped themselves up by making a direct sequel to Return of the Jedi that included an obligatory Happy Ending Override because, damn it all, Star Wars fans don't give a tinker's damn about a story which doesn't involve Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia. 

I think you're over generalizing the fandom and I have to wholeheartedly disagree with what you're saying. 

I don't know where you get off saying fans went into TFA determined to hate it.  Yes, my friends and I were peeved when Disney trashed the EU, but we were still optimistic and looking forward to the new trilogy.  We enjoyed TFA, ranking it as the 4th best SW movie at the time, Rogue One has since surpassed it in our opinion.  I think with an 87% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, this is the general sentiment amongst die hard and casual fans alike.  Sure, TLJ was a piece of junk that I wish I could un-watch and erase from my memory, but most SW fans I know went into this new trilogy with an open mind. 

I'm not sure where you're getting bad fanfiction territory from either.  JJ Abrams basically stole ideas from multiple successful EU story lines and from the original trilogy and amalgamated them into TFA.  I always found JJ to be somewhat unoriginal (Star Trek Into Darkness The Return of Khan anyone?).  TLJ was written by Rian Johnson and that wasn’t so much as a SW story as it was someone trying to shove their political ideology down our throats.  He is also in my estimation nowhere near being a Star Wars fan. 

Not all EU storylines are centered around the 3 heroes.  Off the top of my head, there is the X-Wing series, the Boba Fett trilogy, the Old Republic series, etc…all good storylines where where the 3 heroes make cameo or no appearances at all. 

4 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

The group that's being pandered to - the pandering that's making Star Wars such a mess - is the Star Wars fanbase.  They tried to make The Force Awakens appeal to Star Wars fans who were determined to hate any future sequel for not following the old EU by putting in all kinds of familiar plot beats and references, and fans hated it for being derivative.  They panicked, and tried to appeal to the Star Wars fandom by doing something radically different and subverting expectations... but the fans hated THAT just as much.  The irony is that they tried twice to pander to Star Wars fans with really obvious fanfiction-y stories (Rogue One and Solo), and managed a perfect 50/50 split between "love" and "loathe" based on how much it shook up the sacred cow that is pre-existing Star Wars lore.

Again, I don’t see any hate from fans for TFA, if you could please show me you’re getting this idea from.  JJ tried to make this movie appeal to the broad general audience which I think he succeeded in doing.  The movie earned over 2 billion at the box office and I don’t see a need to panic here as you stated and change direction for TLJ.  It is because Rian Johnson tried to pander to a specific audience, on top of making a trash movie, are Disney in panic mode and trying to right the ship with RoS.  Rogue one was in own rights a successful movie, generating over 1 billion at the box office with an 84% audience score.  Solo was an unfortunate casualty of the hate that was generated by TLJ.