Is There An Upcoming Release Thread?

[sqidd]

Yesterday after a long time of being absent from the scene I came to find out that getting stuff on pre-order is generally the lest expensive way to do it.

I see when I'm poking around that there are threads about upcoming releases/pre orders on specific toys. Is there a thread going somewhere that is an updated/ongoing kind of deal that has a list of pre-orders coming up that I can get in on? I don't want to miss anything.

 

Thanks!

[HardlyNever]

Anymoon has a list that is updated fairly regularly.

The thing with pre-ordering the Bandai stuff (especially the DX line) is that it is generally a pretty short window between announcement and pre-order (for the standard releases).  An announcement will be made, and the pre-order will go up like a week to 2 weeks after that (and pre-ordering standard DX Chogokin stuff is insane, hence "pre-order madness.")  So you need to be pretty on-top of the announcements in order to know when the pre-order date is.  The HMR stuff works in a similar fashion, but the preorder night usually isn't as crazy, and you can generally get a preorder in within the first week or so of it going up.  If you're interesting collecting the Bandai stuff, you really have to check this forum every day or 2, or you might miss the pre-order window.  That's just the most effective way of keeping up with that information, unless someone wants to start compiling that info in a single place.  But the window between announcement and pre-order is pretty short, so they would really have to be on top of things.

The Tamashii web exclusive stuff (aka "p-bandai"), in theory, is open for pre-order for much longer, but we've seen some exceptions (the DX strike parts needed a second wave, for example). 

Pre-ordering the Arcadia releases is generally much easier, where you have months to pre-order between the date pre-orders open and the actual release.  You can often pre-order pretty close up to the release date, and they are generally readily available at or near MSRP when they come out.

So to answer your question, no, not really.  There are some lists that are kind of what you are looking for, but they generally aren't updated often enough to be used as a real-time tool to know when you need to pre-order.  You just have to keep checking places like these forums.

[sqidd]

4 minutes ago, HardlyNever said:

Anymoon has a list that is updated fairly regularly.

The thing with pre-ordering the Bandai stuff (especially the DX line) is that it is generally a pretty short window between announcement and pre-order (for the standard releases).  An announcement will be made, and the pre-order will go up like a week to 2 weeks after that (and pre-ordering standard DX Chogokin stuff is insane, hence "pre-order madness.")  So you need to be pretty on-top of the announcements in order to know when the pre-order date is.  The HMR stuff works in a similar fashion, but the preorder night usually isn't as crazy, and you can generally get a preorder in within the first week or so of it going up.  If you're interesting collecting the Bandai stuff, you really have to check this forum every day or 2, or you might miss the pre-order window.  That's just the most effective way of keeping up with that information, unless someone wants to start compiling that info in a single place.  But the window between announcement and pre-order is pretty short, so they would really have to be on top of things.

The Tamashii web exclusive stuff (aka "p-bandai"), in theory, is open for pre-order for much longer, but we've seen some exceptions (the DX strike parts needed a second wave, for example). 

Pre-ordering the Arcadia releases is generally much easier, where you have months to pre-order between the date pre-orders open and the actual release.  You can often pre-order pretty close up to the release date, and they are generally readily available at or near MSRP when they come out.

So to answer your question, no, not really.  There are some lists that are kind of what you are looking for, but they generally aren't updated often enough to be used as a real-time tool to know when you need to pre-order.  You just have to keep checking places like these forums.

Thanks!