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  2. MacrossJunkie
    I had actually picked up a 2nd copy when I was checking around during prime deals day. It wasn't one of the prime deals, but seeing it was 180, I still got it. Even with the replacement I got from Bandai, on closer inspection of the replacement parts, the head laser was still slightly bent and the canopy hinge still had cracks in it. So I will keep my original one in battroid mode with the blacked out canopy in use. The new one I got was perfect. No cracked canopy hinges, no cracked anything, as far as I can tell on initial inspection and no stress marks or bends on the head laser.
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  4. Hikuro
    Yeah I got to admit, that was the laziest piece of writing for a finale as you could possibly get. As if Gunn just had no idea how to finish it and just randomized everything. I thought there was gonna be a big battle or something.
  5. lechuck
    So this is what it means when you do an Impulse buy? šŸ˜ https://tamashiiweb.com/item/15621/?wovn=en https://hobby.dengeki.com/news/2771765/
  6. Mog
    I will give credit to Gunn for introducing me to some fun little rockers. Nothing on the level of Band Maid from Season 1, but the immature idiot in me enjoyed ā€œF@&king My Heart in the Ass.ā€ And the line ā€œAnd God knows Iā€™ve had some rough f&@king yearsā€ and that whole Foxy Shazam intro song really ties well with this season and has a sneaky resonate message.
  7. KOG Water Dragon
    You've been pretty lucky I guess. Out of the entire HG 1/100 Macross line, the entire Armored Core VI line, every RG and MG for the last 2 years... I haven't gotten a single pre-order filled at initial release. I did manage to get a stash of 6 VF-22 Max/Miria decal sets, not sure how I got so lucky. I think I got 1 YF-29 Max, 1 YF-21, and 1 Fire Valkyrie way after release. Gundam stuff just never gets filled so I wind up canceling the orders when stock turns up local. I think I got 2 of the Armored Core kits well after release. And yes, it does look like HG has rights to original Macross characters and mecha worldwide outside Japan. Still, that isn't stopping other companies from making kits, and Bandai had their own 1/72 VF-1 a while back, and I think they are still doing the pre-completed VF-1 toys? I'll get the Wave 1/100s if I need to, but I'd rather Bandai do a series. Especially since the Wave kits available now are just movie versions.
  8. Big s
    That was the finale????!!!!! I thought there was gonna be at least another episode or two. That is crappy if it was the finale.
  9. jvmacross
    Maybe it's an alt Flag, Sr.? But yes, if I were to nitpick....his character seems not to be consistent with his character from Creature Commandos......
  10. mikeszekely
    I *think* 1pm EST tomorrow.
  11. Big s
    I think unfortunately the rest of the world tends to be put into that rule. From my understanding they have a pretty tough time getting these items as well and are also getting mainly Robotech labeled items. Thereā€™s been plenty of people complaining about not getting their preorders fulfilled until later batches. I havenā€™t had that problem until recently trying to get the Gallus-J from ZZ Gundam. Although only a few months after the initial release they did get another batch and itā€™s now sitting in my private warehouse. Iā€™m hoping that if the do stuff for og Macross that they will honor preorders quickly when thereā€™s not enough stock. And I hope they at least pump out enough for everyone to get them not too far after initial release
  12. Hikaru Ichijo SL
    I do not know about Mugen Gacha. I hope it gets better soon.
  13. Mog
    I havenā€™t watched Creature Commandos, but
  14. sh9000
  15. guyxxed
    Line art comparison for the nose. Cockpit is bigger on the 24 as well, though how much of that was 'intended' vs just 'how they drew it for the 5 seconds it was on a monitor in the background', I'm not sure.
  16. sh9000

    HMR VF-19P

    sh9000 replied to BlueMax's topic in Toys

    Yep it's already been known that the speaker units don't rotate.
  17. KOG Water Dragon
    I know of the awkward complicated issues surrounding VF-1 merch being officially sold in the US. Bandai doesn't want japanese sites to sell kits to the US because they want to sell kits through stateside distributors. And the stateside distributors can't carry the VF-1 stuff because of the Harmony Gold agreement. So that makes selling a Bandai VF-1 domestically a no go for the time being. However. Harmony Gold can't stop people from buying VF-1 kits from Japan, which is why we can easily get the Hasegawa and PLAMAX kits. And since HLJ is kinda sorta being allowed to break the 'dont sell to the US' rule (though they seem to be allocated much less Bandai stock now as a result), it stands to reason that HLJ could sell a hypothetical Bandai VF-1 kit to the US, as long as Bandai gives them stock allocation. And since they can't sell it locally in the US, I don't see why they wouldn't allow HLJ to sell some to the US, since there's no domestic distribution to compete with, because of the Harmony Gold stuff. It doesn't seem like kits imported to the US by buyers (not retailers) violate the agreement. And even if HLJ couldn't get stock and sell to the US, I'm sure there would be other ways to get them. But the main thing is, even if the US market had no access to them at all, I doubt Bandai would miss the opportunity to sell a HG VF-1 to the entire rest of the world. And I imagine a robust possibility of people across the world acquiring some to sell to the US through auctions and second-hand sites. No mistake, I think they'd be hard to get in the US for a while, if HLJ was the only place you could order from in Japan, knowing that it's hard in general to get Bandai items from HLJ anywhere near release date.
  18. sh9000
    Happy Birthday.
  19. guyxxed
    Not a lot to show yet, but work has begun! I'm trying to be lazy and see if I can convert one of the Macross 30 VF-25A's into a YF-24. Tail fins and leg fins updated, basic wings blocked out, but still a lot to do. Didn't realize until I started deleting things that the wing roots of the 25 aren't level, so need to move them around a bit, also need to cut the aeilerons into the wings and figure out what I did wrong to screw up the tail fin normals, but all just part of my usual kitbash work. It's a bit difficult to tell from the line art, but the 24 and 25 appear to have the same elongated nose, though the 24 has a very different canopy: flat across the bottom edge and doesn't have the front cowl that the 25 has. I may take some artistic liberties there since I think it's a bit boring, but we'll see. Anyway, posting the minor progress here to keep some pressure on myself to keep working on it. šŸ˜‰
  20. sh9000
    Rogue Trooper.
  21. sh9000
    I'll probably get an Arctic HISS.
  22. Tking22
    I liked the season overall, but this was a weak-ass finale, definitely feels like half the episode exists just to set up Man of Tomorrow. From what I've read Gunn has no plans for a season 3, season 2 only really happened to help set up the new DCU and distinguish it from the DCEU, so I'm guessing we'll see Peacemaker again in Man of Tomorrow, and...
  23. sh9000
  24. sh9000
    Preordered Outback and Wheelie from Walmart since they were a little cheaper there. I might cancel my preorder for DK-59 and get Skybound Optimus.
  25. sh9000
    Yeibobo 5 in 1 Gun Transformer.
  26. Big s
    I think that itā€™s one of those shows thatā€™s kinda down the middle where itā€™s not good enough to be great and not bad enough to be infuriating and is just kinda there. Thereā€™s also the fact that itā€™s intended to be a comedy, so you kinda forgive stupid things in the show, if it were a supposedly serious show like Alien Earth, then youā€™d have loud voices trashing every mistake or cringy scene, while this show has some stupid scenes and dumb characters, itā€™s a comedy so nobody is taking it serious enough for loud voices.
  27. Big s
    Other companies can, but Bandai models canā€™t because while other sites carry Bandai kits, thereā€™s an agreement that they canā€™t ship them to the states. Itā€™s supposedly that American stores can compete with Japanese sites. Hlj seems to be an exception since they were designed as an English site in Japan. Toys and things are under a different rule, but Bandai models like Gundam, Votoms and Macross kits go under the rule that Japanese sites canā€™t supply to the states. Macross kinda gets stuck in a mess where thereā€™s the extra harmony gold problem on top of all that for the og series, hopefully that doesnā€™t cause problems with the movie designs, but who knows. Anyway, I noticed you mentioned hobbysearch. If you even try looking up Gundam kits or really any other Bandai models on their site, they donā€™t list them anymore. You have to change the URL to Japan and then they become visible. You can however find Bandai toys easily like sh figuarts or dx toys from Macross and even the hmr stuff, but the model kits donā€™t appear without that change to the URL
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