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Weirdly, they are pretty efficient for me, but that may just be the amount of foreign-based items flowing into the DC area. Recent DHL for me was about $35 when I got the Sentinel Tread- no big tariff bump.
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I didn't remember any word on the VE-1, just assumptions since the VT-1 has similarities and seemed to sell well.
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So, trailer 2
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I asked Toynami about the 1/55 re-release announced at this year’s SDCC. I’ve attached their full response. 💯💪❤️🚀 [I have no clue what hidden meanings are assigned to emojis by kids today, so forgive me if I’ve chosen poorly. I have no plans for world domination or any other such nonsense.]
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That almost sounds like Y-MSF. (Toho-licensed Godzilla figure producer) They had a site years ago, and wasn't worth keeping it up, so now they sell stuff as if they were bootlegs via social media despite being above board. A shame for Arcadia, as even KitzConcept keeps a site up.
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I don't wanna hear that. Wasn't the VE-1 supposed to be "close"?
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Your Most Recent General Toy Purchase - 2024 Edition
VF-Zero replied to azrael's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Latest Haul.
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I’ll do the one character from the Dunbine kit for now and maybe dig into that old L-Gaim box set next. Will be fun to keep jumping around.
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That’s a great shot with all the various scales. 👍
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Those look great!
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Yo ! It has been so long since the last time that i checked the forum out. My previous message is from 2022... Man time flies by. I want to share the picture of these two bad boys that i got. VF-0S vs SV-51Y from Macross Zero. The Final Showdown between Fokker vs Ivanov. Macross Zero is my all times favorite Macross Anime. I was really big on mechas and i used to watch SDFM on tv when i was little, but what really reignite my love for Macross was Macross Zero Anime that i watched when i was 19 years old or something. I was really captiveted by Macross Zero anime back then and immediatley grab the Yamato 1/60 VF-0S toy as you can see it from the picture. I want to grab the Nora version of SV-51Y as well, but we will see about that because 1/60 Valkyre toys are crazy expensive. lol I also really want a 1/60 YF-19 btw. I liked Macross Plus Anime back in the day as well and YF-19 is arguably the best Valkyrie design so far. Man... suddenly remembering that VF-25F Messiah is a really cool looking Valkyrie as well. I need to grab a VF-25F too. lol
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The YF-21 is another example of Bandai’s stubbornness in the face of multiple complaints. They had literal years to change or improve that design, and they never did.
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Interesting shot of a Hi-Metal R Turbo Custom posted on X bei 四万十川.
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Probably financial mismanagement, if I had to guess.
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DHL shipping from AE for the Zola Patrol was $34 for me. Just paid it. Seemed about normal from pre-covid days for one package from Japan to me. Maybe a hair more. Nothing to cry about though. I like DHL over the other options in the past couple of years.
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I'm 100% sure they not. Why would they do that if macross fans will buy multiple copies anyway?
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Which, funny enough, I think I would have been more on-board with? They could have marketed it under the Macross 30 game license, since it included a bunch of alternate color 171s I would have loved. On that note though, this might give us the red Millia 17S I always wanted, but Yamato never did. I'll definitely bite on that one, if it happens. All things considered though, I might still grab one or two of these down the road. They won't replace the Yammies, but I'll be very curious to see how it sells, and whether it winds up in the Amazon bargain bin (where it really belongs). They'll stay in fighter forever, but I can't say the design is terrible in that mode anyhow. At the very least it'll be a nice source of spare parts to repair more of my 171 junk pile.
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Pre shaded!
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Two Armored Valks done this year (at last!).
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The S-type head shown on the frame doesn't do it for me, though I believe the D-head will certainly do better since it is pretty similar to the 171. The one thing the 17 has going for it is that it is pretty much immune to yellowing....
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Definitely a repainted 171. Heppoko Samurai missed the wings though. Those have to be new too, because the 171 has a different shape towards the inside. Black paint somehow makes the legs even skinnier lol. The gunpod definitely isn't stowing in the leg or changing ammo type. Doesn't look like they have plans for super pack, since there's no way to mount the back pack, even if they figure out how to hack the leg parts on with existing armor pack connections. Honestly, though, the revival's triangles are rock solid. I've already said in that thread, but those things seem unbreakable now. I accidentally used them as a load bearing perch for my hand to wrangle other parts, and also crushed by swinging shoulder parts around in the wrong order and angles. They just returned to form like nothing happened. Can't guarantee that with the new colored plastic, but I'd like to think bandai at least permanently learned that one lesson if nothing else Disappointing that bandai didn't even try to make the finer gimmicks that are different from the 171 work in any way, other than the elbow guns.
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Bandai back in the day couldn’t compete proportionally with Imai. I sometimes wonder how Imai went under with such great looking kits compared to Bandai at the time
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@pengbuzz That mini diorama is a COOL idea! It has a nice 3rd dimesion to it. I think the curvature was good and forced persepctive on the subject. @Papa Rat It will be cool to see those built! I got a couple of the "newer" ones when they went down drastically in price. @Big s The Dunbine models drove me nuts too. It reminds me of the original Atari video game art. The cartridge shows two dudes battling it out on a tennis court. You get the game and its just two sticks and a ball. The "ball" wasn't even round! - MT
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The Unlicensed Third Party Transformers Thread
JB0 replied to slaginpit's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
That becomes overt trademark infringement as opposed to the gray area of reverse-engineered molds. Hasbro doesn't own red trucks that become robots, they don't even own a specific implementation of that concept. Physical objects are not typically afforded copyright protection. But the logos are protected by trademark and easily identified by customs as unauthorized and thus illegal uses of that trademark. If you want your toy robots to make it into the country, you won't print autobrands on them.
