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  2. Mommar
    Leader looks pretty damn good.
  3. davidwhangchoi
    Freedom Killer looks pretty good. i might get one.
  4. Thom
    Of course! Looking great!
  5. Scyla
    Thanks for the replies. Every time I try to navigate the Tamashii Nations site I get an aneurysm. I don’t even know how to get to the view @lechuck showed, even from the link that was shared. [edit:] Aha, I need to switch to the Japanese site.
  6. tekering
    ...or boldly go bankrupt overestimating their market. 😓
  7. tekering
    So, it turns out these new G.M.G. Collection figures were announced last month: ...and these two back in August: ...but since I've only just discovered their existence, I'm much too late to preorder them from any of the usual sites. 😣 So now, it's "wait 'til retail release" or "pay the online scalpers" if you want 'em. 🤕
  8. M'Kyuun
    POs are up on Pulse!!!!
  9. borgified
  10. Black Valkyrie
  11. Shawn

    Macross Books

    Shawn replied to Penguin's topic in Collectors

    Wow, what any amazing collection in print! You've got everything!! I remember moving boxes and boxes like that which breaks your back.
  12. lechuck
    https://tamashiiweb.com/item_brand/metal_build/?wovn=en#gi_productlist I don't know why Bandai even bothers with listing shop redirects for EU and Latin America, they barely care making MBs available in these markets. 🙄😒
  13. Goodman Models
    Thanks for asking Thom!
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  15. Goodman Models
    I’m happy to report that this bird 99% finished! I’ve been really busy with a kitchen Reno, but I’ve been chipping away at this build and it’s about to wrap up. I ended up re painting the wings. The pilot and canopy are done and just need to be fitted with some ova glue.
  16. raptormesh
    It's amusing how Bandai is just shitting the bed with the YF-21 and this when it comes to being faithful to line art. I get adjusting to make sure it's a playable toy but it's so far off I held off buying the 21 even at at deep discount despite being my #1 fav valk. I suspect I may pass on this one too.
  17. mog_kupo
    If I remeber correectly, there were 3 preorder windows for the God Gundam As for the Impulse...Im worried it will be a little fragile due to the transforming gimmick and also, the neck seems a little bit low
  18. pengbuzz
    Nice! That reminds me: are you going to do armor for your custom 1/55?
  19. pengbuzz
    Yeah... aka 1970's Star Wars/ Fisher Price Adventure People figures.
  20. pengbuzz
    Right? Hope some of these don't become vaporware...
  21. Big s
    I’m not blaming hlj at all. They’re told they will get a certain amount of kits, but often Bandai doesn’t quite come through. So Hlj does put their customers ahead of the question on the soonest restock
  22. PointBlankSniper
    Nice work with the wings. I think the nose are supposed to be very different, considering some parts like the feet and intakes look identical between the two. If you think about how the 25, 27, 29, and even 30 are supposed to be direct descendants of the 24, but all of them look nothing alike beyond general mechanisms, I think it's safe to assume any differences noticed are intended. So my read is that the cockpit is that little bit larger. Other things like the nose being that little bit stockier might be intentional as well. The line down the center of the nose might be a chine, or could be a two tone nose design along with micro fins at the front of the gear doors that survived into the 29's design. Maybe looking at the 29's line art might help you a little. The 27 might have little features in common with the 24 too. Admittedly, the 30 being related in any way, more than just vague wing profile, is kinda bs lol. Maybe the engine humps with the little slit sensor thing up front counts for lineage... Following that train of thought, those hexagons on top of the engine near the ankles might be missile hatches, something that evolved into the 30's missile container with topside hatches, and then the 31 reverting back to calf missiles but with a large door. The real thing up for guessing to me is whether the intakes are actually that faint bit taller on the 25, since they do look identical by design, or maybe the scaling of the two images just wasn't perfect so there's nothing to that, idk lol
  23. Bolt
    Glad to see you're still working on stuff.
  24. PointBlankSniper
    Most of the stock problems are just the effects of bandai's strategy to feed scalpers rather than customers. Even japanese people take swings at bandai for eternal stock shortage and scalper problems every chance they get. Yet bandai still focuses on jumping between small batch reprints, spam new series and new designs nobody asked for without fulfulling demand, spam pbandai limited runs, etc. They do everything in their power to create stock shortage and raise the value of scalping. Then they blockade cross region retail at the expense of regions with bad distro and local pricing, in the name of combating scalping. But there is no legitimate logic to it, because in reality, they are just giving more power to scalpers by giving them exclusive rights to peddle merchandize between regions. They singlehandedly built the scalper empire, and they will do everything they can to continue to fatten it. So it's not really an HLJ issue IMO, other than the fact that they are the last one allowed to do cross region retail, so all the symptoms are showing through them. It's just bandai totally not secretly having back channel arrangements or managing the scalper network themselves 😉, and totally putting in all their efforts to stop the scalper industry😉, that they totally didn't have a hand in birthing 😉, and cutting out all the distro and retailers for retail equivalent pricing through p-bandai isn't just another step in their strategy 😉. I totally don't think every individual scalper and scalping retailer is just an undercover bandai staff 😁 Its not going to improve because bandai's priorities are as suspicious as the consistent quality and QC issues of their DX/Metal Build/tamashii lines. Just another thing that even japanese people are openly dunking on them for, and they don't care. Their games also have some of the most heinous DLC schemes, despite people forgetting that is a thing between every release. Bandai is run by corporate vampires, so things can only get worse.
  25. Old_Nash_II
    The Vampire Lestat
  26. Scyla
    Impulse looks good. I think I am fine with the three (?!?) main variants out of which I like the Sword Impulse the best. A mostly red and white Gundam just does it for me. I’m still sad we never got the red MB Seven Sword and I hope someday we will get an MB Build/Try Burning Gundam. Another question. How many rounds of preorders were there for the MB God Gundam and what were/are the release dates. I am only aware of the first batch for the August 2025 release (the one with the shoulder paint issue).
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