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USAGundam, $339 as well: https://www.usagundamstore.com/collections/new/products/macross-plus-dx-chogokin-yf-21-guld-goa-bowman-machine?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx=GNd92YRvy4fhT1_fO0Nll3lpsQeiJyDI5Ao2EqdAxKc%3D.QPkpvt

The offset to USAGundams percentage off is full upfront payment.  With BBTS you don't have to pay until it ships.

Roughly 386.18 to NM from BBTS.

BBTS supposedly has Doom available now.

Looks like I forgot all about this release.

7 hours ago, PointBlankSniper said:

Assuming you display the two units, doesn't that point towards the styrofoam? If they are out of the box, they wouldnt be in contact with the stuff. But unopened and then stashed at mandarake makes them perfect candidates for yellowing.

Can't deny that mandarake stuff, whether its the store or previous owners, may have some nasty fumes though. Last year, I got a gunpla from them with a heavy musty(?) smell and extremely murky yellow factory sealed bags for the runners. The runners inside smelled as bad as outside. I cut, sanded, and then washed the kit with baking soda, vinegar, various soap, isopropanol, etc, and it still smells to this day after building it... fortunately the parts aren't yellowed though

They've out and posed for a decade now.

15 hours ago, 505thAirborne said:

Oh yeah, the last 4 or 5 I have seen on Mandarake all had some degree of yellowing. If you have one & it hasn't, you're either very lucky or taking really good care of it. 

I have two, they're both fine.  Those people on Mandarake have some ludicrous chemical issues in their apartments... or are massive chain smokers.

On 1/5/2024 at 8:19 AM, MKT said:

I daresay it will. It has an advantage of not being prone to obvious yellowing, something we can’t say for another mini-grail the YF-30 Kronos. 

The 30 yellowed?

Bbts already said they don't expect the Turtles until April.

Given the level of parts former this thing already is it makes me wonder why they didn't they just design for Delimiter mode with a part to cover the section for fighter and then just plug in properly proportioned parts for Gerwalk/Battroid instead of giving us this... thing.

They are probably also anticipating the 21 to be a worse seller.

3 hours ago, wm cheng said:

Wow, step away for Christmas for a few days and all this happens!!!  Looks pretty darn good in the photos now!  So this WWM release means I can order it off the Amazon.com Tamashii store site a week after Jan 10th PO in Japan and not have to fight the madness?  I've never done this before - its seems almost too good to be true?!  So it WILL go on pre-order on Amazon.com Tamashii store site a week later? 

23 minutes ago, Lolicon said:

Yes, but expect a significant mark up. I'm expecting it to list domestically for around $359.99 before tax. 

The price of convenience....

43 minutes ago, sh9000 said:

https://a.co/d/3T8OcRV

Gray Ryu available to order through Amazon.

 

My order of Mega Man x2 will ship soon from Entertainment Earth.

Did you get an e-mail from EE about them already?  I thought Juhn said they weren't going to ship until March now?

Arcadia we're always wanting more markings, Bandai we plan ahead what we're going to erase.  Lol

Interchangeable wings was the least of my worries...

Shameless self-promotion.  Trance set for a friend, not really my thing usually.

3 hours ago, MKT said:

I'll likely put Player 2 Ryu and any future repaints by themselves, since the aesthetics are a bit different than SHF's.. 

Your comment on Ryu's grey bugged me a bit, so I looked it up and although the recent reviews on YouTube never mention it, I think you are quite right. The grey looks to be washed out. I'm usually not very particular on exact coloring on toys, but the initial shade of darker / richer grey Jada showed for this Ryu was somehow a big part of why I decided to pick it up.. oh well.. 

I don't think Jada ever did show this one?  I've only ever seen the Paulmartstore pics and they didn't look very dark.  My only observation is based on the fact they have a picture of player 2 on the box that contrasts with the figure.

2 hours ago, MKT said:

Nice! I ordered this as well, as my first Jada SF toy to dip toes in. Figured I'm likely gonna get their repaints as an alternative to the SHF ones. 

They do dwarf the SHF'w so posing side-by-side will be tricky.

Took the plunge on the Paulmartstore exclusive.  I don't think the gi is the correct shade of grey though.  Still looks nice.  Angle joints seem to a softer material and the ankle rocker is difficult to twist.

I'm hoping, since they're doing EVERY single character who ever appeared in Hush, that they'll get around to doing the entire Justice League from Superman Returns.

The three major needs would be that the nose section isn't scuffed when in the backpack in Battroid, completely re-done ankles and an inproved gerwalk joint with more range.

3 hours ago, MKT said:

It's pretty interesting they are switching up the gameplay into various shooter types. Looks like the developers are putting some genuine effort into gameplay mechanics rather than just it mainly being an IP tie-in, and it makes good use of 3D assets that we would not have seen in the old shoot-em-ups.
I hardly game these days, so not sure if there are other shooters out there which does the same thing as presented here, but from what little games I know, it feels a bit like Nier Automata with genre crossing gameplay depending on stage. 

Prior to this when it looked like just side to top scrolling the only one I ever knew that did that was Life Force/Salamander from way back in the 80's.  And there have been a few side scrollers that have used twin stick mechanics in their regular gameplay.  I don't know any that have put top-down, side, twin-stick shooter and space harrier all-together.  Hopefully it won't be a case of jack-of-all, master of none.

FF was the last figure I ordered directly from Mezco so my wait will be even longer for anything else.  But now I don't have to be present to sign for their packages anymore.

For whatever reason the only people recording themselves playing this game are idiots who don't know what a frakking controller is but in the gameplay clip prior it appears there's some space harrier-style gameplay as well.  But this time they play as the VF-25 which has a different shooting pattern/style and doesn't bend towards the direction you're flying like the VF-31 does.

1 hour ago, Sandman said:

I did get a replacement mailed to me. So @Mommar should send them an email.

A replacement for what, the stand?  And who did you e-mail?