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    Macross Items of interest spotted on MANDARAKE!

    in Where to Buy Macross, Auctions & Dealers Specials

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    45 minutes ago, Sanity is Optional said:

    All 150 issues, for about $1000.

    However, that's before shipping. For reference, this is about 15cubic feet of boxes (estimated from my stack)

    Considering nominally the total MSRP in this in Yen (incl tax) was 300,000 it's quite the discount.

    Grea deal but....

    I feel bad for the poor guy who brought this into Mandarake to sell....he got totally hosed ;)

    Kitz Concept Toy Thread 2.0

    in Anime or Science Fiction

    Posted

    The pattern of the "fabric" used on the white thermal underwear figures lower arm seems different....not great but less disctracting....wonder why they did not use that same fabric throughout the entire figure?

    Does the black fabric have the same pattern as the lower white arm fabric?

    I  guess technically it still has "removable" armor...;)

    Hopefully they can come up with a better solution if they do the Zentran/Meltran armored and pilot figs...

    Toy Production Figures 1/55 - 1/72 :Takatoku, DX Chogokin , Hi-Metal, Yamato, Arcadia, Evolution

    in Toys

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    Because they are toys and most consumers likely do not care to know.

    Unless you are a toy industry analyst, insider, or work at the various companies producing these toys in Japan...no one is going to have production figures.

    Especially for the vintage items...the people who may recall or perhaps have old records are likely retired or dead.  Perhaps Bandai may have kept records from Takatoku but who knows.

    The only available "general" figure tossed around that I have read is the production count for the original Takatoku 1/55 VF-1J which is said to have been about a million toys sold during the original 1982-1983 release.

    Although it would be nice to know production counts....as a collector it is easy to determine what is "rare" simply by what you see available for purchase on the open market on sites like YJA over the course of several years of collecting.  The good thing is that sometimes rare does not necessarily mean it is expensive.

     

    Super Dimensional Macross Fireworks!

    in Collectors

    Posted

    Apparently, it's exponentially less difficult to import any given illegal and/or dangerous item known to man into the US than a set of 40+ year old Macross fireworks...

    Japan has more of these than they know what to do with and it seems no one in Japan wants them....maybe they finally realized that there are only 2 guys on the entire planet who actually want a set...lol

    Kitz Concept Toy Thread 2.0

    in Anime or Science Fiction

    Posted

    If they ever get around to the Destroids...I hope they release a "clean" set with just the typical amount of KC panel lines and tampo....the weathered versions are nice, but they do not go well with any of the VF-1's they have released....actually, I'm surprised they have not released weathered versions of their VF-1's...

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