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The lighting definitely looks nice, I also have only 3 items per shelf so the LEDs should provide more than enough lighting. Ill check and see if I can find them at my Ikea.

My friend Sam, which is my contact in Japan who has helped me organize a couple of group buys for Tamashii Web Exclusive items, has opened his own proxy buying service for items in Japan. He is currently offering all kinds of service such as bidding on Yahoo Auctions Japan and shopping from online stores in Japan. He was forced to quit his job (stupid job politics in Japan) so now he is basically supporting his family through his site www.DV8cag.com. Some members here (razerwire, matrix soul, bouncing boy, David Hingten) have participated in the group buy and know that he is legit.

If you guys need anything from Japan please try to go through his site and help him out. His fees are some of the lowest, i helped him out with researching other proxy buying sites so he could come up with reasonable fees. The site is simple to use and say for example you want an exclusive from Yamato Online Shop please go to the site and submit a request, he will get back to you within minutes and give you your total. Also if you guys register, use your username from this site so I can recognize you guys. Click the image below to go to the site. Thanks!

how do you replace the feet? I tried doing that on my Hikaru 1S and I couldnt get the leg to come apart.

any pics with the room lights or flash off?? I wanna see how well it illuminates the whole case.

I don't have pics but I tried using different VFs. Thing is the GBP comes with special large shoulders. Those are white if the VF-1 doesn't have white shoulders it will look odd.

Easily solve by getting one of the new TV Roy 1S

I have it painted gray.

Yup I never like the white visor, it looks weak on the face of white VF-1J. The gray visor adds some depth and highlight on the head, IMO.

What did you use to paint it? it looks great!

IM getting mine shipped later this month, my friend in Japan already got them but im waiting for other pre-orders to ship out so that I dont have to pay shipping for just the stickers.

Big thanks to MyClone, he sold me a G1 re-issue Predaking at a great price and he shipped super fast!

Okay, prices for this limited kit is available, please see first post.

Will be accepting pre-orders now, availability is on a first come first serve basis. Kits are expected to be shipped out by the end of July!

Do you have to pay everything at once? Or is it a deposit now and the rest later?

I think AmiAmi still beat HLJ despite HLJ has 70%, I could be wrong.

Yup it did, i only paid 9,553 SHIPPED with only 15% off AmiAmi FTW!!!

vangelus is a funny dude

Yeah I got the discount on both items of around 15% then I received a further discount of 2715 which relates to the shipping.

Weird, then you might have gotten lucky, this is what mine looks like, you got the standard of the hicky version?

<Item Name | Unit Price | QTY | Total >

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YAMATO Macross 1/60 Perfect Transformer VF-1S TV Color Edition | 7,850.- | 1 | 7,850.

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Payment method: PayPal

Shipping method: EMS

Shipping Fee: 2880

15% Off Promotion: -1177

TOTAL: 9553JPY

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I received my payment request from Amiami this morning, I was pleased to see they included the 15% off EMS shipping as well.

Not sure if I was just lucky but I paid up straight away. Now I just have to wait until they arrive, it seems like it has been ages since I ordered them.

It was 15% off the price of the toy, and everyone got it up until today.

I see. Well in that case, can you tell me where to get those plastic tripod stands that everyone uses?

flightpose.com and I have to agree that the included stand with the DX is some crap. You can also go for an official DX stand but I have yet to put mine together so I couldnt really tell you how good they are.

Picture of the marking sticker

Are those waterslides?

I have an XS-01 with a broken at the hip but superglued leg, an XS-03, and a 400% synchrorate Unit 1. What are you looking to pay for these.

Got mine, won't be transforming it for a while though---the paint is much more matte than I suspected, so raw Future over it will be hyper-obvious, I'm going to have to mix up some flat-Future batches and see which one will dry to the right sheen. (I have planned for months that I would coat the nose and shoulders with Future BEFORE the first transformation---I'm not taking any chances on scraping paint).

Anyways, having never owned a VF-27, a few things I've noticed and am wondering if Brera's is the same:

Darkest stripes are metallic paint.

Intake covers are metallic paint.

Beam cannon is molded in metallic plastic.

Lime green details (like the back of the hand stripe) are metallic paint.

No I think all that metallic stuff is exclusive to the Grace.

Another company Fusion Work will release Macross F figures. At this rate Sheryl gona beat VF-1 in number of products...

The legs on that Sheryl look weird.

Boxes filled to the brim with stands and graces arrive

I would prefer a pilot that looks like Grace, but it's not a deal-breaker for me and it's not going to bother me.

As for the different shades of green, I assume it's going to be like every other green toy that people have freaked out over where I can't see any difference in person.

Agreed I dont see any problems with Lucas RVF, mine looks fine to me and thats what matters.

I sure hope "missing stickers" isn't the same as "missing tampo printing". Stickers are not a replacement for missing paint...

Did Brera's come with a sticker sheet? Or maybe the fold booster has stickers?

Nope Brera's didnt come with any stickers, matter of fact I dont think any DX's ever came with any stickers.

They're shipping, my friend received my copy at home today.

edit:

bandai is saying that most of them are missing some stickers and they'll mail those out on the 25th.

Yup my friend got mine today 3 VF-27's and 11 Stands, he also sent me the email Bandai sent to him.

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There, that should answer all of your questions. LOL, OK, apparently there was some type of unexpected problem and they do not have the correct amount of stickers.Due to this, they will begin shipping additional stickers separately beginning on the 25th.They say they will be shipping in order of the orders placed, so I don't know how far down the line yours was,but we may have to wait a little bit on them.

So where ever you guys are getting yours from ask about the stickers. Im gonna have my stickers shipped to me later whenever they get to my friends house.

Reviews reviews...

Not for another week at least, they shipped 6/17 to my friend in Japan. Hopefully they arrive quickly and he can ship it out this week to the US.

VF-27 Grace shipped today in Japan!

Ichiban Kuji re-issues with slighty altered paint jobs. Might go for that Sheryl bunny again but I have to admit that the colors seem out of place on the black bunny sheryl.

http://www.1kuji.com/maf2_encore