Tking22

I got 3 off AmiAmi last night, plus my Figuarts Captain Phasma, she sold out damn quick, the Episode VII hype is very real. I'm waiting on HLJ, I still need more, no apologies, I will buy as many as I want, period. More will become available as others said, the first night and first round of pre-orders getting sold out is not a reason to become discouraged, they usually always sell out, and quickly. Whatever you do, don't get impatient and pay for some over-priced Ebay pre-orders, those people don't deserve your money, frakk their faces and their lives.

So are the Regults and all of the other February Bandai goods going up for pre-order tonight? I checked in last night and saw some members getting prepared, but I figured it wouldn't be last night and instead sometime today or tonight. I just don't want to miss out, these Regults don't cost anywhere near as much as most Macross goods, and it seems like quite a few people are in for multiples, I just want to be ready to nab all that I need, plus a Figuarts Captain Phasma.

Yea I saw that earlier today, the face sculpt is solid, I like it a bit better then the Figuarts, but it's a pass for me too. No ab crunch, really Figma? His arms don't look as cut up and gappy as the Figuarts either, but based on what I'm seeing, the articulation seems quite limited.

So it is October 1st, very interesting. So this means be ready tomorrow night before midnight right? I'm going to sign in to every site, get my computer ready, then click refresh from 11:40 to whenever they pop up, I need four Regults, and I need to lock down a pre-order on Figuarts Captain Phasma.

I guess that makes some, slight sense, if you're on a budget you can buy certain Gundams nickel and dimed out if you don't want to pay for a complete version, I just don't understand why the hell someone wouldn't want the figure to just come complete with everything so they can emulate and show off ANY variation they want out of the box? To keep prices down by $10-15? I would see it as more of a pain in the ass honestly, now for completionists they have to buy another set to get everything for their figure? To stay on topic, I just see a lot of people getting excited over the Regults, we NEVER get enemy mecha, people that don't even have Hi-Metal valks are looking to get some enemy and fodder mecha. Based on how quickly the valks in this R line have sold out, I'm guessing a lot of other people don't think it's too over-priced either, these things are undoubtedly easier to collect and get a hold of then Arcadia/Yamato 1/60 VF-1s. I just can't wait for 1-2 months after these release to pass, so I can see this board filled with people complaining how the H-Metal Regult is too expensive now, and how they can't be found for below $120, and that they should have gotten them a retail...

We also don't know what accessories and extra bits it's coming with, it's also bigger then the valkyries, and we don't know the plastic and metal content of the figure, what if the the legs are completely die-cast, what if the whole cockpit area is die-cast? I'm just not seeing how someone can determine if something is worth X amount when it's an unreleased figure that not a single person has gotten to actually handle in hand. I'm just sitting back and thinking, based on what we've seen, the price seems very fair, whereas I looked into it, the Spirits line was the Gundam line I laughed off after seeing how badly they nickel and dimed so many releases, Gundam Heavyarms and Sandrock were the exact releases I remember, you had to buy an extra, exclusive set that cost as much as a whole figure to get the rest of the bits they should have come with in the first place. I mean, at the end of the day, at least the Hi-Metal line isn't trying to release the valkyries gun pods or landing gear pieces in some extra Tamashii Online Exclusive complete your valk set...

I'm still not seeing the Hi-Metal R line as over priced, I don't entirely think metal and plastic content should dictate pricing either. What if the Macross license is more expensive to make toys for? I'd imagine getting licenses to Gundam stuff is much easier and cheaper. Each Hi-Metal R valk is also coming with some sort of armor parts too, either GBP or Super, and yet, they are still coming up as cheaper then the average SRC I look at. As for the Regult, same thing, possibly the license issues make it slightly pricier, but to your point on plastic and metal content, we still don't know about that on these guys. As for the Damashii/Spirits line, that appears to made up of much newer, more popular and relevant series then Macross, I'm just not seeing how a fair comparison can be made there, also, those seems to be all over the place as far as extras and accessories go, some seem worth it, others, not in the slightest. At least Hi-Metal valks come with some kind of armor inside the box, no extra purchase necessary, I'd guess if they decided to sell stand alone valks without any extra goodies they could be sold at around $50 each, which appears to be the average price for a Damashii/Spirits figure. I can attest that I'm not familiar with SRC's stuff, but I'm just not seeing how they're that much better of a deal, we're getting into personal preference territory now, yeah, it seems like a line of fairly obscure 70/80s mecha, but many of them don't seem to transform, they're light on gimmicks, and often accessories too. I think the Hi-Metal stuff is perfectly priced for what we're getting, Gundam merch will always be cheaper, it's Gundam, and I'm just not seeing the great deal with the SRC line, die-cast is cool, but they're stuff just seems so sparse on extras and gimmicks, I'm just looking at them and thinking they're exclusively worth it for being sort of heavy, moderately priced takes on older mecha series, once again, lots of Mazinger, Getter, Ox, and yet a lot of their stuff is just a mech, sword/weapon, and some hands, I'm just not seeing how they can compared to transformable, slightly parts swapping, 1/100 valkyries. I can also admit, I'm not much of a die-cast guy, slight or even heavy metal content in a figure doesn't immediately scream quality, or this is worth it, so maybe I'm just jaded on what SRC is attempting to do and charge for their figures.

So I looked for a moment into the Super Robot Chogokin stuff, if they don't make valkyries or Macross enemy mecha then they have pretty much zero relevancy to the topic at hand, and they're pricing compared to what you're getting seems to be slightly more expensive then what we're getting for the price of the Hi-Metal valkyries, and it looks like they just make 80+ variants to Mazinger Z and Getter stuff, which I have no interest in. I have quite a few Robot Damashii/Spirits Code Geass figures, they're pretty great, but once again, no Macross related merch, no interest. They're pricing seems decent, I still think the Hi-Metal line is exactly on point for what we're getting, and since nobody has handled their Regult, I believe it will end up being the nicest mass produced Regult we've ever gotten.

So when are these bad boys going up for pre-order? I'm in for at least 4, possibly more, was October 1st speculation, or is that really the date? So does this mean Wednesday night be ready at like 11:50pm? I've never done Bandai pre-order madness before, so I'm not sure how this goes, I just know I want to be ready. I get not liking the Hi-Metal line, or at least their take on the VF-1, but over priced compared to what? Arcadia? Who very occasionally make over-priced pink VF-1s? Or that one non-existent company that apparently make Regults? And then you say get some Robot Damashii stuff instead like it's a better value? Isn't that the Gundam line by Bandai that makes you buy like, separate sets to get the complete version of a figure you should have gotten in the first place? I distinctly remember looking into the Gundam Wing line just to see that if you want everything for Heavyarms and Sandrock you have to buy a little exclusive, expensive, sold separate additional parts set. Maybe I'm thinking of another line, maybe it was Robot Spirits or something else, don't really honestly recall, or care. Nobodies gotten their hands on the Regults yet, I don't understand how someone can already have the opinion of them not being worth the price. To each their own I suppose.

So apparently some people are already getting Darth Maul shipped out to them, I'm just sitting here, with not even a payment request from HLJ...

What? I thought they were doing some stupid ass cross over with Tatum and Hill in the Jump Street series? Either way, that's lame.

Wow now that was fast. I've just been burned by all the Bandai valks I ever owned, they always seem to break somehow, and I still think they're over-engineered in several areas, and I'm not a fan of the glossy paint they seem to need to use on everything, but mostly, I don't like Frontier/Plus or it's ilk, but that's not really Bandai's fault . I may be stuck with him as family, I've done this before for him, he doesn't deserve it, but his sister is totes awesome, so I deal with it. Every time I get him something that is within my realm of hobbies, like toys or video games, she takes it as me attempting to bond with or share what I love with him, it's more brownie points from her then him, I really don't enjoy being around him at all.

I went ahead and ordered one for my maybe brother in law, he's a tool and I hate him, and he'll probably break it like every other crappy Bandai valk I've bought him, but it gets me some easy brownie points, so whatever.

Damn I can't wait for mine, it's still in my HLJ pile of loot until Figuarts Darth Maul releases. I think I remember reading somewhere these will also fit onto Tamashii Stage stands, does anyone know which ones? I would assume the 5s because it's mecha/mechanical, but I could have sworn HLJ had something in its description that said Act 4s would work too, which would work for me, I've got 12 packs of three on the way.

Easy, 7. No and I am less likely to purchase an Arcadia product in the future due to the pricing and/or general direction of Arcadia. They aren't getting another dime from me, too expensive, and the quality isn't there in my opinion, especially for the prices they charge. Maybe if down the line they smarten up and give us some fairly priced VF-1 repaints I'd grab a couple I want and am missing, but other then that they've lost my business.

I just don't see it as that elongated, to me, it makes for a much sleeker more aesthetically pleasing battroid, the Yamato/Arcadias always left a lot to be desired in battroid mode for me personally.

The head was still too high in my opinion no matter how you adjusted it on the Yamato/Arcadia releases, it can be slightly adjusted to look a bit better, but it's still not quite there, whereas the Hi-Metals were right where they should be out of the box. Options are nice I guess, not sure why you'd want the option to have an inaccurate adjustment over just being accurate like it should be, and it's not like they necessarily meant to have them that way, they just didn't have them sitting right and yet they had room for slight adjustment, they never intended to give people options, that particular part of their figures just wasn't accurate. I remember the arguments from years ago when the Hi-Metals first dropped, some people liked the look of Yamato/Arcadia 1/60, some preferred the Hi-Metal, I will always remain in the H-Metal camp, they're pretty damn perfect in my opinion, whereas I still feel Arcadia has some room for improvement of their V2 1/60 molds.

I can't wait for mine to show up, it's sitting in my private warehouse at HLJ with a bunch of other goodies. I'm still liking how it looks more then Yamato's 1/60 fair, I did back when they first came out, and I still do now, the slightly elongated cockpit section does it for me, and the head sits just right, unlike Yamato/Arcadia stuff, which I still hold as a gripe to this day. Only thing I'm worried about is getting a hold of the other stuff in the line, it seems a lot of people that want nothing to do with the valks will be buying up Destroids and enemy mecha anyway, which is fine I guess, it just sucks I'll be competing once again with the same people that own multiples of everything on this line too.

I just got payment request from HLJ for my armored 1J, plus Figuarts Thor, Darth Maul, and a couple of other goodies. I can't wait, I'm excited to get it in hand, I'm selling my Arcadia 1J now because I'm going all in on the Hi-Metal line instead.

Are these still available anywhere? I only ask because I've decided to sell my 1J Hikaru, he doesn't have the GBP because I already sold it, so it's just the valk, instructions, valk stickers, box, and all of his hands and little side cover doo-dads. I'm not even sure what I'd ask for him, transformed him once, he's perfect, nice and tight, I just decided to go all in on the Hi-Metal R line instead, I don't want a random 1/60 sitting around collecting dust.

Broken legs, scratched paint, bent head lasers, and non-accurate we're not even trying paint jobs? Arcadia has given me plenty of reasons to not waste a dime on even a 0S, which I was really thinking about getting. There's zero chance I'm gambling on a figure this expensive, they're pricing compared to quality is absurd.

Very helpful, thank you sir. I locked down and paid for Kylo and a First Order Trooper. Unfortunately it seems most sites have a limit of 1, I need two, so I'm going to have to make another order somewhere else anyway.

So I've been spying around for a pre-order for some of the Episode VII Figuarts, it appears Anime Export has them, but I've never ordered from them, any thoughts anyone? Reliable? Also, kind of weird as far as pre-orders go, I locked my stuff down, but apparently I only have two days to pay for it? So they're almost like CD Japan, they like payment up front. One thing I'm wondering, it says if I don't pay within 48 hours they cancel the order, does that lock me out from their site or my account, or could I just pre-order what I want again after their little deadline, then pay for it? I'm literally waiting for the funds to clear now, but I won't make it in time to pay by their deadline, and I don't want to be locked out of yet another pre-order for these guys. Also, if you pre-order, do you just have to pay for the items to lock them down, or does AE make you pay for shipping too? That would seem like a bit much, seeing as how the figures I'm looking into aren't even out yet. Also lastly, how long does HLJ give you to make payments again? And what happens if you don't or can't make payment, they don't lock you out of your account do they? This money clearing thing with Paypal almost always screws me.

I'm also feeling a lot of this, Mad Max released on literally the same exact day as one of the most sought after, long awaited, detailed, and expensive open world games in history. it's really crappy timing, had it released a few months back when we were in a bit of a gaming dry wave, I think people would be singing a slightly different tune. The open world game fatigue it very real at this point, it just sucks that poor Max seems to have dropped at the most inopportune time.

Meh, I'm not trying to push any kind of ant-critic anything, most critics and professional reviewers are fairly on point with their thoughts and criticisms on most games, what's irking me is why Mad Max in particular is getting outed as a bad game when we get annual releases and other over-hyped garbage that nearly by default always get high 8s and 9s for reviews. That's my main problem, no Mad Max didn't re-invent the wheel, neither has 90% of the other releases in the past several years, and yet they're free from low review scores, and now we finally get a badass Mad Max game, and it's getting slammed, we now may never get another, I don't think that's fair, at all. I can safely tell you, if you're just going to keep checking professional reviews for the game, don't, don't waste your time, they won't tell you anything you haven't already heard. A decent number Mad Max's mechanics are obviously borrowed from the Arkham series, like Shadow of Mordor, and yet Mad Max is better than Mordor in my opinion. Mordor became too easy barely half way through the game, and the Nemesis system didn't even get to shine until over half way through the main campaign, then it was just a neat Nemsis system, with Batman combat in a Lord of the Rings setting, and yet, once again, nobody seemed to want to flame it for that. Witcher 3, which I absolutely loved, didn't re-invent the wheel, it was a solid open world game with some great stroylines, but the gameplay devolved into go hear, Wticher sense, fight something, return to quest giver. And yet, Witcher 3 may be GOTY. I really don't care what you or other people buy, but this random bias towards Mad Max is unsettling to me, where is this invisible line that separates apparent mediocrity from major AAA hyped to all hell series that seem to get a pass? And yet here we are, another year, another COD, Battlefield, Assassins' Creed, what will those games score? Will we actually see anyone give lower scores to these games for being more of the same? Doubtful, really, really doubtful. I can admit some bias on this subject, I've been a huge fan of the Mad Max franchise since I was a child, and here we are with a shiny new open world Mad Max game, which is fun as all hell, well made, and engaging, and yet it's being, in my opinion still, unfairly blasted in reviews. It's a shame, few other games attempt at car combat, Mad Max nails it, and yet that isn't included into a interesting or distinguishing feature, did Mordor have cars? Batman finally did, and look at how mixed that reception was. I'm not saying look to just reviews by nobody neck-beard hipsters who are trying to push Mad Max instead of, say, Metal Gear, just to be the cool guy, I'm just trying to say that I feel the game is far better and more engaging then most critics are letting on. I still cant help but feel too many of them are in the mind set or,"meh, it's not Metal Gear." It's not, and I'll admit it's not as polished, but it's still a damn fine game. And I've got to ask, what's worse, random nobodies apparently pushing mediocrity, or major critics? It seems professionals push mediocrity when it suits them, or when it's expected, as opposed to when they should. I just don't feel the game is mediocre, I've played far worse titles in the last year or two that I felt were far more deserving of the scores and criticisms Max is receiving. If you're interested in it at all, I'd recommend redboxing it and try it out, you've got nothing to lose but the small cost a rental, and you may be surprised by what you play, that aside, if you're looking to get it for PC several sites still have codes for it for as low as $20, that aint bad at all.