fenrir72

Fastpack just arrived! Now on the missile set.

On 5/15/2020 at 6:03 AM, Smacky said:

I don't get the horseshit that NY is trying to feed here.  This is the response I got from the customer service this morning. 

Date: 2020-05-14 14:59:24 Name: Marine

Message:

Dear customer,

Thank you for your message

We apologize if we were unable to send your order upon release of the product.
After checked your order with the Delivery Center we regret to inform you we won't be able to ship your order on time.
We will receive our stock with delay, therefore your order will be sent approximately two weeks late.

 

But yet they were sending out orders 3 weeks ago?  What gives with these guys? 

Beerbug.

45 minutes ago, Grimgerde said:

I had three SSPs paid pre orders on NY since last summer. After reading about the issues with EMS, and NY's lack of proactivity in reaching out to people, I kindly requested a refund through a ticket, yesterday.

 

They essentially told me to gtfo - store credit is the best they can do. WTF! Not sure what my options are at this point. I had paid with PayPal (using my Visa card as the funding source). It's too late to put in a claim with PayPal - is it worth even trying to do so with my Visa?

Question is, are the items already on hand with NY?  Do they send out via ARR, EMS or DHL? Manda does that. Did you ask them?

2 hours ago, Saburo said:

Still waiting for SSP to ship...

Enough already with the EPIC shots! Now if you key in the DYRL track when the SDF1 transforms!

Fastpack shipped!

1 hour ago, sqidd said:

I wish I hadn't missed this. I would have bought 4-5 sets at that price.

The original alert was Y11K then I checked the other alternatives and voila! Y9K!

1 hour ago, chyll2 said:

When you monitor Mandarake regularly and you missed that good deal. haha

 

Cheers @fenrir72 that is as close as MSRP as possibly you can get.

Thanks!

2 hours ago, borgified said:

Keep an eye on some proxy sites like Buyee, FromJapan (etc.) and as well Manda, Amiami. You're bond to get at least one copy, however you have to snag it quickly before you get cart jacked while checking out.  

That's a good deal for close to MRSP when it came out and you can't go wrong when Manda changes the shipping method to DHL after being suspended at SAL for "x" amount of time. 

Thanks! I specified DHL as EMS has some delays too.

On 5/9/2020 at 4:39 PM, twich said:

Okay, so I just received a very strange email from World Naruto Japan Shop, after I inquired to return policy on Amazon following their date when Amazon stated the item should have been delivered to me.  Here is the message:

Thank You for contacting us.

Products will be shipped from the Osaka International Airport to the United States.

However, few planes fly to the United States.  Therefore, there is a significant delay in delivery.

I have to wait until the planes to the US start flying.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation.

 

Sounds to me like this shop hasn't even shipped the item, even though it was marked as shipped on April 3rd, 2020.  I would be okay if this seller would just give me the tracking information for the item so that I would know when it was coming.  Alas, this seller has ignored my request for this tracking information, which to me, seems very suspicious.

Twich

They didn't ship it. I don't think any dastardly act as responsible but in Japan too, they have their own stay at home orders. They might be just waiting when to send it to the PO/EMS or DHL.

via DHL. Hopefully shipped soon.

Is this considered to be HMR? I heard/read that the Koenig is in scale with the HMR Valkyries.

After a 10 year wait.................Transformable Monster (post PS VFX(2?) game) is now mine! Version 3 military green. And the Roy(?) Lightning VF4.

4 hours ago, Lolicon said:

Went to the store earlier and freaking supermarkets are now closing at 8pm because of this coronavirus panic.

Goddamn idiotic. As if the virus cares what time of day it is. Not to mention the idiots cleaned out the stores of TP and frozen pizzas, of all things.

Hoping this blows over soon so we can get the next DX (and I can get my turkey meatballs).

TP?

On 3/14/2020 at 1:29 PM, borgified said:

Then who is going to assemble the product after the pre-orders are correlated? Everything is crawling at a snails pace until the virus is completely over then it's back to normal.  

Maybe Bandai should re consider off shoring/out sourcing their assembly plants and start making them straight from Japan again.

On 3/8/2020 at 12:51 PM, Saburo said:

Finally had some time to process and post up some shots.

Looks like Hikaru is ready for some high noon action!

12 hours ago, treatment said:

Strange.

I don't recall the Hikaru-1S ever being part of the original batch that had knurled-pins...

You recalled wrong. I have the shoulder replacement pins courtesy of this site's mod sent free years ago. Replaced them a few months ago.

 

26 minutes ago, Convectuoso said:

@fenrir72 what scale is that VF-0S?

Yammy 1/60

The VF0S (pre owned from a certain online site)and the VF1S chogokin are my recent metal gods.( the only two I have). The Yammie VF1S is the exploding shoulder batch.

Mein Gott! I never realized the awesomeness of this! (My first Macross Chogokin btw). Will transform him once I get my progressive lens from the optometrist tomorrow.

1 hour ago, bbilly29 said:

ok    to be clear...im a huge fan of the jet mode, being a pilot myself I love the f 14 and this is based of that aircraft.  That being said, the pics i had available and I posted show it being in a delta wing configuration as opposed to the conventional winged aircraft depicted in the previous photos, also the exhaust nozzles show the opened and vectored positions that they would assume when in the transformed "foot" positions i am told they transform into.   Im a plane guy so as far as I know this is a "transformation",  no jet I know of aside from an f22 and f35 can vector their thrust nozzles and none of those are "swing wings".  This is a "transformation" or isnt it?  Also  someone mentioned hinges,  my friend at Bandai said that there are indeed hinges but they are inside the new build and not visible from the outside, she also said that I shouldnt be dismayed by the disbelief here and offered me a quote to give to all of you regarding the gifs and doubting replies etc....

 

quote (in a british accent) "VERY heavy resistance sir."..."Yeees, but why are they using such primitive weapons?"

I was hoping you were the genuine scoop. People usually believe when presented with inconvertible  proof. Non photoshoped images would suffice. 

7 hours ago, borgified said:

Back up again for 30k yen.

https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1129404249&ref=list&dispCount=240&keyword=%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9&lang=en

 

I just paid for the last one.

Just got a pre owned 1st gen VF0S Yamato, the latest HMR VF4G (just shipped today) and the last Chogokin VF1S Hikaru from Manda (took them 5 days to acknowledge my order and waiting for them to ship after payment)

Just shipped from  amiami. The wait is MURDER!

5 hours ago, Lolicon said:

The answer to your questions is no. 

And yeah, this release and the Yamato YF-19 were notorious for having exploding shoulders/upper arms.

The Arcadia VF-0 uses metal for those parts.

I guess thanks. Tick tick tick

Just got a Yamato VF0S Phoenix first release ( box has the flip up cover)and keeping my fingers crossed from Amiami.  What's weird is that it was preowned seemed to be sealed but some decals were gone (301 small decals for the rear fins and some of the Skulls).

From what I read is that the shoulders are ticking time bombs?

Anyway, after searching everywhere here need to clarify something:

1. Yamato ver does not have those flaps on the inner part of his chest to fold out the gap?

2. Yamato doesn't have the Reactive armor that Arcadia has

Am I correct on both these issues?

18 hours ago, Convectuoso said:

 

Just got this 3D printed Q-Rau to display with my HMRs. All details were painted by hand. More pics here:

With working points of articulation?