Archer

18 hours ago, Bobby said:

Another EXCELLENT transaction with Archer

Great communication, great packaging, thank you again!

Glad it got to you safe and sound! 

Shameless plug, but NY refused to refund an extra DX VF-1A Max that I ordered. It’s my fault for jumping the gun, but alas what can you do.

Some costs have come up that I need to address so I’m pre-selling it at a loss to me in the For Sale section. Please take a look if you’re on the hunt for one. 

13 hours ago, anime52k8 said:

not soon enough.

I'm honestly quite shocked how little love the Justice gets when stuff like Astrays get pumped out in every single line. Heck, they're even doing a remake of the Freedom before the Justice 

I'm so glad G Gundam is finally getting some attention. I low-key wish it was Shining gundam instead, but I'll take what I can get!

I feel the metal build design, for whatever reason, works better with Unit 2, but I'm personally more attached to the iconic unit 1 so I had to go with that. 

Picked up Unit 01 from Entertainment Earth

I’m kind of scared this is going to be Arcadia’s last hoorah (and I really hope it isn’t). 

Seems like things have slowed down on their end. It would be a shame if they had to stop after effectively engineering the basis of modern macross toys (during the Yamato years). 

Amazing to think how far things have come from the Masterpiece Veritechs that got me into collecting (and how panned those were)

I went ahead and pre-ordered one from HLJ. Missed out on the Yamato offerings back in the day cause I was too young to afford them. Don't want to make the same mistake now. 

Went ahead and pre-ordered the Max 1A on NY. Want to have at least one of these in my collection, but man, $280 is a lot to stomach 

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-10-25-the-human-cost-of-red-dead-redemption-2

While I realize game development "crunches" are pretty standard affair, Rockstar seems to one of the worst. I bought and will likely enjoy RDR2, but I definitely won't be putting Rockstar on any pedestals. 

I'm in med school, and surgeons often put in >80 hours a week, but they also get compensated with salaries that exceed half a million dollars a year. To be worked to the bone like this without adequate compensation, regardless of how much you love the job, sounds malignant. 

I'd be so very on board with a MB Justice or GP-01, but y'all know it's gonna be something nobody wanted

They really need to do a metal build Justice or Aegis. It's just begging for the metal build treatment and would easily sell hotcakes. I still don't understand how the astrays got metal builds but not the Justice. 

Looks like Entertainment Earth is now also sold out of the Crossbone. As an aside, I cancelled my pre-order for the MB Eva with them, so it may pop back up for those who missed it. 

If they were to do a Full Cloth variant (i.e. the Skull Heart), I'm presuming it would be a whole new figure since the torso would have to be re-tooled correct?

36 minutes ago, F360 said:

Crossbone up at entertainment earth $239
https://www.entertainmentearth.com/s/?query1=Metal build Gundam&company=&theme=&producttype=&celebrity=&character=&landingpageid=0&landingpageurl=&lppreviewid=0&podcast=0&salesid=0&promotionid=0&selectedfacets=&itemsperpage=60&page=1&filter=All&sort=newly-added&productview=&advancedsearch=False&hideshop=True&alertid=

Thanks, grabbed one. You guys are insanely fast lol

Price reduced

SOLD

I grabbed on From Japan for 27,800 yen prior to shipping. Who knows how much I'm gonna get dinged for shipping/fees though. Which screws are the ones that should be loosened prior to transformation?

TIA

1 hour ago, kajnrig said:

 

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Thanks so much for the explanation! I might go ahead and hunt one down given there's no glaring issues :)

Wow, the Amazon JP reviews are very negative; not a single five star review and most are 1 star reviews. Can a native speaker give a gist of what the issue is? Google translate isn't helping me all that much. 

I'm glad they incorporated the removable cockpit block; still unsure about that parrot though 

5 minutes ago, seti88 said:

cos they be of the brand GUNDAM and Metal Build 
 

 

Fair point, but look at the metal build eva (23k yen) and FMP stuff (also 20k+ yen)

1 minute ago, eggy99 said:

Some contributing factors are licensing and royalties costs. They differ between each series/property.

Wouldn't it be the opposite then (since Bandai owns Sunrise and by proxy all Gundam properties, while it has to pay Big West royalties for stuff like the YF-19? So wouldn't that mean the YF-19 should be even more expensive (not that I'm endorsing this )

A little off topic, but got me thinking. Stuff like the YF-19 comes with loads of equipment, has a fairly complex transformation sequence with small moving parts, etc. How come something like a metal build gundam or eva costs the same (and sometimes even more)?

Is it cause they have more metal?

These toys probably aren't cheap to produce, and some of them don't sell that well I think (the arbalest and leavatein from FMP come to mind, they're available everywhere), which probably leads to small production quantities to start. 

What boggles my mind is why Bandai doesn't want to produce more of uber popular merchandise like the Strike Freedom or Eva. 

Entertainment Earth also appears to have sold out

2 hours ago, F360 said:

https://www.entertainmentearth.com/product/neon-genesis-evangelion-eva01-test-type-bandai-metal-build-action-figure/blfbas55040

Thank you so much, grabbed one as well!