nemesis120

I'm in.

Sky Angel Vol. 3 - I've never seen this before

It's not a reissue. Can't tell if it's an original Takatoku or an original Bandai VF-1A (he says it's a Takatoku, which is more than plausible).

Its a Yam w/o a doubt. Look at where the hips lock in on.

Umm look at the hip bars. Obviously a 1/55.

I have enough real books so I don't need something passing off as a book. Not to mention my bookshelves are full.

I think the best packaging has to be the original Takatokus or the 1/55 Bandais (not the 1990 Super though).

I've never seen one of these before

http://page6.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/f28348117

Now, who can point out what's wrong with this.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=5923033757

I took a pic of my 1/55 collection before I sold off some of them. It appears as though I deleted it, but it might be around here somewhere.

F-ZeroOne - The Max is a reissue.

I'm surprised nobody else tried to bid on this. Especially since the Super Valk boxes tend to get insane (and a loose GBP isn't hard to come by and a loose VF-1S is easy).

What scale is that IHP kit?

1/100

IHP VF-11B

I friggin hate ebay's policy on BIN if someone bids as this YF-19 had a BIN of $59.99 (and that bidder is incompetent).

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...5920451999&rd=1

Normally I don't bother with ebay/half.com stuff, but for this guy I make a definite exception. Order a book from giantbookstore Friday night and it gets here Monday morning, and the people are in HK. Definitely would do business with them again (not to mention the book was less than half they charged in the bookstore).

what do you mean "it"? the alpha?...the real item is the BETA/TRead>>>.

That's what I was referring to. It has something about a tire being messed up.

I so totally forgot about this (even though its broken). ):

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...5917649728&rd=1

Okay, here's what everyone should do if he screwed you with an ebay item (if you know of anyone else that got screwed and isn't a member here, send the link to them too). Use the following link and report him to ebay about it. They actually take complaints about sellers seriously (unlike buyers) and if enough people complain, they will get him banned from ebay permanently.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/confidence/isgw...protection.html

The box is in great shape.

Great shape must mean an absolutely horrible box. You can see fingerprints from greasy fingers and bent corners, among other things.

After Takatoku was liquidated, Bandai picked up the SDF-1 mold. Some were made and sold under the Robotech line but with Bandai and Macross on them. Then they were released with Matchbox and Harmony Gold (and Robotech on them). They wound up being licensed by Matchbox and they didn't actually own the molds (I believe this was confirmed by some of the HG people at a panel somehere like a year ago).

There were also some LS kits too. I don't think I've ever seen them on ebay, and I believe they are 1/100 scale (definitely smaller than the Imai kits).

I got this from amazon when it first came out. It's decent, but I don't think it's worth $15 for stuff one can easily find online.

Although I did like the fact that they brought in their own Macross stuff for the pictures (as is obvious due to the yellowing some of the toys have). It's also somewhat annoying that there was a lot of stuff not pictured (they go through every Yamato Valk and don't have the Destroid Monster there).

I believe the reason the monster pix is in there, is because the book was make prior to the release of the monster pix and any news about it.

My bad. I meant the Takatoku Monster, not the Koenig one (which I have no interest in).

I got this from amazon when it first came out. It's decent, but I don't think it's worth $15 for stuff one can easily find online.

Although I did like the fact that they brought in their own Macross stuff for the pictures (as is obvious due to the yellowing some of the toys have). It's also somewhat annoying that there was a lot of stuff not pictured (they go through every Yamato Valk and don't have the Destroid Monster there).

But the "other side" needs lots of work. Agent One and I were talking about integrating the board and the main page... making it smoother... but Shawn is ever elusive.

I think everyone has noticed it needs a lot of work. And wasn't there supposed to be a Christmas update too? (Shawn didn't say which year though)

I've come to the conclusion that customs everywhere (except for the US, we don't seem to care) is horrible.

That being said, the USPS is just horrible. Anything to continental Europe takes forever. 2+ weeks to Italy (EMS). But this is the best. Something I sold on ebay and had it shipped (strangely the guy didn't e-mail any questions about it so I just assumed customs didn't update it), although the guy paid for EMS (they say 3-5 days).

Your item arrived at the delivery Post Office in FRANCE at 7:34 pm on August 11, 2004. Information, if available, is updated every evening. Please check again later.

Here is what happened earlier:

AT FOREIGN DELIVERY UNIT, FRANCE, August 11, 2004, 8:07 am

INTO FOREIGN CUSTOMS, GERMANY, July 20, 2004, 11:38 am

ARRIVED ABROAD, FRANCE, July 19, 2004, 2:49 pm

ARRIVED ABROAD, GERMANY, July 16, 2004, 9:13 pm

INTERNATIONAL DISPATCH, Chicago (O'Hare) AMC, July 13, 2004, 11:38 am

ENROUTE, July 12, 2004, 11:04 pm, CHICAGO, IL 60688

ENROUTE, July 12, 2004, 6:42 pm, CHICAGO, IL 60657

ACCEPTANCE, July 12, 2004, 5:47 pm, CHICAGO, IL 60657

I saw it, thought it was decent but it seemed to be missing something that prevented it from being great. Some stuff was obvious (I won't say what) and there were some big inaccuracies there (if you realized them it made things worse).

Thanks to Evil Porkchop for quick shipping on a Milia 1/60. Paid and it arrived two days later.