Cowboy17

Messing around with Robot Damashiis outside. Should have done this with some 08th MS Team suits instead of the MkII

its not really a class war. the op apparently has made threads like this before. These things are expensive for a reason, though. He does make a good point about them being fragile and we don't expect expensive things to have these problems, hell i even made posts like that about yamatos and arcadias as well but as some others have pointed out its been 3 threads now that's he's created like this. Im not sure why, unless he just wants to either be validated by the community or to intentionally create a flame war

who cares GET IN NOW bro

i know the 1/48 stickers will come off over time. I have one that decals are just sliding off of now.

Im not so sure about that. Macrossworld isn't even the tip of what is available out there. Even if you added up all the valkyries ever for sale on MW, ebay, madarake, jungle, yja, etc etc. I don't even think it would be enough to say "there are a lot of turnover on these birds". Thousands of each release are produced. Thousands. Although I understand your point of being angry that 300 dollar collectibles break. Valkyries have always required a lot of "anime magic" to make them work, and unless you simplify the design down to chunky monkey tier, it's going to be extremely fiddly to make it look like the anime. All of that means lots of parts, lots of small moving parts, lots of engineering required, and trying to keep materials cost down to stay in a certain MSRP area - all of which is not a good combination for durability. Expensive, fragile shouldn't come together in our minds. People point to transformers as an example of "what about this, then?" but transformers have a MUCH larger market, the companies involved are larger (larger than yamato/arcadia anyways, not so for Bandai of course) and have more resources, and there's more volume and probably more margin as well.

I loved Macross going back to when i was.....7 or 8 and Robotech first aired. But I have a confession to make. I HATE recent Macross. Like, really hate to where I think the overall franchise is pretty much garbage now and I don't see it getting any better with Kawamori and Satelight around. But you know what? I still love the mecha, and I still buy the toys! I don't nearly have as much as some of you guys do, but I am starting to pile up and stopping collecting is not an option. Instead i'm looking for a bigger place!

10,000y for preowned sv-262? must have been broken. That's nuts.

whoa, its dwc. I see you over on neoGAF a good bit

bleh. i guess with the conversion i should probably just use the USD option on NY instead.

You think buying 300 dollar toy planes is an unaffordable hobby? Just pray you never get started on camera stuff....or watches.

Transformers is a waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more lucrative market than Macross, and OP bringing up good 3rd parties as a "they can do it, why not bandai" forgets one thing 3rd Party chinatransformers aren't paying anyone for licensing. Major cost burden that they don't have.

Added one to cart at N-Y. Why is the US Currency option 217.00, when the JPY option is 21700y (198 USD?) Can I just select pay in JPY, and paypal will handle the conversion?

looks like there's no PO limit on hlj. I was able to preorder two (1 each in 2 seperate orders). Will probably double dip on this for fighter/battroid mode displays

I still have the Max joke machine Matchbox rebox tucked away in a box somewhere. I loved that thing!

amiami has started taking preorders. See link above

sweet, reserved one at ami just in case I miss out on HLJ

back in stock!

you know what that sort of thinking gets you? MISSING OUT ON M&M AND HAVING TO PAY 1500 DOLLARS FOR THE PAIR A YEAR LATER ON EBAY. Takin' no chances

all i need is a preorder date, arcadia, so i can alter my sleep schedule for that day and fake a sick day. GIVE ME

oh god japanese quality control. Even in the software world some of the well-known principles are applied and certain areas of management have hyped them up so much its become a meme in the office.

i stopped at 275, and even then that was HELL NO territory.

this thing has turned into gold over the past 8 months or so. Ive been trying to score one on ebay - like most valks could be had around 250 but then something happened and now they all go for well over 300. I just tried bidding on one that eventually sold for 380. N O P E.

according to MFC on facebook Arcadia 1/60 VF-1J Millia Jenius 23544¥, Release date in August

i kind of want to get my hands on one of these and take it apart

at this point, ill take what I can get. Sure beats trying to buy one for mad cash on Yahoo Japan