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Damn! All my childhood memories - I wanted to pass down my Galaxy Explorer and Technics Car Chassis - now I have to reconsider that. Thanks for the info @sketchley. With all this new info, I can't believe I survived my childhood 😛

Exactly the same here, I just don't understand the appeal of SDs at all (other than they are the opposite of my aesthetic - fast and sleek).

Hey @Dobber I hear ya! I just spent 6-8hrs learning how to use Bricklink properly with a lot of help from some kind facebook addicts and it takes a bit to get use to. Never just hit easy buy - you have to try to buy your pieces from as few local stores as possible, shipping across boarders kills you especially from multiple sources. Identify the problem bricks/items which are rare that is forcing the buy all from multiple sources and try to reduce or those and buy other items from those stores that carry the rare or hard to find pieces. Additionally watch out for the minimum buys as some stores will charge a fee if you are getting just a few pieces from them. After playing around with the site and manually selecting the stores to buy from I managed to get my stores down from 6-7 to 3 stores and 2 of which were even in Canada (locally) - I ended up saving 70% of the original "easy buy" costs. The trick is to isolate those hard to find/rare pieces and then look at who actually sells them and start your buy from those stores. Good luck, its pretty cool once you get the hang of it, but it will always be more expensive than buying a Lego set. I'm a total newbie and just started to get my feet wet in this whole new world.

I come across this lack of science disregard all the time! It drives me insane. Either people are just plain stupid nowadays, or don't think its relevant, or ignore it because it convenient. The biggest influence on the world Trump ever contributed was the discreditation of science. It's easier than to learn, so everyone jumps on it's bandwagon (plus it usually doesn't serve politics).

OK, thanks @no3Ljm... back to buying and worrying about shipping later 😛

Thanks @no3Ljm that last link to "Our website will still show the normal countdown, and you may still receive warning emails, although the actual automated process itself will be stopped and you can ignore these messages." puts me more at ease

Huh, I didn't know its so bad over there (or around the world for that matter, the news here generally is really local unfortunately). It looks like its dropping, hopefully it will improve over the next two months. Shipping has been killing me lately and causing me to think twice about any new purchases. Where does it say the 60 limit has been lifted at HLJ? I still have that countdown "58 days until automatic shipping" in my Private Warehouse.

Same here the Regult is in, but can't justify FedEx at $65cdn ($45 FedEx + $20 brokerage/customs & duty) for a $35 model. Argh, FedEx and DHL are the only options for Canada. How did @sh9000 have something in the Private Warehouse for 539 days? They are only giving me 60 days till they automatically ship it - hopefully there will be a slower/cheaper alternative in the next 60 days for me to select to ship to me.

Wonder whats going on in Japan? All the restrictions are relaxing here in Canada, in fact they don't even require masks or vaccine passports as of March 1st (at least in Ontario). Is Japan still bad off with Omicron?

I hope this situation changes in the next 58 days - right now I just can't justify $65cdn ($45 Fedex + $20 brokerage & customs & duties) to deliver a $35 model kit to Canada - ARGH!

Hey any news about shipping to Canada from Japan? HLJ only offers FedEx or DHL to Canada. I have a Hasegawa Regult model sitting in the warehouse, I hate to pay more for shipping that the model is worth. I don't need it any time soon. Anyone thinks Japan will ship to Canada via other slower/cheaper methods anytime in the next 59 days?

Yep, same here. I don't think we're their audience anymore...

YES!!! 1000% 1/72 from Hasegawa or FineMolds please someone that's experienced with actual real world fighter jets please.

Wow... my wallet is safe.

Amazing and silky smooth as always @electric indigo!

I just got my VF-31AX DHL shipped to Toronto. I ended up paying $30cdn for DHL shipping and $70cdn for brokerage, customs & duties. Mind you VF-31AX box is slightly thicker with the stand but its about the same size as the VF-1S or VF-1J boxes bundled with their stands. Shipping, brokerage fee (about $20 no matter what the cost) + GST/HST is killing us Canadians.

That's great! I wished they EMS to Canada.

Argh... word of warning for those of us unfortunate enough to live in Canada. I got seduced by all the great photos (especially with the Super Packs) and decided to get one after the pre-order but before all the QC issues cropped up from eBay. I got a decent price (not MSRP, but not eye-watering gouge), paid $22 for DHL delivery, and got dinged with a $73.68 brokerage, customs & duties bill on top, so I'm paying about $100 in shipping and handling that's taking now over 7-9 days delivery. The delivery costs are just souring the experience so much that I think its no longer worth it, plus the middle of the night POs - buying toys sure ain't the fun they used to be! (ah, it's my 50yrs+ bones talking now)

Thanks @F360 just ordered!

Is there anyplace I can still order the super packs that is a fair price? What is that fair price nowadays BTW? (I was away on holidays :()

Same here, I ended up trying a few more times and I noticed I got 6 emails about receiving my order. I hope I didn't buy 6 copies! I haven't received any further emails from AE yet.

OK, saw there was a VF-31AX available on AnimeExport that's linked here available for 29,800Y and decided to bit the bullet, but when I hit the ADD TO CART > CHECK OUT it emptys my cart and I can't go any further. Is it that they are closed till Jan 4th and not accepting orders? Is it that they don't actually have any in stock to order and haven't changed their site/page accordingly? or is it something wrong on my end? I wasn't originally going for this bird as I thought it was too similar, but now seeing the pretty pictures with the Super Packs has change my mind and there is enough difference to justify the purchase in my mind even with the slight markup. Is there an alternate site to purchase the VF-31AX for late comers like me that ships to Canada (no Amazon.jp seems to do it / I am looking into evilbay).

Damn, I didn't want this until I saw the packs...

Will they finish up issuing the super packs for the older VF-31 (I want Chuck's) or have they moved on and only doing the movie stuff now?

The Ducati is 646pcs vs. BMW is 1920pcs - hence the price difference...