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Some of those pics are from this twitter guy: https://twitter.com/cross_W42S https://twitter.com/cross_W42S/status/1639601729410060288 His followup so far: https://twitter.com/cross_W42S/status/1639619419155623936 sample:

as always, excellent detailing job!

at the 9:28 time-stamp mark for the battroid-comparison:

hacchaka pictorials... https://hacchaka.net/archives/52092459.html samples:

from https://twitter.com/simsim5479/status/1632214634081169409?cxt=HHwWgsDR2fqj5aYtAAAA

https://hacchaka.net/archives/52092407.html samples:

It'll be quite interesting if Chronocidal can get his dud-yf29 replaced either by BBTS or by Bandai themselves since this item is a WWM release and also definitely a big glaring Factory/QC-FAIL.

It's just gotten way too silly now mostly due to the rise of parallel importers and Bandai being quite a dick about jp-shops allocations. We used to compete for PO against the local japanese scalpers, but at least the regular japanese-shops were offering nice discounts (10% to 20%) then. Nowadays, big nope. All jp-shops set the pricing at full MSRP (most with tokyo-tax added already). And still the parallel importers always hooovers up all avaiable POs with their bots. Welp! It is what it is. And then one may get lucky enough to get Bandai'd when the item gets delivered... 😝 The usual local japanese scalper-shops/"third-party" were doing their usual gatekeeping of amz-jp last nite. I saw at least 30K-yen + 12k-yen shipping for either HM-R last nite (Orguss and 0D). I think they're still at it, but at 25k-yen or so now. It's quite slapstick hilarious... 😂

I know, right? Feels like somebody (or everybody) at Bandai thinks pricing it exorbitantly will somehow make this figure more valuable or desirable.

hmm. Even with the ok exchange-rate, I somehow don't feel like preordering at MSRP (or MSRP+TokyoTax) these Bandai HM-R toys anymore. Might as well just wait until release-date, if I'm still interested. Maybe this 0D (and the Orguss) will get discounted nicely a bit at release-date like the HM-R 0S...

Yeah. Way waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overpriced. fwiw, the previous Megahouse Hi-Spec was also way overpriced even back then...

While we await the PF...

Nice! Just hoping the actual color of their 0D is exactly like that PR. And no QC issues...

Could be the same factory that messed up the recent RD EZ-8 and 8th-MS Option Parts-03 last year: https://twitter.com/hacchaka999/status/1595280447202004993?cxt=HHwWgsDQyarHyaMsAAAA https://twitter.com/hacchaka999/status/1595341010842058753?cxt=HHwWgoDU7cyM5aMsAAAA Bandai acknowledged those RD defects and we're supposed to get our replacement-parts thru our shops/vendors we bought it from. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if this HM-R defect is as wide-spread as the RD EZ-8 defect. Hacchaka and the others that usually detect these defects have not posted their stuff to get some confirmations/verifications, yet. Well, oughta check your orders when you get them, at least. I'm waiting on further HLJ comms, but seems some sort of national holiday over there right now...

MOTHERFU!&#$@#&%&#%*#&^#&!*&#*($& I just got Bandai'd!!! With my latest HM-R Hikaru Super VF-1S. Got duplicate right-side underside-covers instead of a proper left-side and right-side underside-covers: GJ, Bandai...

Bandai gone Joons on their WWM World Tour!

not Wotafa, but seems to be the first yt-review:

3980y DHL-sale at HLJ. How much the shipping-fees at HobbyGenki and others for this?

I think they're the same Bandai samples at the recent TN-2022. Just the original posted pics have had the wrong white-balance to compensate the flashbulb effect. It had the same wrong colors as the Arcadia non-PF all along...

AE response regarding EZ-8 issue: So that's that. Will just have to wait Not sure how Bandai will do this replacement thing, but you guys better make sure to contact the shop you bought your Robot Damashii EZ-8 ver ANIME from regarding this issue.