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amzn-jp is glitchy as f*ck, tho. did not let me add to cart at all! SHENANIGANS!

Yeah. up again as of this posting...

At any rate, try your luck at AmiAmi tmrw or something if you'd missed out tonite and still want to try to PO it from a legit jp-shop... https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail?gcode=FIGURE-164591 01/11 @ 11am Japan-Time

Add AJP to that po-unicorn list... https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/B0CRK23S71 I clicked and failed on AJP before I even got one at HLJ...

me, too. Was trying AJP for 38500jpy, but that went gone in a bluestreak flash...

here:

Same effort to do with the Movie version, but you'll have to find the old fansubs to get the proper english-subs. That is due to the JP-BD's movie-edition having engrish-subs. The old US DVD Mangle had burned-in subs. See diff here: US Mangle dvd's old burned-in subs: vs JP-BD native engrish sub: vs JP-BD with old fansubs:

It'll require some minor effort, but do try to get the Japanese-BD and just add Neil Nadelman's excellent english subtitles from your Mangle DVD... See the video diff here: Manga's old US DVD OVA edition: vs JP Blu-ray OVA-1 with Neil's subs... I'll post the movie-version diffs next... Fwiw, the JP-BD's OVA version does not have english-subs. Only japanese/japanese-subs and english vocals.

web-translation is a bit iffy, but this is one of the great features in certain Yamarcadia valks... https://twitter.com/Ezwea1/status/1743882660311941601 web-transalted snap:

A bit too precise, this time. The hand/fingers on this reissue is too tight that the triggger-finger will have stress mark when you attach the gunpod. That said, here's mine with my other 2023 reissued/recolored valks...

my 2023 1/60 valk purchasings:

https://twitter.com/nagicolith/status/1742104617566216614 web-translated snap:

I'm too lazy to unbox and take valk pics myself, but here's the latest from "Ox" with his 1/60-scale YF-19s/VF-19Adv from YamArcandai... https://twitter.com/XXXG00YSW/status/1741348377663766640 web-translated snapshot:

Good deal at HLJ for this valk! HLJ has a 5^ discount applicable to the 1/60 Fire-Valk 2023-reissue: valk-page: https://www.hlj.com/1-60-scale-perfect-transformation-vf-19-kai-nekki-basara-special-with-sound-booster-reissue-aca82165 coupon-page: https://www.hlj.com/2024-new-year-unlimited-coupon

This is a pretty shot from "Ox" with his new shiny... https://twitter.com/XXXG00YSW/status/1740567807832756444 web-translated snapshot:

Yeah. I don't like over-zealous tampo, but Bandai's gonna Bandai. I do like the "blue" of this DX on the pics. Nevertheless, I think I found where Yamato got the Purple on their 1/72 YF-21v2... It's around the 00:09:02 timestamp of OVA ep-1 of the BD. Wonder what that particular ordnance they're installing/removing. It was never included in the Yamato 1/60. Maybe @Seto knows...

https://twitter.com/360Hide/status/1740340745289289845

https://twitter.com/colasvi2/status/1740383623285702695 web-translated snapshot:

https://twitter.com/colasvi2/status/1740383623285702695 web-translated snapshot:

still no videos, yet, but new pics from "Ox"... link with snaps: https://twitter.com/XXXG00YSW/status/1740428863166177419 https://twitter.com/XXXG00YSW/status/1740429191269716271

oh, ok. hopefully it is reliable and stuff as a newer option .

No videos, yet, but here's another user-tweet with pics to check it: https://twitter.com/hiyashinsu_boti/status/1740253271519047736 web-translated snap: Thought that quickpack option was only $3 to $7 cheaper than DHL and FedEx for single items. Was it significantly cheaper than either when you have more than a single item?

wonder if Arcadia's now brown-boxing all VF-19Kai reissue (pre)orders... https://twitter.com/lupsalad/status/1739958328774857065 web-translated snap:

This japanese-fan bought it from amiami-jp: https://twitter.com/zerostart08/status/1739616070602993788 web-translated: --- latest from purchasers: https://twitter.com/suzukiti/status/1739680699408593221 web-translated snapshot:

Ya know? Looking back on this thread, this Arcadia item was 34,800y back in in 2014. Exchange-rate back in Sept/2014 was about 109y to US$1 I didn't get this back then, but weren't there some PO-"discounts" that push the pricing below 34,800y? How much was shipping-fees back then? Probably the even more rare low rates? Seems people here even got this item for around 26k yen around Nov/2014 due to several of HLJ's discounts and coupons and stuff. vs 34,800y as of Dec/2023 now, with exchange-rate around 142y to US$1. Exorbitant shipping-fees are the norm, and still being raised. No PO-discounts anymore to push pricing below 34,800y. Some jp-shops even add the 10% tokyo sales-taxes. --- Just some interesting stuff to me...