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    Yup!
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    Don't say "finally"... mine haven't even shipped yet from NY. You're on the early end of things!
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    I think that model line that Sentinel is doing now feels like it leaves the door open to lots of mechs we wouldn't normally dream of. Things like a Tread or bad guys. If all colors of the Legioss sell well, I still have my fingers crossed for a Tread toy. I know Sentinel has left the door open for more accessories for their Legioss toy. I wouldn't be surprised if a tiny 1/48 Eager shows up. The big hitch for new toys right now is that companies can't send employees to China. Usually a representative from the company goes to the factory and reviews production samples and participates in QC. Since that can't happen, the factories instead will have to ship a bunch of product to Japan for review. I don't know if they're then doing Zoom calls or something to discuss matters. Anyway, I think it's safe to bank a little bit of a delay into all the deadlines we're aware of as 'the new normal' sets in for the industry.
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    Everything I have ever ordered from ThreeZero has been delivered many months after the initial release date, I think I had one item be more than a year late, and I have never once heard anything from them. Looks like they've completely removed their "shipping schedule" from their website too so... that doesn't bode well. I'm guessing they don't even know when stuff will ship.
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    It's just an organization thing. I think the posts related to stores are better elsewhere as they make it easier when you're looking for a post about a toy to find that post with less spam (and easier to find places to buy something in another thread with less chatter about the toy).
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    They would not be too large in the 1/48 line.
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    My experience with the renewal tornado parts is similar... I had them on once and said "Nope, don't like that", threw them back in the box and that was that. I definitely did not get the same vibe from the YF-29 super parts. Yeah, they add a bit of weight to the wing, but they don't induce that yucky saggy feeling you get from tornado parts. Another big part of the reason I never reviewed the renewal tornado parts is because I kept telling myself I would do it after I got a version 1 Michael with Tornado parts set so I could compare them.. but the version 1 toys are so bad in comparison to the renewals I could never convince myself to buy that one.
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    Amazing shot. Did you remove the middle filler pieces of your set to shine more light through or is something else going on? If so, it seems like a great idea I may have to emulate. Do you leave the ceiling tiles on to disperse the light or are you ceiling free to get more light in?
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    A prequel series about Jack Crusher?
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    Agreed, we don't need Wesley Crusher... didn't his arc end with him going off to be a 'traveler' which was kind of god-like? If they want to bring him back, give us a twist and make him Q. EDIT - not in this series of course... as that would make no sense.
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    I think each of my YF-29s have ONE floppy joint, none of them have the same floppy joint. The worst offender is Isamu, he has one shoulder joint that is floppy and won't stay up which has to be the most frustrating floppy joint you can get on these. My Alto toy probably has the loosest hips but a little tightening to the screw in the back helps with that. It's such a great toy though. A renewal version would look incredibly similar but with a matte finish and redesigned joints to address these loosening issues and that'd be pretty much all they would need to do.
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    To be fair, do you say "1st of August" or do you say "January 8th". I usually say the month first so it feels awkward to me to make the month the second number written. If you write it out, do you write 8th, January, 2020 or would you write August 1, 2020. You can pick on our failure to convert to Celsius or the metric system but on this one... I think we got it right.
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    I'll take "Questions that are never relevant about Macross products" for $100 Alex.
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    Since the Yamato 1/48 is officially dead dead, it would be okay for a member to offer something like recast hands right? I know that was verboten once upon a time but I also know somebody was making them since i have a set of LV fixed posed hands that had to come from somewhere :). Also... Super YF-29 Battroid group shot!
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    Now if I can only get around to reviewing the renewal tornado parts... some day.
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    I'm happy to hear it's being worked on. Feels like it's been a while since we had more Macross. I've been playing with YF-29s lately, I wonder if we'll get a new vehicle in the second Delta movie like the second Frontier movie gave us.
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    Not terribly hard, you get a Super VF-1J Hikaru even though you know it never had supers in the show, then you buy the GBP and you put them on your Hikaru toy, then you buy a VF-1S Focker and you put on the TV supers... then you're done collecting 1/48 Yamato toys... Okay, maybe not done. At one point though I did dwindle my Yamato 1/48 down to just those pieces.
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    Again, there's no way they're taking a loss and buying from other stores/sellers. I don't think it would create a stink either. How many other retailers want to take a tiny margin TWE item and order a ton of it and then deal with people pinging them constantly saying "everyone has their stuff, why don't I have mine??" Big companies like Bandai also offer perks to channels and maybe TWE access is one of them. "If you carry all our lines and sell X¥ in goods every quarter, you get this kickback." CDJapan used to carry TWE items and stopped, Anime Export still does. NY was shipping VF-31A toys at MSRP after they retailed for $500 on the secondary market... I guarantee they were not buying them and selling them at a loss.... they were getting them slowly at cost (or close to it). Otherwise, they would cancel orders.
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    Call me crazy on the 29s, but I think they all should be Alto's paint job in different colors (like Rod is). The commemorative version is ALMOST this but I feel like they switched what was white and what was black at the last moment. That's how we ended up with a white head in the middle of a black back and white paint all over white plastic. Isamu should also be beige down the middle with a lot more black and super part gray leg missile bays. I get that the game designers were going more for YF-19 than YF-29 though.
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    There's no way that NY goes and searches the secondary market for stock they fail to acquire. The margins are too thin in this business for that to ever be the case. If it were, they'd simply offer everyone store credit and eventually cash for those who fought with them enough. People said the same thing about scouring the secondary market with the VF-31A and it did not happen. While I have no idea what NY does, they definitely do not buy (at a loss) to fulfill your order. It's much more likely they have a commercial arrangement with Bandai that gives them access to a larger ordering pool but at the slowest terms. Where individual consumers get their products shipped directly, NY probably receives some in this manner and many more via some boat shipment (or multiple boat shipments) with a "you get it when you get it" attitude. This would also explain why most people got bumped to April. NY probably only received the few orders for their standard accounts that they ordered and had their entire 'commercial' order bumped to the next release.
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    Nah, NUNS stuff gets supers too. Pretty sure Rod got supers in Macross 30... after all, in a video game repaints are even easier than the toy world
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    Hi-Metal R

    jenius replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Standard Regult, February 2016, 6,800¥ Heavy and Light Missile Set, December 2017, 15,120円 (JPY after tax), Tamashii Web Exclusive http://anymoon.com/blog/?p=10375
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    That is the HasLab Unicron.
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    Hi-Metal R

    jenius replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I want to have three of each destroid because I think they look awesome as squads... except the Monster... I would like to have more than one of those but just don't have the room. As of right now though, I only have one of each destroid.
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