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happy_spike

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  1. Pretty awesome set! Yeah It's such a great community. I had only been a member for 3 months when I went to Japan and Bariaburu_Faita and Hebime took the day to show me and my wife around Osaka to all the best collectable stores. Everyone here is always nice and ready to help out, answer any questions with all their varied knowledge and help find the best deals.
  2. I had the issue with Hroptr Cave, turns out it's a bug and it's actually enemies in a different dungeon. Can't remember which one, but just leave it and kill people until you see it tick over.
  3. Congrats no3ljm! I got mine at Mandarake while I was in Japan and was surprised to open it and find the fast packs were included! I never new that release had them! It's a great, solid valk, Yamato really nailed the 21/22 body.
  4. I hope they don't discontinue them, I'm just about to get my house so I can FINALLY display my valks, but wont be able to afford them for a while. So I really hope they keep going for at least 6 months
  5. From the album: happy_spike collection

    CMS Girl With Flowers Figure
  6. Really? I'm in Australia so anything under $1000 is duty free for me too, so I've never had to under declare, but HKC refused to undermark for my Canadian friend.
  7. Nope. You are dead right. That's why hk collectables refuses to do it. Well that and it's illegal lol
  8. Yeah anything sent via ems > $100 has to be insured. Had to send all my valks back home when I was in Japan. The box was too big so I had to EMS, but turns out it's a pretty awesome (but expensive) way to post anyway. The insurance is great and they are pretty fast and reliable. Most of the boxes actually beat me back home!
  9. My friends and family are all anime nerds and I work as a games programmer, so I have part of my collection at work... and it gets dwarfed by other workmates collections! So pretty much anyone coming to my place actually gets my hobby!
  10. Yeah I have the original PS3 and it overheats and shuts down anywhere between 1-30 mins depending on room temperature. I stole my brothers more modern slim model for a while and it ran it perfectly. Only game I have ever seen that does this, so since it literally maxes out the PS3's capability then I do recommend a fairly young PS3!
  11. So so happy, just got a Bandai VB6 SP mint in box... for $266au inc postage!! Can't wait till that gets delivered!
  12. haha so true. I loved those little Toynami guys, I had Miria and the Orange trainer on the dash of my car! Then my tyre blew out and I rolled it... they didn't make it . Also had the Roy keychain, but they are vinyl so I actually don't recommend using them as a keychain, they won't last.
  13. Mandarake has plenty of western collectables. Their vintage US toy selection is one of the biggest I saw in Japan. So I can see why they have them for sure. If they are rare, sealed and collectable... Mandarake will sell it!
  14. From the album: happy_spike collection

    Update 2 of my Bandai Fighter Collection (mostly series 1 with a few series 2) at my desk at work.
  15. They play different based on weapons rate of fire, tracking, the way it handles ect, but effectively if you max out a valk it will be powerful enough to play through the game. I run a Max, Milia and Gamlin squardren of VF-22s and have the base and the gun pods maxed out and they are more than effective enough to trash stuff with a fighter mode fly by. I also have maxed out Queadluun suits and obviously they are no where near as fast, and the weapons work very differently, but they are just as effective in their own way. So basically all the planes are just as capable maxed out but with completely different play styles.
  16. Went on a shopping spree in denden town Osaka with Bariaburu Faita and another Hebime today. Met them at Firebombar the night before and they graciously offered to show me and my wife around all the best collectable stores and I picked up an insane amount of valks and other macross collectibles (with the help of my amazing wife!). I shipped them all today so no pics yet. I'll wait till they get home and show my full macross haul from my Japan trip all at once! But the best deals of the day were a version 1 elintseeker for 6000 yen and a miriya vf22s for 7000 yen both boxed and perfect condition from mandarake. I can't even begin to describe how awesome that place is. edit: Fixed up handles
  17. Yeah, pretty sure they are v1. I don't know how to tell the difference but the Michael feels heavier and more solid so I wonder whether he is v2?
  18. Found a little collectable store in the back of a department store in Hiroshima and scored the whole set of SMS VF-25 with full super packs without boxes for 20,000 yen. Good condition, stiff joints, good colour, all parts and the only damage is the body hinge on the Ozma, but it's an easy fix and still stays in all modes. As a bonus it also had the special edition clear holographic VF-25 too. That makes it 4,000 yen per valk! pretty good deal even second hand, and they are all going to get posed and displayed anyway so no box doesn't bother me at all. Scored the Brera earlier in the trip so the only thing left on my frontier list is the VB-6 Konig Monster. Sorry no pics since they are packed up in a box and I don't want to unwrap them all lol.
  19. Oh no, you misunderstand lol. SHE bought the valk, it's not for me. But I'm lucky I guess, the secret is if you find a who watches Macross marry her lol.
  20. More mandrake shopping! I decided to grab a small valk this and grabbed a Bandai VF100 Ozama VF-25. It's a pretty cool toy, though it is VERY floppy so once I transform it to gerwalk I think I'll reinforce it to the pose I want and leave it there. I also saw an interesting one I've never seen before. A "Family Mart" themed VF-25 that my wife grabbed cause she liked the colours, also a pretty interesting piece for a collection. She got a cool Ranka figure too.
  21. From the album: happy_spike collection

    New purchases from mandrake Osaka
  22. Yeah I got it in the Shibuya Store, also just picked these up from the Akihabara store!
  23. From the album: happy_spike collection

    Yamato YF-19 and YF-21 form Macross Pus
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