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.be ready to stay up on pre-order days (nights?) if you want to procure one...

This is exactly what i'm talking about; it seems counter-intuitive to have a pre-order when you're going to limit it. I understand that Bandai wants to not overproduce so they have pre-orders to avoid it. What doesn't make sense to me is that you limit the pre-orders and create a scalper market to the point where you target customers (us) give up on buying your product. Why not have unlimited pre-orders and then *gasp* produce that amount? Don't tell me it's has to do with manufacturing limitations, these Chinese factorys will produce anything in whatever quantities you want.

Around $80 for a Valk+ super parts is right in my affordability wheelhouse. But paying markup is out of the question, it's bad enough that Arcadia wants $300 for their new molds.

i think that Bandai needs to rethink their model for this line. I have no problem with preorders so they can determine the production yield, but it's ridiculous that they are limiting production to the point where people like us can't even get a toy. Their price point is reasonable enough to encourage light collectors like me to get multiple variants, but if I can't get any what's the point?

Was thinking of the episode where Gamlin and Basara were flying next to each other and deflecting attacks with their shields

Have no idea why pics get flipped...

If anyone is looking for a Yamato VF-19Kai and Soundbooster let me know!

PM sent!

I fully expect my childhood to be raped given hollywoods' sterling record adapting other Japanese franchises.

I'll take a 1s strike, PM'd

Is it just me or are the prices of Yamato valks rocketing up on eBay? Bandai frontier valks prices are staying steady, but the Yamato's are climbing up. I wonder if the market is sensing scarcity?

I agree; I follow eBay very closely and find that even open box common variants are going around 130-140ish.

To me it appears that the market has realized that Arcadia will not be producing in anything close to large volumes and so the only alternative for your habit is the secondary market.

I for one will only buy if I can get a deal but it looks like those days are over. Shame, but I have high hopes for the hi-metal line. The 1/60 scale has all but priced me out.

This makes me excited to see the line expand, but isn't toynami famous for showing things it never brings out?

Toynami at New York Toy Fair 2015http://www.figures.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=20412vf1-100a.JPGvf1-100b.JPG$70 is a bit too much for the GBP set?

Note that robotech.com is taking preorders on the super parts, so probably going to be re-released. $35.99 for m&m 1j and Hikaru 1j sets

Want moar info!!!

Jenius, are you going to pick these up to review? We'd love your expert opinion!

+1!

With these selling for $30; I'm wondering If the new hi-metal reboot is going to be in the same ballpark. $60-ish for a much better toy might be worthwhile, especially for 1/60 costing in the 150-200 range.

Wow $450 for a used Miria 1-J

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=261744254362

I'm starting to think collecting cars would be cheaper

Another silly thing: my iPad case has a slide out gadget to direct the sound toward the user. I thought this was appropriate:

Holy rapid prototyping! That's just crazy! Whats the quick parts list for a 3 Yamato fighter configuration?

Are you talking about the old leg dismember transformation vf-1's? I think I have one here somewhere... I am confident I could make an adapter for them. I am working on making a gallery with a "buy this stuff" type setup. Not as easy as it should be with the cart I am using.

Correct, the parts former 1/60, in my case the super ostrich

Any chance of a Yamato V1 adapter? Also, I checked out your site - I think a section that has a parts list or a "buy this configuration" button would be nice; e.g. A picture of two Yamato v2s and a button that auto fills the cart with the necessary parts.

too cool!!! smartwatch?

Yes, pebble steel; you can create anything you want as a watch face. This took about 10 minutes

So I did this:

Correct, this was just the 17s. The price was compareable to HKC. I didn't know they'd sold out; also sold out of the 19k recently.

150?! You lucky bastard I paid a crap tonne more than that!

Yeah, it was about as much from HKC (959 HK$) with shipping. But this was a U.S. seller so it was much faster

Love my 17s, paid 150-ish shipped on eBay. Great example of the peak of Yamato engineering; metal ankles and great articulated hands. Didn't like the ton of stickers at first, but after seeing examples of other schemes, it inspired me to do mine. I'll post it up when I'm done.

This guys is selling the assembly kit parts separately, looks like the gunpod is included in this lot, but I'd double check:

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=291341127383

Before the pending reboot of the hi-metal line, I was going to grab a few of these. Now I'm not so sure. Though it looks like $30 vs $90 per valk makes it tempting.

Does anyone believe that the "robotech 30th anniversary" re-release of the toynami toys will actually happen?

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=TOY10612&mode=retail