Smacky

Loopaza has it up for sale too now for a little more, 194 USD.

https://www.loopaza.com/figures/dx-chogokin-vf-31s-siegfried-arad-molders-use-armored-parts-set.html

I pre-ordered the armored parts from NY but don't have the 31S, but do have all the others and was just going to put it on one of those guys.  But I also have all the super parts to go with them...not sure if I should pull the trigger on a reasonably priced 31S so I won't have a set of leftover super parts, my freaking wallet...

Speaking of which, anybody ever buy from hobbyshop2go.com?  are they legit?

1 hour ago, Darth Mingus said:

Imagine running into this on PO madness night?  It is for their free shipping sale.  They jacked the price up on all items anyways so there is no real savings.

I was going to pick up the 31S the last time they had free shipping and it was still 23k  but finally decided against it, and now they jacked it up to 38k...

11 hours ago, sh9000 said:

  Very cool, mind if I ask who makes them and where you got them?

1 hour ago, takatoys said:

I just got an email from HLJ, they cancelled my order due to a system error. 

HLJ has to fix those errors as they have become frecuent with Macross toys.

That sucks because it was still available after you put your order in.

15 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

Can’t stop looking at it. Love the details. Can’t wait for June and July. 

I have to add that the reimagining designs of the Ride Armors added more uniqueness on Yellow’s ride.  

 

Are the preorders opening in June and July if they’re being released?

VF-4 back up for pre-order on HLJ.

https://hlj.com/hi-metal-r-vf-4-lightning-iii-bans55381

VF-1D available at AmiAmi too, finally scored one!

https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?scode=FIGURE-044625

4 hours ago, wmkjr said:

I would've recommended looking at fellow MW Jenius's site anymoon.com but it appears that the chart list for what releases are good is missing and the picture with all the releases outer boxes doesn't have the red text highlighted, which notes which ones to avoid (at least on my computer).

I think it's because he used a maroon red which doesn't stand out as much.  I can barely see the difference on my laptop but can see it clearer on my iPad.

4 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

So what part is that? Care to share from where it fell from?

 

I put mine back in the box so I took a screen cap from Jenius’ transformation video. It’s this tiny cover for screws, just plopped it back in.

Anybody know what piece this is?  I was transforming this to fighter mode and it fell off, I have no idea from where though.

Edit: Never mind, found it! Thanks!

Jenius has a list of the different versions up on his site, anymoon.com  I’m not sure which are the ones you’re asking  about though, sorry.

On 12/8/2018 at 11:45 PM, amptor said:

I'm surprised I didn't get thumb down this time around, as you guys know I buy to hoard valks  Not sure who else here does that. :P   I did it with the 1/55 scale ones and flipped half of my collection for an enormous profit.  These hi-metal r are much nicer imho.

1 hour ago, amptor said:

LOL @ all the thumbs down! after all, without people like me, Bandai would stop making your toys.

Maybe it’s because you’re so full of yourself?  In so many of your stupid ass posts you make it sound like you are single handledly “supporting” the hobby, as if nobody else on this board puts money into this hobby.  And look at the stupid ass thing you said above, you hoard these toys so you can sell them at an enormous profit.  It’s thanks to jackasses like you that make it hard for other people to get into this hobby.  In reality, you’re no better than a scalper, so congratulations for being a douche.   

1 minute ago, Felix said:

Back up and available at HLJ. Oddly enough I was getting all kinds of errors on my PC, but the order went right through without a hiccup when I used my phone. We have all been wondering why the new design for HLJ and AmiAmi. I’m betting the answer is, “better phone based shopping...” I just received a confirmation email. 

I’m travelling and had to use my phone, there were all kinds of shenanigans with their site using mobile safari.

HLJ order stop again

Back in stock at HLJ, was able to finally check out.

1 minute ago, Valkyrie23 said:

I finally checked out through amiami

My HLJ cart is frozen and progressing slowly

Had one in my HLJ cart, took forever to progress then got order stop.

11 minutes ago, Macrossmerrell said:

https://www.nin-nin-game.com/en/macross/29493-macross-flash-back-2012-vf-4-lightning-iii-hi-metal-r--4573102553812.html

 

You can order right now.  Not the cheapest, but shipping was decent I thought.  I got 2.

Got an order in, thank you!  Just got one for now though and waiting if I can get another from NY.

22 minutes ago, no3Ljm said:

No preorder date announcement yet. But they've already shown a prototype in some Japanese hobby magazine. And hopefully they show a painted sample on the upcoming TN2018 next week.

 

I haven’t bought the 31s due to budget reason, but have the others, is it safe to assume the armor will fit on one of the other models, or is it going to have custom colours to match the 31s.  Sorry I haven’t watched delta so don’t know much.

9 hours ago, borgified said:

I'm also in the same boat except this is my second expensive valk for me. 27k yen from Manda + 5k yen shipping (SAL) adds up to 32k yen (conversion $371.40 CND).   

First one was a Yammie v.2 valk also from Manda at 25K yen + 5k yen shipping (EMS) adds up to 30k yen (conversion $348.26 CND).

I believe that a fair amount of us has spent more money on valks than you could imagine (not just one, but multiple copies of it). 

If you’re in Canada, they also declare full value and you’ll get dinged with duties. I ordered the 31J Kai this year from them for 31k plus 3400 shipping and got slapped with about 70$ in duties.  Stupid NY lowered their 31J Kai to 30k yen right after I bought it from Mandarake, a tiny difference but NY never declare full value and I never had to pay duties.  I was so mad! 

37 minutes ago, kajnrig said:

Oh, for sure. I suppose it's the assertion that either of them is a "badass" that made my head turn. Snoke, for his part, is far crueler than Palpatine ever was. That doesn't make him more villainous, just... well, more cruel. It's a perfectly fine twist on the Emperor Expy that he otherwise would have been. It's no surprise that Kylo lashes out against him as much as he does. He's very much like an abusive father, and his relationship with Kylo Ren is exceedingly personal, whereas Palpatine seems more scheming, and his relationship with Vader is nowhere near as intense.

...I mean I guess personally I'd have preferred that he not existed to begin with. He was never going to be as good as Palpatine, and the fact that TFA tried only hurt it. Considering what it had to work with, I think TLJ put a good twist on him. For all the faults that TLJ has, I don't consider him to be among them.

Palpating is not a bad ass?  He single handedly orchestrated the demise of the Jedi Order save for a handful, was able to equal Yoda in single combat, and took out Mace Windu (sure with help from Anakin, but he did it to lure Anakin to the dark side), officers were scared shitless at the mention of him,  I’m not sure who qualifies as a bad ass then.

48 minutes ago, kajnrig said:

Kinda sounds like you want it both ways here. You want something to be original, yet the movie that does original things with the setup it receives you proceed to trash because it doesn't take those setups in a familiar direction...

Rewatching his scenes in TFA, I was reminded that he holo-projected himself to be ten times bigger than he really is for... literally no reason. Whatever else he does or says, it has to be filtered through that lens. He made a scary face? He holo-projected himself to be ten times bigger than he really is, THEN made a scary face. Said something cool? He holo-projected himself to be ten times bigger than he really is, THEN said something cool. It's almost like he was literally projecting a facade that looked more imposing than he really was... And the tactic seems to have worked, too, at least in a metafictional sense.

 

That’s actually not the point I was making at all.  How can you have any continuity when the characters have changed so dramatically from movie to movie.  It would be as if the director of Die Hard 2 decided to make John McClane a pansy with no explanation, it would have made for a pretty bad sequel.  

21 hours ago, jenius said:

I'm not sure about the back and forth here but the first time I watched "The Force Awakens" I though that Kylo unlocked something while he was mind probing her. Like, she had been trained in her youth and then, for her safety, that training with her youth were locked away from her and she was dumped on Jakku. I guess they could still go that route depending on what they choose to do (if anything) with her parentage.  Make her the kid of a sith/dark Jedi who trained her and then dumped her when Luke came looking for him and things could get more interesting.

The Jedi Academy can go a few ways. The kids accepted by the Jedi all clearly demonstrate that they have force powers.

Her lineage questions were answered in TLJ, and Johnson confirmed in follow up interviews he intended for her to be the child of nobodies.  Although of course this could be changed in the next movie and say her parents used a memory rub on her to hide her past.

It’s 3 years between ANH and ESB and another year between ESB and RoTJ.  TLJ literally takes place right after TFA, when she’s just about to hand Luke his lightsaber.

Don’t get me wrong, I like TFA and even though I found the story unoriginal, it was a good Star Wars movie and ranked ahead of the prequels for me, but after Rogue One.  TLJ just literally destroyed any kind of setup that TFA created and was absolute garbage.  Snoke made out to be a bad ass like the Emperor, nope, killed off like a second rate punk.  Hux and Phasma, bad asses of The First Order, nope, made into a running joke.  Rey with a mysterious past and most likely awesome lineage, nope, just a nobody abandoned on a junk planet.  The list goes on...

AmiAmi has athe 31F in stock for 19390.

https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=FIGURE-039718

3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

With respect to using the force, didn't Yoda pretty definitively establish that one of the most important factors to using the force was belief?  Rey grew up hearing legends of Luke Skywalker and has been told by no less a person than Han frigging Solo that it was ALL TRUE.  Luke was a grown up cynical man who hadn't grown up hearing stories of the amazing power of the force, so he had a lot to unlearn before he could unleash his full potential.  Rey doesn't have that problem.  She doesn't do anything complex, and it takes her several tries to get simple stuff right, but the fact that she went into it believing the force could do anything she's not working with the same limitations on her access to power that Luke was.

As for the dueling... yeah, she beat Kylo Ren.  A badly injured Kylo Ren who'd tanked a shot from Chewie's crossbow that previously had been knocking stormtroopers several feet backwards with every hit AND gotten several lightsaber wounds from Finn.  An untrained amateur with implicit trust in the force beat a winded, wounded professional who was in the middle of bleeding out and catching hypothermia while also losing some power due to being conflicted about his alliegance to the dark side AND trying not to hurt her.  It's not like she spanked him at the top of his game.

If that were the case, then why have a Jedi academy and make potential Jedi go through years of training?  I think that’s just one aspect of it is that yes, you need to believe in the force and it’s abilities, but they also had to learn how to harness its power.  I don’t for a second believe that because Rey heard some stories it and then had said stories confirmed makes her all powerful.  She was able to defeat a weakened Kylo, use force powers like a force pull, beat Luke in a sparring match, take out some Royal Guards, all in the span of 3 days.  

1 hour ago, kajnrig said:

Okay, I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees Fett for the loser that he is. He does about as much and gets humiliated as much in the OT as Phasma does in the NT.

His character was significantly expanded in the EU, having survived the Sarlacc pit and eventually leading the Mandalorians.  He finally lived up to the hype in the books and play a big role a few story lines, especially the Yuuzhan Vong war and the fight against Darth Caedus (he trains Jaina Solo).

7 hours ago, Bolt said:

The EU got flushed with these new movies. Canon balled..

 

I refuse to let Disney ruin the last 20 years or so of books I’ve bought and read.  To me they will always be canon and have by far superior writing than both TFA (rehash of movies/EU books anyways) and TLJ.