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    Rule I've seen mentioned is two-week spoiler period from time of release, then it's fair game.
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    She changes it to "Watashi no uta o kike." From what I remember, watashi is non-gendered, though I hear it used more by females than males (in anime, at least). It's taught to non-native speakers (like me) as the "general-use I." There's also boku (male), atashi (female), ore (male), a bunch of other variants besides... Recent case in point:
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    Mahou shoujo ore... Magical Girl Me? ("Me" of course being masculine)
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    Mykombini is closed 3/30 "for inventory." Hopefully that means they're getting everything in order and come Monday I'll have a shipping notification. If not... sigh... I don't want to entertain that possibility.
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    Dang, great deal on the Draken. That's something like 60% off the retail price BEFORE shipping.
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    That's awesome and adorable at the same time.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    That really sucks, I'm sorry to hear that. I haven't gotten a similar or really any message at all since the payment request past Friday. Still holding out hope, but not much... They seem to be the only one who's done it multiple times... I think? I know I saw one CDJ order canceled, but I don't remember any others. To be fair, it's squarely a Bandai problem. The preorders closed in late November. The number of orders they had was locked in - plus or minus a couple dozen, maybe - for nearly four months. It's not the store's fault they didn't receive the supply they were promised by the manufacturer (because again that was the whole POINT of making this TWE). That aside, I'd be lying if I said I didn't also feel some consternation about buying from Mykombini in the future. Dunno why your comment got a downvote, but for me, I'm currently leaning more towards the latter than the former, considering other stores are having difficulty fulfilling preorders as well.
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    Macross figures

    kajnrig replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    Ugh, yeah, when I chanced upon that line I groaned to myself and shook my head muttering "Why, Japan? Why are you like this?" There's also the Deculture model kits, if you're into the whole "itasha" car decal thing. The 1/72 are transformable but rare, and the 1/100 ones are fighter mode only and still pretty easily found. Both can be built without needing glue and both come with stickers for the decals, though the 1/72 also comes with waterslides. 1/72: https://hlj.com/search/go?w=deculture 1/100: Ranka - https://hlj.com/product/BAN970389 Sheryl - https://hlj.com/product/BAN970390 Other than that... I dunno, maybe you could use some Sailor Moon figures to pair with the DXes? (actually now I think about it... Mercury with 31J, Venus with 31E, Moon with... 31S? maybe the Roid SV-262Hs?, Mars with 31C, and I guess Jupiter with 31F/262Ba...)
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    I'll be honest, I feel the same way. At the very least, though, all of Bandai Hobby's injection molding technology is finally being put to profoundly impressive use. The face on my Figure-rise Kaname is freaking AMAZING. They even got the gloss right on the eye plastics while leaving the rest flat (or well, as flat as bare plastic can be). What they did with the Figure-rise line has wowed me waaaay more than anything they ever did with MGs and RGs.
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    Gameplay-wise it's fine, it's just the main character and the story that let the game down. Black Flag proves that point; move it to the Caribbeans(?) and turn Connor into a pirate(?), and suddenly the woes of AC3 are forgotten. Origin looks fine, but... again, it's The Ubisoft Sandbox Game. I just can't bring myself to care to play one of those. They all bleed into each other - collectibles all over the map, capture watchposts to reveal map and said collectibles, etc...
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    Macross figures

    kajnrig replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    But she totally should've. COME ON DELTA STAFF, THIS WRITES ITSELF
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    According to the art you'd be at least partially correct:
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    You can go to hell... with a thumbs up.
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    Is it a figure? A model kit? With Figure-rise Labo, why not both?
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    Macross figures

    kajnrig replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    How do you want the size to be? Small figure, big VF? Vice versa? "Zentraedi-scale" figure with the VF? If you want a small figure, I second @Slave IV's recommendation. The Playmax minimum factory 1/20 kits are the smallest you'll get for Macross Delta (the line also has Ranka/Sheryl for Frontier and Minmay for SDFM). They're roughly 8cm tall. There are also the Tamacolle acrylic keychain stands. I don't think that's what you're looking for, though: https://hlj.com/product/BANN07938 For Frontier, I've seen some ~10cm mini-figures around. Ebay link has a set of them for ~$36 shipped: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bandai-Macross-F-CharaColle-5Figures-Sheryl-Klan-Ranka-Alto-Mini-Figure-Japan/292479178752?hash=item44191e1800:g:JU0AAOSw9uBal2ww More Frontier - "Half Age Girls" (dat name... ): https://myfigurecollection.net/entry/50492 @no3Ljm's Figure-rise bust recc is solid, too, if you're willing to put up with half a figure. I believe @Saburo has taken a bunch of pictures of various VF-31s with their respective SQ Figure/Figuarts Zero figures, and the size might not be as equitable as you think. Look through the VF-31 toy thread, that should get you an idea of how well they work together. (He's also paired them with... I think it's Space Battleship Yamato figures, and those look faaaantastic.) If you're looking for small VFs with big figures, you can get inexpensive non-scale (~1/200) Mecha Collection kits of the Delta VFs (eg. https://hlj.com/product/BANN06311) and 1/100 kits of the Frontier VFs (https://hlj.com/product/BAN967079) and match them with the various SQ Figures/Figuarts/etc. And lastly, search for "Ichiban Kuji" prize figures, those might be to your liking as well. I don't know the size myself, though I believe they're the same as SQ Figures. Get the Klan Klang one next to Michel's VF-25G and you can even pretend they're the same scale! https://www.amazon.com/Premium-Macross-prize-premium-figure/dp/B003NVN3DY This is all just me dumping all the searches I've done the past week or so; I've been trawling through the Macross figure cesspool as well, lol. Forgive the half-dozen links. EDIT: Oh, also this might be a thing in the future: "Figure-rise Labo," the line is called. Yes, that is a model kit.
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    Certainly not enough to meet demand... at least not on time. With stores dripfeeding shipments to customers, perhaps Bandai are producing as quickly as they can and divvying up produce between everyone. ...which begs the question of why they even bothered with making this P-Bandai, because again the whole point of it is so that they can judge how many to make.
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    I haven't played an AC since 3, and even then I only got like 50% through the game. Got sidetracked catching animals in the forest and finding things to spend money on, but eventually I started making so much more than I spent that the game got boring. I couldn't even find the secondary/tertiary pistol holsters when people I knew had it from like 15% on or so. Since then I haven't found the desire to play The Ubisoft Sandbox Game at all, though I do admit Far Cry 5 has my interest piqued.
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    Yeah, I've just always headcanon-ed that it's actually a run of the mill GM encased in chobham armor. hahah hahahah no EDIT: Is it a figure? A model kit? With Figure-rise Labo, why not both?
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    I didn't even realize the GP01 had a chobham armor design. Nice. (I've always wondered what the GM Cannon II looks like with its armor removed, whether its base is a GM Custom, Powered, Kai, etc.)
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    TOM = Tokyo Otaku Mode. I remember it being mentioned way back when we were still placing preorders. I don't remember if BBTS had the Kairos either, just threw it out there because it popped in my mind as a possibility. Dunno if anyone ordered this from them, but I remember the discussion thread on them: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/topic/44352-is-kurama-shop-hobbysitebandaionlinecom-legit/ Gotcha both, thanks. Gotta say, for being my first DX purchase, I sure did choose the wrong one for smoothness of transaction...
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    Bandai DX VF-31

    kajnrig replied to UN Spacy's topic in Toys

    So just to hopefully summarize the last few pages/days, let me know if I'm wrong: - NY: Many customers still have yet to get shipping notifications, a few have had their shipped(?) - CDJ: Same - Loopaza: Most everyone who's ordered has had theirs shipped - Mykombini: I haven't gotten a response since 3/23, and they have refunded at least one preorder - Any BBTS? - Any TOM?
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    This guy knows what's up. *high five!*
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    Phew. I thought that last part was gonna go someplace weird, and instead it just went somewhere a little bit unfortunate. I feel like I dodged a bullet there.
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    *raises hand* You're not the only one. I remember there was a reward for filling out >98% of the bestiary or something, and THAT grind was so obtuse I almost deleted the game. There was one SPECIFIC type of helicopter robot that I needed to encounter in the desert, and the chances of it spawning are something like 1 to 10,000, AND the time it took to load the checkpoint and trek over there was like 180 seconds, which doesn't seem like a lot, but when you're doing it over and over AND OVER... But yeah, great game, I'm glad you liked it.
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    Kingdom Hearts progress report: I'm a fair ways through KH2 now. Gonna tackle Pride Rock tonight. I didn't bother with the "second half" of Chain of Memories, just watched a summary online, because fuuuuuudge that card combat. Now that I understand the story a thousand times better than when the series was scattered across half a dozen consoles, I gotta say: The protagonists are pretty fraked up. They moralize so much, yet had no qualms scheming against an innocent person in order to get her killed; and kidnapping another innocent person, trapping him in a digital simulation of the real world, eventually killing him as well; both of them blood sacrifices in a twisted ritual to resurrect their lord and savior Sora. Like... at the end of the KH2 prologue, Roxas is just completely mentally and emotionally bludgeoned into submission. He fights to be his own person so hard, yet is absolutely powerless to stop what's to happen to him. And then Sora wakes up and it's just a grand ol' adventure again; that's pretty fraked.
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