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How much is the shipping total for you guys? I'd expect it to be roughly the same for everyone, no? Right around 2000-2500 yen for registered SAL unless going with something faster? I dunno where the various stores are located, so of course I could be totally off base here. As for me, it was right around the 2500 mark.
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Holy crap, it kind of does...
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Yep, attached pics are mine. Shame, I shoulda known the deal was too good to be true. Thanks for the info.
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Gundam Figure Thread - Newtype GN-002
kajnrig replied to Black Valkyrie's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I forget, the Hummingbird is basically the "Deep Striker" of the Zeta Pluses, yes? -
Is this different from previous P-Bandai releases? This is my first, so I wouldn't know, but it seems reasonable that Bandai ships out from their warehouses release date, then stores and customers get it over the course of 1-2 weeks depending on shipping, then stores sort out for international customers and the international shipping happens which takes anywhere from 1 week to several months(?).
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Glad you guys enjoyed my trolling. More seriously, I just got notification from Mykombini and paid the rest of the preorder, so with any luck I'll be able to take pics of the actual thing within a month or so.
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If people feel strongly about something, who's to say that they shouldn't be able to express themselves? That said, I was surprised at the lengths @slaginpit was willing to go to indulge in his strong negative feelings. Oh, gonna have to agree to disagree there. The first IS literally dumb fun, yes, but there's a whole lot of craft that went into it, something that I'm not seeing in this one (at least from the trailers). The first film's use of color, for instance, is pretty remarkable. Red rarely makes up part of a scene's color profile, so when it does, it tends to starkly relief against the rest of the shot, and it sticks in your mind. Young Mako's red shoe, the red blood stain on Raleigh's all-white suit when he stumbles out of Gipsy, the scene immediately preceding that when Gipsy's arm gets ripped off and the cockpit immediately shows a glaring red warning, the same thing at the end when Raleigh's walking around an all-red cockpit... The red helps inform the scene. It's the color of desperation, of impending doom. Not even Crimson Typhoon has red armor quite like desperate red. Its armor looks more like lacquer, and never disrupts a scene like true red does. There's a neat use of neon blue during the Otachi fight as well; when Gipsy is searching for it in Hong Kong, there's a brief shot where a building reflects the lights of the building across from it and looks like the kaiju blue stripes of Otachi. There's just a moment of foreshadowing as Gipsy looks at it, and then Otachi bursts through it. It's a small detail, but it's a really fun one. The sequel, on the other hand, seems to have thrown all that out. The shift from ILM to a lesser effects talent certainly didn't help. The daytime shots have the unfortunate side effect of needing daytime lighting, and there's less ways to manipulate that than there is at night, where the lighting is completely at your control. The Jaegers may sport different colors but they all have the same dull, monotonous overtone to them. The only other deliberate use of color I can see from the trailers is the same "Orange/Blue Contrast" that seems to be the staple of blockbuster movies nowadays. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OrangeBlueContrast) And the sequel being a love letter to the high-speed robot action and monster anime that came in their wake isn't necessarily a bad thing. That said, I have my doubts that this movie is any such love letter. It appears to have too much of mainstream blockbuster Hollywood in its veins.
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Har har bloody har. You get a thumbs up for that. But seriously, go into it without a lick of knowledge of Robotech or Macross - and since this is supposed to be a reboot comic, that's definitely the intended audience - and the comic looks fine... for the most part. Someone who knows nothing about the VF-1 will probably have the same reaction to these as we did to the originals in SDFM. And lest we not forget, the VF-1s in SDFM were subject to MUCH worse quality control standards. The characters are kind of generic-looking, but that shot people like to post of Minmei complaining about something in her teeth (I think?) isn't actually a bad drawing, it just doesn't portray her as cute. It's an expression that plenty of people make, and it's one that's been drawn plenty of times and it's looked just as good/bad as it does here. Someone a page back or so compared this to the manga art from Macross the First and I'm like... They're two totally different works going for two totally different aesthetics aimed at two totally different audiences. There's also something to be said about the Titan Minmei being much more... "believable" than Manga Minmay, in that she looks more like how a person would look, crazy-hot idol or no, whereas Manga Minmay is best described as "distilled moe." There's no room for her to NOT be cute and sexy. But then again, I'm assuming that the only people who buy Titan Robotech are Robotech (and maybe some Macross?) fans, which defeats the whole purpose of a fresh start...
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GUYS GUYS THEY MADE A MISTAKE AND SHIPPED MINE ALREADY AND THEY SENT ME TWO HOLY crap HOLY crap HOLY crap
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
kajnrig replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
As someone's who had to seriously fight my own purchasing decisions in the past, I really have to caution you, @Shizuka the Cat, about spending beyond your means. Everyone here WILL encourage your purchasing decisions because a big part of this place is showing off your haul, but if you're as strapped for cash as you say you are, and considering your admission of exorbitant spending in the past, I cannot stress how much I recommend that you stop for now and let yourself recover. Impressing us here with the $1000s in VFs you've bought will certainly get you oohs and aahs, but... we aren't your friends, and we won't have your best interests at heart. Don't take @Slave IV and @no3Ljm's words to heart, because this is all fun and games until you actually start starving yourself to feed your addiction (your word, not mine). But I mean, if things are actually totes okay, then frakk me I guess. -
SDFM Claudia has a small afro, right? Or no? The art itself is again fine (yes, even that battroid), but there's something to be said about beauty standards here too...
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Solo: A Star Wars Story, in theaters May 25, 2018
kajnrig replied to Dobber's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I wasn't planning on seeing this movie anyway except if the kids want me to take them (which they seem to do), and I have a feeling they're not going to care one way or another how the posters look. So... yeah. Get your knickers in a twist one way or the other, I suppose; this is by far the least of my concerns. -
Hey all. I just bought this... https://www.ebay.com/itm/MACROSS-PLUS-VOL-1-SOUNDTRACK-/222881631268 ...and was wondering if any of you could help determine its authenticity or lack thereof. I've noticed discrepancies between the advertisement title, the pictures provided, and the actual product. - The title and item description refers to the CD as "Macross Plus Vol. 1 Soundtrack," something that doesn't exist. The closest thing is "Macross Plus Original Soundtrack," the first soundtrack album released for the OVA. That album has 11 tracks. - The picture shows "Macross Plus Original Soundtrack Plus - for fans only" (the kana in the left margin), the third album released, containing music from the movie version of Macross Plus. That soundtrack has 13 tracks. - The actual product says "Macross Plus Original Soundtrack Plus - for fans only," corroborating the picture and contradicting the title and item description. The musical content is also consistent with the album in the picture (13 tracks). However... the cover art on the actual product is different from that of the picture (the "Macross Plus" is the same font as that used on movie/DVD/BD covers, promotional materials, etc., rather than the plain black seen in the picture) the actual product lacks the kana along the left-hand side that features in the picture the CD itself shows signs of being a burned disc, but I can't tell for sure if that's the case (just suspicion based on the distinct band around the rim of the CD; from my experience that's the result of data not being burned across the whole 700 MB of CD space)(the CD is ~450 MB full) I've attached a fairly thorough set of pictures which you can compare to the one provided in the listing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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So... You spent all this time talking about how the movie looked like garbage and sounded like garbage and would be garbage, you hated all the "neon power rangers" and the "let's work together"... and yet still took the time to pirate it to see it? I mean alright, I guess...
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Edit: Dang, beat me to it lol.
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So... You spent all this time talking about how the movie looked like garbage and sounded like garbage and would be garbage, you hated all the "neon power rangers" and the "let's work together"... and yet still bought a ticket to see it? I mean alright, I guess...
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New Mykombini release date is 23 March, this Friday.
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Armored Core, not Gundam, but there's a White Glint + VOB for $75 shipped to the USA on Ebay right now in case you're interested: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Armoured-Core-White-Glint-V-O-B-Set-Movie-Color-Ver-Kotobukiya-Complete/362274554337
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Seems lightly negative to middling to lightly positive. A perfect bell curve... so far. https://www.avclub.com/guillermo-del-toro-s-geeky-pacific-rim-gets-an-imperson-1823955570 https://www.polygon.com/2018/3/21/17145582/pacific-rim-uprising-review-john-boyega http://www.slashfilm.com/pacific-rim-uprising-reviews-early-buzz/ And since I know there are fans:
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
kajnrig replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
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Well yes, of course, international shipping usually requires an air flight of some sort, but even still, I can't help but feel like you paid a hefty premium there. What are they bundling with it, a free wife or something?
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First(?) review up. https://io9.gizmodo.com/somehow-pacific-rim-uprising-is-more-and-less-epic-tha-1823834809
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My thoughts on it to come. EDIT: A minute in: It's kind of dumb. Not Pacific Rim dumb. Bad dumb. EDIT 2: Yeah, a bit of a waste of time. I'm always down for a good essay, especially about giant monsters and giant robots, but this isn't very well-written.
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Thanks for the link. I'm probably gonna skip this figure altogether for now; too many purchases recently and upcoming. Gonna bookmark it for safekeeping, though. Hopefully it'll still be available in a few months' time or so. Managed to snag the silver one for ~1000 JPY (plus ~1000 in domestic shipping, proxy fee, etc.) from YJA. I didn't particularly want it, but I figure at that price you may as well. That sure is a sizeable figure. 1/60 Valks are already more than big enough for me, and she dwarfs that 1/48. Granted, the VF-1 is smaller than the rest, but still. You're building up my hype now.
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I am definitely on the lookout for that one especially. There are two other Klan figures (both prize figures) I'm keen on, one in macro and one in micro form. The macro is her in her pilot uniform (there's a silver recolor as well), and the micro is her in her black and purple... jumpsuit?... thing. There's also one more (aside from various small-scale figures), but it's of her micro form... in a swimsuit... and yeah, that doesn't really speak to me. That most certainly does help. Thanks very much, I didn't know MFC allowed sorting by character.
