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Happy 30th Anniversary Macross Plus.
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
MKT replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
I guess the Amazon PO price must have been very good. Alternatively, Mandarake has quite a few unopened (new) units available and they are actually below JP retail. From what others have reported, even at full JP retail price, it is actually cheaper to buy & ship from there than paying US domestic retail for WWM items. But of course, it comes back down to Amazon's PO price.. Whichever option you take, hopefully everything works out for you. -
If its any consolation, there will always be a store or other in US that will offer some substantial discounts along the way for WWM items.
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It'll be a waste for KC to give up all they have learned from making Dana & her armour to not offer the other SC characters. But at same time, do we want to wait another 3 years or more for the next SC figure? Their backlog is already ever growing as it is. The VF-1A Max & Miriya special color were sold with either Max & Miriya figures, and there has been absolute ZERO progress on either of them, despite their initial gaslighting that both will be out in 2023. Not to mention the deposits they have taken for other older PO items.. Not very long ago I was pretty patient with them but now the goodwill is drying up. The only other company on which I am aware of being so tardy, fast and loose with their release dates would be Super 7? Perhaps Ramen Toys / Calibre Wings as well, but at least Noel is always on top with updates whilst KC is just starting to feel Ponzi-like by using deposits on new orders to finance their older figures..
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Received the HMR VF-1A Kakizaki earlier in the day. I guess I wasn't paying much attention to previous posts on it, but now that I have it in hand, I'm quite surprised the brown is rather dark. When I compared it to the HMR CF VF-1A, Kakizaki's brown is actually a shade darker. I'm usually not very particular about colour shades as long it is around the ballpark, but this kinda feels very wrong lol. I suppose if Bandai ever decide to do a TV Kakizaki, this will be the brown we get.
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^^ That looks like a fine figure. I always feel chrome is pretty hard to pull off for toys, but this looks good.
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
MKT replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
I just recalled that if there are any order delays on Amazon, they then allow to cancel? Perhaps get from another domestic store.. -
You're welcome. It so happens that Mandarake has split the listing for the reissue, so for anyone who wants to tell the new box from the old when purchasing on secondary markets: 2023 Reissue - comes with 'Macross 40th' sticker on the front, the last 6-digits barcode number on the back reads "821657" For the 2014 original issue - obviously no sticker on the front, and the last 6-digit barcode on the back reads "820742"
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Your most recent Macross or toy purchase! General thread.
MKT replied to Gakken85's topic in Hall Of The Super Topics
Even if it's a reissue, I feel excited all over again as if it's a new release. Praying Arcadia moves on to the VF-19P, it is a hero valk as well so they shouldn't be obstinate about repaints lol -
Here you go, it was posted one page back: As with Arcadia's straight reissues, the box looks the same as previous, with this year's reissues coming with a 40th Anniversary sticker.
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Thanks As it's the M7 30th Anniversary next year I guess I gotta get cracking watching it to join in the festivities. And get myself even more hyped up for the HMR Soundforce squad.. but I have big feeling other than VF-19 Kai, the rest is just gonna be vaporware.
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Oops caught with fly open lol
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Really a very successful Kickstarter so far. English dub is now confirmed. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/madoverlord/macross-ii-lovers-again-alus-edition/posts/3996515
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Nice collection @Spark-O-Matic The current stand design does remind me of the old Yamato's VFC ones lol.
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As with @505thAirborne, I'm also using the Stage Act Trident. However, I believe Bandai have discontinued this not too long ago, so secondary markets only for now. But as with most Bandai clear stand & parts, it oxidizes rather easily.
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Usually I would suggest a Flightpose or CalWings Router Stand as a reasonable alternative, but here I'm hesitant to recommend them as the silicone tips had some reputation for stripping off paint, and KC's valks are just about the most painted of any valk toy lol. But to be fair, the paint stripping only appears to have been reported on only certain Flightpose batches, and there's been non reported on CalWings stands so far. Thinking about it, CalWings' products are mostly painted diecast metal and one would expect that with the added weight pressing down on the tips the paint stripping would be exacerbated, but it hasn't happened so far so it could be safe.
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@tekering Very nice upgrades so far. Agreed the pregnant part always looked off, but perhaps because of the absence of any alternatives, I've sort of come to accept it as part of its charm lol. Your sculpt of that part looking great. Yeah Moderoid appear to be best chance of seeing any new BGC kits, but thinking about it now I also get the feeling they may have tried but unsuccessful as well. The series is so ripe for new toys and kits.
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The 'Hey look at this really cool model build I saw' post
MKT replied to Shawn's topic in Model kits
Love R-Area’s VF mash-ups: https://twitter.com/R_AREA2019/status/1740684899621990834
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https://twitter.com/SHOWROOM_jp/status/1740371821978128472
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Thanks for digging up the images. Didn't realize Aoshima did variant kits of this.. I always liked Aoshima's sculpt of the Motoslave compared to Yamato's toys - somewhat more angular and defined. All the same, I wish someone did make the later Motoslave variants like the Typhoons I & II, which always looked so cool in illustrations. I bet Arcadia would have liked to revisit this, but seeing how the Figma's project stalled, perhaps due to licensing issues, it looks like we won't get any new items for a while. Anyway, look forward to seeing your completed kits.
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Great, all 4 motoslaves. I didn't realize one of the cannon's supposed to be different though.
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Thanks for confirming the colors I was considering of getting the Low-Vis, but I have the old Yammie 1/48 Low-Vis, so perhaps will go for Roy's Special Paint instead as no one else has this scheme. Trying to see if they have any solution for a fix. I do understand any fix (if available) may not be immediate, but at least an acknowledgement of that issue would be nice. I'm seeing from a few pages back that the previous Vermillion Squadron set (old packaging) have the leg modex numbers the right way up, so it at least confirms that there are different production runs for this squad and perhaps KC might just happen to have extra parts or something. Although I'm not sure if it is replaceable as I haven't properly examined if the leg can be easily opened up.
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The slow-mo wasn't applied at appropriate moments too. They were there just to look cool for freeze frame shots, but narratively don't make much sense. Unless Snyder wanted to highlight how the goons ape Star Wars by catching copious amounts of Stormtrooper-litis in their aim.
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Ah the initial Paulmartstore's pics are what I meant on the richer grey. The picture on the box actually looks more similar to the initial pics though, rather than the actual item. No biggie, I've been looking for an excuse to pick up these figs, and this is the one that did it.
