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Wow! So you hesitated then jumped in full force, sold most of it and are back in? That's some ride! Once I got it, I got all in and stayed that way. I love HMR! 1/60 are my babies but HMR have so many more possibilities and fun to mess with.

Welcome to the club HMR resistance is futile. I tried myself for a long time thinking "why would I want these little so called Hi-Metal figures with barely any metal in them when I can have the premium 1/60's?". Thanks to @ScrambledValkyrie and @sh9000 for clarifying the Roy 1S stand situation.

From no HMR, Toynami was good enough to having an HMR collection that puts many to shame in a matter of weeks. Impresive, most impressive. That stand was a pack in exclusive that was supposed to come with Roy's 1S. Since it was packed separately, before they figured how to pack together like in M&M, some sellers did not include the stand for whatever reason.

Yeah, that sounds to be the case. That's why Macross is not something I imagine walking into a store and walking out with a bunch of Valks I want on a regular basis. The nature of today's market makes a lot more sense to preorder online. Just wish the companies could be better at it to where they could just produce enough to cover everyone who wants to preorder something. I'm lucky there are great shops that I have a long relationship with where I get certain things (mostly comics) and shoot the $hit with real people in front of my face about the toys we all love.

That sounds great! Are you in Japan, HK or some place that gets Valks regularly at around msrp? We don't get that luxury too much in the US because of the whole HG thing. I enjoy the hunt too but not the way distribution and B&M stores operate these days. I do go to specialty shops where I like to hang out in and talk to the shop owners all day but again, we just don't get Macross items here anymore.

They do but I've forgotten a couple times on other orders. It infuriates me when it happens, lol. I laugh because it's funny how emotional we all can get over toys. I get really pissed at the moment then after I think about it, nbd.

Don't remember the exact date but it was late Nov/early Dec. Pretty much during whatever week the month changed.

On purpose?

Agreed. I'm speaking in more general terms since @Kinzoku VF seems to be lamenting about the whole art of hobby collecting. In this specific case, I still don't see it as getting "dicked around" when all they said is something to the extent of sorry, we don't have the item yet and will send when we can...which is what they seem to be doing. Sure, it sucks balls for those who are waiting but if it were me, I wouldn't even be worried about it and it wouldn't suck that bad because I have plenty of other toys on hand and coming to me every day to enjoy. If one day, I hear that my 31A is finally coming, cool! If I find out they can't deliver, that would suck but oh well. Holding a personal grudge about a company that has a history of delivering the toys you want for the lowest price but f'd up one time for reasons we don't know is a bit silly and doesn't help you or anyone else (unless that means you really won't use them again and therefore, makes preordering easier for the rest of us ). That's what I'm talking about! HAHAHAHAHAHA! Right?! Why the hell does any of this have to be so hard? I don't want to and should not have to comb toy stores (or these days Target, Walgrens and Walmart), stepping over little kids and fat, bald scalpers to only find empty pegs or loads of shelfwarmers of adult collectible toys. Nor should I have to run bot programs and customize my F5 button with a Turbo feature on 10 browsers at 3am to get something I have money to pay for. This is all a big joke overall but you know what? So what? It is what it is. F5 and new listing search skills is the new "hunt" in today's collecting age and I'm fine with it. You win some, you lose some. In the end, I have a collection that I would have never dreamed could be possible when I was a kid and that makes me happy.

I think part of what's wrong is people complaining all the time instead of enjoying the whole process of collecting. If everything frustrates you so much, why do it? Other than reading a few threads on forums, my collecting hobby is going great for me in the "real" world. There has never been a better time with so many great options for the characters I've always wanted better toys for.

Sounds good to me!

Hahaha! I'll try to tape it onto the Arcadia

Nice, thanks! Winning!

Excellent! The Calibre Wings I just got sems to come with a FlightPose stand so I was definitely hoping for a Yeti alternative. Also looking forward to the Arcadia SDF-1 adapter!

This Hopefully LOL! Back to the payload, since this is coming with the arm canon, might be less of an issue to me since I can display DX in Battroid mode with Arm Cannon, Arcadia in Fighter mode with weapons. Win-Win.

Well that's not too bad. Ahem, mind sharing a link of where you got them from?

OMG...no idea such a thing existed. Lalala lalala pretend did not see this and move along....

Where's the rest of it? 6,000,000Y preorder CANCELLED!

Everyone declaring they will only get one will almost guarantee they purposely limit the accessory packs to f with us, lol.

Beautiful shot!

Nice work!

Also understandable. It's just that I'm still confident they will deliver and bummed I didn't get an order in there. I already have one from CDJ so I'm ok.

Yeah, but likelihood of $300 for a new one is near zero. Someone could have made $50, saved frustration and me some money.

Yep! Another set I've been waiting a lifetime for. If only someone could make a set worth the money.

I'm really bummed so many people opted to cancel instead of giving me their orders for $301. Now, it will cost at least $50 more and more like $200 more.