WaferMouse

I just ordered the Lil Drakens, so barring any surprise mystery releases I'm on the final countdown for the AP, the 31A SPs, and the 31E.

Bandai plz no more.

Is there a dedicated thread for NY issues? Things are clearly getting confusing as the release calendar marches on.

3 hours ago, Master Dex said:

More to my purpose, I don't suppose any word is out on 31A supers? I know Mirage supers just went out due to pictures being posted everywhere and I guess 31F with Lil Drakens is coming soon so I'm not sure how much might happen at once. 

I'm mostly curious cause I don't want it to be too soon. I can't afford them yet lol. 

Welcome back to the thread, Dex. You just missed the 31F w/ Draken clips PO, next TWE is the Drakens themselves. No news on 31A supers yet.

@borgifiedThat photo is a custom job or something. The actual Lil Drakens are blue and Bandai haven't displayed them with the SP.

I had some spinny spinners on amiami but I've finally joined Club Messer.

Thanks peeps! Here's a link for 4PM Japan time in your own time zone, to be safe: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180601T16&p1=248

Could someone remind me what time orders usually go up in Tokyo time? I doubt I'll be able to make the preorder, but at least I'll know.

Ah damnit. Not a huge fan of the Lil Draken gimmick, but I do kinda regret not picking up a 31F to eventually kit out with a Xigfrid speaker module. But then I have to decide whether I want to get the SPs before demand goes up or whether I'll live with the Lil Drakens.

Where is the 31E? That was going to be the second and final Delta VF I bought, and I've already bought 4 and considering a 5th now! ;^_^

7 hours ago, pteroleo said:

After some back and forth with NY, they reinstated my order and i got a shipping confirmation.

 i know some people here had a warning that the refund would be in the form of a voucher but i didnt and wanted to use the money to buy the figure somewhere else.

I m happy that they made it right in the end.

This is really great to hear for the people still waiting, I can't imagine them doing this if they weren't confident they can fulfil their orders. Take heart, peeps!

Looks like a 35th anniversary release of this model is coming with more poseability. Note the more Mirage-like hair! http://figsoku.net/blog-entry-107574.html

Also a nice build from Twitter: https://twitter.com/sakakkiunicorn/status/993774131836416001

PS: How do you do the thing where it embeds tweets?

If I can take a moment to speak as a *cringe* customer service professional who specializes in emails for a very large retailer *cringe* nothing that I've seen from these NY responses is particularly out of the ordinary. It's not fantastic service or communication, and they are bulk template responses, but nothing to indicate any underhanded intent from NY. The consistency of their responses may even be a good thing, since it shows a management-level awareness of the problem.

For the record, I hate my job and it's not my intention to come off as condescending. In truth I envy everyone who hasn't been inside the seedy underbelly of customer service.

1 hour ago, kajnrig said:

Has anyone on here bought/built one of these? Doesn't seem like reaction was all that hot to it. (For me it's the Girl that killed the kit. I STILL don't get why they couldn't have included one of the many many MANY Macross females instead.)

CDJ only just shipped mine, so given the timing I doubt anyone's done a build yet. Mine are going to take some time since I suck at painting and I plan to paint them in JKai and C colour schemes. I think I'll be keeping the girls unpainted until I feel ready to make them Freya and Mirage.

I'm really looking forward to the armour parts for Arad. I almost wish I'd bought a 31F to hang the parts on because I'm actually not that bothered about Arad's paint job.

Nippon-Yasan

Received: wm cheng, Murphy, derex3592, eXis10z, ArchieNov, 20max20, recon, orindlt, Scyla, Smacky, technoblue

Not Yet: no3Ljm, Kinzoku, spacemanoeuvres (x2), funkymonkeyjavajunky, Boobytrap, Tallman (x2), Sanity is Optional, ChaoticYeti, Guyffon, neoexcaliber (x7), rdrunner, raziel03, CharlesXavier (x2), ridgebacks, petrov27, sh9000, Blue Meanie, chyll2, orindlt, sumyumgoy

Refunded: Vortech, psychodynamix (x2, closed my account as well), IXTL, Bahamutzyro

Anime Export

Received: Vortech (x3), neoexcaliber (x3), seti88

Not Yet:

CD Japan

Received: WaferMouse, Slave IV, Mommar (x3)

Not Yet:

Mykombini

Refunded: kanjrig, Kanedas Bike

Random Ebay Seller

Received: 

Not Yet: Sanity is Optional

Loopaza (do you preorder here? Or is this like Madarake/eBay?)

Received: jrhudson311, orindlt, GabrielIV, dizman, Mommar

Unknown vendor

Received: Moosey, Guyffon

8 minutes ago, Shukenzero said:

Did CDJ open this for PO? If so did they come through?

Okay, my last bit on this thread for a while: it seems that myself and other CDJ customers have been the lucky ones. I don't know numbers or quantities or dates, but I haven't seen any major issues for CDJ customers and have seen CDJ customers receive their orders (spanner besides myself, IIRC).

I really hope the issues get resolved somehow so that we can all share the love <3

I think I need to lay off reading this thread for a couple weeks or so. I've already received my 31A, but last night I had a dream that I'd been sent a 27 instead due to some kind of issue, and woke up wondering whether I'd ever receive my actual order. I don't even think it's fair for me to comment whilst the main topic is fulfilment issues.

Could someone ping me if there are any new model announcements or the NY issue gets resolved before the 24th?

Not sure how retail law acts on the international scale, but in the UK at least a retailer has a responsibility to put the customer back in the position that they started in on a broken contract ie. providing a refund in the same manner as they received the funds.

If they've got a lot of POs that will fail it's likely that first-line handlers have been told to offer only credit, but if you dig your heels in you may get a cash refund. Bear in mind that the people that read your emails probably have nothing to do with the cause of the issue, so be as kind as you can.

Again, all the above is just based on my professional experience in the UK, so not sure how relevant it is globally. Caveat is very emptor.

Happy landings.

6 hours ago, seti88 said:

valk tank! 

Thanks for this, I have added this term to my internal lexicon.

Sorry to hear about these issues peeps  It seems as though the 31A has turned from a sure-thing must-buy to a bad memory for lots of you. I feel legitimately fortunate that mine is arriving tomorrow, all being well.

@TrickyCustomer South Yorkshire division reports similar moves from government agencies. We have to assume they are working to reverse engineer proprietary overtechnology components, these are just stalling tactics.

@TrickyCustomer Just so you know, mine's been sat in Coventry customs for about a week, suspect that the weather has them snarled up. Don't know whether that would impact you though on IOM, as I suspect mine's waiting on import fees.

6 hours ago, Mommar said:

CDJapan just got back to me.  Sounds like NY was spot on with their 24th listing.  CDJ said it will be available "on this weekend."  Shipping confirmations to follow soon.

... Now I gotta wonder what's sat in Coventry waiting for me to pay fees :/ I've triple checked this and the email from CDJ said 31A.

Ugh, I hope they don't forget to put my figure aside when they do get the stock since my order's already "fulfilled" 

Hang in there pilots, Hikaru is hogging the elevator.

14 hours ago, Master Dex said:

I get the feeling that one person who said they got a CDJ shipping notice (only one person out of many who haven't) may have been wrong somehow, but no way to be sure unless they speak up again.

Either way, it's a waiting game.

I almost wish I had been wrong at this point, for everyone else's sake, but I'm just waiting for the customs invoice before it arrives. No idea why mine got despatched so early compared to others.