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19 hours ago, ZYZY said:

I tried FJ yesterday and my order was cancelled by them. Got similar case for one of the member here too. Update us if your order get through! 

sadly it didn't went thru, I received as well a cancellation notice .

just ordered one fromJapan , this is my second time using it for a Tamashii Exclusive,  the first one all went smoothly and on time, I hope everything goes smooth for this one as well.

31 minutes ago, Powered Convoy said:

Managed to get a preorder in from Anime Japan Geek. Has anyone used them before?

This is his youtube channel since years,

https://www.youtube.com/@JapanGeek

it lives in Japan and he literally begun first in making youtube videos of showing japanese toys from different stores there, mostly he is a big fan of Saint Seiya and secondly Macross, its youtube channel grow larger and slowly created that website for purchase toys from Japan, from a purchasing point of view it has very good reputation sending their items very well protected around the world, I havent purchase any from him just yet because sometimes it puts a huge markup price in certain items, but I think this time around for this DX is actually a pretty damn good price imo, and Im also thingking about of getting one from him.

9 minutes ago, Lolicon said:

Unfortunately PO madness extends even to web exclusives, because Bandai hates their customers.

will try to get one tomorrow from a proxy from japan site I think, 👆but this comment scares me 😅

11 minutes ago, seti88 said:

wow another DX PO within the same month is a surprise indeed! 

yf-21 DX release in June, and then the VT-1 DX in July!! wallet 

but isn't this one Tamashii Exclusive?, so you will have to pay right away , more chance for savings for june  

13 minutes ago, shazam said:

Two great figures. 🤩 Can you post some photos of Goddess Athena.

thanks, definitely will try to take some more pics when I have the chance  .

received in my mailbox these two today.

will had to wait this time around for the other US retailers  to see which offers the better price, like Amazon, Eknightmedia or entertainment-earth and lastly BBTS, for example the DX YF 19 in Amazon right now the PO is in a discount, at 218 bucks while currently the higher price is at BBTS at 254 dollars, not to mention add CA taxes, I mean is not that bad getting it in the US, for example 37,700 converting into dlls is around 260 dlls, now add the probably 6000 to 7000 yen of shipping , like DHL I always use that method, is like 48 dlls more, so in the end you will end up paying approximately like more than 300 bucks in total, also who knows how volatile the currency will be when this Valk releases it could be less or even higher, so who knows 

9 minutes ago, MKT said:

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.

Thank you so much @MKT, my bad not looking further in this thread😅 , man I was hoping for something different in the box art of this Valk still no problem at all.  

anyone here by any chance have a shot of the new box for this valk?, not for collecting reasons of course 

is being a while this PO still open in AmiAmi releasing the VF-171EX this January , so if someone interested here it is the link:

https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=FIGURE-159118

at least for me I'm really excited for this release , never tried to get one of the old early releases cause the reports of breaking knees or legs issue in nearly every version, I hope this one gets reinforcements in those segments. 

AmiAmi 

HI-METAL R AnestheVF-0A Phoenix (Shin Kudo Use) + QF-2200D-B Ghost "Macross Zero" PO link , still not active:

https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=FIGURE-163071

god damn it really does look like a penguin over its belly😭

Soon to be release a PO for a Soul of Chogokin - Voltron Chogokin 50th Anniversary  , it seems it just the GX-71 but shinier and  more expensive now

1 hour ago, IIymij said:

Return of the bad photoshoper, camera angle is slightly different....

looks like extra spacing near the front nose / sensor

rear rectangle thrusters look shorter?

I really think they definitely change something  ,   there are several details in the nose cone too that appeared more flatten than the older pictures, with the new images it reassembles alot more now to the 1/60 Yamato YF 21 and that's a good thing in my opinion, the first time I saw the early images first thing it come to my mind was the 1/72 chunky design.

Special thanks to @jenius  anymoon.com for this images, awesome website for Macross fans    

1/60 vs 1/72

1/72  vs anime

not sure if it was the angle in past early images or Bandai they really fixed the proportions specially the length of the nose cone of the jet, at least for now this image looks great in my opinion:

maybe in person and holding it  you can feel its quality not sure, but as for now with those pictures that looks like very plasticky and toyish (not desirable for collecting at least for me) not to mention that nonsense price it doesn't make any sense, I would rather look and spend for a blitzway voltron than  this. 

or maybe I will look for one of this instead  

yikes!, now Im regretting PO this figure 😕, I mean the original Riobot releases aren't that old  and already has that  many joints affected?, not cool not cool at all.

not sure where to put it, but since it looks like a transformer so I hope is ok to put it here, it came out of nowhere and it really grab my attention how slick it looks in all three forms , and it seems is made out of quality materials and diecast, let's see how it goes, in the meantime I preorder it a few minutes after checking all the pictures.  

Even thou the below inner part of the jet mode looks like this, it looks way better than Bay Form Starcream jet mode, this looks more aerodynamic  

if someone interested here are the links:

hlj

https://www.hlj.com/trans-age-series-ct-df-01-huntpow-transformable-action-figure-cna26161

AmiAmi

https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail?gcode=FIGURE-161594

hmmm I honestly have no idea what Arcadia is thinking, release this to:  

a) To not lose the Macross License for the VF 1's

b) ran out of ideas

c) easy to manufacture and have a quick cash income.

d) None of the above  , I have no idea 

I have no effing doubt if they release a YF-21 under the Arcadia brand it would sell like crazy, maybe they lost the YF 21 Yamato bluprints or diagrams, just don't know  , still nonetheless I might PO the both of them lol.

PO for the re-release  RIOBOT Genesis Climber Mospeada 1/12 VR-052F are now open if someone is interested , the prices currently in EBAY  for this figure are insane, 

I PO one just for the heck of it and for comparisons once I got the Moshow one   

https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail?gcode=FIGURE-161111  

Nice to see the YF-21 is getting more love, in this case  a model kit 1/100 that soon it will be available for PO and this is from Bandai as well, the POs for the DX YF-21 should closer now, still wouldn't mind if Bandai halt the DX release of the POs so it could fix that goddamn cockpit being so short, I mean just look at this model kit, in my opinion it looks spot on in all their modes, is really head scratching that Bandai is able to deliver this design in a much smaller scale and can't do that in a bigger scale.

This is my first Moshow figure got from AmiAmi today and Im just blown away of the quality of materials, height and heft, had lots of Metal Builds but this one holy hell!, just thinking about what Moshow will do for the Mospeada cyclone it just gives me goosebumps!

On 9/10/2023 at 8:04 PM, PsYcHoDyNaMiX said:

The price on PBUS hurts so much more... $420, lol:
https://p-bandai.com/us/item/N2656309001001

I was looking forward to this MB , now Im not🙃