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    VF-0S PF for $1000, or 0D? Wondering since I have a 0D PF I need to sell off (and a non PF). Need to reduce my collection for space reasons.
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    Going to try my luck with a proxy order, which was $300 (pre-shipping) vs the $470 US P-Bandai would have cost after tax+shipping. [Edit] Proxy wasn't able to get an order, so looks like I pay the Bandai USA tax.
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    Lots of us around here, maybe we should do a norcal Macross Convention one of these days?
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    I'll be honest, I'd love one, but it really depends on how much it costs. The fact that you are planning to produce via 3d printing, rather than casting makes me worry a bit about the price. It looks great, and I do hope I can get a set.
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    Matte/gloss, I think it depends on the paint scheme. For the more "racecar" paintjobs, like Delta squadron, and maybe the "hero" VF-27s I can see them with a gloss to go with the hot rod paintjobs. For the grunt paintjob like the VF-171 and VF-31A a matte definitely looks better.
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    Just wondering. Does anyone remember which 31/accessory set came with the missiles in a bag, rather than the tray? Boxing up my figures and putting some up for sale, and for the life of me I can't remember where this pair of missiles from one of my 31s came from.
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    With how poorly the sv-262 was received and sold nobody should be surprised it never got released again. Bandai is risk-averse. I'm just glad that the poor DX reception didn't torpedo the 1/72 model kits (which were much nicer to transform).
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    I have one of the original Threezero Patlabor figures, and it gets an A grade from me. Even has fabric joint covers that look good. Hefty, solid, poseable, gimmicks, hits all the right notes. Only company I've been more impressed with is CCS (specifically their Gurren Lagann, which is amazing)
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    Only though a proxy, but yes. Mercari is just fine, but IIRC they won't ship internationally.
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    Mandarake had one last night for ¥50,000. Looks like it's already been sold though.
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    Mine shipped out as well. Alongside the ocean diorama base.
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    Based on Arcadia's statements, it actually is what they cost, plus what is likely a larger percentage share for the vendor to justify them carrying something that sells slower/ is a higher risk to stock. The curse of being a smaller business: Smaller volume means higher per-unit production costs Smaller company means less bargaining power with stores, less marketing. Lower consumer demand, no "premium" branding due to less well known company All of the above means that vendors want higher profit margins. As a (rectally extracted) example, say a figure sells from Bandai to HLJ at ¥10,000 and HLJ charges ¥12,000, HLJ has a profit margin on the sale of 20%. Being a Bandai toy, it will likely sell well, and HLJ anticipates it won't cost them much in time/storage to make that 20%. A similar toy might cost Arcadia ¥12,000 to make. To get the same profit margin the MSRP would have to be ¥14,400. However, if HLJ expects that it will take 2x as long to sell, and is more of a risk for them to stock, they'll likely want a higher profit margin, say 40% which puts the MSRP at ¥16,800. So the Arcadia one ends up being way more expensive.
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    I don't think it's the cost of the tampo as much as the added cost on the figures makes them real shelf-warmers. Moreso for some valks than others, but who here remembers how long the Max+Milia premiums and the VF-4 premium sat around at HLJ with constant discounts?
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    Saw Yoasobi in San Fransisco, they killed it. Great show, hope they come back!
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    Cool, but going to be stupidly expensive and fixed pose. Always sad to see something I wanted as a figure coming instead as a stature.
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    Looks like a dark chrome (metallic coating, rather than high-gloss black), matte chrome, and smoke clear to my eye. Also some bare metal. Definitely looks better in Battroid, but not biting here either. If it was all the dark chrome I'd go for it.
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    The Macross purchases thread is in the Macross toys subforum. The non-Macross purchases thread is in the "Anime or Science Fiction" subforum, where all the non-macross stuff goes. The old thread is closed and archived. Seems pretty straightforwards to me. The links are just a shortcut to the relevant sections of the forum.
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    https://hasbro.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/hasbro-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2022-financial I suppose more accurate to say the most profitable and only part of the company that's growing is Wizards. More profitable than the "consumer products" division overall, despite only having a third of the net revenue.
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    Literally the only profitable part of the company is Wizards of the Coast, which makes D&D and Magic:The Gathering. The Toy and Board Games divisions are just anchors right now.
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    Is it just me, or does this look super weird with the combination of clear, metallic plastic, and metal coating parts?
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    It depends how "at capacity" their lines are. It could mean just producing less of other things, or could mean adding a 3rd shift, or it could mean shifting some things to different manufacturing lines entirely (like outsourcing the moulding and assembly, which I highly suspect they already do for DX figures given the inconsistency). In the long run, if the business is sustainable, I suspect they will just buy/build new lines to manage the additional production, but we all know Japanese companies are immensely risk averse and I doubt they'd invest the money to do so up front.
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    Woo! Thanks for separating out Macross from non-macross! Other shinies are nice and all, but entire pages of non-macross stuff was a bit much.
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    Overall I agree, except for the fact that increasing production tends to *lower* costs, not raise them. I suspect it's partially that they just decided for MSRP ¥100=$1 (as it was close for quite a while), and partially they're using the extra profit to fund the US distribution specifically. Salaries, US events, advertising, etc.
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    Max Q-Rau is up on HLJ: https://www.hlj.com/1-72-scale-quadran-law-max-movie-version-hsg65886 But not the YF-19 yet.
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    That was an easy one. Maybe the scalpers are leaving HMRs alone now that there are WWM releases.
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