Syro

5 minutes ago, borgified said:

Tip: They are going to ask you to log in again. So you might get cut off from completing your order. 

Sorry... if you don't mind could I ask- how does one go about unlocking their card and dodge the possible order block?

10 minutes ago, Chewie said:

And I totally forgot to unlock my card for amiami. haha.

Is something special required for AmiAmi other than entering you CC info?

3 minutes ago, burnout6 said:

fyi. Amazon JP has the SSP for 12238yen shipped. Only 4 left as of this post 

Link

 

I got one. Thank you sir 

I put in a support ticket with NY and they got back to me last night saying their strike parts are delayed 2 weeks so they were not able to ship out at once but they can send them to me by UPS once they get the shipment (I asked if I could upgrade due to EMS not shipping).

Got my "December is now April" email from NY for the strike parts. Never ordering from them again.  

59 minutes ago, sqidd said:

Oh, I'll be posting pics.

 

Have you seen the Transformers episode of The Toys That Made Us?

No  but now I need to watch that

5 hours ago, sqidd said:

As soon as I get S&S parts for the 1S DX's I'm sending two to him to get worked. One as a Focker and one as a G1 JetFire.

Please post pictures especially of the one with the jetfire paint job 

Edit: I just watched a video on why Jetfire was a Valk this year. The history of Macross/Robotech and merch is crazy!

4 hours ago, Convectuoso said:

3D printed Jim (Lunk) to display with the CMs figures. Not perfect, but I like it.

Hah that's cool!

4 hours ago, Slave IV said:

If they were giving me a box with two DX VF-1's, they can wake me anytime!

Right? Who's would be less than ecstatic when someone finds and returns their $200+ imported figure??? Who knows... maybe it was for the lady of the house.

9 hours ago, sqidd said:

We've been talking about the postal service and their lack of quality. Funny one happened today. I was pulling out of my court and the mail carrier was pulling in. She waved me down because she had a package for me. I signed for it, got in the truck and went to run errands for a few hours. I wondered what it was because as far as I knew I wasn't expecting anything today. I got back home, cracked the box open and saw a VF-1S. Well, I have two more coming so that wasn't odd. What was odd was there was a VF-1J under it. I thought the seller shipped two valks by mistake. Checked the tracking number against my spreadsheet and I had nothing that matched. Then I looked at the name. Same first name, different last name. Different address just down the street. How bonkers is it that there is another Macross collector right down the street with the same first name? And I'm the one who got his package. Since I knew what I was looking at I ran it down to his house, and he was home, so that was easy. I think I woke him up when I rang the bell, he seemed a bit out of it so I split without striking up a conversation in case he needed to be sleeping. I didn't even think to see if he posted here. Maybe he will see this and chime in.

That's crazy. I don't even know anyone else IRL besides my best friend from way back in second grade who was a big fan of Macross.  Nice work!

15 minutes ago, F360 said:

Even if the address  label is unreadable , their internal system will still show who delivered and to where along with the time of the delivery.  The station can ask the courier who did the delivery if he recall where he might have mis delivered.

if they say the signature is waived it’s very possible that when he was delivering to a business bulk stop , he accidentally scan and delivered your package to them .

So much better than the 80-90s  i really thought i was screwed

1 hour ago, sqidd said:

A bunch of people use Tenso. 

I have my first shipment coming from Tenso right now. I already have tracking through USPS. I don't think the driver needs to be able to read the address. Just the tracking number.

My driver was telling me yesterday that their new hand scanners have a GPS in them now and it alerts them if they're delivering a package to the wrong address. I would think with that level of sophistication they don't need to read labels anymore (aside from the tracking number).

 

Yeah someone from the post office called me about the case at lunch (and yes they can track the exact gps location). It was at the neighbors 

4 minutes ago, sqidd said:

Postal/Gooberment workers.

Gotcha... I think the issue is Japanese shippers may not use be using standard fonts and for OCR software it can have trouble reading anything but the main common 12.  Man this sucks but maybe I can get them to switch to something readable by the USPS scanners and help others down the line. 

2 minutes ago, sqidd said:

And some think it's a good idea to put these people in charge of heath care.........

first thing i though was ... is he talking about Japanese people??? WTF!  LOL 

After cancelling my VF-1S at NY and reordering and using Tenso, I just got a delivered notification that says I signed for it this morning 

When I called the USPS they said that signature was listed as waived (not by me) and the address was unreadable so they didn't have it in their system. They opened a case for it. 

1 hour ago, magicsp00n said:

It's a bit of a balancing act.

In case it's not clear (the instructions don't say anything about the stand) you remove the claw and shove the peg into a hole on the bike. It's a tight fit.

Thank you! 

2 hours ago, magicsp00n said:

Quick shot. Tough to get dynamic poses in armor mode.

Could you show how you have the stands holding the ride armor from behind? I am not feeling confident in the stand and mine kept trying to drunk dive.

I also kept having the right arms pop off and with the cloth in the way while in ride armor its frustrating as heck to get it back in (other parts pop off)

2 hours ago, adugifever said:

Any one know what DHL Express "Shipment on hold" means? It's been moving quickly until this status. It already cleared customs hub in Cincinnati, OH and is currently being held in Orlando, FL since 7:30 am Friday. 

Call DHL Customer support and give them your tracking number and ask what the hold means. Might be nothing, or might need something. 

26 minutes ago, RavenHawk said:

Heads up, all: The windshield is BARELY supported in there, but is retained by a thin enough piece where, if not aligned perfectly when transforming, the tab holding it in breaks off.

Supergluing now...

Mine snapped on barely touching it. I'm looking at this break and that looks weird. Thinking about contacting Sentinel

8 hours ago, sqidd said:

I just placed my first order that is getting shipped to Tenso. Man I hope I filled all that stuff out right!

Hah right? I spent like 45 minutes matching my address to what they said to enter and then checking their "what it should look like" and also translating the individual fields. After it shipped it took about a day and a half for it to show up in my tenso account and then i paid immediately and that was friday at 4 PM Japan time. Shipping EMS fastest plus insurance plus Tenso's fee was $45. Im saving almost 100 cancelling my NY order plus getting it in the next few days instead of whenever the f%%k they get stock in the distant future lol

Ive never transformed ride armor before, and I am stuck on the arms. Hopefully jenius or someone posts a video soon.  My god every time i try and connect to the forearm 1 of like 6 different things pops off 

Amazon delivered early

7 hours ago, sqidd said:

Can you go through From Japan and have them source from Amazon? I'm not thrilled with the auction thing.

I don't really like auction sites. You can order off Amazon Japan when they don't ship internationally if you use a forwarding service like Tenso which will provide you with an address in Japan in order to catch your orders and then they notify you and you select how to process/forward to your home address here. Their site advertises for Buyee but when I tried to make an account for Buyee it had an error immediately after I provided my credit card info and wouldn't allow me to login. I had to put in a ticket to have my account fixed which took 2 weeks. Yeah- no thanks buyee.

3 hours ago, seti88 said:

He added more pics..

 

That looks great