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Strange, I was about to bump this myself a few days ago to ask about something. I just picked up and unboxed Arad's VF-31S recently, and the left wingtip doesn't click into place so it droops a little instead. Was this ever a known issue and is there any sort of fix? I saw like one post deep back in the thread from when it was newish from someone who seemed to have the same problem, but not much else. Anyway, I got it because I just finished convincing myself that based on the timing since the Hayate Revival (and the unfinished Super parts for the original run), Bandai wasn't going to do Revivals of the rest of Delta Flight any time soon. Picked up the last couple I didn't have, and even some extra Super parts to try my hand at customs eventually. And of course, that meant it was even more unlikely that they were going to reissue the 31A any time soon, may as well bite the bullet and grab that too. 34k for a B-grade at Amiami doesn't hurt too bad compared to the reissue price, but still. Anyway, all that to say, now I wouldn't be surprised at all to see all four remaining Revival bundles with supers in the near future. You're welcome, everyone.

Duties, or just regular sales tax? Pretty much everything gets hit for domestic sales tax, whether it's coming by Canada Post or another carrier, while toys and stuff are normally zero extra duty or anything as far as I can tell (unless you were just ordering from the US, then I have no idea what the tariff situation actually is right now). And when you get your sales tax bill, every carrier will charge a brokerage/service fee. Canada Post charges ten bucks, every other carrier is more but if you think DHL's is egregious, try UPS sometime. It seems like DHL's fee will almost always be the minimum threshold amount, which is maybe nine bucks more than Canada Post. If you live near a major CBSA office, you can also file the paperwork yourself and avoid the fee. DHL's up-front actual shipping cost also always seems to be higher than any regular post options, but that's another matter. I've never actually seen a separate up-front handling fee like that, I wonder if it has something to do with the current situation shipping to the US and filing those tariffs specifically.

It seems like Japan Post has not resumed service to Canada yet, there's probably nothing a store can do about it. I've got packages waiting to go out from Amiami too and they're still just held at the warehouse. Japan Post may be waiting until the strike situation is fully ended, since it's sort of still going with rotating strikes even though most deliveries are moving along now.

For the 25 specifically? The way they've been doing Revival bundles, and with the different finish, some people are probably still hoping for new bundles for Ozma's Super, Alto's Armored, and Michael's Tornado. Unfortunately for me, I'm in the camp that's just starting my Frontier collection with the Revivals so all I really want is a full Luca bundle, so they'll probably randomly do another one of those first.

Over a year since the original scheduled release date, about a year and a half since the preorders first opened. I thought that their recent offerings of new preorders like the VF-0 here was a good sign that they were over their production delays and ready to ship these, but I guess not. It's been what, three, going on closer to four years since they've actually released a figure at all?