DYRL VF-1S

Received another grail today...

Just now, Chronocidal said:

Did they post an actual date for this pre-order nightmare yet, or are we waiting on confirmation?

Bandai hasn't officially announced yet.  So no official pre-order date announced yet. 

I suspect as early as this Monday @ 4:00 PM JST

I'm mostly Hikaru.  I disguised myself as Roy for time in my early 30's living in Miami and pulled that off well.  Buuut, at the end of the day, I'm more of a whiny Hikaru who is talented enough at things to be a team leader but really not genius enough to be a Jenius and gave up being suave like Roy. 

1 minute ago, Tenbatsu said:

The header at the top right corner of the scan mentioned something about option parts...

Will be interesting to see Tamashii's product update.

9 minutes ago, Rogueload said:

Easy solution take out Hikaru from the DX 1J and put them in the 1S with Supers.  What drives me crazy is when people put supers on Hikaru's 1J when he never had those on there in the series.  lol 

haha right?!  I could probably do that.  My OCD would bother me with Focker's name on the canopy though.  I'm cursed I tell ya!

1 hour ago, Rogueload said:

Typical Bandai though.  They release movie version SS parts and now we'll have to wait a while after the TV Roy for TV Supers.  Ugh. 

Yuuuup!  Though as mentioned, Roy didn't use Supers so he'll just stay naked for me.  I think we have @sqidd to thank for buying those damn DYRL Hikarus dressed as Roy!!  It's his fault.  Bandai was like, oh guess we don't need to release DYRL Roy now.

Ugh...Would I be the only one to complain if I said I would've preferred DYRL Roy? I really only wanted one version of Roy and now I'll need to purchase two versions because I simply can't put the DYRL Strike on this one.  But damn that special stand is nice.

41 minutes ago, Anasazi37 said:

Glad to hear that yours made it to Tenso! I received my shipping notification from AE last night. Nothing is showing up in the Japan Post tracking system yet. They're taking their sweet time with my sets, apparently. Maybe they just printed the address label so they could mark the order as shipped, and will actually mail it later, which is straight out of NY's playbook. I'll report back as soon as I have an update.

Haha! I hear ya. The only option to ship was boat, so I made the request for DHL over email. Let you know the total of that if you care to hear.

7 hours ago, Vertex said:

 

That's super news!

 

Yes totally. Thanks!

It's frustrating.  I had an interesting thing happen where I went to PayPal on my 2nd order of SSPs.  It was barely in the PayPal 180 window so I was awarded the refund.  Two months later, NY finally caught up to the dispute and marked my order page as refunded for that order.  However, long story short, I still have 4 SSPs reflecting on order with them and surprisingly I haven't been banned yet.

I don't think there's a method to their madness.  You may want to try anyway @jenius

1 minute ago, Mommar said:

$94.

Sweet jeebus.  Sorry to hear that.  Glad you'll have it in hand soon though!

8 minutes ago, Mommar said:

They upgraded my shipment to UPS.  They might still take 3 to 4 weeks to actually ship, though.

I imagine for a price right?

Just now, jenius said:

Little update from NY:

Boss we have a bunch of Arcadia product here!

That's prepaid stuff right? Just throw it in the back behind all the other stuff we're not shipping out.

Ugh...Yeah that sucks for those that purchased through NY.  I did mine with HLJ and while it is like ~$40 more than NY's listing, I'll be able to get FedEx or DHL.  Guess it's a tradeoff.

Little update 16 hours ago from Mr K:  "We plan to ship VF-0D PF this week."  (via Google Translate)

Anyone interested on the AE update:  My missiles were delivered to Tenso so it's all good.  Looking forward to @Anasazi37's update, and if he has no issues then we'll know what address format to use.  Mine obviously created hiccups even though it eventually got delivered. 

Likewise, shout out to @jvmacross for quick payment and easy transaction! Good people.

1 hour ago, sqidd said:

Well crap. I've tried talking them into sourcing me some of those lights alreday. They act like I'm asking for nuclear launch codes. You would think that after buying $6000+ in cabinets from them they would put the extra effort in.

Thanks for the reply.

We just went under contract for a new build and the wifey wants me to get rid of this retail case. I said that’s fine but then I need to get one that holds this amount to replace it. So, she says get one that is vertical. I’m like cool. Hold my beer. Gonna cost us a grand. I’ll build a 1/48 DX DYRL Squad in there with this Delta likely.

Update: I found a VE-1. Should arrive on Monday. Still in search for a VT-1.

36 minutes ago, Vertex said:

I think it will still make it there. The person delivering may scratch there head for a sec seeing the "Cho" - ward subsection listed after the block #(42) and building number #(4) but should still make sense of it all.

Cool! I’ll post an update here when I have one. For future reference, I’ll use the Rakuten Global format on Tenso.

1 hour ago, Anasazi37 said:

It's just going from one part of Tokyo to another, so my best guess is that the local post office is trying to deal with the translated address.

At first I attempted to use my address in Japanese, but as you also discovered, AE's site doesn't like that. I then translated the address as best I could, but was worried about accuracy. I also found that of the three fields AE gives you for a street address, only the first and third are functional (text in the second one gets wiped out when you save the entry). So, I landed on using the Rakuten Global Market version, which was already translated by Tenso and could fit in the first Address field. I also combined city and prefecture in the City field. This is what mine looks like:

Address: TSXXXXXX tenso.com, 42-4, Senjyuakebono-cho

City: Adachi-ku, Tokyo

Country: Japan

Zip Code: 120-0023

Cool... good to know for future. 
 

Mine reads like this:

Address: 42-4 Senju Akebonocho, Adachi Ward

TSxxxxxx Tenso.com

City: Tokyo

 Country: Japan

 Zip Code: 120-0023 

3 minutes ago, F360 said:

They are probably doing a final check on restrictions shipping to your country . 

It shouldn’t be that because I sent it to my Tenso addy so it’s destination is in-country.

3 minutes ago, Grey728 said:

LOL! Probably wrote 'Strike Pack" on the outside of the package.. Sounds dangerous! We better be safe and blow up that package with explosives!

 Right?! lol

 My thought is that the address is somehow wrong or misspelled. AE didn’t accept the kanji or katakana for me when changing addresses so I had to do it in English. Were you able to do it in Japanese @Anasazi37?

HA! Guess I’ll find out soon enough

Mine shipped last night and made it to the correct ward, but it’s showing “investigation” now so I have no clue what that means. They sent it Yu-pack

Ditto. Though I used the AJ format and it made me do it in English. We shall seeeee!

22 minutes ago, sidearmsalpha said:

Haven't posted anything in years but I wanted to know if anyone else has had trouble getting their order filled for the DX VF-1S from Nippon-Yasan? I put in a pre-order a year ago for it and the Strike Parts for the November release which came and went. When I contacted them in December, I was told that I had to wait for the reissue of the Strike Parts in April. Well, that came and went and I've heard nothing from them. I even ordered the HMR VF-4G in October and I have not received a shipping notification on that either. I sent them inquiries a couple days ago but they haven't responded. I'm starting to worry that I'm going to get screwed on both these orders. 

More specifically, if you purchased them together, that's your culprit.  The SSPs are the delay.  They weren't available till the end of April and NY doesn't split orders - they only ship once everything is in stock.  Unfortunately, if you selected SAL or in a location where EMS is not delivered, then NY is simply not delivering but holding your stuff due to Japan Post suspending shipments from COVID.

5 minutes ago, treatment said:

Just to be consistent with their standard nickel-n-dime strategy from across their toy/model lines, Bandai will most likely and gladly offer the Black Jolly Roger heatshield as a TWE/PBandai standalone add-on for at least 5000y...

 

HA - right?!!  And I'd be stupid enough to buy it.