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2 hours ago, anime52k8 said:

GFFMC Deathscythe looks sexy as hell. give it to me now! (and the remaining 3 please).

Bandai requires your firstborn child, and whatever's left of your soul.

2 hours ago, seti88 said:

oh no bandai found one of my weakness! 😱

but still........Where is MB GP-0anything?!?!

Same here with the Kampfer...I already have the MG, HG, the Robot Spirits, and the 3rd party MoShow one...do I REALLY need another? I think the answer is YES, obviously.

3 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

I wonder how much the shipping cost is going to be directly from Japan? I'm pretty sure what we're going to save between getting it from Japan or US is just somewhere between $20-40.

 

Yeah That's what I'm thinking too...with the size of the box, shipping is probably at least $100 if not more.

6 hours ago, F360 said:

It’s also up for preorder on p-Bandai site USA  .

https://p-bandai.com/us/item/N2606408001001
 

I get that they are hedging on the exchange rate, but 270 USD seems a bit high for pretax price of 26000 yen which is 175 USD. Could probably get it off Mandarake and ship it for less and earlier too. 

27 minutes ago, MacrossJunkie said:

The YF-29 Alto re-issue and the DX VF-1s are still mostly bare plastic. They haven't painted white any areas that were already white plastic. The matte finish is not a coating, but rather how they textured the plastic.

Also check out the "YOU'RE YELLOW!" thread and you can see examples of even grey plastic turning color, like this.

I see, thanks for the clarification! I was not aware the gray could turn...whatever that is.

It's interesting to see Bandai's different approaches, as the Gundam MBs/GFFMCs I collect often have white paint everywhere. Perhaps their consideration with the DX line is the transformation and paint chipping. That being said, they are never consistent...the recent Metal Robot Spirits TR-1 Hazel has a painted body, but then the Hrududu expansion parts for it are bare plastic....so the color mismatches. Weird.

15 hours ago, brouken said:

While I'm a fan of the matte finish, I'm having a hard time justifying getting this considering I have all the Frontier Skull Squadron renewals and their respective super/tornado/armored packs (which MW member wouldn't? Hehe!) Considering also that my Alto has yellowed significantly, I'm afraid to invest in another one which will most likely yellow away too in several years' time. Unless Bandai used a different kind of plastic for this one...

I thought the point of this release is so that the bare plastic is covered with paint, therefore negating the plastic yellowing. At least that's what I like about the YF-29 Alto reissue, and (I think?) what they did with the DX VF-1 releases. But now looking at the WWM VF-25 release, it seems like it's bare plastic with matte coat. Hopefully it is a UV cut matte coat? A Ozma reissue wouldn't have the same issue since the base color is gray, and it's the glossiness that bothers me most.

Is it just me or that Nu Gundam MPT looks all sorts of weird. Maybe I'm just used to seeing the normal one. 

1 hour ago, Chronocidal said:

I'm... torn.  I wouldn't mind getting another pack set, as well as an excuse to get one in a matte finish.

Hmmmmm.  

I mean, they're totally different. Right? Right? 

Will be getting since I don't have an Alto and I hated the bare plastic finish. Hope they redo Ozma even though I have 2 already. 

Do you think they'll re-release armored parts? 

3 hours ago, Sanity is Optional said:

Flings money at screen.

Hope it was paper money and not coins... 

5 minutes ago, 68whiskey said:

That explains the brown box for the hi Nu & dynames but which Evas came in brown boxes ? I know some of them did because I have some boxes for The purple  Eva and Red one.

 

in terms of BBTS shipping . They sent a big box with a small box inside. No bubble wrap between those two. Inside the smaller box was the hi Nu floating around loosely in a bubble wrap sleeve. If I every buy anything from them again I’ll make sure to post pics , I already tore down the bigger box 

I think the EVA 2020 versions came with shipper boxes. Normal releases didn't, at least mine. 

Yeah Hi-Nu as a retail release doesn't have the brown shipper box. My stuff from bbts generally is well packed. Luna Park is notorious for their crappy packing so I will never buy from them seen too many examples to trust them, even after they've taken corrective measures. 

Did Yamato ever do a PF version of the YF-21 or vf-22? Most my valks are in fighter mode so I would get a yammie but I just hate their molded plastic finish... The Bandai YF-19 nails the finish, as did the YF-29 and all their later releases. 

10 hours ago, lechuck said:

I recently got the MB Hi-Nu and I would not subscribe to the notion there are quality issues for the line. If you look into this forum's very own MB thread, then most of the complaining pertains to the usual Bandai pre-order shenanigans, scarcity and of course pricing. There isn't much talk about quality issues or decline thereof.

 

There have definitely been paint issues across the board and with the face markings being slightly off. Their QC has taken a hit and has been reflected by multiple reviewers. One good example is the entire shipment of the MB Red Dragonics had the flight pack lower stabilizer wings all installed inverted so they splay inwards instead of outwards, so Bandai had to do a recall and replace them all, and delaying the entire 2nd batch so they could fix it prior to sending out. 

It's not disastrous, but there definitely is a decline in quality as they struggle to keep things going amongst the still draconic covid lock downs in China. 

2 hours ago, chingu77 said:

Anyone still waiting for MB Hi-NU shipment?

BBTS has theirs in now, just received notification a few days ago. 

On 9/6/2022 at 7:10 PM, grymg said:

This caught my eye this morning at Target!  Pretty random.

Thanks for posting that I found one on Amazon too. So random it's great. Why a 2020 Toyota Supra? Because pineapple salad, that's why. 

1 hour ago, technoblue said:

As long as we’re all speculating, Bandai could be saving this so that its release coincides with the WWM release of Macross Plus on blu-ray. Stranger things have happened…

Seems like a stretch but I'll be happy if it happens. Cmon Bandai just do it already!!! 

9 hours ago, General Rasp said:

 

The pipe dream would be to get the whole Endless Waltz team and Tallgeese III in GFFMC form. That would be a hell of a display shelf. 

Same here, although I already have that in gunpla forrm... Sandrock is the one that's least interesting to me. My guess is Heavyarms comes third, would love Tallgeese 3 after that too. 

15 hours ago, anime52k8 said:

Finally, Deathscythe Hell! I look forward to even more wing suits. I have no idea what is different about the wing zero paint job from the first version. more matte/less metallic?

Yeah looks like matte finish, at least that's what the katakana says. 

12 hours ago, sjr said:

Picked up a bare bones Red Dragon for a good price.

Whats bare bones mean, without the blades? 

I have no idea why they decided to do this stupid design with the front shoulder armor split and attached to the biceps of the SOC RX-93FF Nu Gundam,,,paint scratching waiting to happen. Makes me want to skip this, even if I could get it at reasonable price. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?! (timestamp 10:15)

MB Strike Rouge with Grand Slam up at P-Bandai USA for 275 usd. 

https://p-bandai.com/us/item/N2641787001001

23 minutes ago, weiser21 said:

I think I'll wait for them to sell the Gtand Slam on it's own. Whenever that is.

Seeing their trend of bundling things (hi-nu shield?) likely never? I think a 3rd party version will come out sooner. 

9 hours ago, FAZZ888 said:

I'm seeing constant showcase of the metal structure sazabi out side of Japan like HK, Taiwan, Korea for example.  Seems like a pretty a-hole move especially when they try to limit Japanese retail channels to sell only to local customers, discourage export and having low production run in general. 

Oh well, at this point I don't care. If I can find one for reasonable price great, if not then not gonna stress about it. Hobbies are supposed to be fun. 

Partial hands-on showcasing some gimmicks from the MS Sazabi. From the Taipei Tamashii Nations spot.