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3 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

Looks like it's going to be in awhile. They still have bunches of Strikes that needs dressing up. Bottom silhouette is probably going to be the Divine Striker Pack. 

Nevertheless, I'm just glad Bandai made me save some moolah this time around. 

Yeah these are all passes for me too. Hope they release Strike Noir as a regular or P-Bandai soon. Saw it in person and it looks great, but I'm not paying the upsell price for the exclusive. 

On 2/10/2023 at 4:17 AM, no3Ljm said:

I'm sure they honor it. But you also have to understand if they don't fulfill your order as per their 'Restocking' note. Atleast, they will not charge your card until the item comes in stock.  

 

We'll I guess that gives me time to think about if I really want it that much lol. EE is slow but they've always delivered, I've purchased a bunch from them the past couple of years. It was just surprising to see their PO pop up suddenly. 

On 2/11/2023 at 8:00 AM, FAZZ888 said:

Picked up my first Sazabi today, it is now sitting in the office waiting for a good time for me to contraband it home.  Was chatting with the store owner on upcoming stuff; apparently the re-release of metal structure Nu Gundam will be a bundle package with the fin funnels, and along side it a significant price increase.  The re-release Nu will also have new markings different than the original.  The sad news is that the standalone fin funnel package re-release is nowhere on the horizon, all production runs of the fin funnels in the factories now are going into the bundle package. 

We'll there's always the 3rd party funnel set. I might get one to to put on the display stand behind the Nu, as I was lucky enough to snag one Bandai set. 

Also, good luck sneaking that thing home, it's the size of a small TV lol. Let us know if you survive. 

12 hours ago, Grey728 said:

https://www.entertainmentearth.com/product/mobile-suit-gundam-chars-counterattack-msn04-sazabi-metal-structure-action-figure/blfbas61361

I wonder if they can really honor? Unless they have a big batch coming in. 

On 2/1/2023 at 11:27 PM, Test_Pilot_2 said:

Holy balls.

That's like what, 40 grand right there lol. 

13 hours ago, Scyla said:

edit:] What I found really fascinating in Hacchaka’s review was the notion that the Sazabi in maintenance mode looks like the Nightingale, which has to be on purpose.

The joke is, once they put the Sazabi into maintenance mode they couldn't transform it back, so they just decided to turn it into the Nightingale and call it an upgrade XD

17 hours ago, Chunky001 said:

Fixed it for you^^^^

The Super Dimensional Grammar Police exists in all timelines! 

10 hours ago, Scyla said:

That is a neat set. Love the gatling gun. Need more Strike Gundams to display them all. 
I really wished Bandai would add a more dynamic arm for the display stand to put the flyers into more dynamic looking positions.

Just checked anime-export and the GN Arms Type-E is already sold out. I didn’t expect that. 

P-Bandai JP is doing a 2nd round of po on the GN Arms so either its selling well or a lot of scalpers...

Agreed the MB stands could really use an update 

On 11/23/2022 at 5:09 AM, Sanity is Optional said:

 

Nope, just an extension that modifies the header (ModHeader) to report I'm coming from a Japanese IP. No proxy required.

Do you send it to a forwarding service then? 

14 hours ago, Anasazi37 said:

The only 171 that I have is the CF (agree with you on the color scheme) and I've never transformed it because I'm worried about exploding triangles.

Agreed, same here. It's a great color scheme. Mine is forever in fighter mode. 

2 hours ago, F360 said:

I try to resist , but woke up in the middle of the night and preordered.  

Same here lol. The website was jammed but eventually got through. 

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.