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That's probably going to be the case, or like the YF-29 Full Set Pack. Bandai is pretty good at packing things tight when they really want to. The smaller the better, cheaper shipping and easier to hide from your s/o lol.

He skipped leg day. Although in comparison modern valks like the vf-31 are anorexic.

It's a custom build commission using the 1/72 Hasegawa kit as a base, made by professional modeler for the Dengeki Hobby magazine...you see the process in the spreads after.

Big hands have positive correlation to big...

Never used them before, how are their shipping costs? That price is reasonable.

@Angesdad Nin-Nin has been very reliable for me, I've gotten 7-8 orders through them the past 5 years and they've always come through. They get a bit pricey in the later rounds and there's that Paypal foreign exchange fee nonsense mentioned earlier that can't be avoided but they have been reliable for me.

I've tried, the option to change currency isn't there for some reason.

It seems so, usually through PayPal you can change to pay in local currency but that option isn't there. Adds about 16 dollars or so to the final price.

I'm still refreshing my HLJ cart that has one in it lol in case one drops

I looked at their price for the Metal Build Crossbone Full Cloth, and it didn't seem very friendly compared to what I paid for it from P-Bandai. Will be curious to know though, it seems it's a reliable site for TF folks. And now that I think of it, their price included shipping, so maybe it wasn't that bad. With P-Bandai I have to wait an extra month or so after release in Japan since it makes it way on boat to US for distribution.

Same here...was trying to figure out. Usually I have the option of paying in local currency since I have a credit card that doesn't charge foreign exchange fees, but somehow that option isn't there.

Got one at Nin Nin, albeit at the "raised" price. Oh well, peace of mind. I might sell my two standalone GBP sets to fund this lol...That way I'll still have a naked 1J and a GBP to display.

Yup, 347.46 now...

HLJ hung at the paypal payment page for me of all places...the final step!

Eh, got HobbySearch and HLJ into cart but both died on me afterwards....welp. Oh well I got the armor set on PO, so at least I have backup. Will piskup the combo if I see it for a good price elsewhere.

Some sellers were able /willing to ship to US, at least in my case. It was generally available for about a week afterwards.

I remember Roy 1S was offered on Amazon. JP by some sellers afterwards. I got my second copy that way. Here's hoping for the same here.

They'll probably reissue it in another color scheme like Max or Roy.

Hehehe you did call it. Now to make some stock market predictions!!

They just raised it to 160 and opened it up again...

Yeah I got my strike pack through them as well.

Came here to post the link from Kurama Toys too... I preordered through them as well. Just so I don't have to stay up to 3am kind of madness, getting too old for that lol. Still might try to snag a combo set.

Man I have to say I really really dig the Roy color scheme...olive green makes it soooo military. Max's blue is too bright and oversaturated for me, but I guess ace pilot plot armor can be flashy?

Good point, also if we're being real technical the colors show up differently on your monitors depending on how color calibrated it is...so pictures can be misleading, particularly digital ones. I don't have confidence in Bandai to nail colors, just see the recent release of the Metal Build F91 Chronicle White Ver....They should have called it Chronicle Yellow! All the promo images had it as a cooler white, but the real thing looks like...the same kinda yellowing you see on your aged valks due to UV. They pre-aged it for us! No worries about displaying it in sunlight now!

That's ridiculous... You weren't able to dispute with your credit card company? Something similar happened to me with an eBay preorder, the release date was past 6 months so no way to dispute and seller just gave me the runaround. Learned my lesson after that. At least it was just $130 or so.