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On 5/3/2025 at 7:11 PM, electric indigo said:

The Glaugs are coming in:

 

Needs music.

Likewise with @GGemini! A very understanding seller!

Update: Show-Z is now saying the stickers won't be included in the stock shipped to the USA.

I'm guessing the tampos being removed will hold true, but I guess the implication is now is whether the box will make it through.

3 hours ago, jenius said:

Is the new version up for pre-order?

Yes.

So, apparently the restock of the Fugu will remove the Macross-specific tampos, and include Jetfire-specific stickers now.

Hopefully those stickers will be available separately from buying another copy of the whole figure.

15 hours ago, Apok451 said:

So I my employer decided to recognize me for 20 years of service, which they valued at $10 a year.

Yikes.

I remember when a company would give someone something made of gold, like a watch.

Well, I don't remember, but I remember plenty of TV and films that had shown that.

Back in "the before times".

Yeah, not defending the pricing which is a LOT more than Mandarake when they have it. Still, aside form how old it is and that it's new, there are few decent TV version SDF-1 iterations after Takatoku (I still think this is too small, and not even on par with WHAM's DYRL one).

You also have to wonder if the uptick is also due to the increased SDF-1 talk of the DYRL reissue from Arcadia. Nin-Nin taking advantage of that as well.

6 hours ago, Apok451 said:

I'm still salty about getting an opened box that was sold as new with the damn antenna missing.  I hope the person that did that poops their pants in a very public setting.

Always tell Amazon. They will make it right.

For those looking for a restock on this, it may just be one piece, but listed as new:

https://www.nin-nin-game.com/en/macross/16635-the-super-dimension-fortress-macross-sdf-1-macross-tv-ver-megahouse-en.html

1 hour ago, sjoebarry said:

I don’t want it but I may just get it at that price 

You may be in luck then, as it's no longer available at that price.

EDIT: Actually, $220.83 now. Let's see where that goes.

1 hour ago, Chronocidal said:

I'm almost tempted to pick up a third, that's about $15 lower now than I paid for my copy from HLJ at release.  

 

Too late. Amazon has it for $325.58 now.

Galactic Toys on there has it for $254, but I think they always do.

Yeah, was notified when it hit $215 a couple days ago. Dropped to $213 today. If it drops below $200, I think they will clear a lot out.

PM sent.

4 hours ago, jenius said:

Is anyone having a problem getting to anime export right now? When I try to go there very suspicious things happen. One time it instantly switched to a "congratulations" banner that was then replaced by something telling me to download something. Another time it looked like it took me to a captcha related site telling me I needed to enable cookies. I just closed the browser since none of that is what I'm used to at anime-export. 

42 minutes ago, Froy said:

Getting this like a 1 or 2 secs after home screens changes to a "something is wrong with cookies" message

 

Seems to be working now...unfortunately.

21 hours ago, Shawn said:

The forced EMS only option is going to hurt. EMS is often 2x (or more) the price of Fedex or other services.
This was a package I had shipped 2 weeks ago for example.
Guess I'm going to be going on the slow boat on the next round!!

Some of us do surface by default to begin with. Hell, I'd take a tramp steamer to Japan. 😆

Speaking of seamail, I wish the USPS didn't retire surface going out. Saved a few I knew some money sending them things.

55 minutes ago, Big s said:

I’ve been hearing that if the shipper is sending individual orders for less than $800, then it’s exempt. I don’t know how that works or if it does at all. They’re saying that if you order from a store or warehouse and it’s under that amount, then no tariff, but if someone like an American store that orders in bulk would have to pay. 
I don’t want to be spreading misinformation, but just that there seems to be some alternate versions of what’s allowed and what isn’t.

39 minutes ago, jenius said:

That was usually the case but the latest announcement dropped the de minimis exemption because they're so paranoid of companies working around the tariffs creatively.

That's been my understanding as well.

39 minutes ago, jenius said:

Of course, none of us know what the final shape of any of this will look like so hopefully things like that exception are brought back swiftly and we can all go about our collecting with a sigh of relief.  

Well, it supposedly increased further as of a few hours ago. It's now 245%.

3 hours ago, Big s said:

That’s something I wasn’t really sure about. I wasn’t sure if they’re looking for where something is shipped from or where it’s manufactured, I haven’t heard anything really talking about that

From what I've read, it's pretty clear. If the product says Made In China on the box, it gets the China tariff wherever it's being shipped from.

What someone else essentially raised was what if a Japanese shipper lies or refuses to declare place of manufacture on the customs label, and whether someone might open a package to check that or not.

Well, that's like shipping cocaine through customs. You never know what would prompt someone to randomly pull your package, but last I heard dogs couldn't sniff out Guangdong. If the shipper is caught lying about place of manufacture, I believe they will be penalized, though, and more likely than not a lot of their packages would be pulled going forward.

24 minutes ago, Big s said:

So I’d guess that it wouldn’t be too bad to get an hmr...

Not sure if there’s an odd loophole that allows them to ship somewhere else that would end up showing the country of origin as somewhere different...

Last I checked, if the HMR says it's Made in China, it gets tariffed as coming from China even if shipped from Japan.

45 minutes ago, grogall said:

Nope, Same box and markings as the release in November 2024!

Just pulled mine, and you're right. Same.

The angle of the photo above and the glare made me think the edges of the spot varnish looked like stickers slapped on, and it's not.

On 4/5/2025 at 5:23 PM, vt102 said:

I came across a Tamashii Nations pop up store. Picked up the J. Missed out when it first came out, and the re release last year. 

Is that box different now? I have to look at mine, but those stickers look new to me.

2 hours ago, sh9000 said:

https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1292806254

Yamato 1/3000 SDF-1.

That costs more than the 2nd Arcadia reissue.

6 hours ago, vladykins said:

A-E has always delivered for me. NY and the like? Not so much. But never had any issue with A-E.

Same, until they did. On my last order customer service initially refused an exchange for damaged (before shipping) merch, and then finally sent another damaged one to replace it. Tried to get me to pay for shipping too, which I declined  When I asked for third try or refund, they issued refund short of their fees. Literally nickel and diming not to make things right. Took too many emails to get to where I was before I ordered. Never again.

I hope these upgrades happen, and carry over to the GLAUG as well.

3 hours ago, vladykins said:

AE was $264 if I paid now. Shipping isn't in yet, but it will have to be big to make that difference.

I once succumbed to A-E's pricing. Their customer service ended that.

6 hours ago, davidwhangchoi said:

came back East Coast to switch storage units and dig through my stuff:

missing in the picture is half of my collection, VF-1 DX stuff  in the other unit being moved over...

 

"I'll bid $20 on this unit"

Whew.