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2 hours ago, Spark-O-Matic said:

Same here too. once I added up the Regular Roy with Special Color Roy then added shipping I could just buy a nice DX Roy for the total or an Arcadia Version Vs.2 like Jenius pointed out then I'd still have lunch money for the week. they will have to try much harder to get money from me going forward. something cool like Alaska Base or Yellowjackets, the Angel Birds was a good start so still crossing my fingers.

The consensus is they don't have a DYRL license, right? If they had that too, I don't know if I could still keep holding out.

2 hours ago, Spark-O-Matic said:

The DX last month and now this Month has wreaked my wallet too

My wallet is thinner. I'd have loved to own the 21, but just the Hikaru Mechanic and this Ostritch are already killing me. I didn't even *gulp* grab the recent HMR Vermilion releases, and that hurt to miss. If they actually do a DX Elint this year, I might go bankrupt.

1 hour ago, Chronocidal said:

Honestly, the VF-1 isn't that big a plane, about the size of an F-16 I think.  Anything up to about 1/18 would probably be manageable, and would put it in scale with all of those 1/18 planes some companies released years back.

And at that scale, it would work pretty well with 3.75" figures of any style.  

You're talking Matchbox Veritech Fighter size, aren't you? An accurate VF-1S that could accommodate the same figures has always been a subconscious desire. Yeah, I think I would go for that.

1 hour ago, shazam said:

For sure! You can never have enough K-9's. 😁

I love my Dapols, but the Character R/C models in 5" and 1:4 scale are my favorites. Having him chase a cat around and deliver lines at the same time is amazing.

1 hour ago, shazam said:

I am still chasing down the 3rd Doctor from Big Chief Studios. I had this figure on pre-order and it never looked like it would arrive and ended up cancelling.  By the time it did come out there was no money to get one due to other figure purchases. There are a couple of big toy fairs coming up this year where I hope to get one for a reasonable price. Glad you appreciate the Bessie Corgi toy car. Cheers!

https://www.sideshow.com/collectibles/doctor-who-third-doctor-big-chief-studios-905161

I wish you luck. I assume you already know why the figure was cancelled, but just in case you didn't know the full story, it's covered in this thread at a certain point.

https://gallifreybase.com/gb/threads/big-chief-1-6-doctor-who-figures-part-3.234855/page-14

1 hour ago, Spark-O-Matic said:

Not sure it's a big sale when they wanted to charge me $115 shipping for two boxes.  It was only $60 six months ago. Whatever I would be saving from being on sale they are recovering from the increase in shipping. Yeah I could go with the over four months shipping. But a lot could happen to the packages in 4 or 5 months.

Seriously, I know the plastic quality isn't what we'd like, but I'd have taken the dive a few times now what with the variants they have produced but for shipping. I must have added things to a cart over a dozen times just to remind myself how it wasn't worth it.

18 minutes ago, shazam said:

Doctor Who - 4th Doctor Collector's Edition 1/6 Scale Action Figure - Big Chief Studios

 

Nice Corgi Bessie hiding there!

You still have a few K-9s to get. Enough for his own shelf, actually.

2 hours ago, HayateAltoHunter said:

Luna park swindled me out of a pricey piece…my dumb ass let the paypal protection period expire too. I wouldn’t ever use Luna park

What happened?

15 minutes ago, sh9000 said:

I'd be ok if all future DX VF-1 releases were TWE.  They are so much easier to order and knowing that some stores list the item earlier helps.

Nah, I'd love to see them on shelves in US shops one day. I still think that's a worthwhile hope.

51 minutes ago, skullmilitia said:

Luna has always had long windows on things, I think the continue to list more as they can get people to grab orders. The price usually raises with each new batch of listings.

 

that’s how it went with the VF-1D anyway 

They still have it available, too.

5 hours ago, Froy said:

For the first half of the year I'm down to only functioning organs to pay for collecting toys.

Should we ask which organs are still functioning? Or, do you mean ones you still get use out of?

7 minutes ago, grogall said:

Not necessarily, the High Metal R line is still going strong and the released both the VT-1/VE-1 in 2018. I'm sure they planed this for the 40th Anniversary of D.Y.R.L.!

Then it's still the end times for my wallet.

21 minutes ago, grogall said:

So who wants to bet, that shortly after the release of the VT-1 Super Ostrich in July they will hit us with the VE-1 Elintseeker for release in Nov/Dec?

If so, it's a sign of the end times. Might as well max out the AmEx and buy a case if it happens.

27 minutes ago, no3Ljm said:

Can anyone confirm that the listing at Anime-Export is now blank?

https://anime-export.com/index.php?product=76372

I don't remember any of their sold out pages like that. For example: DX YF-21.

I checked My Orders page and it's still there. Hopefully it's still safe.

Yeah, I mentioned it in the Ostritch thread. Seems pulled.

Having said that, they did the same with the Hikaru Mechanic Edition and then put it back up under a different url.

8 minutes ago, betocc said:

Moehime Pay Later available 

 

https://moehime-japantoys.com/shop/plastic-model/chogokin-series/dx-chogokin-vt-1-super-ostrich/

That the lowest price so far?

13 minutes ago, nightmareB4macross said:

Anime export has their PO open.

I just ordered mine.

Go go go!!

Looks pulled down now.

Nin-Nin is US$299.81 shipped to the USA for those yanks who wonder what the total would be.

3 minutes ago, MKT said:

Yeah these days there doesn't seem to be any more complains on plastic bags. But since this is a TWE item, we know the brown box is the shipping box used for JP domestic shipping. It would be prudent to remind LP again during or near release to actually use a proper shipping box for international shipping and not rely on the Bandai brown box alone. 

As I posted above, ordered twice, and both arrived in boxes; not shippers. Didn't need to ask.

Again, maybe I am lucky. Maybe I won't be this time.

1 minute ago, Froy said:

Waiting to nin nin go live in a few minutes

I hope to land one with them

 

I swear their listed price increased since an hour ago.

4 minutes ago, max928 said:

how is luna park with shipping these days?  i had some macross items ordered quite while back and it was shipped in a plastic bag... 

1 minute ago, Chronocidal said:

I think they received a pile of feedback about that, and eventually started using boxes, but my experience ordering one thing from them was a little weird, because they just seemd to forget about it until I reminded them.  

Ordered twice before, and both times arrived safely. The DX VF-1D didn't have a lot of bubble, but enough. The VF-1S Mechanic Edt. had more, but the outer box looked repurposed a bit. Still arrived in immaculate shape.

yoyakunow has it again, actually.

100 pages, and still no one has had a stroke while ordering yet?

I don't have the finances to order at more than one place, so fingers crossed I get the one I ordered. 🫰*gulp*

Actually went with LP again (I feel like I'm playing Russian roulette every time, but I seem to keep winning).

Damn this PO happening so fast after the last. I really wasn't prepared, and might have tried Yoyakunow.

I really hope I don't regret this...

Yay!

On 1/16/2024 at 9:49 AM, Spark-O-Matic said:

I'd like to see a DX 1/48 in an all clear version with a full inner frame all around. Maybe go so far as an Xrayed version of the pilot to go with it.

I'd expect KC to be more adventurous than Bandai on that, but I'd love it. I usually always go for a transparent version of a model if it becomes available.

7 hours ago, sh9000 said:

US and Japanese online stores offer rewards.  Use the rewards to get your Valk at a discount.  The Valk that you purchased earns new rewards.  Repeat.  Pretty simple concept.

That's what I always say. When you deal with retailers like Amazon, and (for other mainstream toys like Transformers, etc) Target, Walmart, etc, there's always a variety of discounts that can be applied either via coupons, cashback sites, credit card offers, giftcard offers, and, sometimes, pricematching. Sadly, Macross has yet to have the same foothold in US retail to make the most of it, but several of these options work for Amazon at least and lessen the pain to one's wallet.