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it's not instant because they don't use an automated system, but they're fairly quick about it. If you send it during business hours they'll get on it almost immediately, otherwise it's next business day (their business hours are noon to like 5 of something local time, Monday through Friday)

Fine, but if you count every single paint variant Yamato does than you have to count all the multiple reissues that Bandai's done over the years. Additionally, it would be unfair to discount all the other Non-Macross transforming toys the two companies have produced, or any product the two have made over the years for that matter. Lessons on how to design a type of joint or what kinds of stresses a type of plastic can handled learned from one toy are still applicable to other unrelated toys, so every product should count towards assessing the level of experience a company has at making toys (Macross related or otherwise). In any event, the claim that Yamato has significantly more experience doing anything design or manufacturing related over bandai is an outright falsehood. As for companies constantly updating there products from run to run, I submit the 1/48 VF-1 with it's increasingly poor finish and part fitment with every version after the 3 or 4th release.

Honestly, Samuel L. Jackson was the only redeeming quality of the movie. But if I really wanted to watch a movie with Samuel L. Jackson and nothing else, I'd just watch Snakes on a Plane.

but dude, their teleportation powers could like, end the world and stuff... because... yeah

that and it's got a totally half-assed tacked on ending. :edit: honestly, it's totally possible it did have a real ending and I just didn't notice. by about the 2/3 mark I had totally stopped caring about the movie anyways. It's just so damn boring.

why should each recolor of the same toy count as a unique release? the only difference between any two VF-1 releases are different paint/plastic color and maybe a new head. there's little to no new tooling or engineering going on between releases (in some cases it's just changing what color they load into the machine that applies the paint.) for the purpose of comparing experience in designing and manufacturing toys, the number of times a company has released the same product with a different coat of paint isn't going to tell you much.

"far more released items" sounds like a little bit of an overstatment... Bandai's release history to date: 1/55 VF-1 1/72 HCM hi-compact (SD) VF-1's 1/65 VF-19 1/65 VF-17 (technically the Banpresto VF-1's count too since Banpresto is owned by bandai) 1/60 DX VF-25 1/60 DX VF-25 1/60 DX quarter 1/100 hi-metal VF-19 1/100 VF-25 and yamato's history: 1/72 YF-19 1/72 YF-21 1/72 VF-11 1/60 v.1 VF-1 1/48 VF-1 1/100 VB-6 1/60 VF-0 1/60 SV-51 1/60 YF-19 1/60 YF-21 1/60 VF-11 1/60 v.2 VF-1 1/2000 SDF-1 that's 11 to 13 in favor of Yamato.

Actually, Bandai has been making transforming Macross mecha since the mid 80's. Yamato only got into Macross in 2000, so technically Bandai's been at it a lot longer...

why, what ever do you mean?

The french are pussies, historically accurate or not, nobody would believe a movie where the a french officer does anything but run away/surrender.

oh boy, is it time to bust out the tin-foil hats?

please post pics, I can't visualize the situation you're describing.

the rainbow coating sucked so Yamato stopped using it. (seriously, it flakes off easily and apparently it was really hard to apply at the factory.) Nobody really misses it.

Official stats or not this makes absolutely no sense. How does the fighter mode demand more energy than the battroid mode? if anything I'd think it should be the other way around. The battroid mode should have huge energy demands do to all the motors needed to make the thing move.

dude, I love the CF color GBP.

thanks for the info, but AmiAmi just got it back in stock. Extra 2,000 yen discount + half off EMS shipping= instant buy.

THANK YOU I also second sunshine for underrated. dark city was awesome damnit

Those other countries don't matter, America is the only important country in the world. (and I find your inability to detect sarcasm is disturbing.)

what the hell?

oh why the heck not...

separated at birth?!?

so, how reliable is anime export? I've been wanting to get a GFFM Unicorn gundam and they're the only one who have it in stock with any kind of discount. I'd rather not wait for when (or if) hobby search or amiami to get it back in stock.

Did he just beat a guy to death with his own arm? WTF?!?!

Man, F*ck SI. SI is the measurement system of pacifists and pinko commies, real men use Real units of measure.