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Pretty sure it varies by country, but I've never waited more than 7 days for any SAL shipment. Au contraire, just because my order shipped with EMS, I had to wait 5 effing weeks for it to clear customs and then pay a handsome fee on top of that. Depending on the country and custom duties, it is a world of difference. If I lived in the US where there's no import tariffs on hobby items, you'd bet I'd use EMS most of the time as well.

Hey all Making a new thread with updates instead of the older one. Lots of new items for sale to scrounge up cash! All figures are as described, mint and complete. Prices do not include shipping. Payment is by paypal only. All items ship from Greece, Europe. Willing to ship the figures loose to save on money if the buyer has that request. My feedback page speaks for itself! New Stuff SOC Asking USD 90 shipped. Paint chip on left paw as seen in pictures. Transformers MP 01B Convoy, complete, perfect condition, USD 110 shipped Henkei USA edition Powerglide--has been panel-lined by me, please check pictures for reference. USD 35 shipped Assorted bots. Deluxes are 5 USD each. Warpath sold, Shockwave sold, Dropkick sold ROTF LEADER Class Megatron--loose complete USD 80 shipped TFTM LEADER Class Premium Megatron--loose, complete, two of his head spikes have snapped off. USD 40 shipped TFMT Leader Class Brawl [green version]--loose, complete, automorph for head is not working properly, has been panel lined USD 60 shipped Energon Omega Supreme--loose, complete 40 USD shipped Transformers Henkei Sunstreaker----opened, mint on card. Some panel lining in robot mode, perfect condition United Tracks---opened, mint on card. No paint splashes on his roof USD 8 for the deluxes, Ironhide is a "junker". Transforms perfectly, is complete bar weapons, but the head and lower arms are from the 07 voyager. USD 4 for him Thundercracker and Scourge sold Hot Toys Hot Toys Berserker, Falconer, Tracker Predators Tracker is perfect, no flaws and complete. Berserker has two sets of blades, one large blade is broken at the tip but will be included. Falconer is missing the shoulder patch that goes where the falcon stand is attached to. His left calf armour came undone and I glued the strap back to the side piece. USD 175 shipped for Tracker, USD 175 shipped for Falconer and USD 185 shipped for Berserker. Thanks for looking!

No confirmation on what the price in JPY will be on the bundle, right?

90.000 yen? Or 9000 yen? 'cause if it was 90000 yen I'm crying right now...

7 is not as awful as it's made out to be. I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. Instead of the old-school pop songs of the SDFM, it has an upbeat J-Rock beat in it. And instead of having a separate heroine for it, the main character is the one that does the singing. And if you do follow the story there's quite a good reason why singing prevails in fighting against those aliens.

Bumping up...no interest in transformable figures?

Besides an actual comparison in weight, height, mass and materials, for which we'll have to wait for the VF171 to be released... My guess is that Bandai's is cheaper because they have the economical power, as a company, to do so. Their high-end products are almost always cheaper than the respective high end items of other companies just because they can manufacture much more. I'm not sure how this goes with the fact that all their preorders are sold out without everybody getting one, but at least in the past, that was the case. Yamato is a much smaller company in comparison and possibly pumps out far less units per release, which drives the cost up.

Having watched the entirety of M7, he never really did anything besides episodes 44-45 and the ending battle. Miria saw a little more action throughout the series, yet her VF22S did not transform at all in the series [it only did so on the other special episodes]. Can only speak for myself, but if I have cash when they're available, I'm only getting Max's 1J. No real interest in Miria's.

One of the reasons the [toy] VF1J Max was so popular among fans was that there weren't many other iterations of his valkyries. Yamato's 1/60 got his LONG awaited TV1A, DYRL1S, the standart DYRL 1A and THEN the 1J, so people were more or less drowned by his valkyries at that point. Moreover, Max doesn't appear to be as popular in Japan as he is in the US territory, judging by his roles in DYRL and M7....

BUMPING again due to traffic in the forum. ANY takers?

BUMPING UP. Just saw that Daimos [sOC] is getting a re-issue that costs 224 USD...so even with shipping added, 150 USD does look like a fine deal!

Hey all! ----------Would prefer bumping my old thread but it's gone...--------------------- Uploading most of my leftover Henkei and classics figures. Will post more in the upcoming days. All figures are as described, mint and complete. Prices do not include shipping. Payment is by paypal only. All items ship from Greece, Europe. Willing to ship the figures loose to save on money if the buyer has that request. My feedback page speaks for itself! Henkei Releases Henkei Ratchet & Ironhide--both dead mint and complete with packaging. Ratchet appears to be missing his weapon, it's in the vehicle mode storage area. USD 70 each or best offer RATCHET SOLD Classics Ramjet. Dead mint and complete. USD 45 Generations Dirge and Windcharger. Both mint and complete. USD 9 for Dirge and USD 13 for Windcharger. Been informed that Dirge is a FIRST edition without the white triangle printing on the decepticon logo on his chest. Henkei Starscream--USD 60---------SOLD Henkei Prowl--------USD 35 Please note that Prowl's chrome weapons are included, they're just on the underside of the cars in the packaging Prowl has been panel lined in robot mode and has his two feet switched around for stability. Robot mode pictures coming up 2010 G2 Tokyo exclusive Dreadwing\Smokejumper----USD 70 SOLD Henkei USA edition Powerglide--has been panel-lined by me, please check pictures for reference. USD 45 shipped DR Crank and Heavy Labour--both are mint with tight joints. Heavy Labour also has the extra shovel for Exgraver. Heavy Labour suffers from the problems with his legs but poses fine. USD 100 each shipped or USD 180 for the pair Henkei Mirage. Perfect condition. Has been panel lined on robot mode legs and arms. USD 65 SOLD DOTM Deluxe Soundwave [hasbro version] and Voyager Shockwave. Shockwave is loose, Soundwave comes with everything. USD 24 shipped for Shockwave. Soundwave's SOLD. SOC Daimos---EVERYTHING included, complete, has a few transformations on his back and has been stored boxed for over 8 months. USD 150 Remember, all items ship from Greece, Europe! Not trading at the moment because I'd much rather have cash on hand than another figure, sorry to all. Thanks for looking! Will update with more SOC next time

I don't know, young collectors will be skeptical of unloading close to 300 USD on a toy. Seeing as there's constant re-issues, re-releases and v2.0 of many figures, I think that the market is hanging pretty nicely onto the respective collectors...

Probably a VF25 Michael's model...

Yeah, it's not like I'm arguing for the sake of arguing, it's because we both have valid and good points I can understand the price increase in relation to, say, the VF1 V2.0 to the VF22S to the VF17D. First of all, all three are not the same size, the VF1 has a lot, lot more uses and recolours in and it's the RX-78 Gundam of the macross fame. The 22S is quite bigger and while I don't have the 17S on hand, it's big, more complex than the 22S [meaning more parts] and has die-cast on the internals. So I can see the (sudden) increase in retail. Most of us, including myself, a European, use the dollar in our exchanges and while items have grown more expensive due to the yen, the final price we're quoted in USD does not realistically reflect that raise because the exchange rate is so screwed up. If the exchange rate was more favourable then the price hike wouldn't put that much of a dent in our wallet. Paying 130 usd when I used to be paying around 90 for the same amount in Yen is not cool... Nevertheless, it's a tough time to be a collector, or an importer to be more precise.

Sure thing, Revoltech in general has gotten more expensive, Hot toys figures have gotten more expensive, but this thread was specifically about Yamato valkyries and it still stands pretty clear that people quote USD prices, along with the exchange rate, for things that are sold in Yen. 1/48 cost around 14.000 yen before any japanese taxes, non bundled 1/60 v2.0 cost 9800 yen. Across most toy companies I'm getting products from, I specifically find Yamato to be much better off in the case of product received in analogy to money spent and raises across the board. Hasbro went against the rising costs of oil [since we're talking about a US product and no yen relation to the final consumer] with downsizing the figures and essentially compromising their quality. Hot toys went with a big FU to the rising costs versus compromise and basically upped their retail prices by 40-50 USD. Bandai decided to do whatever they want and produce only one-two SOC per year, make smaller SOC specs and have half of them be online exclusives, and drastically decrease their production line put out.

While I do get what you're saying about oil and you're correct, the retail price for Japanese figures hasn't risen that much, and you're quoting USD prices for products sold in Yen. As I've said at the top of the thread, retail price [in yen] for, say, the VF19S isn't that much higher than the retail price for the YF21 with fastpacks. But the exchange rate back then was far more favourable to the dollar than it is now. The price of oil has to do with the figures getting smaller, since retailers [at the US, primarily] refuse to buy the figures for a price higher than what they do now, so [hasbro] toy companies have to make do with essentially reduced budget sold at the same price point as before.

Graham, any chance for the purple spiritia gun the VF17 and Dokker's VF19S used towards the end of the show being included with the fastpacks OR the VF17D???

Bandai's valkyries retail from 14000 to 18000 yen, actually cheaper than Yamato's offerings bar the VF1. It's just that they are so limited AND reissues are scarcer than before AND the dollar is weak compared to the yen AND there's people hogging some of them BECAUSE some others are willing to pay BAD EXCHANGE RATE+SHIPPING FROM JAPAN TO US AND AGAIN WITHIN THE US + PROFIT to the actual seller. Again, the actual japanese prices aren't bad but more than often we're seeing a bad exchange rate coupled with rarity and scalper heaven prices.

As I've said on other forums, it's not Yamato's fault. The difference between them in YEN is minimal. The YF-21 cost like 22200 yen or so back in the day, the newest and most expensive VF17 costs 24000 yen before tax. Understandable difference. The difference in the exchange rate is what kills it for many people, myself included. What used to translate to roughly the same price without one decimal [for example, 10000 yen used to be around 95-100 USD or less] now is much, much worse. Now 10000 yen are around 150 USD!!!! That being said, for the difference in quality, build and size, Yamato has pretty decent raises in retail in the past few years. Compare it to Takara's rise in price with each passing new mould Masterpiece [Grimlock 15000 yen, Rodimus 19000 yen, Convoy 25000 yen] I find the 100-200 yen VERY reasonable. Exchange rates and a weak dollar, my friend.

The S-type variants of the VF19, VF17 and VF1 [TV version] are being reissued. No such thing for the vf22.

If I'm seeing it properly you can place the elbow fillings\guards down since at those poses you're not using the double elbow joint. Plus, the amazing angel voice is sung in a different valkyrie that I'm DYING to have. Overal a fantastic effort and model by Yamato, whichever version you go after.