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15 minutes ago, Syro said:

I put in a support ticket with NY and they got back to me last night saying their strike parts are delayed 2 weeks so they were not able to ship out at once but they can send them to me by UPS once they get the shipment (I asked if I could upgrade due to EMS not shipping).

I submitted a trouble ticket too last week and they offered a shipping upgrade to UPS or a shipping downgrade/refund. I opted for the shipping upgrade to their response, but haven't gotten a response back from them. Their chat was no help. You seem to get more info as they told you the SSP's are delayed 2 weeks - they didn't even tell me this. Ugh, they're a pain now.

I saw the NinNinGame had the SSP's in stock. Tempted to pay extra, but trying not to. NNG has been pretty reliable to me the handful of purchases made.

I'm bummed that NY screwed over my preorder for the SSP. Sheesh, prepaid since June 2019. Just going to have to wait. 

Anyone else has a loose goose tail fin on their 1S Hikaru? 

I picked up my 3 from the post office yesterday. I opened one of them to handle, but checked on the other two to make sure nothing seemed broken. The KO's come in a unlabeled brown box, no logo or anything (unlike the KO Super/Strike Armor which comes with a "Valkyrie Factory" brand brown box). No instructions, and no decal sheet included. All you get is the toy with the accessories. Like other's mentioned, fitment issues in various spots. My hands were reversed, the nose cone plugs rattle, and separating the chest plate to transform from fighter to battroid was quite the pain in the butt. My tail fins transformed fine, and no sign of plastic stress or cracks/breaks. One of the feet did just pop off, and one of the gray cover piece that locks the wrist swivel during transformation came off (can be fixed with glue). The right arm ball joint seems to be a bit tighter to rotate the arm. It's definitely not that bad for a KO. But, if you managed to pre-order at $50 or so, I think it is worth it (flaws and all) IMHO. But at $100+? Not worth it...

1 hour ago, Sandman said:

Hold on. You got 3 for $200? where did you buy yours from? The one i ordered like over an year ago has ended up costing me aprox $152. Honestly too much for a bootleg IMO. 

I ordered mine a year and a 1/2 ago, at the time the seller's shop name was "Valkyrie Factory". He has since changed the name to Pigeon Pawn Shop. He even contacted me a few times via TaoBao chat and talked about Macross. The pre-order price was 390 CNY with a 50 CNY down payment. I went ahead and ordered 3.

To those who ordered via TaoBao or ShowZStore or any other shop, did you guys receive your order yet?

My 3 just hit the overseas shipping warehouse and I just paid the freight which was about $52-ish, for all 3 valkyries. So a little more than $200 for 3, shipped, given that locked in the preorder price of around $50/piece, not too bad. I am hoping these will come in by next week.

These are customer comment pics I found on Taobao, these are not mine.

On 10/10/2018 at 5:29 PM, rdrunner said:

$50 a piece is a fantastic price for a KO. It has gone up from CNY 430 when I ordered to CNY 630 now. 

Yeah, I pre-ordered these when they were being mentioned (a while back). The seller I bought from said they'd be shipping this Month (Oct).

On 10/9/2018 at 2:40 PM, rdrunner said:

I placed an order  for a KO VF-1S on Taobao way back in April, wrongly thinking that they had one in stock.  So today, I chased them one more time and apparently they have now sent it to the overseas distribution center.   I will report back hopefully later this month.

 

Nice! I'm still waiting for mine to be processed and shipped. I ordered 3 of them, at about $50/piece.

Just noticed that Ray was charged and was placed in my HLJ private warehouse. Sweet!

2 hours ago, CharlesXavier said:

Could you share the date you ordered your 31A and how many pcs? This will help us know if it's shipped by order date and/or single piece priority. Thanks =)

I only ordered (1), paid on 10/6/2017.

NY just marked my order shipped now. They're slowly trickling, have hope guys.

Finally... Just saw this right now, they sent it at 2:00am this morning.

Looks like some shipment came in.

Still waiting on NY. They gave me the same reasoning everyone has been getting... :\

29 minutes ago, Tallman said:

Waiting patiently here as well. 

Waiting here too.  pre-ordered on 10/6

4 minutes ago, jvmacross said:

I don't mind adding at least one of these oddball scaled 1/72 PT VF-1's to my collection....would be good to see the improvements over the last 1/72.....so I may bite.....PO anywhere?

KitzConceptz is taking direct PO's. I might bight as well... I've already caved in and got one of their SD VF-1S Roy's. As long as it's not the Toynami crap.

16 hours ago, Killaforevah said:

Cool, thank you. May I ask (assuming you are in the US), how much did the SSP cost, including shipping? I know the KO valk will be going for ~$140 on Ali. I'm trying to get an estimate on how much a KO vf-1+SSP would cost shipped to the US, and see if it's better to just get the arcadia version

1 SSP costs me about $50, including shipping.

I pre-ordered a KO VF-1S when it was announced, going for 390 CNY (roughly $50 USD) + any shipping.

You're almost going to see a set (KO VF1 + KO SSP) for about $100 + shipping.

Shipping can vary. If the seller doesn't ship directly to the customer, they ship it to a warehouse within China. Once it reaches the warehouse, you are contacted by TaoBao when your order is ready to be shipped overseas. They also use Chinapost/EMS, but I've had JCEX/UPS make most of my overseas deliveries.

14 hours ago, Killaforevah said:

I can't seem to find the SSPs in aliexpress. Does anyone know what to search for? I found the vf-1, but it is in pre-order and was suppose to come out in Oct

I don't see the SSP on aliexpress, only on TaoBao. I bought some KO SSP and got them yesterday. Mine seem be fine, and the packs line up straight. The seller I messaged about the 1S says it's *supposed* to be released this month. There was production issues/delays, hence why they never made it out July 2017. We'll see though if it actually gets released.

Thanks for the write up and pics @tekering. NY is still taking their time processing my order... it's been 5 days "preparation is in progress".

On 11/16/2017 at 6:27 PM, eriku said:

Paid and awaiting shipping now. I don't think there has ever been another time when I paid such a high price with such low expectations.

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Shipped! 

I paid for mine too, awaiting shipment.

I'm going to try using SureHold glue first. I haven't transformed the Draken III to battroid yet... I cannot refer to the instructions since I am at work, but are those "C" hooks used in any other transformation mode besides gerwalk?

That's an idea to sand them down. I have tiny magnets I can glue to those sections, put 2 where the pegs were, and put w where the "C" clips are. Or the other thought was to see if I can drill through the piece and install a metal bar of less or equal thickness and replace the plastic pegs.

8 minutes ago, Chronocidal said:

Just out of curiosity, does the toy even need that connection?  I'm just wondering.  I don't have access to mine at the moment, but I'm browsing through the 1/72 model instructions online, and noticing how much simpler and more straightforward the model transformation is, and it doesn't have anything even resembling those clips. 

Granted it's not as sturdy as the DX, but what's shocking to me is how many fewer parts the model seems to use, and how much easier it is to transform.

so far mine is staying in gerwalk w/o it connected. It's gripping on the the piece circled in red here.

1 minute ago, Atheonyirh said:

Oh wow. I was pretty sure that piece WAS made of diecast for some reason.

I wish it were! Ugh, this sucks... It's going to bother me for eternity.

Anyone have this piece break? Ugh! And i was careful too! Could be a production flaw.

I too am looking for the adapter, but shapeways cannot find it