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35 minutes ago, Sanity is Optional said:

Wow, even at almost double initial price, they're sold out.

I knew it was going to be a high-demand kit, but dayum.

It's ridiculous. I just checked ebay the average going price is about $150 with shipping included, some higher some lower. One japan seller has a price match ($115 with ship) pretty much with BBTS' price before state tax and the $6 ship.

The kicker is... it's still available through p-bandai japan at msrp for a fourth batch release date of march 2022. I'm guessing proxies ran out of allotment or people can't find friends/sources to help proxy through p-bandai.jp.

EDIT* I just remembered ebay charges tax now too, lol.

7 minutes ago, Mommar said:

Super freaking expensive but here's a secondary option for the Fluegel.

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/172472

It's sold out.

11 hours ago, anime52k8 said:

~$120 is a good price and I'd be down, but the places that aren't sold out are listing it for $190+ rn and that's a nope for me.

 

 

Yea going for the first batches of 3rd parties (same be said about official company) to beat later demand prices can be risky because you wouldn't know the quality. 

9 hours ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

That's good to hear, I'll do some browsing and give it a shot.  The redesign is very cool, like anime52k8 said, it's so far removed from the original MS it was based on.

Ya the design is very. The original design needs a lot of help, lol.

41 minutes ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

Anyone else getting this?

Supposedly, it's Zero Gravity's version of the Forbidden Gundam, and it builds like Bandai's Hi Resolution kits.  I just thought it was instantly cool because it's in Nu colors and wields a scythe.

I got it when it initially dropped iirc about $115 shipped. The prices have since gone up because of crazy demand and people have been flipping them.

It's a great build! Yes it's similar to a Hi-Res, but imo better. The inner frame alone is appx 3/4 diecast whereas a Hi-Res is like 1/5th at most. The backpack takes about as long if not just a tad longer than the frame (because of the pre-built).
Mecha Gaikotsu did a great review of it, so did Zaku Aurelius

Oh and MG does note about the flaws of the kit. You cannot complete dual scythes because one will be missing the blue outer frame parts for it (ZG only provides one set. Yet two beam effects, one diecast scythe handle and two plastic scythe handles).
Oh yea and don't look up the custom color variations builders have done... most of them will just make you want the kit more, lol.

16 minutes ago, no3Ljm said:

Would be nice if some company like MoShow would tackle it and make it as 1/72. 

Daban's doing a complete diecast figures now?

My initial reaction was how come the figure is too small for its backpack flight unit? Only to realize he was kneeling on it.  

 

Not a complete figure, but an MS Nu in kit form from what I've heard.

1 hour ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

Or a ballsy KO company that will give it decent articulation.

I heard rumor was that Daban was working on a KO MS Nu, but dunno about improving its articulation. Also probably minimal/none/or less diescast than the actual MS Nu.

5 minutes ago, anime52k8 said:

one) evil black repaint Astrea is pretty hot and I kinda want one.

two) giving it Dyames weapons is such a cruel tease.

That would be hot. Was funny too because I was just thinking about the same then saw your reply. I told myself don't look up pics of the two for comparison. It'd just make me want them both more, lol.

3 minutes ago, anime52k8 said:

hey, I also want my color swap and new head Eva-00

AHAHAHAH... lol. Bandai and their bandaid rehashing schemes. XD

6 minutes ago, Grey728 said:

I still find it a bit funny that we get upset over a color swap and head change on anything else other than transformers or Macross. Everything else is a money grab!! 

XD

Count taken from: https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Metal_Build#Regular
I may have missed some? but did my best to manually count them form the categories...

Seems like they were all p-bandaid.

EDIT OMG missed the first two under regular release, don't know how I f'd that up. I was wondering why I was looking at the list and thought to myself 'wth why'd bandai start with transam as the first release? that dont seem right...' LOL. So it looks like 10 variations so far, not including this 'X' version (11 now):

Regular
2013 Exia repair 3 
2013 Exia repair 2

Exclusive
2014 trans am exia
2014 avalanche exia
2014 avalanche exia (weapon plus pack), included are the option parts which could be purchased separately
2018 10th anniversary edition exia
2018 astrea type-f (gn heavy weapon set), not included(?) Avalung option set
2019 astrea + proto gn high mega launcher
2020 astrea high maneuver test pack
2020 exia repair 4

2 minutes ago, Grey728 said:

Christ.. another Astraea.. I bet they'll come out with exclusive avalanche/weapons pack for this one as well at the same or higher cost than the figure itself.. Anyone know just how many variants of this thing there are?

Not enough! LOL:

37 minutes ago, mantisfists said:

Don't know how many metal heads we have on here, but one of the great ones passed.  Slipknot was one of the huge reasons I got back into metal and Joey's drumming in particular was a main factor in that.  He'd left the band a while ago, but his influence helped bring about a whole new generation of great metal bands and drummers.  Godspeed, my brotha.  That's one hell of a jam session you're gonna have up (or down) there.

I heard... they said he passed in his sleep. It's sad and I just don't know what to say other than he was great and will be missed.

13 minutes ago, borgified said:

Guess who got delivered to Secret Base?? 

Pics from Collector's Freak: The Armorer thread. I'll be getting my copy after the first batch has been sent out from Toyswonderland.

 

oh wow that was fast!

Alita: Battle Angel in Blade Runner crossover? XD

1 hour ago, sh9000 said:

Wow! Mondo swinging with the gloves off... XD

3 hours ago, borgified said:

From BBTS - https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/171942

Threezero Storm Shadow PX Cameo version. 

Honestly I like this version more than the previous one. 

 

 

That SS looks nice as hell. I'll probably have to save up for him and hope to score one down the road.

2 hours ago, Kicker773 said:

More Drama I guess… 

Oh wow...!

2 hours ago, borgified said:

 

I'll have to watch this one later.

2 hours ago, Kicker773 said:

I wonder how many people have cancelled orders and request refunds AND if sideshow refunds the customers who paid off their figures. Sideshow will probably no refund the deposits but what would be bad is them either withholding the refund or just issue credit to keep the customers tied to them 🤷‍♂️

From what I've read a good number have cancelled and others who cant afford plan to finish completing their existing orders (to not lose their NRDs) and then contemplate their options later.

1 hour ago, Kicker773 said:

There’s one on eBay of sideshow does not replace it. Kinda expensive though .

Aiyah... thank you very much for looking out! Good news is that the Sideshow rep who assisted me yesterday put a ticket through to their returns/exchange dept and I got a response from them today. Even though it was wayyyy beyond the 30 day coverage window they're going to honor a replacement (2-3wks eta) without the need for me to send the original back. I'm glad that worked out. Worse case scenario was that I would just airbrush over it with my best attempt for a match.

1 hour ago, Kicker773 said:

Nice!

I’d still try and reach out to sideshow and see if they can just send you another chest piece for the 85

Yea it was a long shot, but I contacted SS just before for a part exchange and sent over the pic above and highlighted/circled the indicated area. I only inspected it and for any missing parts when I received it and (under the anticipation of the future headsculpt exchange program) I placed it back in the box immediately. It's been sitting there ever since.

1 hour ago, borgified said:

Amiami does have good stuff for grabs in the 1/6th scale, however I haven't pulled the trigger on it yet (plus DHL shipping to Canada is going to be a killer. EMS is still suspended after the switch over to DHL back in March).

Yea there were a lot more I wanted to get at the time too, but had to resist due to all the anticipated future releases.

58 minutes ago, borgified said:

@Kicker773 and anyone else that's planning to chop all ties to SS.

This post from the link I gave earlier - Do what you got to do.

 

Ahh geezz... thanks. I started reading the first two pages of that thread and got caught up in other things. I briefly checked the page from my phone earlier and the page count jumped, lol. 

2 minutes ago, Kicker773 said:

85….

and friends…

NICE! Yea I ended up skipping on WarPun, and on the fence about MK47. I got WMMK6 from AmiAmi on a 40%(?) off sale (listed as new, unopened) and used ferry ship at the time. It was double taped on the bottom (opened previously), but upon inspection there was no damage, wear, etc. I couldn't complain for 40% off.

47 minutes ago, Kicker773 said:

On the fourth one they tried. Saying that the blemishes were normal part of the figure and that they are consistent on what they’ve received from hot toys. My response was there is nowhere in the description that it was a “weathered” gold color iron man. So if they were not gonna replace it, I wanted a complete refund and was gonna go to toyswonderland or other company. They sent 4th one after I told them the go ahead and to inspect it before sending it out or I would return it. Long and behold I got a mint one 

Thor is out!! So basically gotta pick up rescue then just wait for hulk and iron Patriot 

Damn I was under quarantine back in Feb when I got my IM MK85 from them with a sratch/blemish on the chest plate. I was going to msg them and go through the hassle but figured I could paint, polish it over myself. The shipper box i got the MK85 in was unopened and I requested a double box. I think it was done at the HT's factory. 

42 minutes ago, Mommar said:

A tweet (assuming we all have twitter) a few hours before posting is not a heads up.

Yes I agree. It's not. I was made aware because I checked mwf and @Sanity is Optional was kind enough to post a reply with info. I then checked twitter, and emails. PBUS sent or I received the email yesterday appx 7:42pm EST (just shy of an hr notice).

PBUS has a horrible notification system and the same thing happened with the RG Eva 01 Night Combat (I missed out on that one completely). PBUS really should at least give a day notice not 1+hr.

21 minutes ago, Kicker773 said:

So these won’t be available for preorder after 7/25? It’s ok if not like it won’t be available anywhere else on release 2023 lol

So basically create a panic to have people pre order something that won’t be here for another 2yrs. 

Yes exactly! Sideshow causing panic and artificial demand for their contract/distribution/license agreement they have with HTs, lol. I guess they're trying to starve the competition lol.

18 minutes ago, Kicker773 said:

What are they pulling specifically? 

Sorry, it's the Exclusive editions (not collectors) they're removing from their site after July 25th. There's a timer countdown when you go to the product and select 'Exclusive'. AFAIK for each of the following:
Iron Strange (Sword)
Armored DeadPool (Arm cannon)
Blackwidow (Taskmaster shield)
Iron Man Mk1 (Metal helmet)
Boba Fett Repaint Armor [both versions with and without throne] (Holo Razor Crest & Holo Fett Slave Ship)

maybe others I missed?

Wow... Sideshow just announced on their livestream that they're pulling the Collector's Edition for the new releases on July 25th for the con. Afterwards only the regular editions will be available.

And... the viewers are spamming the live chat with the Toyswonderland drama, because the big bossy boss boss mentioned something about 'drama' but didn't directly say what it was, LOL.

2 hours ago, anubis20 said:

If the site crashed the way it did last night for these kits, I dont even want to know what getting the DBZ figuarts will be like tomorrow 

Yea it's going to be reallly bad. But for the DBZ figs and what I saw on their stream last week there's a limit of 2 per piece per transaction. So four characters and one base set, meaning 8 total (2 of each) and 2 bases per transaction. IIRC they said the limit per account was 12 or 24 of one particular figure (ie. 12 gokus) before the account hits a limit. So if one buyer wanted 12 gokus they would need to run 6 separate transactions and pay 10$ shipping 6 times, no combined shipping with previous orders. 

2 hours ago, Mommar said:

I didn’t know it was going to be up last night or when.  I had no way to prepare.

Yea bluefinbrand and pbandaius put up a tweet a few hours before listing them on the site. 

6 minutes ago, Sanity is Optional said:

Managed to snag one. 😬

Had to spend a looooong time reloading the pages to snag one, and I had it on cart at 6pm...

Took 10+ minutes to get charged, and never even got a confirmation email (it does show as paid on my account).

Yea same, it was real bad. No confirmation page... only thrown an error page. Checked my pp acct and the charge showed up immediately. The order appeared like 5 minutes later on PBUS. At X:19 was when my email order conf came in.

2 hours ago, sh9000 said:

LOL 🤣🤣🤣☠️☠️☠️

30 minutes ago, anime52k8 said:

jeeze, Tallgeese already sold out. 🥺

 

yea it was a blood bath... its still available for 3rd batch on pbandaijp.