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The feet look different than showz's initial pics. The heels in particular... they're not as high. Showz hasn't post the colored ones to their site yet.

It looks really nice overall!

Wooo nice! I thought i had notifications turned on for this thread and completely forgot about it lol.

I got the MB astray in yesterday and opened the shipping box today (sprayed it down and let it sit for a day). I got the creality 3d cr10v2 in last week and been playing/tinkering around with it since then. 

37 minutes ago, Kanedas Bike said:

Nice.

Link for the stand-alone (Sold Out); https://www.bluefinbrands.com/eva-01-test-type-eva2020-evangelion-bandai-tamashii-nations-metal-build.html

 

 

Would have rather had the stand-alone, could care less about those mini figures. 

-b.

Ahhh wtf there was a standalone?! Okay now im just feeling a bit dumb but at least not so dumb because got the jump on a hair pulling preorder window by going with the bundle days ago lol.

EDIT: damn bluefinbrands trying to catch everyone with the bundle by only providing the bundle link on their media pages (fb, ig, twitter, etc.).

EDIT2: okay not 'so' bummed out about the extra $40.

3 minutes ago, crackpot said:

Trying to get rid of shelf warmers. Lol! The other one is still a PO but the orders received were probably very low.

ahahahaha you're right on that one.
here's the scale just for reference:

At least the two mini figs appear to be poseable. *Yoda* Hrrrrmmmmmmmm really on the fence now about cancelling my order. At least for the $30 difference (NY state tax) I'm getting two poseable mini figs? XD

EDIT: wait... what's the scale on those mini figs?!

EDIT2: wtf!? $50?! Something weird is going on here... >.>
https://www.entertainmentearth.com/product/evangelion-20-you-can-not-advance-eva-unit-9th-angel-evangelion-production-model03-nxedge-style-action-figure/blfbas55695

EDIT3: $35 for the Eva06 from bbts, the going price for eva03 at multiple sites is $50 preorder:
https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/93423

EDIT4: Sooooooo with it being a bundle... I'm guessing they'll ship it all together in another box and not the brown shipper box with the two nxedge style figures on the outside taped to it? XD

EDIT5: Okay as long as the two NXedge figs arent just packing taped to the outside of the brown shipper box of the pbandai MB eva01 movie ed... I'm content with the $30 difference... atm >.>. XD

4 minutes ago, crackpot said:

To encourage people to do their own searches as well. This community and others has its regular members that always help out with the links and put the effort in searching them. I link POs here that go up as well and that's with constant stalking of certain websites or looking at other fora and reposting the info here. It takes effort.

Then, there are some that just wait for it to be done for them. 

Plus I'm cranky today.

Me too... I couldn't sleep T_T.

and my potato of a 3d printer decided to give me a hard time this morning >.>.

33 minutes ago, DYRL VF-1S said:

Annnd you're holding out on where these magical listings are because?.... 

I think he might be referring to proxy services maybe? I could be entirely wrong. With a proxy service shipping (jpn domestic and international), service fees) would probably average about 60$ ontop of the jpn pbandai msrp of 28600 jpnyen (lets say about $265 US). In total that would come out to about what bluefinbrands starting price is $325 (before state tax if this applies to you, for most it does like me $30+ NYstate tax).

Along with their horrible shipping (even with the requested service of padding out and someone like me who doesn't mind paying the extra shipping cost, they still deny) this makes bluefinbrands the less desirable choice. Oh and my example of padding out a shipment was for my $1020 MS Nu which they refused to. The brown shipper box was scuffed up, dented and smushed... thanks to the horrible NY shipping handlers and luckily nothing was damaged. But overall I wouldn't mind giving my money to a service overseas that wouldn't mind padding out my items for a few extra dollars rather than lining their own pockets.

edit: I wouldn't have mind if the shipping cost came up to an additional $50 for my MS Nu... fkn hell I already dished out 1020 >.>. Same logic would apply for this eva 01 mb movie ed. I'm sure if I submit a request they'll bs me and politely say no and my stuff will still arrived fkd. I would probably do a cc chargeback if they denied my request to cancel.

I'm still wondering if the pbandai US site will even put up a listing (seeing as they don't list/never listed any metal builds prior iirc), but hey there's always a first right?

Just out of curiosity has anyone ever cancelled a pre-order with Bluefinbrands before or had any issues?

1 minute ago, Kanedas Bike said:

This? Not to used to looking at the machine translations on the P-Bandai site, I get my news from you all lol.

April 10, 2020: The order of "METAL BUILD Evangelion First Unit [EVA2020]", which started receiving orders today at 16:00 on April 10th, is
scheduled to be re-ordered due to favorable reception. Please wait for the following information for details.

-b.

Ooo thanks. 

55 minutes ago, crackpot said:

 

However, you can wait for P-Bandai Japan to order from and get it with your favorite proxy as it seems there will be another JP PO round. This is based on the rough google translation from the notice on the Eva-01 page.

Where'd you see a 2nd batch announcement?  I checked their page and there's no indication of a 2nd run on the item page (even with the translation).

https://p-bandai.jp/item/item-1000144534/

Damn that is a $picy meatball! Thanks for the link. Been scouting BFB's twitter and fb page the last day cause FJ couldn't pull through on my order T_T. Now I can stop F5'n their twitter and fb pages lol.

*Yea... I got hit with $30 state tax too >.>. Just a bit anxious that they may ship it just as they did with my MS Nu. Brown shipper box with just cardboard corners and fedex shipping labels added to the outside. I even told them I wouldn't mind paying extra for a padded out box and shipping price.

1 hour ago, Sanity is Optional said:

Smell is a big issue, I'm in a condo. I had to set up essentially a fume hood blowing out my window for the printer itself, and it wasn't sufficient. 

Ahh that sucks. I ended up making a booth for my FDM printer primarily for when I print with ABS. There's a 12cm static pressure fan, hepa and carbon filter on it and it does decently well I'd say removes about 90-95% of the smell. I also planned on using it when I get an resin printer too, but I can't provide how efficient it is with that yet lol.

enclosure: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3485510

hepa filter: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1831932

carbon filter: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:663864

My rig:

This isnt the first time bbts has put up an item at a high price only for bluefinbrand to make a listing just a few days later more towards the actual pbandai msrp. The MS Nu Funnel Set, the gffmc Wing Snow White, and a few others iirc. 

Kind of saw a pattern reoccurring here after the 2nd time.*

57 minutes ago, Sanity is Optional said:

I'm not buying any more 3D printing stuff. I already have a anycube photon that I CAN'T USE due to how impossible it is to get isopropyl. Only got to make 1 print on it so far.

I did buy a whole new computer though, so there's that.

Ahh yea IPA is high in demand atm. I wanted a resin 3d SLA (or one of the others) printer but also wanted to wait for a larger volume version. There are new ones out there, but still being beta'd. I can't imagine owning a resin 3d printer and not being able to use it during this time because of supply shortage.

I was helping out with printing ventilator splitters for the hospitals in NYC just in case the apex topped out and there was an emergency shortage, so I put my potato Anet A8 to work. 

16 minutes ago, Sanity is Optional said:

Ugh, the longer the release window drags out, the more I shift from "I can skip this" to "I'll order one if I can", to "I NEEDS IT NOW!"

Ahaha I know the feeling. I think its cause I'm stuck indoors more now that I find myself shopping for things online to keep myself occupied. I just bought myself a creality3d CR-10 V2 with a BL-Touch sensor to replace my three year old Anet A8. I was eyeing the Prusa MK3S last week but the leadtime went from 5-7 days to 4-5 weeks. I'll wait till next month for that one. XD

I guess I'll find out tonight/tomorrow morning if FJ was able to secure an order for me.

9 hours ago, Sanity is Optional said:

Looks like FromJapan managed to secure an order for me.

Anyone still looking: try DeJapan and Zen Market.

If those fail, and you don't mind paying similar price to NY you can try emailing Gentei Kits and seeing if he can get one for you.

Yea... FJ failed me. I put an order in about 3:15am EST opening night (day in jpn 4:15pm) and found out they cancelled my order yet accepted a friend's order who placed nearly 6+ hrs after mine. I paid as soon as the option was available too.

Going to give DJ as try since that's where I have my Nu Funnels.

I can completely see bandai releasing "revised" versions in the future (after they've released one errored ver of each), lol.

Its crack. I even said i didnt want it since i already have the sf soul blue ver.  But saw the hlj link and said "ehh why not?" Lol. If anything itll go to one of my friends that wanted it. I know one is trying to secure an order now and the other is prob sleeping, lol.

Edit: okay back to dorohedoro... XD

5 minutes ago, SuperHobo said:

https://www.hlj.com/metal-build-freedom-gundam-concept-2-bans58058?utm_campaign=My+Figure&utm_medium=JAN&utm_source=My+Figure

 

HLJ up go. 

Wasnt going to bother with the freedom but saw the link as soon as you posted and placed an order lol. Thanks. 

Edit: i was sitting on diablo 3 till 3:01am... rolled into bed and checked the thread... lol XD

wuuuut?! Wasn't the SF Soul Blue Version already the rework of the first release for the SF?

No problem! Sorry I didn't get more involved earlier.

Okay yea thats what I thought regarding the nub, if the outer shell would eventually be cut away.

Ahh okay that makes since about the additional feature near the top and the led switch.

Yea I can see the issue with the geometry now regarding the radius and the top bar/extension.

Yessh. I never ordered from shapeways as of yet, but however I am familiar with their lengthy process. I never read up on their metal printing process. Those variances will definitely be a killer.

Okay I printed up the part. The orginal side fits with no problem. 

The issue with the doubled side is two (maybe three) problems.

1. The distance of the doubled part modeled is too short 

2. There's a little nub (feature) on the outside edge that hits the blue backpiece (preventing it from sitting flush)

3. The little indentation (feature) that is on the original side but is missing on the doubled side? It might be needed when the backpack is fitted onto the qant.