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Woke up at 4 am for this and went though pages of shock and disappointment from the majority of folks here.  This is a bit depressing, but I though "what the heck, give it a shot"..................  ......................  ................................................. 

My ticket ( what a crock or excrement) was up on N-Y and................... no VF-1A Max in their Macross page.

AE still hasn't listed it either.

23 minutes ago, VF-Zer0S said:

I’m still debating on this. I’m real picky about owning multiple Valks in the same scale. I planned on only getting Hikaru Valks but these pictures are killing me lol. Someone tell me I don’t need it haha

You DON'T NEED it... but you know you WANT it with every fiber of your being. 

Well, I picked up my second copy, purchased with CDJ, at the post office today and I'm happy to report this one has no issues... at least not upon first inspection.

^Why, yes; they did.

@jenius is absolutely right.  Although I personally happen to think that both Toynami's recent figures and MEP's efforts are sub par in design and execution, and fall rather flat in the "likeness to character" department, they are leagues beyond the old Harmony Gold/Mathbox abominations; to claim, even tangentially, that they are the same, similar, or not a significant improvement, in any way is pure hyperbole and entirely inaccurate.  I get the dislike and dismissal, but lets be honest and give credit where credit is due even if we chose not to support the line(s).

^ And telling someone whose opinion (one entirely based on the actions and reactions of Lucas Films and Disney) differs from your own to "kindly" frakk off, just because you happen to like the excrement sandwiches the House of Mouse has been feeding you, isn't beyond utterly childish???...... ooookayyyy then...

Pot meet Kettle.  Carry on.

Star Trek III may catch a lot of flak for a lot of its elements and execution, specially anything related to scenes taking place on the --incredibly fake looking -- surface of the Genesis planet.  However, that movie is a treasure trove of new, iconic designs that have not only stood the test of time and have had broad appeal to fans young and old, but have never been bested, IMO, by anything that has come later... matched?... sure, but never outdone.  The art department in charge of ships designs and the model makers who built them  were at the top of their game (The Merchantman, Klingon BoP, U.S.S. Grissom, U.S.S Excelsior, Spacedock, even the Clydesdale Shuttle) in what is the best of the odd numbered TMP era movies.

The thing with the Spacedock design is that it's so majestic in its simplicity, making it timeless, and Eaglemoss did an excellent job on their rendition of it.  Now I wish that they'll hurry up and make an Orbital Office Complex/Regula One Space Station as well, and maybe even Jupiter Station too.

The problem with prototypes that depict something in this late stage of development, as we've seen all too often with many items of our interest (cough... ET's VF-2SS... cough), is that any design flaws or wonky proportions are set in stone... well, steel, actually.

MW is like an Alcoholics Anonymous Group.... where the members meet not to preach sobriety, but encourage others to give into pure hedonistic indulgence... and I love that!

So, drink up!  

3 hours ago, CrossAir said:

Mine took off from NY today. So only a few more days to go. Patience is so damn boring!

Consider it a test of character.  Patience is a virtue... a laborious and excruciatingly boring and frustrating virtue.

^ Yes!.. bad, bad, bad.  Consider yourself on double secret probation.  Now slap yourself on the wrist and go sit in the corner to reflect upon what you did...  

I got slightly Bandai-ed on the copy I received from Amazon.jp.  Whoever the sleep-deprived line monkey who assembled my VF-4 was, he/she/it used two right main body missiles (the ones that swing up from the main fuselage) so that the right side missile sits flush in the down position, but the left side, because the strut is reversed, sits about 1 mm proud of its intended recess; in the great scheme of things, it's a minor thing, but it is still frustrating because once you notice it you cannot help but be acutely aware of it to the point of it becoming a slight, yet nagging, eyesore... I have to display it showing the right side of the fighter so as to keep the "offending" side out of sight.  This may be something I could, perhaps, address by disassembling the fuselage, cutting the strut, turning it 180^o and cementing it back so that the erroneous right missile's strut's curvature mimics what a correct left strut would've been and give it the correct orientation.  I think, however, that I'll wait until I have my copy from CDJ, and it that is perfect, I may just display the gimpy one in battroid, where that issue won't matter.  This has had the result of dampening my enthusiasm for this piece considerably.

Got my Amazon.jp copy today as well.  That was fast!

Shipping notices received from CDJ and Amazon.jp, today; of course AJP's will arrive shortly, while CDJ's will take several weeks.

6 hours ago, Shizuka the Cat said:

No longer available.

It's available again; I was just able to place an order that came to $120.42 shipped EMS since its fulfilled by AMAZON.  Grab'em while they're in stock.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B07K1L79XQ/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

It looks better than Prince of Persia The Sands of Time...

You really had to dig deep to come up with a "positive" spin on the L A Aladdin, didn't you?... 

^ Well, my original post did state "less than 4 hours to go..." 

I'm positive there will be other similar opportunities in the not too distant future; Easter more than likely.

For anyone who may be interested, Eaglemoss' Web Shop is extending a limited time (less than 4 hours to go as of this post) 20% discount on all in-stock items with no minimums and no restrictions, with free standard shipping within the continental US for amounts over $60.00.  Use code MARDIGRAS in the appropriate field before completing check-out.

Cheers! 

Edit:  MARDIGRAS, not mardigrass

As curious as I am about this GX from a toy engineering and execution point of view, and that's the only reason I'd buy a Voltron figure as it holds no nostalgia, or even aesthetic, appeal to me otherwise, I just can't justify its cost.  I can't remember, but was the original release also retailing, at US e-tailers, for $299.99?

Wow!  He was only 52... that's way too young.

5 hours ago, Killaforevah said:

Anyone knows which US retailers will be carrying this? Other than BBTS

No listings in the following US based e-tailers, yet, but they do carry Bandai GX items and they did sell the original release of Voltron.:

https://www.entertainmentearth.com/

http://www.eknightmedia.com/

I'm sure there are others.

^I'll drink to that! 

Oh bollocks, I got the dreaded apology for 'misleading you with a system error and cancelling your order, that you shouldn't have been able to place except for OUR incompetence... sucks for you' email.  HLJ has certainly gone downhill lately, specially in the wake of their website's horrendously bad and counter-intuitive redesign; they should sue whoever they hired to work on that monstrosity for malpractice and demand their money back.  What a s--t show.