RavenHawk

Add me in on the Exapnse list. Due to a fair amount of reading and writing during the day, I do tend to be in more of a graphical mood at night, so either read some comics/graphic novels/manga in bed or watch streaming movies/shows/anime, but I'm also steadily working my way through reading the Expanse series. Enjoy it thoroughly, but I do tend to go back and forth on how into it I get. There's a huge backlog of purchased books waiting for me to get around to them...

1 hour ago, Kuma Style said:

Gorgeous work, as always (and even better than usual, because of the subject matter).

Everyone remember how Yamato used to do the regular plastic versions (i.e. Priss' Motoslave and the standard Garland) and then would also release more limited "metallic" paint jobs? I think these (especially Yellow's) would look great with that kind of metallic paint.

1 hour ago, Duymon said:

I don't think this PO will move too fast and it should get a decent discount at the usual shops. Should probably be able to nab it for around $250 shipped at current exchange rates.

You're referring to the Legioss, not Yellow, right?

2 hours ago, jenius said:

I mean, they kind of have said that they've designed a Tread by incorporating the attachment pieces. Saying anything else would set them up to anger a lot of people if they ultimately choose not to make it because Legioss sales aren't good enough. "WHERE'S MY TREAD????" Better to imply its existence so you can't be dragged over the coals. 

Stick and Ray had the attachment points for the saddlebags since day one, even though we didn't see them being used until now with Yellow.

38 minutes ago, Ignacio Ocamica said:

A Tread attaching to the Legioss arms is not canon, but could be possible, since this Legioss is a reinterpretation of the original design.

I'm not feeling Sentinel's armo-soldier, I have some issues with the proportions. Cool for all the people that like it though.

4 minutes ago, Mog said:

I actually looked at a ton of lineart of the combined fighter last night, and it’s hard to say one way or another.

You could argue that the Legioss recesses a bit into the Tread’s chest, based on some drawings.

But it would be recessing pretty deep with those attachment points being where they are on the arms/boosters.

Bottom line:  If you’re looking to lock up the combined fighter mode, that’s one of the best places to put a connection/locking point.

IF the Tread is in play, I’m curious to see what improvements Sentinel can pull off in the design.

My concern with locking into the arms is that it then requires the arm ratchets to be really tight to give enough support... unless they still ALSO have the standard locking in from underneath the fighter, as other companies have done. We haven't seen the bottom of this fighter yet, but I assume that any potential TLEAD will lock in from the top AND bottom, with probably one of those two locations being where you slide the fighter into position, and then the other point has a lock on a double hinge or something similar to then fold into position.

Might want to post in the most recently active thread:

Started about the various toys coming out, but conversations about the Kickstarter too.

Seems like their list of "unresponsive" projects keeps growing. Well, their list of projects that, when people ask for updates, they are unresponsive about...

17 minutes ago, 505thAirborne said:

I'll be living vicariously through you guys on this one, 28,000 yen is a bit steep for me at this point. 

But damn if that Legioss doesn't look amazing. 

My collection is centered around bikes, so I've been doing the 2 of each of the ride armors (fortunately the gf has no idea how much these things cost, or I'd be getting some dirty looks). I was planning on skipping the Legioss... but who am I kidding? It's MOSPEADA, and it's Sentinel (all good experiences with their products so far), so I think I'll get the one blue Legioss, and be done with it.

28,000 yen is a lot of money, though may not be unreasonable for this product. Still, I think you'll see less folks doing multiples, or even one of each color, than with products that manage to stay under the 20,000 yen line.

5 minutes ago, ArchieNov said:

That is not a new stand. That's been around for years now with their bigger figures. I first got one of those with their Re:Edit Hulkbuster.

Fair enough. Thanks. I'd never seen it before.

Two Nihei new releases came in the mail today. Looking forward to re-reading Sidonia in the larger format, and checking out this adaptation of the Blame! anime.

I have to say, the Blame! The Electrofishers' Escape is more substantial than I was expecting. For the price, I'm pleasantly surprised.

1 minute ago, no3Ljm said:

They need to show more under shot. I'm scared to know how big the head is going to be.

This just sounds so wrong...

Looks like Sentinel finally had to design a new stand.

I dig it... but, honestly, the prototype kind of looked better to me...

1 minute ago, jenius said:

Part of it is probably the display price including tax and that tax being dropped when it's in your cart.

Thanks

All I see on Amazon.jp is the original Amazon price and then AmiAmi selling for their regular price as an Amazon reseller.

Anyone know what shipping comes out to (preferably for 2) from HS?

3 minutes ago, no3Ljm said:

To be honest, at the beginning I tried to preorder 2 from them before. In which I cancelled when the Japanese store posted theirs weeks after since I find ordering from them for 2 bikes is atleast $20-30 cheaper. And that's a big thing.

From BBTS if you order 2 bikes, your total is $402. Whereas at HLJ since they have Ley's bike in stock I can check their shipping options. For EMS, it will be Y41490 ($372.16*). For FedEx Economy, it's Y42050 ($377.18*). And for DHL Express, it will be Y42980 ($385.52*). And this is a good reference if ever I decided to place an order with them again for Yellow's bike. And assuming that it will stay in that Y19000 price range as Ley's.

That makes sense, and I agree that that is a significant difference.

From what I remember from the last time that I was shopping around (and I may be misremembering), it was when I was preordering Ray and when I was preordering the Arcadia Garland, more or less around the same time and getting two of each. I ended up going with HLJ on the two Garlands, since I think it saved me like $40 or so. I ended up going with BBTS for the two Rays, since I think it only cost me like $5 or so more but I felt more comfortable with them resolving any issues I might have with defective products, if it ever came up (as happened once years ago).

For now, I preordered from BBTS since I have a few other things in my pile of loot that should be coming out right around the same time (fingers crossed), but I'll cancel if one of the other sites offers a significant discount.

48 minutes ago, no3Ljm said:

I think it's more practical to order abroad if you're planning on getting atleast 2. It's why I'm still waiting to see the prices abroad before I decided on getting it at BBTS.

 

I don't know that that's always the case. If you order one from BBTS, you pay $4 shipping. If you order 2 or more, you're still only paying the $4 shipping. The Japanese sites (in my admittedly limited experience) rarely had the shipping price not go up as you added more items.

3 minutes ago, Bobby said:

Yes, Volumes 0 - 3 and as a fan I can highly recommend all three of them! That was a tremendous guess you made btw!

Thanks! So, I guess I should just suck it up and pay the fees to get them through an agent.

Just now, sh9000 said:

It was my first time going inside a Walmart since many years ago and I didn’t find much that was good.  I saw these but ultimately passed.

I just can't see how that price is justified. I would think $29.97 (using Walmart's pricing scheme), and then getting discounted from there.

2 minutes ago, Bobby said:

That is correct, the concept/design was featured in Festival Times and referred to as: Lost Possibility Megazone 23 – Special Contents: Concept of New Megazone. It's from c. 2008 and planning at the time: Keisuke Hirota and the mechanical design: R-AREA.

It features:

The Crossline Garland (has wheels for feet)

Army Garland GR-II (featured in above post but in army green vs. traditional colors)

Strike Garland (blue and white version with armor parts)

Garland 1+1 (unique 2-seater garland)

Moto Flagger (an updated flagger that looks like a Madox-01 flying head that turns into a motorcycle)

Sport Garland (looks like a crotch-rocket, think Kawaskai Ninja meets MZ23)

Maneuver Slave B-Type (updated Hargun from pt. I)

Maneuver Slave A-Type (updated Hargun from pt. II)

Maneuver Slave C-Type (maybe updated Hargun pt. III ?)

Special Ghost Harland (highly stylized VF-27 lucifer-like: plane/quadruped/robot)

Mystery Garland (looks like a cross from Maximilian from Black Hole and a re-imagined cylon)

Good to know those pics are from that. Thanks.

I've been trying to get my hands on this one, plus the two more after it (it was listed on the cover as Vol. 0, and I came across auctions for Vol. 1 and 2).

Nice find, daBlah!

Can anyone translate any of the text? I'm curious what they're from, since they look better than the typical deviantart fan stuff. I wonder if they're from one of the 3 Festival Times MZ23 books (been wanting to get my hands on them, but can't quite justify the costs of using an intermediary to get them through Yahoo Japan Auctions, on the occasions when they show up).

I've been legitimately impressed by the fight choreography.

30 minutes ago, Sildani said:

If the UK HG Macross license expires in July... and Titan is a UK publisher... what then?

I did not recall that the UK license was separate from HG's other licensing timelines.

It really has less to do with ownership of the company, and more to do with where the material is made, distributed, and sold. In the case of Titan, their books that I own are all printed in China (I was surprised by that, to be honest). So, HG could still have Titan make the books, just potentially not be able to distribute them in the UK (if that earlier license termination is correct). The interesting thing is that all this stuff is digital, too. I assume that a UK account could not purchase the books on Comixology after July.

No Arcadia updates lately, so thought I'd share this. Popped up in one of those Pinterest "We found these pins that you might like" emails tonight.

It's tough when you only have one piece of artwork to trace