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7 minutes ago, mickyg said:

Just need to look at the frontier release schedule to see if there's any pattern we can glean from that. Did the movie(s) come out before all the tv variants had been released? Seems like the CF VF-25 wasn't released till after the movie but perhaps I'm mistaken. 

The terrible version 1 DX Chogokins came out before the movies. All the Renewal versions came out after the movies.

Very nice custom Ingrams. Hybrid of the anime and live action versions.

https://twitter.com/inu_g12/status/901781869187891200

https://twitter.com/t_features/status/898816993909907456

https://twitter.com/t_features/status/898815616370356225

16 minutes ago, Sandman said:

I expected Arad to be released dec but that appears not be happening. I'm okay with that as there is a ton of other stuff to get till dec.

Seeing how the pre-order for Mirage's 31 went up five months (Apr) before the release date (Sep), I think we may be a bit late for a Dec DX release.

But then again, it was only 3 months between pre-order (Jan) and release (Apr) for Messer's, so it may still be possible.

Tamashii Webshop Exclusive Robot Tamashii Ingram Unit 3 (TV Ver.)

http://p-bandai.jp/item/item-1000116816/

New series Patlabor EZY

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-06-14/pluto-anime-new-patlabor-ezy-anime-series-projects-revealed/.117465

http://hobby.dengeki.com/news/390638/

10 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

I think some of what people are put off by falls into the "you should know this already" category, since they've been selling Bandai's exclusive super packs for a long time, and never seemed to have trouble before.  If the extra money had been asked for up front, no one would have blinked an eye.  It's just the "Sorry, we were wrong, and need more money to get you the thing you already paid for" factor.

The problem may lie with Bandai reporting incorrect weights or volume for them, or maybe there's just more metal in these than was expected.  Could even be market fluctuations devaluing the amount already paid.  Actually that makes me wonder.  For people who got asked to pay extra, how many of them paid their original order ahead of time?  Did anyone who paid right at the deadline get asked for more?

Everyone that pre-ordered paid immediately. NY no longer has a pay later option for pre-orders of exclusive items.

For Tamashii exclusives, I'd actually prefer to order them directly and use a forwarding service to ship it rather than go through shops like NY. I do use NY from time to time but I'd rather not since I don't like their shady business practices.

Problem is, the Tamashii Web Store doesn't accept foreign credit cards so one would need to use a proxy buying service and the additional fees for that can be quite high.

NY will request more money for shipping when the item turns out to be larger or heavier than expected but when it ends up being smaller/lighter, don't expect them to refund the difference.

Definitely not an honest business but I guess when there's savings to be had overall and when they offer exclusive items, they will still have customers.

Finally got hit by NY's additional shipping charge for the supers.

Won't be surprised if they end up doing this for the Lildraken set too.

12 minutes ago, MikeRoz said:

 

That -25 is a non-renewal, though, right?

It is the renewal version.

blog.livedoor.jp/tamashii_robot/15681672201717

Pre-order deadline will be on 22 May.