Rabidweezil

I think Bandai needs to be on the MW Blacklist

I don't think it's so much the Bandai shortage that pissed people off, but more the fact that they ended up losing money with paypal fees. I think IShop2Go could have handled that part better. I have been refunded several times by overseas online stores and never have been hit with fees.

I suppose that is true. The biggest screw-over from the IShop2Go debacle was customers losing money from fees after getting refunded. Since Nippon is not collecting payment that won't be the case.

I was digging through an old back-up drive and found this backing card I made a long time ago during a time when Bandai was sellling "Mobile suit in action" figures in US retail stores. I created this in photoshop hoping for a day Macross would get the same opportunity. Anyways, I thought I'd share it once again Card front Card Back

And they have had their orders open for like 3 days now while everyone else closed theirs. Maybe we should put them in contact with IShop2Go so they can find out how well that tactic worked out.

eh, as bad as I want one, paying an extra $70 over retail during a PRE-ORDER window does not sit well with me. As long as people are willing to cough up the extra cash, then I guess I cannot fault businesses for taking advantage of it. However I do applaud places like HLJ, AmiAmi etc that, despite something being a hot item, they generally stick near the retail price anyway. Anyways, it's not a game I am willing to play.

Since it missed it everywhere else, I'm up for a group buy. I just want one VF-25G. Have paypal, will spend

The problem for us in North and South America is the listings are being entered during Japan working hours, which is when most of us are asleep. Maybe we should hire some crack heads that are up all night to keep an eye on websites for us

Nippon shot their price up to $202. That's $67 more then AmiAmi. I'll wait.

I remember when I found Clash of the Bionoids at a video store and rented it. I raced home to watch it and was confused because the voices weren't the same as the ones on Robotech. My Macross knowledge was pretty much zero back then

Yamato has always approached most of their Macross figures with a strange "cloak and dagger" attitude. I say most because while, like the VF-4, they show prototypes and such, others not even a whisper about and then suddenly there it is! I honestly used to hate Graham's cryptic "Yamato is releasing something but I cannot say" comments. I was always thinking, "why the hell not, who are they afraid of?" Of course I realized they keep their stuff a secret because they know if they release early pics, MW members will rip whatever it is apart with multitude of complaints about size, color, gaps, etc, etc

With the exception of Minmay, I thought the Robotech voices were pretty good. And I did not mind the DYRL dub voices that much. Don't care for the ADV Macross dub voices though.

I still have a VHS copy of DYRL Dubbed. And not the edited clash of the bionoids version either, the full version. Not sure why I am still hanging onto it.

Well if I was standing there talking to Mari, and she started talking about her poop, I think I would change the subject too.

Wish Yamato would have made the DYRL Cannon Fodder a slightly different shade of brown to separate it further from the SDFM one. Like the 1/48 cannon fodder perhaps.

you know some poor bastard is going to come home where his mother or wife says how some sucker paid $25 for the "transformer" she found in the closet.

Who the f**** sells Valkyries at a flea market?! That's like...blastphamey!

well that was my only defense for the lack of color on the piece. so now, as an person that is awaiting their fast-packs, I now say, "What the hell Bandai??"

doesn't the 1/72 model kit fast-packs come with the same dull grey crotch piece?

Working on a little project with these things. And since my series boxes are all packed away. Can someone send me large, hi-rez scans of the front of each series box? Not the main big box, but the smaller boxes the actual valks come in. for example, the series 1 box

I"ll try to take some pictures this weekend I have some spares from series 3 buried in storage. Which ones are you looking for?

FINALLY, the search is over! I managed to grab the series 2 secret off of ebay for $24.99. I now have a complete series 1, 2, 3 and 4! hahahahaha...hahaha...haha....ha... ok....so now what?

The collectors code to "buy only one" is more what you'd call a "guideline" then an actual rule....yar

I see we've gone from raging at Bandai to raging at other collectors by calling them greedy and "mentally unstable" for wanting more then one. Very nice Not to burst anyone's misplaced anger-bubble, but someone wanted 3 is just as entitled as someone wanting one.

aggressive...vents?