vladykins

1 hour ago, ErikElvis said:

I had a little 96 eclipse gs-t. Fun little car but kicked myself for not getting awd.  And my 2002 Camaro ss with the ls1 was a fun car until a tree ran into me. 

The tree thing sounds like one of those old funny insurance claims:

" The guy was all over the road. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him. "

13 hours ago, Slave IV said:

They are addicting but if you already have the Destroids, that's awesome! You gotta have at least one Valk to go with them so you can see how it goes from there.

Yeah- have the glaug and regult too (but not the missile regults because by the time I spotted them the prices were obscene).

I've talked myself out of this over and over on a space available issue but these stands are amking me go "Maybe I can make some more space".

3 minutes ago, Slave IV said:

Haha, you should get some for sure. BUT...the other Mechs in the line are even better!

Yep- got all the destroids (and waiting patiently for a Tomahawk and Phalanx to have my Monster fire over).

I finally said "frakk it" and ordered a HMR Super Ostrich, since that's one of the schemes I don't have in any scale yet and the fact that the VF-1D was essentially the same price and didn't come with the fast packs sold me to grab this one first.

Now I'm hoping not to start buying a ton and needing to put another shelf up in "Auxiliary Control".

I just want my 1A Max to show up so I can play with it and *then* get excited about future releases.

Shipping says "anyday now".

15 minutes ago, Slave IV said:

I've had my HMR valks posed like that with regular Tamashii stands for years and it's fine. It is finicky and you have to balance it all out, but it works. The other thing is HMR are very durable. I've dropped Valks from over 6' high onto hard floors and parts might come off but they go right back on, no breakages.

You are not making it any easier for me to ignore the HMR valks.

I had absolutely no idea, but as a fellow game collector, now I have to track these down (as well as the Tsukuda Mospeada game I see they did when I started digging in a bit).

On 10/6/2019 at 1:19 PM, Mommar said:

You will not be seeing it soon.  BBTS gets their imports at least a month later.  You'll be seeing yours in January of 2020.

That's me too. I keep telling my wife that all my Kickstarter and preorder crap is all getting knocked back and will probably all come at the same time.

Not sure, but every time I see that pict I want to start buying up HMR valks and stands. I keep telling myself I don't have room to buy another scale (beyond the HMR destroids). But then I keep seeing that VE-1 and tell myself I need it. I almost talked myself into putting my v1 Yammie VE-1 up for sale and switching to these instead. Almost.

6 hours ago, tekering said:

If it had been intended as a joke, it would've been at Tatsunoko's expense, for having to farm the work out to other studios with lower production standards.

Sometimes the mecha was so poorly-rendered, it was practically unrecognizable...  

The new Battlepod Monster: designed to make Zentraedi feel more at home while being shot up.


 

I'd buy it.

Everyday there is no news on finishing up the destroid run I get a little more sad.

20 minutes ago, sqidd said:

A Stealth w/ S&S parts came up on Jungle a few weeks ago. I dragged my feet too long. I'm mad at myself for not pulling the trigger. That is one sweet Va;k you have there brother!

Thanks. I hate hiding the one under the urban camo GBP, but the color scheme worked well together. This is my older picture- I have these on new shelves and readjusted things for when my DX 1A shows any day now- then I'll take a new pict.

I could never get rid of my babies (two VF-1j stealths and a 25th Anniversary). I love the color scheme too much to part with them.

While I am waiting for my DX VF-1A to show up in the mail, my last purchase that I've received is this little Monster:

I'll always have a soft spot for the VF-1 in all it's forms. But other than that it is the Monster.

On 10/13/2019 at 6:42 AM, sqidd said:

A few have commented on basically MISB Valks yellowing "in the closet". I wonder if there is an additional factor other than sunlight that causes yellowing.

-Temp fluctuations?

-Humidity fluctuations?

-Off-gassing from materials near the Valk?

-All of the above?

-None of the above?

Styrofoam absolutely off-gases as it breaks down. "Regular" foam does too. That's why when you get a new car the insides of the windows gets foggy at an accelerated rate. That is the seat foam off-gassing. Add big temp and humidity fluctuations to the mix and the window fogging rate changes.

And as previously mentioned, the plastic is a factor too. I had a Yamato YF-19 that yellowed pretty bad sitting on a wood laminate bookshelf. No direct sunlight and very little sunlight in the room in general. It was there for about 10yrs. Right next to it was a original Gakken Ride armor. That dude is 35yrs old at this point. It hasn't yellowed one bit.

I know that I had a similar issue with some old Gundam toys getting sticky and a bit of research showed that it was the chemical additive that made the plastic more "flexible" breaking down and coming out- it actually was accelerated to an extent by the fact that it couldn't easily evaporate away in the packaging, leading to the toys being more sticky than if exposed to the air. I have wondered if the yellowing might be a similar reaction.