vladykins

I'm tempted to cancel my PO with BBTS and order to grab from HLJ so I don't have to wait three months.

1 hour ago, Mommar said:

Unfortunately for me DHL decided to send the package to Hong Kong instead of directly to the US so I'm stuck waiting longer.  Though, in general, DHL can't seem to get a package to New Mexico in a timely manner anymore, anyway.

Most of my DHL stuff rolls through HK, but ends to move out of there fairly quickly unless it hits customs issues.

@ChristopherB was great to work with. I'll take good care of your HMRs!

Took a fast, terrible pict but just received this from @ChristopherB

My seventh 1A and second GBP 1J, which is earmarked to be customed into the black GBP from "Love Flows By". The 1D is my second and is going to wear the super parts like the old model kit. The VF-4 is my first HMR of these. Deciding what I'm going to do with the extra 1J (I already have a GBP and one getting whacked by the Breetai from MEPTOYS).

Agreed. I've ordered quite a number of things from them and that $4 shipping is hard to say no to. The cost to that is watching everyone else on here receive theirs months ahead of you. I ordered my Eta from BBTS, got anxious for the zeta and picked it up from AE, and went back to BBTS for the iota. I'm not counting on seeing it until December or so.

I had to buy this little guy

On 8/19/2021 at 8:23 AM, sqidd said:

If I could find one for sale.....I'd buy it.

 

Would be a stand out in your Roy collection.

On 8/16/2021 at 8:20 PM, tekering said:

Armored mode isn't terrible, but... the less said about the bikes, the better.  Ugh.

If that oversized Invid was going to happen, I might've bit regardless, but there's no way I'm gonna shell out for these tiny figures that scale with nothing.

I'm a Mospeada whore, but I still have some self-respect, you know?

I have no self-respect. lol

Yeah- the BBTS stuff doesn't list even the guns they show in the pictures, so that doesn't help. But just from running through the pictures, it looks like the Robotech "Scott" doesn't have a Laser Hound but the Mospeada Stig does. Both have the 60mm beam cannon. I'm guessing the Robotech release will have a lot less goodies.

I grabbed one of each (Mospeada and RT) and so expect to have three riding and three in armor mode. I'll mix and match parts, if necessary.

They also seem to be generally more pricey so far ($70-80 + shipping versus $59 shipped) . I preordered the BBTS ones even if they say Robotech on them but have been waiting to get a set of Mospeada ones from Japan. So I'm hoping the Mospeada ones from Japan have extra goodies to justify me paying more.

9 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Craig's bond seems more like he's reacting to the situation around him rather than acting on his own volition. While the other Bonds do react to the events and incidents around them, they also take the initiative to come up with some creative strategy and even counter-plan. Craig's just seems to be a ping pong ball getting knocked around, getting kills only because the opportunity came up and he got lucky.

Combine that with your mention of Craig's rendition being a dumb thug and he just doesn't seem like Bond to me.

At this rate, Ja Rule would be a better fit...

Interestingly, this is actually closer to the novel Bond in a way. Bond definitely gets into situations in the books that he didn't plan on at all. Then he ends up reacting to things and trying to pull something out of it or he gets off a message somewhere and you get the deux ex machina.

And I don't see him as a "dumb thug", but I do see him as flexing that license to kill. Novel Bond, as Seto mentions, hates killing if he doesn't have to. So this is a switch up.

4 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

To be fair, Bond does spend a lot of time in Casino Royale being reactive rather than proactive... though the revenge quest that drives the next few of Craig's Bond movies is about the most un-Bond thing ever.

Except it isn't *really* a revenge thing- that's what it was played out for everyone to think he was focusing on, but the classic line at the end of Quantum of Solace indicates that's never what it was about ("I never left.". I think the DC movies do a better job of using the "rogue 00" theme than some of the prior movies. Probably one of my favorite scenes is in QoS when Bond takes out the guards on him in the hotel, slips back over to M, and then M says "He's my agent and I trust him", quickly followed by Felix helping him in the bar stay just ahead of the US troops gunning for him.

What's funny is Brosnan wanted to be a more gritty Bond but they didn't allow him to. He ended up getting closer to what he wanted to be in The Matador.

Also- Dalton is very underrated as Bond.

Gorgeous.

12 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Eh, yeah... the novel version of James Bond owes a lot to Ian Fleming's own personal views, opinions, and preferences.  I've read a few analyses that argue that Bond is intentionally an awful person in the novels because they were intended as a parody of contemporary spy thrillers, but a lot of the questionable content is the author's own literary soapbox.  From the casual misogyny all the way down the spectrum to the vocal disdain for tea.  Novel Bond was absolutely kind of an arsehole.  The movies toned him down rather a lot, I think.

(Remember, there's less than 20 years separating Ian Fleming and the notoriously racist work of H.P. Lovecraft in terms of what kind of sh*t flew back then... though even at the time Live and Let Die was seen as over the top.)

Oh yeah- I totally know the time period stuff (after all, women couldn't even get their own credit cards and such until the 70s). It's just amazing to be reading along through a spy adventure novel and then it drops something crazy misogynist or racist. H.P.Lovecraft's earlier stuff is often less in comparison (hell, he writes about what he considers white trash people like the "degenerate Catskills people" more than he does other races). It's 20 or 30 years after Lovecraft (and after WWII) and Fleming is throwing out lines like "Oh yes, this club doesn't allow Goldblums or Shaumbergs- we have a no Jew policy". Fleming trying to write from a woman's perspective in The Spy Who Loved Me was very entertaining, though.

I did love the hatred of tea by Bond, only for him to savor it in the novel version of Thunderball when he is stuck at the clinic. And poor novel Felix gets messed up so much and keeps on going.

I have to say in the Craig Bond's, I love Wright as Felix.

I actually like Daniel Craig's Bond,  but Spectre was such a mess of a story that ruined everything the other three films set up (like Mr. White going from the guy from Quantum who keeps slipping away again and again to suddenly he wants Bond's help).

I'm also rereading all the original Fleming novels and damn is there an extreme level of misogyny throughout them. The adventure aspect is a lot of fun but there isn't a book where Bond doesn't mention wanting to hit a woman (usually referred to as "spanking" but it is almost always described as him being angry and not playful).

Picked up this 1980 Games Workshop Doctor Who game- it is unpunched.

41 minutes ago, no3Ljm said:

Thank you sir! 

Hey, as long that you're happy with what you do, then that is all that matters.  

I've seen my paintwork and I'm definitely not happy with it. 🤣

Just now, no3Ljm said:

Hahaha!  I'm good, @vladykins. If someone will do, then super thanks. If not, then my world is not going to end.  

If I get really crazy and buy a second one to make a Virgin Road version, I will definitely hook you up with the fan racer.

The main thing keeping me from doing this is my painting skills suck. 😂

14 hours ago, no3Ljm said:

Ok. I also have no idea what you are talking about now. I know you replied to my post that you guys are not mind readers. And I said you probably didn't read previous pages about the Fan Racer. If you check Page 10, I mentioned the Fan Racer, and pages before that.  

So right now, I'm not sure if we're on the same page. Hehehe.  

 

What's this? Are you wanting a fan racer? You probably should have indicated this to us earlier, multiple times. Maybe sprinkled in a couple times each page.


Also- if all these sarcastic replies hasn't gotten someone to feel bad for you and offer you one of their extra fan racers, I don't know what will.

9 minutes ago, no3Ljm said:

Hahaha! It looks like you're not browsing previous pages about it.  

 

 

We have no idea what you are talking about!?! New phone forum, who dis?

35 minutes ago, no3Ljm said:

Love to help out for those extras. But then, I'm not looking for GBP Armor. I'm looking for the Fan Racer. 

 

Then why didn't you tell us? We're not mind readers!

Mines on the ground at National Airport and being handed off to a DHL driver, so I almost have mine.

Here's 1/60 Hikaru chatting with Max and Milia while waiting for his new fan racer to show up.

9 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

I'm pretty sure businesses get a bulk rate from DHL that puts it far under that (insane) price.

At that cost, it almost sounds better to just fly to Japan and pick it up yourself.    Not that it would actually be cheaper.. just a better investment.

Even if the ticket cost the same, the amount I'd pay on getting more toys toys and attempting to bring those back would make this waaaaay too cost prohibitive.

3 hours ago, markoN1 said:

I paid $345 shipped. Cant find it cheaper.... Don't know what was the initial retail price...

I paid 27800 + 4480 for shipping, so 32,280 (which is currently about $295 total). But that required hitting Anime Export at the right time and such. $345 at this point is not unreasonable.

On 7/25/2021 at 3:22 AM, tekering said:

I think...  Yes, I can just make out a light up ahead...