Bariaburu Faita

When will you be in Japan? I would be willing to show you around Osaka for shopping

They are not easy to get, in quantity. The note on the VF-171 in the picture says that it is limited to 1 per customer, which is not a universal practice but happens often enough for items that are in high demand. Places that sell unlimited numbers of them sold out first. So now places that still have them would be likely to have su ch limits, which limits the number of online resellers can get ahold of. But it is still possible, and Bandai has a established pattern of producing additional production runs of items that are this popular. But it will take time before a production que opens up in a factory, and more time to start a new production run. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. Another possibility is that due to the popularity Bandai may release additional color variations. Im hoping for a green CF.

As of this weekend, I saw the VF-171EX on sale at normal retail price or slightly lower on shelves. This shortage is mainly for overseas customers, which is not who its intended for. Bandai is the manufacturer, not the owner of the IP. For other Bandai products like Saint Saiya they aggressively promote and sell to overseas customers because they are allowed by the IP owners. I do not think they are at fault for supply outside of Japan to be low.

This is true for Japan also. I worked at a Panasonic factory for 5 years. There is large interval between when you make a new product and when you get marketing feedback about actual demand for such product. Overproducing can have catastrophic consequences resulting in whole factories getting shuttered and people laid off.

A possible factor is that its the end of the fiscal year, and tax time is coming soon. In Japan companies are taxed on their inventory. So if they have a large production run that has not sold they will get taxed for the retail value and loose most of their profit. This is a big reason so many companies in Japan are making pre-orders and made to order items so that they have 100% of a production run sold.

No love for this poor bird in the model section, only hate and discontent:( Hopefully you guys will appreciate it more. its a resin kit that was sold last weekend at treasure festa. 8 were made and sold out in 2 minutes after the doors opened. its 1/144 scale but a larger 1/72 one will be sold at the next treasure festa in december.

It all intentional. The reason they avoided mass market advertising and mail order, is to keep it isolated to hiroshima. That way they can get an idea of what percentage of the book buying market in hiroshima would buy it. If they advertised it nationwide, other prefectures would buy it and distort the sales percentages. If they made it availiable throught mail order it would be worse. Foreigners would be able to use proxy services and buy issues ment only for hiroshima residents and further distort their sales demographics. As of issue 8, earlier this month big book stores close to train stations were packed with unsold copies. After the cancellation was announced there was a run on issues and most places are now sold out.

didn't shop there much, but still sad to see it go. Yet another specialty toy shop replaced by a generic mass market hobby chain.

http://www.bbb-bike.com/mospeada/index.html to see the proto mospeada being built step by step

grats! IMHO very lucky. are you looking to trade it for some combination of other ones?

It depends on which one. The Sheryl Deculture is a secret and very rare, the Ranka, Cathy, Klanklan, and Nanase Deculture are common. The VF-4 is a secret but only uncommon.

the floppyness in long parts is springy, the polyurethane is flexible unlike normal hard brittle resin. the joints are very solid though, tight and they are made of nylon so should last longer than plastic hinges. It is very impressive in person, highly recommend checking one out.

They are, but in a smaller scale. at their open house day at the showroom they had people fill out suggestion forms for what they wanted to have made. for the SDF-1, 1/3000 scale was the most likely

From what I can read, Yaco and a bunch of friends decided to do a group buy of the Toynami Regult and met over dinner to hand em out. Most of them thought it was better than they expected. So they are not all his Mr. Aramaki mentions that he will show it to Mr. Kawamori in the comments section

It`s nice to see people posting lucky draws in their box distribution for a change. Grats on finding such a good price on the VF-4 Graham. But im sad to say it isnt a fluke. Due to the very low popularity of the VF-4 it`s the lowest value secret so far. Even the normal rarity VF-25 tornado and armored variants are worth more, as well as the uncommon deculture variants beating it out in value, and the super secret VF-25 Sheryl deculture worth several times more. Does not bode well for a larger scale VF-4 toy making enough money to pay off mould costs.

so would this be called "Beast King GoLiger" or "Defender of the Universe Ligertron" ?

in hindsight yes, I think it would have greatly increased their ratings and ability to sell merchandise. The late 80s to early 90s saw a surge in popularity of sengoku era anime and simulation games. as long as you threw in a reincarnation of Nobunaga and his demon army(in power armor) It would probably have done well. But be totaly unrecognizable as what we think of as southern cross.

I just found out about it about an hour ago, while looking at YJ auctions. I wish I knew about it earlier.

Comiket 77 winter exclusive shitajiki from circle Henrenkai. Promotional item given to first 500 customers.

buy from someone living near you, several people in this thread have posted what they have extras. I think nanoplasm has an extra VF-27beta here: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...st&p=814544

no Super Armored Pack VF-2SS, its a crime:(

take a look in this thread here: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...st&p=796258

there are a couple hentai doujinshi with Grace in it. the 1/250 VF-27 beta is supposedly a mass production type, but if you look closely at the head, its a commander type like Grace used.

you beat me, I only got 6 VF-2SS

probably closer to 100 or less, the prototype subcontractor they farmed out the work to could only produce about 10 a month. "sold out" is probably not an accurate way to describe it, even though that is literaly what the yamato site lists as the status. no longer taking orders is probably better.