Chronocidal
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Well this is interesting... I'm looking at HLJ, and you know how they have that sidebar with recently viewed items? Well, the 30th YF-29 is on the top of that list, and while the link is dead, the price shown is also different. All evening, it was locked at 17,000 yen... now, in that sidebar, it shows for 16,150. Dunno what that means, but maybe there's hope on the HLJ side still. I just don't want to pay $288 for it before shipping, or I'd have bought one from NY already.. With any luck, their price will drop from the re-release. Oh well, if anyone wants to camp the page to see if it suddenly appears, here's the product address that it would be at if they didn't take it down. http://www.hlj.com/product/ban977444
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Guess so.. yeah, the stock indicator couldn't keep up.
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Yeah, total failure of a night. I'm just going to wait for NY to get updated, and get both there. Hell, I might just bite their current price for the YF-29, because I'm sick enough of this crap. And yeah, HLJ never got either. They took the page down entirely for the YF-29, it doesn't even show up as a discontinued item now. Could be still updating I guess, but it doesn't bode well.
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Yeah, CDJapan lies. Their stock indicator is wrong, and it won't let me buy it there either. Guess that settles it, I'll just wait for Nippon Yasan to offer it. This is utter bull$#!%
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no see.. I was able to put one in my cart, and I got to the LAST BUTTON TO SUBMIT THE ORDER. Then it tells me they're out, and can't fill the order. People have set up automated scripts to submit the orders automatically I'm pretty sure.
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WHAT THE FREAKING CRAP IT'S IN MY BLEEPING CART AND I CAN'T FINISH THE PURCHASE )##$)_(#*$#)##)$(#_@$#@)()*@#!!!@
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Aaannnd... AmiAmi is listed as sold out now. Where's that freaking facepalm smiley.. NO WAIT GOGOGO
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http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN977444 Btw, AmiAmi's site is spazzing out from all the product searches. People are obviously anxious to get this thing.
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Yep, the date's all wrong, they just updated the page from "Discontinued" to that.
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Well NY still has the super pack on sale for $40 for the original preorder. If this doesn't pan out, I've got one from them in my shopping cart on the NY site.
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Link is right here: http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?scode=TOY-RBT-2516 It's still linked from the "related items" list under the other Bandai valks.
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Oh huh, I've been refreshing it all night, maybe I just missed looking at that page for a while.
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Heads up, AmiAmi just took down the old YF-29 30th page. It just disappeared. They might be tweaking it.
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Actually? I might scrape all the paint off this one on purpose. Anyone know for sure whether the black on the nose is painted on? I'm seriously considering buying two and stripping one down to the bare plastic.
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Meh.. I'm tempted to just order one from NY and be done with it.. 288 before shipping though. Is my time and effort to get one from HLJ worth $88? That's the big question.
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Well, what is interesting is that the ad clearly shows the super packs mounted on the battroid. Maybe they just mean they'll be re-releasing them for order as well? Either that, or the photoshop monkey in charge of the ad wasn't paying attention.
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Pilot name stickers - Maybe we can do some sort of custom sheet?
Chronocidal replied to Scream Man's topic in Toys
Is it possible to get either white decal/sticker to print on, or just paint white onto the film, seal it, then print over that and seal again? At least with stuff meant for a black background, you could just do an inverse printing. Other colors might get tricky to match, but for something as small as a pilot name, it probably wouldn't be too noticeable. That reminds me though.. I wonder how a VF-19S would look in actual Blue Angels markings. -
You know, as long as you're making delta wing conversions... How about a standard (non robo-boobie) VF-11MAXL conversion? All you'd really need I think is to remove the standard wings, and keep the tails tucked in. Or heck, just keep both sets of tails. It'd be nothing like Mylene's, but I don't know if I've ever seen any official art of what a normal MAXL would look like.
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If I was really brave, I'd go one further and go full 70s gull gray with scalloped white on the bottom. That sounds like a great option though, and sounds like an extremely simple custom job to do to boot. I don't know why you'd want to paint over the red leg stripes with brown, since even if it isn't quite accurate, the red looks nice, and goes with the scheme. White control surfaces with silver leading edges should look beautiful. I think the only tricky part will be figuring out how to keep the nose from scratching. The top might be safe, but the way the underside nestles up under the chest might scratch it up. Same for the canards, since they're buried in the torso. I think with a good metallic lacquer though, it should be ok. Not like you're likely to be transforming it much anyway though, so you should be fine painting whatever you want on it.
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I think the thing that sets this one's antennas apart from the Fire Valk is that these ones aren't hidden in fighter mode. Now.. whether they could be hidden is something I'm going to try when mine arrives. I've actually done that with each VF-19 release. The center lasers will easily fit under the shield like the crest on the Fire Valk's head on both the S and F, and I just removed the side lasers on the S because they look funny to me in fighter mode.
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Yeah, I noticed that on the first set that got displayed here, someone had some ridiculously rough parts printed. I had thought someone mentioned that was the difference between ordering the polished and rough materials, but I wonder now if that's really the case.
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Yeah, I've noticed.. dunno what the holdup is.. fedex for my VF-171 parts went through in no time. I'm hoping my HLJ fedex order goes through fast as well, since it doesn't need to go through LA. It just shipped yesterday, so maybe it'll get through without so much holdup.
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Freaking customs.. my VF-17D and VF-19P have been held up in LA since last week.
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NY is pretty good about requesting parts as far as I know... it's just up to Yamato to provide the part. At least, I hope that is the case. I tried requesting a replacement crotch plate for my VF-25G, and either NY didn't go through with it, or bandai didn't give a crap that they forgot it. Given that NY took the time to reply to me several times, I'm perfectly comfortable blaming bandai that I never got my part. Yamato has generally seemed much more concerned about their customers, so I'd think you should be able to get the piece without too much trouble.
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I wouldn't think so, but that's just assuming, since the arms pop out and away from the rest of the body so far.