Chronocidal

Nothing new yet, and probably won't go up tonight, since it'll be saturday in Japan soon. I'll keep my page alerts running though.

Yeah, so far nothing, but I'll probably be up a while still. Probably giving it at least til three, but I'll setup my alerts to wake me if it happens after that.

Depending on if I ever get my YF-29, I might be interested in buying them if you want to be rid of them.

Given Bandai's history involving anything related to paint, I'd actually prefer a kit version so I could paint it and seal it myself, but I really can't see that happening. Yamato kind of went out on a limb to give us the VF-1 kits, but I think that was more for the overwhelming popularity, and crazy amount of custom designs that people have made over the years. None of the other VFs has anywhere near as many "official" custom schemes. I'd love to see more mold milking, but I'm pretty well set with the 1/100 fighter mode kits to do any scheme I really have to have for myself. They're still 600 yen at HLJ, and I plan to grab a couple more if they're still in stock around the time my DYRL CF order comes around.

I'd call that more hilariously awesome, and I'd order 4. Actually though... I REALLY hope that happens, for one main reason: If they actually issued a Tamashii exclusive, then they'd have no excuse for underestimating the demand on these, and they might reissue them when they realize they could still sell a lot more. Seriously, I have this awesome picture of a bunch of Bandai execs facepalming in the midst of a veritable tornado of exclusive order requests, when they realize they've gotten twice as many exclusive orders as they produced of the non-exclusives. I'm really kind of counting on them making exclusives, because I really want one painted red as that hypothetical Klan VF-25S.

I'm still waiting to hear about the order I put in with BBTS for a YF-29. My account page still lists it under the preorder section, but I haven't heard anything about it from them. I'm pretty much resigned to not getting one at this point.

Well, I plan on staying up in person tonight. If it's anything like last time, it went up about a week after AmiAmi, so tonight might be it. Have to say, I've never been so disappointed to not be woken up in the middle of the night.

Same.. I might have to use my desktop tonight though, that alertbox thing actually crashed firefox sometime in the morning.

I had the alertbox set to monitor the "Order Stop" status text on the page, and it actually did change a few times, but only when they tweaked the page for some other unknown reason. The spacing changed once for instance. I think I need to run the monitor on my desktop instead of my laptop though.. I had it set to refresh the page every 30 seconds, but woke up to find that Firefox had crashed some time during the night. That add on is pretty processor intensive for some reason.

Yeah, was having issues with the file path format it uses, but it's set now. I suppose a max volume blast of HampsterDance will do it. Sadly it doesn't use mp3s, but I have a nice collection of .wav clips. Going to put this next to my bed and leave it going tonight.

... I need to do that. Thank you for the tip. Edit: Yes, this is awesome. I just need to come up with some way to connect it to an air raid siren so it'll wake me.

So... Bobby as Gavil? The tiny Michael and Klan rocking out looks awesome though.

Yeah, I'm actually not that concerned about the conversion fee. If I lose it, lesson learned. I just didn't expect them to charge Paypal immediately. Decided to splurge and get EMS though. Not worth risking that sort of thing.

Well I suppose this is one reason to use Paypal with Nippon Yasan. Pay up front, and they can't hike the price.

Well crap.

Honestly, the first two renewal releases were easy to get in on. I just leisurely looked them up, saw them up for preorder on HLJ, and clicked the button. They were up for days.

Just a heads up for anyone going to Nippon Yasan.. I may have just screwed myself out of a conversion fee if they don't get enough to supply the orders. While they don't charge up front in some cases it seems, they will however take a paypal payment as soon as you offer it. Sad thing is, by the time the order ever comes out, it'll be long past the 45 day dispute limit for paypal. So, probably safer not to use that payment method in general.

One of these days, I'm going to just start drilling holes into the feet of my valks, and mounting them like I do model aircraft.. right through the engines with a metal shaft. Though, given recent developments in ankle joints.. that might not work so well anymore. Seriously though, I might start looking for random spots that make good obscure points to mount standard display stands. As nice as it is to have stands that all use some kind of common adapter... Yamato never seems to mount them anywhere near the center of mass, and every valk is back heavy on the Yamato stands.

I seriously read that as "cathy in her nun uniform" and had to do a triple take. I still need to find high-res scans of the Cathy nose-art from the Ozma decals. Agreed on the sad lack of Grace.. well, anything. Is the only official figure we have of her the 1/60 one that came with the green VF-27?

Full price there is still not bad though.. crazyness. I'm tempted to get one just because.

Ha! Yep, looks like it was just added recently, last I checked it wasn't there. I need to finish that, AND SG-1.

I'd be happy to join and help, though if I get my Nippon Yasan order, I'll be happy to resell whatever ones I can get from HLJ. PM'd.

Yeah, I think I'm going to just grab as many as I can from wherever I see them available, and resell any extras I get here. Got one at Nippon Yasan preordered, and I'll keep my eyes on HLJ and BBTS for when they open up, but I'll likely only order multiples from HLJ. Given the recent shenanigans with undersupplying, I'm not even betting I'll get one from Nippon Yasan, but it's worth a shot. I can't wait for Bandai to be done with these so I can get back to collecting Yamatos. Edit: And actually, the reason HLJ and AmiAmi get hammered so fast is that they offer pretty decent preorder discounts.. especially AmiAmi. Giving people 25% off on a preorder is why they sell out so quickly. Everyone goes there first, and since they're open to both markets, they'll sell out to Japan before we ever see it.

Eh, you know, maybe I'll just try and grab one anywhere I can. I don't mind getting extras I can resell to members here. Preordered at Nippon-Yasan, and I'll keep checking back for HLJ and BBTS updates.

Actually that might not be a bad idea. I'll still get as many as I can via HLJ if I can get an order in, but just having one at this point would be a plus.