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    It's not outright sales they're worried about, it's profit margins. They purposefully leave short-term money on the table by not supplying enough product to satisfy demand, but that also grants them a long-term ace in the hole if they ever decide to make more. They've been in business long enough to have a lot of numbers to plug into whatever mathematical algorithm they use to determine the most profitable and least risky production numbers and schedules. As painful as it is for the people who just want to buy toys, it means there's going to be continual demand for their products for decades to come. They're in it for the long haul. To clarify, this still doesn't in the slightest excuse how much of a dick move it is for them to STILL not have re-released Ozma's armor pack. I think somewhere in the back offices of Bandai there's a hidden executive suite where the big wigs sit around and watch ebay prices climb on giant monitors, basking in the inflated demand they've generated for things they just refuse to produce.
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    So, as far as I understand, all of these extra pieces are to cover all of the variants that the Excelsior went through (short of the upgraded impulse engines that the Enterprise B got, but that's another kit). The model used in Star Trek III was very different from ST VI, including those different shuttle bay details, different impulse dome, and bridge. I'd expect all those tiny detail parts were also related to that refit. Edit - Actually, unless you have two separate upper saucer halves, I think you're locked into making the ST:III NX-2000 version. The refit for ST:VI had a dual set of impulse domes at the back of the saucer. Looks to be a nice breakdown of the distinguishing details in this discussion: http://www.trektoy.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2420&page=7
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    You know what's odd to me about the canopy length.. I believe the HMR VF-1D actually had a proportionally longer one. Might be because they didn't have to worry about an opening canopy and heatshield fitting under the chest. It's not terrible, but it's pretty much the same as the Yamato 1/60 in that regard.
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    Honestly? I'd just watch Cowboy Bebop. Tech level seems pretty similar, just with more pure space vessels and less mecha. Probably closer to the tech level in M+/M7 than Delta though.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Reviewing Jenius's review at Anymoon, I believe he had a similar failure on at least one HMR VF-1 shoulder joint. I don't know if he ever found a solution for it.
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    Fry, with bills in hand!
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    Fair, and looks like it just went on backorder, so looks like they intend to keep producing them.
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    Thanks for this, HLJ had just enough in stock for me to grab a pair of them. Gotta have two after all, one for each player.
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    Hi-Metal R

    Chronocidal replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Really doubtful there, the part that broke off is a metal ball on a pin, and the parts are small enough I don't think you would ever get the printed strength necessary to support the arm at that scale, at least not if you ever intended to transform it again. Might work for a fixed pose, though. If you have the tools, you might have more luck trying to make a new ball joint on a metal peg, and then drill into the shoulder to mount it, if there's room. Could even potentially tap the hole and screw a small screw into it, but I don't remember how thick the material you'd be drilling into is. We're probably talking on the scale of watch repair here.
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    I actually never even had trouble with those, and I know why they use the gummy plastic for the long pointy bits. I've usually been able to get them reasonably straight with some massaging and hot air/water. The gummy wings wouldn't even be a problem if they locked solidly into the mounts, but there is just so much slop in how they "snap" in. "Slop" is really the best word that describes everything about the wings and their mechanism.. the lever is too weak to hold the wings open, the wings are too heavy for the sloppy mounts to maintain an open position, and the whole mess degrades more and more with every re-release of this ancient mold. It's still a huge step up from the old 70s toy, but it's sad watching every subsequent release get worse and worse.
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    Ugh.. they really need to revise that mold and un-fubar it. It's a good starting point, but unless they want to rename it the "K" wing, they need to do something to fix the wings. And go back to the original chiseled nose. The stump is fugly.
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    So, I think the original original design had lines drawn in pencil on it, and either not weathered/shaded at all, or done so subtly they never appeared on-camera. I don't mind the subtle panel lining so much on the major hull sections, but I think the saucer grid gets overdone in many cases. Worse yet is when Diamond Select's shoddy printing process prints the lines, and misaligns them. 😜
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    The lack of panel lines is accurate though. It's a pretty hefty point of contention about the TOS Enterprise, but the filming model didn't actually have those sorts of details originally. The Polar Lights kits are pretty dead-on for accuracy. Even the 1/350 kit doesn't have much in the way of panel lines, and the ones that are there were so hotly debated that they tended to cause flame wars on modeling forums.
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    The blue one might not hurt much, but I think Ozma will put some nasty damage on your wallet. Believe hat scheme was always the most expensive to get after release. On the flipside of that, I think everyone over-estimated how popular Isamu's scheme would be, because I remember those going on clearance.
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    Given the issues they had with shipping, they may be trying to resolve those completely before any more packages go out. Sounded like they had some miscommunications about packing.
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    I believe the heads are all just ball-jointed, and pop off rather easily. I know I removed all of my 1S and 1D heads to do a bit of work to tighten up the individual lasers. I can't speak about the necks being compatible though, never tried mixing and matching.
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    Really... interesting, does that mean they're managing their stock separately for the different sites?
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    I think the idea of the case has merit, but I think this is just going to wind up as one of the big legal footnotes in post-pandemic Hollywood: "Don't pull a Black Widow. Negotiate for streaming from the start." Whatever the cause, whether it be people not going to theaters because of the pandemic, or because they decided to stream from home, the pandemic created a worst-case scenario for anyone who didn't negotiate for enough of a cut of streaming revenue. Hindsight is 20/20, and no one could have guessed what would happen, but here we are. All of these sorts of contracts probably should have been immediately re-negotiated once streaming became the more attractive option for a large chunk of the population, but I wonder if that even would have been possible.
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    They haven't opened yet, seems they're delaying an hour.
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    Had plenty of time to add one to my cart at HLJ, and it got to the login step, before the site borked out on me. Good luck to everyone, still looks like Hobby Search and AmiAmi haven't even opened yet.
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    Yeah, I tried putting one in, and it just froze up as it went to cart. Got an order paid confirmation at Anime Export (just prefer to pay ahead), we'll see if that order gets confirmed.
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    Huh, CD Japan having what looks like the lowest price? Interesting.
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    Hm, HLJ is frozen up on checkout.... and lost it. Bleh.
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    Typical pre-order DDOS. Although this did pop up on search, if anyone wants an old Mirage.
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    I don't know about you, but I usually can't even blink that fast.
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