Zaid Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 I'm new to this forum, so a lot of it is harder for me to follow the flow of information as I'm still getting my feet well. I know that in most of the threads people reiterate the information for those who don't know and occassionally they get shut down at times for doing so. I personally appreciate it. I have a lot to pick up on as I just recently picked up my second figures. So the information from the numbering systems behind the birds, to the renewals, to the Arcadia's vs the Bandai's is all very helpful. My first Valkyrie was a VF-25 Tornado that I picked up around 5 years ago and I got rid of once the Renewals were issued, and I just put a pre-order for the YF-29 Percival(CDJAPAN) with a huge help from the thread about it. One thing I did notice is that there isn't a streamlined way to find information, from places selling, and such, you have to go to the specific thread for that specific bird and then you have sift through 30+ pages to see where it's selling or when pre-order show up. Currently, I'm looking for a Arcadia 1/60 Perfect Transformation VF-0D. I see HLJ and CD Japan still have it. But I stumbled up on it by luck and haven't see it in its thread posted in the previous five pages of it. I don't know what makes the bird cost so much more versus a Bandai. so I'm curious if there's a comprehensive quick guide to knowing when specific models go for pre-order, or are on sale, what the average price is, what a list of preferred stores are. It would be fantastic if there was a guide that is updated often to just reference. Excuse me if there is and I somehow missed the information, or I'm showing my newness in this. TL;DR Is there a master thread or cliff notes for when pre-orders go live or where a specific model are still available for sale, and what the average price is, what preferred stores are by forum users, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treatment Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 TL;DR Is there a master thread or cliff notes for when pre-orders go live or where a specific model are still available for sale, and what the average price is, what preferred stores are by forum users, etc. I don't think there is any. Not sure if it's a good idea or not. You'll just have to suffer like the rest of us... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest davidwhangchoi Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 I'm new to this forum, so a lot of it is harder for me to follow the flow of information as I'm still getting my feet well. I know that in most of the threads people reiterate the information for those who don't know and occassionally they get shut down at times for doing so. I personally appreciate it. I have a lot to pick up on as I just recently picked up my second figures. So the information from the numbering systems behind the birds, to the renewals, to the Arcadia's vs the Bandai's is all very helpful. My first Valkyrie was a VF-25 Tornado that I picked up around 5 years ago and I got rid of once the Renewals were issued, and I just put a pre-order for the YF-29 Percival(CDJAPAN) with a huge help from the thread about it. One thing I did notice is that there isn't a streamlined way to find information, from places selling, and such, you have to go to the specific thread for that specific bird and then you have sift through 30+ pages to see where it's selling or when pre-order show up. Currently, I'm looking for a Arcadia 1/60 Perfect Transformation VF-0D. I see HLJ and CD Japan still have it. But I stumbled up on it by luck and haven't see it in its thread posted in the previous five pages of it. I don't know what makes the bird cost so much more versus a Bandai. so I'm curious if there's a comprehensive quick guide to knowing when specific models go for pre-order, or are on sale, what the average price is, what a list of preferred stores are. It would be fantastic if there was a guide that is updated often to just reference. Excuse me if there is and I somehow missed the information, or I'm showing my newness in this. TL;DR Is there a master thread or cliff notes for when pre-orders go live or where a specific model are still available for sale, and what the average price is, what preferred stores are by forum users, etc. honestly every site from NEOGAF to TF2005 is the same. you just have to start back reading and then keep current by visiting the toy section regularly to stay in the loop. to start: i would go on the vf-0d thread and just back-read. there's no master thread for pre-orders or sticky but all the information you're asking is in the thread, here i looked it up for you: these are all the shops to pre-order future macorss stuff whenever they come out: link: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=40552&p=1157961 just read back on each topic until you see when pre-orders started and you'll see all the recommended shops. the threads aren't too long for each toy. so it's an easy skim. good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvmacross Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 (edited) If you are looking to buy....probably the fastest way to get something is via the wanted thread....if it is something relatively new....most likely someone will post up a link to a store still carrying it at close to msrp or less... Here is the list of places to buy that members have had good experiences with...... http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=41210 This is the best site for info on recent and past Macross toy releases.... http://www.anymoon.com/blog/ Welcome to Macross World... Edited March 4, 2015 by jvmacross Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrentonx Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 (edited) Next in line for preorders are the new Zeros. I'd keep up with that thread for now. The short of it...preorder at one of these stores most of the time: HLJ, Amiami, NY, CDJ, Hobbysearch, or Anime Export for Bandai (I've won a Bandai PO from every one of those). Arcadia is thankfully more forgiving in terms of how long you have to PO. Arcadia is a smaller company and they will charge more for their Valks. Lots of debate on why that is. Spend some time round these parts. We'll help out in the other threads but you gotta try to keep up and read several of the more current pages of the active threads. Welcome to EmDubyaEff Edited March 4, 2015 by xrentonx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaid Posted March 4, 2015 Author Share Posted March 4, 2015 Hell yeah guys. I appreciate the quick responses and pooling of resources. Definitely going through some of the older threads. That's how I landed the YF-29 Percival, I came into the thread right as the preorders were going. Now here's for the hunting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EXO Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Abandon All Hope Your Wallet, Ye Who Enter... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spanner Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Abandon All Hope Your Wallet, Ye Who Enter... haha!! certainly a good way to instill confidence to a new forum member! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmkjr Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 (edited) There's no guide so I just follow the model threads that I want to get. Also the main front page is a source to use for announcements When following the threads for upcoming releases it usually goes like this: 1. Someone finds the announcement of model (sometimes with initial prototype pics) and starts the thread 2. Excitement, speculation and evaluation about said model lots of pages 3. Someone finds pics/info of the preorder period 4. More pages of speculation of model till preorder date 5. Preorder period arrives with kind members posting retail site links and thread pages blowing up 6. Post preorder phase with comments on developers pics of model progress (if any) 7. Item release with members reviews/pics of models in hand 8. Long term follow up questions/comments/concerns Edited March 4, 2015 by wmkjr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrentonx Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 (edited) And in between all that we argue about color! It's the MWF way Edited March 4, 2015 by xrentonx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaid Posted March 4, 2015 Author Share Posted March 4, 2015 haha!! certainly a good way to instill confidence to a new forum member! And he's not wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saburo Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Welcome to the madness and have fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chyll2 Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 just take your time and read. I started collecting macross toys when the Super VF-25S gave me cancer assembling. So to try it out, I bought a VF-25A and saw the worth it. The most streamlined source of info is this forums and with a little bit of google, I was able to get all of the missing bits. For the average price of the item, the only basis I get is the SRP of the item at the release (1999.co, amiami, hlj, etc). Long released or rare item is very hard to price so that is why when I started collecting, I only set my sight on the newer release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSenpai Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 There's no guide so I just follow the model threads that I want to get. Also the main front page is a source to use for announcements When following the threads for upcoming releases it usually goes like this: 1. Someone finds the announcement of model (sometimes with initial prototype pics) and starts the thread 2. Excitement, speculation and evaluation about said model lots of pages 3. Someone finds pics/info of the preorder period 4. More pages of speculation of model till preorder date 5. Preorder period arrives with kind members posting retail site links and thread pages blowing up 6. Post preorder phase with comments on developers pics of model progress (if any) 7. Item release with members reviews/pics of models in hand 8. Long term follow up questions/comments/concerns You forgot about all the posts where people threaten to cancel their preorders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CF18 Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Personally I would like to see a wiki for Macross products, kind of like the old front page stuff here but user editable so new info can be added quickly. I have thinked about just adding those to macross.wikia.com but never have the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EXO Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 The front page is there for members to use. It's as easy as posting a reply or starting a topic in the forum. Some people volunteered but never got around to it. I give them permission but I remove them once they are inactive for a long time for security reasons. If you want to input data in there PM me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaid Posted March 4, 2015 Author Share Posted March 4, 2015 (edited) Personally I would like to see a wiki for Macross products, kind of like the old front page stuff here but user editable so new info can be added quickly. I have thinked about just adding those to macross.wikia.com but never have the time. Yeah. This is exactly what i meant. What if there was a pinned thread that had the info as it became available, when preorders were opening up, updated pictures of the figure with its release, price average, locations still have it, variations, updates, etc. Main post would just have all upcoming specific Valkyrie coming out organized by release, click on a link and it goes to a specific post number in the thread. But I realize this can be a huge undertaking. Edited March 4, 2015 by Zaid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaoticYeti Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Yeah. This is exactly what i meant. What if there was a pinned thread that had the info as it became available, when preorders were opening up, updated pictures of the figure with its release, price average, locations still have it, variations, updates, etc. Main post would just have all upcoming specific Valkyrie coming out organized by release, click on a link and it goes to a specific post number in the thread. But I realize this can be a huge undertaking. You could start pushing this forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EXO Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 You could start pushing this forward. Yeah. Feel free to make it your project, Zaid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaoticYeti Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 (edited) Everyone would appreciate your contribution, and it would be a good gateway into the community. Edited March 4, 2015 by ChaoticYeti Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmkjr Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 This would be nice. Almost like the Macross release list stickyed at the top but for upcoming orders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaid Posted March 4, 2015 Author Share Posted March 4, 2015 I'll definitely mull it over. I'd like to have more knowledge about Arcadia and Bandai's stock before I tackle on a project like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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