What will Hasegawa do next?

[Big s]

7 hours ago, Shawn said:

Seriously WHY does it have to be so dang large? Shipping is going to be tough..

I really don’t get it either. There is a lot of empty space in there for no reason. The runners will just be sliding back and forth 

[VF-1A Grunt]

It looks like the box they use for the 1/48 Super VF-1s. Not sure why it needs to be bigger than movie version of the Q-Rau.

[kajnrig]

20 hours ago, Shawn said:

Maybe Hasegawa is trying to win big box of the year...stealing the prior title from Aoshima for their VFG Konig Monster.

The Monster is justified given it's basically two full kits in one. This... I'll just say I dodged a bullet when I decided not to get one (or, god forbid, more).

[Papa Rat]

No regrets here. Bring om that big ol box. It’s hilarious how big it is but it’s what’s inside that counts. That’s what my mama told me. 

[Big s]

1 hour ago, Papa Rat said:

No regrets here. Bring om that big ol box. It’s hilarious how big it is but it’s what’s inside that counts. That’s what my mama told me. 

I definitely agree, just hoping the shipping cost isn’t affected by the size

[electric indigo]

Just be happy you get an extra large boxart.

[Big s]

14 minutes ago, electric indigo said:

Just be happy you get an extra large boxart.

It’ll make a heck of a poster

[derex3592]

Shipping is gonna SUUUUUCK😭

[KOG Water Dragon]

1 hour ago, derex3592 said:

Shipping is gonna SUUUUUCK😭

It is. The only thing I can think of is to ship it with a bunch of other stuff to spread the cost around. It should be less to ship it as a piece of a larger shipment than to ship it solo.

[sh9000]

Lynn Minmay (China Dress).

[Shawn]

For fun, found some pics comparing against the already large Movie ver

[Bolt]

17 minutes ago, Shawn said:

For fun, found some pics comparing against the already large Movie ver

But... it's the SAME model...

[Papa Rat]

1 hour ago, Bolt said:

But... it's the SAME model...

Hahahaha. It’s wild

[Big s]

1 hour ago, Bolt said:

But... it's the SAME model...

With some new parts. Not sure all in all how many runners were omitted and how many new ones were added 

[Morgen Black]

Shipping on that is going to be insane to the United States, and I bought two.  Doh!

MB

[derex3592]

Yeh, I'm more than just a little hacked off. This kit plus the 1/72 Glaug is running $175 shipping from HLJ for TX from Japan. YEH NOPE. They can keep it and I'll just loose my money on the price of the kits eventually I guess. UTTERLY RIDICULOUS🤬

[LocusPocus]

I have had strange issues with HLJ of recent. I have heard of their shipping being exorbitant, however the past items I have pre-ordered (1st the milia639 resin and then Q-Rau tv) have inexplicably vanished from my cart upon expected availability date. Internal structure issues, the new warehouse thing? Don’t know but haven’t had a successful order from them since mid summer. I will be buying elsewhere until they do some ironing out.

[kajnrig]

Well, that artwork IS pretty...

[Big s]

47 minutes ago, LocusPocus said:

I have had strange issues with HLJ of recent. I have heard of their shipping being exorbitant, however the past items I have pre-ordered (1st the milia639 resin and then Q-Rau tv) have inexplicably vanished from my cart upon expected availability date. Internal structure issues, the new warehouse thing? Don’t know but haven’t had a successful order from them since mid summer. I will be buying elsewhere until they do some ironing out.

Were they added to the warehouse?

I had that happen with the resin figure where in the release weekend it disappeared from availability and oddly didn’t show in my orders, but eventually showed up in my private warehouse a day or two later 

[LocusPocus]

I had them in my warehouse on pre order start date and there they stayed until release date then- thin air. HLJ support response was to the effect of we have no idea where the order went but to just reorder (an item that just sold out). At the end of the day, no biggy - just ordering for personal. Had these been for gifting? Waiting months for “we see your order , do not know why it was not fulfilled but just reorder and wait for restock”. No thanks HLJ

[Bolt]

8 hours ago, derex3592 said:

Yeh, I'm more than just a little hacked off. This kit plus the 1/72 Glaug is running $175 shipping from HLJ for TX from Japan. YEH NOPE. They can keep it and I'll just loose my money on the price of the kits eventually I guess. UTTERLY RIDICULOUS🤬

Playing around w shipping different items on hlj. It's all expensive bad. 
I just ended up shipping with the small packet option all my decals , a few smaller items and my Hasegawa Milia 639 . That was about two weeks ago. Still haven't gotten a shipping notice yet. I know it's because they're back logged and expanded their warehouse space, but it's still a little bit frustrating. 

 

7 hours ago, kajnrig said:

Well, that artwork IS pretty...

It really is ! Mercy Rabbit did an excellent job on that one. Sadly, i have no idea when I'm going to be able to afford shipping the majority of my Hasegawa Macross kits. I suppose i'll whittle away at it after the holidays. I don't want to be paying storage fees for all this stuff in the new year. That's gonna feel like my wallet is bleeding out.