WiseGuyVic Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 14 hours ago, Shawn said: Surprise Us! Can't wait to see! Well I’ll tell ya now, I updated the store last night and will continue in the next two days, we’ve got some auctions up for second chances and some up for other series. I’ll be introducing more “unique” lots very soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted July 15 Author Share Posted July 15 Perfect timing! Here are all the REST of the series! https://www.macrossworld.com/the-gtc-legacy-project-part-6-4-mw-visits-ny/ So I'm now out of pics...the next update we'll be after bugging Victor and Anthony for another photo tour! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechTech Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 Thanks again, Shawn! REALLY COOL stuff to see in all those boxes! - MT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted July 22 Author Share Posted July 22 Anyone possible remember/know which magazine this came from? Its a pic of the original Imai molds (top half) That is a Monster in the center.. Yamato GBP was out...Fronteir F...Yamato Weathering Dengeki or HJ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted July 23 Author Share Posted July 23 Nice specials you've got going Vic! https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&iconV2Request=true&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ssn=wiseguyshobbies&store_name=wiseguyshobbiesllc&_oac=1&_nkw=wiseguys++special&_dmd=2&rt=nc I like the Mospeada ones...will have to get a couple of those! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiseGuyVic Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 On 7/22/2023 at 11:18 PM, Shawn said: Nice specials you've got going Vic! https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&iconV2Request=true&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ssn=wiseguyshobbies&store_name=wiseguyshobbiesllc&_oac=1&_nkw=wiseguys++special&_dmd=2&rt=nc I like the Mospeada ones...will have to get a couple of those! Thanks! They’re doing very well! We’re gonna make some of these regular purchasable specials, everyone seems to like em a whole bunch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pengbuzz Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 17 hours ago, WiseGuyVic said: Thanks! They’re doing very well! We’re gonna make some of these regular purchasable specials, everyone seems to like em a whole bunch! I might be looking into buying some of those, now that I finally got stuff taken care of and my ship came in!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechTech Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 @Shawn @WiseGuyVic Thanks for sharing guys! There are some awesome models there that we haven't seen in decades, and in quantity that I thought we'd never see again! You guys are making it possible - THANK YOU again! - MT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted August 4 Author Share Posted August 4 I was trying to promote this to Hobby Japan to do an interest article, it is quite hard talking to people now that emails are shunned and social media is the method for conversation. Did this little montage pic from some of the videos, which just reminds me how insane this project is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightmareB4macross Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 8 hours ago, Shawn said: I was trying to promote this to Hobby Japan to do an interest article, it is quite hard talking to people now that emails are shunned and social media is the method for conversation. Did this little montage pic from some of the videos, which just reminds me how insane this project is! Maybe reach out to Bandai. They could be interested in using this for future promotion of future benchmark dates. Great historical recollections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted August 5 Author Share Posted August 5 if you have any ideas how please let me know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted August 29 Author Share Posted August 29 Just reminding people of the great multi-kit sets that are up for sale! https://www.ebay.com/str/wiseguyshobbiesllc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveTheFish Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 On 8/5/2023 at 6:44 AM, Shawn said: I was trying to promote this to Hobby Japan to do an interest article, it is quite hard talking to people now that emails are shunned and social media is the method for conversation. Hey Shawn, I'm new here. Did you have any luck with contacting Hobby Japan? I do occasional translation work for Hobby Japan. Not the magazine division, but their models division. I do assembly instruction translations for a friend I have there. So I sort-of have a connection there. As you might know, they have a mook series called Hobby Japan Vintage, which comes out about 3x a year. I would think that an article on this massive find might interest them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolt Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 Haven't been acquiring much Deculture lately . But for the sake of support and nostalgia, i may have to break my fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted August 31 Author Share Posted August 31 Hi @SteveTheFish, and welcome to the forums. I have had ZERO luck contacting them via their contact page, I'm sure I'm being screened as spam or just being in the wrong language. I have every issue of HJ Vintage! Its my favorite current magazine, as my brain never left the 80's/90s' If you have ANY possible contact to get through please please engage with them. I know there are model crazies like me in Japan who love seeing 40 year old shipping cases from Imai. Just need to break through the contact barrier. If they would like to do a interest article on it Anthony and Vic will surely love to do what is possible to make it happen. Let us know if you are able to get through the hurdle! Shawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveTheFish Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 (edited) 1 hour ago, Shawn said: Hi @SteveTheFish, and welcome to the forums. I have had ZERO luck contacting them via their contact page, I'm sure I'm being screened as spam or just being in the wrong language. I have every issue of HJ Vintage! Its my favorite current magazine, as my brain never left the 80's/90s' If you have ANY possible contact to get through please please engage with them. I know there are model crazies like me in Japan who love seeing 40 year old shipping cases from Imai. Just need to break through the contact barrier. If they would like to do a interest article on it Anthony and Vic will surely love to do what is possible to make it happen. Let us know if you are able to get through the hurdle! Shawn Alright! I just sent an email to my friend Takahashi. We used to work together at Aoshima during the brief, 8-month stint I worked there. Model Graphix magazine did a several page article on him just before he quit. He is a big Macross and Yamato fan like myself, and I already showed him the article you did on the massive discovery of Showa-era anime plamo treasure. I'll see what he says. While he does not deal with the magazine division, he may know someone to get in contact with. I agree that it would make a wonderful article. I think perhaps I may be able to facilitate somehow if nobody in the magazine end of the company handles English. We'll see. All I do is translate Japanese into English, but I am not as good at the other direction. We'll see. Yeah, Vintage is sure fun. I have the Imai Meets Macross issue, the Super Dimensional series issue, the Artmic issue, and I just recently bought the Votoms issue. I think that Vintage would be especially interested in doing an article on the Wise Guys find. I'd think that such a find would be rare for Japan too. Even here these kits are HTF and demand high prices. I have never see in the wild kits like Arii's Monster, Imai's Zentraedi Recon Ship, Arii's Glaug, etc. I'm not home at the moment, but I have an older Yamato modeling book (by Hobby Japan, IIRC) which detailed the Starblazers reboxing of plamo kits back in the '80s. I'm sure Japanese readers would find it interesting to see how Imai's Mospeada kits were marketed under the Go Bots name, which is actually known as Machine Robo in Japan. Edited August 31 by SteveTheFish added crap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveTheFish Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 Sorry for the double post. I heard back from my friend. He has no contact at all with the magazine department. He suggested I just try reaching out to the magazine's PR department. I'll take a look when I get home in an hour or so from now. Could you send me links to where you had tried to contact the company? If you only wrote in English, then I may have luck by describing the situation in Japanese. Perhaps it might help by mentioning that I already do translations for their model department a few times a year and that I could help with an article. I'm also really tempted to visit the All-Japan Model Hobby Show coming up in September. I used to cover this event for my YouTube channel as well as submitting photos to FineScale Magazine as a guest contributor. I haven't gone since 2018. Then my wife was hit by a car the next year, and then the whole Covid thing happened. Now that there are no more masking directives, I was thinking about going. If so, I can talk to somebody in-person from HJ. My friend works their plamo booth. If I go on press day, I have a better chance to talk with people without the crowds in the way. For now, I'll try contacting them via the website. Did you find an email? I'm excited if I can help out in any way I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted August 31 Author Share Posted August 31 Definitely appreciate any assistance in spreading the word I tried this page in the other inquiries 2x, no luck, maybe its the wrong section. https://hobbyjapan.co.jp/contact/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveTheFish Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 Yes, on there is the link that says 採用に関する問い合わせ and it's that form I used to contact HJ last night. I received notice that my message was received. Let's wait to see if they respond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted September 16 Author Share Posted September 16 Got my shipment in! Thank you @WiseGuyVic and Anthony! Come to SDCon this year in Torrance and pick up an Imai 1/20 Gunpod and help support the site! (all sales profits fund the server costs each year) Shawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiseGuyVic Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 On 9/16/2023 at 4:27 PM, Shawn said: Got my shipment in! Thank you @WiseGuyVic and Anthony! Come to SDCon this year in Torrance and pick up an Imai 1/20 Gunpod and help support the site! (all sales profits fund the server costs each year) Shawn Glad to see everything got there safely! We'd love to be at SDCon but we've got our hands full with some local stuff happening real soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveTheFish Posted September 21 Share Posted September 21 Unfortunately, I have not received any response for my news submission from HJ. However, I am set to attend the All-Japan Model Hobby Show next week, so if I can, I'll talk to someone there directly about this story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted September 25 Author Share Posted September 25 Thank you for the help Yes-please show them some pics if you get a chance. I'd wear a sandwich board with the title "See me regarding 100K Vintage Model Kits" 😛 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolt Posted September 26 Share Posted September 26 Got some Orguss love from the Wise guys. Very happy! It will be an Easter egg (not very well hidden) in my Megaroad-01 hangar. I've got my eye on that 1/72 T-50 PAK-FA too.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electric indigo Posted September 26 Share Posted September 26 6 hours ago, Bolt said: I've got my eye on that 1/72 T-50 PAK-FA too The Hobby Boss kit is trash, you should go with the Zvezda version IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolt Posted September 26 Share Posted September 26 5 hours ago, electric indigo said: The Hobby Boss kit is trash, you should go with the Zvezda version IMO. Thanks for the tip 👍🏼 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveTheFish Posted yesterday at 08:54 AM Share Posted yesterday at 08:54 AM Well nuts. So I did attend the trade show on Friday, but every time I was in the Hobby Japan booth, I was talking with my friend whom I do occasional translation work for and the guys who handle the publications always scattered out of our way and talked to other customers instead. I didn't have a chance to talk to them. I suck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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