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Okay what sold me on being dumb enough to spend money on that ariel is the cool blue sword it has in those pictures, I want that cool blue sword
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mllaneza posted:Yeah, $15 for an Aerial justifies a lot of waiting I've done this year. You can get a default-colors Aerial from suruga-ya for under $11 us right now through the magic of international exchange rates. (It's 1600 yen which is actually 300 over the kit's normal MSRP in japan). Normally shipping across the ocean would obliterate the price savings but they have a free shipping campaign going on until Monday that even covers international. ...they've gotta lose money on that, right? I guess few enough foreigners take advantage of it that they don't care but it's weird that it's not restricted to shipping within Japan. RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 08:50 on Oct 14, 2023 |
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:You can get a default-colors Aerial from suruga-ya for under $11 us right now through the magic of international exchange rates. (It's 1600 yen which is actually 300 over the kit's normal MSRP in japan). I never knew that site existed and now have it bookmarked for when I can afford it because there is some poo poo in there I want that I can't find anywhere else 
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Oct 14, 2023 08:56
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In addition to new items they also do secondhand stuff, so some of the things listed there are people selling off bits of their "backlogs" that they never got around to building. (You can filter the search by new/used as well if you care.) Probably explains the amount of hard-to-find stuff.
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Blaziken386 posted:this post made me hopeful that i could skip the line, but no, it was simply a 20GB download to show off a mostly empty 3D shopping mall, which, upon clicking on aerial, just sent me to the very store page i linked. Oh hey was just gonna ask about this; thanks! I want the weird little Zakupla guy you can display on its own fake tiny runner set after you build it
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Blaziken386 posted:this post made me hopeful that i could skip the line, but no, it was simply a 20GB download to show off a mostly empty 3D shopping mall, which, upon clicking on aerial, just sent me to the very store page i linked. Sorry! Mea culpa, it's working in my region but I can't make any excuses for Bandai's shenanigans.
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Oct 14, 2023 12:40
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Showing me that website with free shipping should be a crime, god drat you.
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Oct 14, 2023 13:37
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BisbyWorl posted:A lot of finicky waterslides for the fin funnels. wait finicky in what sense i have zero waterslide experience
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MechaX posted:wait finicky in what sense iirc fork of the fin funnel has like 3 different decals, each needing to be placed right next to each other for seamless coverage then you have to do that twelve times
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Oct 14, 2023 14:13
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Pierson posted:Showing me that website with free shipping should be a crime, god drat you.
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Anyone have a website that is selling the HG IBO Shiden kit? It's been on my grunt suit list forever.
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Suruga-ya has been doing free shipping weekends on and off, at the past 2-3 week intervals - if they start they generally start at 9 PM eastern on Thursday and their inventory definitely turns over with decent speed. I wish the sorting was better as it relies on machine translation and there are often multiple entries for a single kit so some duplicate search methods generally help. That said they've beaten the ebay and mandarake price every time for me, often offering specific kits at under the US MSRP in the case of P-Bandai offerings.
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Well I ordered that P-Bandai HG UC Engage 0 thing that looks sorta like a G-Self for 40 Canuck Bucks, used... we'll see what used means I guess. Hopefully it's not already built, haha. Also, free shipping from Japan? Should I expect this next summer or what?
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Oct 14, 2023 18:00
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Yeah that is actually a good point when they say 'used' is that just 'unwanted kits' or are we talking like opened runner bags, half-assembled crap, etc?
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Oct 14, 2023 18:08
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I ordered the MGSD Freedom from them earlier this year and like everything else it said "Used" Came in the box with all runners still in the bag. And I think shipping took maybe 1 1/2 to 2 weeks last time.
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I don't want to make promises but every used kit of over a dozen I've gotten has been sealed runners in the box.
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parabolic posted:I don't want to make promises but every used kit of over a dozen I've gotten has been sealed runners in the box. Someone unloading their shelf of shame.
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Oct 14, 2023 19:12
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I even found a G-Saviour kit there for £60 but sixty bucks is a lot of money just for a joke build. It's here if someone wants to show their Canadian pride: https://www.suruga-ya.com/en/product/603007741
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parabolic posted:Suruga-ya has been doing free shipping weekends on and off, at the past 2-3 week intervals - if they start they generally start at 9 PM eastern on Thursday and their inventory definitely turns over with decent speed. I wish the sorting was better as it relies on machine translation and there are often multiple entries for a single kit so some duplicate search methods generally help. That said they've beaten the ebay and mandarake price every time for me, often offering specific kits at under the US MSRP in the case of P-Bandai offerings. The pro tip is to grab the Japanese name for the MS you want off the gundam wiki. The automatic English translations are a bit inconsistent but the JP names are always accurate.
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Oct 14, 2023 22:20
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explored the local mall today, and found three different toy/collectible stores. two of which did not have any gunpla, and while the third DID have some, they were approximately twice what they are online, which is outrageous (ie: Lfrith Ur was $40, when you can get it for $22 on amazon) in other news, i just checked out that suruga-ya site, and  whoops
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Oct 14, 2023 23:19
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HLJ what the gently caress is the point of me preordering things if you're just gonna go "oh actually we don't have enough lol hope we get more!!" (RG Epyon)
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Working on my GM Moroccan Front tonight, and wow. I did not expect them to do color separation for the crotch V on a High Grade.
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 action stands are silly things (god demi barding's arms are finicky. must've been a dozen times the joints kept popping out of the sockets, or the bicep came apart. i love the look of it, but its definitely not the sturdiest kit at all.)
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Blaziken386 posted:
looking at the green one and believing its name is BonkBot5000
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kirbysuperstar posted:HLJ what the gently caress is the point of me preordering things if you're just gonna go "oh actually we don't have enough lol hope we get more!!" They do FIFO on preorders but yes, popular things will sell through the initial allotment. They'll continue running the queue when they get another shipment.
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Oct 15, 2023 02:56
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Midjack posted:They do FIFO on preorders but yes, popular things will sell through the initial allotment. They'll continue running the queue when they get another shipment. Yeah, same thing's happened to me on a few orders. Just gotta get in ASAP and hope for the best.
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Oct 15, 2023 03:04
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Oh God I am terrified that I now know about Suruga-ya. There's a lot that I want that is just about cheap enough to impulse buy that I have to be very careful. I finished my first kit which heavily relies on waterslide decals last night. This is the 21st Century Real Type ver. Gouf Flight Type that I was able to find on amazon for some reason.  The underlying kit is great, it's a gouf custom with different legs and shoulders, and I have to say that I am happy with how the waterslides came out. Especially the shoulders, those red and yellow decals look great and I can see why people buy decal packs for their kits. The waist alone took me an hour to build and slap on the white decals, but I got faster with it as I built the rest.  However the legs were really tough. I had a couple of tears when trying to thread those thin red lines onto the cuffs in particular. However, I did not despair and threw some other decals on in the bare spots, which I think actually makes it look better than it was supposed to.   Overall I am mostly very happy with how it looks now. I don't think I'll be seeking anything that heavily relies on waterslides moving forwards, this was somewhat stressful to decorate.
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Oct 15, 2023 03:06
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Man I never noticed the little wings on the backpack. What a poor design choice
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Gaius Marius posted:Man I never noticed the little wings on the backpack. What a poor design choice Look, Zeonic was trying, alright? And any fault in their design ethos is justified because unlike some their souls aren't weighed down by gravity.
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Midjack posted:They do FIFO on preorders but yes, popular things will sell through the initial allotment. They'll continue running the queue when they get another shipment. yeah my exodia eventually got there but, man it's just dumb and they should at least email you and let you know instead of just letting it sit there until you remember to check
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GM Moroccan Front trip report: 10/10 best HG I've ever built. Simple, well engineered, comes with left handed trigger for all the Armored Core dual-trigger action you could ask for. Looking at USA Gundam store, there's a non-P-Bandai GM that uses the same tooling on the way: https://www.usagundamstore.com/collections/hg-model-kits/products/hg-1-144-gm-shoulder-cannon-equipped-missile-pod-equipped
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Tergaso posted:Oh God I am terrified that I now know about Suruga-ya. There's a lot that I want that is just about cheap enough to impulse buy that I have to be very careful. There were enough that hit my threshold that I'm now $70 poorer and 7 kits richer.
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Blaziken386 posted:explored the local mall today, and found three different toy/collectible stores. two of which did not have any gunpla, and while the third DID have some, they were approximately twice what they are online, which is outrageous Warmachine posted:GM Moroccan Front trip report: 10/10 best HG I've ever built. Simple, well engineered, comes with left handed trigger for all the Armored Core dual-trigger action you could ask for.
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chrome line posted:My local mall has a place that consistently sells them for 3x msrp (the only time I ever bought anything from them was an Aerial last year when it was impossible to find anywhere), and another one that seems to decide what the price of a given kit is randomly. Last I went they had 2 brand new HG Brady Fox's, one was 17$ and one was 40$ Yeah, I'm reasonably sure Morocco, Sleggar, and Missile Pod are all the same molds in different colors, and with some extra bits for the missile pods. Which, considering these are loving GMs, the level of detail and articulation is astounding. Just drat good kits worthy of the 2023 vintage.
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IBO high grades use the same 30mm holes as the 30Minute Mission kits right?
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Arc Hammer posted:IBO high grades use the same 30mm holes as the 30Minute Mission kits right? Yeah. You need an adapter for the backpacks, though.
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Well gently caress, Surugaya just cancelled my order, saying my credit card was not in my name, which is not at all true, so gently caress them I guess. I knew that poo poo was too good to be true. I'll eat my hat if this isn't a case of "well poo poo, we're not gonna make any money sending one $40 HG to Canada for free shipping, cancel that". Diet Poison fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Oct 16, 2023 |
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decided to bite the bullet and order a nice display case because im running out of desk room and my mental illness is showing no signs of stopping. (because i also bought the michaelis in the same order)Diet Poison posted:Well gently caress, Surugaya just cancelled my order, saying my credit card was not in my name, which is not at all true, so gently caress them I guess. I knew that poo poo was too good to be true.  well now im worried I bought 5 things, so maybe they'll deem it worth their while??
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