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Marsupial Ape posted:I'm sorry, guys. The correct answer is "Gunpla are not toys, they are scale models, Mom."  , Gunpla is Freedom!
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I bought one of the Strike Gundam kits from Tarhey and had a lot of fun putting it together. Then my cat and kids got to it. It looks like one of the cannon fodder suits in the background of a Char v Amuro fight.
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SetSliRol posted:Mine just came in a day or two ago - really quick and satisying little guy just like the rest of the 30MM. Like a cute Metal Gear. Dunno what do do with him or how to paint him but I'm sure I'll get some ideas when I get more models. I have a really neat idea for what to do but I'm holding off in case that 30M group build actually happens
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kirbysuperstar posted:It works like SD Gundam, OP Annoyingly?
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never really tried modding before but i bought some tiny battery powered LEDs that switch on and off with a magnet. no wires or anything. I carved out a little space in my kotobukiya megaman x's blaster arm for one and it went great!  
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Gripweed posted:I have a really neat idea for what to do but I'm holding off in case that 30M group build actually happens I think I'm going to paimt it up like a Tediore gun from Borderlands, or an older PC case, with lots of greys and beiges along with exposed dull metal bits underneath the armor, just to lean into the 'mass produced' angle. I'm excited to see what you come up with because he's a little guy with a lot of possibilities. As for the group build, what if we decided on a base 30MM model, like the Portnova or the Alto, along with another kit or part pack of your own choosing, and we just see what everyone comes up with from modifying the same base? Considering the options there's a lot of possibility and potential.
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SetSliRol posted:I think I'm going to paimt it up like a Tediore gun from Borderlands, or an older PC case, with lots of greys and beiges along with exposed dull metal bits underneath the armor, just to lean into the 'mass produced' angle. I'm excited to see what you come up with because he's a little guy with a lot of possibilities. I think just "A 30MM" kit would be better for a base, cause you gotta account for local availability remember.
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JoeGlassJAw posted:never really tried modding before but i bought some tiny battery powered LEDs that switch on and off with a magnet. no wires or anything. I carved out a little space in my kotobukiya megaman x's blaster arm for one and it went great! That's pretty cool! 
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Waffleman_ posted:A spork became sentient once designated a toy, so if you call them scale models, they will never know life. Who is the primary designator of toyness? If the parent calls it a toy, does that stick? Or is the life of toys predicated on the subconscious desires of children and the object's metaphysical relationship to them? Disclaimer: I haven't seen Toy Story 4 and the spork might answer this. Also Toy Story is an Evangelion reboot. JoeGlassJAw posted:never really tried modding before but i bought some tiny battery powered LEDs that switch on and off with a magnet. no wires or anything. I carved out a little space in my kotobukiya megaman x's blaster arm for one and it went great! Very slick. It looks like it should come out of the box that way. Also, where did you get the LED kit from? That's a really useful way to avoid having to mod wires/switches outside of the kit.
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Warmachine posted:Who is the primary designator of toyness? If the parent calls it a toy, does that stick? Or is the life of toys predicated on the subconscious desires of children and the object's metaphysical relationship to them? Well for Gunplas, it's a scale model in the box, and while you're building it, and if you very carefully immediately place it on the shelf it stays a model, but if you woosh it around just once, bam: toy. Went to the nearby nerdery to see if they had any 30mm kits just in case, and alas, not a single one. Might have to take all my current ones apart and see if I can get inspired to build something cool out of all of them together. In the meantime, they finally got in the Battlogue kits. Didn't have any of the ones I really wanted but I picked up the Blazing Gundam because I make good use of its legs in the dumb Gunpla gacha phone game I am probably the only person here still playing.
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Well that’s disappointing https://twitter.com/deltythe73rd/status/1515195137248268290?s=21&t=CmIqJ1fzrBJJ2DLJQ-HjLw
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Wow...they didn't even TRY with that one.
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Gripweed posted:Well that’s disappointing 
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Diet Poison posted:Well for Gunplas, it's a scale model in the box, and while you're building it, and if you very carefully immediately place it on the shelf it stays a model, but if you woosh it around just once, bam: toy. Not the only one. Anyway, the most disappointing thing about the Asmoday isn't that it has a sticker situation as bad as the Gusion (much worse than your average IBO kit), but that it costs more than any of the others by around five bucks. I know inflation and all, but for the same price, you could get Barbatos Lupus and a Geirail for it to crush.
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Gripweed posted:Well that’s disappointing Funny enough, I just picked up a Delta Kai knowing full well that I’d need to paint a little bit because all people like MechaGaikotsu complained about were the stickers Lmao I thought that would be the worst but this is just as bad and doesn’t even look that easy to mask and paint either
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Decided to try Gunpla. Ordered a mix of kits. Original Gundam, Char’s Zaku II, Barbados Lupus Rex, and Kimaris Vidar.
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Anyone build the Eclipse? It looks neat but I'm leery of the transformation gimmick. I'm worried it'll be grenade-ish like the Zeta.
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I’ve posted about this before, some of the shin covers on my RG Exia cracked and I have no idea how. This week I did some rearranging of the 4 dudes I have, took one off, and one of them split in half. I cemented them back together. Also during all this one of the head fins is disappeared. Been over my floor with a flashlight and I can’t find it. Cast a real pall over my weekend. Hopefully it happened after a vacuum sweep someone else did earlier in the week.
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Warmachine posted:Very slick. It looks like it should come out of the box that way. Also, where did you get the LED kit from? That's a really useful way to avoid having to mod wires/switches outside of the kit. these! https://www.ebay.com/itm/333762901757?hash=item4db5d1b6fd:g:YEsAAOSwPAVfkdaS yeah I wanted to avoid having wires or switches, worked perfectly!
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Gunpla-building Ausgoons is HobbyCo worth ordering from? They've got a couple of things I want, but I've not bought from them before and just wanted to double-check.
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Is "pre-ordering" the RG Hi Nu from Big Bad Toy Store a decent means of getting it as quickly as possible without paying scalpers? I've got a p-bandai gun for it coming soon-ish.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Gunpla-building Ausgoons is HobbyCo worth ordering from? They've got a couple of things I want, but I've not bought from them before and just wanted to double-check. In is HobbyCo a legit store to buy from, the answer is yes. They occasionally have decent pricing, I got the perfect grade rx78 last year for $390 on sale. Where they let themselves down is they are slow to post, from order to shipping it can take 5 to 7 days. (Lu's the usual Australia problem of shipping costs too much and Auspost takes too long) Not sure where you are in Australia, as there are a few other options as well. If you're capital city based I think all the majors have at least 1 Gundam specialist store as well.
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sarujin_nz posted:In is HobbyCo a legit store to buy from, the answer is yes. They occasionally have decent pricing, I got the perfect grade rx78 last year for $390 on sale. Where they let themselves down is they are slow to post, from order to shipping it can take 5 to 7 days. (Lu's the usual Australia problem of shipping costs too much and Auspost takes too long) Oh definitely, it's more that I need a specific accessory set and they're the only ones that have it in stock.
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wdarkk posted:Is "pre-ordering" the RG Hi Nu from Big Bad Toy Store a decent means of getting it as quickly as possible without paying scalpers? I've got a p-bandai gun for it coming soon-ish. BBTS are reliable - one of the oldest robot toy vendors on the internet, I was buying Transformers poo poo there back in the early/mid 2000s, and still do - but they are not fast. I see the Hi-nu is scheduled to arrive there in "April" and I would not be at all surprised if you got the invoice sometime in May. Don't give money to scalpers unless there's literally no other choice, like buying concert tickets.
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wdarkk posted:Is "pre-ordering" the RG Hi Nu from Big Bad Toy Store a decent means of getting it as quickly as possible without paying scalpers? I've got a p-bandai gun for it coming soon-ish. If they claim that you can order it, you'll get it. It may be a little delayed but they'll let you know.
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A heads up about BBTS: I placed orders with them for “guaranteed pre order” items last July with an ETA of August. As of January they pushed their ETA out to April and I finally cancelled and ordered from Newtype. Lots of people speak well of them, however I had nothing but issues, they never contacted me about pushing back ETAs, even after months, and I wouldn’t trust their ETA system as far as I could throw them. Maybe eventually I would have gotten the stuff I ordered, but after 6 months of their nonsense, I didn’t have patience for it anymore. I’d either preorder from USAGundamStore and get the 10% off (plus they have the other accessory kits if you were interested) or else tap the heart on Newtype’s store and you’ll get an email when it’s being restocked.
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I've been out of the loop for a while. Has there been any news on an updated MG Exia based on the GN frame? I have all the other 00 MG kits (drat is Virtue a big boy), but don't want to buy an older MG Exia that from everything I read is kind of crappy.
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koreban posted:A heads up about BBTS: I placed orders with them for “guaranteed pre order” items last July with an ETA of August. As of January they pushed their ETA out to April and I finally cancelled and ordered from Newtype. I'm still waiting for a kit from BBTS too, a VF-31 cockpit model that's showing as 'in stock' at HLJ and 1999. Tempted to just order from Japan instead now.
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CapMoron posted:I've been out of the loop for a while. Has there been any news on an updated MG Exia based on the GN frame? I have all the other 00 MG kits (drat is Virtue a big boy), but don't want to buy an older MG Exia that from everything I read is kind of crappy. Nothing yet, if ever. It's on the big list of kits that they could easily make any time they want but meh, the injection molders are busy making our next super successful franchise. Oh what's that? Nobody bought it? Not a single one? Hmm, well time to think of a new super successful franchise. Doubly so now that covid has tanked their operations and they appear to be putting what little resources they have into their next big things. (Seriously Bandai, those Kyokai Senki kits are gonna rot before they sell out, just put them in the big eco-pla blender with all the leftover GalGun stock)
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What stores are you going to that are swimming in Girl Gun Lady kits? I haven't seen a single one in person ever.
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I like the Kyokai Senki mech designs a lot, it’s a real shame the show is so bland.
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Gripweed posted:What stores are you going to that are swimming in Girl Gun Lady kits? I haven't seen a single one in person ever. I've seen a few, but I've got multiple dedicated model kit shops in driving distance. And pretty much everything is selling these days. It's harder to find a kit that stays on shelves longterm than the alternative. When production is limited, people take what they can get. I'd say another big complication at the moment is that Bandai's got contracts with Target. A lot of production is taken by the Breaker Battlogue kits, since those are getting wide US release, so there's less space at the factory for general purpose production.
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chiasaur11 posted:I've seen a few, but I've got multiple dedicated model kit shops in driving distance. And pretty much everything is selling these days. It's harder to find a kit that stays on shelves longterm than the alternative. When production is limited, people take what they can get. At my local comic shop the only model kits that have hung around for very long are some of the kits for the new Zoids show, the XI/Penelope box, the Ultraman kits, and the dozens of 30MM add-on kits that the store accidentally bought when they thought they were ordering one of each kit but were actually ordering one box of each kit.
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Gripweed posted:What stores are you going to that are swimming in Girl Gun Lady kits? I haven't seen a single one in person ever. I live in Japan but every store near me that stocks plamo has shelves full of unsold Girl Gun and Kyokai Senki kits.
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PringleCreamEgg posted:I like the Kyokai Senki mech designs a lot, it’s a real shame the show is so bland. There's some legit interesting designs, I'm just hoping they're not gonna trip and fall into the same hole the first season of IBO did with its kits with a bloat of
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RillAkBea posted:I live in Japan but every store near me that stocks plamo has shelves full of unsold Girl Gun and Kyokai Senki kits. That's interesting. Gun Girl makes sense, basically. It was a weird line, and the rollout was small enough that it couldn't really be canned before they finished. But Kyokai Senki has been running long enough with the split cour setup that I'd expect at least some measures to reduce unsold stock. Are we talking massive piles of first wave stuff, or just slower sales for recent releases? Or are grunts selling and main suits sitting? I've seen massive piles of even popular kits at times, so I know anecdotes aren't data, but if I can't get full on data, more detailed anecdotes would be handy.
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RillAkBea posted:I live in Japan but every store near me that stocks plamo has shelves full of unsold Girl Gun and Kyokai Senki kits. That’s a shame. Girl Gun Lady was so weird, if it had done well that probably would have given Bandai cause to try more weird poo poo.
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I've been in kind of a funk recently which is why i haven't been posting much but i feel better now so here's a fuckton of Diaclones i collected since the new year started: https://imgur.com/a/nVj9b0S https://imgur.com/a/pimKoyL https://imgur.com/a/D0Sc87e https://imgur.com/a/49VmCtF https://imgur.com/a/QFFXSH8
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koreban posted:Maybe eventually I would have gotten the stuff I ordered, but after 6 months of their nonsense, I didn’t have patience for it anymore. Yeah, I have 2 pre-orders with USAGS, one from August and one from October of last year, and I still don't have them. The kits holding this up were both normal bandai gundam releases manufactured in 2021, so I'm not sure they're reliable any longer Hell, I'd cancel these if it wasn't for the shady as hell way they do pre-order payment e: I just looked at my pre-orders and the Eclipse MG has now moved to "estimated delivery third quarter", and the site still has never had a single Gremory HG in stock. Thanks guys, really stellar poo poo tenderjerk fucked around with this message at 13:01 on Apr 26, 2022 |
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