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Post by zman on Jan 25, 2021 13:15:48 GMT -5
That right Ami2 can still make money even if we cancel our Pre O from them. Plus there is a possibility of members cancelling pre O to be banned. But again as much as I wanted to get my hands of that DX I am willing to sacrifice waiting, Afterall this hobby is all about patience. I have proven that over the years collecting. Patience is a virtue and the rewards is fruitful. Very true but in these unprecedented times, keep an eye on these stores and monitor any signs of trouble. Some might fold at any moment. At the minimum, know your credit card protection rights and time frames.
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Post by zman on Jan 25, 2021 16:14:19 GMT -5
1 unit available directly from AmzJp as of this posting. ¥64,900 + ¥9,695 shipping
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Post by tjdetweiler on Jan 25, 2021 16:33:25 GMT -5
Just curious for the one who ordered at Nippon Yassan? - any update from Nippon Yassan? (I didn't ordered from them, I'm just curious) Great to see that everyone is receiving there copy!
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Post by zman on Jan 25, 2021 16:41:36 GMT -5
1 unit available directly from AmzJp as of this posting. ¥64,900 + ¥9,695 shipping Gone! That was quick. Was it one of us here? Just curious for the one who ordered at Nippon Yassan? - any update from Nippon Yassan? (I didn't ordered from them, I'm just curious) I pre-ordered from NY but was early enough that NY wasn't asking for any kind of payment then. NY requested payment Dec. 9 and I paid promptly. I discovered the "horrors" of NY after the fact so I immediately filed for a Paypal dispute. As of today, NY has NOT responded to Paypal itself. My money will be returned by Feb 1 per Paypal. Am I the only clueless fool about NY? (One of the negative effects of not having any social media accounts probably)
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Post by mpchi on Jan 25, 2021 17:56:17 GMT -5
Phew~! DX Voltes V from Amazon Japan finally arrived. Have to say I got really lucky to have an extra Amazon outer box on top, as that box is NOT in good shape. A bunch of holes poked through, a couple ripped corners, and packaging tape starting to get loose. No extra stuff, just a slightly bigger box on top with quite a bit of room to slide around. Fortunately, the brown Voltes box inside is in very good condition, minus that middle bottom gash shown in the pic, which I think the damage was actually from the Amazon warehouse handling and not from the DHL shipping, as there was no damage on the outer box at that matching spot. If this were to have no outer box, it would not have survived well... While that gash may still do enough damage to the actual Volt In Box, I hope it is not as bad as it looks. Have to get back to work in the meantime. Update. Can't help it and went opened it real quick just to check the box damage. Turned out it did bruised up a bit, but acceptable. Yay! Funny now that I look at my photo, looks like even the box graphics are pointing at that spot, and dead center between Voltes' feet LOL.
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Post by Yumcha on Jan 25, 2021 18:22:59 GMT -5
Great to see that everyone is receiving there copy! Oh sure, rub it in. <sobs>
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Post by zman on Jan 25, 2021 18:42:46 GMT -5
Phew~! DX Voltes V from Amazon Japan finally arrived. Have to say I got really lucky to have an extra Amazon outer box on top, as that box is NOT in good shape. A bunch of holes poked through, a couple ripped corners, and packaging tape starting to get loose. No extra stuff, just a slightly bigger box on top with quite a bit of room to slide around. Fortunately, the brown Voltes box inside is in very good condition, minus that middle bottom gash shown in the pic, which I think the damage was actually from the Amazon warehouse handling and not from the DHL shipping, as there was no damage on the outer box at that matching spot. If this were to have no outer box, it would not have survived well... View AttachmentWhile that gash may still do enough damage to the actual Volt In Box, I hope it is not as bad as it looks. Have to get back to work in the meantime. Update. Can't help it and went opened it real quick just to check the box damage. Turned out it did bruised up a bit, but acceptable. Yay! Funny now that I look at my photo, looks like even the box graphics are pointing at that spot, and dead center between Voltes' feet LOL. View AttachmentWoohoo! At least you have that puppy secured at home now.
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Post by mojacko on Jan 25, 2021 18:55:47 GMT -5
Great to see that everyone is receiving there copy! Oh sure, rub it in. <sobs> Hahahaha....I feel you bro!!!
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Post by Yumcha on Jan 25, 2021 19:47:15 GMT -5
Oh sure, rub it in. <sobs> Hahahaha....I feel you bro!!! #metoo <guffaws>
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Post by tjdetweiler on Jan 25, 2021 19:54:26 GMT -5
Hahahaha....I feel you bro!!! #metoo <guffaws> awwww! didnt mean to make you feel that way! sorry bro! did you order from AmiAmi? zman - glad paypal is sorting it out! nah, still alot of people pre order from NY it seems but alot of folks have avoided NY (Macross folks also made a topic to warn other fellows)
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Post by mojacko on Jan 25, 2021 20:10:30 GMT -5
awwww! didnt mean to make you feel that way! sorry bro! did you order from AmiAmi? zman - glad paypal is sorting it out! nah, still alot of people pre order from NY it seems but alot of folks have avoided NY (Macross folks also made a topic to warn other fellows) Good thing I didnt put a pre O on NY, They were good 5 years ago, wonder what happen.
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Post by Sagat on Jan 26, 2021 2:02:10 GMT -5
Phew~! DX Voltes V from Amazon Japan finally arrived. Have to say I got really lucky to have an extra Amazon outer box on top, as that box is NOT in good shape. A bunch of holes poked through, a couple ripped corners, and packaging tape starting to get loose. No extra stuff, just a slightly bigger box on top with quite a bit of room to slide around. Fortunately, the brown Voltes box inside is in very good condition, minus that middle bottom gash shown in the pic, which I think the damage was actually from the Amazon warehouse handling and not from the DHL shipping, as there was no damage on the outer box at that matching spot. If this were to have no outer box, it would not have survived well... View AttachmentWhile that gash may still do enough damage to the actual Volt In Box, I hope it is not as bad as it looks. Have to get back to work in the meantime. Update. Can't help it and went opened it real quick just to check the box damage. Turned out it did bruised up a bit, but acceptable. Yay! Funny now that I look at my photo, looks like even the box graphics are pointing at that spot, and dead center between Voltes' feet LOL. View AttachmentTypical flimsy Amazon JP packaging. The good thing is that you have DX Voltes V. Do you plan on keeping or cancelling your order with Ami2?
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Post by mpchi on Jan 26, 2021 2:59:16 GMT -5
Phew~! DX Voltes V from Amazon Japan finally arrived. Have to say I got really lucky to have an extra Amazon outer box on top, as that box is NOT in good shape. A bunch of holes poked through, a couple ripped corners, and packaging tape starting to get loose. No extra stuff, just a slightly bigger box on top with quite a bit of room to slide around. Fortunately, the brown Voltes box inside is in very good condition, minus that middle bottom gash shown in the pic, which I think the damage was actually from the Amazon warehouse handling and not from the DHL shipping, as there was no damage on the outer box at that matching spot. If this were to have no outer box, it would not have survived well... View AttachmentWhile that gash may still do enough damage to the actual Volt In Box, I hope it is not as bad as it looks. Have to get back to work in the meantime. Update. Can't help it and went opened it real quick just to check the box damage. Turned out it did bruised up a bit, but acceptable. Yay! Funny now that I look at my photo, looks like even the box graphics are pointing at that spot, and dead center between Voltes' feet LOL. View AttachmentTypical flimsy Amazon JP packaging. The good thing is that you have DX Voltes V. Do you plan on keeping or cancelling your order with Ami2? Cancelling, in fact just wrote them minutes ago. Tested my Voltes's main body with the batteries and the electronics seem to work just fine. Have not tested the base though, but I'll have to save that for later. Surprisingly, my initial experience with the combination of DX Voltes V is actually a bit frustrating. Not because it was complicated, but some of parts of it just refuse to work on my first couple tries. Like the arms/shoulder could never slot in completely flushed no matter how hard I pushed it down, leaving the shoulders and head sitting too high. Have to refer to videos to double check mine is indeed off, since the shoulder sits too high making the should connection all wobbly. The waist combination also didn't quite work the first couple tries, and with the torso red cockpit box keep opening when all tucked in, got my index finger pretty sore after trying to pull it back out with that little tab over and over to fix it. Have to take all the vehicles apart like 2-3 times and do-over the combination to a point the combination sound effects been playing way too long an got annoying . Eventually, I got everything right, and the figure is nice. Very big, and have some weight. Though if you handle the vehicles individually, you may find some of them pretty light weight. Ankle swivel seems a bit loose (though good that it has limited range to avoid loosing balance), and I wish the hinges on the shoulder/arm connection are tighter, to give the arms a more solid feel when you raise the shoulders a bit, all friction. But where they have ratchets, the ratchets feels very nice with nice clicking sound. Putting the batteries in Cruiser (head) is also a pain, can't get a good grip to tighten the screw while the bottom half keep retracting. Little capsule cockpit for the feet is also a pain to slot in. So overall, a rather frustrating first time experience, but it will be a lot better now knowing many of the tricky parts, and can actually combine smoother without a lot of fumbling. It is a cool figure, and I have yet to mess with all the accessories and weapons it came with, as well as the stand and some of the vehicle functions. It will take some time to go over all of them, since there are so much in this set. One thing I really like is the fact that the gorilla arms that people were complaining about, seems to be a non-issue in person. Proportion looks nice, especially when you retract the elbows correctly. The face sculpt is particular great on this DX. Way nicer than the narrow face the GX-31 got. A very handsome looking Voltes indeed.
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Post by zman on Jan 26, 2021 10:49:49 GMT -5
...also didn't quite work the first couple tries, and with the torso red cockpit box keep opening when all tucked in, got my index finger pretty sore after trying to pull it back out with that little tab over and over to fix it. Have to take all the vehicles apart like 2-3 times and do-over the combination to a point the combination sound effects been playing way too long an got annoying . LMAO The face sculpt is particular great on this DX. Way nicer than the narrow face the GX-31 got. A very handsome looking Voltes indeed. Agree 100%. Definitely a great homage to the vintage DX V5.
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Post by Magmatron on Jan 26, 2021 11:05:28 GMT -5
Good thing I didnt put a pre O on NY, They were good 5 years ago, wonder what happen. We actually had a small discussion regarding it a while back in another thread.
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Post by mojacko on Jan 26, 2021 12:56:22 GMT -5
Good thing I didnt put a pre O on NY, They were good 5 years ago, wonder what happen. We actually had a small discussion regarding it a while back in another thread. Not sure where I read it here or somewhere else but good thing people from forums were already talking about the shady practice @ NY. Sigh. I feel bad about them since they were a good alternative to collectors looking for hard to find stuff. But then again they are asking more $$$ and yet shady practice. Its good I lurk around here, oe else I wont know rumors on FB groups.
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Post by mojacko on Jan 26, 2021 12:57:47 GMT -5
...also didn't quite work the first couple tries, and with the torso red cockpit box keep opening when all tucked in, got my index finger pretty sore after trying to pull it back out with that little tab over and over to fix it. Have to take all the vehicles apart like 2-3 times and do-over the combination to a point the combination sound effects been playing way too long an got annoying . LMAO The face sculpt is particular great on this DX. Way nicer than the narrow face the GX-31 got. A very handsome looking Voltes indeed. Agree 100%. Definitely a great homage to the vintage DX V5. Some fans swear they dont like the white lines and instead removing it or painting it all red close to the anime and the original GX31
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Post by zman on Jan 26, 2021 13:29:43 GMT -5
LMAO Agree 100%. Definitely a great homage to the vintage DX V5. Some fans swear they dont like the white lines and instead removing it or painting it all red close to the anime and the original GX31 ...and it will be called "Disrespect for Volt In Box" LMAO!
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Post by mpchi on Jan 26, 2021 13:48:48 GMT -5
...Some fans swear they dont like the white lines and instead removing it or painting it all red close to the anime and the original GX31 I honestly didn't even notice the difference until you mention it, since I am so used to seeing the white lines in yours and zman's avatar with it, as well as random toys online. Somehow I thought the white lines were in the anime, until I look it up. For me, I like it with the white lines better. But don't like the white ears, which I switched them out. Cat approves! Attachments:
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Post by Sagat on Jan 27, 2021 6:23:00 GMT -5
Cat approves! At first glance, I thought this was photoshopped with the cat!
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