Haloid1177
Banned
You are amazing I love you. I'm actually thinking about just living at home longer and saving for a house but I'm not sure yet. The raise at work wasn't what I expected. Life is complicated.
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Action Figure GAF |OT| Articulated figures murdered my wallet
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You are amazing I love you. I'm actually thinking about just living at home longer and saving for a house but I'm not sure yet. The raise at work wasn't what I expected. Life is complicated.
Freezasaurus
Member
Ah, bishoujos. My area of expertise. Which ones have you bought so far?
Oof, I went HAM the last couple of days. So far I've got Black Canary, Batgirl, Huntress, Spider-Woman, Spider-Gwen, Zatanna, She-Hulk, and Star-Fire. I've purchased Black Widow and Mara Jade from less reliable sources so I'll see if I actually get them or have to PayPal refund them. I'm also working on getting Wonder Woman and Power Girl at reasonable prices. It's addictive as hell collecting these things.
Freezasaurus
Member
Which Wonder Woman? There are two of them. The one with the cape and skirt, and the older one in the OG costume.
I bought Power Girl back when she was readily available. Same with Poison Ivy.
I'm trying for the cape and skirt one. The prices are more reasonable for it, and I like the head sculpt a lot better than the OG one.
Buying these things after they get out of print has been a challenge.
Freezasaurus
Member
There is something a little funky about the face on the OG Wonder Woman bishoujo, but overall I think I prefer it to the newer one.
The thing with bishoujos is that they're always in large supply until they're not, so you kind of have to pick up the ones you really want before they disappear.
Haloid1177
Banned
Mandarake sucks let it be known. Gonna go buy a 1080ti and stop grail hunting lol.
davidwhangchoi
Member
sucks they gave you one quote and then changed it to some astronomical number =/
Freezasaurus
Member
I just picked up a grail from there today. I had like five options. What was your experience?
Olengie
Member
Got these recently.
A stroke of luck I managed to catch Darth Revan Black Series for MSRP on Amazon before it sold out again. Wish they made more Black Series based on Legends figures, like Darth Nihilius.
White Ranger was on Wal-Mart Clearance. Yellow Ranger was there too, but I couldn't decide to pick her up for $10. LOL. I only want the Green Ranger now but that is going to take some extreme luck
Dragonzord was from Ebay for a reasonable price, especially after Ebay's $15 off $75+ Flashsale. I have both the Original Dragonzord and the Black Dragonzord. Haha.
Haloid1177
Banned
They quoted me at $435 when ordering and my invoice was $988. I was pissed and now I have a 1080ti STRIX coming in this week.
Get ready for three more releases this month. Red skull ships end of month, as does spider man. And comic super man supposedly also.
Edit: and space ghost last week.
Their promo codes are great. I feel like I don't know where to find them though.
I need them codes too
Freezasaurus
Member
Whoa, how the hell did that happen? Did they decide to charge $400 shipping!?
Haloid1177
Banned
They quoted me EMS shipping but came back and said only DHL Express was available for the item so I just had them cancel it.
Freezasaurus
Member
That's super fishy. Even DHL shouldn't be that much more expensive than EMS. What were you trying to buy?
Haloid1177
Banned
A Hot Toys 89 Batmobile lol.
Freezasaurus
Member
Well of course shipping was going to be fucking bananas.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
That Wolfenstein CE is a bargain. I just don't want figures that scale. Still, a good effort.
Hasbro's distribution is bad on their best day but after huge shipments of Rogue One figures that noone wants it's a long nightmare.
At least a few stores actually ordered some of 40th anniversary wave 1, I guess because of the novel packaging. I don't like that packaging personally but if it means I can actually find what I want then I won't complain.
Hasbro's distribution is bad on their best day but after huge shipments of Rogue One figures that noone wants it's a long nightmare.
At least a few stores actually ordered some of 40th anniversary wave 1, I guess because of the novel packaging. I don't like that packaging personally but if it means I can actually find what I want then I won't complain.
Haloid1177
Banned
I expected like $400-500 in shipping which would still have been fine as the overall cost would have still been around retail. Not fucking $840 shipping. I blame Messi.
Freezasaurus
Member
That's an old scam, though. Amazon sellers do that shit all the time so their listings get better placement. Then they put the rest of the price they really want in with shipping.
For my SOC Megazord and MP Megatron shipment from Amiami DHL was going to cost me twice as much as EMS.
May as well fly to Japan, go to the Mandarake store in person, buy it and bring it back with you on the flight back.
BaroqueSampson
Member
Yooooo I should be expecting Spider-Man this month and not next? Dope.
http://www.goodsmile.info/en/product/6465/figma+Red.html
Well, I was going to wait on Ami until I saw the exclusive... PokeCen Japan will be have it too, but dunno about the NA PokeCen. (Free shipping!)
Well, I was going to wait on Ami until I saw the exclusive... PokeCen Japan will be have it too, but dunno about the NA PokeCen. (Free shipping!)
It's not exclusive tho.....
www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?scode=FIGURE-030888
EDIT: unless you meant the Pikachu extra. In that case, yes. But ami is cheaper /cheapskate
Shadow Ranger
Member
GSC take the piss with the price for a small exclusive. Actually received my Deku andassume it was gonna be like the Link DX but was just a side add on (guess now I know difference between DX and bonus).
That said, I'm gonna have to suck it up for Pikachu. But GSC are taking the damn piss.
davidwhangchoi
Member
i was looking over at Macross World and a poster was complaining about the same thing the past Sunday(the sales section set to private so only members can view so i'll just quote it below. looks like they were quoted 4600yen for DHL and then given double the amount.
Haloid1177
Banned
Fuck Mandarake.
davidwhangchoi
Member
looking and they don't even offer DHL or any shipping options for it on checkout. lol
i'm going to contact them and just see what they quote me for giggles.
D
Diggeh
Unconfirmed Member
Guys pls just get a Tomy Pikachu and call it a day
Cases are processed June 24th, meaning you probably get him around the end of the month/first week in july
Yeah I meant the Pikachu. Still hoping PokemonCenter will post it today, since they've put up the Nendos (fairy) soon after. Will wait and see...
Barrow Roll
Member
Which one do you recommend? I need something good to replace the hideous SHF Pikachu.
Totally in for Red on Amiami though. If only it came with Ivysaur for a Brawl Pokemon Trainer setup.
Oh fuck it, GS Online Shop doesn't want my money:
I mean, WTF?! is the point of having an online shop that only ships to certain region?
Waitn what?? I thought the last post was referring to the Japanese Pokemon Center :/
I tgink that confirms it'll have a western version made. (But I want that Pika...)
Shadow Ranger
Member
Ah, did not see this before. Well, guess Asia can keep the Pikachu then. Normal will do. I may luck out down the road if they still have stock on Pokemon Center over Christmas.
Freezasaurus
Member
BaroqueSampson
Member
Consider using a proxy?
Can't do. It'd see that my address is in Australia during shipping.
I have forwarding service in Japan and US but I'm not sure any of those countries listed on GS shop have a reliable one.
No worries anyway. I already got various form of Pikachu from SH Figurearts and that other company that makes Naruto figurine.
davidwhangchoi
Member
Funny, i messaged the same Mandarake branch in separate duplicate messages asking for a shipping quote and got back 2 different numbers.
850000yen
772000yen
i'm going to try different branch if one ever pop up elsewhere just to confirm..
850000yen
772000yen
i'm going to try different branch if one ever pop up elsewhere just to confirm..