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09-14-2012, 12:48 PM
Hellion42
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Macross Valkyries are truly plastic crack. LOL.
I own 5x 1/48 Yamato valks and love them. The recent Bandai reissues of the Macross Frontier valks are sweet. I only own the Alto version, missed Ozma - but really want the Michail sniper version.
If I were to collect Valkyries, I would probably stick with one of each main type, regardless of pilot specifics or specialties. But that would still be a huge undertaking. So I don't.
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Vermillion, Retaliation's execution [both in product design and distribution] was pretty much the final straw. Add yet another price hike and movie delays and I was convinced that I could spend my money elsewhere on better.
I wasn't expecting much from Retailiation toy-wise, or movie-wise, and didn't care that it got pushed back. I called the handful of figures that I liked a bonus. As far as the price, I bought one figure and one 3-pack at retail, and the other 3-pack on clearance. I would have picked up a few other figures, but at $10 Hasbro can keep them.
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Sure, there are things I'd liked from the new stuff, but I don't feel I've missed out not owning them. Unlike say, having recently bought a third Wal-Mart MP-Starscream just to keep my one original MISB and still have one to display in jet mode. I still have mixed emotions about handing the third one I had found in store to a guy who was genuinely excited to see him and I hope was able to by him because I'm pretty sure he was part of the group from the "differently abled" crew whose bus was parked outside.
To this day I wish I had walked up front with the and purchased it for him to make sure he got it. And I also kick myself for handing it over not knowing if he could/would buy it for himself. For all I know, he was happy to simply look at it in the store. Like I said... he was... well... He functioned on a different level.
And if you had bought it for him, you'd be wondering if he didn't just lose interest and leave it on the bus.
You did what you thought was right at the time, no sense in fretting about it.
My Walscream story isn't as interesting. Someone posted a sighting on tfans at like 1am. I immediately got dressed and drove to the store, which was 20-25 minutes away. When I got there the action figure aisle was blocked off due to floor buffing. I was trying to see if I could find where they got put, checking end caps and islands. Finally saw that they had 3, hopped the barrier, and grabbed one. I wasn't sticking around waiting for them to be done and/or other bolder than I to do what I ended up doing.
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Anyway, I need only one Macross piece, so far as I can tell. And yes, it's only so he can fill in as an MP-Jetfire. I just don't want to spend the money on one right now because I suspect that, given time the Macross line will once again release a suitable figure and the price will be better.
I have a GT Jetfire. Still tight, still white, most of the armor pieces... but half the stickers are missing and what's there is placed piss-poorly. I overpaid for it in 2001 dollars, probably a decent price in today's funny munny.
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In all fairness, I had been watching the listing for about two weeks, hoping no one would buy it until I had cut enough corners to buy it. Then I did. And only after I had finished my purchase did I see the above.
So there was an iGear seeker you didn't preorder?!?!?!!?
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