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News Credits: 8 · by **NuclearConvoy** » Fri May 23, 2008 1:41 pm

Tekka wrote:
Nekoman wrote:I guess I should be happy with what I’ve got, but my Gundam addiction hurts. Especially with a weakening dollar.
Want to know what hurts? The shipping price for my last batch of Tekkaman Blade merchandise.

SHIPPING CHARGE: BOX 1 - W : 7,500 grams - Ship Method: EMS - $171.88

I'm still reeling from the overspend. You can imagine what the individual items cost.

I feel sick just looking at that shipping cost....

News Credits: 6 · by **City Commander** » Fri May 23, 2008 1:45 pm

You should give me all your money Tek. It'll stop you from spending it

News Credits: 387 · by **Nekoman** » Fri May 23, 2008 1:47 pm

Tekka wrote:
Nekoman wrote:I guess I should be happy with what I’ve got, but my Gundam addiction hurts. Especially with a weakening dollar.
Want to know what hurts? The shipping price for my last batch of Tekkaman Blade merchandise.

SHIPPING CHARGE: BOX 1 - W : 7,500 grams - Ship Method: EMS - $171.88

I'm still reeling from the overspend. You can imagine what the individual items cost.

That is excruciatingly painful! Which is another reason I always use SAL, oh well, I guess us Americans need our share of pain too.

Hey, know who has our money here? Those darn Japanese! Lets go and take all their good toys and cute girls back to our nations! J/K.

News Credits: 2 · by **Tekka** » Fri May 23, 2008 1:49 pm

Why the J/K? I'm totally up for that.

To battle!

AND VICTORY!

Oppai for all!

News Credits: 387 · by **Nekoman** » Fri May 23, 2008 2:04 pm

Tekka wrote:Why the J/K? I'm totally up for that.

To battle!

AND VICTORY!

Oppai for all!

Why? Because Nekoman is gutless and doesn’t want anyone breaking through my window thinking I’m actually going to a foreign nation to take their women and commit mass theft of all their toys. :lol:

And here in America, we don’t joke. But I’m going to change that, cause some chick with green hair just gave me magic powers that allow me to command people to do whatever I want! Watch I’ll use it right now,

Tekka, surrender all of your Skywarp and Tekkaman figures to me!

News Credits: 2 · by **Tekka** » Fri May 23, 2008 2:06 pm

Your Geass powers won't work on a denizen of hell. :mrgreen:

However I will give you this charming alarm clock for the effort! As well as a copy of our home game, Seibertronopoly.

News Credits: 38 · by **Sunstar** » Fri May 23, 2008 3:51 pm

he wants to steal all the toys belonging to women? I got over 70 starscream things.

News Credits: 387 · by **Nekoman** » Fri May 23, 2008 4:41 pm

Sunstar wrote:he wants to steal all the toys belonging to women? I got over 70 starscream things.

No! Me and Tekka are going to Japan to take all their toys and women, cause they have it too good over there.

But knowing this, we may stop by and take your Starscreams while we’re at it.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Fri May 23, 2008 4:59 pm

Nekoman wrote:And here in America, we don’t joke.

I've noticed.

News Credits: 5 · by **Sledge** » Fri May 23, 2008 5:04 pm

Kay: No, ma'am. We at the FBI do not have a sense of humor we're aware of.

News Credits: 38 · by **Sunstar** » Fri May 23, 2008 5:28 pm

Nekoman wrote:
Sunstar wrote:he wants to steal all the toys belonging to women? I got over 70 starscream things.

No! Me and Tekka are going to Japan to take all their toys and women, cause they have it too good over there.

But knowing this, we may stop by and take your Starscreams while we’re at it.

better not...I got harpoons and I am not scared to use them

News Credits: 11 · by **kirbenvost** » Fri May 23, 2008 7:30 pm

Sunstar wrote:
Nekoman wrote:
Sunstar wrote:he wants to steal all the toys belonging to women? I got over 70 starscream things.

No! Me and Tekka are going to Japan to take all their toys and women, cause they have it too good over there.

But knowing this, we may stop by and take your Starscreams while we’re at it.

better not...I got harpoons and I am not scared to use them

Yeah, for all that seal hunting eh? Y'know, cuz we're Canadians, and that's what we do. So watch out! :lol:

News Credits: 9 · by **Sowndwave76** » Fri May 23, 2008 7:57 pm

Alright,
so should I BIN from a seller on ebay for a total price of $80??

Or do I wait it out and hope prices come down?

News Credits: 38 · by **Sunstar** » Fri May 23, 2008 9:14 pm

kirbenvost wrote:
Sunstar wrote:
Nekoman wrote:
No! Me and Tekka are going to Japan to take all their toys and women, cause they have it too good over there.

But knowing this, we may stop by and take your Starscreams while we’re at it.

better not...I got harpoons and I am not scared to use them

Yeah, for all that seal hunting eh? Y'know, cuz we're Canadians, and that's what we do. So watch out!

More like whales. I live by lake ontario, so every summer you see beached whales washed up on the shore... MOBY DICK I cry and I race after the whales with my harpoons. ;;)

News Credits: 2 · by **Tekka** » Sat May 24, 2008 4:35 am

So... now that the buying is done I'm now thinking about what the paint applications on these might be like. The paint on Starscream was alright for the most part, but it does tend to leave noticeable grey specks around the edges, especially on the chest, the sides of the head, and on some figures the various stripes.

I know it would be too much to hope for a sudden improvement in general quality despite this being a semi-exclusive run. But I can but hope, eh?

News Credits: 1 · by **Craven Knight** » Sat May 24, 2008 5:33 am

I emailed FantoFan 24 hours ago, Haven't heard back yet... :-?

I guess they're alittle busy.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sat May 24, 2008 5:44 am

Yeah I think they might be too.

I didn't get back to them to confirm my pre-order for about 12 hours (wanted to know the status of my OzFormers group order) and it took nearly another 12 hours for them to reply to that.

News Credits: 1 · by **Craven Knight** » Sat May 24, 2008 6:27 am

Burn wrote:Yeah I think they might be too.

I didn't get back to them to confirm my pre-order for about 12 hours (wanted to know the status of my OzFormers group order) and it took nearly another 12 hours for them to reply to that.

So what's a the cost to get these two to Aus?

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sat May 24, 2008 6:35 am

F2F in an email wrote:Using Henkei D-02 Starscream as reference, an estimated shipping cost are as follows,
EMS, fastest air with online tracking, US$37.50
SAL, low priority air with registration number, US$26.60

Not sure if that's each or combined. And i'd go with the SAL option as that's what I do with HLJ and it often reaches me within a week to two weeks.

News Credits: 1 · by **Craven Knight** » Sat May 24, 2008 7:19 am

So about $37US each, I can handle that - hope they get back to me.

News Credits: 7 · by **Geekee1** » Sat May 24, 2008 7:42 am

So now that the preoder has been up for a couple of days now, I'm interested to see how many people have ordered a set.

Show of hands please.

I'll raise mine first.