Now that they’ve revealed this Big Powered GV retooled with Trivers compatibility, I wonder if they’ll be doing the same for Dia-Battles and Battle Buffalo.
I'm wondering if someone didn't to the conversion from Yen to USD correctly. LOL Color variants aside, I usually don't double dip on the mechs, but I think I may need to on DA-81.
I'm thinking I might display DA-80 with the buggy on the chest to differentiate more from my BP Destroyer. Also I hope it's easier to do an all in one config with this guy, it's a bit of a pain to get the little jet onto the regular BP mold in a way that doesn't limit anything.
I have destroyer, and thus am glad to already know that they don't sit in the hands well and look awkward in vehicle mode. Still, I can definitely see the appeal.
I really wish those guns pegged into the palms of the hands somehow. BP really doesn’t hold it well enough
Got in '81. Also PO'd Nightbird and Crosscut, not realizing Nightbird is a wide release... les sigh. Oh well, makes up on my bailing on my MOTU Revelations PO's (switched to BBTS) I guess.
DA-80 & 81 are on order from BBTS. Might take a bit longer like some have said but my previous packages have all arrived in great shape. So if I set aside $50 a month, from now until their release, it shouldn't hurt the wallet much if at all.
TakaraTomy staff have started an official Diaclone Twitter account! Follow @Diaclone_log. https://twitter.com/Diaclone_log/status/1420308044399878144
That's why I asked. Last time I ordered from them was before the pandemic, and only DHL was available, and cost a whole lot more. Some people were talking that EMS is now available. BTW for comparison: AmazonJP: 37,449 JPY + 5,139 JPY (S/H) = 42,588 JPY Amiami: 35,200 JPY + 5000 JPY (Estimate via DHL) = 40200 JPY Definitely cheaper over at Amiami right now. AmazonJP usually drops prices closer to release.
I had a Twitter account years ago, used it only once and forgot about it... It apparently got hacked and the hacker did something to get me perma-banned. Twitter will on tell me they won't talk to me now...
I just ended up pre ordering through BBTS. I always feel comfortable with them because they don't give me an issues replacing something that's defective. I will have to wait a little longer, but I don't think I mind since it will give me more time to budget for the price.
Lately I've noticed the Diaclone stuff hasn't dropped much form the initial preorder price.. Just for giggles I looked at the cost of pre-ordering two of them. Usually the shipping would barely go up. I used to do this all the time with another local collector and we split the shipping. Now it's not the case. It's a went up another 3400 yen. To ship two of them to the US would be 82,734 yen in total. Shipping is 7836 yen. So for it to make sense, the exchange rate would have to be ~115 yen to the dollar, to break even with a US seller that ships for free (tax not included in this or the AMJ total). I think within the last year, the closest it's been is 111 yen to the dollar.