Gotta love when those SAL shipments come in:

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Is that Tekkaman Blade and Tekkaman Evil I'm seeing there? I did not even know there were figures made of them.

EDIT: Oh crap, I forgot I had preordered Odin and he has shipped out.

Against all odds, found a Masterpiece Soundwave at TRU today AND scored a DX PlezuOh from CS Toys! :)

Nice. I'm still kicking myself for not waking up at activation.

Just paid for SIC Den-O Wing Form and Figuarts Zolda.

Set me back $118 all said and done. 4000y shipping. :( Kind of kills the excitement for two figures I've wanted for a while when they still end up costing me two arms and two legs. I really wish I could pick DHL without getting buttfucked on customs. How cheap is SAL shipping from Japan usually?

About half of that.

Hmm, that's still actually be a bit. And how long does it usually take to Canada/US?

Lately it's been around 2 weeks or so. Before it was closer to 10 days.

The Tekkaman pair took about twelve days, Tornador took three weeks. It really is dependent on customs.

Was it at Nakano? I thought it was cheaper or so if stuff was at Nakano so thats why I chose DHL when I was finally able to order something earlier :/ If anything Ill get it changed to Sal hopefully, if its too much.

Nakano's DHL is cheap. It cost about the same as SAL would have. And got here almost TOO quickly. Lol.

Sweetness, now to hope everything was instock :lol

Never understood the love for the Pikman games. I tried playing the first one and got bored of it in the first hour.

As for shipping, yeah, Nakano always seems to be the best, but they also seem to have the higher prices for the figures themselves. I mean, I got OOO RaToraTa last wee from Umeda for 1500Y, Nakano wanted 4000Y for it. Umeda also had Gatakiraba was 2500Y and TaJaDor for 3000Y when Nakano had TaJaDor for 4500Y and Gata for 3000Y.

Belated pics, but on Friday my PoL from BBTS arrived. Toku-related stuff included:

MonsterArts Destoroyah Evolution
SIC OOO Tajadol
SIC KT Kuuga Rising Ultimate Form

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I really like the Kiwami Tamashii figures. I wish they'd crank out more of them - not quite as accessory-heavy as the main line, but still a lot of fun.

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It wasn't Nakano.

Ah, but DHL comes with the customs fees that are $20 or something.

Don't you have to pay custom fees no matter what if you are in Europe?

In the UK its anything over £15-20 (I forget the exact amount). Its random though so parcels well over than can get through if you're very lucky.

I need those Tekkaman Figmas...NOW.

In other news, I usually get buttfucked with customs randomly. Like I got pretty much all my figures through fine, but a single band shirt sets me back an extra tenner. I got my first customs rape for figures when I joined my order on AmiAmi, so I won't be doing that again.

Yea that only happened to me with 3 Figuarts and a Pokemon darts but not with my last order with 4 Figuarts so some times It can be due to wight

Mandarake parcels usually get through fine because the mark the value down (to like, 500-1000 yen in most cases). Since that's TECHNICALLY illegal, big stores like Amiami won't do the same and so they always mark orders with the full amount.

And yeah, my last 2 orders got hit with customs as well. I can usually get a 2-figure order though fine but 3 was obviously pushing it.

I don't think it's so much weight and more "big box = expensive". It might be random but all they have to do is look at the top of the box to slap a fee on it.

That explains a lot actually, most of my purchases are from Mandrake as their shipping and figures are generally cheaper, plus they usually have stock nowhere else has (although no one has Tekkaman Blade just Evil :() and they basically mark everything as a gift.

Not only was my AmiAmi a combined one but they didn't gift it either.

Bought me a Power Rangers ACG Universe of Hope starter deck and these cards aren't that bad. They even have pink and yellow have sentai characters with them.

So not only are there Tekkaman Blade Figmas, but there is also a SAC Motoko one. o_O I need to find those.

He has arrived.

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Here is a Blade:)

I got the DX R&M Rideshooter on Friday. I likes it. I think they should reissue it under SHF.

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I've got one of those coming my way as well, glad to see SHF Ryuki fits nicely inside.

I wish I could find at least one :(

It works really well, and it's very pretty, nice shiny, and hefty. The only thing that could be improved is the rubber 'straps' that clip into the figure. If they remade those to fit the SHF ports this could be reissued as an SHF vehicle. And I'd totally buy it.

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My hero!

What happened to your Ryuki's right arm port?

Also can he sit with his butt all the way in the seat.

All this talk of Tekkaman Blade figures makes me want one, now :lol
Damn, I thought I had gotten over it once I watched the series and played Tatsunoko vs. Capcom to death...Guess I was wrong.

Grab him if you want him bro (: Realistically my card might not be here by the time the price cut off happens and that'll be embarrassing.

I'm waiting until I get some form of pay this month, so until then, I'm holding off. Guess it's a race :lol

You watch, it'll be gone before either of us can get it :lol

Ordered a Legacy Megazord as well as a Figuarts Red Buster. Now to see how long it takes for them to arrive.

I had to order a couple more gundam panel liners from AmiAmi, so I threw this on the order for the fun of it.
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Enter The Game Master...

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Picked up the Tales of Xillia Collector's Edition today!

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This box is ENORMOUS to put it into perspective…here's a typical figuarts box next to this:

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