Mostly trying to broaden my collecting horizons. But again, the dollar's utterly dismal state means buying from outside Canada is downrigth painful. Like, normally I'd buy from HLJ, but since backorders take a while, the dollar may be worse by the time the kits come in. So at least buying Canadian I know exactly what I'm paying when I'm ordering it.

If it weren't for that I'd just stick with HLJ and the like.

EDIT: Yeesh, then again given the prices on the site you linked even with the unpredictable dollar HLJ is a better route. Guess I'll stick with them, but I gotta at least compare y'know?

Yeah, like I said: if you're picking up locally, they're prices aren't too bad. usually it equates to HLJ's pricing plus EMS shipping and maybe a small mark up to cover costs.

Their site says they don't do pick-ups, though.

Have you tried Hobbywave? Their prices are pretty reasonable and they have a flat rate shipping of $18 no matter what you order. I think the only downside might be what they have in stock at a given moment. But I bought from them once and I got my order in 2-3 days because they have Canadian warehouse. Worth a shot.

Man, if I had known about this store a couple weeks ago, I could have saved $10 on Broly. Haha. Gonna keep this site handy.

Their prices are in USD though. For example, a kit that's $37 there is $47 Canadian. That's why I wanted to go with a Canadian store.

Ah, didn't realize that. It's been a while since I bought from them. It kind of sucks to be in Canada with the limited choices locally.

Eh, not really. There's tons of hobby shops and toy stores in the area that sells Gunpla aside from AnimeXtreme not to mention a big Anime convention in May that brings dealers from all over in.

The crappy thing is that most of these places are either too far out or way over priced, thus far the place I linked is the best one.

Yeah, where I am, there is one or two stores that actually stock gunpla but their prices are about double what they are in Japan so I stopped going there for gunpla. Other than that I have rely on online retailers.

Honestly, I prefer buying from local shops like these for the connivence of being there when I want them gotta help out the little guy y'know?

I think I've figured out what's wrong with 00... it's how it's spit in half. I think the writer intended it to be a single 50 episode season, with 1/3 being devoted to the events before the 5-year time skip and 2/3 of the episodes devoted to the time after. But because the show had to be cut cleanly in half with the time skip in between, the first part had to be stretched out and the second part condensed. That would explain the odd pacing.