so agul's mp01b came wit neither the metal plate nor the ehobby comics...?
so his mp01b missing the metal plate i guess... because i do believe all early shipment of mp01b are those from hk ... every shops getting that batch release..
japs release always follow their suggested retail price... and for shops taking stocks from that release, of course laa need to cope wit the price too..
though im not entirely understand why there's such difference between hk and jp ... or is it the hk ver. is exclusively for asian countries release?
asian countries always get cheaper price for jap products probably because it's made in china... factory is in asia, so the cost calculated based on items and labor only ... when they shipped to jp for the sales there, it became much more where they have to calculate the shipping cost ... US have their stocks directly from japan rite? like the bigbadtoystore.com ..
if it's missing, then something is wrong.. try checking the seal 1st, whether it looks like been tampered or anything...
and if you going to collect, check your item 1st... not all seller are like ah kok, some of them really2 reluctant to let you open to check your stuff inside... and 1 case happened at quite known store, something about Hot Toys stuff .. he wanted to check at the store, but seller said once checked consider cold and unreturnable ... when he got home, his stuff got defect ... he tried to return, but rejected...
it's not a cheap toy ... collectibles are quite a luxury item in my opinion.. we have the right to check.. and if it has factory defect, we should be eligible for refund or exchange... and the defect item, seller can return back to supplier...
so it is confirm... hk will have metal plate... and all these early release of mp01b are from hk...
japan will only come later... nobody can ever get that version yet... and i mean nobody... so if some seller claims his stuff are the jap version... he's lying!
and i have a thought too... probably.. just probably.. that the pouch and metal plate not supposed to come together INSIDE the box...?
maybe it's given together when purchased? inside the box will be just like standard MP02 contents... and the free gift is in different pack or paperbag?
wow jeff.. so quick...? just bought it from crefigz, now already for sale on ebay? hehehehe... i still remember you said for your masterpiece sale before.. all of them you bought expensive last time, so need to sell expensive too...
of course... they follows exactly like takara mold and paint scheme... even the hot stamping on the toy stated it's takara ... only box and manual in korean...
so if somehow anybody wanna sell it loose and claim it's takara, nobody would know...
yeah... alternity line picks up those popular cool cars... though robot mode not so much to the liking, it's still acceptable... those alternator also got terrible robot mode too..