Posts made by The Umbrella Man

@Cyber-Robin:

for these figures HLJ apparently operate on a first-come first-served basis. HLJ actually put them up some time before playasia had them for sale. Instead most people waited for playasia and if they missed there they went to HLJ whom had already sold some of them.

Anywho. I MAY end up having a spare Chopper and Wapol wcf from Playasia. Looks like when I was ordering there was some error (got to payment screen and then the site crashed and I lost the order. Then had to re-order them.) I paid for one and now they are asking for payment on the other. (the one that got deleted.)

Now obviously I don't want them again. But I emailed them and asked if they had the items. Awaiting reply now. But yeah. I don't want them so I'll cancel. UNLESS. Somebody else would want them.

I would totally take those off your hands, those are the only ones in the set that I want. So how about it?

Well that's annoying. Are the shipping prices fair?

Hey is mandarake a reliable store? I have a bunch of items in my cart from them and it is separating them based on the "store" that is selling them. Will they ship all the items in one shipment or will they be shipped separately from each "store"?

@crease:

I can't promise I will be fast buying them but… if you put your orders in for Vol.11, I will get them when I see them cheap.

So would that be orders for a full set or individuals as well?

Yeah so wow the BB POP is pretty awful! That pose is just so stiff and boring.

Even with all of its flaws, the Figuarts ZERO BB is so much more appealing, right off the bat.

I'm really disappointed by Megahouse this time :/ What a wasted opportunity.

EDIT: and oh yeah those special effect hands look ridiculous, those might be the worst part, geez.

@Dragonxpiece:

well just so you have an overall idea.
I bought 4 wcf figures there, shipping cost were two options:

1. DPD (or something along those lines) which is like Fedex and cost min $70 because starts at 50 euro to USA. That takes to East coast around 5 days.

2.Regular mail, this is worst of the worst, when they say "boat" they literally mean "BOAT" !!! It took around 1 month or more to arrive to Florida, the cost was $7- $10, and this is talking about WCF , not even a full set.

So with them pretty much you have two dilemas; super expensive or super slow.

@Legato:

http://www.archonia.com/index.php?page=shipping

DAMN that is insane. DPD minimum is 55 euros. Definitely gonna have to go with regular mail, I can be patient. Thanks both of you.

@Legato:

yes and yes, but be careful, shipping outside of Europe is very expensive @ archonia.

Hmm alright thank you. Is there anyway to get a shipping estimate before committing to a buy?

Hey does anybody know if Archonia ships to the US? And also if I pay them via paypal and my bank account is only in American dollars, will they except a paypal conversion?

@Kaiolino:

Merry Go is as bad as calling Son Goku, Goku San for an entire series.

No, not really.

Haha wow. is HLJ's money conversion really off for anybody else?

http://www.hlj.com/product/BNP47230-B

1,450 yen is now equal to $1.45 apparently, lol.

Eh that cover isn't too bad, and nobody really important is being covered up. I would have preferred a new color scheme for the war, but its not awful, all things considered.

Hey another quick question, can an EMS shipment be singed for by someone at the shipping address if that person has a completely different last name than the one listed on the box? Or would they need written permission from that person to sign for it?

@Xajen:

No special procedure. I just email asking them a question and provide the new information.
e_support@amiami.com

Awesome, thanks man.

@Xajen:

You have to email them. AmiAmi sux for account management :(

So is there a special procedure for that or should i just shoot them a email with the new address?

Quick question: does anybody know how to add new shipping adresess to AmiAmi?

Im checking out and its at the at the adress confirmation stage and its only letting me choose the previous adress i shipped to, but i need to use a new one this time.

Well I feel a little dumb for preordering the Gin, Krieg, and Sanji WCFs from Otacute. I was up last night and had the chance to get all of them plus Zeff from playasia. Now I have to pay/wait for two separate orders (Otacute for those 3 mentioned previously, and playasia with Zeff and Ussop.) To make things worse I had to use SAL for otacute :I blarg

@Xajen:

I'm not a fan of Perona or anything but she deserved a P.O.P. She was basically the right hand of a main villain

A main villain who still has yet to get a POP. Do you really not see whats wrong with that picture? She is a fodder side villain that Oda brought back for a couple extra pages for shits and giggles.

If being the "right hand" of a main villain and then being briefly brought back into the story is all it takes to be considered important enough to get a POP then why don't we just give Hacchi a POP? Or Jango? They would make just as much sense.

Vista is great and all (he is by far my favorite of the WB commanders), but really does not need POP treatment at this point. It seems really strange he would get one before Joz too. Is Vista really more popular than Joz?

And for shame on all of you who think a Perona POP is acceptable. Fodder villain go away please

Oh wow megahouse

just wow

@Chicken:

The World is Mine. Worst thing I have ever tried to read. Quit after 3 chapters or so.

Don't listen to this man, The World is Mine is a fantastic comic. The art might be strange but it is super awesome non the less. Read it.

Hey, can anybody tell me how long SAL shipments from Ami Ami to the US take? I know the site says at least 3 weeks, but I think I've gotten SAL shipments from other sites way faster than that. Can anybody share some personal experiences?

Weird, I actually really like both Ivancov and Jimebi's play styles. They are two of the characters I enjoy the most.

I have lots of trouble with Kizaru though, his moves are just so slow its really difficult for me to enjoy playing with him. And does anybody else find BB's moveset really… kinda dull?

And I hate Ace as a character but he is really a blast to play as in this game.

EDIT: and gear spirit is garbage

Ah okay, thanks a lot. I'll go try that.

EDIT: It worked.

@Blacksmith:

Which one is training option from main menu? And what should I do in training to get more support? Thanks

Training is the one with Chopper. Complete the character's move set in training and then play with them in battle mode (the one with Zoro) just beat any of those 5-match things and you'll have that character's support card.

If that's the one with the counter of 7 in the bottom right corner of the screen, you have to feed Luffy 7 pieces of meat.

Could someone tell me what "2:必殺技か奥義を3回以上あてた" says. Google translates it as "I addressed more than three times the secret finishing move". Does that mean i just have to use my 3 heat bar attack three times?

Oh and in case someone didn't know, to get the support character of any playable character, you must complete their move set in training and then play five rounds against a computer with that character.

Quick question: Does anybody know if a signature is required for EMS delivery? Or will they just leave the package on my doorstep?

Why do so many people want Marco to be playable

His entire move set would have to be made up bullshit. Same with Law and Kid. For now the support character role is perfect for them.

EDIT: I mean, I like Marco just as much as the next guy, but expecting him to be playable at this point is pretty silly.

Vongola's opinion about the volume release schedule may be dumb, but he is totally right about the sales numbers.

Stop lying to yourselves, guys

@sephirona:

The site says it's a lottery and only 1000 of them will be released, and apparently you need to register with the three companies that have drawings available to win. You'll probably be able to find him on YJ for sale later on, so don't worry~

Yeah but if they are only 1000 of them the prices would probably be pretty steep. I think I'll just settle for the normal colored version, thanks for the translation though.

Does anybody know anything about where this special color Figuarts is being sold?

http://reggiocomics.blogspot.com/2010/08/shfiguarts-monkey-d-luffy-special-color.html

@Vongola_Boss_XI:

As for Dragon Ball…yeah it's pretty heavily censored if I recall correctly. The original printings aren't if you can manage to track those down. I've got a lot of them...but still I bought those 7 years ago and the oldest volumes Viz printed did not age well. Early Viz volumes didn't have the best quality binding...the glue isn't holding very well on my old RuroKen, DB, and DBZ volumes.

I was flipping through DB volumes at Books-a-Million the other day and the beginning of the first volume seemed intact, nudity and crotch patting and all that.

The only thing I know they edited for sure is Mr. Popo's face.

@taboo:

Nope, I'd tell regular Christian schmos to get the fuck out

go back to your megachurches with your built in coffee shops and stop trying to SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE love and peace to people halfway across the country who can barely read

Wait so you would be against anyone building any kind of religious building there?

That seems kinda odd, but whatever floats your boat I guess.

@Badass:

You expect me to believe that so many articles just outright lied?

Well if you look at the actual associated press article you posted on the first page, it doesn't say anything about the opening date. The second link you posted says it opens on 9/11/11, but that whole article reads more like an opinion column than an actual news story. I have yet to see any reliable sources that say it is opening on 9/11. If you know of one, please show me.

@taboo:

If it was Christian terrorists then fuck no would I want a church there

there's like a million churches all over NY, so I'd tell them to buzz off. At least if it were Christian, I could tell them to get lost without being all delicate about it, afraid of being called a MUSLIM HATER

Wesboro pisses me off as it is

Yeah, but the gigantic difference here is that these Muslims are not terrorists. They're just building a Mosque three blocks from ground zero in an attempt to promote religious understanding.

It seems like you equated Christian terrorists to moderate Muslims, as if they should be held in equal standing. I mean, I don't know if that's what you meant to imply, but your post really made it come off that way.

Or maybe I'm just retarded and completely misinterpreted what you were saying.

@Cyber-Robin:

So has anyone decided who they're maining with (from the chars we know are playable thus far?) I'm not sure yet. Robin if she's 100% in. Otherwise Chopper or Hancock. Couldn't really care less about playing as the Admirals, WB or Ivankov really.

I'll probably main either Kuma, Ivankov, WB, BB, and maybe Akainu or Kizaru.

I would have to try out everybody first but one of those would most likely end up as my main.

@Cyber-Robin:

Review for Strong World Brook POP is up:

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Lol, this video explained a lot.

I got finally got my pirates Vs. Marines set from HLJ. Almost makes up for missing out on Urouge.

Almost.

Sadly my Doubles were Sanji and Chopper, ugh. It'll be impossible to sell those off.

Wow those WFCs sold out so much faster than the previous set. In the middle of the goddamn night too.

Urouge is now forever out of my reach, unless I can pick him up at Megacon in March.

@Mugiwara_no_Ice:

Of course I disagree. Everybody can make a manga (which is just the japanese word for comic) if they wish to, you don't need to be Asian.

Unless you are Japanese you shouldn't classify your comic as a "manga". Manga is just a term used to clasify the country of origin, it has nothing to do with the content. It's just as dumb as calling Avatar an anime.

Can somebody link me to J-Sack's twitter?

@Cyber-Robin:

Bonnie is confirmed to be a support. We saw her in the Meat Eating team.

Oh yeah, forgot about that, my bad. All bets are off now, I guess.

I would normally agree, but Moria sold out shockingly fast last time, despite his unpopularity. So I'm a little worried.

It seems like the only super novas that are getting any support attacks are Kid, Law, and Urouge. Makes sense, cause I'm pretty sure the last character popularity poll showed them as the most popular supernovas. The other SPs just seem to be in the background of the shabondy stage chillin'.

I don't think any of them would have enough moves to be playable (except maybe Kid), but i guess if they can shit out a move set for Shanks and Mihawk anything is possible.

Man, I want that Urouge.

Hopefully he will not be one of the characters to instantly sell out on play-asia.

Lafitte could hypnotize somebody and cause a confusion status effect or something along those lines.

In the Norland flasback, all the residents from Jaya have wings. As reveled from Eneru's cover story, all the races that have wings originated from the moon. They left the moon because of a lack of resources and went to earth. Many populated the sky islands, and others populated normal islands, like Jaya. It's likely that other normal islands on the blue sea have descendants of these moon people, but Oda has not shown any of them as of yet.

http://view.thespectrum.net/series/one-piece-volume-01.html?ch=Volume+44&page=41

it was either this chapter or the one before it.

@ReDDragon:

I still havent my WCF from P-A. ;_; i want my extra BB. Anybody else in Europe wo ordered Warlord WCF from Play-Asia?

Yeah I ordered Jimbei and he arrived like a week ago.

@GrimJackal:

I'm not. …. Am I? Anyway, I don't see the point in getting worked up over it.

I meant in general, not you in particular. That was poor wording on my part, sorry. The reason to get worked up over it is when you have cases like AGOG flat out refusing to acknowledge a valid argument specifically because he did not like the tone.

Great, we're in agreement then!

Yah, but I still think Perona is the least likely of all the popular candidates (Excluding Marguerite).

@GrimJackal:

I'm tired of arguing this. If you're saying that a hostile post is met with the same reception as a level-headed one I'm not sure how to respond anymore.

I know they do not get the same reaction, but my point is not about how people respond to the rhetoric. I'm saying regardless of the tone, the argument does not change. If you are offended by the way someone phrases something, it doesn't give you the right to plug your ears and go "NANANANA I'M NOT LISTINING!!!".

There is some confusion surrounding the argument here. What's being said is that Perona has no chance of joining the crew. That's not true, she has as slim a chance as Hancock or Jimbei. That's what I'm arguing, even though I don't believe she will become a part of the crew (see how I voted). So yes, it's likely she is just playing a bit part, but it can't be concluded she has zero chance of becoming a SHP.

Well yeah duh, anything is possible. It's entirely possible that Christianity is the one true religion out of all the other thousands of religions, but that doesn't make it likely. I don't think there is anybody here that can honestly state she has NO chance. But even to think that Perona has the same chance as Hancock or Jinbei, is pretty dumb. Hancock and Jinbei at least have shown to be more than just a random fodder villain that was brought back.

I agree with you for the most part. I think both Hancock and Jimbei have negatives which almost level the playing field.

I don't think there are any negatives that can make either of their chances of becoming a straw hat as unlikely as it is for Perona.

EDIT: Oh wait you edited your post.

@GrimJackal:

Quite the contrary. How you present your argument is everything. I would have thought this was a rather basic concept.

Rhetoric still does not change the argument being made.

Not to the satisfaction of many.

It's a real possibility, I'll happily concede that.

????
You just said that the hypothetical awnser Zephos gave is a "real possibility" right after saying a satisfactory answer has not been given?

Not according to this thread.

Its says a lot about her popularity that over 70 people in this thread believe that Perona has the strongest chance to join out of every other character. Especially since there is little to no evidence that could logically lead to such a conclusion. And also, there are probably a lot of other people that like her, but acknowledge she has no chance of joining. No one who looks over the facts could end up concluding that Perona has THE best chance, the only people voting for her are fanboys/girls that want her to join. And so they start from the conclusion that she will join, and work backwards to find tiny mundane details that could make their wet-dream sound more probable. This also seems to apply to some Hancock supporters (and all Marguerite supporters). Its completely ass-backwards in every way.