just curious, how much is he getting them for? And if he was a good brother, he would ship them to you this week....

He got them for 3850 yen at some small hobby store in Akihabara. My brother is a tech junkie! If its new he has to own it! So he loves Akihabara! He has to wait till he gets back to Osaka to ship it!
Heres some pictures from Hobby Link Japan of the box for DFD!
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I gotta admit he looks pretty sweet for being a bunch of repainted parts!

It looks like Xenobine has some competition for the most official forms, on that DFD box!

Aoi

Well, I've already caved in, and ordered myself one from HLJ. Depending on how good it turns out (which I'm sure will be fantastic), I may end up ordering another one!!

Heres some more pictures from the Mugenbine site. I'm really excited about this guy! They really put alot of effort into making some great gattai's out of him!
Now we need the, all white or crystal, Toys R Us Exclusive to come out!
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I'll put another post as I'm at my download limit for this one! I wonder if Bandai will sue me for stealing these images?

Heres the rest of the images. Lets see what the man on the street has to say.
Pardon me sir what do you think of these pictures?
I really like his paint job the colors are TTTTHHHUUUPER! He's the perfect accessory for any outfit! Look out girls theres a new Starscream in town!

Okay, so that was the womanish man on the streets opinion.
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Sold! I might have to hold off on getting the older toys and get ahold of DFD.

Speaking of older toys, Air Leon came in, as did the stuff from Rosalinda. Unfortunately, Rosalinda wanted the signature. Since I was at work, it'll have to wait a day or few. Air Leon didn't require a signature, so it was placed/cramed rather nicely into the mailbox.

Aoi

Well, my order from HLJ is being processed as we speak - which is bloody quick!! Looks like my paypal account will be in agony again this month!!

Victory Leo and Overligan to go, and I'll have my entire order from Rosalinda!


....Now the question is...who to open first?

Aoi

Damn tough question, Aoi - I'd go got PowerNose first, then go in order of size from smallest to largest!! :

I should of done that. ^_^ I decided to open up the elephants first. I can't put down Zordelephant long enough to play with the others.

I think I'll get the Roid General 3 set to place into ZordElephant's carrier bed.

Aoi

Mugenbine Wharf has a great review of DFD on its website, highlighting the repaints of Powerful Tyranno and Speed Eagle, plus the new bine parts. The site can be found here: http://mbwharf.hp.infoseek.co.jp/
Just follow the most current link.

Just made this guy yesterday with Powerful Tyranno, Speed Eagle, Build Mammoth and Try Wolf. He needs a name though...
Any suggestions?

Powspebuitr! ...or not. Man. I'm having a hell of a time coming up with names this weekend.

It looks good, though. Is the item in his hand supposed to be a sword, or a giant hammer?

I also like how y'put Bumblebee in there looking up at him. "Damn, he's tall." (Kind of like me and Prime's "...Damn. That's alot of a boxes" pose on my last photo.)



Also, does anyone know what month/year the pre-Mugen KinOuJin x GinOuJin Candy sets were released?

Aoi

Nice 'bot Overbite - how about calling him Build Golem? Think I had better start work on a few new combos myself, and try and modify a few older ones to include new bits!

I likey DFD.

Quick post since I overslept and my alarm didn't wake me. I second the Build Golem name!

Aoi

How about VIER GOLEM? Or GOLEM VIER? Vier is german for four, and since you're using four Mugenbines...
Just my two cents!

It's supposed to be a battle axe. I made it after I finalized the legs and started work on the torso. It is a bit smaller than I originally envisioned. Oh well.
Thanks for the name ideas and using contributions, how does "Build Golem 4" sound?

Sounds good to me! annnd..I'm surprised. I figured my 2nd package from Rosalinda would arrive Friday, it arrived today...but I gotta call the post and see if they can stay open a few minutes late, or pick it up Thursday.

Victory Leon and Overligan here I come! ...or here they come.

Also, quick question. These might be in the Mugenroids, but I disassembled my Powernose the other day, (It was a bit snifflely.) and there was a spring located in the torso...couldn't get it back in there, but I can't tell any difference..so what was it meant for? (and it's pretty rigid for a spring. Non-springy at all.)

Aoi

You're lucky Aoi. I ordered my Rosalinda items (new Assault Leon & the first candy set of A, C, G) around the same time as you guys did (during that 50% off sale last month) and they haven't arrived. I got an email from Yi (I think that is his/her name) saying they accidentally sent mine on the slowest type of overdeas shipping (on a sea turtle apparently) available. They refunded my paypal the extra part of the shipping cost but I have to wait forever for them to come in.

As for your spring question Aoi, I don't know. I'm looking at a clear Mugenroid right now and he has two large springs in his shoulders and one smaller one in his waist. The smaller one seems to give the legs tension and keep them from getting too loose. Maybe that is what your mystery spring is for. If I had a Questknight Wedge Mugen, the translucent gray Questknight that was a raffle prize for the Machine Robo Wedge book, I could tell you but I can't even find good pictures of just the Turboroid.

Hm. I suppose tension is the case, though I don't know why. The candy figures don't have the springs in the shoulders and work just fine.


As for the shipping, sorry to hear that Overbite, but on the good side; if you forget about your package and it arrives out of the blue, at least you'll be receiving a surprise.

Aoi

Hey guys. Hope y'don't mind the bump. Here's an eBay Auction for Iron Beetle, if anyone is still looking for it. http://cgi.ebay.com/Machine-Robo-Rescue-Mu...1QQcmdZViewItem
(at time of writing this, there are 3 left.)


Also, Rosalinda has said they're supposed to be getting more/new Mugenbine stock in Sept. and/or Oct. They couldn't say what it is, until they receive the stock. Here's to hoping it'll be a few of the harder to find ones, like Mach Ptera or the Candy Sets.

Aoi

Well, am guessing my DFD won't ship from HLJ until next week, due to the O-Bon festival this week. Happy O-Bon everybody!! 1

Anywho, hope we'll get some news on some sets after the DFD fairly soon *crosses fingers*

Hate to burst your bubble, but the usual production run of Mugebines ends right about now and doesn't start up again until December with the New Line and gimmick. Thats why they usually throw out the big set at about this time. Thats not to say they may throw a repaint out there, but judging from years past we shouldn't see anything new for awhile. Remember they don't have a big Christmas selling season like we do, so theres no pressure to put anything new out. Maybe Bandai will surprise us! (and America will get out of this war!) Hold your breath everyone!

Oh.. bugger!! Let's just hope that this break of a couple of months will give the bods at Bandai a chance to think of something cool in the run-up to Crimbo this year..

what's Crimbo?

Crimbo = Christmas! Please forgive my british analogy / euphemism.
This break in the Mugenbine line will also give me a chance to do more pix!! :

BTW was just wondering if anyone had any news on upcoming Keybots releases? Was asking, as I saw a cool looking set on one site somewhere (will post a link later), and it looked kinda like a whale of some sort... Any help / info would be cool!!

No need to apologize, I find how different cultures deal certain common events like Christmas fascinating.

What you saw was BIG WHALE, one of the deluxe carrier Keybots. He'll be out about the end of September. He goes from whale to pirate ship. He looks pretty cool!
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Excellent finds, Cheese - looks like Big Whale will be around £25, judjing by the little price tag by him - might have to invest in some Keybots soon!!

My DFD's arrived today! Big boxes! 15.5 inches by 11 by 3 inches thick! Just opened it, OMG! are there the little bags! Get a pair of scissors and get ready to cut little bags for the next hour! Clear dragon pieces are cool! One of the heads ( there are three ) horns rotate back, thats cool! Thats as far as I've gotten now I have to go to work! I'll let you know as I get further along with it how it is. I like the paint jobs! Red, green, black and purple work well together! The purples darker than the pictures have shown! Gotta go I'm gonna be late!

what else did your brother send besides DFD?

DFD's are the only thing he sent this time. I was hoping to get Rin Lion and Rin Chameleon from GekiRanger too, but they aren't here. I'll have to ask him why. Though shipping on this cost 5600 yen. Thats 24.43 Pounds or 48.54 USD! Good thing he can write off the shipping to his business! Too tired to play with DFD, will have to wait till tomorrow to continue cutting little bags. I swear I'm gonna dream about opening all those little bastards! I MISS MY PLASTIC MOLDED TRAYS!!

I know what you mean about all those little bags - i swear they multiply when you open them. Once I opened my Chase Dober, the pile of little bags ended up bigger than the Chase Dober box!!

at least I am not the only one that hates the little plastic bags of despair. On the one hand, they are probably better for the paint and resist scratching yet they are such a pain to deal with. Still waiting for my order to ship from HLJ. My bank declined the transaction (fraud protection) right before they closed for the O-Bon Festival. Hopefully I'll get it by the end of the week.

Can't write review. DFD just too awesome! Can't eat, can't sleep, can't work! MUST MUGENBINE!
( Bomb Pearl Harbor!)

NURSE!!!!

I know what you mean; am slowly making my way through the Godzilla monsters atm - have made Megalon, and now - Destroyah!!

Hey guys. Got two more Mugenbines to add to my collection! Iron Beetle and Needle Stego...and I found a pleasant surprise in Needle Stego's box, that makes me ruler of all Mugenbine collectors! bwhahaha. (lightening cracks) Ooh! That scared me a little bit. Okay. Maybe not the ruler, but it does ruler things. Measures them too. A black Mugenbine Ruler that features Airleon up to Fangtiger on it. It's a bit too glossy to snap a good photo of, and my scanner is away from the computer, so I'll probably try in a couple nights to get a pic or scan it in.

Aoi

Is your Needle Stego from Asia or Japan? (is there a sticker that says "Bandai Asia" on the box? Are the instructions in English or Japanese?) I am just wondering if the ruler is part of the Asia releases or not since my Needle Stego is from Japan.

I didn't get a ruler with my Needle Stego - boy, do I feel cheated!!
Then again, I did get free weapons with my Teiou Ryu a while back.. That was pretty cool

Heres a funny one for you guys. I just opened my second DFD and instead of a bunch of little bags, all the parts were vacuum sealed in plastic. I've never seen packaging change in mid-production before.
I also got my Rin-Lion and Rin-Chameleon from GekiRangers today! Plus my Zeiram Action figure too! Zeiram is sweet its by the same sculptor of the S.I.C. figures! Great detail! Its a good day in Chicago!

Hey guys, Needle Stego is a Bandai Asia release. The Instructions...well, I didn't pay much attention to them.

And vacuum sealed, Cheese? Does that make it similar to the earlier releases with the trays, or is it still little baggies?

Aoi

No trays, just bigger bags, more like those food bags you see on TV. One long strip with 4 or 5 bine parts in them. Less of a hastle to open and the pieces are really locked in so they don't move in the clear plastic bag/strip at all. I like them better than the little bags! Heres a scan of what it looks like. ( A very BAD scan, but you'll get the point!
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^sealed to keep your Bineparts™ fresh!

Hey peeps!!

Just thought I'd let you know that my DFD arrived today - holy crap, is this thing big or what? The box is immense, nice idea of putting two smaller boxes inside - but I would've liked a couple of trays with dividers too (even cardboard ones). The parts were vacuum sealed in plastic as well, which isn't a bad idea. Will definitely have no end of fun with this blighter for weeks to come!!

still waiting for my DFD, Chase Dober & those Kotobukiya display stands from HLJ. I am also waiting (still!) for my replacement Assault Leo and the first three Candybines from Rosalinda Trading. I did receive my 2007 Candybines and Japanese BW Tigatron from F2F and a Death Emporer Candybine from a fellow Mugenbine collector on the tfw2005 boards. Death Emporer is really cool; probably my favorite of all the candybines. Mainly because the stickers are foil backed instead of paper backed like the rest of the candybines and the colors of the bine parts are more complementary than the other releases.

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Hello all, I got into mugenbine recently from looking at these boards, and have been buying them like crazy. They're great! But I'm not addicted, I can stop buying whenever I want. I just need to buy 7 more sets, then I'll have all the alphabet ones. Then maybe the DFD. And then perhaps the Chase Dober. And then possibly the Animal Force and Try Wolf, then that's it... anyway, here's something I made from sets K, W, G, Y, F, and H. Thanks!

welcome to the fine world of Mugenbine idigmecha. So which seven figures do you need to complete your alphabet set? Just so you know, you aren't truely hardcore Mugenbine collecor unless you collect the Mugenengine sets.

Your robot pic looks pretty good. Seems like it would be pretty imposing in battle.

Hi Overbite , all I need are the D, X, M, N, T, U, and Q sets. I think some of them are rare anyway. I got most of them from Rosalinda and an ebayer from Hawaii, (he has a few still listed, if you do a search for "machine robo") both have been great dealers. What's everyone's favorite? Launchersaurus is mine, for both robot and alt mode. But DFD looks mighty nice also.