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The first real misfire from Bandai?
The first real misfire from Bandai?
Honestly, I've seen much worse misfires from Bandai. This is just an average kit: not great or mind-blowing, but not bad either.
It'll only get worse. B*ndai's lost so many customers lately, no wonder their market share and profits are in free fall. Clearly, they don't bother to listen to the fans; B*ndai should wake up, smell the coffee and get off their high horse. Sooner or later, Lucasfilm would be wise to hand the license over to another company who understand what the USERS want.
It'll only get worse. B*ndai's lost so many customers lately, no wonder their market share and profits are in free fall. Clearly, they don't bother to listen to the fans; B*ndai should wake up, smell the coffee and get off their high horse. Sooner or later, Lucasfilm would be wise to hand the license over to another company who understand what the USERS want.
Well I want it now, considering that it's confirmed to be the second Death Star instead of the first.
Like I said, it's average: it's not great, but not bad, but I'll get it anyway because it's a design that I want. One average kit isn't really grounds for me to damn the company to Hell.
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It's an average kit in a pile of crap. The user should let his wallet do the talking as B*ndai seems too retarded to even listen to them.
I'm done with them, I'm fed up entirely and not only with Star Wars. There's more than a thousand other users who share the same view.
Once they release nothing but palm-sized garbage, more folks would understand.
Frankly, Bandai has done itself no favors for the last couple of years. "One step forward, three steps back" sums up their business model; they shoot themselves in the foot, every new announcement is predictably met with disappointment from the users. It's not at all surprising that they've lost a good chunk of their share in the market for plastic models, the users have lost faith...I will say politely that in this case (Death Star), a really tiny scale isn't doing Bandai any favors. Not that I need a three-foot wide DS, but.....trying to portray crisp detail at that scale/size is really difficult, even with state-of-the-art molding processes. Sadly, will pass on this one.
Frankly, Bandai has done itself no favors for the last couple of years. "One step forward, three steps back" sums up their business model; they shoot themselves in the foot, every new announcement is predictably met with disappointment from the users. It's not at all surprising that they've lost a good chunk of their share in the market for plastic models, the users have lost faith...
I will say politely that in this case (Death Star), a really tiny scale isn't doing Bandai any favors. Not that I need a three-foot wide DS, but.....trying to portray crisp detail at that scale/size is really difficult, even with state-of-the-art molding processes. Sadly, will pass on this one.
Why the hate-on for Bandai by some people? Why is it that if someone is disappointed in a company, product offerings, or a movie, that suddenly a crusade is born to get everyone to share in the discontent and dislike?
Palm scale is popular in Japan where space is a premium, and that is Bandai's main target market. That they have Blue Fin as a distributor here in the US to sell products made for the Japanese market is a plus when before we had to rely on Ebay or Amazon sellers in Japan to obtain Japanese market items .
Why the hate-on for Bandai by some people? Why is it that if someone is disappointed in a company, product offerings, or a movie, that suddenly a crusade is born to get everyone to share in the discontent and dislike? If you do not like something, don't buy it. But this toddler temper-tantrum stuff I am witnessing over everything from movies to models because someone did not get exactly what they wanted - is beyond irritating.
Personally, I like the palm-scale ships to display on my workhorse computer. They are not for everyone but Bandai has provided us fans many kits above and beyond anything AMT Monogram or Revell has ever mass produced with ILM studio-level accuracy.