Last night I put in an order for the Ecopla MG Aile Strike, Ecopla EG RX-78, Launcher/Sword pack for MG Aile Strike, SDCS Gundam Base color RX-78, and Spinatio Saint Valkyrie type. This is in addition to the MGSD Aerial and 2 MS General kits I have on preorder, 3 partially complete 30MS builds, and MS General Greed which I started yesterday.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2025
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I have red-logo kits from the mid 2000s that I haven't touched. And until I went broke I kept buying more. Completionnaire's Disease is a bitch.
USA getting P-Bandai was a blessing and a curse.
Sometimes I think my main hobby is collecting boxes, and my secondary hobby is building Gunpla.
P-Bandai really is like crack for nerds.
Its saving grace is that pretty much everything comes back around if you're patient enough. I absolutely hate the timed preorder game, especially when there's not enough quantity to last more than a few minutes. I have missed every PB Efreet drop. 🙃 And then there's nonsense like the r/Gunpla mods running interference by loading up their carts with something in high demand (like, say, II Neo Zeong) and letting them go one or two at a time to make sure the in-crowd on discord can get their orders in. Buncha bullshit.
I didn’t know that was happening. I always wondered why they had a limit of ten of the same item. I guess they should make it no more than 2. As far as I’m concerned, scalpers are scum just barely better than lawyers and cops.
There's different quantity limits on different items. Some are only one per.
That said, the mods weren't scalping (at least as far as I know). Unlike a lot of other storefronts, once you put something in your cart on PB, it can't be sold out from under you. So people were loading up their carts and just letting them sit. Then someone on discord would say "is for me? 👉👈" or whatever, and someone would remove one from their cart while the other person refreshed like mad. They did this for HOURS when the II Neo Zeong was reprinted a few years ago. Their justification was that they were making sure the kits were received by fans and not gobbled up by scalpers. But it's still gatekeeping. People who weren't part of that Reddit/discord clique? Well, they can get fucked I guess. 🙄
My backlog is... monstrous. I let myself go a little crazy because of holiday sales last year, plus the tariff scare. I have enough kits to probably last 3+ years.
Waaay too much lmao.
Oh man, my backlog is becoming a beast. I keep forgetting what’s in there. Too many to list tbh, most of them MG’s.
I’m prob most excited for my Mg ver ka hi nu Gundam. Although I think my next build is my 3rd party mg moon gundam or the mg heavy arms pbandai ver. I also have some old MG’s like a ground gundam and GM that I want to throw together to get Karen’s gundam from 08th MS
I also have some old MG’s like a ground gundam and GM that I want to throw together to get Karen’s gundam from 08th MS
I see that you too are a man of culture. I bought those two kits for the exact same reason, and just need get around to making a resin cast of the GM head so that I don't now have a headless GM on my shelf.
That is such a better idea than mine lol. I bought two GM’s so I could have the head and a complete unit. But I’ll give my self a break, ground GM is one of my favorite GM designs
Which Heavy Arms? Kai or IGEL?
Kai. I like the color scheme better in blue