>>23800814Whoever’s doing that is scamming 100%
Pretty good. Only a few things left I want
>>23800858Not 100%. Could be money laundering.
>>23801026>>23800858I sold my copy about a year ago for about 1300. Even after eBay fees and taxes I pocketed about 800$ on something I got on a flash sale for 20$. Kind of wish I backed up the disks and artwork to make a clone copy for my desk.
There is a part of me that does want to buy BD collections of all the main Gundam shows. But it would be a multi-year endeavor and my current expendable income is going towards Gunpla.
My main Gundam (with LOGH) collection for blu rays.
I have 0080, Turn A, Gundam-San, and Getter Armageddon on bluray. Rayearth DVD box set and a Chinese bootleg GaoGaiGar.
>>23802114Why do you have multiple copies of the same release?
>>23802406There was a five dollar close out sale on Crunchyroll around the time rightstuf was bought out. I ended up buying like 7 copies of the releases they had and either sold or gave them out to some of my buddies to see if I could get them into the series. As for the single copies, they were missing a disk and were substantially lowered in price on eBay, so I bought those to make replacements disks for my collection if I ever wanted to sell the pristine OEM copies.
What's up with americans jacking up the price on mech bds though? I wanted to buy a few mech and non bds and the selling price was over 300usd. I could just buy nip bds at that price new even. It's so strange how much people mark them up (and people buy them) i thought the draw of domestic releases was the affordable price
>>23803530In Japan they usually remain in print. In the US they get a limited run or in Rightstufs case after being absorbed by Crunchyroll, their remaining inventory gets liquidated and no further physical media is pushed outside of new releases. >>23802114Is that the collection that sold for like 800? The LOGH one?
>>23803549It's just something i noticed with all western/domestic releases. People tend to buy up stock and then resell them later for 3-4x the cost. even with japanese BDs (that don't remain in print) the cost doesn't usually go up 2x like that
>>23800814Wait!! What’s the deal with this? I have all the Build Fighters sets but never opened them.
>>23803886Build Fighters and Try might felt you about $100 each unopened. Build Divers around $120-150. If you have ReRise unopened, it could easily sell for a little above 2k on Ebay.
>>23800814despite all the people complaining they can't buy Gundam BDs at an affordable price, weren't all these basically shelf warming Rightstuf when they were released, and the reason there's no reprints from Crunchyroll is because they sold terrible? Like if they needed to make 1000 minimum order qty and it took 5 or more years to sell off all 1000, isn't that bad? Just throwing out numbers don't know what MOQ is.
>>23803919RightStuf kept their Gundam catalog in-print, because most of the material was solid sellers. The partnership they had with Sunrise, however, was for distribution and some production, rather than the standard licensing deal; Sunrise was calling the shots on what got released, how, and when. Crunchyroll did not continue with this partnership, which is why they aren't able to reproduce RightStuf's existing Gundam catalog of titles, even if they were interested. The whole thing with Crunchyroll and Sunrise/Gundam increasingly appears as foreshadowing for the company's seeming pull-back from physical releases.
>>23803530Japan maintains a healthy secondary market, which tamps down some on prices, even for rarer releases. The problem occurring in the US market is retailers are no longer maintaining inventories for most anime BDs. Once a product's initial release sells through, if the license holder isn't getting enough re-order requests to justify another run of around 1,000 to 2,000 discs, then the title essentially goes out-of-print, even if demand still exists. The secondary market has gotten hip to this situation and are now purchasing releases with the hope of eventually flipping the discs at a significant markup; this is creating a nasty FOMO effect that's also helping to drive up prices.
>>23801026It's a $2000 Blu-ray, plus [free bonus item]
>>23800814Was an archive ever made with the extracted disks data? Honestly I’d pay a couple hundred bucks just to be lent the last disk of Turn A’s collection and the second disk of Rerise just so I could copy their data to fix my defective copies.
>>23800814I have acquired my first physical media for Gundam now that my imported Blurays for Unicorn (OVA ver) and The War in the Pocket have arrived. I intend to eventually get Victory, SEED FREEDOM, and 08th MS Team which are my top 5 entries in the franchise, although I haven't finished Turn A or started the build series yet which potentially could supplant the lower ranked so I'll hold off until then.
>>23806711>VictoryPart 1 is expensive, Part 2 is relatively cheap even new.>SEED FREEDOMUS release coming out on the 14th on Crunchyroll store.>8th MS Team150$ minimum for the U.S release on Blu Ray. Japanese version might be cheaper.
>>23806733I only watch anime untranslated so I'm put off by western releases since they tend to not let you turn off subs unless you watch dubbed, there are probably ways around it but I'm not super familiar with that sort of thing.
>>23800814Got the Macross II 4K coming in sometime this year, and will maybe import the Patlabor movie 4Ks if I find them at a good price. Not really interested in what’s coming out in the near future, and all my blu ray money has been going to John Woo 4Ks this year.
>>23806775The Patlabor 4K UHD discs look pretty good with their HDR and retain a good amount of detail, though the standard BDs in the set are dank and smeary. If your interest is the UHDs, then I'd say it's a pretty nice experience, but the previous BDs are definitely better than these new versions.
