BC Community Thread For Non-Sightings Chat

[pandaprime]

Originally Posted by Metallica_Unforgiven

Amazing day and the vendors all seemed to have a great time and lots of good feedback from buyers. The guest was busy selling artworks and performing commissions too.

As indicated by Venksta, this is the list of dates for the remaining year:

June 18 (Sunday): Vancouver Comic/Toy Show at the Croatian Centre
October 14 (Saturday): Pop Culture Collectibles Fair at the Scottish Centre
October 29 (Sunday): Vancouver Comic/Toy Show at the Croatian Centre
November 25 (Saturday): Pop Culture Collectibles Fair at the Scottish Centre

The two shows co-promote with one another and the organizers are vendors at one anothers shows. As mentioned by many others above, TFs and vintage toys were highly featured at today's Pop Culture Fair, and the Van Comic/Toy Show two months back had a fair portion of Transformers in their newly expanded second room.

Theres also the very large Cherry Bomb Ultimate Toy Fair Sunday May 7 in Victoria.

Thanks for this info. I'm disappointed I wasn't able to make it yesterday

[AeroShake]

Originally Posted by predahank

Nice piece!
I saw him working on that in the early stages.
Michael's has 40% off framing sales quite often if you keep a lookout

Originally Posted by Metallica_Unforgiven

For prints though it will be much, much cheaper as what i bought was a 24" x 36" and 2" thick frame. The example im giving is just to show the relative proportional discount you can get if you wait around for it. And the 40% sales do occur semi-regularly.

Thanks mates for the help, I'll have to keep an eye on their webpage from time, in the meantime I'll have to keep him in temporary storage. I bought some guy's Dick Tracy calendar that was sealed in a plastic sleeve, it was the only thing big enough to fit the print . Guess I'll be leaving it in there for awhile.

@Metallica, Yeah man if you saw an asian dude huffing around the Fanstoys Grimlock that was me. I'm pretty big into mecha so I keep an eye out for Evangelion/Endless Waltz/Pat Labor.

[venksta]

Anyone know if theres a delay with customs, especially with mail coming in from Asia?

[predahank]

still waiting for mp-36
last tracking shows released from customs on the 19th

[OMEGA]

Does anybody have a transmetal optimum primal I can buy off of them?

[RocketGTR]

Originally Posted by venksta

Anyone know if theres a delay with customs, especially with mail coming in from Asia?

Originally Posted by predahank

still waiting for mp-36
last tracking shows released from customs on the 19th

I got my MP-36 in the usual amount of time. I don't feel like there's been any delay recently.

[predahank]

Originally Posted by RocketGTR

I got my MP-36 in the usual amount of time. I don't feel like there's been any delay recently.

Your probably right. My grinder came within a week from asia. mp36 is probably slow because I went sal instead of ems

[CKWG]

Originally Posted by venksta

Anyone know if theres a delay with customs, especially with mail coming in from Asia?

It depends on which service you use to ship the items.

There is no delay if you use EMS or any faster services. SAL for sure has a huge delay as I'm still waiting for a package from Japan by SAL. There is a huge delay from China/Hong Kong as well if your tracking number starts with "R", as I'm waiting for 3 packages from China still for over a month and tracking that starts with R from Asia is a slower airmail service. There is no delay for packages from Hong Kong with tracking that starts with "C".

[thebobkat]

Originally Posted by venksta

Anyone know if theres a delay with customs, especially with mail coming in from Asia?

Personally I've been finding all incoming parcels REALLY slow in the last month or two. I've got things coming from Japan, China, USA for various online purchases and subscription boxes...and they've all been ridiculously late. I'm finding they're taking close to a month or more to get here. I'm not sure if it's customs or if Canada Post has been backlogged, but it's slow AF.

[RocketGTR]

My MP-36 was sent by SAL and he was two weeks to the day. So that the usual for me.

When I use EMS it's about 3 to 4 days