Very true. I purchased an HRAP3 amazon.jp from Japan Video Games in Cali. There is always hope! 
I have a feeling that this revamp is going to stay Amazon.jp only unless you find an online auction vendor whoāll sell you oneā¦ Minimum $100 mark-up (when shipping is figured), ching!
Unless thereās a HUGE demand for a second wave of VLXās in the US, I just donāt see Hori Store-USA importing any quantity of this blue variant. I mean right now they are saying that it IS an Amazon.jp exclusive.
The HRAP 3 SE and HRAP V3 SE were never carried by any of the major import shops. Akihabarashop.jp did have a pre-order for the HRAP 3 SE which is how I got mineā¦ as far as HRAP V3 SEās concerned, never been able to find that at import shops. I did direct an inquiry about it at Play-Asia.com but I never got a satisfactory answer from them.
A bunch of the other stuff did appear in shops after a window period on Hori Store Japan. I kind of wonder if they had overstocks on joysticks or not because some of those runs lingered on for a while at a few of the import shops like Japan-Video Games. You could get White HRAP 3ās, Blaz Blue HRAP V3ās, Arcana Heart 2 sticks, and even the HRAP 2 SA for quite a few months at stores.
The Amazon.jp exclusives are so variable in availability you canāt say what will turn up in import shops.
Now that Horiās doing exclusive releases through other webstore vendors (see the recent Gundam joystick), the situation gets more muddledā¦
My cousin thinks Iām crazy for wanting him to import it for me.
Hey for anyone who have seen a diamond vewlix in person is the shade of blue for the side panels the same or close the Sanwa dark blue.almost could be consider purple.
Nope. Itās a metallic blue. I have some pictures of a Vewlix diamond somewhere from a show I went to, Iāll post them for reference.
Yup think Iāll get 4 again this time too. I saw the blue cab last time I went to japan and fell in love.
do you think b15 had creative input in this project?
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WISH I COULD GET JUST ONE LOL
B15 is great and all but he didnāt design the Vewlix arcade cabinet, the Hori VLX or the Diamond colour scheme.
So no, he didnāt have creative input.
I replicated the hori vlx and the vewlix design.
Anyway, Iām in talks with someone to send one or two over but I donāt know whether to wait for the xbox360 version. Is there even going to be an xbox360 version or is this going to be like the delayed releases like we are seeing with sfxt.
I canāt recall a 360 version or any of horiās ever being announced latter than itās PS3 counter part plus thereās no love for the 360 in japan so itās unlikely
If there is a 360 Amazon.jp exclusive it would be a different color schema
Going to get one. This will collect dust in garage with my OG VLX.
Iām only making assumptions based on what Sony have been doing very recently. I know they havenāt done it before. If they do release the 360 version with a different button colour scheme then Iām cool with that.
Just pre ordered one, using tenso to forward the shipment. First time so hopefully it goes smooth and the stick arrives in good shape, anyone else used tenso before?
I was looking at tensoās website and trying to figure out how it works. I would love to know the steps you took in completing your order. How much wil the vlx diamond end up costing after tenso and shipping?
The vlx came out to be 373.80, not sure how much it weighs so I canāt calculate the shipping I just assume its going to be 80-100.
Amazon wonāt charge you until it ships.
Mark you would pick up 4ā¦
its gonna cost you about $190 for ems shipping plus handling charge.
then you gotta pay customsā¦