Shark Week July 23-30

[bmathison1972]

My Minizoo orders take on average 2 weeks, with standard 'no signature' shipping.
Another benefit of Minizoo, is that their prices are in AUD which favors us in the US with USD 

I go to Minizoo for Collecta; HappyHen for everything else

Two weeks sounds about right. I don't recall, my last Minizoo order was last fall...for the 2022 CollectA figures.

for a brief period they were taking longer, averaging 10 days in customs in Chicago alone. But this year, the shipments came faster. I think my third this year was under two weeks.

[sbell]

My Minizoo orders take on average 2 weeks, with standard 'no signature' shipping.
Another benefit of Minizoo, is that their prices are in AUD which favors us in the US with USD 

I go to Minizoo for Collecta; HappyHen for everything else

Two weeks sounds about right. I don't recall, my last Minizoo order was last fall...for the 2022 CollectA figures.

for a brief period they were taking longer, averaging 10 days in customs in Chicago alone. But this year, the shipments came faster. I think my third this year was under two weeks.

It's definitely much faster now.

Which is good, since I need to order everything from them.

Honestly, terrible distribution is probably part of the reason I buy so much less now

[Gwangi]

I did end up ordering the sharks from Minizoo, we'll see when they get here if they get reviewed for Shark Week or not.

[sbell]

I did end up ordering the sharks from Minizoo, we'll see when they get here if they get reviewed for Shark Week or not.

I'm tempted to just order the angel shark. But I'm holding out for at least the Papo eagle ray to show up as well

[suspsy]

Please put me down for July 18. The subject is the great white shark, but I want the brand to be a surprise!

[bmathison1972]

Please put me down for July 18. The subject is the great white shark, but I want the brand to be a surprise!

Done

[Alopias superciliosus]

Hey all! I'm new to entering the hobby proper and posting on here but I'm a shark fanatic so I'd love to take a crack at a shark figure review for shark week if you'll have me!

First choice would be the Bandai Viper Dogfish, but I can also do instead the For Corporation Copper Shark (if it arrives in in time), Larami Greenland Shark, Yowie Common Sawshark... (I have many sharks haha; just giving options unless I clash with someone accidentally).

I'm a frequent reader of the blog so I understand the general format and types of info to include. I tried looking around the forum if there was any place for a new reviewer to reply, etc but didn't see any; please let me know if I'm missing anything and if there's room for me to join!

[sbell]

Hey, looking at the figures, the Carribean reef shark is pretty lame. So I think I'll drop it (can just do a bonus mention)

BUT, are we willing to take a flat shark? For July 14?  I have a very nice one that could use some attention!

EDIT -- I meant to mention that Friday was specified because of Flat Shark Friday

[JimoAi]

to be fair I don't have a preference for the date of the goblin shark review as I am at the halfway point of the review now

[bmathison1972]

Hey all! I'm new to entering the hobby proper and posting on here but I'm a shark fanatic so I'd love to take a crack at a shark figure review for shark week if you'll have me!

First choice would be the Bandai Viper Dogfish, but I can also do instead the For Corporation Copper Shark (if it arrives in in time), Larami Greenland Shark, Yowie Common Sawshark... (I have many sharks haha; just giving options unless I clash with someone accidentally).

I'm a frequent reader of the blog so I understand the general format and types of info to include. I tried looking around the forum if there was any place for a new reviewer to reply, etc but didn't see any; please let me know if I'm missing anything and if there's room for me to join!

@Alopias superciliosus  - I put you down for the Bandai viper dogfish on 7/16 to give you time to prepare; welcome to the forum BTW

Hey, looking at the figures, the Carribean reef shark is pretty lame. So I think I'll drop it (can just do a bonus mention)

BUT, are we willing to take a flat shark? For July 14?  I have a very nice one that could use some attention!

EDIT -- I meant to mention that Friday was specified because of Flat Shark Friday

@sbell - put you down for July 14 for a flat shark

to be fair I don't have a preference for the date of the goblin shark review as I am at the halfway point of the review now

@JimoAi - that's fine; you were set for 7/17, I kept you there for now

All - dates are mostly flexible, so if you need something moved just ask around

[sbell]

Thanks! I'll still do the swell Shark. Just squeeze it in somewhere or other.

[Alopias superciliosus]

Awesome, thanks @bmathison1972 ! To clarify- is 7/16 the date the review will be posted or the date by which I need to send it over by?

Looking forward to seeing this flat shark @sbell ; "flat shark" as in angel shark? There's not many figures of those!

[sbell]

Awesome, thanks @bmathison1972 ! To clarify- is 7/16 the date the review will be posted or the date by which I need to send it over by?

Looking forward to seeing this flat shark @sbell ; "flat shark" as in angel shark? There's not many figures of those!

Flat shark is internet speak for rays! There aren't many angel shark figures though.

[Alopias superciliosus]

Awesome, thanks @bmathison1972 ! To clarify- is 7/16 the date the review will be posted or the date by which I need to send it over by?

Looking forward to seeing this flat shark @sbell ; "flat shark" as in angel shark? There's not many figures of those!

Flat shark is internet speak for rays! There aren't many angel shark figures though.

OHHH gotcha, that would make sense; rays are definitely honorary sharks 

[bmathison1972]

Awesome, thanks @bmathison1972 ! To clarify- is 7/16 the date the review will be posted or the date by which I need to send it over by?

Looking forward to seeing this flat shark @sbell ; "flat shark" as in angel shark? There's not many figures of those!

@Alopias superciliosus - that is the posting date, so it would be good to get it a couple days before, thanks in case it needs to be edited, images resized, etc.

[sbell]

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:
July 11: Safari white-tip reef shark - Gwangi
July 12:
July 13: Bandai frilled shark - bmathison1972
July 14: flat shark - sbell
July 15: Safari short-fin mako shark - Gwangi
July 16: Greenland shark - Alopias superciliosus
July 17: Takara (?) goblin shark - JimoAi
July 18: great white shark - brand? - Suspsy

no preference
2. K&M swell shark - sbell

Given that it was open, I slipped the Swellshark post onto July 12. No peeking. Or peek. It doesn't really matter.

The schedule is already set (0836h BST) but that is free to change as well of course.

[Gwangi]

Thrilled to see that we've got a full week of shark reviews now scheduled. Looking forward to it all.

My CollectA sharks should be arriving today so I will review them for next week instead of those two Safari figures. Better get started soon!

[sbell]

Thrilled to see that we've got a full week of shark reviews now scheduled. Looking forward to it all.

My CollectA sharks should be arriving today so I will review them for next week instead of those two Safari figures. Better get started soon!

Why not all of them? 

[Gwangi]

Thrilled to see that we've got a full week of shark reviews now scheduled. Looking forward to it all.

My CollectA sharks should be arriving today so I will review them for next week instead of those two Safari figures. Better get started soon!

Why not all of them? 

Don't tempt me to try! 

The CollectA sharks DID arrive today. 

[sbell]

Thrilled to see that we've got a full week of shark reviews now scheduled. Looking forward to it all.

My CollectA sharks should be arriving today so I will review them for next week instead of those two Safari figures. Better get started soon!

Why not all of them? 

Don't tempt me to try! 

The CollectA sharks DID arrive today. 

Tempting...tempting...

That was really fast! I gave in and ordered the angel shark and Hadrosaurus alone--had to take advantage of the 30% off!
But I didn't spring for the fast ship this time...it would have cost more than the two figures!

As it were, I have now loaded and scheduled the flat shark as well. I suppose I could make time for one more but probably won't for that week!