What did you RECEIVE today? PHOTOS EDITION!

My first experience ordering from the UK Crunchyroll store.

It was dispatched from the Netherlands and it had a customs declaration on the box. I'm not sure if I would have had to pay customs if I spent over £135. This time I spent under that, but maybe something to look out for when ordering.

The packaging was not up to my standard, one sheet of packing paper (see photo). Trigun has a squished corner but everything else was fine. I probably won't ask for a replacement.
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I was not expecting another Royal Mail delivery today, but I suppose they're working doubly hard during this period - which is always appreciated (luckily, I'm working from home today, or I would have had to have waited longer for these).

As a contrast from the above 'packaging' from Crunchyroll, Anime Limited are far and away the best online retailer (that I buy from) in terms of their packaging - even a couple of standard Blu-ray sets they will wrap in bubble-wrap. However, I was not expecting such extensive packaging for an ultimate edition I ordered.

This is a crap tonne of bubble-wrap, and the item is even inside another box!

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And then, even inside the smaller box, there's little styrofoam protectors for the corners/edges!

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Definitely no complaints about that. This is my first 'Ultimate Edition' from Anime Limited, I wasn't expecting it to be so big though.

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And lastly, a few other little bits: Eureka Seven complete from the last chance sale, and Golden Time SE and Future Boy Conan from the B1G1F sale.

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Orders 1 and 2 of All the Anime's 12 Days of Christmas Sale (funnily enough, I didn't receive the dispatch e-mail for order 2, which is still listed as unfulfilled on my account, but I did receive Royal Mail e-mails containing tracking).

My orders consist of:
Order 1 - Mobile Fighter G Gundam Parts 1 and 2 Blu-ray, Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation Blu-ray, Flowers of Evil Blu-ray, Your Name 4K UHD Blu-ray/Standard Blu-ray Combo and Love Live! Superstar Season 1 Blu-ray.
Order 2 - Harmony Collector's Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo Steelcase, Durarara!! X2 (Sho, Ten and Ketsu) Collector's Edition Blu-ray and Sagrada Reset Blu-ray (MVM title).
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A few things from various places arrived today. Schim looks really unique and the art style is brilliant. The Secret of Nihm is one of my favourite Don Bluth films so I was excited for this version to be released. I finally picked up The Irishman, I haven't seen it since it launched on Netflix so I am looking forward to watching it again. Fresh Start looks like the perfect game to relax with at the end of a long day
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A whole range of large items delivered today of Super Sentai and Arcane goodies.

I was able to find a good deal on the Donbrothers Memorial Edition Donblaster (with pre-order bonus King-Ohger Avataro Gear) and Zanglass Sword on ebay the other day, and having started Donbrothers just a few days ago while on holiday in Germany and loving it, those two were no brainer pickups for me.

Alongside that I also got the replacement unit for my Kyoryuger Gaburevolver. The first version of it released in July had 2 or 3 voicelines mistakenly switched, which I didn't even realise until it Bandai announced replacements because the 100+ other voicelines played perfectly, but thanks to that I can sell the original version I have and probably get most if not all the money back I spent on it in the first place.

Finally I got two Arcane-related preorders in with both the Art and Making of Arcane Artbook and the S2 soundtrack on CD. I actually received the wrong variant of the CD however (I had bought the Vi one, not Jinx), so I've contacted the webstore's support to try see if I can get a replacement there.

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I received a couple of OOP ecchi titles from eBay and elsewhere online in the mail today...

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Demon King Daimao

I included the packing slip I received with Demon King Daimao because there was a short note written on it from the seller. :)

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Check out the saw films they have Very litlle gore in them 🤣 I'm lieing by the way lol.
RadFemHedonist said:
Sorry for not editing down to the relevant paragraph, but I just wanna say even though I'm not massively into action films I LOVE Speed, it's not really got any graphic violence (gore) in it making it ideal viewing for a sensitive soul like me, and Reeves and Bullock give great performances, I was gripped from start to finish! (See attached meme for additional fun and amusement) :)
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Birdie Num Num said:
My first experience ordering from the UK Crunchyroll store.

It was dispatched from the Netherlands and it had a customs declaration on the box. I'm not sure if I would have had to pay customs if I spent over £135. This time I spent under that, but maybe something to look out for when ordering.

The packaging was not up to my standard, one sheet of packing paper (see photo). Trigun has a squished corner but everything else was fine. I probably won't ask for a replacement.
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Pretty sure there shouldn't be any issues for customs as VAT is taken during checkout. That being said, it's alarming their UK store is not based in the UK but rather in the Netherlands. I have two orders incoming from their store; one focused on 3 limited editions, and the other focused on around 6 regular releases.

They better not duck it up.
 
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