Titan Class Devastator would be amazeballs.
And yeah, I'm considering getting MP-10. Maybe I'll keep them in different modes or something.
Is there any word on Masterpiece Sideswipe or Wheeljack being released in the US?
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Titan Class Devastator would be amazeballs.
And yeah, I'm considering getting MP-10. Maybe I'll keep them in different modes or something.
Is there any word on Masterpiece Sideswipe or Wheeljack being released in the US?
aparisi2274
Member
I just ordered Sideswipe from BBTS, because I hate dealing with Hasbro and Toys R Us. It's a pain in the ass to even secure a MP figure from TRU, if you're not at the store the moment it opens the day the figure comes out.
BattleMonkey
Member
With how expensive prowl was at TRU, probably just easier to buy the Takara release online as price gap is closing. And the last two MP's stayed on shelves for months so who knows if they learned their lesson or gonna feel like stepping back from MP US releases.
From the pictures, the arms are a bit too long/thin (the legs look great though) and the gun is too small, but the truck + trailer look fantastic.
Hasbro stated outright that Sideswipe was coming "this year" back at Botcon, which clearly did not turn out to be the case, but he's not cancelled. I would bet that all the MP cars will make it stateside eventually, but since the TRU MSRP is about the same price as importing the Takara versions, I'm just going to keep buying the Japanese versions. How ridiculous is it that it's easier, more dependable, and just as financially logical to import them from the other side of the world than buy them at the toy store down the street?
Not remotely true. MP-10 is the best proportioned Optimus Prime ever made. I would almost go so far as to say it's flawless.
Nothing official, but some hints were dropped last summer. Wouldn't totally shock me if one of the late 2015 Leaders was an Overlord, especially with the Combiner Wars theme ongoing.
aparisi2274
Member
So, I just got my MP-12 Lambor today, and I have to say, he is one of the nicest MP's to come to market!
TangoAlphaLima
Member
It was expensive at regular price, but then TRU.com had that one day sale (or whatever it was) on him, and I got him for about $36.
aparisi2274
Member
Hey all, QQ....
Has anyone ever ordered RobotKingdom.com? They are taking preorders on the MP-10 reissue, and they only want $154.90, where most other places (BBTS included) are looking for $189.99.
I just want to make sure that Robotkingdom.com is reputable and not selling KO's from China.
Thanks
EDIT: Nevermind. I see why it is so cheap. They charge $55 to $80 for shipping, so I guess the price is what it is going for in Japan, and the shipping is what it will cost to get it to the NYC area.
Has anyone ever ordered RobotKingdom.com? They are taking preorders on the MP-10 reissue, and they only want $154.90, where most other places (BBTS included) are looking for $189.99.
I just want to make sure that Robotkingdom.com is reputable and not selling KO's from China.
Thanks
EDIT: Nevermind. I see why it is so cheap. They charge $55 to $80 for shipping, so I guess the price is what it is going for in Japan, and the shipping is what it will cost to get it to the NYC area.
HammerOfThor
Member
I know I don't talk about it much here(actually, I don't think I've ever mentioned it at all), but I've been planning on opening a toy store in Feb/March. In the beginning it will be dedicated to Transformers but I'd eventually branch out if I'm successful. This has been a childhood dream of mine.
Anyway the reason I mention it is that I was planning on selling selling the MP-10 Reissue for $175 and I plan on offering free shipping on orders over $150(or $125, I'm still trying to figure some stuff out there). Either way it would be free shipping.
Just throwing that out there if that is a better price for you, aparisi2274. Or anyone else who may be interested.
Anyway the reason I mention it is that I was planning on selling selling the MP-10 Reissue for $175 and I plan on offering free shipping on orders over $150(or $125, I'm still trying to figure some stuff out there). Either way it would be free shipping.
Just throwing that out there if that is a better price for you, aparisi2274. Or anyone else who may be interested.
Wheeljack539
Member
I hope the above is true for MP-27. One of my favs from G1.
Barrow Roll
Member
I'm actually really curious about this, would you mind answering a few questions?
1. Is this strictly an online store or are you also planning to have a brick and mortar location?
2. Where is your business going to be located?
3. MP-10 has a list price of 22 000 yen, which is rougly $187 USD. Your competitors (BBTS, TFSource, etc) are selling it at $189.99, and you plan to undercut them by $15, with free shipping on top. Either your wholesale is amazingly cheap, or you anticipate to move A LOT of units to even begin to make a profit. As a brand new business with no reputation behind it coming up against industry titans with an established customer base, are you hoping that undercutting your competitors will be enough?
If you don't feel comfortable answering these questions then I understand, but I'm just genuinely interested. As someone that has worked in the collectibles business I know how small profit margins are for this stuff. And I've tried finding wholesalers that carry Japanese TFs and such, but the wholesale discounts are so awful that buying from Amiami as just a regular Joe Schmoe customer ends up being cheaper than your wholesale once you factor in your shipping costs. Then you gotta do a markup just to cover the cost of running the business, at that point where's the room for profit? BBTS and TFSource pretty much sets the baseline pricing for North American online retailers of Japanese TFs, there's no going higher than them or you may as well not bother.
The market is tough, and with people being more frugal than ever I don't envy you entering into a sea full of already enormous fish. I do wish you the best of luck and I hope your business prospers and finds success!
BattleMonkey
Member
That just seems like an odd choice for 25. Surprised we aren't getting Jazz still
Oooooooh. Chevrolet Corvette I got jizz in my pants. Still no Porsche 935 though.
HammerOfThor
Member
No problem I'd be more than happy to answer
1) Online for now. I realize I'd do significantly better in brick and mortar especially since I don't know of too many places in my area that are selling import and third party Transformers, but I also love my day job(software engineer) and I'm not quite ready to give that up yet. Especially when I'm unsure of how this will pan out.
2) Skokie, IL. A suburb of Chicago.
3) I hope that the lower prices will help draw people to me initially. But I know I'll need to stay on my feet and come up with other ideas to help my business grow. It'll be a lot of work, thats for sure. My margins aren't amazing by any stretch(margins for Hasbro are damn near atrocious), but there isn't a whole lot I need to sell just to break even every month to cover the cost of running the business. Honestly, this may just become a hobby that pays for my family's vacations once a year, or it may flourish into a solid retail store, or I may just close it up after a few months. But I know if I don't try for this now I won't get another opportunity for a long time, if ever.
Thanks for you kind words, hopefully we'll get to do business together one day
aparisi2274
Member
No problem I'd be more than happy to answer
1) Online for now. I realize I'd do significantly better in brick and mortar especially since I don't know of too many places in my area that are selling import and third party Transformers, but I also love my day job(software engineer) and I'm not quite ready to give that up yet. Especially when I'm unsure of how this will pan out.
2) Skokie, IL. A suburb of Chicago.
3) I hope that the lower prices will help draw people to me initially. But I know I'll need to stay on my feet and come up with other ideas to help my business grow. It'll be a lot of work, thats for sure. My margins aren't amazing by any stretch(margins for Hasbro are damn near atrocious), but there isn't a whole lot I need to sell just to break even every month to cover the cost of running the business. Honestly, this may just become a hobby that pays for my family's vacations once a year, or it may flourish into a solid retail store, or I may just close it up after a few months. But I know if I don't try for this now I won't get another opportunity for a long time, if ever.
Thanks for you kind words, hopefully we'll get to do business together one day
I assume that you'll be procuring legit MP figures and not KO's from China or other parts of Asia?
I agree with some other comments about the pricing model you have on paper for the MP10 reissue and how your undercutting the competition by about $15-$20 with Free Shipping no less.
I hope you do well with the new endeavor and if it takes off, I may place an order with you for a MP figure, but as of now, I may go with an established store.
HammerOfThor
Member
Correct, I don't really believe in KOs and stocking them would just create confusion. Everything I'll carry will be official releases(or third party)
BattleMonkey
Member
It's going to be tough unless you plan on being a huge store that almost reaches wholesale levels of product stocking. Free shipping can bite you in the ass easily, even the cheapest methods from CA to across the state for some transformers can cost your business 20-30 bucks to ship unless you develop big business where UPS or FedEx can give you incentives or discounts. Along with the free shipping, what kind of mark up are you looking at from your wholesale prices? Do you have the buying power that these big online retailers have, like TFsource where they had what looked like pallets worth of the Ultra Magnus MP. Typically these types of stores trying to undercut and sell free shipping are making bare minimum profit and it all will depend if you can get large enough customer base to keep that trickle of profit worth it.
SiegfriedFM
Member
Oooh, I hope so. He's one of my favourites, and that would mean I can sell off the Binaltech which is looking dated now in comparison. And as for MP-27, I guess that means we know who MP-28 is...
aparisi2274
Member
Ok, transformer fans, need advice
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=351006748492
I came across this BUY IT NOW on eBay, and it's very tempting. It's brand new, 100% authentic, comes with the coin, and free shipping.
Should I pull the trigger? The only Starscream I have is the OG MP-3 that had the dark green color scheme.
The only thing holding me back is that it is coming from Taiwan, and even though they say it's a legit item, I'm leery of getting anything like this from outside of Japan.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=351006748492
I came across this BUY IT NOW on eBay, and it's very tempting. It's brand new, 100% authentic, comes with the coin, and free shipping.
Should I pull the trigger? The only Starscream I have is the OG MP-3 that had the dark green color scheme.
The only thing holding me back is that it is coming from Taiwan, and even though they say it's a legit item, I'm leery of getting anything like this from outside of Japan.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
BattleMonkey
Member
I don't think that Starscream ever had a KO made of it that I know of.
BattleMonkey
Member
Damn, yea sucks and it's holding up another order I have stacked with for free shipping at tfsource.
What's the other order?
BattleMonkey
Member
The toyworld Infinitor (3rd party fort max). Were supposed to be out around same time so they were combined on my stack for the free ship
LocknessMobster
Member
My most anticipated figure for 2015...
Tizoc
Member
This is pretty much how I would describe Overlord:
"He's the worst kind of Decepticon; if he was on Earth, he'd toss a school bus full of children at fighter jets sent to take him down just for the fun of it"
Nice, how much are each going for?
"He's the worst kind of Decepticon; if he was on Earth, he'd toss a school bus full of children at fighter jets sent to take him down just for the fun of it"
My most anticipated figure for 2015...
Nice, how much are each going for?
It's alright. Much better than MP-5 and it's in scale with 10, but the proportions still bug me and the legs still look like a mess. Waiting for the inevitable official MP Megs 2. If history is anything to go by, it'll blow this out of the water.
My brother owns all of the Masterpiece figures and this one was his most current purchase. The cape and crown are nice, but when you transform him his mid section where the cockpit is is SUPER loose.
You're talking about robot mode, right? Is he correctly pegging in the nosecone to the back panel? I've found the everything tightens right up when I do that. If not, could be some mold degradation. Love that figure, personally. Beautiful colors, great new head sculpt and it doesn't feel like it's always going to snap like the original. Feel like I can actually play around with it. Also, he finally has heels.
BattleMonkey
Member
I kinda have doubts they can replicate accurate transformation with the gun mode. One of the problems always with Megatron is that really odd gun mode so proportions are never quite right.
Takara has proven themselves over and over. If anything, they'll do some clever alterations to the proportions of the gun to give the robot a better look. Either that or completely reimagine the transformation. In Takara I trust. The modern MP line has yet to disappoint me.
LocknessMobster
Member
Around $150 at most online stores. Getting mine from BBTS this time but Captured Prey is another excellent online store I usually go through.
Yes this is by far the best G1 Megs to date,been waiting for this since 84'. Getting two and if/when Takara finally redoes Megs Ill buy two of him too for sure. Not sure how much better it could actually be though.
Yeah, the stubby legs are a real problem. It's a nice attempt but for $150 I need better proportions than that. If his crotch was just a LITTLE smaller and his thighs were just a LITTLE longer, I'd be in.
BattleMonkey
Member
Looks alright, head is kinda small yea. Also the forearms look odd being all black and not really looking like part of the bots. Already got a green giant so oh well.
That is one of the better looking combiners Hasbro has put out in a long time. I haven't liked any of the designs where you could swap any appendage with another, and the arms and legs were mostly the same.
This is going to be impossible to find in a store isn't it?
Eh, Metroplex had pretty good distribution.
I've been out of the completionist habit for a while, but my take is that the big ticket items that aren't MP figures generally aren't hard to find.
I just hope Costco stocks this one for $60 less than everywhere else like they did Metroplex.
BattleMonkey
Member
Just preorder at any of the big transformer retailers and you should be golden, and most will have free shipping for an item of this price tag
Ovek
7Member7
Well, that is certainly a Titan Class Devastator.
Quite the tiny head and some questionable color choices, but still better than I was expecting from Hasbro.
Ignoring the fact that it's been posed like its drunk, it's all very meh.
The bad:
Stupid small head
Laughable club foot
The average:
Colour scheme seems interesting, not perfect but passable.
The good:
The upper body looks chunky which has been a problem with Hasbro combiners in the past.
I suppose it's not finished yet so they might tweek the paint jobs or in true Hasbro style remove as much as possible. They won't be fixing the head or the very poor looking Mixmaster.
I might buy it on the hope that a 3rd party will come and fix all the glaring problems with it.
It's a display model shown by Hasbro at a trade show, they always mistransform stuff to all hell and back. We're lucky they even figured out how to make it stand up.
BattleMonkey
Member
a slightly bigger head alone would totally improve the whole look, it just seems a little awkward now because of it. Also noticed the tracks are colors purple and green and attached to the torso instead which looks a little iffy.
Ovek
7Member7
I bet the tracks are different colours so you know which one goes on the left and which one goes on the right, I shit you not.
Apparently the colour scheme is final (as is the entire thing) as there were more than one Titan Devastator at the show all looking the same and all poorly transformed.
Probably my biggest problem with it as well.
They're different colors because that's how the G1 toys were.
It's not his cab, it's the back end of this:
It is a pretty silly looking foot, though.