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padfoo wrote:In my area there were tons of Starscreams and Skywarps available when they were released. I was able to pick up two copies of each at the time at full price. I dont know what your situation was like at the time, but Starscream was released in the US fairly recently. I for one would not buy another because its the new mold. Hasbro is getting much better sell through from Toysrus and they are probably not loosing any money, because of the smaller distribution capacity of Toysrus. I hope you get my point......
I am looking forward to a different character, I think Hasbro will be smart enough to not make as much of the mold as they did TC and I believe it will be a success. I will certainly pick one up. As for the MP Autobot cars, well it sucks they are not getting a US release but we can always import!

yar...we had the mp3 mold from 2006, but I adore the new mp11 mold, myself. I'm assuming that since Hasbro took until 2008 to release the mp3 Starscream mold from 2006, they're just never going to release the mp11 upgrade. *shrug* At least maybe not for another couple years. lol.

Enjoy Acid Storm though! He's a nice lookin color scheme...just not what I want for my new collection! =)

As for the cars...I can't understand how licensing isn't an issue for Takara, but IS for Hasbro. *shrug*

But then, what do I know!

My Takara version should be on its way. I paid 200€ for it and do I regret. Well, this TRU deal is most likely better. But the thing is, that this is most likely TRU US Only. I haven't seen any of those TRU MP exclusives here in northern europe and even in the UK they just resently got MP-10 Primes. We most likely never get those and that is just lame.

Kind of suck how somewhere shelves are full of MP-stuff, and here we really have to hunt those. There are several TRU stores, but for some reason no MP transformers. They got that Ultimate movie Prime which was relatively expencive, but no MP-10. Maybe here just isn't enough demand. Then again; how could there be if they don't even bother to market items like these.

But good luck for getting those. Most likely SW with all the casettes is going to be a relly good deal.

Really excited about a US release, but hate to wait. Have come close to just buying the TT version a few times b/c the figure looks great and I love TT’s packaging. On the other hand It is hard to pass up getting 5 minions at a lower price.

One thing came to mind with Hasbro MP releases. Does anyone know why they don’t do a subscription service? This would have giving everyone a MP 10 and they would have over produced Thundercracker, not to mention no one would have to go out and search for SW or over pay on the secondary market.

Also, anyone think TT will do a re-release of SW with the initial 5 cassettes but add Ratbat just to get everyone to purchase another figure.

Lango7 wrote:Really excited about a US release, but hate to wait. Have come close to just buying the TT version a few times b/c the figure looks great and I love TT’s packaging. On the other hand It is hard to pass up getting 5 minions at a lower price.

One thing came to mind with Hasbro MP releases. Does anyone know why they don’t do a subscription service? This would have giving everyone a MP 10 and they would have over produced Thundercracker, not to mention no one would have to go out and search for SW or over pay on the secondary market.

Also, anyone think TT will do a re-release of SW with the initial 5 cassettes but add Ratbat just to get everyone to purchase another figure.

I think when they do the Soundblaster repaint they might make a new tape or two

So i sent TRU CS this: At Toy Fair 2013 Hasbro announced that Transformer “Masterpiece Soundwave” was going to be released as a Toys R Us exclusive. I am writing to see if a release date or item number is available. Any information you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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And this is the response: Thank you for contacting The “R” Us Family. We appreciate your inquiry regarding Transformer Masterpiece Soundwave.

The manufacturer for this item has set the release date for February 13,2013.

Unfortunately, we do not have the exact dates as to when this item will be available at your local store. You may wish to contact your local store from time to time, along with the surrounding stores, to check the availability. The locations and phone numbers of our stores are listed on our website at www.toysrus.com in the Store Locator section. Again, we are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you.

Don't think SW is out now but maybe sooner than we think.

Lango7 wrote:So i sent TRU CS this: At Toy Fair 2013 Hasbro announced that Transformer “Masterpiece Soundwave” was going to be released as a Toys R Us exclusive. I am writing to see if a release date or item number is available. Any information you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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And this is the response: Thank you for contacting The “R” Us Family. We appreciate your inquiry regarding Transformer Masterpiece Soundwave.

The manufacturer for this item has set the release date for February 13,2013.

Unfortunately, we do not have the exact dates as to when this item will be available at your local store. You may wish to contact your local store from time to time, along with the surrounding stores, to check the availability. The locations and phone numbers of our stores are listed on our website at http://www.toysrus.com in the Store Locator section. Again, we are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you.

Don't think SW is out now but maybe sooner than we think.

Doesn't sound right considering Takara's version just came out, also the Hasbro version will include all 5 tapes, 4 of which has not even been released by Takara yet.

On another note I had a dream that for some strange reason masterpiece Acidstorm has the classics Acidstorm's deco...

So, who all here thinks Acid Storm will be in his G1 neon green deco or his Universe camo deco?

It's the Universe deco with digital camo on the wings. They showed at image during the panel.

El Duque wrote:It's the Universe deco with digital camo on the wings. They showed at image during the panel.

oh my... I thought these masterpieces would be G1 accurate

mooncake623 wrote:

El Duque wrote:It's the Universe deco with digital camo on the wings. They showed at image during the panel.

oh my... I thought these masterpieces would be G1 accurate

If it was G1 accurate it would be invisible; because it didn't exist! LOL I make funny. Seriously I know Acid Storm was one of those off color Seeker drones from the cartoon. I like the digital camo a bit more.