Amazon Exclusive Transformers 25th Anniversary Edition Unicron In-Stock

kirbenvost wrote:CRAP ON A STICK! Do I buy it now or wait for the supposed Canadian release at Costco?

How much is it supposed to be at costco?

So much for the October release. I thought I had a chance to save the money for it. Oh well.

Show of hands.
I'll start off with I did.

Order placed, scheduled for delivery on 08/31

Now to go by a green led and a soldering iron

El Duque wrote:I did, but it probably would have been a better idea to just ask in the existing topic.

My apologies. You can lock or delete this if you like.

Signed up for the Amazon credit card, used the $40 credit toward this, Unicron shipped for $19.99...couldn't pass it up even if I already have the Takara version (which is better )

Kibble wrote:Signed up for the Amazon credit card, used the $40 credit toward this, Unicron shipped for $19.99...couldn't pass it up even if I already have the Takara version (which is better )

Wow, I wish I could do that!

Razama wrote:And its gone! or unavailable for now! I think I pick up the last one!

Damn. I wonder if this was an error and it wasn't supposed to be up yet. I can't imagine there would be such a small quantity.

kirbenvost wrote:

Razama wrote:And its gone! or unavailable for now! I think I pick up the last one!

Damn. I wonder if this was an error and it wasn't supposed to be up yet. I can't imagine there would be such a small quantity.

I remember TRU doing similar things to hot items. They would get a first batch out, get them out of stock and wait for a second shipment to come in for online sales. Worst case scenario is having to wait until Oct for others to order it. That would suck.

I'm glad I saw this in time to get one ordered. Thanks for the heads up.

Having seen comparison images of both the Hasbro and Takara, I can see good things about both figures, as well as faults in each.

The Hasbro one has the more correct color choices, while the Takara one has the more correct color layout.

Though, the Takara one has slightly more correct use of its colors than the Hasbro one. Like, the Takara one has orange upper arms, more solidly-colored legs, orange stomach sides, a straight stripe of orange going down the center of the chest, and an overall more subtle color scheme with a correct shade of gray.

On the downside, the Takara one has a fully orange main torso (when it should have more gray in certain places), black knees, too many little silver details that are otherwise unnecessary, and a lack of paint going around the back of his head from cheek-to-cheek.

On the other hand, the pluses of the Hasbro one are its knees colored the same as its lower legs, a gray upper torso, a red Planet Mode maw, a painted Planet Mode equator, a correct shade of blue for Planet Mode, and overall more accurate shades of orange and blue.

But, it also has far too many little red and silver details that are really unnecessary, too shiny a silver, a jagged orange stripe going down his chest all zigzag-like, gray stomach sides, garish and gaudy orange and silver details are his legs, Red LED eyes when he should have green, and an overall disorienting color layout.

If only Hasbro and/or Takara had taken the positives of both versions, discarded/fixed as many negatives as they could, and attempted to give us something as closer as possible to this without further remolding or making a new figure, then this would have been an instant win.

The keyword in this is SUBLETY, as the G1 Unicron had a very subtle color scheme. He didn't look all that fancy, but he didn't HAVE to. His colors worked just fine without all these little bits of red and silver speckled all over his body. His basic colors of blue, orange, and gray work just fine for him on there on. We don't need all these little extra bits that take away form the show-accruacy of these two figure's color schemes!

Good thing I got my 2 pcs... One for MISB and one to play with... Wow didnt know it would go out this fast