First US sighting of Hasbro Transformers Masterpiece Bluestreak at Toys R' Us

"Online exclusive!" Yeah, right. Not to sound like a jerk, but does one hand at Hasbro know what the other one is doing? I mean, come on...

Mr O wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:"Online exclusive!" Yeah, right. Not to sound like a jerk, but does one hand at Hasbro know what the other one is doing? I mean, come on...

I think it's fairly obvious what one hand is doing .

megatronus wrote:Wha??? I need to hit TRU Times Square tomorrow morning...

Dat price though.... I'll wait for a sale

70$US at TIME SQUARE no less. That make... around 88$CAN... Pretty spot on actu... "AFTER TAXES".
Aw, fawk you, TrU.

-Kanrabat- wrote:70$US at TIME SQUARE no less. That make... around 88$CAN... Pretty spot on actu... "AFTER TAXES".
Aw, fawk you, TrU.

How are taxes TRU fault? You can clearly see the retail price before taxes on the receipt.

Don't act like y'all don't know. Our MP's cost more because of the taxes, WHICH cover the dog sled teams it takes to get them up here.

Va'al wrote:

shajaki wrote:Don't act like y'all don't know. Our MP's cost more because of the taxes, WHICH cover the sled dog teams it takes to get them up here.

That doesn't make mush sense to me.

Cause... Canada? North... snow... igloos....

megatronus wrote:Wha??? I need to hit TRU Times Square tomorrow morning...

Well? were there any left? Did you get one?

Va'al wrote:Maple'll try a different joke.

What if I Canada do better?

jay5 wrote:This is literally the first time I've heard any mention of that issue, so thanks for mentioning it. It's like nobody wants to talk about the issues with MP molds, they either never mention the issues or they walk right past posts that attempt to discuss them. Silly, since we're collectors and we should be sharing these sorts of things openly and honestly. Like the crap red paint color matching across the panels on MP-12 Sideswipe, the ill-fitting door panels/gaps, and the paint defects common on all variations of MP-12, regular and the black Lambor model. Few will even acknowledge that. So strange. And we have a re-release of it coming up for the Asian market (and who knows, Hasbro might bring it here, too), but hardly anyone actually asks the important questions like is the paint application or the quality control any better on that re-issue, or are we just spending the same $70 to get the same crap paint quality that's not even acceptable for a KO let alone an official product.

Woah woah woah, let's not revise history. The MP-12 QC was a huge let down when the toy first came out, there was a ton of discussion about it, just a firestorm for a bit. The tight joint being referred to on the Datsun mold is not universally so tight that you can't make it a car again, but it's definitely also been discussed a ton, and again, was so discussed at the time the first versions were released. The perception may be that these things are ignored, but it's pretty far from the truth, it's just that these are toys from October 2012 in Sideswipe's case and September 2013 in Prowl's case, and there isn't much else to be said about it that hasn't been.

In other words, I don't think anyone's ignoring or forgetting anything in an effort to be some Takara/Hasbro non-KO/3P White Knight, it's that nothing's being said because there is nothing else to say about it.