Generations Titan Metroplex coming soon to a Costco near you for $79.99

Shut the front door!! I have a Costco 5 min from me (East Peoria, IL)and this is the first year it has been here. What a treat to be able to pick up Metroplex for $79.99. I bought one already from BBTS, but for that price I will glady pick up another to keep him in the box...heck in the long run it is worth it just to get another gun and not pay the hefty premium for SDCC or Import version .
I will definitely post if I see one...my old man works for Costco so I will have him keep an eye out.

~reluctantyouth~

Cyber Bishop wrote:Wait.... Costco sells Transformers??? There is one finally opening down here soon...

You didn't know this, even with the various Costco exclusives over the years?

I feel really bad seeing this, because I just bought him for $114.99, but the nearest Costco is 42 miles away, so let me do the math...

Assumptions:
1) It would not take multiple trips to find him.
2) It'd require long detours to get anything else of value out of the trip.
3) Gas prices won't change between now and then.
4) We'll disregard environmental implications of everyone driving around individually.

First, have to add sales tax to the figure, if I weren't buying him online. State sales tax is 2.9%, but where the Costco is it's apparently over 3.75%. So, $2.9996 on a $79.99 purchase, so that brings Metroplex to $82.9896, or $83.

The Costco is 42.6 miles away, so we'll say 85.2 miles of driving round trip. The way my wife drives I-25, that'd take just over an hour, but our car has aged poorly and the wind wouldn't be at our backs either way, so our gas mileage would probably be a lousy 22 miles per gallon. So, we'll say 3.87 gallons of gas. Gas prices are around $3.55 for 87 octane gas here. 3.87 gallons at $3.55/gal would cost me $13.74. So that brings Metroplex to $96.74 for me.

So I'm shorted $18.25. Hilariously, that's right on what I'm supposedly paid per hour at my job, so the difference between ordering him online and driving one hour to Costco is approximately equal to one hour of my life.

For those who want to quickly run through that for themselves, but prefer algebra over word problems:

a = Cost of Toy at Store
b = Sales Tax at Store's location (% of $1; This can be found through a site like this)
c = Cost of Gas ($$/1gal; This can be found through a site like this)
d = Distance to Store (miles)
e = Mileage of your Car (miles/gal)

Final Cost = a + (ab/100) + 2(cd/e)

[Now watch me have made some really embarrassing mistake writing that down.]

You know what'd be cool? To have a calculator in the Toy Sightings section that would reference sites that provide gas prices and tax rates at stores, and let you plug in your location, gas mileage, and such, to quickly calculate and compare shopping at different stores.

Valandar wrote:

Cyber Bishop wrote:Wait.... Costco sells Transformers??? There is one finally opening down here soon...

You didn't know this, even with the various Costco exclusives over the years?

They sell them occasionally and only during the months lead up to the Holidays. The last time Costco sold mainline Transformers was when they had the DOTM Leader Class Ironhide and Bumblebee toys which seems like they had them earlier than the Christmas season 2 years ago. No Transformers other than Kre-O 2 packs last year.

This won't hurt TRU or anyone. Costco is a membership club, and has far fewer locations than TRU or Target or Walmart. Anyone can walk into TRU and buy Metroplex, but only Costco members will be able to buy it as Costco.

Seeing that they will being selling Metroplex for that price was kind of a smack in the face. But collectors shouldn't worry. Galaxy metroplex and Air attack Optimal prime which are great figures that are big in size as well went on sale years back when they were in retail stores now they are 100$ plus hard to find figures.

What a sweet deal indeed. Still my sights are set on the more impressive (IMO) Takara version!

HOLY CRAP, gotta get this!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looks like I'll be breaking my TF collecting rules so I can get this!

I can't seem to find info on what STATES have Costcos. Guessing none in Arkansas, or I'd be able to find info.