william-james88 wrote:While Year of the Monkey Optimus Primal has been available for preorder at Asian retailers and US importer sites, we finally have a listing from the actual exclusive retailer in the west: Toysrus.
Fellow Seibertronian Shajaki has found this listing on Toysrus.ca and this Platinum edition seems quite scalper proof. Not only is there a limit of 2 per person, but it is also $199.99 Canadian ($140 US).
If anyone is curious as to how this redeco of Air Attack Optimus Primal looks like, we have already seen some in hand images here. The listing also offered us some new stock images.
I have the original so there won't be any surprises here. I'm just a big BW/BM fan, and while it was intentional or not he's basically a new Primal Prime (which I love).Hellscream9999 wrote:Do you own the mold at all? I do (passed up rid Scourge for that piece of junkshajaki wrote:I can't believe how expensive this thing is... not sure I'll get one unless its locally.) I don't really wanna crush your dreams, but first find out if the electronics have been gutted - I honestly don't remember - but even if they aren't, I can't really recommend it at that price, unless you really want it
To be fair, I feel the Hasbro MP11's are more than reasonable. And the cars so far are priced pretty much the same as Takara's being sold by importers like BBTS. I feel the prices of exclusives have the right to be inflated, but I can't support the recent prices of these things. Even if I'm one of the few that actually like them.Kup98ss wrote:These overpriced exclusives are ridiculous. They will sit for a year then be clearanced off. Once again Great marketing decision Hasbro/TRY.
MP PROWL. Way overpriced $70
MP BLUESTREAK overpriced $60
MP STARSCREAM don't get enough
CYBERTRON STARSCREAM (reissue)$100 WTF?
ORANGE MP SOUNDWAVE $200 and ugly
And so on. Sad.
shajaki wrote:To be fair, I feel the Hasbro MP11's are more than reasonable. And the cars so far are priced pretty much the same as Takara's being sold by importers like BBTS. I feel the prices of exclusives have the right to be inflated, but I can't support the recent prices of these things. Even if I'm one of the few that actually like them.
.william-james88 wrote:About the similarity to the BBTS prices, I raised that argument several times in the MP bumblebee thread and I think the main backlash is that since these are no longer imports, why would they be priced as suchshajaki wrote:To be fair, I feel the Hasbro MP11's are more than reasonable. And the cars so far are priced pretty much the same as Takara's being sold by importers like BBTS. I feel the prices of exclusives have the right to be inflated, but I can't support the recent prices of these things. Even if I'm one of the few that actually like them.
Good point. Very good point. Perhaps when I argue such things I'm just trying to justify things for the sake of my own wallet 
griftimus prime wrote:only 200 dollars? what a steal
This toy is this design's future use. This is a mold that was originally released 14 years ago.Stuartmaximus wrote:I'm curious to see how they use this design in the future.
Sigmus Prime wrote:Wait... how much?!
william-james88 wrote:Sigmus Prime wrote:Wait... how much?!
200$ in Canada. Which translates to 140$ in the states.
I have no clue why this would be more expensive than the already very expensive YOTH Starscream since they are the same class size.
-Kanrabat- wrote:Hasbro on Platinum prices:
william-james88 wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:Hasbro on Platinum prices:
Just the Year of the " " stuff, the rest is ok.
Check this out for instance: http://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/transformer ... 0191047238
