TFCC Confirms January Pre-Orders for 2012 Exclusives Shattered Glass Drift and Runabout

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 3:22PM CST

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We just received word from the Official Transformers Collectors Club that pre-orders for their 2012 club exclusives Runabout and Shattered Glass Drift will open in January. The figures are expected to ship in early March.

The other big piece of news is we now have a pre-order month for Runabout and Shattered Glass Drift. This marks our earliest release yet, as these will be available to all Club members for pre-order purchase starting in January, 2012 with an anticipated ship date of early March. If you were thinking of waiting to sign up at the March 16th* deadline to get these, you probably shouldn't! We expect these two club exclusives to go fast so if you need to join or renew, do it today!

*Note: Anyone who DOES sign up by March 16th WILL get the FREE 2012 Runamuck figure. That is guaranteed. To be able to purchase Runabout and Drift, we suggest being a member no later than Jan 1st.

They have also posted details and the cover for issue #42 of the Club magazine featuring Transformers Prime Wheeljack, visit their homepage to view the full sized image.

This is just the tip of the magazine iceberg as Issue 42 also has a great interview with the voice of G1 Tracks and Cosmos, Michael McConnohie, two all new MTMTE profiles, a retrospective article by Jim Sorenson and the finale to the 2011 Comic storyline "Battle Lines." A couple crazy twists has changed what you thought about this G1 story-line forever!

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Re: TFCC Confirms January Pre-Orders for 2012 Exclusives Shattered Glass Drift and Runabout (1315994)
Posted by Heavy B on November 23rd, 2011 @ 3:34pm CST

WANT RUNABOUT. pass on drift.

Re: TFCC Confirms January Pre-Orders for 2012 Exclusives Shattered Glass Drift and Runabout (1315995)
Posted by harrogatebantam31 on November 23rd, 2011 @ 3:40pm CST

I've not purchased a figure from the TFCC despite been a member as the postage cost to the UK makes it hard to justify. BUT I will try to get in for Runabout as Runamuck won't look right on his lonesome.

Re: TFCC Confirms January Pre-Orders for 2012 Exclusives Shattered Glass Drift and Runabout (1315996)
Posted by Mkall on November 23rd, 2011 @ 3:47pm CST

As much as I hope the buying period will not be as frenzied as last year, I suspect I'll be disappointed. Oh well, I shall get them all!

Re: TFCC Confirms January Pre-Orders for 2012 Exclusives Shattered Glass Drift and Runabout (1315998)
Posted by Diem on November 23rd, 2011 @ 3:54pm CST

Yep, guess I'm spending all of January on the TCC's twitter hitting refresh...

Re: TFCC Confirms January Pre-Orders for 2012 Exclusives Shattered Glass Drift and Runabout (1316003)
Posted by datguy86 on November 23rd, 2011 @ 4:03pm CST

Very much looking forward to Runamuck/Runabout due to both issue #22 and only ever owning Runabout as a kid. My wife likes the Drift mold, so I'll probably (use it as justification to) buy it for her.

Actually this set is pretty awesome. The Turbo Tracks mold worked great for Tracks and Wheeljack, but looks fantastic with Runamuck and Runabout. The Drift mold is good, too. The colors on SG Drift work really well to my eyes.

Re: TFCC Confirms January Pre-Orders for 2012 Exclusives Shattered Glass Drift and Runabout (1316007)
Posted by prmlove1 on November 23rd, 2011 @ 4:08pm CST

I will be getting both but SG Drift will be renamed Turbo as a homage to the GoBot by the same name.

Re: TFCC Confirms January Pre-Orders for 2012 Exclusives Shattered Glass Drift and Runabout (1316014)
Posted by GetRightRobot on November 23rd, 2011 @ 4:28pm CST

B O T C O N ! ? ! ?Dates? Place? Time? Chicago in June from the rumor mill does me no good. This is cool, but....

Re: TFCC Confirms January Pre-Orders for 2012 Exclusives Shattered Glass Drift and Runabout (1316018)
Posted by griftimus prime on November 23rd, 2011 @ 4:34pm CST

no and no

Re: TFCC Confirms January Pre-Orders for 2012 Exclusives Shattered Glass Drift and Runabout (1316080)
Posted by Tigertrack on November 23rd, 2011 @ 8:03pm CST

GetRightRobot wrote:B O T C O N ! ? ! ?Dates? Place? Time? Chicago in June from the rumor mill does me no good. This is cool, but....

Not sure how they can do a Botcon in June when they have Joecon scheduled for late June in The Big Easy.

Good to know, but really it's 'not-news'.

Re: TFCC Confirms January Pre-Orders for 2012 Exclusives Shattered Glass Drift and Runabout (1316084)
Posted by dinogeist on November 23rd, 2011 @ 8:07pm CST

I'm calling that Red SG Drift toy by the AEC toy lines "Swerve" name.
IMHO,this looks awful in red,the superior colors are the retail stores drift & blurr colors.

I'm not a fan of runabout & runamuck using a deluxe mold. this seems wrong,they should be using basic sized toys because their 1980's toys were really small. worst offense is funpub using the wheeljack & tracks generations molds for runamuck & runabout. What's next will funpub use the energon arcee mold,recolor it & call it wreckgar.

Re: TFCC Confirms January Pre-Orders for 2012 Exclusives Shattered Glass Drift and Runabout (1316102)
Posted by Blurrz on November 23rd, 2011 @ 8:46pm CST

Not sure if I'm gonna pull the whole re-up with the Club, although the Runs are tempting.

Re: TFCC Confirms January Pre-Orders for 2012 Exclusives Shattered Glass Drift and Runabout (1316107)
Posted by GetRightRobot on November 23rd, 2011 @ 9:16pm CST

tigertracks 24 wrote:
GetRightRobot wrote:B O T C O N ! ? ! ?Dates? Place? Time? Chicago in June from the rumor mill does me no good. This is cool, but....

Not sure how they can do a Botcon in June when they have Joecon scheduled for late June in The Big Easy.

Good to know, but really it's 'not-news'.

What? They have Joecon already scheduled? Officially? Who gives a crap about Joe? Kidding. But what the F? why can they have one announced and not the other?

Re: TFCC Confirms January Pre-Orders for 2012 Exclusives Shattered Glass Drift and Runabout (1316129)
Posted by MagnusPrimal on November 23rd, 2011 @ 10:46pm CST

I'm getting a membership for Christmas. I don't usually care about exclusives, but I want these!

Re: TFCC Confirms January Pre-Orders for 2012 Exclusives Shattered Glass Drift and Runabout (1316130)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on November 23rd, 2011 @ 10:54pm CST

My membership doesn't expire until March and they're not getting me to renew sooner. I'm going to pre-order both of these since they look really good.

Re: TFCC Confirms January Pre-Orders for 2012 Exclusives Shattered Glass Drift and Runabout (1316135)
Posted by Mkall on November 23rd, 2011 @ 11:12pm CST

The fact that these will be ready by march says two things.

1) That Botcon figures won't be ready by March
2) Given what I recall from past TFCC panels, it's far too hectic in their office to get the preorder figs edealtwith at the same time as handle the convention figs. I think this could hint at a later convention this year.

Re: TFCC Confirms January Pre-Orders for 2012 Exclusives Shattered Glass Drift and Runabout (1316198)
Posted by Blackstreak on November 24th, 2011 @ 6:18am CST

That's early compared to previous years. I'll make sure to pre-order and renew my membership at the same time. I'm only interested in the Runabout and Runamuck anyways.

Re: TFCC Confirms January Pre-Orders for 2012 Exclusives Shattered Glass Drift and Runabout (1316473)
Posted by LiKwid on November 25th, 2011 @ 12:09am CST

GetRightRobot wrote:B O T C O N ! ? ! ?Dates? Place? Time? Chicago in June from the rumor mill does me no good. This is cool, but....

LMAO..Was literaqlly about to type the very same message. If they wait any longer , looks like im going to have to skip it again :-x

Re: TFCC Confirms January Pre-Orders for 2012 Exclusives Shattered Glass Drift and Runabout (1316521)
Posted by GetRightRobot on November 25th, 2011 @ 5:30am CST

LiKwid wrote:
GetRightRobot wrote:B O T C O N ! ? ! ?Dates? Place? Time? Chicago in June from the rumor mill does me no good. This is cool, but....

LMAO..Was literaqlly about to type the very same message. If they wait any longer , looks like im going to have to skip it again

Dude seriously! People need time to schedule work and pets and kids or whatever. I need time to adjust the budget for a spending spree. It really bothers me. Funpub doesn't care if people can make it or not. They know they are going to have a kick A turnout. "So what if a few people can't make it because we waited too long to announce the dates?"

End Rant.