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by **Court Jester** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 6:56 pm

ZenPrime wrote:Saw that and thought that they might have retooled that mold for the Darth Vader/Death Star figure. Looks very similar.

Dood... srsly, DOOD... that is so right on. It would need an overhaul, but completely doable. Hold on, let me get iGear on the phone...

"Hey, iGear, you know that whole Masterpiece Seeker thing you got goin on... wait till you hear about this money grab opportunity. All you need is a Darth Vader Death Star Crossover... yeah the one that was on clearance..."

by **Shadowstream** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:04 pm

Snatched... some hours ago ;P

BTW that BWneo Unicron would double as Cybertron itself, would it not?

News Credits: 23 · by **ZenPrime** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:07 pm

[DECEASED] wrote:
ZenPrime wrote:Saw that and thought that they might have retooled that mold for the Darth Vader/Death Star figure. Looks very similar.

Dood... srsly, DOOD... that is so right on. It would need an overhaul, but completely doable. Hold on, let me get iGear on the phone...

"Hey, iGear, you know that whole Masterpiece Seeker thing you got goin on... wait till you hear about this money grab opportunity. All you need is a Darth Vader Death Star Crossover... yeah the one that was on clearance..."

I think you misunderstood what I said. I meant it looked like Hasbro might have ALREADY retooled it to make that Darth Vader/Death Star figure. To me they look very similar. #SarcasmFail...

by **wrw311** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:14 pm

Is that your collection pictured below ZenPrime?!?!

News Credits: 23 · by **ZenPrime** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:16 pm

wrw311 wrote:Is that your collection pictured below ZenPrime?!?!

Yes that was part of my collection 3 years ago.

by **youngku** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:27 pm

Hmmm, he's been in stock, but never for $59.99, seriously people!

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:07 pm

youngku wrote:Hmmm, he's been in stock, but never for $59.99, seriously people!

You missed it by a few hours.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 10:36 pm

Mine arrived yesterday, was lucky enough to snare him the last time he became available.

Still amazed at how cheap he was to import.

by **Court Jester** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 10:40 pm

Re: Zen
Must be one of those days... your clarification is beyond my current comprehension. Info simulated. Yet, what's stopping them from de-tooling back to proto glory? It's okay though. If 'Neo 'Cron ever shows up for sale, I'll be the first in line - paypal account at the ready.

by **Rated X** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 10:45 pm

I broke down and got one this time. I cant believe Im gonna have 3 Unicrons.

This one will be planet. Takara for robot. And Armada in the other room middle fingers up !!!

News Credits: 12 · by **robofreak** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 11:31 pm

Rated X wrote:I broke down and got one this time. I cant believe Im gonna have 3 Unicrons.

This one will be planet. Takara for robot. And Armada in the other room middle fingers up !!!

Now you need to get the black version.

News Credits: 2 · by **Spider5800** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:17 am

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!@$@!#T%!%#!^#!
Why does this thing only go in-stock when i'm at work?! :BANG_HEAD:

Seriously, are they releasing it like this on purpose? Are they only getting like 25 at a time? It looks like it sold out in 3 hours :BOOM:

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:28 am

"60$"? Really? It was so for a few minutes before the scalpers have taken them all to sell them at double, triple, or quadruple the price.

I got my 90$(shipping included) original Armada M.I.B Unicron last month and I'm perfecty happy with it. No need to shell out the big bucks for a random repaint.

By the way, the 2010 Primus is nicer looking than the original and was ironically just around 20$ more for a brand new one.

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:52 am

It'll be back. >:oP

by **gothsaurus** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:04 am

Best thing about it... I can put Armada Unicron back with the Armada stuff.

by **Astronopolis** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:41 am

i just cant believe im this excited over an armada toy! pigs take off and soar in the sky, snowballs remaining frozen in Hell, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria!

by **rothkoran** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:46 am

Man i love my boss!!! she asked me to stay overtime for a release on a webpage... if i would have gone home, i would have totally missed him!!! i can't believe i got him for 59.99 and today the cheapest on is at $169, that is ridiculous!!! i knew i should have gotten like 4 of them.. but hell i just by them for myself cause i love them i don't care about making business with TFs. but this one is definitely not getting out of the box

by **rothkoran** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:56 am

ZenPrime wrote:
wrw311 wrote:Is that your collection pictured below ZenPrime?!?!

Yes that was part of my collection 3 years ago.

LOL love the "part of my collection", dude my collection is like one or 2 floors of yours... that is ridiculous. what is this that i'm feeling?? envy??? damn right!!! but if it takes me like 3 days to clean my collection don't even want to know how long it takes you to do the same...

News Credits: 1 · by **Judge Deliberata** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:01 am

When I logged on last night and went through this thread`s first page, simulataneously opening up Amazon in another tab, my train of thought literally went ``Yes! Finally I can get ahold of OH GODDAMMIT.`` :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:08 pm

Spider5800 wrote:Why does this thing only go in-stock when i'm at work?!

Ditto. I was at work too. :sad:

Counterpunch wrote:It'll be back.

Yeah. But it's still a bit of an annoyance. I'll wait patiently, but they really should be handling this better.

As for all the people talking about Beast Wars Neo Unicron, I do see some hints of it in both Primus and Death Star Vader. Though, I dunno why so many would want this Unicron over the one we got. There are two things keeping me from liking it better than the Armada Unicron mold.

One is its size. This prototype was said to be as tall as Optimal Optimus, which would make it about half the size of the Armada Unicron mold. It'd be only like a tall Ultra or a short Leader by today's size class standards. Disregarding the Cybertron Unicron toy, that's pretty short for the planet-based Chaos Bringer.

Two is its enormous load of planet kibble. While the Primus figure does have a similar amount of kibble as this Unicron does, the Primus mold arranges it so that very little is actually "hanging" off of his body and is instead sticking out from it like believable armor. Whereas the kibble on this Unicron is very much hanging onto his back and legs like some giant backpack shell clustermuck. There's little organization to it aside from "Put it all on his back and leave it there", leaving it look very uncreative and somewhat half-done. And from what I'm told, he doesn't even look like that in the Beast Wars Neo cartoon.

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:33 pm

BW Neo Unicron would have been a huge piece of crap.

Word is bond.

by **Court Jester** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 2:31 pm

If you are pleased with a half sphere Unicron (read: UniDome), who am I do diminish your excitement for it? On the other hand, this is a toy forum, and schoolyard comments that aim to inspire childish reaction are quite fitting to the site. >:oP

by **2002stanggt** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 12:03 am

Besides scalpers one of the other problems is guys who need to buy multiples of this. Buy one and wait till more come out later down the road. U screw guys over that can't get one. Now we play the waiting game again.

News Credits: 2 · by **bionic_radical** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 12:56 am

8 left...

EDIT: those are the ones that are being scalped to be resold. Kinda sad that Amazon is offering to re sell their own product at a scalped price.

News Credits: 1 · by **FellintoOblivion** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 3:08 am

bionic_radical wrote:8 left...

EDIT: those are the ones that are being scalped to be resold. Kinda sad that Amazon is offering to re sell their own product at a scalped price.

Yea damn that free market economy!