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order placed August 10, 2007Order Placed: August 10, 2007 Order Total: $28.24


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Shipment #1:
1 item - delivery estimate: Sept 28, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007









shipment #1 Shipment #1: Not Yet Shipped

Shipping estimate: Sept 26, 2007
Delivery estimate: Sept 28, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 (More about estimates)






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Got mine a couple of weeks ago from Tesco in Braintree, UK(but still has an Exclusive to Target sticker on it!). I didn't already have the 77 BB so seemed like a good purchase to me. The 08 Battle Damage paint is indeed a bit crummy - it looks best in robot mode, for sure.

One thing that surprised me was the packaging. The thing comes in quite a large wedge-shaped box (empty) with the two cars in blisters on the top. Good to display MISB but a huge waste of cardboard IMHO.

DorkimusPrime wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:So yeah...Hasbro is definitely losing out in the sales department.

This is true no matter what. Not on par with Nintendo losing out on sales on the Wii, but a definite missed opportunity.

I just can't understand the logic of these statements. Both Hasbro and Nintendo are making money hand over fist because their products are spectacularly popular. There's nothing out there not because of supply issues but because consumers have bought it all. The TF film, like the Wii was a completely unknown quantity since nothing like it had really been done before. If it had not been well received Hasbro would currently be sitting on a mountain of unsold movie toys that they'd have to sell off at a lower price and it would have cost them a fortune.

This sort of thing happens every year, especially in toys. In 2003 (in the UK) it was Turtles. In 2005 it was Revenge of the Sith (anyone try finding a General Grievous with the four lightsabers more than a week after the film came out?). At the start of this year it was Ben 10. A small delivery would come in and be gone by the end of the week, and we wouldn't see any more that month. Ban Dai had massively underestimated demand. Now, six months later, we're swimming in Ben 10 stuff and you know what? It still shifts by the ton!

I expect TF to be this Christmas' Turtles- a delivery arrives and parents descend on it like vultures on a wildebeest carcass. Everything goes the day it comes in, or the day after. We're lucky that it's Hasbro we're dealing with and not Vivid, because Hasbro as one of the world's biggest toy manufacturers actually has a hope of meeting demand over the festive period.

Yes, we'll have a fight on our hands to get the new figures. Yes, you'll have to be lucky and go in at the right time of the right day to score the latest deluxe wave. I for one wouldn't have it any other way, even if I didn't work in a toy shop

-Nick

Aargh! It be times like these where I'm proud to be british. As we've already got these over at Tescos Aargh! Go Hasbro UK! This tme...

Optimus Frimal wrote:Aargh! It be times like these where I'm proud to be british. As we've already got these over at Tescos Aargh! Go Hasbro UK! This tme...

Yeah, I got mine in Tescos last tuesday. Finally we've got one up on Hasbro US! Lol

No hard feelings intended.

kenshin_07 wrote:

Optimus Frimal wrote:Aargh! It be times like these where I'm proud to be british. As we've already got these over at Tescos Aargh! Go Hasbro UK! This tme...

Yeah, I got mine in Tescos last tuesday. Finally we've got one up on Hasbro US! Lol

No hard feelings intended.

Hey you've earned it. Enjoy.

UPDATE: http://www.tfans.com/talk/index.php?sho ... try1239552

Shipping now?

BREAKING NEWS!!! :grin:

The Target Excusive Bumblebee Evolution of a Hero 2 pack IS NOW AVAILABLE!!! I got mine this morning at my local Target in Washington and the packaging is sweet!!!

ready? set? GO GET'EM BOYS!!!!! (er.. and girls )

RodimusTitan wrote::grin: BREAKING NEWS!!! :grin:

The Target Excusive Bumblebee Evolution or a Hero 2 pack IS NOW AVAILABLE!!! I got mine this morning at my local Target in Washington and the packaging is sweet!!!

ready? set? GO GET'EM BOYS!!!!! (er.. and girls )

DCPI Please!!!


blkbitcloud1

blkbitcloud1 wrote:

RodimusTitan wrote::grin: BREAKING NEWS!!! :grin:

The Target Excusive Bumblebee Evolution or a Hero 2 pack IS NOW AVAILABLE!!! I got mine this morning at my local Target in Washington and the packaging is sweet!!!

ready? set? GO GET'EM BOYS!!!!! (er.. and girls )

DCPI Please!!!


blkbitcloud1

DCPI = 087-06-0905

Roll out!!!

They are definitly here the bumblebee two packs.... I worked for a Target for 4 years and have some connections in the area and they are really not supposed to release until the 14 of October. Thats the Target official release but if you find them now they are merely encaps that are set early or a mistake from the backroom. I found that the endcap was set early at my store here in FL and picked mine up.... Sweet happy hunting !

I ordered mine back in August from Target.com and mine arrived on Saturday here in Delaware... I haven't even seen them in the store though...

Found three of them at a Cleveland area Target this afternoon. Since I already have both, I passed.

Yea I had both too. the only difference is that the concept is the battle damaged so it is actually different from the others but its still pretty much the same... just wanted both anyways lol

i had received the email about the order being delayed till november. but now it has already shipped, should get it by the 9th.