Sabrblade wrote:Then spend $150 now and save up the rest to pay it off a year-and-a-half from now.Dr. Caelus wrote:Ultimately, I just don't really want it. Even setting aside the unemployed-with-a-newborn thing, it's just the notion of spending $600 on a single Transformer that won't scale with any other Transformer in my collection. Even if it were the same price as Piranacon, I'd rather have Piranacon.
Dr. Caelus wrote:The part that sucks is that I missed the preorder deadline for Snaptrap and Skalor yesterday, so I guess I'm not getting them, either, and I really did want them.
o.supreme wrote:Dr. Caelus wrote:The part that sucks is that I missed the preorder deadline for Snaptrap and Skalor yesterday, so I guess I'm not getting them, either, and I really did want them.
*wrong thread I know*, I just checked, and they are still up.......
o.supreme wrote:I've stated that from the time the backers fell *behind pace* that I personally thought this project will not achieve it's goal. Even though I am not personally participating, I hope I'm wrong. I'd love to see a swarm of 2-3K backers in the last couple days pull this off, but I have my doubts.
Looks like it did get a huge *bump* either from a large submission of online retailers submitting their orders, or from International orders finally being counted (whichever one wasn't, hopefully will be soon).
But I do have a couple of other thoughts. Although Hasbro isn't extending the deadline, I'm sure when the price and number of backers was discussed, they weren't using a borderline number. For example, lets say it ultimately gets 6000 backers. That would be 3.45 Million Hasbro would be walking away from (even if only a sliver of it was profit), it would still be profit. I don't think they came up with those parameters with zero margin of flexibility.
I think if it doesn't get 8K backers, it comes back again at some point, in a slightly different form. I mean the bottom line with Hasbro is profit. But how much would it suck, even for line managers like John Warden for the next 20 years to see a Unicron prototype at conventions on display that could have been, but isn't.
Rodimus Prime wrote:If the preorders do surpass the minimum required, will HasLab make only as many pieces as were ordered by the end of 8/31? Or will they continue to take orders?
Stargrave wrote:Burn wrote:Stargrave wrote:Are you in Burn?? Did I miss that??
Strewth lad, what bloody rock have you been hiding under?
$100 deposit, then nothing to pay for 18 months? Be a bloody drongo to pass on that one.
The best bloody rock where all the best bloody parties are at ya bloke![]()
Yes! I’m stoked for you dude.![]()
You know me I’m a goofy bogan up in here I can barely keep track of my own tail feathers.
Omegatrion84 wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:If the preorders do surpass the minimum required, will HasLab make only as many pieces as were ordered by the end of 8/31? Or will they continue to take orders?
Hasbro stated on the Pulse page for Unicron that no orders will be accepted after the 31st. All support must be received by 11:59 PM EST on August 31, 2019.
ThunderThruster wrote:Burn wrote:Reducing his size to that of a Titan would be pointless.
He's not a Titan.
He's Unicron.
He's a class unto himself.
Titans are the biggest of Transformers.
This guy is a GOD.
By this logic, we ought to be getting a 12 foot tall (at the minimum) Unicron.
God Sunstreaker wrote:ThunderThruster wrote:Burn wrote:Reducing his size to that of a Titan would be pointless.
He's not a Titan.
He's Unicron.
He's a class unto himself.
Titans are the biggest of Transformers.
This guy is a GOD.
By this logic, we ought to be getting a 12 foot tall (at the minimum) Unicron.
Unicron should just be bigger than the titans. That's what I get from that statement and I agree.
Cobotron wrote:Hey! You seemed to have attracted a wild Megatronus. They're hard to find, but boy are they fun when you catch one!
megatronus wrote:God Sunstreaker wrote:ThunderThruster wrote:Burn wrote:Reducing his size to that of a Titan would be pointless.
He's not a Titan.
He's Unicron.
He's a class unto himself.
Titans are the biggest of Transformers.
This guy is a GOD.
By this logic, we ought to be getting a 12 foot tall (at the minimum) Unicron.
Unicron should just be bigger than the titans. That's what I get from that statement and I agree.
Indeed - it's not about scale, it's about status.
Stargrave wrote:- They remind us that Blaster and Astrotrain are still coming down the tracks
Triggerdick Megatron wrote:Stargrave wrote:- They remind us that Blaster and Astrotrain are still coming down the tracks
Did anyone else notice that pun?
Triggerdick Megatron wrote:Stargrave wrote:- They remind us that Blaster and Astrotrain are still coming down the tracks
Did anyone else notice that pun?
PadForce wrote:I hope it fails so Habro realise that people outside the US want this without having to go through a 3p at great cost and risk.
Just do official distribution to other fan hubs and I'd be surprised if that didnt slap on an extra 500 - 1000 orders straight away.
o.supreme wrote:So a thought just occurred to me, if Hasbro plans to remove all plastics from it's toy packaging, how will this giant of a figure be shipped? In a large paper bag. Or even if it's in a solid cardboard box, like Titans are now, without any clips, tape, or tie-downs to hold it in place, I guess it's just going to flop around loosely in the box.
Burn wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Let's get back to talking about Burn's mammoth snout flopping...
Well I am Australian. It's kinda what we're known for.
Cobotron wrote:Also I'd bet they would move back to the raffia ties instead of wire or the plastic ones they use now. There was a time when They used raffia ties and I'm not sure why they stopped.
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