The Energon Pub

Vic Zanzibar wrote:I can afford it and I have a spot to store it... but the question of "WHY?" simply has no good answer for me. Dedicating $575 all at the same time to buying Transformers could be allocated towards buying pretty much every rare older Transformer that I even have a slight inkling of a desire to get. Or, I could get this single immensely impressive figure that is so huge, rare, and unwieldy, I'd probably only transform it once. Hell, it'd work better as an MISB investment for me since the aftermarket price will likely reach absolutely asinine levels in a few years. That's... actually kind of a compelling reason, but I'm not really one for selling figures, so still a no.

Older figures, no matter how expensive they are, will still be available at the same price in a few weeks or months.
That right now, it's your only shot at Unicron. And as you said, if you miss out, you don't want to see the Ebay price.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Vic Zanzibar wrote:I can afford it and I have a spot to store it... but the question of "WHY?" simply has no good answer for me. Dedicating $575 all at the same time to buying Transformers could be allocated towards buying pretty much every rare older Transformer that I even have a slight inkling of a desire to get. Or, I could get this single immensely impressive figure that is so huge, rare, and unwieldy, I'd probably only transform it once. Hell, it'd work better as an MISB investment for me since the aftermarket price will likely reach absolutely asinine levels in a few years. That's... actually kind of a compelling reason, but I'm not really one for selling figures, so still a no.

Older figures, no matter how expensive they are, will still be available at the same price in a few weeks or months.
That right now, it's your only shot at Unicron. And as you said, if you miss out, you don't want to see the Ebay price.

I’m sure that I don’t want it for the figure itself, but as I said, the idea of reselling a MISB version a few years from now for massive profit is indeed compelling...

Vic Zanzibar wrote: the idea of reselling a MISB version a few years from now for massive profit is indeed compelling...

This is literally the only reason I can come up with for buying one. If, I’m the final week or so, it looks like the goal will be met, I’m gonna pop in for two or three of these, I think. Gotta do some research on how well the sail barge sold second hand first.

Normally, I'd frown at resellers. But for this situation, we NEED the resellers for this Unicron to happen.

Ironhidensh wrote:I think. Gotta do some research on how well the sail barge sold second hand first.

As I stated previously. The Sailbarge was:

#1 Less Expensive
#2 Required less backers
#3 was pulling form a much LARGER fanbase.

It exceeded its goal easily, and now, ones that do pop up on the secondary market are ridiculously priced (I guess thats good for anyone trying to sell one)

I cant afford to back the Unicron Project, but I have been tracking it since day one. With 8000 backers needed divided by 48 days, you would need a steady stream of 167 backers per day. Now of course, a bunch of people jumped on beard initially, so it's currently *ahead* of pace, but the past 4 days have only had about 80-or-so (or about half the needed backers) per day. If this trend continues, it will be behind-pace in about a week.

Of course I know different people get paid at different times (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly etc...), and we still don't know if supporters from Japan, or other countries will be allowed to combine all their pre-orders. Some I'm sure will be so desperate that they will open new credit cards, or take out loans for this. I wouldn't advise it, but that's just me.

Of course, showing it off at SDCC was smart, hopefully that will drum up interest, but I guess we'll see in the coming weeks.

I would bet that when this project was launched, Transformers 6 was still set for release this year as intended.

That is an interesting thought. If TF 6 had just some out this summer, another whole toy line would have been developed. Probably a bunch of Studio Series toys released this year would have been pushed back, and who knows what Movieverse Unicron would have ended up looking like, much less the scale of any toy in any *movie 7* line.

Some other parts of other lines would no doubt have had to be sacrificed as well. All things considered, I think things turned out better, than if BB had come out Summer 2018, and TF6 just recently.

It looks like there have been a bunch in the last day or so, possibly in response to the Pulse marketing email.

I think it hit close to a 1000 users on day one. Let's assume that we see that many more sign up on the last day. To get from 1700 (present total) to 7000, that's a slightly lower daily average, from ~170 to ~135. More succinctly, it's just under 1000 a week. Back of envelope:

7/27: 2500
8/03: 3500
8/10: 4500
8/17: 5500
8/24: 6500
8/31: 8000

41 days is too short a notice to get a green card...

They are running the giant sized cookie monster at the same time which may also be hurting things compared to having one campaign on the go.

Vic Zanzibar wrote:I’m sure that I don’t want it for the figure itself, but as I said, the idea of reselling a MISB version a few years from now for massive profit is indeed compelling...

If that's the reason anyone is doing it, then they are doing something wrong. For 700$ you can buy any key comic issue in auction (example, first Doctor Doom appearance) and sell it back for massive profits 5 years later. The profit will be as good if not better than this Unicron and you wont have to stash a giant and heavy box for 5 years and then be stuck having to ship it out.

Of all things to stash away for an investment, this is probably the one with the biggest hassle involved.

So do you guys think that it would have been more controversial to release this as a Masterpiece given the fact that Mr. Warden has referred to it as comparable?

Also, I need you guys to tell me if I did this meme successfully.

unicron1200 wrote:Also, I need you guys to tell me if I did this meme successfully.

I dont really get the meme.

Even with the price and amazing masterpiece detailed look it just looks too big. It's also a real hassle to spend more than an hour to transform this type of big nightmare level difficulty figure
Any of the many variants of the armada mold is much better and affordable than this.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Overcracker wrote:Ha!. Yes I’m sure my wife’s grandfather’s bronze bust can be tossed aside and relinquish its place to our lord Unicron.

william-james88 wrote:

unicron1200 wrote:Also, I need you guys to tell me if I did this meme successfully.

I dont really get the meme.

This is the original format, either this or putting Minecraft beds next to each other.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/new ... 17/22c.jpg

Well, looky here. Seems BBTS is trying to help the international markets in preordering this thing.

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/97919

Sabrblade wrote:Well, looky here. Seems BBTS is trying to help the international markets in preordering this thing.

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/97919

Owch, $200 for the privilage of being helped. $150 of which is non refundable and shipping/customs to be charged on top just incase/when hasbro release it for worldwide like the sailbarge -same cost as during funding but near $300 for shipping not including customs. Patience may be the key to this.

Sabrblade wrote:Well, looky here. Seems BBTS is trying to help the international markets in preordering this thing.

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/97919

Yea, pretty exciting. I posted it to news earlier and they said they were about to post it with their BBTS news post. What I'm hoping is that BBTS will communicate to Hasbro towards the end how many people they've had preorder it, making the crowdfunding number go up. I'm hoping this is also the case with the TakaraTomy Mall stuff. It it's not, then there is a serious communication problem going on here.

Speaking of memes, I just made one:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Speaking of memes, I just made one:

Now that I get.

william-james88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Speaking of memes, I just made one:

Now that I get.

That one is significantly better than mine xD

Replace "anything" with "Unicron" and you have my submission:

AcademyofDrX wrote:It looks like there have been a bunch in the last day or so, possibly in response to the Pulse marketing email.

I think it hit close to a 1000 users on day one. Let's assume that we see that many more sign up on the last day. To get from 1700 (present total) to 7000, that's a slightly lower daily average, from ~170 to ~135. More succinctly, it's just under 1000 a week. Back of envelope:

7/27: 2500
8/03: 3500
8/10: 4500
8/17: 5500
8/24: 6500
8/31: 8000

I think we'll probably see a bunch of late game fence riders jump in towards the end as well.

Can we change the name of this forum officially to “WFC Unicron Sh!%posting”?

unicron1200 wrote:Can we change the name of this forum officially to “WFC Unicron Sh!%posting”?

Meanwhile, on 4chan's /toy/ board, TF General thread:
https://imgur.com/fqjwfDx