william-james88 wrote:I'm international too Burn, why do you never consider me as such?
You have access to Hasbro Pulse.
william-james88 wrote:I'm international too Burn, why do you never consider me as such?
Burn wrote:william-james88 wrote:I'm international too Burn, why do you never consider me as such?
You have access to Hasbro Pulse.
Burn wrote:william-james88 wrote:I'm international too Burn, why do you never consider me as such?
You have access to Hasbro Pulse.
Merely visiting a site and actually being able to buy from a site are two completely different levels of accessibility.unicron1200 wrote:Burn wrote:william-james88 wrote:I'm international too Burn, why do you never consider me as such?
You have access to Hasbro Pulse.
https://hasbropulse.com/
There ya go, friend
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Merely visiting a site and actually being able to buy from a site are two completely different levels of accessibility.unicron1200 wrote:Burn wrote:william-james88 wrote:I'm international too Burn, why do you never consider me as such?
You have access to Hasbro Pulse.
https://hasbropulse.com/
There ya go, friend
Probably safe to assume that they already tried to sell this to big retailers and failed. For instance, if Wal-Mart wanted 8,000 of them to sell in their stores this would not be a crowdfunding project.User897 wrote:Don't be ridiculous. It's not about you. The gimmick should not be used and the only way to show Hasbro is failure. To be honest, I haven't been "a part of the fandom" for a long time because of Hasbro's choices and lack of involvement with the distribution of their products that we do actually want. I don't "wish others not to have Unicron." That is just stupid. I want Hasbro to fail at this and try another method.
william-james88 wrote:Burn wrote:william-james88 wrote:I'm international too Burn, why do you never consider me as such?
You have access to Hasbro Pulse.
It's not local. So it ends up being the same exorbitant option as you ordering from Robotkingdom or something since shipping is international fedex and not worth it (plus no local currency option). The only case where its beneficial is indeed with Unicron since that is not accessible anywhere else.
But for everything else, Hasbro Pulse doesnt do any favours to me more than it does to you, hence why I still never resorted to them. I preordered those sdcc revealed exclusives (like Refraktor) from a local importer/collectable because it was the cheaper option than going through them.
It would probably be the same or cheaper for me to use a mail forwarding service than order from Pulse directly. And you can use a mail forwarding service too.
Stargrave wrote:What is the business/economic reason it’s not available in Australia anyways? Hasbro Pulse, the whole ball of wax. What the hell?
Burn wrote:Stargrave wrote:What is the business/economic reason it’s not available in Australia anyways? Hasbro Pulse, the whole ball of wax. What the hell?
Couple of things.
Shipping - The cost of shipping from the US to Australia is ridiculously expensive.
Goods and Services Tax - When it was first introduced way back when, we could import stuff and if it was under $1000 we didn't have to pay GST on it. A couple of years back they removed that $1000 threshold completely so anything we import (for example when I buy from Hobbylink Japan) we have to pay an extra 10% in GST. (The silly part is, the retailer then has to remit that 10% to the Australian Government). Prior to it's introduction, Amazon US actually geo-blocked Australia, meaning we couldn't purchase from Amazon US, they stated it was to drive us to the newly established Amazon AU (which had very little stock compared to the US site). Eventually they unblocked us, surprisingly, once they worked out how to deal with the GST. eBay was in a similar situation on how to handle the changes to GST.
So I get that for Hasbro Pulse, dealing with international customers can be a headache, but that's what they have local branches for.
It's all good though, we have guys like Robotoyz and Toy Bot Importz who are filling in the hole Hasbro has left.
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I still posted it because there has been a fair mix of those who only think the price is bad, and those who think the price and size are not appropriate.
Unicorn needs to be bigger than a Titan. He needed the extra height, it wouldn't feel right for Unicron to finally get a new mold and still be big but shorter than the Titans.
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:And then he also has a much harder alt mode to assume, and a much harder time because he has to work the 2 mode kibbles, whereas the other titans really don't have to contend with that.
ZeroWolf wrote:To be fair we would have had scorponok a lot earlier, they've been sitting on the plans for him since the titan class fan poll, so I don't think they're as complex as you're hoping.
I still think that a perfect sphere alt mode for a titan class unicron, the robot mode would be far smaller with far more planet kibble then even this version. As I said, unicron doesn't have the advantage that Primus had, in being designed with the knowledge that the planet kibble would have no where to go
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
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.
Burn wrote:william-james88 wrote: The only case where its beneficial is indeed with Unicron since that is not accessible anywhere else.
But for everything else, Hasbro Pulse doesnt do any favours to me more than it does to you, hence why I still never resorted to them. I preordered those sdcc revealed exclusives (like Refraktor) from a local importer/collectable because it was the cheaper option than going through them.
It would probably be the same or cheaper for me to use a mail forwarding service than order from Pulse directly. And you can use a mail forwarding service too.
YOU.HAVE.THE.OPTION.
Don't sit there and try to put you and I in the same boat. We're not. You actually have the option to access Hasbro Pulse. The rest of the world DOES NOT.
Is it the same as other services? Maybe, probably, I don't know for certain, but my point is, YOU.HAVE.THE.OPTION.
Some of us are hoping to hell some of our local online retailers can some how get Unicron so we don't have to deal with customs and import charges etc, markups etc.
Sure would be nice to deal directly with the source, but some of us don't have that option.
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Personally, as it is the 35th anniversary, I would have been happy with a G1 "reissue" style release of this guy:
Who wouldn't have need the sketchy practice of crowdfunding to begin with...
Regimus Prime wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Personally, as it is the 35th anniversary, I would have been happy with a G1 "reissue" style release of this guy:
Who wouldn't have need the sketchy practice of crowdfunding to begin with...
funny, I mentioned that this figure known as the Grail should be released in a very limited number for the 35th Anniversary of the movie to Ben and John at the Vince Dicola concert, if for nothing else to troll all of the people complaining about the WFC Unicron price and size.
Oh, the days of schoolyard rumors. Kids were vicious and cruel back then.Ultra Markus wrote:When I was a kid about the time before the 86 animated movie came out I heard a rumour of a sweepstakes for a chance to win a Unicron toy that was huge then it never happened years later I saw this prototype and thought that that was it and understood why it never happened
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
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