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Burn wrote:

starrhero wrote:Another quick update. Looks like the boys in the Amazon have screwed up!

The listing for Repugnus has been removed with another page not found error. So for those who got their chance to preorder the figure, consider yourselves lucky, as we will have to wait once more.

Oh well...

Welcome to Australia.

Except instead of pages not found, we're forced onto the local Australian Amazon site which is basically filled with overpriced resellers and Amazon exclusives aren't made available.

Woah, how the heck did I end up in Australia?! I guess I'll be fine here, as long as I don't see any giant spiders... or, I guess, Blackarachnia?

Get it? Beast Wars? Potp Leader OpOP?

That's my poor attempt of a joke to keep this joke relevant to the Potp discussion...

Punch counterpunch is preorderable

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077ZBCPDV/re ... sBbQD36RBX

Thanks mordhelm!
Just scoped him.

On my orders page it says "arriving Sept 19th". Not sure if that's a delivery date or an in stock date.

Cobotron wrote:Thanks mordhelm!
Just scoped him.

On my orders page it says "arriving Sept 19th". Not sure if that's a delivery date or an in stock date.

Thats est delivery date.

And camelcamelcamel is what got it for me. Set up an alert before the link when dead a bit back.

Cobotron wrote:Thanks mordhelm!
Just scoped him.

On my orders page it says "arriving Sept 19th". Not sure if that's a delivery date or an in stock date.

Delivery date, stock date is the 15th

Word up! Thanks fellas!

Just order Punch/Counterpunch myself. Now if only Amazon would make Blast Off available also.

Just put in my order as well for Punch/Counterpunch. I wonder what's taking Blast Off so long. I don't really need him, as I have Unite Warriors Blast Off already, but I do kind of want to complete my Prime Master collection with the Special Edition Megatronus it comes with.

My PCP arrival date is 9/20 - 9/25, but I'm not a prime member and took the cheap free shipping option. Patience is a virtue right (says the pre-order whore)?

william-james88 wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Thanks mordhelm!
Just scoped him.

On my orders page it says "arriving Sept 19th". Not sure if that's a delivery date or an in stock date.

Delivery date, stock date is the 15th

And boom goes the dynamite....thanks for the heads up.... got mine preordered...

Anyone else find it weird that of the 3 exclusives, Blast Off, the one already shipping from Robot Kingdom, is the last one to open for orders on Amazon?

Price: $24.99 + $69.30 Shipping & Import Fees Deposit to Australia

FFS...

That is weird, but I hope that tomorrow Blast Off will be available. After all Repugunus became available on Friday and Punch/Counterpunch became available today Saturday.

o.supreme wrote:Just for the record, Now that the 4 Toys R Us in my area are gone, pretty much my only options are Walmart and Target (aside form the occasional Marshalls or TJ Maxx sighting)

Gee, I feel so bad for you.

There's only five Targets and 17 Walmarts in my entire state.

Good thing there's Amazon, just ordered myself a Punch and a Counterpunch! Yeah, I know they're the same figure, but I can't exactly display them both at the same time without buying two figures now can I?

I wonder if this will lead to a drop in the price of pinhead P/CP?

Emerje

Burn wrote:

Price: $24.99 + $69.30 Shipping & Import Fees Deposit to Australia

FFS...

Its because it uses the weight written in the listing which is 10 pounds and obviously wrong. So by the time it comes out, the shipping price will be lowered and repaid to you. Not guaranteeing that will happen, but its what should happen.

Nevermind... Thought nobody had seen it yet. The page didn't reload by the time I saw it.

Carry on... as I awkwardly pretend I never said anything...

****, that shipping for a single figure is too damn much.

william-james88 wrote:

Burn wrote:

Price: $24.99 + $69.30 Shipping & Import Fees Deposit to Australia

FFS...

Its because it uses the weight written in the listing which is 10 pounds and obviously wrong. So by the time it comes out, the shipping price will be lowered and repaid to you. Not guaranteeing that will happen, but its what should happen.

Maybe, maybe not. Fact remains, Amazon can go **** itself. They chose to geo-block an entire country instead of implementing a small change to account for an extra tax. They chose to exclude an entire nation just because they chose to not work with a country's government.

Good thing I was never a fan of Amazon in the first place.

Got my preorder in. Now I've got two arrivals to look forward to in September.

(The other wasn't a preorder, no, it's just going to take that long to ship to me because it's something coming from Germany.)

Burn wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Burn wrote:

Price: $24.99 + $69.30 Shipping & Import Fees Deposit to Australia

FFS...

Its because it uses the weight written in the listing which is 10 pounds and obviously wrong. So by the time it comes out, the shipping price will be lowered and repaid to you. Not guaranteeing that will happen, but its what should happen.

Maybe, maybe not. Fact remains, Amazon can go **** itself. They chose to geo-block an entire country instead of implementing a small change to account for an extra tax. They chose to exclude an entire nation just because they chose to not work with a country's government.

Good thing I was never a fan of Amazon in the first place.

Would you mind explaining that, I dont know what that geo-blocking means.

In other news, I found this online and cracked up real hard

william-james88 wrote:Would you mind explaining that, I dont know what that geo-blocking means.

Australians cannot shop via ANY Amazon website other than the Australian one.
(Unless we do what we do best and break the law with VPN's)

Burn wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Would you mind explaining that, I dont know what that geo-blocking means.

Australians cannot shop via ANY Amazon website other than the Australian one.

W T F

Hey is POTP Nemesis prime under G1 or Armada? this listing on amazon got me questioning things

Product detail on amazon, some parts i find interesting in bold

"Nemesis Prime has been introduced to many Transformers continuities, from the Unicron Trilogy to Transformers Prime animation and the Transformers: The Last Knight film. This is the character's first appearance as part of Prime Day Launches offering.

This Transformers Power of the Primes Leader Class Evolution Nemesis Prime figure is a 9-inch-scale figure that comes with converting Evolution Armor. Use the Evolution Armor to evolve this figure from Nemesis Pax to Nemesis Prime. Nemesis Pax is a newly created character making his debut in this Prime Day special edition.

The figure's design is inspired by his appearance in the Unicron Trilogy. It features 2 unique head designs, newly tooled arm-mounted weapons and comes with a Dark Saber (also known as the Vorpal Saber) accessory. Celebrate Prime Day with this Amazon exclusive Transformers action figure from Hasbro.

Transformers and all related characters are trademarks of Hasbro."

Also Repugnus' page is up now
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0785P78QD/re ... rtron07-20

got mine preordered, and he's out of stock now

TrypticonCarne wrote:Hey is POTP Nemesis prime under G1 or Armada? this listing on amazon got me questioning things

I'd say it's a G1 Nemesis whose arm guns and sword take some inspiration from Armada Nemesis's arm guns and sword, and whose other sword is merely named after the Prime Nemesis's Arms Micron. After all, the toy is made from the distinctly G1 Optimus Leader class toy of POTP, so it'd make the most sense for this to be that Optimus's doppelganger.

That's an interesting product description, though. Nice to see that it's fairly informative on the history of Nemesis Prime. For even more on said history, I highly recommend Chris McFeely's Transformers: The Basics on Nemesis Prime:

Since it says it's inspired by the UT character and Generations is basically a G1 line, think of it as a G1 equivalent to the UT character.

Emerje