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Wed Mar 04, 2015 9:13 am

Coming soon...

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News Credits: 402 · Updated Oct 21, 2022

now THIS guy i would spend money on, since it seems HasTak has no interest in offering us a Metrotitan.

News Credits: 10 · Wed Mar 04, 2015 12:06 pm

Awwww crap! Looks like I just ran out of excuses to not get this mold. Whelp, who wants some transformers I'll be putting up on eBay eventually? (There's a marketplace forum around here, isn't there...)

Wed Mar 04, 2015 12:43 pm

Agamemnon wrote:Awwww crap! Looks like I just ran out of excuses to not get this mold. Whelp, who wants some transformers I'll be putting up on eBay eventually? (There's a marketplace forum around here, isn't there...)

I so feel that sentiment. I don't even have Utopia yet. But I'm hoping that there's a possibility some time down the line I can pick this guy (and Utopia) up. I guess we'll know more once MakeToys decides to provide the info.

Wed Mar 04, 2015 2:28 pm

It's kind of tempting, but I do belive Takara will milk their mold down the line.

News Credits: 12 · Wed Mar 04, 2015 5:09 pm

Yeah, now this I can dig. Provided of course I don't just get Utopia as my Metroplex anyway.

News Credits: 293 · Wed Mar 04, 2015 11:15 pm

Rated X wrote:It's kind of tempting, but I do belive Takara will milk their mold down the line.

That's also my worry.

Thu Mar 05, 2015 12:45 am

Product Description

Seeming to appear out of nowhere, Dystopia arrives in our universe on what seems like a vendetta for revenge. Leaving a wake of destruction and an apparent anger that no one can understand, it is up to Utopia and Pandinus to work together in an effort to stop this monster from destroying everything and anything it can get its hands on.

Dystopia will be on sale for a limited time only, from march 10th to April 15th or while supplies last. One order per customer per household. There is a limit of 1 piece per order for this item. There is a flat rate shipping fee of $54.99 on this item. Item will be shipped in our traditional cardboard mailer box. Payment is due at the time of ordering.

This figure is due to be mailed out in May. Release times are estimates and are subject to change

http://maketoys.jp/shop/products/dystopia/

Thu Mar 05, 2015 4:17 am

So, he's a bit cheaper than Utopia at $379.99. I was not expecting that. However, add on the $54.99 shipping and knowing there's roughly a month time span to pay for one of these guys... it feels like this just needs to be a running exclusive on MT's website and not a limited sale. Of course that's only because I think many people might want this who simply cannot get the funds together in time to buy it. MT's plans may not consider that, and think that a smaller run/sell-through is enough success.

Anyways, I think I'm going to stop beating myself up over this guy now. He looks nice, but he's so far from being needed in my collection.

NOS wrote:There is a flat rate shipping fee of $54.99 on this item. Item will be shipped in our traditional cardboard mailer box.

I can't help but feel that's a jab at customers complaining about previous MT exclusive items showing up looking like they've been beat to hell before arriving. Many people are talking about Scourge showing up with boxes damaged, and I remember Ripper having very little protection in their shipping box.

Thu Mar 05, 2015 5:57 am

necr0blivion wrote:I can't help but feel that's a jab at customers complaining about previous MT exclusive items showing up looking like they've been beat to hell before arriving. Many people are talking about Scourge showing up with boxes damaged, and I remember Ripper having very little protection in their shipping box.

That's interesting. I got mine the other day and I don't see anything that could be considered 'damaged'.

Thu Mar 05, 2015 6:07 am

NOS wrote:
necr0blivion wrote:I can't help but feel that's a jab at customers complaining about previous MT exclusive items showing up looking like they've been beat to hell before arriving. Many people are talking about Scourge showing up with boxes damaged, and I remember Ripper having very little protection in their shipping box.

That's interesting. I got mine the other day and I don't see anything that could be considered 'damaged'.

I'm still waiting for mine, but there have been some users at TFW2005 posting pictures/comments of how their boxes arrived. There was at least one instance where a bundle of 3 boxes were tied so tightly that the material cut through the shipping boxes. Thankfully, I don't recall hearing any issues with the contents of the package itself.

I don't care so much about the package as much as the figure and accessories inside, but I think it's worth noting these types of issues.

Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:22 am

necr0blivion wrote:
NOS wrote:
necr0blivion wrote:I can't help but feel that's a jab at customers complaining about previous MT exclusive items showing up looking like they've been beat to hell before arriving. Many people are talking about Scourge showing up with boxes damaged, and I remember Ripper having very little protection in their shipping box.

That's interesting. I got mine the other day and I don't see anything that could be considered 'damaged'.

I'm still waiting for mine, but there have been some users at TFW2005 posting pictures/comments of how their boxes arrived. There was at least one instance where a bundle of 3 boxes were tied so tightly that the material cut through the shipping boxes. Thankfully, I don't recall hearing any issues with the contents of the package itself.

I don't care so much about the package as much as the figure and accessories inside, but I think it's worth noting these types of issues.

Yeah, that's fair. I'm not much to care for the boxes either which is why I say 'damaged'. The corners look a little scuffed up, but I don't see this as being something MakeToys is at fault for. It's the quarterbacks in our delivery and postal service department and while I'm not thrilled about it, as long as the item within the package arrives undamaged I'm content.

News Credits: 10 · Thu Mar 05, 2015 9:15 am

Yeah, I don't know that I can do this now... *sigh*

[Edit] So I looked into their site, and it is incomplete. I wonder what payment methods they are going to accept...

News Credits: 33 · Thu Mar 05, 2015 9:56 am

Thu Mar 05, 2015 10:01 am

F me right in the wallet. Beautiful!

News Credits: 3 · Thu Mar 05, 2015 10:06 am

Looks wonderful and I still love that carrier mode.

However, still too rich for my blood all at once. I'll just have to live with repainting one of my Hasbro 'Plexes.

News Credits: 129 · Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:23 am

Ordered!

Because I, am a big idiot.

Mon Mar 23, 2015 11:15 am

Counterpunch wrote:Ordered!

Because I, am a big idiot.

Im passing and holding out for a Takara Metrotitan. Takara loves to milk their big cows. Remember the Unicron mold ?

Mon Mar 23, 2015 11:52 am

Counterpunch wrote:Ordered!

Because I, am a big idiot.

But you're OUR idiot.

News Credits: 129 · Mon Mar 23, 2015 1:13 pm

Rated X wrote:
Counterpunch wrote:Ordered!

Because I, am a big idiot.

Im passing and holding out for a Takara Metrotitan. Takara loves to milk their big cows. Remember the Unicron mold ?

I think this is a bad idea. Here's why...

Big toys sell poorly in Japan.

Takara's redecos of Unicron include: their 2010 United special edition and Shining Unicron, a Lucky Draw

They released essentially the same figure in the US for Armada and only had repackaged versions of the Energon Unicron.

If Takara does a redeco of Metroplex, I would imagine they go for something like super toy accurate or a variation of what they already did. Japanese consumers just don't (usually) like larger figures because of the limited space most people have for display.

That being said...I could see SDCC doing Metrotitan. I could see some strange future where the Club finds a way to do it, but not Takara.

All this being said and Metrotitan is on the far edge of things normative collectors give a rat's ass about. We're really in the deep end of niche' here, ya know?

News Credits: 10 · Wed Jun 03, 2015 3:30 pm

I, too, am a big idiot. Guess what Straxus gets to play with now...

Wed Jun 03, 2015 3:38 pm

They sure look amazing together, though . . . gotta say.

News Credits: 129 · Wed Jun 03, 2015 11:40 pm

Got mine today!

News Credits: 60 · Thu Jun 04, 2015 2:20 am

Rated X wrote:It's kind of tempting, but I do belive Takara will milk their mold down the line.

I kind of doubt it. If Tomy will be "religiously following" the back story of Metrowars to a fault, Metrotitan never was in Metroplex's size class. The latter got big because whe was reconstructed by the Nebulans after his battle with the former.

More or less, let's hope we get an Encore Metroplex in Metrotitan's colors as they are in scale in their fiction.

News Credits: 461 · Thu Jun 04, 2015 9:17 am

I don't think will ever get a MetroTitan with the Generation Metroplex... Not even SDCC. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't SDCC exclusives usually a redco of Current or soon to be released figures? Generation Metroplex came out 2 years ago, and they already did an SDCC version of him. It's hopeless, this will be the only one... Time to think about buying him!!