peaces wrote:i got mp ss by dumb luck. same when i got mp grimlock. it's basically a lottery. i usually go to bed earlier but i was up watching starcraft 2. checked my email and low and behold mp ss was up for preorder.
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:I'm interested to compare/contrast this to my Hasbro Asia version. Apparently there are some major differences in plastic?
Autobot032 wrote:Good news! Masterpiece Starscream is currently IN stock at TRU.com and preorders, such as my own, are being processed right now as I'm posting this! More good news? He's available for pick up in store, which means the street date has ended!
You better hurry, there's a limit of 5 on these, which means they'll be bought up in bunches and quick, so go go go!
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Autobot032 wrote:Good news! Masterpiece Starscream is currently IN stock at TRU.com and preorders, such as my own, are being processed right now as I'm posting this! More good news? He's available for pick up in store, which means the street date has ended!
You better hurry, there's a limit of 5 on these, which means they'll be bought up in bunches and quick, so go go go!
Click on the image below to be taken directly to his ordering page:
Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!
jamesbenjamin wrote:Autobot032 wrote:Good news! Masterpiece Starscream is currently IN stock at TRU.com and preorders, such as my own, are being processed right now as I'm posting this! More good news? He's available for pick up in store, which means the street date has ended!
You better hurry, there's a limit of 5 on these, which means they'll be bought up in bunches and quick, so go go go!
Click on the image below to be taken directly to his ordering page:
Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!
How is it "in stock on TRU.com" if your screenshot shows it isnt? It says it's available for in store pickup, but if your local store is out they're still out of stock.
My pre-order is processing as well, but this news post will be getting people's hopes up for no reason, since it is not (and never was) in stock.
peaces wrote:what other company has such a low stock of preorders? they had 2 months to fill the little bit of preorders they offered and they can't even do that. it would be forgivable if this was their first mp release but it's far from that.
nycPrime wrote:peaces wrote:what other company has such a low stock of preorders? they had 2 months to fill the little bit of preorders they offered and they can't even do that. it would be forgivable if this was their first mp release but it's far from that.
Agreed. I just got into this and I'm rather surprised how bad TRU is at this. Too bad Amazon couldn't offer some MPs.
william-james88 wrote:nycPrime wrote:peaces wrote:what other company has such a low stock of preorders? they had 2 months to fill the little bit of preorders they offered and they can't even do that. it would be forgivable if this was their first mp release but it's far from that.
Agreed. I just got into this and I'm rather surprised how bad TRU is at this. Too bad Amazon couldn't offer some MPs.
I hope Amazon never has an MP exclusivity, because then only the US could ever get it. Their toy distribution sucks in every other country for hasbro products and it would be truly unfair.
william-james88 wrote:Thanks for the in depth review of the options in the US, Autobot032.
And just to be clear, when I was saying that Amazon was a bad idea it was in terms of them carrying exclusives for the world. Few aside from TRU can do this at that scale. But with the decentralization of exclusives (meaning that a item will be exclusive in different retailers depending the country), then Amazon can do for the US. Its kinda out of my field since now we would be talking of where its exclusive in the US (as opposed the the world in general) and I am not an American. I do favor the decentralization idea since it gives a chance for everyone to get these toys. Target is nowhere outside of America, but other retailers could carry their exclusives in other countries.
I do find that as a specialized international toy retailer, Toysrus is the best one of all (maybe Walmart as a second option) but the main reason we are not happy with them is because they dont have their cluck together. Instead of looking elsewhere (getting out of the frying pan and into the fire), it would be best to simply explain to TRU and hope they figure out the demand of these toys. Me and Kanrabat and many others in Quebec kept bombarding TRU to add french on the platinum editions so that we could get them too and now they did, hourray! This proves that TRU does listen to feedback. Its not like they are purposefully trying to lower their sales.
Think about it, it must be tough for non fan statisticians and business analysts to understand the logic of why one masterpiece sells like crazy while another one doesnt. If there was the exact same level of demand for Bluestreak as there is for Starscream, the same thing would have probably happened but they dont see it and will probably lump them all and simply average out sales for market anticipation in future released.
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