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News Credits: 6 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 11:13 am

Someone on TFW said they'd got their invoice from kapow for UW Devvy. I've not had mine yet, has anyone had theirs? how much is the final price? Need to know so I can brace my wallet for impact.

News Credits: 11 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 11:16 am

Sabrblade wrote:Another guess has come up for who the Rook mold redeco could be: Movie Bonecrusher.

Wouldn't that knock the whole theme out of whack though ?

News Credits: 462 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 11:19 am

RAR wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Another guess has come up for who the Rook mold redeco could be: Movie Bonecrusher.

Wouldn't that knock the whole theme out of whack though ?

How so? The torso's G1 toy Galvatron, the right arm's G1 cartoon Starscream, the left arm's Armada Thrust, and the right leg could be Prime Breakdown, so the left leg as Movie Bonecrusher wouldn't be that different.

News Credits: 174 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 12:17 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
RAR wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Another guess has come up for who the Rook mold redeco could be: Movie Bonecrusher.

Wouldn't that knock the whole theme out of whack though ?
How so? The torso's G1 toy Galvatron, the right arm's G1 cartoon Starscream, the left arm's Armada Thrust, and the right leg could be Prime Breakdown, so the left leg as Movie Bonecrusher wouldn't be that different.

If people think it could be bonecrusher (a stupid guess) why couldn't it be movie wreckage? they are from the movie, and even share color palettes...

News Credits: 462 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 12:23 pm

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
RAR wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Another guess has come up for who the Rook mold redeco could be: Movie Bonecrusher.

Wouldn't that knock the whole theme out of whack though ?
How so? The torso's G1 toy Galvatron, the right arm's G1 cartoon Starscream, the left arm's Armada Thrust, and the right leg could be Prime Breakdown, so the left leg as Movie Bonecrusher wouldn't be that different.

If people think it could be bonecrusher (a stupid guess) why couldn't it be movie wreckage? they are from the movie, and even share color palettes...

Wreckage was another guess, but he's more white and gray with some red, rather than beige/tan and brown with some orange.

Granted, Bonecrusher doesn't have orange, but as I said, it's just a guess (and he does have a lot of tan and brown).

News Credits: 6 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 1:26 pm

Is it possible that Takara's Galvatronus combiner could have some significant tie back to Transformers United EX? They had pretty substantial development for the Power Core Combiner toys that we really didn't have with Hasbro. Granted, Starscream sure doesn't fit, and if I were repainting CW molds into PCC characters, I'd have done things very differently (e.g., First-Aid = Smolder, Blades = Windburn, Rook => Icepick, Air-Raid = Darkstream), but I guess I'm wondering if its possible there's some element of the running fiction in Japan that we're missing...?

And there is some slight similarity between the Left Leg and PCC Steelshot:

And the right leg is a blue truck, right?

A grey jet with blue extremities?

News Credits: 462 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 1:57 pm

Caelus wrote:Is it possible that Takara's Galvatronus combiner could have some significant tie back to Transformers United EX? They had pretty substantial development for the Power Core Combiner toys that we really didn't have with Hasbro. Granted, Starscream sure doesn't fit, and if I were repainting CW molds into PCC characters, I'd have done things very differently (e.g., First-Aid = Smolder, Blades = Windburn, Rook => Icepick, Air-Raid = Darkstream), but I guess I'm wondering if its possible there's some element of the running fiction in Japan that we're missing...?

United EX was all preexisting G1 characters rather than any of the PCC characters.

News Credits: 6 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 2:05 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Caelus wrote:Is it possible that Takara's Galvatronus combiner could have some significant tie back to Transformers United EX? They had pretty substantial development for the Power Core Combiner toys that we really didn't have with Hasbro. Granted, Starscream sure doesn't fit, and if I were repainting CW molds into PCC characters, I'd have done things very differently (e.g., First-Aid = Smolder, Blades = Windburn, Rook => Icepick, Air-Raid = Darkstream), but I guess I'm wondering if its possible there's some element of the running fiction in Japan that we're missing...?
United EX was all preexisting G1 characters rather than any of the PCC characters.

Same molds and colors as PCC though, right?

News Credits: 4880 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 2:10 pm

Caelus wrote:Same molds and colors as PCC though, right?

Molds yes, colours no.

News Credits: 1646 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 2:41 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Another guess has come up for who the Rook mold redeco could be: Movie Bonecrusher.

Certainly would be an interesting pick. Would like to hear that explanation

News Credits: 174 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 2:56 pm

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Another guess has come up for who the Rook mold redeco could be: Movie Bonecrusher.

Certainly would be an interesting pick. Would like to hear that explanation

Could just be their way of celebrating various lines, like our thrilling 30's generations line. Or maybe they did a fan poll to pick the homages, that we didn't know about, and armada thrust just happened to be popular...? I will say his pack in comic (if they do that for uw) will be interesting to see 8-}

News Credits: 462 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 3:07 pm

Hellscream9999 wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Another guess has come up for who the Rook mold redeco could be: Movie Bonecrusher.

Certainly would be an interesting pick. Would like to hear that explanation

Could just be their way of celebrating various lines, like our thrilling 30's generations line. Or maybe they did a fan poll to pick the homages, that we didn't know about, and armada thrust just happened to be popular...? I will say his pack in comic (if they do that for uw) will be interesting to see

Instead of pack-in comics, UW has pack-in illustrations of each combiner team doing some kind of activity.

The Superion one has the Airbots having an energon cook off at Metroplex with a grown up Prince Jumal.

The Menasor one has the Stuntrons having a race at a race track with the four limb bots riding on some real race cars they evidently stole (the car Dead End rides on is Auggie Cahnay's, with Cahnay running after him on foot) while Motormaster waves the checkered flag.

The Guardian one has the Protectobots playing baseball at a stadium.

News Credits: 1646 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 3:15 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Another guess has come up for who the Rook mold redeco could be: Movie Bonecrusher.

Certainly would be an interesting pick. Would like to hear that explanation

Could just be their way of celebrating various lines, like our thrilling 30's generations line. Or maybe they did a fan poll to pick the homages, that we didn't know about, and armada thrust just happened to be popular...? I will say his pack in comic (if they do that for uw) will be interesting to see
Instead of pack-in comics, UW has pack-in illustrations of each combiner team doing some kind of activity.

The Superion one has the Airbots having an energon cook off at Metroplex with a grown up Prince Jumal.

The Menasor one has the Stuntrons having a race at a race track with the four limb bots riding on some real race cars they evidently stole (the car Dead End rides on is Auggie Cahnay's, with Cahnay running after him on foot) while Motormaster waves the checkered flag.

The Guardian one has the Protectobots playing baseball at a stadium.

That's pretty cool!

News Credits: 2 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 3:55 pm

MemphisR56 wrote:Someone on TFW said they'd got their invoice from kapow for UW Devvy. I've not had mine yet, has anyone had theirs? how much is the final price? Need to know so I can brace my wallet for impact.

Kapow sent me my invoice as well. It will cost £165 if you paid the £5 deposit.

News Credits: 6 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 4:13 pm

munkimus prime wrote:
MemphisR56 wrote:Someone on TFW said they'd got their invoice from kapow for UW Devvy. I've not had mine yet, has anyone had theirs? how much is the final price? Need to know so I can brace my wallet for impact.

Kapow sent me my invoice as well. It will cost £165 if you paid the £5 deposit.

Mine came through too!
so exciting!

IT'S HAPPENING!

News Credits: 41 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 4:48 pm

Congrats you guys! That's awesome.
I converted GBP to USD out of curiosity (about $246) and was like :shock:

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Then I looked him up on BBTS and he is there for $220. So that's seems better.

What I don't get though is if you guys have the best currency out there, shouldn't everything cost a little less?

Thu Dec 03, 2015 5:11 pm

Cobotron wrote:What I don't get though is if you guys have the best currency out there, shouldn't everything cost a little less?

Ha, you'd think.

Hasbro has long operated on the exchange rate $1=£1. This means everything they make is much more expensive by comparison.

Importing from Japan is effectively importing from the other side of the world for us, and tax due on imported items is 20% of the value including shipping.

That's not including the racketeering-style 'processing fees' that the delivery companies add on (between £8-£14 depending on who you are unfortunate enough to have pick up your parcel in this side).

You can win. If you can get cheap shipping and sneak through customs. I got UW Menasor, delivered, for £82. That's cheaper than buying the Hasbro Stunticons here. TT Ultra Magnus was £38, way cheaper than the £50 RRP of Hasbro's.

By and large though, it's more expensive.

News Credits: 6 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 5:17 pm

Cobotron wrote:Congrats you guys! That's awesome.
I converted GBP to USD out of curiosity (about $246) and was like .
Then I looked him up on BBTS and he is there for $220. So that's seems better.

What I don't get though is if you guys have the best currency out there, shouldn't everything cost a little less?

We get ripped off on everything.
plus i suppose different exchange rates currently of the JPY vs GBP and JPY vs USD.

Our prices always include sales tax when they're listed too, and our sales tax is higher at 20%

News Credits: 41 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 5:38 pm

Ah ha, import fees. And I forgot how high your sales tax is.

10 to 12 years ago I used to travel to the UK for work a lot. Back then the exchange rate was painful (for me at least). It was 1 GBP to 2 USD or more. I'm talking $12 dollar cups of coffee. Luckily I would get paid in pounds. When I got home it was like :KREMZEEK:

Woohoo!

Is customs to much of a risk to buy direct from Japan for you guys?

EDIT: Sorry. Just re-read this

Easy Tiger wrote:Importing from Japan is effectively importing from the other side of the world for us, and tax due on imported items is 20% of the value including shipping.

News Credits: 6 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 5:50 pm

Cobotron wrote:Ah ha, import fees. And I forgot how high your sales tax is.

10 to 12 years ago I used to travel to the UK for work a lot. Back then the exchange rate was painful (for me at least). It was 1 GBP to 2 USD or more. I'm talking $12 dollar cups of coffee. Luckily I would get paid in pounds. When I got home it was like Woohoo!

Is customs to much of a risk to buy direct from Japan for you guys?

EDIT: Sorry. Just re-read this
Easy Tiger wrote:Importing from Japan is effectively importing from the other side of the world for us, and tax due on imported items is 20% of the value including shipping.

If you get express shipping, it's guaranteed you'll be hit with 20% import duty and a £13 parcelforce 'handling fee' (read:ransom) if you get SAL shipping, it's about 50/50 that you'll get grabbed. But that tends to increase if your package is suspiciously large. It depends where you go, if you order from jungle you can sign a waiver, and they'll mark it as a gift so you're guaranteed to escape the gouging, but you accept sole responsibilty if they get caught doing it. Stuff coming from china always seems to escape fees, but there's a good chance your box will look like it's been dragged through a hedge backwards.

News Credits: 41 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 5:58 pm

So essentially customs is a sure bet. It was stated in here that the US has a no custom fees policy with all packages coming from Japan. I'm not sure that is true, but I have luckily escaped them thus far.

Well, lessons in world economics aside, I'm psyched for you guys that you will be getting your TT Devys before January. When he arrives, I hope you'll come tell us how awesome he is and rub it in our faces. :-P

News Credits: 6 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 6:50 pm

Cobotron wrote:So essentially customs is a sure bet. It was stated in here that the US has a no custom fees policy with all packages coming from Japan. I'm not sure that is true, but I have luckily escaped them thus far.

Well, lessons in world economics aside, I'm psyched for you guys that you will be getting your TT Devys before January. When he arrives, I hope you'll come tell us how awesome he is and rub it in our faces.

I only have a rubbishy camera phone, but I guess I'll try and post a pictorial review and the plug it here in the megathread, if people want.

News Credits: 2 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 7:27 pm

Devastator is coming, Devastator is coming, Devastator is coming, Devastator is coming! :APPLAUSE:

News Credits: 3 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 8:09 pm

So many in-hand images of Devastator (including amazingly good quality ones), and no reviews yet??? :-(

*sigh* What is mankind coming to.

News Credits: 1646 · Thu Dec 03, 2015 8:42 pm

SillySpringer wrote:So many in-hand images of Devastator (including amazingly good quality ones), and no reviews yet??? *sigh* What is mankind coming to.

He's not been released yet. None of these are actual peoples that they bought