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Sat Jun 04, 2011 3:49 pm

Okay, my arm is ready to go. I'll work on the leg when the final product is revealed...

Reality hurts.

News Credits: 12 · Sat Jun 04, 2011 5:15 pm

I'm probably not going to be buying these. As much as I want them, I have a few too many other things to get right now.

Maybe I should contact them about doing reviews for their products?

Sat Jun 04, 2011 5:24 pm

Ouch! If I knew if they were good or not... We seriously need some reviews for these guys.

News Credits: 8 · Sat Jun 04, 2011 5:34 pm

Damn....Well crossin this off the list...

News Credits: 4 · Sat Jun 04, 2011 7:10 pm

Way beyond my budget... like everyone here I'll need serious thinking about this set.

News Credits: 1 · Sun Jun 05, 2011 12:03 am

No, no thinking about this.

If I think about it, I may not do it, and I'm GOING to do it.

But, that said, its Ramen for dinner tonight! (and for the foreseeable future)

News Credits: 12 · Sun Jun 05, 2011 12:25 am

rpetras wrote:No, no thinking about this.

If I think about it, I may not do it, and I'm GOING to do it.

But, that said, its Ramen for dinner tonight! (and for the foreseeable future)

I like to eat decent food so I refuse to put myself on a ramen diet for toys.

As a student it's hard enough getting the figures I want. Now that I'm back to work again, the only way, I'll be getting them is if I get a lot of extra days of working at Costco.

News Credits: 8 · Sun Jun 05, 2011 12:47 am

robofreak wrote:
rpetras wrote:No, no thinking about this.

If I think about it, I may not do it, and I'm GOING to do it.

But, that said, its Ramen for dinner tonight! (and for the foreseeable future)

I like to eat decent food so I refuse to put myself on a ramen diet for toys.

As a student it's hard enough getting the figures I want. Now that I'm back to work again, the only way, I'll be getting them is if I get a lot of extra days of working at Costco.

Maybe we can split him? I'll take monday-wednesday, you take Thursday-Saturday. we can alternate sundays..Sound good?

The more I think about it.. The price is just ridiculous #-o

. Whats the point of making something so awesome if only the UBER collector with a large amount of disposable income get to enjoy it. While the rest of the average collectors sit here and drool over the seibertron.com galleries

News Credits: 12 · Sun Jun 05, 2011 12:52 am

That would be quite the custody battle LikWid.

If these were $50 a piece, I would do it in a heart beat.

How about they slice some of the price off by getting rid of boxes and poly bagging them? If botcon can do it, so can they.

News Credits: 5 · Sun Jun 05, 2011 3:22 pm

rpetras wrote:No, no thinking about this.

If I think about it, I may not do it, and I'm GOING to do it.

But, that said, its Ramen for dinner tonight! (and for the foreseeable future)

Haha, I can understand where you are coming from.

I think around $80 was where we expected these to land. I need to see the complete set before I make a decision but I will most like be picking him up. It looks like third party companies will be receiving a lot of money from me in the next year.

News Credits: 1 · Sun Jun 05, 2011 3:41 pm

When does it come out? all it takes is a lil bit of saveing 5 bucks here 10 bucks there ( and with DOTM toys being everywere now) put up some more money and by the time the pre orders come up you have the money to buy the whole thing and then some. But you have to save put the money in money orders and sign your name and keep em out of sight. Thats how i save money for anything( and i have a bank acount) but remember that the money orders have a 6 month time limit then you cash em in and redo it. So cant afford it isnt the problem more like can't save up for something weve all dreamed of thats what im hearing :KREMZEEK:

Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:03 pm

The biggest problem for me with these are we've had some pics of them, which look awesome, but that's about it. Has anyone handled these guys? Any reviews I'm not aware of? Something, anything?

I'll probably preorder this, but sit on my POL until I get word about quality.

News Credits: 5 · Sun Jun 05, 2011 8:31 pm

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:The biggest problem for me with these are we've had some pics of them, which look awesome, but that's about it. Has anyone handled these guys? Any reviews I'm not aware of? Something, anything?

I'll probably preorder this, but sit on my POL until I get word about quality.

Nothing has been posted. I wouldn't expect these for a while still.

Sun Jun 05, 2011 9:10 pm

Five hundred USD.

This is just too much for me.

Maybe in the distant future with a dealer willing to set a hefty discount.

Mon Jun 06, 2011 9:45 pm

That's 3/4 of my rent, for Cybertron's sake. I think they should come up with some better pricing.........

News Credits: 3 · Mon Jun 06, 2011 10:31 pm

What I'm guessing is each figure may be less for the US...I hope.
I did sell my Classics Devastator, so in place of him I have the Target Devastator repaint of the Build Team which is the best. Though having only four constructicons is fine by me.

$80 to $100 a pop per figure is way too high. But considering their size it alsmost seems fair. Look at FP Warbot. That was $80 for a deluxe. So if the quality and paint is on par, then I expect it to be that high. Luckily I can get at it because I don't like movie toys. Looks like my money is going to go to third parties for a long time coming.

News Credits: 10 · Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:07 am

Robot Kingdom listed it at $77 for Hercules. It had pics of all the pieces currently revealed. I pre ordered it. Now they have changed it to Hercules - Exgraver at the same price and only has pics of that toy and set it to out of stock. I wonder if they will honor what I purchased from their site and get the whole set for $77. The realist in me tells me not to hold my breath but I haven't had an email from them yet.

News Credits: 5 · Tue Jun 07, 2011 4:36 am

Ouch, that's a lot of cash.

News Credits: 5749 · Tue Jun 07, 2011 7:56 pm

Found this on TFClub's mircro-blog, I'm guessing these are the final colors. Looks good to me.

News Credits: 5 · Tue Jun 07, 2011 8:21 pm

El Duque wrote:Found this on TFClub's mircro-blog, I'm guessing these are the final colors. Looks good to me.

I like these colors. The green and the purple look really nice. Clever use of the "tail" as well.

News Credits: 1 · Wed Jun 08, 2011 7:59 am

The pics look cool but the price tag does not. I think for that amount im just going to get my two favs Scrapper and Mixmaster and thats it the rest is going to cost to much too afford my Mrs is already going mental at me coz i havent taken her on a holiday yet

News Credits: 1235 · Wed Jun 08, 2011 2:11 pm

The ability to hold the preorder in my POL and buying from a U.S. Based company trumps the $4 savings.

News Credits: 129 · Wed Jun 08, 2011 2:46 pm

LOST Cybertronian wrote:The ability to hold the preorder in my POL and buying from a U.S. Based company trumps the $4 savings.

This x2

News Credits: 23 · Wed Jun 08, 2011 3:09 pm

Preorder up on BBTS if not already mentioned.

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=tfc10014&mode=retail

News Credits: 3 · Wed Jun 08, 2011 3:16 pm

LOST Cybertronian wrote:The ability to hold the preorder in my POL and buying from a U.S. Based company trumps the $4 savings.

The ability to get this when it comes out rather than sitting on it for 5 months to get a big enough POL that I break even makes the $4 saved (before factoring in shipping of any kind) icing on the cake...especially when patience isn't exactly one of my strong suits! Sure, BBTS customer service is second to none (more or less), but I don't recall ever hearing anything but positive from RK.