The Energon Pub

News Credits: 10 · by **HighPrime** » Tue Aug 03, 2010 9:36 pm

Anyone have an answer? I registered as a non-attendee and sent payment long before the deadline. Still no figure. Worst case is I'll have to setup a trace with USPS (and can get my money back), but this is kind of frustrating not knowing what's going on. Should I contact the TFcon people? Will they respond?

Anyone else waiting for there's or it was received a while ago?

Thanks for the response :-)

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 3:55 pm

Haven't gotten mine yet and I'm in Canada.

Hmmm...

News Credits: 10 · by **HighPrime** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 3:58 pm

Mkall wrote:Haven't gotten mine yet and I'm in Canada.

Hmmm...

Of all the people to respond, I'm SUPER glad it was you. Not happy to hear you haven't received yours, though. It does provide some relief as perhaps they haven't shipped them all out yet. I know you mentioned before that the organizers are reliable. If you're not panicing yet, then I'm not.

Continue to sit tight for a bit?

Thanks again!

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:32 pm

I sent them an email looking for an update.

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 8:19 am

Got the response that they'll start to ship out next week

News Credits: 10 · by **HighPrime** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 8:25 am

Mkall wrote:Got the response that they'll start to ship out next week

Fantastic, many thanks for your assistance :-)

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 9:47 am

HighPrime wrote:
Mkall wrote:Got the response that they'll start to ship out next week

Fantastic, many thanks for your assistance

No worries. I'm here to help.

News Credits: 609 · by **Razorclaw0000** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 12:00 pm

Everyone knows how I feel about TFCon. Good luck guys.

News Credits: 10 · by **HighPrime** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:08 pm

Razorclaw0000 wrote:Everyone knows how I feel about TFCon. Good luck guys.

I don't. Mind sharing again?

News Credits: 609 · by **Razorclaw0000** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:38 pm

HighPrime wrote:
Razorclaw0000 wrote:Everyone knows how I feel about TFCon. Good luck guys.

I don't. Mind sharing again?

I was one of the ones that bought the Alex Milne "Universe Divided" Poster, and never got it. It took a lot of bad publicity and calling TFCon out to get my (and everyone else's) money back. It went for almost four months from the time I paid to the time I got my money back.

I'm sure it was a lot of poor communication and bad timing, but I'm pretty sour from the whole thing and I don't think I'd do a preorder with them. I'm definitely not encouraging you to boycott them or anything, but for me, I'm done with them.

Website · by **Flux Convoy** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 5:08 am

I was getting pretty curious about this myself. Thanks for the leg work man.

News Credits: 1 · by **Atomatron** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 10:11 am

it falls apart upon touching it

News Credits: 10 · by **HighPrime** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 10:49 am

Well, it's the end of the month and still nothing, yet TFsource and BBTS already have this instock.

Man, this cheeses me off.

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 1:54 pm

And thus we are reminded again why conventions with expensive exclusives need some degree of accountability...

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 6:15 pm

Counterpunch wrote:And thus we are reminded again why conventions with expensive exclusives need some degree of accountability...

I just got a package today, perhaps it's this set? I'll let y'all know in a couple hours when I pick it up

by **outsider** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 6:46 am

also still waiting for this to arrive. I've emailed them to find out where they stand with shipping these out and received an email saying the last of the non-attendee packages were shipped out this past week, but no confirmation number or tracking was provided. :sad:

think from now on I'm going to just get it from tfsource or bbts. All this money order only, not knowing when its coming or if it's coming isn't for me.

News Credits: 10 · by **HighPrime** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 7:09 am

Well, looks like my patience wore out a few days 'too soon.' Finally received on Saturday. I hope we get some sort of notification next year, though. Paypal or credit card would be nice, also. I'm with guy above. Way too many cycles spent worrying if the figure would show up.

Thanks again, MKALL for staying on top of this :-)

About the figure; wow is this thing small. I've seen the reviews and such, but still. Another poster above was right, it is very fragile. I've had to reglue the driver seat, and screw the right arm back together after it fell off. Fansproject truly set the bar out of reach for customs these days.

So, issue (for me) is now closed.

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 3:42 pm

Well it seems that TFCon decided to send me 2 of these figs, even though I only asked for, and paid for, one. Thus I got to decide which of the two I wanted. When I opened and compared the two, the choice was obvious. One was stiff, (even on the right foot) and had pretty solid paint apps. The other one was missing some black down one of her arms and the right foot error was worse because there isn't enough to catch the foot, so it falls off constantly. It's a good enough of a friction fit that it'll stay in place in robot mode, but will fall of when you fold it in or out.

Overall, the one I'm keeping is fairly nice, though the extra paint on the sai blades mean that they won't fit in her hands, and the effort of sliding in her beam sword caused half of the handle to fall off.

Needless to say that I'd be more PO'd if I only got the bad one, but the fact that I hope to make half my money back makes the figure a lot better in my eyes.