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MyFigureCollection.net collection · Thu Dec 16, 2021 4:23 am

I think the delay is Hasbro's worst case scenario. I got it too, but I also got the exact same email with the same date for MP Skywarp, different line, different source, same delay. Experience tells us that we can get a delay from Pulse one week and charged the next.

Emerje

News Credits: 4877 · Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:42 am

Emerje wrote:I think the delay is Hasbro's worst case scenario. I got it too, but I also got the exact same email with the same date for MP Skywarp, different line, different source, same delay. Experience tells us that we can get a delay from Pulse one week and charged the next.

Emerje

They have been very transparent in their current underpromise/overdeliver tactics

News Credits: 56 · Thu Dec 16, 2021 10:10 am

If Pulse gives me a 3 month delay notice, and then delivers in 2 months,that's not getting it to me "sooner than expected". It is still 2 months late.

Case in point... Has anyone who ordered Artfire from pulse received theirs yet? I wouldn't know since I canceled mine after finding it at a local GameStop.

It was supposed to be in on 11/15, and got pushed back to 1/15/22. Even if it comes next week, it's still over a month late.

News Credits: 10 · Thu Dec 16, 2021 10:13 am

o.supreme wrote:So... I just got the delay notice on Black Zarak from Pulse to March 1st 2022 !! GameStop is supposed to be shipping them this week to customers. If there is any way a store in my area gets one I am definitely picking it up.

I didn't preorder one, but if I see it in a store...I'll probably buy it...

News Credits: 1646 · Sun Dec 19, 2021 7:48 pm

I'm glad Black Zarak was delayed, I just have too much happening right now and would like him to wait a minute

News Credits: 101 · Sun Dec 19, 2021 8:20 pm

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I'm glad Black Zarak was delayed, I just have too much happening right now and would like him to wait a minute

Me not, because I paid upfront months ago.

News Credits: 56 · Sun Dec 19, 2021 8:30 pm

I haven't paid yet, but I'd just like to get it so the financial obligation that has been set aside for it would be "off my books" so to speak before the end of the year.

My anticipated spending for new toys in 2022 is surprisingly low, and if I could somehow get BZ before the 31st it would be even lower, which is fine.

News Credits: 19 · Mon Dec 20, 2021 5:31 pm

Just paid for my Black Zarak, UK deliveries going out this week from UK sites. His lack of rear shoulder guns won't bug me as much as it does for Scorponok.

News Credits: 101 · Mon Dec 20, 2021 6:13 pm

blackeyedprime wrote:Just paid for my Black Zarak, UK deliveries going out this week from UK sites. His lack of rear shoulder guns won't bug me as much as it does for Scorponok.

I'm sure DNA Designs will make an upgrade kit for him sooner or later. It wouldn't be hard to do, especially when they'll just have to reuse and repaint the Scorponok one.

News Credits: 51 · Tue Dec 21, 2021 1:31 pm

Pulse has now sent me an email about Artfire shipping.

News Credits: 56 · Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:30 pm

So...I am aware the TT Selects manga ended, but was there any official word if TT Selects was ending as a subline? We've heard nothing since the release of Abominus nearly 6 months ago. Fans project is re releasing their Dinoking, and I'm very tempted if there are no prospects for a Dinoking or Monstructor any time soon. I know it's not happening in legacy for 2022, so.my last hope was perhaps a TT Selects project of any kind (dosen't even have to be a Combiner just something to indicate the line is still alive)

News Credits: 241 · Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:36 pm

o.supreme wrote:So...I am aware the TT Selects manga ended, but was there any official word if TT Selects was ending as a subline? We've heard nothing since the release of Abominus nearly 6 months ago. Fans project is re releasing their Dinoking, and I'm very tempted if there are no prospects for a Dinoking or Monstructor any time soon. I know it's not happening in legacy for 2022, so.my last hope was perhaps a TT Selects project of any kind (dosen't even have to be a Combiner just something to indicate the line is still alive)

TakaraTomy may be holding off for a bit, until something justifiable comes around. Maybe after Star Saber is released.

News Credits: 462 · Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:39 pm

I still want them to make Primus from Commander class Rodimus Prime.

News Credits: 10 · Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:40 pm

Sabrblade wrote:I still want them to make Primus from Commander class Rodimus Prime.

In a heartbeat.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:10 pm

I'd like to think they're holding off on Selects until it's a little easier, logistically, to do another combiner set. Can't be easy for Takara Tomy to send someone to whichever factory has the molds right now to figure what can be used, what needs new parts, and what should really be redone from scratch. Best to hold off until travel and shipping is easier.

Emerje

News Credits: 17 · Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:45 pm

I'm confused, I didn't think there were separate Hasbro and Takara Selects lines, just a single line the sells through Hasbro Pulse and TakaraTomy Mall. I know Takara initiates some of them like God Neptune, and I figured Black Zarak was the same.

News Credits: 56 · Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:52 pm

TT has its own (Select) releases, but Pulse offers them to import. Star Convoy, Super Megatron, King Poseidon, God Neptune, and the newer versions of Volcanicus and Abominus we're TT.

Odd as it seems, Black Zarak was actually Hasbro not TT.

Also there's part of me that wonders if the Premium Finish line is supposed to be the spiritual successor to TT Selects ( just as Selects followed on from Legends). Considering their last 2 combiners we're basically redecos with "premium" paint apps, ( a couple newly tooled accessories, that's about it). wouldn't be far fetched. But unfortunate if true.

News Credits: 1646 · Wed Dec 22, 2021 10:24 pm

Galvatron II rules

News Credits: 462 · Wed Dec 22, 2021 11:45 pm

sol magnus wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:I still want them to make Primus from Commander class Rodimus Prime.

In a heartbeat.

Idea: "Generations Selects Ultimate Primus Pack":

Commander class Primus - redeco of Kingdom Rodimus Prime
Rerelease of Targetmaster Vector Oracle
Actual release of the Vector Sigma/Oracle redeco of Eggbot (proposed by Million Publishing as an accessory for an Alpha Trion redeco of Generations Scourge that never came to pass)
A brand new Pretender shell accessory designed to resemble Primacron's armor-clad ape assistant, with an opening chest compartment inside which one could place the Matrix of Leadership accessory included with Kingdom Rodimus (also included with the above-mentioned Primus redeco)

The only thing that would be left out of this is a transforming Cybertron representation of Primus, since we already got that in both TF: Cybertron and the Welcome to Transformers 2010 line. This would be a set of things we've never gotten or which were only limited in release (like Vector Oracle).

News Credits: 4877 · Thu Dec 23, 2021 8:02 pm

AcademyofDrX wrote:I'm confused, I didn't think there were separate Hasbro and Takara Selects lines, just a single line the sells through Hasbro Pulse and TakaraTomy Mall. I know Takara initiates some of them like God Neptune, and I figured Black Zarak was the same.

They each have their own Selects lines.

News Credits: 22 · Fri Dec 24, 2021 3:56 am

Sabrblade wrote:
sol magnus wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:I still want them to make Primus from Commander class Rodimus Prime.

In a heartbeat.
Idea: "Generations Selects Ultimate Primus Pack":
Commander class Primus - redeco of Kingdom Rodimus Prime
Rerelease of Targetmaster Vector Oracle
Actual release of the Vector Sigma/Oracle redeco of Eggbot (proposed by Million Publishing as an accessory for an Alpha Trion redeco of Generations Scourge that never came to pass)
A brand new Pretender shell accessory designed to resemble Primacron's armor-clad ape assistant, with an opening chest compartment inside which one could place the Matrix of Leadership accessory included with Kingdom Rodimus (also included with the above-mentioned Primus redeco)
The only thing that would be left out of this is a transforming Cybertron representation of Primus, since we already got that in both TF: Cybertron and the Welcome to Transformers 2010 line. This would be a set of things we've never gotten or which were only limited in release (like Vector Oracle).

All that stuff is great for those who like the Japanese manga stuff. I would prefer HasLab to make a planet Primus to match their Unicron.

News Credits: 101 · Fri Dec 24, 2021 8:20 am

Rodimus Prime wrote:I would prefer HasLab to make a planet Primus to match their Unicron.

I'm not sure if that would ever get funded though. If it's a transformable one, only in Cybertron / Galaxy Force did Cybertron became a bot. And he's light years less famous than Unicron.

Maybe a highly detailed "statue" of the planet itself with so much light that you need to plug it into an outlet. Not by Haslab but by the usual suspects like Prime1Studio.
They would make it the same scale as the Haslab Unicron.

transformers_g1_cybertron_planet_wallpaper_by_sniram_d5fhlcz-fullview.jpg

News Credits: 19 · Sat Jan 08, 2022 5:25 am

Any one else have a damaged nubbin or what ever it is on black zaraks chest?

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Sat Jan 08, 2022 7:34 am

blackeyedprime wrote:Any one else have a damaged nubbin or what ever it is on black zaraks chest?

You're one of the first, if not the first, people here to have one so it's a little hard to tell how wide spread that issue is. I'd check and make sure it isn't stuck in the bottom of the Titan Master's feet in case you somehow got a used one.

Emerje

News Credits: 56 · Sat Jan 08, 2022 4:42 pm

Emerje wrote:
blackeye prime wrote:Any one else have a damaged nubbin or what ever it is on black zaraks chest?

You're one of the first, if not the first, people here to have one so it's a little hard to tell how wide spread that issue is. I'd check and make sure it isn't stuck in the bottom of the Titan Master's feet in case you somehow got a used one.

Emerje

Eaxactly. I know he started appearing in Asia about a month ago, and Kapow Toys shipped to European customers in the end of December. Nobody in North America has received BZ to my knowledge.

blackeye - By chance where are you located & where did you get your BZ from?