william-james88 wrote:Qwan wrote:So some (read:none) of you may remember that just a day or two ago I was pretty sure that my local department stores were due to restock with some glorious Wave 4 by Tuesday - and what would you know, they did restock!
With Wave 3.
4 Deluxes from Wave 3.
On a more positive note, I'm still feeling pretty excited for these box-sets. Even with Trypticon there (and admittedly I didn't pay much attention to the movie toys), Magnus Prime totally stole the show for me and I'm super excited for him. I have a local collectable dealer on the case who'll hopefully be able to find some information at Australia's "Toy Fair" (happening in just over a week) about what can be done by those overseas. If I find out anything interesting from that, I'll report back here - you guys will be the first to know, straight from the horse's mouth! ...Into another horse's mouth, and then another one, and then into your guys' mouths... not really the most pleasing metaphor any more is it.
My Toysrus restocked with Wave 2, so you should feel better.
As for the boxsets, dont worry. The exclusive retailers only pertain to the US, there is no story or issue here. None of that applies to Australia or anywhere else. Liokaiser who was Entertainment Earth exclusive in the US was found at Myers in Australia, so there really is no relation. You wont need to import these sets, just like you didnt need to import any set from Combiner Wars
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ail/36831/And the Platinum Dinobots that were BBTs exclusive in the US just went to toysrus in australia:
http://www.toysrus.com.au/transformers- ... ts-5-pack/
Heh, yeah, my situation really isn't that bad with TR so far - I mean, I'm sure there are plenty of people who would be thrilled to see some Wave 3 Deluxes on shelves! I guess I really have just been spoiled by the incredible (and uncharacteristic!) competence of local stores so far, that anything less than superhuman punctuality feels worryingly slow.
And though I was pretty sure that the boxsets were indeed only exclusive to those stores within the USA, a fair amount of the time "exclusive in America" can pretty much mean "exclusive
to America" when it comes to actual distribution here. I didn't get Victorion until less than a month ago, didn't even see the Platinum Dinobots or Liokaiser until that same time too (the Dinobots at a video game store, no less
), and the closest ToysRUs is at least a few hours' drive away. If I can get these boxsets semi-directly for anywhere near the US retail price (case in point, I happily paid about $130USD for Victorion), I'll gladly do so. I mean heck, I'm still considering going $45USD in just to get a Brainstorm over eBay...
But really, I know I'm not in the worst way when it comes to TFs. Plenty of people better off than me, plenty worse off too - that's the way it is for most of us I imagine. And honestly at the end of the day, they're children's plastic toys, it's not like they're that important in the big pict- *shot for heresy*