The Energon Pub

ScottyP wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Anybody having any luck with that link?

Nope. It's Walmart, they are bad at this.

too true, with any luck when they do get the link working it wont magically be already sold out like with some other exclusives. I am looking at you Neca Casey Jones and Raph.

So...where'd you go for lunch today?

--Oh nowhere, just sat here at my desk waiting for a link to an exclusive toy that didn't come up...Gawd I'm a dope!

Immortal Starscream wrote:

YRQRM0 wrote:Other version? What would that be? I wanna make sure I know which one to get!

I am guessing just a second general run maybe? They state sold at hasbro pulse.

kuhlio wrote:I dont think the preorder goes live until tomorrow based on the Mashable article.

They say in the article at the bottom that they had the wrong date before, and today is the new correct date.

...still not live though

The website originally said for preorder on July 2nd, but the correction at the bottom says July 3rd- That makes a bit more sense since tomorrow is the anniversary- Ill keep checking but I think we are 24hrs early!

Immortal Starscream wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Anybody having any luck with that link?

Nope. It's Walmart, they are bad at this.

too true, with any luck when they do get the link working it wont magically be already sold out like with some other exclusives. I am looking at you Neca Casey Jones and Raph.

After decades of collecting I have grown a lot of patience for the hunt, and even my own ineptness with interwebering, but Walcrunk.corn is the absolute worst!!!

And I have no patience for it.

kuhlio wrote:

Immortal Starscream wrote:

YRQRM0 wrote:Other version? What would that be? I wanna make sure I know which one to get!

I am guessing just a second general run maybe? They state sold at hasbro pulse.

kuhlio wrote:I dont think the preorder goes live until tomorrow based on the Mashable article.

They say in the article at the bottom that they had the wrong date before, and today is the new correct date.

...still not live though

The website originally said for preorder on July 2nd, but the correction at the bottom says July 3rd- That makes a bit more sense since tomorrow is the anniversary- Ill keep checking but I think we are 24hrs early!

The article reads:
UPDATE: July 2, 2020, 11:21 a.m. EDT An earlier version of this story said that pre-orders begin on July 3. That was incorrect; July 2 is when pre-orders open.

I think they were incorrect about being incorrect.....heh....

What concerns me, among other things is there's no mention of price

chuckdawg1999 wrote:What concerns me, among other things is there's no mention of price

That's a good point. It's a little strange they wouldn't mention that in the article promoting the figure

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:What concerns me, among other things is there's no mention of price

That's a good point. It's a little strange they wouldn't mention that in the article promoting the figure

glad I am not the only one who found this odd. I half expect a $30 personally.

If they are going with a theme, they should go all in and have it be $19.85

Immortal Starscream wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:What concerns me, among other things is there's no mention of price

That's a good point. It's a little strange they wouldn't mention that in the article promoting the figure

glad I am not the only one who found this odd. I half expect a $30 personally.

I'm expecting closer to $40 because Ectortron retailed for $50, didn't he?

o.supreme wrote:If they are going with a theme, they should go all in and have it be $19.85

that might be what is limited about it

o.supreme wrote:If they are going with a theme, they should go all in and have it be $19.85

I would also accept $20.15

but $19.65 or $18.65 might be too steep of a price cut for them

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

Immortal Starscream wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:What concerns me, among other things is there's no mention of price

That's a good point. It's a little strange they wouldn't mention that in the article promoting the figure

glad I am not the only one who found this odd. I half expect a $30 personally.

I'm expecting closer to $40 because Ectortron retailed for $50, didn't he?

ectotron is a voyager scale figure, this one is a deluxe. and I Paid $40 for my ectotron, but I cant say as for sure that was his original msrp

o.supreme wrote:If they are going with a theme, they should go all in and have it be $19.85

How about $35.00, because it's the 35th anniversary

Oh Hasbro Corporate and Walmart would love you . I thought of that also, probably closer to the truth, but I was trying to be unreasonably optimistic.

I'm expecting $100 because they know we'll pay anything.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I'm expecting $100 because they know we'll pay anything.

I'll Buy that for a dollar! hehehe


I am going to go out on a limb here and say that the preorder will finally got live in about two and a half hours from now. Because that's when I make my thirty minute drive home from work.

... my general luck anyway leads me to believe that.

Despite the correction listed at the end of the Mashable article, I am starting to think that maybe July 3rd is the day lol

An hour of refreshing and still an "Error" page... I will make sure to get mine for October for sure. I am lucky my little bro picked Ectotron up for me for Father's Day.

This looks like someone's crappy custom.

I'll probably still buy it, but man...could have been a lot better.

I passed on Ectotron completely. It looks nice, but just just isn't in my wheelhouse of collecting. I was going to try for this just because of serendipitous circumstances. But they are becoming more complicated and my interest is fading fast...Same with the Top Gun fighter, I'll most likely pass on that as well.

"more complicated"

...wat.

o.supreme wrote:I passed on Ectotron completely. It looks nice, but just just isn't in my wheelhouse of collecting. I was going to try for this just because of serendipitous circumstances. But they are becoming more complicated and my interest is fading fast...Same with the Top Gun fighter, I'll most likely pass on that as well.

I'm pretty much right there with you. We'll see if the shiny newness wears off before orders go live.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:"more complicated"

...wat.

Expectation: log on at 10am PST (1pm EST), go to link, go to walmart website and order product

Reality: log on at 10am PST (1pm EST), go to link, link is broken, thus more effort involved (i.e. "complication") than expected. Do I keep refreshing? Is it really tomorrow (July 3rd at 1pm) as originally stated?....do I even care any more?....

Does that make sense now?

o.supreme wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:"more complicated"

...wat.

Expectation: log on at 10am PST (1pm EST), go to link, go to walmart website and order product

Reality: log on at 10am PST (1pm EST), go to link, link is broken, thus more effort involved (i.e. complication") than expected. Do I keep refreshing? Is it really tomorrow (July 3rd at 1pm) as originally stated?....do i even care any more?....

does that make sense now?

Yes, now that you have clarified that you meant the figures are becoming more complicated/more of a hassle to order.

The wording in your original post implied you thought the figures themselves were becoming more complicated.