Aimless Misfire wrote:I'm American & I'll NEVER be able to complete my Combiner Wars collection thanks to Botcon & the Collectors Club. I'll never be able to add the Predacus boxed set to my collection. And I can't afford the TFCC prices. I'm not paying scalpers over $100 for a straight repaint of a little $10 or $20 deluxe. And unfortunately the Prime Wars trilogy is the main thing I collect.
I understand this 100%. At first I was worried, because I jumped into CW kind of late. Fortunately, somehow, I was able to obtain most of those TFCC & Botcon exclusives, tired to jump on them as early as possible, at *relatively* reasonable prices....
All I can say is, try to just have patience. I had to wait quite a while to get Generations Metroplex at a decent price, but I finally got one. As for some of those other exclusives. Yeah I still need Flash Sentry, and 4 of the Ratchet Build-A-Figures to be truly complete, but that is not something that keeps me up at night, and I'm pretty much resigned to never having them. I have my search options always going, but unless I inherit a fortune form some obscure relative, it isn't happening.
Since the Selects appear, more or less, to be available to all parties at normal prices in Shipping in the United States, Japan (and I'm guessing Philippines, and perhaps some other Asian markets)....Hopefully Hasbro will begin to look at the rest of the world, and address the issue of having these available at fair/equal shipping prices for all fans.
Will-as you said in an article not to long ago, the strategy with the one year Generations line seems to have worked, so things appear to be getting better in terms of availability, slowly, one step at a time. *Hopefully* a strategy to make online exclusives available to all interested parties at fair shipping prices is on Hasbro's agenda.