JRS Toyworld Canceling ALL MP-05 Megatron Preorders.

Oh, boy. I sure hope Toywiz doesn't fail me now!

well they put it on we are all just going to cut it off or spray it grey. I wish they would save me the trouble.

This is bad news. And seriously, that tip is going to flush the image of this toy.

I'm have to check with my import guy and see what he can do for me on this. For imports, I recomend finding a private Ebay sellers as they don't have to follow any store standards.

Also if the concern is over the picture of a gun on the box, what good is a saftey tip on the ROBOT inside going to do about that!?!

I mean, won't that still be a picture of a gun?

I should so go and order about a dozen more from agesthreeandup. I could pay off my house with the price hike I could put on them.






Just kidding, just kidding. I wouldn't scalp fellow fans.

"Also, Takara has
apparently decided to do a "US safe" release through Hasbro."

I can't wait to see this one!

that means a us release is immenent. and probably for cheaper. but not a widespread release for sure. an exclusive somewere

so possibly a hasbrotoyshop online exclusive (yuck not that again)
or another SDCC exclusive (oh please god no)
or perhaps...botcon maybe? only time will tell

personaly its not about wether or not he has an orange cap to me. he still looks sexy reguardless. its the fact that i dont want someone else ripping open my toy and skrewing with it b4 i get it.

Eh, it seems that most stores are adding the tip as it is. At this point, I don't care who I get it from, as long as I paint the tip as I have intended since the very beginning.

Hey, ACS, the "View User Comments" Button is taking me to a topic in Carbomya. I can't edit my first post to say this from the lack of an edit button and this needs a new topic, too.

I love how it's easier to get a real gun than it is to get an oversized toy gun that turns into a toy robot.

Bluebullet.

I am aware of the problem and have reported it to Glyph and Ryan. There is some coding messed up right now when a news item is posted. The news item shows up on the main page, but the actual thread is not created (or is hidden) in the respected forum. This should be cleared up soon hopefully. Sorry about that guys, for now you can only add a comment for the News Item...no editing.

Thanks for the heads up though.


EDIT: THe problem is fixed now.

i cant understand why this is creating such an issue when it is very simple to get a TFC#06 into the USA. While it doesnt have a large gun printed on the box, i do not see why this makes any sort of difference

Ugh... I'm begining to detest bigbadtoystore for scaring everyone into this. (I'm also hating the U.S.'s toy laws.)
And no, the "cut the cap off" suggestion is not going to be valid for me. Why should i have to pay $90+ on something that I have to modify to get the desired result? I hope someone repro's the barrels and makes an absolute killing on selling them.

Gutter Bunny wrote:i cant understand why this is creating such an issue when it is very simple to get a TFC#06 into the USA. While it doesnt have a large gun printed on the box, i do not see why this makes any sort of difference

It's causing such a problem because of how sought after this figure is.

& as far as the cap goes, sure we can all paint over them/take them off, but putting them on keeps the stores' arses out of a legal bind when it either:

a: dosen't pass customs & a lot of customers are screwed over

b: causes them to have a lawsuit brought against them for selling products that go against US toy gun safety laws brought on by somebody trying to transport one via ariline or some dumbass kid pulling one on a cop.

It does kinda suck, but then again rules is rules, & afterwards could be easily remedied.

Besides, anyone that wants to keep a TF MISB is kinda missing the point of having transformers: to transform them. Not to mention anyone that did wouldn't have to worry about the orange cap either.

Head Shot wrote:Ugh... I'm begining to detest bigbadtoystore for scaring everyone into this. (I'm also hating the U.S.'s toy laws.)
And no, the "cut the cap off" suggestion is not going to be valid for me. Why should i have to pay $90+ on something that I have to modify to get the desired result? I hope someone repro's the barrels and makes an absolute killing on selling them.

What the hell? How does BBTS fit into this? Are you serious? Come on. You must be kidding. It's not BBTS's fault, it's the law.

If the companies so choose to modify it so you can finally have the item without it being confiscated and you get your money's worth, then so be it.

BBTS didn't do it. ...damn.

Autobot032 wrote:

Head Shot wrote:Ugh... I'm begining to detest bigbadtoystore for scaring everyone into this. (I'm also hating the U.S.'s toy laws.)
And no, the "cut the cap off" suggestion is not going to be valid for me. Why should i have to pay $90+ on something that I have to modify to get the desired result? I hope someone repro's the barrels and makes an absolute killing on selling them.

What the hell? How does BBTS fit into this? Are you serious? Come on. You must be kidding. It's not BBTS's fault, it's the law.

If the companies so choose to modify it so you can finally have the item without it being confiscated and you get your money's worth, then so be it.

BBTS didn't do it. ...damn.

I see what he's saying. Once it was released that he'd be a gun BBTS said they wouldn't carry it due to customs.
This was befor there was even a picture.

Then a week after they furuted that saying that they would sell it, but with a cap.
That made fans happy because if Joel put it on, then you could take it off.

However all that right there is I think what AOUTBOT032 ment by bringing them into this. But, realy I shouldn't speak for others.

What upsets me about Takara doing this is that it will now be something more permanent and harder to remove or alter.

I may be travelling to Japan in November and I was planning on picking up an unaltered MP-05 there. Will I have trouble getting it back into the States or does the law just prevent stores from importing it to sell it?

What if I just took it out of the box? I mean, I was going to do that anyway.

Glad I'm waiting for Megatron to actually get in stock somewhere before buying him.

Geez, all this ruckus over a little plastic add-on.

Well... I agree with the comment about how it's easier to get a real gun than a plastic toy robot... heh...

America is in many ways wierd...

Happily - none of these problems are mine - HLJ will ship a non-plug version to me in Poland where no such wierd laws exist...

Skids

009* wrote:Glad I'm waiting for Megatron to actually get in stock somewhere before buying him.

Geez, all this ruckus over a little plastic add-on.

its not about the plastic add on for a lot of people. most of us dont want someone else opening and screwing around with our toys.

im an out of box collecter myself, but i cant stand the thought of other hands playing with my plaything. (leave the dirty thoughts behind there fellas)

and there are some who collect mint in box only, and now they cant get that coveted prize.

as ive said b4 i could give 2 shits less if its got an orange cap or not, its still sexy, but i want to be the one to open MY toy first.

Immortal Starscream wrote:

009* wrote:Glad I'm waiting for Megatron to actually get in stock somewhere before buying him.

Geez, all this ruckus over a little plastic add-on.

its not about the plastic add on for a lot of people. most of us dont want someone else opening and screwing around with our toys.

im an out of box collecter myself, but i cant stand the thought of other hands playing with my plaything. (leave the dirty thoughts behind there fellas)

and there are some who collect mint in box only, and now they cant get that coveted prize.

as ive said b4 i could give 2 shits less if its got an orange cap or not, its still sexy, but i want to be the one to open MY toy first.

I on the other hand care a great deal about the "plastic add-on." My humble opinion is that placing of the orange cap will destroy said sexiness of the figure. I collect both mib and misb so that for me is not an issue. However, i want to be the one to make the choice as to wheter or not its open.

I’ll say, I am just in a miff over all the neverending flow of red tape this figure has. I bought myself the #6 Megatron reissue here back only 3 years ago and that imported just fine through U.S. customs —and that one wasn’t in robot mode~! Surely the original Megatron figure looks even more so like a gun than this one? I don’t get it.

Immortal Starscream wrote:but i want to be the one to open MY toy first.

Bing bong!

Good! They should have made him a tank anyway! Gun Megatron is lame! Any alt mode that relies on another character to use is friggin stupid!

I heard that all of the old G1 cartoons are being updated so that Megatron can sport an orange tip.

scythafixion wrote:Good! They should have made him a tank anyway! Gun Megatron is lame! Any alt mode that relies on another character to use is friggin stupid!

why is it that Shockwave can fly around in alt mode and shoot people wihtout assistance, but Megs can't? It's Teletran's fault isn't it?

LOL you suck JRS Toyworld. The thing is a damn toy... just import the thing...

Thank god i live in Canada, no stupid pussy US toy gun laws here.

I find it funny how the States loves to give everyone guns to "protect" themselves. But when it comes to a toy gun they start putting stupid rules up. Lame

Here's your solution to this dilema: Get a couple thousand of un-orangified megs and sell them at gun shows. Or even better at, wal-mart in the rifle department...y'know this country is okay for the most part but dammit, it's really, really, really, really, really f-ing stupid sometimes.

Amen to that Kary...wish I lived north of the border, then I'd have an actual excuse for my Canadian accent (from working with the local pro hockey team).

You know, these are Transformers. How difficult would it be to engineer and orange thing that extends in gun mode and disappears in robot mode? The orange in bot mode is my primary concern...

kary wrote:LOL you suck JRS Toyworld. The thing is a damn toy... just import the thing...

Thank god i live in Canada, no stupid pussy US toy gun laws here.

God gave Canada ice and the French. Congrats.

All we have here in the U.S. is...oh, everything.

Side note: I had always though most Canadians to be pleasant people with better manners than most of the U.S.

You are a very bad Canadian.

HASBRO release aye... maybe Anime Screamer too.

The thing that gets me about all this is that MP Megatron is not a toy but a collectors collectable, That is based on a toy. How is it that you can get a replica of a gun and sell that as a collectable with no law enhanced cap on it, But you can't get a replica of a toy that has a gun mode as a collectable?

The MP line is aimed at Transformers collectors not children, and as such most collectors are (usually) of an age to be responcible enough not to wave around something that could be thought of as a gun in the presence of the police. (And/or other authoraties).

How comes BBTS can sell a six inch replica of a Final Fantasie gun with no orange cap, that to me looks more realistic to a real gun than MP megs, (its large size makes megs look rediculous as a real gun unless you are a seven foot tall wrestler).

The only good news in all this is if it is put on at the factories then you will still have a MISB MP Megs. As for people not handling it before you get an item, you will find that most things you buy from anywhere could have been handled by up to a dozen people before it even goes in a box to be sealed.

Oh well, not the end of the world. If it comes with a orange cap, I don't think it would bother me at this point. I guess time will tell. I'm also in Canada so it will be interesting to see if it goes through US customs first and then in to Canada or just straight to Canada. Meh', no biggie either way.

Shame. But ah well. Cut it off or paint it.
LEt's hope ebay pulls through. I have noticed an improvement in the service over there for some time now.

instead of making the parents have some responsibility, there has to be a totally ridiculous and useless law that also effects consumers like us just like with videogames. this is such a joke.

I just hope they install a plug and leave the tip grey... i already had to mod my megs KO to get that orange off

kary wrote:LOL you suck JRS Toyworld. The thing is a damn toy... just import the thing...

Thank god i live in Canada, no stupid pussy US toy gun laws here.

I find it funny how the States loves to give everyone guns to "protect" themselves. But when it comes to a toy gun they start putting stupid rules up. Lame

wait...where was i when they started handing out guns?

or we could not turn this into a country bashing thread...that works too.

Is this the only country where it's easier to buy a real gun than a toy gun that looks slightly like a real one?

Sideshow Sideswipe wrote:Is this the only country where it's easier to buy a real gun than a toy gun that looks slightly like a real one?

kinda of ironic isnt´?

So far AgesThreeAndUp.com still has theirs selling as unmodified. I placed my preorder with them months ago. I'm really hoping that I don't lose it in customs!

Gutter Bunny wrote:

kary wrote:LOL you suck JRS Toyworld. The thing is a damn toy... just import the thing...

Thank god i live in Canada, no stupid pussy US toy gun laws here.

I find it funny how the States loves to give everyone guns to "protect" themselves. But when it comes to a toy gun they start putting stupid rules up. Lame

wait...where was i when they started handing out guns?

or we could not turn this into a country bashing thread...that works too.

I'm not sure that Kary knows that 99% of all imported items to Canada go through a US customs check. Like I said before, not a big deal if it does happen.

When is this figure coming out? on all the sites i looked at it just says March 2007

Ive had Megatron KOs sent to me without the orage tip and ive also got airsoftguns sent to me without the orange. So why is it so hard to ship this thing without the tip on it?

thunder-clubhouse wrote:Here's your solution to this dilema: Get a couple thousand of un-orangified megs and sell them at gun shows. Or even better at, wal-mart in the rifle department...y'know this country is okay for the most part but dammit, it's really, really, really, really, really f-ing stupid sometimes.

walmart would put the orange on. When they still sold airsoft guns they were either clear or had the orange tip on them. and i think walmart stop selling toy guns anyway. i cant even find a classics megs there.

Megatron_Wolf wrote:When is this figure coming out? on all the sites i looked at it just says March 2007

It's slated for the end of March in Japan. So early April for anyone that has ordered it.

Down_Shift wrote:

Megatron_Wolf wrote:When is this figure coming out? on all the sites i looked at it just says March 2007

It's slated for the end of March in Japan. So early April for anyone that has ordered it.

so if i order it now i'll get it around the middle of april

Megatron_Wolf wrote:

Down_Shift wrote:

Megatron_Wolf wrote:When is this figure coming out? on all the sites i looked at it just says March 2007

It's slated for the end of March in Japan. So early April for anyone that has ordered it.

so if i order it now i'll get it around the middle of april

I would think so. Depends on how much your willing to pay to get it to where you are. (shipping)

Liege Evilmus wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:

Head Shot wrote:Ugh... I'm begining to detest bigbadtoystore for scaring everyone into this. (I'm also hating the U.S.'s toy laws.)
And no, the "cut the cap off" suggestion is not going to be valid for me. Why should i have to pay $90+ on something that I have to modify to get the desired result? I hope someone repro's the barrels and makes an absolute killing on selling them.

What the hell? How does BBTS fit into this? Are you serious? Come on. You must be kidding. It's not BBTS's fault, it's the law.

If the companies so choose to modify it so you can finally have the item without it being confiscated and you get your money's worth, then so be it.

BBTS didn't do it. ...damn.

I see what he's saying. Once it was released that he'd be a gun BBTS said they wouldn't carry it due to customs.
This was befor there was even a picture.

Then a week after they furuted that saying that they would sell it, but with a cap.
That made fans happy because if Joel put it on, then you could take it off.

However all that right there is I think what AOUTBOT032 ment by bringing them into this. But, realy I shouldn't speak for others.

nope, you hit exactly what I meant right on the head! Thank you

Down_Shift wrote:

Megatron_Wolf wrote:When is this figure coming out? on all the sites i looked at it just says March 2007

It's slated for the end of March in Japan. So early April for anyone that has ordered it.

Well I was planning to buy Revoltech Megatron, so I guess I'll get both at once then.

Immortal Starscream wrote:that means a us release is immenent. and probably for cheaper. but not a widespread release for sure. an exclusive somewere

so possibly a hasbrotoyshop online exclusive (yuck not that again)
or another SDCC exclusive (oh please god no)
or perhaps...botcon maybe? only time will tell

personaly its not about wether or not he has an orange cap to me. he still looks sexy reguardless. its the fact that i dont want someone else ripping open my toy and skrewing with it b4 i get it.

Cheaper that tip takes it to about 10 dolars

Well, I managed to pry the bastard off the Classics Megatron so it may not be all that bad.

And yes it is Bad Toy Store's fault.