You Missed Out! - Masterpiece Thundercracker No Longer In Stock at ToysRUs.com

$55.99 and free shipping? I am going to go buy them all. J/K but that is a sweet deal. Go fly now...

O.k......now I'm a little pissed.......55.99?......Free shipping? Why couldn't have been that price at the store? Oh well, I still got one......Maybe the same will happen with Prime (fingers crossed)

Snagged! YES!!

That is a great deal and I am glad they are limiting them to 1 per customer as well so that collector's actually want one have a shot at them. I am really hoping this sale does well for them so that they do something similar with Optimus Prime. I really want that Optimus, but the closest TRU to me is a little too out of the way to check more than once every week or two.
Good luck to everyone who wants a Thundercracker, I hope you are all able to get one

AAAAWWWWWESOOOOOOOOMMMME!!!!

Done and done, my order's IN! What a great catch by Seibertron. I got up for work half an hour ago and saw this, what a score. Total came to just under $60- that's 16 less than retail and no driving/calling around. Whoo!

Done and done. Now we wait...

Hope they still have some when I get to the US in December. Stupid UK TRU not stocking.

WTF it's 8:40am on the east coast and they are already out of stock????? Bastards!!

Sold out already... F to the uck!

Wow sold out already! Wasted weeks of page refreshing .. Thanks for screwing over the west coast. I'm really starting to hate TRU! Guess it's back to the phones today, hoping something turns up before I feed a scalper.

...aaaand the scalpers rejoice.

Aaaaand now mine's on back order. Really worried now.

Already on Ebay.

Got it!

Just looked at the e-bay page and the wall of MP TC is disgusting.

Agreed.....every auction on ebay is around $130 some at 200+....

I got one at a local TRU, but this really sucks for everyone actually trying to get one. Scalpers really ruin it for collectors - AND kids.

It sucks not being in the US. Though I did ask my friend to order it online and send onto me. I hope she ordered it before it went out of stock. Also, scalpers suck. Toys R Us limited it to 1 per order but they just have to place multiple orders.

Figures. ..

Been watching the site for a week and it hits on East coast timing.


So sick of the eBay prices, death to scalpers!

Omg i hate scalpers!!!! but what will be more worth it. Takaras or hasbros(kinda thinking why not takara since scalpers charge so damn much)
*edit why is the takara version so expensive? I wouldnt pay 300+ for even a MISB G1 thundercracker
i hope since optimus prime is being released around christmas, that he will have a bigger release. And since hes more expensive scalpers will have a harder time buying him.

I had one in my cart but something happened and the website wouldn't complete my transaction. Now it's sold out! I talked to customer service but they didn't have any record of my order. The nice lady I talked to did say that the stores will price match the website. Oh well, maybe next time.

This was a really nice surprise to get to work at 8:00 and see the headline on my homepage. A real relief too since stores in Maryland seem to be on a real lag from the rest of the country (as far as I can tell from the Sightings Page, anyway). My heart goes out to those who missed, I was worried I'd never see this guy for retail price.

Sold out before I could get an order in. If anyone got an extra one, let me know.

Very frustrating.

It's already been pulled from the site. He's not even showing up at all now.

I'd go into another rant about pre-orders, but I can only make so much sense today. Still really worried about receiving my back-ordered piece. I guess I'll have to double-dip and pick one up if the damn things ever show up in PA. </end 1st world problems>

Yep, gone, I hope everyone used the "email me when back in stock" option.

Even at the age of 21 TF are still teaching me about patience.

F*** I might just go buy MP-11s

I wonder if TRU.com made a mistake on the price and that's why they pull the listing? That might also explain why some orders went to back-ordered to they can cancel them. $15.00 price cut + free shipping seems to be too good a deal...

Aww man, I was so excited when I first saw this post but then it turned out to be sold out already. Well, I guess it's time to start checking TRU's website every day hoping they get new stock in, because I for one refuse to pay scalper prices on this. Hopefully everyone does the same thing and the scalpers are forced to sell their stock at retail prices (fat chance, I know).

I'm happy some of you got it, but I paid $76 last week when I found mine. I would like a price adjust. What do u think the chances of that are? Will they honor online pricing u think?

vectorA3 wrote:I'm happy some of you got it, but I paid $76 last week when I found mine. I would like a price adjust. What do u think the chances of that are? Will they honor online pricing u think?

Price adjust would be nice,I'd like that too. But how? The item is no longer online, so there's no proof of lower price.
I'm just happy that I have one, $76 is still better than buying from eBay. Only some ppl are lucky to get it at discounted price, but I bet they were worried a lot before today.

GRRRR...so pissed off! I just called TRU help line and the associate could give me no verification that the figure had been on the website. I told her to talk to a manager and see if a confirmation of the online price could be sent to me so I could take it to local TRU and get the credit on the (2) Thundercracker figures I purchased...she didn't help me . I had to drive a 100 miles to get these bad boys as my local TRU did not have them in stock. I called the store at 1pm central time and they actually held 2 for me until I could get there at 8:30 PM. I shouldn't bitch, but for what I paid in gas plus the cost of the figures I might has well have paid a friggin' scalper on Ebay!!! If anybody is able to get confirmation of the $55.99 price please let me know!! I want my damn $30 bucks off so I can put it towards Prime in December!

Early bird, worm, etc... but seriously, I hope you guys get another shot soon. Although I'm really surprised that they sold out so quickly.

I was able to order one online this AM but soon after was emailed that he's backordered. I'm expecting the order to get cancelled outright.

At least I found one at my local TRU soon after, although he's much more expensive.

I have a bad feeling he's gonna be real limited. First off, TRU knows they can charge $70 for it. Second, it's too early for the Christmas deluge of mass-quantity toys. Finally, he's not a 'major' character like Prime or Grimlock.

Let's hope this isn't a problem with MP Prime.

Ordered mine beofre noon today. Have not been messaged that mine is backordered/canceled......am I on Candid Camera?

Seriously, I swear the Northeastern US is one of if not THE last locality to get the most recent waves. Prime RID Powerizer Starscream and Bulkhead have only just appeared on my local TRU shelves and nowhere else!!!

*sigh* Still I can't complain beyond that. I only just started my MP collection with #10 (Takara version) and the new Seeker mold is well done. Should look nice next to its deluxe counterpart.

And now, when I click on any of those links, it comes up "Item Not Found", like it never even existed. DAMMIT. I always get screwed on these things. You'd think, knowing how popular these items (Masterpieces) are that TRU would either buy more stock to sell, knowing that they'd sell out, or that Hasbro wouldn't limit them to just one store.

When MP Rodimus came out, I had NO luck finding him in stores, but after the initial craze was over, found one on eBay for not much more than I'd have paid in store anyway. I'm hoping that'll be the case next time.

Missed it. No biggie. Hopefully BBTS will get some.

Whoa did that suck a hairy meatball. Imagine the insanity when OP hits...man what a sh*t storm that's gonna be!

Nemesis Destron wrote:Whoa did that suck a hairy meatball. Imagine the insanity when OP hits...man what a sh*t storm that's gonna be!

Yep, I expect you're right, though there will probably be more Prime's. Still, it makes me glad I got the Takara version of Prime. Here's hoping Takara decides to do a few more repaints of MP-11 so that I don't have to deal with domestic retail exclusives and the scalpers that feed on them . In fact, come to think of it, I can't recall any Takara figure that I've ever NOT been able to obtain after release. Plenty of Hasbro releases, but never imports/Takara. I wonder why that is...

Can anyone confirm if this happened when Hasbro MP Grimlock/Hot Rod came out?

If you don't like scalpers complain to Hasbro and ask them to release in larger quantities.

toonbot wrote:Can anyone confirm if this happened when Hasbro MP Grimlock/Hot Rod came out?

If you don't like scalpers complain to Hasbro and ask them to release in larger quantities.

It did when Hot Rod came out, yes, though they did do a subsequent restock which was better as I recall. I'm sure the same will happen with TC, but I'm not holding my breath that he'll have any decent availability. The store exclusives always seem to be short-stocked these days.

Luckily, I got one this morning but unluckily I was so impatient that I bought one on eBay the night before for $119.94...Luckily though I bought said figure from Seibertron on ebay so it should arrive in pristine condition. If anybody want's to buy the premature ebay purchase, it can be had for $119.94.

Well, you know what they say: The early fan gets the toy.

I hope he gets more in stock because for those US fans that need to complete the triplets must have him!

i had to push some old lady outta the way to get to the office and buy one of these bad boys... now i fear ill get cancelled (ordered at 730ish).... i was really hoping id have a MP thundercracker to play with whilst doing my community service for elder abuse... fuuuuudddddggggeeeee

Sooo.... nobody wants this thing then.

I'm fortunate that I had no intention of getting this fella, but I'm sorry that those who did will struggle to find one at a reasonable price.

Sodan-1 wrote:Sooo.... nobody wants this thing then.

I'm fortunate that I had no intention of getting this fella, but I'm sorry that those who did will struggle to find one at a reasonable price.

I'm probably going to wait on Takara to release one that will likely look better (and cost way more of course ). But for me, better Takara gets my money than the scalpers (seriously, screw those guys ).

Talked with a manager at my local TRU and she said they get tons of calls a day about TC and OP with a handful of regulars that form a line the morning at the front of the store on shipment days. She seemed fine with it as they get more business. Like other casual collectors this is frustrating and reminds me of the sneaker-game. Hasbro creates a limited release, demand goes up, and we play to it.

We can start by not paying double on ebay for these items. As bidders we have the most power on setting the price. For limited releases we should direct our frustration at Hasbro in the form of complaint emails/calls. As buyers we can refrain form buying extra items to then sell, save one for your fellow collector (or kid). These are somethings we can do to help out our community.

Toonbot

The listing has reappeared (still out of stock) but at the $69.99 price.

I see that he is back up at the retail price of $69.99, I wonder if they had taken down the link yesterday due to a pricing error and to cover their asses and not sell the item for $55.99, they sent a "item on backorder" email to those that did "purchase" him yesterday at the sale price...wonder if TRU will honor the sale price and not screw those that did manage to complete their transaction

What amuses me is now the "list price" is now $99.99 and they've "discounted" it to $69.99, even though probably the entire collector community knew this would be a $69.99 figure.