Hasbro Toys"R"Us Exclusive Masterpiece Optimus Prime Available for Pre-Order

Haha they have his back legs mistransformed in vehicle mode in ALL the pics, looks like some panels by the front wheels were missed too.

But my question is, what did they do to the headlights?? Looks like they blacked-out half of them. Or is that mistransformed too?

YES I HAVE HAD A $100 BiLL SAVED SINCED JUNE FROM MY BIRTHDAY I JUST PRE-ORDERED THIS BAD BOY!!!

This is what I'm talking about! Hasbro and their affiliates are doing good with this and the HTS store offering pre-orders for the Ultimate Set. Ordered me a Prime.

Preorder in! And the free shipping is really pretty awesome.

There went they money I had saved for Soundwave. Lol. But since he's not due out for a few more months I could care less. I should have the money again by the time he's due.

Thanks for the heads up ! I had some paypal $ saved so i couldnt resist preordering.Really starting to get into TF's again after finding MP Thundercracker recently .

Pre order in! Cmon October 15th lol.

I didnt get free shipping though, got hit for $8.03 on that...Oh well....MP Prime is finally dialed in! Hot damn! Hes gonna look great next to Hot Rod/Rodimus shaking his hand.

Triptykon wrote:Pre order in! Cmon October 15th lol.

I didnt get free shipping though, got hit for $8.03 on that...Oh well....MP Prime is finally dialed in! Hot damn! Hes gonna look great next to Hot Rod/Rodimus shaking his hand.

Thats odd its supposed to be free shipping for all orders over $49.99,unless you checked expedited shipping accidently.I'm psyched to get this Prime too,so much cheaper than the Takara one.

According to thier website you don't get charged until it ships.

ADAPPJ28 wrote:

Triptykon wrote:Pre order in! Cmon October 15th lol.

I didnt get free shipping though, got hit for $8.03 on that...Oh well....MP Prime is finally dialed in! Hot damn! Hes gonna look great next to Hot Rod/Rodimus shaking his hand.

Thats odd its supposed to be free shipping for all orders over $49.99,unless you checked expedited shipping accidently.I'm psyched to get this Prime too,so much cheaper than the Takara one.

you didnt get charged for shipping my recipet was same way shipping wasnt included but sales tax is included it be 116. if shipping was included with your order

Got my pre-order in, yay!!! Feel bad for people who couldn't wait it out and instead bought the HK release for up to 3x as much.

whats up with those headlights?

Good transformers hunting weekend, pre ordered Masterpiece Prime, and found dreadwing, some vehicons, and a cyberverse sky quake at my local Walmart.

Got one on order now.
Thanks!

I have all but given up on finding masterpiece Thundercracker in my local store. I'm glad to see that TRU has given the option of a preorder this time.

evers wrote:Good transformers hunting weekend, pre ordered Masterpiece Prime, and found dreadwing, some vehicons, and a cyberverse sky quake at my local Walmart.

Wow, Dreadwing and the Vehicons (PLURAL!) seriously make me jealous. I'd be happy to find one of either. Good on ya.

Also, yay TRU.com for the preorder. Got the MP TC deal when it first posted, and had a $100 TRU gift card = two MP figures for $65.

Nice! Finally someone pulls their head out of their ass and makes these exclusives a pre-order!

Also, your getting charged sales tax not shipping.

Once again, we get crappy stock photos.

WHY CAN'T I FIND IT!?!?!?!?!?

I searched by the item number and name with no luck. PLEASE HELP!!!

St. Even wrote:WHY CAN'T I FIND IT!?!?!?!?!?

I searched by the item number and name with no luck. PLEASE HELP!!!

It seems the listing has been pulled down

LOST Cybertronian wrote:

St. Even wrote:WHY CAN'T I FIND IT!?!?!?!?!?

I searched by the item number and name with no luck. PLEASE HELP!!!

It seems the listing has been pulled down

If Hasbro did not produce enough I am going to take a dump in a box and mail it to them. IF the lot sold out in five hours it is absurd to make fans resort to buying from "resellers" at twice the price. Figure your crap out, Hasbro.

Gah! Preorder down already.

I'm sad I didn't see this post earlier

This happened with Thundercracker too - why the heck would ToysRUs take down the page entirely? The "out of stock temporarily, more available soon" tag seems the MUCH better way to go.

Also, as someone who shilled out the dough for Takara's MP-10, I'm not at all sad about my purchase. I prefer the darker colors, and it appears the resale value (should I decide to sell) is strong.

My approach to the dual releases is: open the Takara versions, keep Hasbro versions in box, due to the nice window display.

St. Even wrote:

LOST Cybertronian wrote:

St. Even wrote:WHY CAN'T I FIND IT!?!?!?!?!?

I searched by the item number and name with no luck. PLEASE HELP!!!

It seems the listing has been pulled down

If Hasbro did not produce enough I am going to take a dump in a box and mail it to them. IF the lot sold out in five hours it is absurd to make fans resort to buying from "resellers" at twice the price. Figure your crap out, Hasbro.

I doubt it's that. Usually when companies set up a preorder they have a designated number of figures they allow to be in that category. The rest don't hit until they come out in stores.

It could also be that they got inundated with preorders and something happened on their site.

Got my pre-order in before they pull the listing! I'm hoping that I don't get the dreaded cancellation email...

Erailea wrote:

St. Even wrote:

LOST Cybertronian wrote:

St. Even wrote:WHY CAN'T I FIND IT!?!?!?!?!?

I searched by the item number and name with no luck. PLEASE HELP!!!

It seems the listing has been pulled down

If Hasbro did not produce enough I am going to take a dump in a box and mail it to them. IF the lot sold out in five hours it is absurd to make fans resort to buying from "resellers" at twice the price. Figure your crap out, Hasbro.

I doubt it's that. Usually when companies set up a preorder they have a designated number of figures they allow to be in that category. The rest don't hit until they come out in stores.

It could also be that they got inundated with preorders and something happened on their site.

But they never show up in the store. The employees buy them and then go to Ebay. I never got my hands on MP Grimlock because the local Toys "R" Us never had a figure hit the shelves. That is absurd.

roBROmanceFTW wrote:Got my pre-order in, yay!!! Feel bad for people who couldn't wait it out and instead bought the HK release for up to 3x as much.

Don't be. We got this great figure for about a year ahead and I do prefer the darker "Toy Accurate" Blue as opposed to the lighter "Cartoon" blue. I find it kinda amusing that their was some spite and claims that is won't live up to MP-1 a year ago due it being another Optimus and cost. Well I guess that is what $99 price tag will do lol

It seems like I was the among the last ones to had a chance to preorder this. Planing on Keeping it in box next to my Takara Convoy display. For those that got the chance to find this figure, you're in for a treat! This is coming from someone that isn't much of a Optimus fan.

Link comes back with zero results. Searching through all the transformers yields no Masterpiece Prime.

Perhaps they already took down preorders.

Phew, hopefully they don't cancel orders, I got my confirmation email do I'm happy.

St. Even wrote:
But they never show up in the store. The employees buy them and then go to Ebay. I never got my hands on MP Grimlock because the local Toys "R" Us never had a figure hit the shelves. That is absurd.

One of the problems with the internet, it makes scalping far too easy. But I must admit MP Grimlock hung around my local, suburbia, TRU for months.

I wish you luck finding MP Optimus. Hopefully TRU will up their pre-order estimates and reopen it... or at the very least have enough stock to last more than a few hours upon release.

Always blows my mind when these big companies sell out of an item rapidly and they don't do anything to alleviate the problem next time around - like having enough stock to keep the item online for a day, rather than 3 or 4 hours :/

Link comes back with zero results. Searching through all the transformers yields no Masterpiece Prime.

Perhaps they already took down preorders.

AHHHH! I work nights and totally slept through this. Noooo!

And wouldn't you know a scalper has jumed right on Ebay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Masterpiece-Optimus-Prime-Tru-Pre-Order-/160888839824?pt=US_Action_Figures&hash=item2575b8de90&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5336631220&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1

It would be my guess that the smart scalper would hold out until it's closer to Christmas.
Glad my $108 is a pending transaction on Paypal!

Well I missed out on this guy. I'm sure they are just going to be letting him out in slow drops kind of like they did with ThunderCracker. It took me A few weeks of dropping by the TRU website before I was able to lock in ThunderCracker this Friday.

Erailea wrote:Always blows my mind when these big companies sell out of an item rapidly and they don't do anything to alleviate the problem next time around - like having enough stock to keep the item online for a day, rather than 3 or 4 hours :/

The only reason I can assume companies do this, is that they don't want to make as much money as they could have if they had more to sell.

I get small companies, like the 3rd parties like Fansproject, or Perfect Effect (wait, am I allowed to say that in here?) only making a very limited amount of their products, because they maybe can't afford to keep doing new runs of them. Hasbro isn't exactly a small toy company, and TRU isn't really some little independent retailer. Pretty sure if someone in an office somewhere pressed a few keys on his computer, they could get more.

COME ON...... This is what I get for spending the weekend out in the country, away from technology.

I will never be able to order it throught the normal means. TrU will never sell an english only toy to Québec. Even online! They could add a "Danger d'étouffement. Pour enfants de 3 ans et plus seulement." sticker on the box to fix that legal problem. But nooooooo, it's too hard.

I dont want to pay scalper prices on Ebay. Again.

So, anyone willing to middleman one for me?
You'll be a real bro. I would pay the total price plus shipping, of course.

I could also give a lot in trade.

Please PM me!

Sonofamotherpieceof....

Dammit. Happens to me every time. Speeder Bike? Nope. Thundercracker? Nope. Optimus Prime? Of course, nope.

At first glance it's a must have. After further analysis I find his Legs are short as well as his trailer, never mind the waist NEVER spun around in G1 and the covers on the wheels throw it off the road for me.

kaxblastard wrote:At first glance it's a must have. After further analysis I find his Legs are short as well as his trailer, never mind the waist NEVER spun around in G1 and the covers on the wheels throw it off the road for me.

The legs were mistransformed in the pics on the TRU site.

This is MP-10 but it gives you a better idea of how it's suppose to look like.

A fella takes one day off to watch some football...

ah well.

Son of a monkey bisquit! Hopefully this is like TC and he shows up a few more times, this is the one I'm REALLY looking forward to. C'mon TRU, I've been lucky at the last minute with others, gimmie one more piece of luck

This is a sweet deal, but I passed on pre-ordering him. I have MP-01, and MP-04, so I am not pressed for this. If I run across him at retail at one of my local TRU's, I just might have to add this to my MP Optimus's.

Whoever got him, congrats. I placed an order for him this morning and got an email not to long ago saying my order had been canceled due to my credit/debit card not being authorized for use. Yet my card is perfectly legit and works just fine.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Transformers-Ma?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5336631220&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1 ... 2322df9524
This is not mine,but what a slap in the face,they even stole the pic from this sight.

I think i will let this one pass, im waiting for the voyager foc grimlock, or the retail combaticons because i already have the MP 10 convoy, so i really dont need it. (waiting face)

User897 wrote:Sonofamotherpieceof....

Dammit. Happens to me every time. Speeder Bike? Nope. Thundercracker? Nope. Optimus Prime? Of course, nope.

Don't worry man, your time will come.

Bruticus1983 wrote:I think i will let this one pass, im waiting for the voyager foc grimlock, or the retail combaticons because i already have the MP 10 convoy, so i really dont need it. (waiting face)

My mistake, MP-01 convoy.

The ONE Hasblo item I was going to buy this year... if I can't get this at retail, screw 'em.

craggy wrote:

Erailea wrote:Always blows my mind when these big companies sell out of an item rapidly and they don't do anything to alleviate the problem next time around - like having enough stock to keep the item online for a day, rather than 3 or 4 hours :/

The only reason I can assume companies do this, is that they don't want to make as much money as they could have if they had more to sell.

I get small companies, like the 3rd parties like Fansproject, or Perfect Effect (wait, am I allowed to say that in here?) only making a very limited amount of their products, because they maybe can't afford to keep doing new runs of them. Hasbro isn't exactly a small toy company, and TRU isn't really some little independent retailer. Pretty sure if someone in an office somewhere pressed a few keys on his computer, they could get more.

Your talking about two differnt things. You're talking about supply on one hand and demand on the other. In reality, it boils down to three things:

TRU is in the business of selling toys, not storing them. Now, we can all agree that they aren't doing a swell job maybe of spreading stock around in the right places, but having Prime sold out is much more interesting to them than taking a gamble on ordering a thousand more and then selling only anothr three hundred off the bat. The other 700 Primes end up becoming not what we think of the term, but for TRU its a shelf warmer and wasted money. And Hasbro's in the same boat. Primes unwanted by TRU do them no good.

On Hasbro's end, there's probably some balance of cost per unit. Now, usually on our end, that goes down with bulk runs. But with complex figures liek Prime, I don't know for sure, that may not always be true. If the facotry gives Hasbro a quote for X figures and a quote for Y figures that's higher, and hasbro only has one retailer buying, they're going to pay for X and say "Sorry bout'cha."

Yeah, its about profit. And it is actually possible to make a bigger orofit off of fewer figures without choking demand.

The other thing on Hasbro's plate is that manufactuiring Prime takes up a lot of casting machines and assembly time. The longer they spend making a figure for one retailer, the less resources they have to make another figure, or figures if not as complex, for multiple retailers. Like the bajillion Bumblebees for example.

1 Prime for TRU, or One Bumblebee, one Wheeljack, for Walmart, TRU, target, Meijer, etc.

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I dunno. I guess this was the decider for me. I was on the fence. Its a nice figure, but it doesn't really go with the Alternator collection like the first MP1 did. And I have him. Not really the modern asthetic, but he might belnd into the Classics shelf well. We'll see if he comes back up. If so, maybe...

Them Babies are back on! check it out!!

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.js ... d=15546036

just put mine on order! Thundercracker Friday and now OP w/ trailer. Man I'm broke but I'm happpy. Hope i survive the wife killing me!

just got me order in
pretty psyched for this to come out

can we still buy in store?