Takara Tomy Transformers Masterpiece MP-25 Tracks Sighted at Australian Retail

150 AUD?

Still available on HLJ; and as of writing this, on Spring sale! --

4,875 yens (43 USD / 57 AUD)

http://hlj.com/product/TKT83175/Sci?utm_source=seibertron.com&=&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news%20post

Cyberpath wrote:150 AUD?

Still available on HLJ; and as of writing this, on Spring sale! --

4,875 yens (43 USD / 57 AUD)

http://hlj.com/product/TKT83175/Sci?utm_source=seibertron.com&=&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news%20post

And the price Burn is quoting is simply ATROCIOUS! But given it's Australia, they tax like everything right? A cradle to grave socialist system( where does the funds come from.taxes and more taxes) where the government handles like everything(?). Please feel free to correct me Burn.

Burn wrote:Tax has nothing to do with this price, it's simply TRU's price gouging.

What percentage of the price is tax aside from the prerequisite TRU bloodprice gouging?12%? or higher?

Another thing. Why does TRU even try? Do those items even sell given the price range they are offering?

Burn wrote:$136.36 + 13.64 GST = $150

There MAY be customs fees involved, but I wouldn't have the foggiest idea of what they would be as Hasbro AU brings them into the country and then distributes them to TRU. I'm not even sure where the English instructions are packed, whether it's done in the factory or done once they land in Australia.

Forgot about that. Customs and shipping plus their profit margins. Means that there really is a limited market for these type of collectibles.

MGrotusque wrote:Canadian retail NEVER has these MP figures in brick and mortar stores. Regardless of how much they cost i'm always shocked when i see pics of these items on a TRU shelf. I always have to go to specialty shops and pay a premium for higher end TF's or online and get annihilated by exchange on top of outrageous shipping costs.

What's the AU dollar going for right now? THe Canadian dollar is about .25 less than the American.

Here:

http://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/

I use this when buying from ebay,amiami etc

And they wonder why retail stores are suffering. I live in Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, & I've STRUGGLED to even FIND certain waves at retail.

I regularly visit TRU just to browse & clear my head, but it makes less & less sense to actually buy from there. When I did succumb to an impulse buy last year, it turned out that I had foolishly bought approximately 3/4 a Superion & 1/3 of a Menasor.

I checked back relentlessly for MONTHS at several TRU stores just so that I could COMPLETE the damn gestalt figures, but after actually speaking with TRU management, I finally discovered that Combiner Wars Wave 2 was being completely bypassed! Apparently they had no intention of EVER stocking that wave, so in the end I had no other option but to buy online to complete the sets!

When I next checked TRU, just the other day in fact, there were still one or two token Wave 1 shelfwarmers remaining behind the new stock, which was essentially half a Bruticus & a pile of Hotspots (no other Protectobots; ready to screw over the next poor sap to buy an incomplete set).

Masterpiece editions I NEVER even CONSIDER buying from bricks-and-mortar stores. Ultra Magnus is still on sale here for $299 AUD, with (unsurprisingly) plenty in stock many months after release. Now they're saying Tracks is here & I should what, celebrate? I purchased Tracks online months ago for about $60 AUD with free postage; it arrived from Asia within 4 days of placing the order.

With all that in mind, what possible incentive is there for me or anyone to buy off the shelf? Aside from charging almost triple the price, I have to consider the prospect that NOT buying online as soon possible after a figure is released may result in me missing out on that figure entirely.

By the time TRU informs customers as to whether or not they will even bother to stock an item, that item may already be sold out online & thus impossible to obtain - this is exactly how I missed MP-10 Optimus Prime, even after the bastards at TRU ASSURED me they'd be receiving stock (thankfully, HAS/TAK did another production run, so I could dry my tears &... STILL not see it available at retail). Again, if I hadn't bought MP-10 online, I'd have missed him a second time.

Anyway, in conclusion to this arbitrarily (unintentionally) long, whining, tantrum/essay, TRU management should stop circle jerking around their $100-bill-used-as-kindling campfires & give me what I want. If they want to have sadistic exclusivity when it comes to Transformers, at least give the customer OPTIONS. And reasonable prices. And a sandwich. A beer wouldn't be bad either.

I got mine off ebay in Australia for $99.00.

https://twitter.com/gadepon/status/7339 ... 24/photo/1

Loudpedal (Tracks Destron (?) variant) MP25L

Seems to be based on the masked prototype article I posted a few months back based on Maz's blog

Via a number of Seibertronian notifications, including by Cyberpath, fenrir72 and Sabrblade, we have a small image posted by Twitter user gadepon, regarding a black repaint (and possibly a retooled head?) of the Takara Tomy Transformers Masterpiece MP-25 Tracks mold - into an homage to the Diaclone black Corvette Stingray from Finland, with the blue toy face: MP-25L Loud Pedal! Check it out below. And be warned, this is a Tokyo Toy Show exclusive!



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