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chuckdawg1999 wrote:Wait, they're re-releasing the old Dragon shiv?

Oh no, they've already released that and have moved onto a $100.00 Saba... No, I'm talking Samurai and Super Megaforce in new packaging. Makes my head hurt.

Autobot032 wrote:

jamesbenjamin wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:Good news! Masterpiece Starscream is currently IN stock at TRU.com and preorders, such as my own, are being processed right now as I'm posting this! More good news? He's available for pick up in store, which means the street date has ended!

You better hurry, there's a limit of 5 on these, which means they'll be bought up in bunches and quick, so go go go!

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How is it "in stock on TRU.com" if your screenshot shows it isnt? It says it's available for in store pickup, but if your local store is out they're still out of stock.

My pre-order is processing as well, but this news post will be getting people's hopes up for no reason, since it is not (and never was) in stock.

EDIT: It's been fixed. Oh and It Is Him, when *I* make a mistake, don't blame the newsteam. Blame the person responsible, don't lump everyone together. I don't like it when blanket statements are made, especially when they're critical and incorrect.

I think you misunderstood me. I wasn't even looking at who posted it, nor do I really care. I'm just glad it was fixed. I used to be a professional journalist, I get that mistakes happen. Thanks for updating your post though.

Autobot032 wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Wait, they're re-releasing the old Dragon shiv?

Oh no, they've already released that and have moved onto a $100.00 Saba... No, I'm talking Samurai and Super Megaforce in new packaging. Makes my head hurt.

Actually I meant the Dino dagger. The thing that went from "sword" to blaster. I know they did the dragon dagger. Thanks for the info!

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Wait, they're re-releasing the old Dragon shiv?

Oh no, they've already released that and have moved onto a $100.00 Saba... No, I'm talking Samurai and Super Megaforce in new packaging. Makes my head hurt.

Actually I meant the Dino dagger. The thing that went from "sword" to blaster. I know they did the dragon dagger. Thanks for the info!

The Blade Blaster ("Dino Dagger" made me think of DinoZaurs. Ah, memories).

Oh! The blade blaster.... It's coming, actually.

But we should get back on track about Starscream and TRU, sorry guys. We (including me) deviated back there.

My local toysrus is finally doing good stocking masterpieces
I found like 4 mp -3 grimlock at one time.
About 6 prowls
And as of right now, They have about a dozen bluestreaks.

So I'm pretty confident that I will be able to find a starscream again. As my friend told me they had two. Which he bought one and I got the other,(though had return it because of a defect)

Are people still finding them difficult to find? My toysrus even has devastator, although at the price of $180

Thank goodness for price matching. SS is 69.99 out of the gate in the NYC area. Dev and YOTG Soundwave are about 200.

It's pretty ridiculous you have to price match a TRU price to a TRU price.

I must be really on edge, every time I get a notification of this thread I hope it's the TAV Voyager Grimlock and the frenzy and rumble reissue up at amiami.

william-james88 wrote:I must be really on edge, every time I get a notification of this thread I hope it's the TAV Voyager Grimlock and the frenzy and rumble reissue up at amiami.

me too buddy. Me too. Or TAV Jazz Vs. Drift.
Will, I didn't know you were after F&R. I'm pining for those guys too.

After being told it was processing, then being told it was delayed and probably going to be canceled, I'm happy to report I just got a email letting me know that masterpiece Starscream has shipped. I is happy nerd. Especially because I already sold my MP 11

If a TRU exclusive isn't online then it may as well not exist for me. There are only two stores in my state, each about 70 miles from me in different directions and a around 140 miles apart so the good exclusives tend to get cleaned out quickly (and both are out of stock on Starscream). I get what people are saying about the downsides of other stores getting them, but why not make these a shared exclusive like many other Transformers exclusives? Why can I get the "Year of the..." figures from TRU, Amazon, BBTS, and HTS with ease, but Hasbro Masterpiece is something I'll never see outside of scalpers? Seems backwards to me considering how well one sells and how poorly the other one does.

Autobot032 wrote:(People were under the impression that he was handpainted and that's what the extra cost was on top of the die-cast metal, but it wasn't. They're tampographs applied by machine.)

Depends on how you define "hand painted". Obviously they aren't being brushed on, but tampographs aren't automated. They're made through a series of stamps and someone has to line them up by hand and hit the button for the machine to stamp the piece.

william-james88 wrote:I must be really on edge, every time I get a notification of this thread I hope it's the TAV Voyager Grimlock and the frenzy and rumble reissue up at amiami.

Won't be until at earliest Wednesday night/Thursday morning. Japan is celebrating "Silver Week" so all of the online stores are currently closed and wont be open again until the 24th.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:If a TRU exclusive isn't online then it may as well not exist for me. There are only two stores in my state, each about 70 miles from me in different directions and a around 140 miles apart so the good exclusives tend to get cleaned out quickly (and both are out of stock on Starscream). I get what people are saying about the downsides of other stores getting them, but why not make these a shared exclusive like many other Transformers exclusives? Why can I get the "Year of the..." figures from TRU, Amazon, BBTS, and HTS with ease, but Hasbro Masterpiece is something I'll never see outside of scalpers? Seems backwards to me considering how well one sells and how poorly the other one does.

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Won't be until at earliest Wednesday night/Thursday morning. Japan is celebrating "Silver Week" so all of the online stores are currently closed and wont be open again until the 24th.

Emerje

For the part of a shared exclusive, that sounds great! Like the way Platinum preadaking was sold, of the YOTH stuff. Sounds good to me

And as for Silver week, thats good to know. I know the big China mid autumn festival is also this week, are these events similar to oneanother?

Casually waking around my local store, where MP Starscream is listed as "out of stock", and I ran across him, just lying around.

Mine has shipped according to TRU, but the tracking hasn't updated, so all it says is that it's waiting to be picked up. So...yeah, not sure what to think at the moment.

RSC wrote:Casually waking around my local store, where MP Starscream is listed as "out of stock", and I ran across him, just lying around.

Lazy Starscream.
You got time to lean, you got time to clean.



Did you get him?

Cobotron wrote:

RSC wrote:Casually waking around my local store, where MP Starscream is listed as "out of stock", and I ran across him, just lying around.

Lazy Starscream.
You got time to lean, you got time to clean.



Did you get him?

Cobotron wrote:

RSC wrote:Casually waking around my local store, where MP Starscream is listed as "out of stock", and I ran across him, just lying around.

Lazy Starscream.
You got time to lean, you got time to clean.



Did you get him?

Grabbed him in a heartbeat. He was away from the rest of the TFs.
My first Starscream too. His joints are really tight. You can grab him by the torso and his legs don't slide down like Thundercracker and Acid!

william-james88 wrote:And as for Silver week, thats good to know. I know the big China mid autumn festival is also this week, are these events similar to oneanother?

Kinda. Silver week celebrates Respect for the Aged day on Monday and the Autumnal Equinox on Wednesday. By law the day in between is a freebie national holiday so many businesses, particularly online ones, are closed for the three days.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

william-james88 wrote:And as for Silver week, thats good to know. I know the big China mid autumn festival is also this week, are these events similar to oneanother?

Kinda. Silver week celebrates Respect for the Aged day on Monday and the Autumnal Equinox on Wednesday. By law the day in between is a freebie national holiday so many businesses, particularly online ones, are closed for the three days.

Emerje

I find it really cool how diverse regions of the world have very similar holidays, celebrating the same thing more or less. In canada, we have thanksgiving, which i sjust a few weeks off from midautumn day festival and the autumnal equinox. Then the US has thanksgiving a month later.

Sorry for derailing.

Emerje wrote:

william-james88 wrote:And as for Silver week, thats good to know. I know the big China mid autumn festival is also this week, are these events similar to oneanother?

Kinda. Silver week celebrates Respect for the Aged day on Monday and the Autumnal Equinox on Wednesday. By law the day in between is a freebie national holiday so many businesses, particularly online ones, are closed for the three days.

Emerje

Ah, so pressing ship on my HLJ Private Warehouse on the US East Coast's Friday afternoon was a poor decision I figured there was something like that going on, they're usually very fast at getting stuff sent out.

October TF Adventure releases up for PO on HLJ: http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljlist?qid= ... eDate+desc

Includes Battle Grimlock, Black Shadow, and Rumble/Frenzy.

ScottyP wrote:October TF Adventure releases up for PO on HLJ: http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljlist?qid= ... eDate+desc

Includes Battle Grimlock, Black Shadow, and Rumble/Frenzy.

Woah, I thought Randy said they were off today. This tells me I must check amiami every day this week. Definitely getting that Battle Grimlock and Rumble/Frenzy.

william-james88 wrote:

ScottyP wrote:October TF Adventure releases up for PO on HLJ: http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljlist?qid= ... eDate+desc

Includes Battle Grimlock, Black Shadow, and Rumble/Frenzy.

Woah, I thought Randy said they were off today. This tells me I must check amiami every day this week. Definitely getting that Battle Grimlock and Rumble/Frenzy.

They were off today, it's just that it's already 1:40 AM on Thursday the 24th over there. Possibly they had these set to automatically go up at midnight their time, or they work super early.

TAV Battle Grimlock, Rumble & Frenzy, Black shadow, and TED Drift and Fracture pre-orders are up on AmiAmi!!!

http://slist.amiami.com/top/search/list?inctxt2=7&s_cate3=986&s_originaltitle_id=13170&pagemax=40

GO GO GO!