Thanos wrote:Bradimus wrote:william-james88 wrote:Bradimus wrote:william-james88 wrote:Bradimus wrote:I wish Hasbro would release the Takara heads for the 8 original headmasters as an exclusive on HTS. Everybody wins! Make it so, !
No, only Americans win. Everyone else would lose really bad since HTS charges a ton to ship internationally and since they would be exclusive HTS, everyone outside the states would be stuck importing.
Name an international company to add as the other exclusive. I would not want TRU because they overcharge for everything.
Once again Bradimus, you are using your geographic bias to make a general statement which ends up being false depending on where you are referring to. TRU is the cheapest place for TFs in Canada, with Walmart actually charging more sometimes (for voyagers for instance).
I just wrote an article about how much TFs cost at TRU today and here is my bill for 4 generations deluxes:
Thats not a discount, thats the actual price right now.
So yeah, TRU would be awesome. They can be exclusive with HTS in the states and exclusive at TRU elsewhere, that would be cool.
That would be fine with me. Unfortunately for us in the States TRU runs a very different business model. It's like they don't actually want us to purchase toys from them. It's gotten so bad the TRU near me recently closed, and that's been around longer than I have.
I've been saying for years Hasbro should run HTS like Lego runs Lego Shop (but don't stop the discounts, something Lego gets wrong). Lego wants to get its toys in every home in the world, not just in one nation. And if TRU US wasn't so greedy I would have suggested it from the outset, so you're just as guilty of geographical bias as I am since I cannot consider TRU as a viable option and you cannot consider HTS.
I will second this statement. I haven't purchased a Transformer (or practically anything else barring something on an extremely deep discount) from TRU in many years. Their prices are not competitive in any capacity.
Except during Christmas season. Through November and December, TRU drops prices to comparable rates with other stores. Other than that, yeah, TRU is the suck.