Listing and Stock Images for Platinum Year of the Monkey Optimus Primal at Toysrus.ca

william-james88 wrote:While Year of the Monkey Optimus Primal has been available for preorder at Asian retailers and US importer sites, we finally have a listing from the actual exclusive retailer in the west: Toysrus.

Fellow Seibertronian Shajaki has found this listing on Toysrus.ca and this Platinum edition seems quite scalper proof. Not only is there a limit of 2 per person, but it is also $199.99 Canadian ($140 US).

If anyone is curious as to how this redeco of Air Attack Optimus Primal looks like, we have already seen some in hand images here. The listing also offered us some new stock images.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

shajaki wrote:I can't believe how expensive this thing is... not sure I'll get one unless its locally.

Do you own the mold at all? I do (passed up rid Scourge for that piece of junk ) I don't really wanna crush your dreams, but first find out if the electronics have been gutted - I honestly don't remember - but even if they aren't, I can't really recommend it at that price, unless you really want it

Kup98ss wrote:These overpriced exclusives are ridiculous. They will sit for a year then be clearanced off. Once again Great marketing decision Hasbro/TRY.
MP PROWL. Way overpriced $70
MP BLUESTREAK overpriced $60
MP STARSCREAM don't get enough
CYBERTRON STARSCREAM (reissue)$100 WTF?
ORANGE MP SOUNDWAVE $200 and ugly

And so on. Sad.

shajaki wrote:To be fair, I feel the Hasbro MP11's are more than reasonable. And the cars so far are priced pretty much the same as Takara's being sold by importers like BBTS. I feel the prices of exclusives have the right to be inflated, but I can't support the recent prices of these things. Even if I'm one of the few that actually like them.

william-james88 wrote:

shajaki wrote:To be fair, I feel the Hasbro MP11's are more than reasonable. And the cars so far are priced pretty much the same as Takara's being sold by importers like BBTS. I feel the prices of exclusives have the right to be inflated, but I can't support the recent prices of these things. Even if I'm one of the few that actually like them.

About the similarity to the BBTS prices, I raised that argument several times in the MP bumblebee thread and I think the main backlash is that since these are no longer imports, why would they be priced as such .

griftimus prime wrote:only 200 dollars? what a steal

Stuartmaximus wrote:I'm curious to see how they use this design in the future.

Sigmus Prime wrote:Wait... how much?!

william-james88 wrote:

Sigmus Prime wrote:Wait... how much?!

200$ in Canada. Which translates to 140$ in the states.

I have no clue why this would be more expensive than the already very expensive YOTH Starscream since they are the same class size.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Hasbro on Platinum prices:

william-james88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Hasbro on Platinum prices:

Just the Year of the " " stuff, the rest is ok.

Check this out for instance: http://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/transformer ... 0191047238

Tyberion wrote:I'm all for celebrating the Beast Wars anniversary, but if this thing is $140 in the US then I shudder to imagine what it will cost here. Pass.

Tyberion wrote:Whoa, that figure is way bigger than I was expecting. Well that goes a little way to explaining the price I guess.

I think I may celebrate the Anniversary by trying to hunt down a Transmetal Optimus Primal. I never had one as a kid and it's kind of the Beast Wars Holy Grail for me.

-Kanrabat- wrote:I have one and I can sell it cheap for you if you want.
Just PM me!

Tyberion wrote:I'm all for celebrating the Beast Wars anniversary, but if this thing is $140 in the US then I shudder to imagine what it will cost here. Pass.

Tyberion wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:I have one and I can sell it cheap for you if you want.
Just PM me!

Oh, I am hunting brand new, unopened prey. After so much time opening that box will be a akin to a religious experience

Stuartmaximus wrote:"i'm a truck, not a poop slinging monkey!"

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Tyberion wrote:Whoa, that figure is way bigger than I was expecting. Well that goes a little way to explaining the price I guess.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Woah... Good luck. Because these Ebay prices...

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Tyberion wrote:Whoa, that figure is way bigger than I was expecting. Well that goes a little way to explaining the price I guess.

Hardly, considering the original was ~$30 US

Tyberion wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Woah... Good luck. Because these Ebay prices...

I can buy Transmetal Primal and get him shipped to my door cheaper than I could get Year of the Monkey Primal without shipping, it's not that bad (phew! ).

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Tyberion wrote:Whoa, that figure is way bigger than I was expecting. Well that goes a little way to explaining the price I guess.

Hardly, considering the original was ~$30 US

Man I was just shocked at the size. When I saw the pics of it, just by itself with no sense of it's true scale it just looked like a crappy little Beast Machines Primal (Also those colors are not doing him any favors). I had no idea it was huge and had electronics.

Tyberion wrote:Man I was just shocked at the size. When I saw the pics of it, just by itself with no sense of it's true scale it just looked like a crappy little Beast Machines Primal (Also those colors are not doing him any favors). I had no idea it was huge and had electronics.

shajaki wrote:This talk just hammers home how friggin weird the scale was on the Beast Machines toys. It's almost like they were trying to go for some unforseen giant scale with Supreme Cheetor/Primal, Ultra Nightscream, and Mega Rattrap. But then dropped the ball on, well, all the rest. The most accurate looking Thrust and Tankor's were basic's for crying out loud. That entire line needs a do-over. And I would pay all the monies for said do-over.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

shajaki wrote:This talk just hammers home how friggin weird the scale was on the Beast Machines toys. It's almost like they were trying to go for some unforseen giant scale with Supreme Cheetor/Primal, Ultra Nightscream, and Mega Rattrap. But then dropped the ball on, well, all the rest. The most accurate looking Thrust and Tankor's were basic's for crying out loud. That entire line needs a do-over. And I would pay all the monies for said do-over.

Indeed, BMach Redux would be awesome, scale up the tank and cycle drones to deluxe and get a more efficient design for the jet design, and they'd be off and running

And maybe downscale this guy to voyager, or something, OH! and lose the dumb punching gimmick, and the light-up head, and give him a new head for Primus' sake, it's super creepy with it's hollow eyes and perpetual surprised-derp-face it's got going with it's mouth; if they did that, it would be sublimely perfect

shajaki wrote:I was pretty content with the Voyager (Mega back then?) Primal. But I can't tell you how much I want a screen accurate Jetstorm. I loved the character and model to bits. He was the first TF I remember seeing that I said "damn... now THAT is an alien design". Which makes way the hell more sense than them sharing our humanoid forms.

william-james88 wrote:

shajaki wrote:I was pretty content with the Voyager (Mega back then?) Primal. But I can't tell you how much I want a screen accurate Jetstorm. I loved the character and model to bits. He was the first TF I remember seeing that I said "damn... now THAT is an alien design". Which makes way the hell more sense than them sharing our humanoid forms.

Totally agree although I was super happy with the Supersonic Jet toy we got which had the more jetstorm accurate colours. He also had this cool option of having his feet in hover mode like the show.

Cobotron wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

shajaki wrote:I was pretty content with the Voyager (Mega back then?) Primal. But I can't tell you how much I want a screen accurate Jetstorm. I loved the character and model to bits. He was the first TF I remember seeing that I said "damn... now THAT is an alien design". Which makes way the hell more sense than them sharing our humanoid forms.

Totally agree although I was super happy with the Supersonic Jet toy we got which had the more jetstorm accurate colours. He also had this cool option of having his feet in hover mode like the show.

I was content with the ugly first release Deluxe Primal with his energon throwing star, that looked nothing like the show character. But I'm the only one on the planet!

Sabrblade wrote:

Cobotron wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

shajaki wrote:I was pretty content with the Voyager (Mega back then?) Primal. But I can't tell you how much I want a screen accurate Jetstorm. I loved the character and model to bits. He was the first TF I remember seeing that I said "damn... now THAT is an alien design". Which makes way the hell more sense than them sharing our humanoid forms.

Totally agree although I was super happy with the Supersonic Jet toy we got which had the more jetstorm accurate colours. He also had this cool option of having his feet in hover mode like the show.

I was content with the ugly first release Deluxe Primal with his energon throwing star, that looked nothing like the show character. But I'm the only one on the planet!

You are not. For years, that was my only BM Primal toy. I only just got the Mega class Blast Punch figure at last year's BotCon.

shajaki wrote: And I actually quite liked the gorilla mode on the Deluxe Primal. That angry face was aaannnggrraaaayyyyyy.

shajaki wrote:He looks like he can count to potato

william-james88 wrote:

shajaki wrote:He looks like he can count to potato

william-james88 wrote:

shajaki wrote: And I actually quite liked the gorilla mode on the Deluxe Primal. That angry face was aaannnggrraaaayyyyyy.

Did you ever get the chinese one which was more catoon accuate than any other toy?

Amelie wrote:At $150 he's competing with MP-10 or even (more importantly) MP Primal.

In fact, I could buy MP Primal and still have room left for Hot Rod.

Crazy, crazy prices.

shajaki wrote:

Amelie wrote:At $150 he's competing with MP-10 or even (more importantly) MP Primal.

In fact, I could buy MP Primal and still have room left for Hot Rod.

Crazy, crazy prices.

For the price of YOTM Primal, I could buy a full set of CW Combaticons, and then still go out for a nice dinner.

I saw him at TRU today. Nice lookin box. I'll admit, if it were say 150 (as opposed to its 200 CAD price tag) I'd have considered it.