Possible Takara Tomy Legends LG10 Arcee, LG11 Chromia and LG12 Windblade shortage

mooncake623 wrote:Looks like there might be a possible Takara Tomy Transformers Legends LG10 Arcee shortage! According to Site sponsor HobbyLink Japan they have learned that the manufacturer has only produced a very limited number of LG10 Legends Arcee, LG11 Chromia and LG12 Windblade . Check out the below e-mail that I've just received from HLJ.

Hello-

This is Mark Kutsugi at HobbyLink Japan. Thank you for your order with us for TKT81295 LG10 Arcee.

Unfortunately, we have learned that the manufacturer has only produced a very limited number of this item. Although we placed a large order for this item with our distributors, we will receive a very small number of pieces on or about February 15, and have exhausted our attempts to find any additional sources.

As always, when this item comes out we will fill orders in the order that they were placed. Unfortunately, given the extremely small number of pieces that we will receive, we have determined that there is no chance that we can fill your entire order, so we've had to reduce quantities to a limit of one TKT81295 per customer, regardless of how many were ordered.

We're as disappointed by this news as you are, as we were looking forward to selling many pieces of this item.

Our apologies for this unfortunate development. We look forward to your continued support of HLJ.



Best Regards,



Mark Kutsugi
HobbyLink Japan
customer_support@hlj.com

Just a quick note, I had two Arcee on preorder.

Remember keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates!

fenrir72 wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:Looks like there might be a possible Takara Tomy Transformers Legends LG10 Arcee shortage! According to Site sponsor HobbyLink Japan they have learned that the manufacturer has only produced a very limited number of LG10 Legends Arcee, LG11 Chromia and LG12 Windblade . Check out the below e-mail that I've just received from HLJ.

Hello-

This is Mark Kutsugi at HobbyLink Japan. Thank you for your order with us for TKT81295 LG10 Arcee.

Unfortunately, we have learned that the manufacturer has only produced a very limited number of this item. Although we placed a large order for this item with our distributors, we will receive a very small number of pieces on or about February 15, and have exhausted our attempts to find any additional sources.

As always, when this item comes out we will fill orders in the order that they were placed. Unfortunately, given the extremely small number of pieces that we will receive, we have determined that there is no chance that we can fill your entire order, so we've had to reduce quantities to a limit of one TKT81295 per customer, regardless of how many were ordered.

We're as disappointed by this news as you are, as we were looking forward to selling many pieces of this item.

Our apologies for this unfortunate development. We look forward to your continued support of HLJ.



Best Regards,



Mark Kutsugi
HobbyLink Japan
customer_support@hlj.com

Just a quick note, I had two Arcee on preorder.

Remember keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates!

I get it you ordered two?

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:Pretty sure this is what happens when you have a butt-load of people buying multiples of the same figure to open, keep in box, kitbash/mod, and/or sell on ebay.

Unfortunately, we have learned that the manufacturer has only produced a very limited number of this item.

mooncake623 wrote:

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:Pretty sure this is what happens when you have a butt-load of people buying multiples of the same figure to open, keep in box, kitbash/mod, and/or sell on ebay.

Unfortunately, we have learned that the manufacturer has only produced a very limited number of this item.

mooncake623 wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:Looks like there might be a possible Takara Tomy Transformers Legends LG10 Arcee shortage! According to Site sponsor HobbyLink Japan they have learned that the manufacturer has only produced a very limited number of LG10 Legends Arcee, LG11 Chromia and LG12 Windblade . Check out the below e-mail that I've just received from HLJ.

Hello-

This is Mark Kutsugi at HobbyLink Japan. Thank you for your order with us for TKT81295 LG10 Arcee.

Unfortunately, we have learned that the manufacturer has only produced a very limited number of this item. Although we placed a large order for this item with our distributors, we will receive a very small number of pieces on or about February 15, and have exhausted our attempts to find any additional sources.

As always, when this item comes out we will fill orders in the order that they were placed. Unfortunately, given the extremely small number of pieces that we will receive, we have determined that there is no chance that we can fill your entire order, so we've had to reduce quantities to a limit of one TKT81295 per customer, regardless of how many were ordered.

We're as disappointed by this news as you are, as we were looking forward to selling many pieces of this item.

Our apologies for this unfortunate development. We look forward to your continued support of HLJ.



Best Regards,



Mark Kutsugi
HobbyLink Japan
customer_support@hlj.com

Just a quick note, I had two Arcee on preorder.

Remember keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates!

I get it you ordered two?

Said so on the bottom

Agamemnon wrote:Is it possible that this is some confusion due to Chinese New Year and that the rest of the shipments will be coming in a month or so?

Shockwave7 wrote:Pffft. 'Shortage' of Arcee/Windblade/Chromia? Well, why not? They haven't turned up HERE either....

Mkall wrote:My only beef with Takara's Arcee is her unpainted gun. I might find a Hasbro Arcee at some point just for her gun.

Sabrblade wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:Got the shipping notice earlier today!

Cyberpath wrote:Got the shipping notice earlier today!

fenrir72 wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:Got the shipping notice earlier today!

WTF? I still haven't gotten anything. The email I got today just told me to basically wait while they sort things out. I ordered one of each of the 3 angels.

Sabrblade wrote:What's the likelihood of Takara doing another run of the three?

fenrir72 wrote:Calling Sabr!

Who's the fembot at the upper left?

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:Calling Sabr!

Who's the fembot at the upper left?

NAVI-ko. Better known in the West as the Predacon computer from Beast Wars. The Japanese dub made the computer have its own girlish personality as though it were its own character. The name itself likely came from when, in the English version, Megatron spoke to the computer in the first episode with the command "Navigation, is this the right planet?" While he was more addressing the computer's navigational system to activate, the Japanese might have mistook this for being the computer's name instead, and shortened it to "NAVI", with the "-ko" suffix added in reference to its feminine voice, for the "-ko" suffix in real life is used for Japanese female names (and literally means "child" on its own). "NAVI-ko" could also be a double meaning pun for "navigational computer".

As for its appearance in this manga, back at the Yokohama Transformers Expo that was held back in August 2014, a short promotional manga was produced during the event that featured NAVI-ko as her own character in a new body based on the Prime Cyberverse Airachnid toy minus the helicopter rotor and given new fins to repurpose her altmode as dolphin.

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:Calling Sabr!

Who's the fembot at the upper left?

NAVI-ko. Better known in the West as the Predacon computer from Beast Wars. The Japanese dub made the computer have its own girlish personality as though it were its own character. The name itself likely came from when, in the English version, Megatron spoke to the computer in the first episode with the command "Navigation, is this the right planet?" While he was more addressing the computer's navigational system to activate, the Japanese might have mistook this for being the computer's name instead, and shortened it to "NAVI", with the "-ko" suffix added in reference to its feminine voice, for the "-ko" suffix in real life is used for Japanese female names (and literally means "child" on its own). "NAVI-ko" could also be a double meaning pun for "navigational computer".

As for its appearance in this manga, back at the Yokohama Transformers Expo that was held back in August 2014, a short promotional manga was produced during the event that featured NAVI-ko as her own character in a new body based on the Prime Cyberverse Airachnid toy minus the helicopter rotor and given new fins to repurpose her altmode as dolphin.

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:Calling Sabr!

Who's the fembot at the upper left?

NAVI-ko. Better known in the West as the Predacon computer from Beast Wars. The Japanese dub made the computer have its own girlish personality as though it were its own character. The name itself likely came from when, in the English version, Megatron spoke to the computer in the first episode with the command "Navigation, is this the right planet?" While he was more addressing the computer's navigational system to activate, the Japanese might have mistook this for being the computer's name instead, and shortened it to "NAVI", with the "-ko" suffix added in reference to its feminine voice, for the "-ko" suffix in real life is used for Japanese female names (and literally means "child" on its own). "NAVI-ko" could also be a double meaning pun for "navigational computer".

As for its appearance in this manga, back at the Yokohama Transformers Expo that was held back in August 2014, a short promotional manga was produced during the event that featured NAVI-ko as her own character in a new body based on the Prime Cyberverse Airachnid toy minus the helicopter rotor and given new fins to repurpose her altmode as dolphin.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:Calling Sabr!

Who's the fembot at the upper left?

NAVI-ko. Better known in the West as the Predacon computer from Beast Wars. The Japanese dub made the computer have its own girlish personality as though it were its own character. The name itself likely came from when, in the English version, Megatron spoke to the computer in the first episode with the command "Navigation, is this the right planet?" While he was more addressing the computer's navigational system to activate, the Japanese might have mistook this for being the computer's name instead, and shortened it to "NAVI", with the "-ko" suffix added in reference to its feminine voice, for the "-ko" suffix in real life is used for Japanese female names (and literally means "child" on its own). "NAVI-ko" could also be a double meaning pun for "navigational computer".

As for its appearance in this manga, back at the Yokohama Transformers Expo that was held back in August 2014, a short promotional manga was produced during the event that featured NAVI-ko as her own character in a new body based on the Prime Cyberverse Airachnid toy minus the helicopter rotor and given new fins to repurpose her altmode as dolphin.

And NOW you guys tell this while there's no more Aircachnid toys to mod.
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SKYWARPED_128 wrote:Tell me about it. Airachnid figs were flooding the shelves of my local TRU's for ages, until AOE came along. Had I seen this, I'd have my very own custom NAVI-ko-chan on my desktop right now.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

SKYWARPED_128 wrote:Tell me about it. Airachnid figs were flooding the shelves of my local TRU's for ages, until AOE came along. Had I seen this, I'd have my very own custom NAVI-ko-chan on my desktop right now.

To be fair, the deluxe figure is horrible and would have proven quite difficult to mod. However, the Legend figure is not too bad and she'll be cute as a button and in scale!

This will also be a challenge for me, to make a tiny weeny custom instead of making a voyager/ultra sized one.