A toy with painted windows is broken inside the box.
A toy with painted windows is broken inside the box.
I didn't even notice until this post. Yikes.
I like how that nearly fourty years after the movie came out we are still learning new bits of info about its production, I guess it goes to show despite being classed as a failure at the time, it has stood the test of time and still talked about, but then it is just a epic adventure full of action!
My headcanon that came about after Beast Wars was that a lot of the bots damaged during the attack on Autobot City were just in stasis lock and not permanently offline.
Looks like Kapow Toys is leading a protest of current pricing and telling people not to preorder Tidal Wave!
I'm inclined to agree at this point. As much as I want TW, if the price conversion sticks that's almost $280 US! I just can't drop that on something that I know will be significantly marked down later. I'm usually a firm believer in supporting at regular price if able, but wow that's a bit much.
I'm inclined to agree at this point. As much as I want TW, if the price conversion sticks that's almost $280 US! I just can't drop that on something that I know will be significantly marked down later. I'm usually a firm believer in supporting at regular price if able, but wow that's a bit much.
Kapow are roughly the UK equivalent of BBTS for non-UKers. They were the retailer for Haslab Unicron in Europe since Pulse didn't exist at the time, so this is a non-trivial thing.
But I can't blame them - nothing Transformers is selling at full price any more for any retailer because they will be available (easily) with three months for at least 30 and often 50% off. Generally speaking when retailers are selling release day Titans for 50% six months down the line they are literally making a loss on that item, so why would a retailer do it? Especially when Hasbro UK will be offering it to discount chains at discounted prices to enable 50% off sales within 90 days of release at this point.
Hasbro UK are apparently already offering local retailers heavily discounted Nemesis.
But I can't blame them - nothing Transformers is selling at full price any more for any retailer because they will be available (easily) with three months for at least 30 and often 50% off. Generally speaking when retailers are selling release day Titans for 50% six months down the line they are literally making a loss on that item, so why would a retailer do it? Especially when Hasbro UK will be offering it to discount chains at discounted prices to enable 50% off sales within 90 days of release at this point.
Hasbro UK are apparently already offering local retailers heavily discounted Nemesis.
At least you folks in the US and UK get discounted Transformers on a regular basis. 🫤
Speaking of Titans, Tidal Wave just went up for Preorder (at $200) over on Pulse
Aaaaaaand he's gone. Sold out in under 20 minutes.
$200 ($218 after Tax / Delivery) is nuts. I really am about done with this hobby. With that said, I have him pre ordered through BBTS.
It is a lot. I've bought several Titans, but they're definitely a "sometimes treat." I've always been tempted to wait or clearance, but I don't see Tidal Wave here going on sale anytime soon given how quickly his first run sold out at full price.
I...can't do it. It's a mix of price, bad timing, and, I think 'burn out'. I am having some financial situations where $200 is quite a bit. But I also had an old Tidal Wave. I loved that one. This does some things better, other things worse, some things not at all, but it's mainly just bigger. I do have a limited amount of space at the moment.
But mostly, I think I've just 'seen it before' if that makes sense. I fully intend to jump on the Origins Wheeljack preorder as soon as it pops up. I have money set aside for it. But it's something I've never seen before as a physical model, it adds to the functionality of toys I already have, and it fits wit my older stuff in Robot Mode.
We'll see what happens, I may get lucky later, but for this one I will have to live vicariously though other people in the pictures forum. Tidal Wave looks AMAZING...
But mostly, I think I've just 'seen it before' if that makes sense. I fully intend to jump on the Origins Wheeljack preorder as soon as it pops up. I have money set aside for it. But it's something I've never seen before as a physical model, it adds to the functionality of toys I already have, and it fits wit my older stuff in Robot Mode.
We'll see what happens, I may get lucky later, but for this one I will have to live vicariously though other people in the pictures forum. Tidal Wave looks AMAZING...
I preordered Tidalwave at BBTS. I too have space concerns and also own the original Armada TW. I will have to consider if I want to sell the original to help cover the cost of the new one since I never liked how small the original was. I never once did the combination with Megatron as I always found that to be a silly feature. In fact, I think my Armada TW has only been transformed like 3 times in his entire existence. He was just never that interesting to convert.
I have been feeling some burn out with the hobby lately myself. I go through this every few years though, then something cool pulls me right back in. I am in the process of reducing my collection though. At the age of 51, and no heir to pass my collection on to, I have really been thinking about the long term value of holding on to such a large collection. But, that is a topic for a different thread.
I have been feeling some burn out with the hobby lately myself. I go through this every few years though, then something cool pulls me right back in. I am in the process of reducing my collection though. At the age of 51, and no heir to pass my collection on to, I have really been thinking about the long term value of holding on to such a large collection. But, that is a topic for a different thread.
Same, I considered it but ultimately I think I'll wait and see if he ever makes it to clearance, though it won't surprise me if he's too popular for that to happen. Lack of shelf space and "not different enough from the Armada toy I already have" are biggies.
It's expensive, but it's a pretty phenomenal looking Tidal Wave.
You should list me as your heir, as I will make sure that your collection is seen by the future generations!
IE My kids love TFs.
I am going to pass on this one. Like, I like that they are doing Tidalwave, as he is a lot better choice than Cybertron Metroplex, but I am almost out of space until I build the addition or move, and $200 will get me a lot more of the Smaller TFs that will fill in the gaps in my G1 toys that look like the cartoon with Knees collection.
He's on amazon too. Please use this link if you're going to order it from there!