FansProject: Retro-Future

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Dear FP Core members,

We just got word from our freight carrier that due to a catastrophic event, our entire shipment of Megazero figures has been destroyed. Here's the message quoted from our carrier:

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"We regret to inform you that your part of the goods does not reach. You have shipped the whole amount of RF-GB03 action figures, RF-gb04 action figures and RF-GB05 figure. In your ship launch, we find a mistake, one of your product is improperly moved to another shipment container. When we tried to find the right product and during exercise lifting RF-GB05 megazero, all box RF-GB05 has breached the side of our transport ship and has been lost. The CTNS has sunk in our oceans, is not able to efficiently retrieve. Coincidently the crane operator was examining your megazero product for his own enjoyment when he was not pay attention to what he was doing and caused this mistake.

This is our mistake, we will work with you to quickly resolve this issue and provide assistance to restore your product. We are very sorry for this, and can not give more consideration to your situation. In any case we will help to ensure that your product can recover for your customers. We have notified your manufacturer dispatch of this situation by phone, they will provide more information to us today."

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We at FP Core are devastated and can only picture in our minds what a cruel demise Megazero has had sinking to the bottom of the ocean floor. We are working on a solution with the manufacturer to make sure that all pre-orders get fulfilled ASAP. We are informed that we will still receive the same amount of figures produced as originally intended so we can still stick with our release plans as closely as possible.

We will also be shipping out Tusker and Razorspike as they arrive. For those who have already ordered Megazero together with Tusker and Razorspike, we will ship Megazero out at our expense when he arrives at a later date.

We will keep you updated on this situation.



Thanks for your continued support!

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I only pre ordered these yesterday

On a side note I'm after tailclub and fangro

Wow! What a bizarre event. Now we have hudreds of FP Megazero toys sunk deep under the ocean floor! I wonder if some treasure hunter hundreds of years (maybe a thousand) from now will find it as some ground breaking historical find...or loot.

At least people will be getting their Megazeros during this age even if delayed.

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Originally Posted by kup

Wow! What a bizarre event. Now we have hudreds of FP Megazero toys sunk deep under the ocean floor! I wonder if some treasure hunter hundreds of years (maybe a thousand) from now will find it as some ground breaking historical find...or loot.

At least people will be getting their Megazeros during this age even if delayed.

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It's not an uncommon event. Depending on who you believe, anywhere from 350 to 10,000 shipping containers fall overboard any given year (There are usually around 5-6 million in transit globally at any one time).

Shipping containers aren't weighed before they are stacked so there is no procedure of putting the heavier ones on the bottom and light ones on top, which contributes significantly to the problem. It generally occurs when the ship hits a storm or high seas. And the companies have been known to simply push a few containers overboard rather than risk losing more.

You also have the occasional dodgy ship captain/crew who know that there is something of worth/value in them and so that container goes 'overboard' during the voyage. Sydney Stevedores used to be like this. They used to pillage broken containers and take what they wanted. The government cracked down finally when they realised the wharfies grew greedy and were no longer satisfied with broken containers and started breaking into ones that had nothing wrong with them.

(I have a family member who used to drive trucks through the wharf and saw it all. They used to try and sell stuff to the truck drivers :rolleyes:

They definitely need to capitalise off this by working it into a story with an appropriately-Engrish title, maybe along the lines of:
"Ambush of Space-Stevedores from Planet Patorikku! Brave Megazero's Sacrifice!".
Make sure the title is the first thing the viewer/reader sees, no spoiler alert is necessary :p

You know, like what happened with Ultra Magnus and Shirogane :p

"Coincidently the crane operator was examining your megazero product for his own enjoyment when he was not pay attention to what he was doing and caused this mistake."

This is the most hilarious part of the story :D

Wow, what a bizarre turn of events, the pics on your Google link were quite entertaining Trent.

Very good communication from both the transport company and FP.

that's a whole lot of toy in the drink.

Vange1us does the impossible and salvages Mega-Zero

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F5_z6ijl40

The whole thing seems very dodgy, especially the whole crane operator thing. They need to get a new carrier, badly!

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Originally Posted by kup

Vange1us does the impossible and salvages Mega-Zero

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F5_z6ijl40

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One of the commenters on that vid mentioned that the Glacialbots' alt modes were originally based on alt modes the Dynobots' did not take in Spotlight Shockwave. Just found it on Page 8. Very cool :);)

Super impressed with this. Hope there's a second production run.