Thought you were saving up for a car bud.:p
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My Green Giant is currently packed up.... No place for him atm....
Thanks im going to be adding Quantron to my to buy list. I'm more worried about the structural design. In my research i see a lot of pictures of small tabs breaking on the toy where connecting pieces go, essentially ruining it.
I think these 3rd parties cater for adult collectors while Hasbro/TT probably design their toys with a younger audience in mind hence durability is more of a concern for them.
Good to know they use good quality plastics though.
I read Quantron was $250 USD during black friday sales. That seems like a bargain now. I may wait until another big sale.
I think I saw chimungmung has quantron for $329 us for those who want it.
I saw that too. BBTS has it for for around $300+50 postage so BBTS actually works out cheaper. Chimungmung over charges for postage IMO.
He seems to be on sale at a number of other places too, i wonder why.
For most people, probably price. Maketoys may have noticed this and chosen to have gone with separate parts for Guardia. It also gives them time to hammer out slight mould imperfections on the team members with trickier parts/transformations. The production process would also be less rushed.
Come to think of it, most other third party combiners are released separately.
Ah ok, I assumed chimungmung postage would be cheaper as it's closer isn't it? Whenever I've randomly added things to a cart on BBTS the postage seemed really expensive compared to my chimungmung orders.
Perhaps Smint's got quite a few items in his loot? BBTS is usually only cheaper for me after 5-7 items (I don't usually ship until its roughly $12 shipping per item).
BBTS shipping calculator quoted me $54 with tracking. So that's $354 shipped.
Chimungmung is at least $35 for shipping. So that will be about $365 shipped.
$35 shipping is not bad for Quantron but for other smaller items he charges a similar amount. 1 Fanstoys dinobot is $38.
Tony will do combined shipping but it's still ridiculously expensive. 3x Perfect Effect CW upgrade kits came to $38USD postage after $8 combined shipping discount.