POTP: Pre-Order or Traditional Retail?

[Paulbot]

You'll never have trouble getting Wave 1 of a new series in store.

You might miss Wave 2 if Wave 1 doesn't move quick enough and the next new figures are Wave 3. In general though the first three waves will be available pretty easily.

Get towards the end though, particularly the Waves 5 and 6 (think TR Overlord, Ramhorn, Shuffler, Slugslinger) and you're best off ordering online to lock them in as they might not appear as Wave 1 of what-comes-next comes in instead.

[DELTAprime]

Given how little of the Generations line has skipped Aussie retail in recent years I wouldn't be preordering any Hasbro product and if a wave does get missed I'd then goto TLTC and buy it after the fact.

That said though I buy the Takara Tomy versions normally (but not all the time) because they are more cartoon accurate in most cases and you have little choice but to preorder them if you don't want to buy them at a huge markup on ebay.

Plus don't forget Amazon is potentially days if not hours away from opening it's Aussie site to more than just books and Amazon is very likely to get every wave.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Well coincidentally I checked BBTS today and didn't see any for preorder yet

[dsaint]

The first wave is available for pre-order from thelittletoycompany.

Best regards
Darren

[Dimi194]

I did about 50/50 for TR and 75% online for CW (USD was nicer then!), so I'm happy to wait and see... but I refuse to pre-order with pre-payment nowadays, so even when I go with TLTC I only buy once the items come into stock... #neverforgetpc
Also very unsure how I feel about the Dinobots so would like to see more reviews of them before I jump in.

[Shirokaze]

In general I go out of my way to avoid anything from Hasbro at retail in personal protest against their ever increasing RRPs. In conjunction with diminishing figure quality I find them a little difficult to swallow, so I choose to support Takara Tomy's releases. The last Hasbro figure I purchased was Sixshot at full RRP$90, and he was certainly not worth THAT much.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Well coincidentally I checked BBTS today and didn't see any for preorder yet

Heh - and now they are

Works out a bit under $200us for Wave 1

[Jim_jim]

I will use the China website to buy them, especially for the last few waves. normally as per everyone said, the first 3 waves are ok, sometimes you might have discount depends on the stores, however for the last few waves, they are extremely hard to get here in Australia.

[yoshi594]

I will use the China website to buy them, especially for the last few waves. normally as per everyone said, the first 3 waves are ok, sometimes you might have discount depends on the stores, however for the last few waves, they are extremely hard to get here in Australia.

would that be tabao? cheaper than the little toy company?

[Bidoofdude]

would that be tabao? cheaper than the little toy company?

I've seen people use it, but was unsure if their international shipping was easy to use and up to scratch. Seems like a really great option though.