Megatron MP-05 Petition

[turtle boy]

That really makes me wonder if they really destroy confiscated items or smuggle it out in their back pocket. Wouldn't surprise me if they did.

that wouldn't surprise me, that used to happen all the time at my work. now we have the famous "jimmy cam" watching over our backs every 10 seconds you cant walk across the yard and off the yellow lines with out getting a phone call from the front office, saying "get back on the lines" true, they watch the screens every minute of every day, and will ring if you are doing something wrong..

anyway, i would take that box of your in and demand you get some compensation out of it, yell "I'm a MISB collector, i demand justice" though, you would probably just be pushing your luck, forget i said anything:P

[springah]

*shrugs. I've got a couple of MP-05s sent to me from Singapore. Transformed into robot mode, there were no troubles at all.

I don't understand this retardedness over this toy..

[griffin]

The MP-5 is already packaged in robot mode.
Customs x-ray scanner operators were obviously educated to be able to pick out a robot mode MP-5 from x-ray scans of sealed postal packages. They weren't looking for the silhoutte of a gun on their monitor screen, but one biped robotic toy out of the thousands of biped robotic toys that pass through their x-ray scanner. And the only thing that would tip them off would be outlines of a gun barrel, scope or trigger - nothing much else stands out from an MP-5 silhoutte that shouts out it could turn into a gun. This in addition to the thousands of other specific contraband items they have to look out for each day, I was really amazed that they managed to find and confiscate so many MP-5s.

[Tiby]

I have yet to hear the real political reasons behind it, but what I really, really wanted to avoid was us fans being labelled as fanatics. In these artificially tense times due to the "terror" concept, the last thing we need is to be labelled a group of fanatics who import illegal weapons. Best to play by their rules to get what we want.

[roller]

Us fanatics? Never! http://au.youtube.com/results?search...s&search_type=

[JuzMel]

*shrugs. I've got a couple of MP-05s sent to me from Singapore. Transformed into robot mode, there were no troubles at all.

I don't understand this retardedness over this toy..

And it would really be appreciated if you would let me know which state you are from since I asked you the last time and you didn't reply too.

Just a question though Griffin, how do we know that Customs confiscated MP-05s since they are in robot mode?! Did we have cases happen to people in this forum?

[griffin]

The MP-5 toy only comes packaged in robot mode, not gun mode, so any that were imported by fans here and were confiscated, it was because customs knew what type of robot silhoutte (on their x-ray monitor) to look for. They don't open every box that comes through customs, they just x-ray scan and sniff (by dog) most, and only open up the suspicious ones.
Also, it was posted on the customs website at the time (and included on national news programs and websites), that there were about 50 confiscated from Sydney customs alone during that first month or two of its release - suggesting that they were very good at finding the. Because how many more in addition to that 50 do you think would have been imported by NSW collectors and dealers during that first few months? Probably not too many, making it a good strike rate for customs.

[Tiby]

Griffin's right. They knew the profile and targetted them specifically.

[springah]

And it would really be appreciated if you would let me know which state you are from since I asked you the last time and you didn't reply too.

Just a question though Griffin, how do we know that Customs confiscated MP-05s since they are in robot mode?! Did we have cases happen to people in this forum?

Whoops, sorry dude, I'm terrible at keeping up with forums :/

I'm in NSW.

And yeah, forgot they didn't come in gun mode anyway. But yeah, we got 2.. no drama.

[JuzMel]

So griffin, is it still on the Customs website? Because I went there and try to search, but I couldn't see any article. I searched for megatron gun and they showed me a photo of it thats all, with no other information. Plus its mentioned that to imported restricted items, please contact the Customs for approval, so does that mean we possibly might be able to get approval? Ta.

Btw when did you get your 2 Springah? Before of after the period where Griffin mentioned(sorry when was it again? April 2007?) that customs people started to get really smart at lookin out for MP-05 in robot mode?