Masterpiece Soundwave and Acid Storm appearing a bit early at US TRU

[drifand]

On the note, the Jap reissue version will only be out in Oct. I could pull back from the Jap one but I think I like to have one each.

[GoktimusPrime]

...you do know that Jap is considered a racial slur against Japanese people, right? You can just abbreviate it as "JP" if you can't be bothered typing out "Japanese", as that is an officially accepted abbreviation (e.g. .jp, JPY etc.).

[nexusnixx]

lets stick to toy discussion... no need lessons on ethics to language to equality pls.....

...you do know that Jap is considered a racial slur against Japanese people, right? You can just abbreviate it as "JP" if you can't be bothered typing out "Japanese", as that is an officially accepted abbreviation (e.g. .jp, JPY etc.).

[dirge]

lets stick to toy discussion... no need lessons on ethics to language to equality pls.....

A quick "btw this can offend" isn't out of place though. Gok has lived in Japan & so is in a position to provide this insight.

Back to Masterpieces please

/mod.

[doublespy]

Word from America now seems to be that people can't find Soundwave in stores. It's sold out on the the TRU website and they're NOT going to restock. The scalpers got'em all and they keep the cassettes and sell Soundwave by itself. So half of the Soundwaves floating around on ebay don't even have the cassettes.

Guess this does not bode well for us since every man and his dog in the country is trying to get it.

[dirge]

Guess this does not bode well for us since every man and his dog in the country is trying to get it.

Hopefully if/when he turns up here he doesn't move all that quickly; both Starscreams & Rodimus were available for at least a couple of weeks at our TRU stores. The Primes also hung around for a while. The scalpers aren't quite out in force here like in the US of A.

[doublespy]

Hopefully if/when he turns up here he doesn't move all that quickly; both Starscreams & Rodimus were available for at least a couple of weeks at our TRU stores. The Primes also hung around for a while. The scalpers aren't quite out in force here like in the US of A.

I guess like Prime, Soundwave has the character nostalgia effect. He's the guy everyone remembers so casual fans are equally eager as the hardcore fans. Last year I saw MP 10 in store only once and I read on the boards somewhere there weren't many Primes turning up on ebay after the release so presumably the majority were actually bought by fans/collectors. Add the scalpers on top of all this I just wish I'll have the same luck as I did with Prime last year (which I really doubt now..)

[dirge]

I guess like Prime, Soundwave has the character nostalgia effect.

One thing that actually works in our favour in this respect is the high prices here; a MP at TRU isn't a trivial purchase for the casual fans & it's a deterrent to scalpers to an extent too. I guess we'll see what happens but if they last a week, picking Soundwave up should be fairly doable.

[jazzcomp]

MP Prime had a re-stock/2nd shipment. But if it were only the 1st, many wouldn't have one.

[drifand]

It is what I worry about but we can only do this much. Just hope we can get one each.