Collector Club Subscription set 3 now open for orders

[SuspectimusPrime]

Thanks for the heads up, griffin. Bit the bullet and pre-ordered Krok. Was quite afraid of it selling out, but after reading this disappointingly uninspired bio, I can understand why. A celebrity mecha-soccer player?! The word 'strategy' is only used once

Also, being silly here, but does anyone else think that Nacelle sounds like a girl's name? Couldn't they have called him TURBINE?

[Sinnertwin]

Also, being silly here, but does anyone else think that Nacelle sounds like a girl's name? Couldn't they have called him TURBINE?

I thought that too, but i find it quite fitting

[griffin]

I thought FunPub were just ripping off Star Trek with that name, but looking it up, it was taken from the Exodus book (along with BotCon 2013 Hotlink & Bitstream) that was printed in 2010.

(so maybe the Exodus author was the one ripping off a Star Trek word)

Obviously it is a real-life aircraft word, but I only ever heard it on Star Trek, and as a sci-fi fan of things like TFs & ST, I had never realised it was a real-world thing until now.

[spiderken17]

Yes, the nacelle is a part of a plane. Growing up with a plastic model building father has taught me much about planes.
Also yes, Nacelle is a dumb name for a Transformer.

[griffin]

For future reference - terms and conditions of the Subscription set.

The details on the subscription page...

The cost of the 6 figure subscription service is $297 (+ shipping for 6 shipments). You can pay all at once or in three installments of $99 (billed to your credit card). When you subscribe and choose pay by Installment, you will be billed for the first two month's shipments. Then sometime during the second month, you will be billed for the 3rd and 4th months' shipments and sometime
during the 4th month you will be billed for the final 2 months' shipments.

Please note that for the installment payment option there is a $4 service charge per billing
while the pay in full option has one $4 service charge.

The thing that confuses me, what is this service charge paying for? And why don't they include in the profit margin on the toys themselves and charge $301 plus shipping? Isn't the profit margin of their products supposed to cover resources, wages, labour, etc? Why tack on another $4 that could be part of the total price? Isn't the ordering system automated enough to not need a "service charge", that was only claimed to be instigated to pay for JUST the setting up of their online store.
If they were open to say what that extra several thousand dollars is going to, it wouldn't appear so sneaky or deceptive.

(Not that we'd ever know the answer to it - FunPub seems to treat Transformers Fans as mere replaceable customers, and Pete seems to be gagged from being able to answer anything put against the company, as he was able to answer my questions about creative things he was involved in, but not allowed to respond to the rest of my questions.)

[UltraMarginal]

crunch time is approaching, time to decide to either pick up some through third party sellers or buy the whole set and try to offload the same shitty ones as everyone else.

decisions decisions...

[Sinnertwin]

You could always put up a thread to gauge interest. There may be some local members interested in the others

[SuspectimusPrime]

If you're interested in keeping at least 4/6 (not banking on the 7th figure to be spectacular), then it seems like a good idea. Also, depends on your definition of 'shitty'

[Sinnertwin]

Hmmm.... Tarantulas, Carzap & Krok fit that definition

[Megatran]

crunch time is approaching, time to decide to either pick up some through third party sellers or buy the whole set and try to offload the same shitty ones as everyone else.

decisions decisions...

I'll take the crappy ones: Nacelle and G2 Starscream.