Fan-backed Hasbro project: Unicron

[hYpNoS]

Depends on how bbts is doing it, wasn't there a rumor during botcon they sent multiple people to get those botcon exclusives?

Why not have multiple agents buy up?

[Trent]

The limit is 5 per transaction. So just keep ordering in lots of 5. Spend half an hour doing that and you’d have 100. Someone on TFW was saying today that was exactly how it worked for the Khetanna and that is how some online stores had a few to sell.

[BigTransformerTrev]

The limit is 5 per transaction. So just keep ordering in lots of 5. Spend half an hour doing that and you’d have 100. Someone on TFW was saying today that was exactly how it worked for the Khetanna and that is how some online stores had a few to sell.

Anyone got the capital to do that? We could have them shipped en’masse and flog’em in Aus

[philby]

Depends on how bbts is doing it, wasn't there a rumor during botcon they sent multiple people to get those botcon exclusives?

Why not have multiple agents buy up?

The limit is 5 per transaction. So just keep ordering in lots of 5. Spend half an hour doing that and you’d have 100. Someone on TFW was saying today that was exactly how it worked for the Khetanna and that is how some online stores had a few to sell.

ah ok
so BBTS has people setup as "backers" to order and then they can sell those figures on later?

[danny-boy]

Currently at 1817. This isn?t going to reach 8000. They need to open international orders to get anything remotely close to 8000.

[DaptoDog]

Currently at 1817. This isn?t going to reach 8000. They need to open international orders to get anything remotely close to 8000.

It's added about 600 backers in a week. If continues at that rate for the next 5 weeks we'll be at just under 5,000 with a few days to go. Add in Japan backing through Takara Tomy Mall and a big final push and it should hopefully get there. I'd say it's more than likely going to go ahead as long as it gets close enough to the 8,000 target. Perhaps they'll extend it for another few weeks so it gets over the line?

[MayzaPrime]

Has anyone here ordered one?

[griffin]

Has anyone here ordered one?

Fatbot on one of our facebook pages (you'll need to sign up if you aren't already on that page) was offering the services of someone he knows in America, and had 2 or 3 takers.

[griffin]

It's added about 600 backers in a week. If continues at that rate for the next 5 weeks we'll be at just under 5,000 with a few days to go. Add in Japan backing through Takara Tomy Mall and a big final push and it should hopefully get there. I'd say it's more than likely going to go ahead as long as it gets close enough to the 8,000 target. Perhaps they'll extend it for another few weeks so it gets over the line?

I don't know... most of those 600 are probably thanks to the big promotion of it at SDCC and the various videos of it at the event. There isn't likely to be any big events before the end of next month to convince people who don't already know of this item and have already decided if they can afford it. I think the last week will have a surge from people who know that they can pay for it, but if they give us the Japanese numbers, it will be worth seeing what their first week numbers are, as they need to out-pace the American backers if this has a chance of getting anywhere near 8000.

[danny-boy]

It's added about 600 backers in a week. If continues at that rate for the next 5 weeks we'll be at just under 5,000 with a few days to go. Add in Japan backing through Takara Tomy Mall and a big final push and it should hopefully get there. I'd say it's more than likely going to go ahead as long as it gets close enough to the 8,000 target. Perhaps they'll extend it for another few weeks so it gets over the line?

I can?t see 600 backers a week continuing for the duration of the window. It?s now at 1820....that?s only 3 more backers since I wrote my post earlier today. Most people that want it and can afford it have already backed it. I can only see it trickling over 2000 over the next week or two, and maybe eventually settling between 3000-4000, but I feel I?m being a bit optimistic there. I?d love to be wrong but I don?t see this gaining any momentum at all.