Zing/EB exclusive MP Smokescreen & JP Optimus 2 toy set

[griffin]

I just pre-ordered the Optimus/Convoy set.
As noted on our facebook page, the price here is actually quite close to the Japanese retail price without shipping, so even if you bought this from an online store or through someone from TakaraTomyMall (who doesn't ship outside of Japan), our price here is going to be way less (which is a refreshing change from the ToysRUs era).
I do want to note that these are significantly expensive in Japan, so having AU$80 for each Voyager sized toy is intentional, as these are a limited run of special anniversary packaging (and probably some minor deco differences to the actual toys), for those like me who intend to keep these sealed for display, as I already have these two moulds, and don't need to "play" with these two.

[BigTransformerTrev]

I don’t usually buy a second of a MP I already have, but I’m loving the smoke coming out of Smokescreens alt-mode.

Only thing is why is it coming out of the sides of the car? In the cartoon it always came out of the exhaust ports

At any rate, looks good and it’s a decent price but with my TF funds I’ll either have to skip it or wait until somewhere has it on sale

[hYpNoS]

I don’t usually buy a second of a MP I already have, but I’m loving the smoke coming out of Smokescreens alt-mode.

Only thing is why is it coming out of the sides of the car? In the cartoon it always came out of the exhaust ports

At any rate, looks good and it’s a decent price but with my TF funds I’ll either have to skip it or wait until somewhere has it on sale

There are other pictures showing you can make it come out of the exhaust pipe, think the main swirling shots are to simulate him being covered in smoke, and to show what you can do other than just the ONE type of shot

[griffin]

Wouldn't it be like doing a burnout... and the smoke accessories should have been placed at the back tyres instead of the front.

[nalops]

EB Games and Zing have taken down the 2-pack Optimus page on their websites so I'm assuming they're already out of stock.

[griffin]

EB Games and Zing have taken down the 2-pack Optimus page on their websites so I'm assuming they're already out of stock.

That's weird. They wouldn't have both sold out at all stores at the same time... it must mean that they had a very short pre-order period before they had to place their order with Hasbro Australia. They did the same with the Movie Masterpiece Jazz and Megatron, but these two weren't up for very long at all. I think it was only 7 days ago that the listings were first being reported here, which is why it doesn't make sense that they would only have a week pre-order period. And if it is that short, they should say so, like TakaraTomyMall does on their listings when they have a pre-order cut-off.

The thing that has me worried is if they had a really short pre-order period and didn't get their minimum amount, they will cancel the orders they did get and people like me will have to source it from somewhere else now.

[nalops]

Considering their 20th anniversary Digivice pre-order page only lasted a day, it seems they're allocated a set number of stock to begin with rather than waiting until a certain date and then ordering stock. Could be wrong though.

Speaking of Megatron, I was super lucky to get him. Went in-store to pre-order, staff wasn't able to find him on their system so they rang head office and was told I had 15 minutes to order from the website before the page was going to be taken down.

[DELTAprime]

Wouldn't it be like doing a burnout... and the smoke accessories should have been placed at the back tyres instead of the front.

The Fairlady is a rear-wheel-drive car, so yes, burnout tire smoke would come from the rear wheels.

[nalops]

Both Smokescreen and Optimus are sold out on both sites now.