I'm not a member, and IMO I don't think it's worth it. I mean, Australian and Asian fans are just as, if not more dedicated then the US fans (Look at Grif). We spend more on toys, I alone have spent almost every cent I that I have put aside for things like restoring my car(not that big of a priority) seeing that my girlfriend is happy(when I had one) Gaming, reading, building scale models. All other things that would normaly play a small part in my life, had been put on hold for a major part of it..

We travel to another country for conventions.. Such as Botcon and ComicCon.

We put more effort into sourcing toys, US has more of a wider range of toys, so they are more easy to access.

So I cant fathom paying more then the US fans to sign up to a club that obviously take the "local" fans into more consideration and undermines the International fans. It's just not right.

No offense to anyone, but I also think that the forum thing is a little silly, sure, forums are great fun to make friend, discus our hobby's, news and other tf related things. But ALOT of us fans, don't take "outsiders" seriously and hence why joining would be a waist of time and money.

The discounts, well, they really are useless when we are paying so much more in postage, unless your buying in bulk, but if your like me and tend to like to get things done on your own, unless there is no other option. Then the discounts are worthless cause we are still paying full, cause postage is say an extra $30us when that's the price they are knocking off the figures..