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Thread: Where are you guys getting your Animated Wreck Gars and Longarm/Shockwaves from?

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    Default Where are you guys getting your Animated Wreck Gars and Longarm/Shockwaves from?

    It appears that Hasbro Australia had decided to skip Animated Wreck Gar and Longarm/Shockwave. Considering that I work just around the block from Hasbro AU HQ there's a temptation to pop in there and <bleep.bleep.bleep.bleep.bleep.bleep.bleep.bleep > until <bleep.bleep.bleep> in their <bleep.bleep>, and that'd be really uncomfortable!

    So anyway, my question is - what recommendations can you guys give me for a place to import Animated Wreck Gar and Longarm/Shockwave from?

    I'm quite inexperienced at importing HASBRO toys since I live in a <bleep> Hasbro market country. I import TakaraTOMY toys if the toy is either not available from Hasbro or if I just prefer the Japanese version, but otherwise I usually get all my Transformers locally. But I just can't stands it anymore... if Hasbro AU refuses to distribute the toys locally then I frankly have no other choice but to buy from overseas.

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    Online stores. duh

    ok
    But there are heaps of them that have the Animated stuff.
    ebay also has them. Should be able to find a decent deal somewhere
    Only problem is shipping. That will increase price. But I am sure there are plenty of people who will do a group order.

    Try RK, or BBTS (yeah shipping's a rip, but you can pile of loot it until you have a boat load of stuff)
    Ebay is probably the best place I know for Wreck-Gar. He's poplar so what do you expect.

    You might also want to get both Wreck-Gar and Longarm in their respective Waves. They are paired with re-paints. They will probably go cheaper when paired up (well not cheaper, but e.g. you'd get 2 voyagers for 40 instead of 1 for 30)
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    I had trouble finding Wreck-gar online, all my usual online stores were out of stock for him. I had to resort to ebay and it ended up costing me about $75 AUD with shipping.


    Robot Kingdom only has Shockwave left if you get him by the case: http://robotkingdom.com/services/esh...lang=us&CatID=

    Which means you end up with 2 Shockwaves and 2 Skywarps. Ends up being about $50 per figure (with shipping) though, which is reasonable as that is about what it'd cost at retail anyway. At least that's how much it cost me when I had a case shipped to WA.

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    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    I just checked BBTS and it's the same story there. Does anyone know of any online stores where I can get these Voyagers individually?

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    Ebay.
    You are going to be incredibly hard pressed to find them separately else where
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    Hmmm I guess if we do a per area group buy as the buggers seem to be sold by case we all end up with one each and some more to sell if need be. Prolly get the extras sold in that booth you were planning Gok........
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    1. get a friend in America
    2. wait till there on sale
    3. ?????
    4. profit

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackie View Post
    1. get a friend in America
    2. wait till there on sale
    3. ?????
    4. profit
    People are going to botcon. I'm sure if you asked real nice they'd grab you one
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    I got both mine on ebay. Wreck-Gar was $30 bucks loose. (I got it because even I didn't need instructions for him) My Shockwave was pure luck. I won an auction for him shipped from Hong Kong for $51 MIB. It did take about a month of hunting on ebay every day.
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    I'm getting a Shockwave from eBay from a seller in Singapore. Freakin' Americans either refuse to ship internationally, or if they do, their postage prices are obscenely expensive. It was _not_ easy finding a pre-purple Animated Shockwave for a decent price*... thanks to dirge for helping me find this toy.

    *AU$43 for the toy plus AU$20 for postage.

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