Probably a good thing. Someone posted on another site that they payed over AU$100 (!!!) for Titans Returns Powermaster Optimus Prime!!!Originally Posted by Krayt
He's only AU$80 to $85 here in HK if you can find him (sold out most places)...
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Probably a good thing. Someone posted on another site that they payed over AU$100 (!!!) for Titans Returns Powermaster Optimus Prime!!!
He's only AU$80 to $85 here in HK if you can find him (sold out most places)...
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Plenty of him the airport!
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Seen in Toys R Us Causeway Bay 10/07/2016 by Lisamaree Chiu, on Flickr
Is this guy a new release? 1-step RID Blizzard Strike Sideswipe and 1-step Orange Drift were on shelves in Toys R Us today. I don't remember seeing them before.
HK Toys R Us also finally have the full range of Wave 1 Titans Return figures in stock. They aren't priced much higher than smaller stores which is a pleasant surprise.
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Just got back from a family trip to Shanghai.
I didn't get a time to try and hunt down specialist toy stores while there however in our travels I encountered 3 toy stores with Transformers in them.
Interestingly prices for Transformers are generally about 10% higher than in Hong Kong when you take exchange rate into consideration. Some specialist sets were almost 50% more expensive than Hong Kong.
Straight out of customs and my kids came across a convenience store that had Transformers "sets" - a plastic drinking cup and 4 blind packed figures for RMB68. They are officially licensed to a Chinese company which might be why I've never seen them in HK. We got 3 as my son wanted a Grimlock cup, my daughter wanted a cup with Strafe on it and I got good old Optimus Prime.
The figures were regular, gold or silver with gold and silver having a stamp built into their base. These are just the Optimus figures we got.
The large Toys'R'Us in Pudong had these Transformers figures that haven't been released in Hong Kong.
Grimlock was sold out. :/
This Optimus sold out "a long time ago" according to the sales staff.
They still had stock of Megaton and Starscream.
I brought this Optimus. Bumblebee (in both sizes) was shelf-warming taking up over 1/2 the shelf space for these figures.
Here's the box from my Optimus. I'll post more pics when I open him up.
This store also had Year of the Monkey Optimus Primal reduced to RMB299 (which I think is just above AU$50)... I suspect if lots of Transformers collectors hit town for cybertroncon those will sell out quickly.
There was a store on the 7th floor of a "children's" shopping mall in the Bund (a district in Shanghai) that also had a selection of Transformers. They were the same price as Toys'R'Us and didn't have any unique figures - mostly just Combiner Wars like Wheeljack and Smokescreen.
The final store I found Transformers in was in a seriously crowded tourist district near Yu Yuan (Yu Garden) called Superman Toys. They had loads of Transformers as well as a display. Prices were slightly cheaper here for CW figures.
They had a Year of the Snake Omega Supreme which was tempting but as I don't know what the proper retail would be I didn't risk buying it (internet is not easy to access while out and about). Interestingly they had the AoE power battler toys sold in boxes, not on cards like in Hong Kong.
They also had the oversized KO figures side by side with the real stuff but the KO figures were twice as expensive as they are here in HK... go figure!
And one last note... not one convenience store we went into had the container milk "advertised" in the Transformers movies ... we wanted to get one so the kids could re-create the slurping scenes but alas no luck this time.
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Current specials at Toys'R'Us Hong Kong:
You can combine ONE of the weapons with the stationary set.
It gave me an excuse to buy Power Surge Optimus Prime.
Note neither of the RID weapons have been available for purchase in HK.
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I'm not sure if this should have its own post in news but I'll put it here for now:
For those interested here are the items and bonuses that will be on offer at HK-ACG starting on Friday.
Unfortunately it is on the same time as cybertroncon so I'll be in Shanghai and won't be able to go in to HK-AGC until Monday when all the freebies will be long gone.
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The individual version of Brainstorm is available here in Hong Kong.
Hobbybase have (had) it in stock. I'm not sure why it showed up here so early.... but thought people here might be interested.
I didn't buy it as we got the SDCC set (and I haven't been in town).
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ah damn just noticed this, did you end up going at all? they had the star wars black series obi-wan kenobi exclusive....I'm not sure if this should have its own post in news but I'll put it here for now:
For those interested here are the items and bonuses that will be on offer at HK-ACG starting on Friday.
Unfortunately it is on the same time as cybertroncon so I'll be in Shanghai and won't be able to go in to HK-AGC until Monday when all the freebies will be long gone.
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