Club Punch re-release (plus, Mag #34 out)

[griffin]

UPDATE - Punch now available for order, for US$59 (plus membership fee if not a member).

[DarkHyren]

Not anymore, looks like they are all gone
Well, maybe some people cheated and more will pop up in a bit, in any case it looks like the rest of us will have to pay 3 times the actual value from scalpers...

[griffin]

Hmmm, I guess that shouldn't be a surprise. Toy scalpers would have been jumping on them, and would have even got friends, relatives and employees to register to get one on their behalf, to resell for double... minimum.
Big bonus for the Collector Club, with about 300 instant members in one day, who aren't likely to ever claim on discounts.

(when I posted that above, it was still in stock too, so has only just sold out in the last hour)

[griffin]

Just checked TFW, and looks like it sold out in about 3 hours.

[iceburn]

ok..had one in my shopping cart to pay later and after lunch..it's out of stock. drats... thanks for having a limited amount in stock TFClub

[fatbot]

ok..had one in my shopping cart to pay later and after lunch..it's out of stock. drats... thanks for having a limited amount in stock TFClub

Tell me about it, I was gonna buy one and give it to someone from my failed group order

[MV75]

I did say "almost certainly never". There's an "almost" there that covers the minuscule chance that it might actually happen.

Sorry, that doesn't fly.

You were adamant that they wouldn't release one, even with backing from your mate when replying to my post.

Remember to remind me to say told you so when it happens.


That sucks you guys missed it. One would have thought this one would have hung around a bit longer due to the no re-purchase policy they put on it.

[Sky Shadow]

Sorry, that doesn't fly.

You were adamant that they wouldn't release one, even with backing from your mate when replying to my post.

Reading comprehension, MV75 - at no point have I said that they 100% wouldn't release one. I said it would "almost certainly never" exist, which you even quoted from my post, and that if anyone had really wanted to have one it made no sense to "wait for hasbros version to be released" rather than buy one. I said that if you really want to look at historical proof, then only three out of over a hundred similar exclusives have ever been released by Hasbro as the same character and then only with recolouring or retooling, so statistics also support my point - there's a 97% chance that it won't be released by Hasbro. That's a 3% chance of happening even before considering the fact that Punch/Counterpunch is a more obscure character than Dirge and Thrust. And even if they wanted to do it, Takara would then have to create their own head retool. Hence it's "almost certainly never" going to happen. If you want me to say it won't happen then fine - "it's not going to happen" (Sky Shadow, 2010.)

(And I have no idea how what someone else independently writes can make me more adamant.)

Remember to remind me to say told you so when it happens.

You do that.

[kup]

You gotta love that MV75