Haslab Victory Saber

[doublespy]

Was there a cheaper avenue to back Unicron back then? Want this but am not prepared to pay EB’s price.

[Krayt]

Was there a cheaper avenue to back Unicron back then? Want this but am not prepared to pay EB’s price.

When you consider the exchange rate places it just over 250 aud, so some singapore sites might get it about that mark, you need to remember you still need shipping on top.

Postage would be about 100 from anywhere oversees, so 350ish is bang on target.

EDIT: it’s getting listed as 290sgd.... so 294 aud.... shipping would be more than 60ish....

[nalops]

Star Saber is 180 GBP (not sure shipping and tax included) on UK Hasbro Pulse which is around 340 AUD, so our price maybe isn't that bad.

[Trent]

Was there a cheaper avenue to back Unicron back then? Want this but am not prepared to pay EB’s price.

No. But EB/Zing price was just the US haslab price converted to AUD. Considering that in the US they had to pay extra for shipping, Australia ended up the cheapest place in the world for Unicron. It would seem this time around either Hasbro or EB/Zing aren’t feeling so generous.

[SarhBear]

No. But EB/Zing price was just the US haslab price converted to AUD.

Right now that'd be ~246aud for Star Saber which, like I said, if we were looking at 269 or so I'd be eager to grab this. Would be basically the US price+GST, or the RRP of a commander and a leader together plus a little premium. As things stand it's just a biiiit too much for me.

[nalops]

You'd have to factor in shipping and some other things so even 270 would be optimistic. Unicron is an outlier probably because they scrambled to get it here.

Remember you get like a year to pay it off unlike US who have to pay as soon as the campaign ends.

[Trent]

Right now that'd be ~246aud for Star Saber which, like I said, if we were looking at 269 or so I'd be eager to grab this. Would be basically the US price+GST, or the RRP of a commander and a leader together plus a little premium. As things stand it's just a biiiit too much for me.

That’s fair enough. They ain’t cheap and you have to draw the line on unnecessary plastic toys somewhere.

You'd have to factor in shipping and some other things so even 270 would be optimistic. Unicron is an outlier probably because they scrambled to get it here.

Remember you get like a year to pay it off unlike US who have to pay as soon as the campaign ends.

Considering these things aren’t made in the US they have to factor in shipping too. They don’t all get sent to the US then reshipped from there. They head to their destination countries straight from the factory.

[DELTAprime]

Looks nice. I'll be ordering him when my bills for the fortnight are all paid on Tuesday.

[doublespy]

Right now that'd be ~246aud for Star Saber which, like I said, if we were looking at 269 or so I'd be eager to grab this. Would be basically the US price+GST, or the RRP of a commander and a leader together plus a little premium. As things stand it's just a biiiit too much for me.

I’m kinda in the same boat. I’d bite straight away at equivalent of $180 USD and change plus shipping.

The more expensive the original US price is, the harder it is for me to accept this ‘doubling USD price is our AUD price’ practice.

Think I might even try preordering on Taobao for Star Saber.

[griffin]

Screenshots of the reveal video.

The main elements...
- Saber as a robot is about Deluxe sized.
- Star Saber (Saber combined with rest of jet parts) is about Leader sized.
- Brainmaster (inside Saber) is smaller than a Titanmaster head, which seems a bit small to me.
- Victory Leo as a robot is about Voyager sized.
- Victory Saber (combined form) is probably about Commander sized.
(the American price of us$180 is the cost of a Titan (150) and Voyager (30) over there... so our price of au$370 isn't too far off the cost of a Titan and Voyager here, but we certainly didn't get the same great deal that we got for Unicron here, which was less than double the US price.)

11,000 units - Minimum number of backers by October 10th.
14,000 units - tier 1 bonus item - V-lock cannon and Blast effects.
17,000 units - tier 2 bonus item - unknown
20,000 units - tier 2 bonus item - unknown

Notes from the video...

Star Saber promotional video
* Brainmaster: Brain of Courage
* Autobot Saber
* Autobot Star Saber
* Victory Leo
* Victory Saber for $179.99


Brainmaster of Courage
* Inch tall, smaller than Titan Master
* Brain master goes into chest and transforms into face.

Autobot Saber (prototype slightly mistransformed due to fragility issues)
* Head is on a turret bucket so head can rotate
* Hound for robot mode comparison

Saber
* Brainmaster can sit in the cockpit
* There is a pivot where you can pop the brain out of the cockpit for the iconic transformation scene


Star Saber
* Evan can convert the Star Saber prototype
* Hound for robot mode comparison (would walk into his fists)
* Bunch of articulation, butterfly joints in the chest for the dynamic posing of the sword strikes
* Showing the rendered Star Saber alt mode
* Rendered Star Saber in the iconic sword pose
* Sword – Not on the current prototype ext revision will allow you to choose to change the direction of the blade to be anime or toy-accurate


Victory Leo
* Rendered alt mode
* Rendered robot in G1 box art
* Comparison to Hound again (would walk into his wings)
* Cannons are articulated
* Cannons can also come off
* Can go on fist or in hands, are 5mm port friendly

* No conversions today

Victory Saber
* Renders of giant space-jet thing
* Iconic render of the classic animation transformation scene
* Render of the front-facing Victory Saber

11,000 backers needed by Oct 10, 2021

T1 unlock – 14,000 – V-lock Cannon & Blast Effects
V-lock cannon (it’s big, taller than deluxe, can snap on to victory leo)