http://www.e-hobby.co.jp/cgi-bin/omc?&port=33301&req=PRODUCT&code=tf_cybertron_00

Thanks to TFormers for the heads-up.

Retail price is 8,500 Yen (8,925 including tax). Limited to 500 pieces, will ship in October 2006.

 

Surely it isnt limited to 500 in the retail wide release in the US....

 

Who cares? You can IMPORT it from Japan! With a special sticker on the packaging that proves you threw loads of money out of the window to IMPORT IT FROM JAPAN!  

 

Man its like having your cake and eating it too  

But ya how can anyone NOT afford to pass this one up  

 

I absolutely refuse to pay an extra $50 for the EXACT SAME THING... that is, unless there is a pretty pretty picture on the back of the box.

 

jeje, that Unicron head is creepy.

 

Uhh... welcome to early February. How did you miss this?

 

 

October!?!? I could have sworn Primus would be on U.S. shelves in the next month or two....did I just misread things?

 

I may be wrong, but wasnt the Unicron head gonna be a US exclusive, as in not available elsewhere without having to import it yourself?

 

I skip a lot of news.  

 

It is. This is a japanese release.

 

More precisely, it's a Japanese import of the US release.

 

At least I don't have to import Primus, twice.   I will own that Unicron head though. 

 

 

How much is that in $US? Comparable to the first Takara release? I never got the Takara version despite preferring the packaging. If this comes in that same box, but with a sticker or something about the head, for about the same, I'll go for it.

 

I live in Japan near Osaka, and I have not been able to find a single Takara Primus anywhere. The eHobby option may be the only way collectors here can get a Primus. I assume not many toy shops ordered Primus after watching Galaxy Force toys, previous Unicrons, and Omega Supremes sit on the shelves.

 

i already have the takara primus...now I will just wait and get what i get in the US.