Please forgive me if this is old news, but I can't find it anywhere else.

Just spotted Hasbro's Masterpiece Bumbleee in the UK. Flappy crotch art and all. A not at all inconsiderable £79.99 at Toys R Us in Enfield, North London. They had a couple on the shelf.

 

This is most certainly not old news. Congratulations on your find!

 

Thanks man! Wish I had news of a better price, however...

 

On the plus side, more Tf over here is good. On the down side, that price.

 

They're having a laugh at that price!

 

Quick, everyone go out and panic buy, when the price drops to takara prices  

 

I'd love Hasbro to bring all of Takara's Masterpieces to the UK. But at those prices they'll sell sod all and be judged a failure, presumably. Unless the strategy is to price high and sell as many as they can to collectors before then discounting to a price that might sell to normal humans? Unlikely but you never know.

 

£80!!!??? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha etc...

 

£80? Ludicrous

 

£80 are they having a laugh   i'll wait for the massive discount like with the mp seekers  

 

£80! I can see them flying off the shelves at that price. Just like the £10 dino sparkers and £5 FOC data discs that are in my tru.  

 

Wow. TRU and Hasbro are crazy. Don't they know that Takara sells these things months earlier and for less money?

 

That price? They probably figured, with all the Bumblebee fans out there, why not?

 

£80 for mp bumblebee, whiskey tango foxtrot!
Seriously, I probably paid that in total for this and the G2 version too. Hasbro and tru have lost it.

 

How much!?  

Conclusive proof (if any were truly needed) that both HasUK and TRU haven't got a single, solitary clue.

To quote the great Immortals: "Get stuffed."

 

Funny how they're aware people will pay a premium for small toys.

But refuse to acknowledge that most of the intended buyers are capable of researching the best price.

 

£80 for MP Bumblebee!? Are you kidding me!? Lol Hasbro UK you need to sort your pricing out big time! I bought two MP Tracks for less than that price combined! Lol

 

They have plenty of form for this idiocy. The Grimlock reissue started out at £100 and took a big hit, Platinum Trypy and the Coneheads were also stupidly priced and had to come down (grudgingly in Trypy's case - has/did it ever go sub-£100?) and this is more of the same shit.

They obviously look at the product listing but not at the actual product size.

I think they have a strategy to sell One at this full price to the only rabid-Completist in the UK who has to have one of every packaging variation NOAW and has no Wifi connection. Then the five or six they also imported sit around waiting for the price drop.

 

When you think about it, the problems the pound sterling have been having, the cost of getting Bee into the country as he's not made here, that will play a part. Then couple it with ToysRUs being robbing swine... It's ok tho, because they probably only have two or three in the country! I looked for the Computron set online but since they won't let you order it and it's just 'sold in store's I used their search function.. Not a single store had it. Not one. And they wonder why we import?

 

I assume that just means they're already listing it on their website but haven't received any stock yet.