Animated Wave 2 Deluxes Blackarachnia and Autobot Ratchet Out in Cincinnati Area

Board member NotFastEnuff called me on his way home from BotCon this evening to say that he picked up Deluxe Blackarachnia and Deluxe Autobot Ratchet at K-Mart in Florence, KY. I just got home myself, and the K-Mart in Forest Park had some as well.

That's good to hear for those at Botcon, but not so good for those that aren't.

If I didn't just drop $130 on Animated this weekend, I'd probably start asking for help finding them...

Help me DeeJayyyy!!! lol

AND I FOUND........that I hate you guys.

Well, that's a good sign we'll see a hefty mix of waves 1 and 2 on retail shelves come August when most of us will end up seeing the line with the store resets.

?? I was just there last night, and they had no animated stuff. That stinks!

Crap! I drove right through Florence about 3 hours ago!

The Dayton, OH (I think, Harrison was marked on the bridge I crossed to get back on the interstate) Super Kmart had those two as well, its right before the IN boarder. Had a whole endcap full of deluxes, the two pack, and Voyagers Bulkhead, Megatron, and Starscream.

Stopped on my way home cause my friend was bummed he didn't get the Prime/Megatron battle damaged two pack since they were going for double mark up at the show.

EDIT: receipt says Harrison, OH

Yes!! I got two for me from a super cool member Thanks my friend.

ooo ratchet >>

grrrrrrrrrr *head exbloads* saying y Cincinnati y not arkansas hasbro u SUCK

Unbelievable.



If this is widespread and not just an isolated incident, could one of our Cincinatti members help me pick up a Ratchet???

Aprim and I was just got back from the one in Dayton and all they had left was a bunch of 2 packs, a few Bulkheads and 1 Lockdown. Don't make the trip if that's not what you are looking for.

Yeah same here...would love a ratchet and black arachnia

Hope there's time for a kmart run tomorrow!

Sallah

Finally found my receipt, I was in Harrison not Dayton. It's on Harrison Avenue off the Dry Fork Road exit, turn left if you're going towards Indiana on (52/74 I think, whatever way the sign points towards BP/Dunkin Donuts) and then the first right and right at the first stop sign (like 100 feet from the first turn) to turn onto Harrison Ave, its just a little bit up the road there.

(513) 367-0392 is the stores phone number, not sure how far out of the way from the duke center since I fail at having any sort of decent memory or sense of time while driving.

Not like we would have had a chance, the "dealers" cleaned out all the stores and then charged double in the dealers room. The original finder was VERY lucky.

can anyone pic me up wave 1+2 or any of wave 1-2 (d-luxes)for cost + shipping? purdy please?

Cool, now go back and grab me a Bulkhead.

it just occured to me bulkhead would make great base for a custom mister t.

I'm thinking of putting a goatee and glasses on it and making it a custom of me as a transformer.

Made me HATE HASBRO more.... I decided not to spend a dime this month on the animated figures or cracks!

purchasing will resume from May...

did any one find voyager prime?

this sux! damn hasbro!

No.

That combined with all the botcon sets that have and will make it to ebay in the next few days makes me think they should change the name of the convention to scalpercon.

Do not buy from scalpers! Let them have those figures forever or stagnate with them for so long, like decades, that they'll start selling those toys (scalp warmers) below SRP in ebay!

this would work in an ideal world... :-)

i'm dying of anticipation for tf animated happy plastics!

I am very cheesed off the way Hasbro handled animated. I mean come on they had to know this was going to happen. If the damn club store sold newer stuff instead of all the shelfwarming crap that they had this wouldnt of happened. I saw a dealer pop into the dealer room Friday Afternoon during setup with 9 TRU bags bursting at the seems, He had a big ole grin on his face. I wanted to knock that grin right off his face with a sledge hammer.

Oh what was REALLY terrible was at the "TFW meet and swap" in room 2121 there was this "dealer" selling Botcon Megatron for $150.00 . Mind you at this point Botcon hadn't sold out of the figure either and so he basiclly wanted triple price for it. when I declined he said "Well I've already sold two for that price" ..... So this guy had at least THREE convention exclusive Megatrons. Which FP was trying to limit to one per person. And he's louging opn the bed in shorts with his legs spread. Guess where my foot wanted to go.

And yeah every Animated figure was at LEAST double priced. The enitre Dealers room was just Scalper central...EXCEPT for BBTS they didn't have a single Botcon set or Animated toy at thier booth. Honest gents those guys.

Hey, don't lump us all together. Some of us have been making a concerted effort to get at least part of the product away from scalper hands and pass it on at cost in that same room.

Both of those guys post here, and I'm sure they'll have something to say themselves when they find this thread.

So you wanted to hurt someone...why? Because he had three sets? So he bought someone's set who didn't want it. Why is that a problem for you? The other two sets they had were their own. They have every right to take their personal allotment of the sets and do whatever they darn well please. If people are silly enough to buy at the markup, which was all of a whopping $25, before FunPub even sells out, then so what?


I believe I know who that was. Don't be so quick to Judge, man. Most of the dealers are fans and collectors too, you know. I'm not saying there's not some rotten folks there who do that stuff, butit's not all of them.

If the person we both saw with those bags is indeed the same, you should know that he didn't put them up for sale - he was packing them all into his suitcases during setup time and taking them back home, presumably for others to enjoy.

Yaaay, maybe they will make there way over here.

I guessed they were out when I saw nearly half a dozen of them on ebay, anyone here lucky enough to get Rachet?

I just wanted to clear up something. I only found Ratchet, and assumed that if Ratchet was out, so was BA. Deejay found both. Sorry for the mixup, and happy hunting guys and gals!!!

Lets hope Animated makes it to my area soon

Well if you know of any of those "nice guys" who are simply buying up to honestly spread the joy among the fans then have them get in touch with me about spreading some this way will ya?

I too hate the scalper prices but we really dont know what or why some people get alot of pieces for. Maybe to scalp and sale at 2x the price but maybe they take them to friends back home or trade with friends like us on the boards. There is actually a dispute on hisstank.com about the new joe wave 7 where someone bought them all.....lots of bad things were said. Anywho....I managed to snag a botcon boxed set for $475 on ebay. It was the cheapest one I have yet to see so I snagged it. Now I got to get get blurr,sideswipe,rodimus,and magatron.

Well if anyone finds more of these out today and is in the mood to spread the joy to their fellow TF fans then be sure to run home and PM me immediately!

Well It's pretty easy to guess how a dealer got 3 or more sets with the rules saying a person gets just one. He had his employees get them and then he could resell it. And it wasn't just a $35 markup. he was selling ONLY Megatron for $150 which is almost triple price. Plus it was the arrogence of the way he presented the deal. When I declined the inflated price politly he acted as though I were foolish to turn down such a "Good deal"... Stating it was sold out....Then I walked into the dealers room the next day and bought it at the Convention booth.

Dude. You're talking about Gen1Fan and Megamus here. There's no question about it, and I was going to leave their names out, but this needs to be made clear.

They have no "employees" to get them extra sets. It's just them. Anything they had, they acquired fairly. Whatever your thoughts on their attitudes, they're OK guys at the root of it and they play fairly. They were even part of the effort to get the Animated product distributed to the con-goers at cost. They, like myself, even gave some of it away as prizes.

If they had both a Primus and a Dealer package, they had every right to buy a set for both badges and do what they pleased. Any issues you have with their prices are your personal freedom, but there's no need to start assuming they did anything against the rules or to circumvent them.

We snagged whole bunches of Wave 2 around the area. 3 sets for 3 people just to find out that more TFWers wanted them.

Me, 2 of em from a board member. Happy Day!!

went to the kmart by the airport in ky and got all of wave 1 and 2. they were right in front on a pallet. yeah for me. didnt have enough money to pick up anymore. spent it at botcon.

Maybe this is overkill, but I gotta hang this one on Hasbro.

Just when it seemed like the botcon situation wouldn't cause nearly as bad of a problem as it did last year, Hasbro had to go and release animated figures in that area only.

Man that's pouring fuel on the fire.

And they can't honestly sit there and give that stupid excuse of not knowing there would be such a great demand for them crap either. They like to say that a lot.

On the other side, it does create a bigger frenzy and that's all they probably care about. Hype + frenzy = mega sales. So it may be a smart move on their end, but it's rather dirty if you ask me.

Honestly. I mean, I see where the dealers that had Animated were trying to make a profit, and they were well within their right to do so. While I wasn't willing to pay double-price for an Animated toy, there were plenty of people who were. It was obvious with all the people snatching them up around the room. For those like me unwilling to pay that much, there's no need to gripe. Insane Galvatron and I just dropped by an area Walmart on the way home and easily found and got some Animated figures at retail. Patience is a virtue, so there's no need to complain.

Agreed. It's not Hasbro's responsibility to be concerned or watchful for scalpers. They wanted Animated toys in the region, they got it. I stopped by a couple of Wal*Mart and Toys 'r Us stores in the area on the way to the 'Con, and they each had plenty of wave 1 left.

FROM BOTCON WEBSITE
PER PERSON, not Per Badge. Even if they didn't do anything underhanded and sneaky it went against the Spirit of what Botcon was TRYING to do when whoever it was announced they had AT LEAST 3 of the sets. And I got DARN lucky to get my set, they announced being sold out only about 3 or 4 minutes AFTER I bought mine, and this guy wasn't alone. there were people walking around the con on Friday trying to sell theres.... With the 5 Figure set I can understand.... you had to get that along with a full acess ticket... but for People who then stood in a second line to buy figures and then immediatly turn around and sell them...NO...BS there is no defense for that. My figures went into my personal collection, there's bags destroyed when I tore them assunder... A guy who had at least 3 when the Cons Website says each person is only supposed to get ONE gets no defense.

Let me point out for starters that you are assuming ONE person had three. Megamus and Gen1Fan, TWO people, are what is at question here. Selling two previously at whatever price is undoubtedly a combination of both of their allotments, not just one or the other's, as they work together each year.

Your quote, as clear and accurately from the website as it is, does not reflect the reality of how it works. A person who had numerous Primus Packages in their own name would not be allowed to pick up numerous exclusives themselves, according to what the staff was able to tell me about the way that setup works.

However, someone who has both a Primus and a Dealer registration is allowed one per registration (which is the same as one per badge, in this case). I myself had this arrangement, and used it. Neither one has been sold. Maybe neither one will be. But I am considering parting with my previous standard of buying doubles of some eclusives, much as I parted with my previous standard of buying double of all exclusives. If I choose to sell that, how is it any more fair for me to do so, than for Megamus or Gen1Fan to do so? I have every privilege to own that second set, and every right to do with it as I please once I chose to redeem my ability to purchase that set.

I also wonder on the timing of when you claim they had extras. As of Saturday, anyone could take another spin through the line, and get another set on their badge. If you established that this was from a third set on Saturday, then you have no right at all to be upset at them for getting it, no matter how you choose to interperet the exclusive restrictions. I could have gone through and gotten more sets with my own badges, if I had been so inclined, and the Saturday part is indeed spelled out clearly in the same text you quoted from.

This wasn't on Saturday.... This was on Friday, and the phrase was "I've sold 2 of these at $150 (Megatron ONLY)" And he was trying to sell a third so that is at least three sets on friday he had. And....

From Dictionary.com
THIS is what was happening, so while I'm GLAD you were trying to be honest and we're all better people for having an honest dealer... THIS guy was not. and I'm LUCKY I got my Megatron set. and I pity the people who wanted him and have to pay ebay prices because people who bought them JUST to sell them got in line first.

You are still being entirely too literal with his statement. It's no different that me stating that I had sold out of some of Deltastar's reprolabel sets last year. They're not mine, but I can sell on his behalf, just as Megamus and Gen1fan assist one another.

And deltastars sets are made to be sold and can have more made, these were limited peices that they were scooping up away from other people who wanted them, and then selling Rodimus and Megatron seperatly for double price. THATS SCALPING BY DEFINITION!