e-Hobby and TFCC Partnership - Botcon 2012 Invasion Boxset Will Get a Japan Release

Wonder if that means that there was a S-ton of them left that the club didn't think they could sell on their own. I am one who liked the set, but based on the feedback in the lead up to the convention, a lot of people did not.

I'd say that's most likely the case, I believe there were no reports of it being sold out. It also has the largest number of box sets yet for a Botcon, so wouldn't be surprised if they felt they had to find another way of disposing of it.

^Even this link shows off the figures better than the official BotCon page.

If that's the "big news", I'm severely underwhelmed... Hopefully there's more news forthcoming...

This is really "big news" for Japanese TFfans!

Hopefully there's an announcement for the US too. Pete did say it would be great news for bot US and Japanese fans...

It's a great opportunity for the Japanese fans.

I'm guessing they're probably going to offer the subscription service as well.

I would tend to think this agreement was in the works prior to BotCon, and that these were set aside for this.

Randy

Great news for Japanese fans, but only 150 sets? Isn't that like, 10 percent of the entirety of the production line?

Erm,i do not need this set,so easily a skip for me.

this. looks so good those toys photography! :3
Glad I got mine and it's on the way to me!

Can eHobby just buy FP, so this way we can have a real company servicing us fans?

one could dream! would be great if they end up like the original Takara-Hasbro partnership!

I'm hoping its a reciprocal agreement and we have access to e-hobby exclusives thru the club.

Yes me too, or joint exclusives like Classics Sunstorm or SG Cassettetrons.

Randy

That is good news for Japanese fans. They aren't bad at all.

QFT

The sell out announcement was tweeted during the weekend of Botcon. Not sure if the 'Ehobby 150' is part of the original run.

I chuckled. This would be awesome.

Great!

And what about with the European partnership?

Very interesting. I think I'm OK with this particular thing, as long as it doesn't become a large number of them through E-Hobby every year, and stays a small amount. For other things, like the club exclusives and e-Hobby exclusives, let them cross back and forth in large numbers, by all means. The box sets won't be very special if they do that though.

If they're producing larger runs of exclusive toys now, they should be able to lower the prices a little.

...considering the TFCC pages look like something out of the Geocities/Angelfire days of web design... *anything* looks better outside TFCCs pages.

^ haha

^ Would be interesting.

Never going to happen, we arent a big enough market to the idiots in power

For 35,900 yen it had better come with the cheap little headband, or the Japanese fans may as well just import an American set

Big deal. So a few lucky Japanses collectors get to avoid e-bay scalpers. So what do we get in America from E-Hobby ???

This is the big news? I was expecting a real partnership, not the club dumping its leftovers onto Ehobby like they're TJ Maxx.

$450, wow, what a deal.

In all honesty I would prefer to spend extra money to import myself or pay a mark up than have to give the Funpub disaster club any more money.

I am assuming Ehobby will sell the Funpub sets directly so the Asian market is lucky not to have to deal with the clusterf^ck known as Funpub. What a joke that crew is.

That's actually cool for Japanese fans. Makes sense since It's got Jap original charecters Overlord and Metalhawk, plus SG Tracks is Diaclone Tracks.

It's FunPub, so of course they won't. Lowering the cost to produce and keeping the prices the same = FunPub making even more profit than they do now. Yeah, they're a buisness first and foremost. But they're a buisness operating as a fan club. And it's become more and more obvious over the last couple years that they care more about their profits than the fans.

No bigger proof of that than what happened at this year's Con with the SG Junkions, and Pete's apparent complete apathy about it afterwards, even towards Primus package holders that missed out because they couldn't get there before Saturday. Doesn't speak well for the company when they seem to hold even Primus package holders with such little regard.

Ok...so they are dumping leftovers at both SDCC & e-hobby...one would think this would make them realize that shattered glass is not nearly as popular as they think it is - dear club: go back and focus on G1 like you did with Runabout & Runamuck. The time in which they sold out should prove that this makes sense.

PS Bet you $10 that next year we will see more shattered glass.

Too bad they can't re-issue older sets: I'm sure a *lot* of Japanese fans would love to get more Animated.

It doesn't really say that at all, you might be right, but equally you could be absolutely wrong. Personally I would have much preferred all the SG this year had been done properly as the repurposable option they gave them and that SG Soundwave just hadnt happened. That doesnt mean SG isnt popular though.

1800 boxsets this year, the last classic set was 2010 and that only had 1400 boxsets, 2009 another classics style set failed to sell out after the convention and that was only 1350. So assuming this deal was preplanned they still sold 250 more sets by the end of the convention than they did in 2010.

Course its not that simple far to many factors go into what sells and why. Location moulds, guests, price and if something sells out its impossible to know how many more they could have sold, but nothing about this announcement tells me SG isnt popular.

Unfortunately.

might work

seeing that Gigatron and Metalhawk were originally Japan only

I agree. Its 19:10 EST and TFCC hasn't announced anything about a real partnership. What's so exciting about this news for us in the U.S.? Is this a reciprocal agreement or what? Do we on this side of the world get access to e-hobby stuff or is this just benefitting Japanese fans only?

If its not a joint venture, then what's the point of us getting excited over this?

I'm sure there are quite a few Japanese fans who wouldn't mind getting a hold of some older Botcon exclusives. What do we in the U.S. get? Is e-hobby going to re-release some older exclusives just for us?

To be honest....I don't think there will be particular EHobby releases anymore just the joint stuff that that will be sold by them and TCC. One is for Western Market, the other for the Eastern. But it's gonna be the same figures.

So I really don't think anyone should get their hopes up for that matter. The best thing about it though is that at least for those who don't want to deal with TCC they can acquire the figure through EHobby instead. That's a big relief.

How will they get that Soundwave headband?!

Why can't the TFCC offer it for 398 yen???

maybe the news is ehobby sells our shit now...LOL
(choke on that ya bastards)

funny how that was magnastic huge news...

FP can't even do a teaser tweet right....

According to their tweet:

This is gonna rock! e-HOBBY NEWS 2012/05/25�i“Á•Ê�†�j�b e-HOBBY SHOPƒ��[ƒ‹ƒ}ƒKƒWƒ“ AWESOME things for U.S and Japanese fans!

I'm still waiting for the awesome news...I guess any day now. I'll just sit on my chair, drink in one hand, phone on the other. Any minute now...I'm sure the awesome news is just coming around the corner....any minute.......patiently......waiting.

LMAO!...lol

This is what I'm hoping for.

Japanese fans get access to BotCon and TCC exclusives that would normally be hard to acquire.

Non-Japanese fans get access to e-Hobby exclusives through Fun Publications (must end up being cheaper than getting them from BBTS, TFSource, and the like - at least for those in the USA where FP is located).

e-Hobby & Fun Publications work together on some exclusives that would not normally happen if it weren't for them working together. Like something like Classics Sunstorm or perhaps some SG G1 molds like the Recordicons.

Randy

This thing is much more expensive than the other BC2012 boxsets! That is messed up :/

Wow, $450 for a set...can't wait for the over priced deals we (150 of us anyway) will get stateside from ehobby via fun pub!

I second what has been said above. I don't think reflects on shattered glass popularity, just funpub's aggressive expansion. Hopefully this will eventually drive down costs for botcon and the upcoming subscription service figures...but this is funpub we are talking about!

Magnastic? Man, I can't deal with that now.

and SG Ultra Magnus is colored like Powered Convoy

FP have their problems: overpriced shipping fees and the outdated site are some of them. But, thinking about the exclusive toys, FP gives to us a lot more toys than eHobby. With the subscription services they would be even more.

Hmmm... probably we'll only have joint exclusives.

That is my guess. Both companies will share the same exclusives. We'll have access to eHobby stuff through the club because eHobby and TFCC toys will be the same.

Who wouldn't like to get more Animated?

Can't argue with that. I mean, good for them, but I feel like it was implied that US fans would hear about something new and cool today.