if Prowl is $60 that would really suck

 

Or you could, y'know, show TRU that this stuff will sell here if they agree to stock it.

I already picked Prowl up as I had no idea if the licensing etc would be sorted for outside of Japan, but if Sunstorm comes out here I'll more than likely pick him up. I do rather like the newer MP seeker toy.

 

I already got my Takara Datsun and have no interest in another seeker repaint. It's really too bad they didn't decide to bring over Sideswipe - I would have been all over him.

 

Sink?!? Lol really???

 

While I have MP Prowl, MP Sunstorm is waaaaayyyyyy out of my price range here in the States. So I will continue to just sit and stare at a picture of a Con I will never own.

 

Here comes the spelling police!

I think he meant "...seems out of sync."  

At least Prowl isn't part of NSYNC lolz

"Bye bye bye!" *flips over tables*

Anyway, I'm kind of surprised TRU MP Prowl is going to be $50. Is this information on his price confirmed? I was hoping it would be more along the lines of $40-50.

 

use the inevitable 20% off coupon

 

Prowl is not going to look like an attractive proposition for only ten pounds less than a seeker.  

 

60 Quid for MP Prowl? But isnt the Takara version cheaper?

 

really?.. holding masterpiece prowl in one hand.. and say, human alliance jazz in the other.. to me, prowl feels like a $60 figure and jazz feels like a $30 figure.. so, as long as the US version is $60 or cheaper.. i think it'd be about right.

$40-$50 would probably be a more appealing price.. but whether it's $40 or $60 they're going to sell out quickly.. that's assuming hasbro isn't too late.

seems pretty stupid for them to have waited this long.. takara is stealing sales from them like crazy.. for those people who usually wait for the hasbro release, i think it'd be in hasbro's best interest to at least announce their future releases.

i'll probably pick up another prowl once the collectors in my area who don't have it are able to get it.

and i'm SUPER incredibly excited for sunstorm.. he's definitely one of those figures where i'll pass on the takara version and pick up the cheaper hasbro version if they make one.

my seeker army keeps growing.. i REALLY REALLY think takara is missing out when it comes to the coneheads. i mean, i don't think it'd cost them too much to retool the starscream mold to give us the coneheads and it would definitely beef up the decepticons a bit more.. especially with wheeljack, bumblebee, and magnus coming, the decepticons are in dyer need of troops.

i mean, there are two versions of each of the seekers, but not a single official* conehead.

 

That price is ridiculous for Prowl. Most of the people that want him would have imported it already or will import it once they find out that it is cheaper to import the thing.

 

Supporting a product that is overpriced in the hopes that they carry more clearly overpriced products probably isn't really the best thing for collectors in the long run.

If you are willing to pay any price for any thing, there is no incentive to make great products or price them fairly.

If he's cheaper and comes out much earlier from overseas, you owe nothing to Hasbro or TRU to buy their attempt at being collector friendly. Especially since we don't really have any assurance he won't be lacking paint apps or have strange tattoos or Hasbro in-jokes added to his colors.

 

bummer.. i can't see collecting G1 masterpiece figures and just getting one of the datsuns.. just seems weird.

 

And New Zealand will never get Masterpiece ever again, after MP-01. Oh well, I just import the TakaraTomy ones, anyway. Cheaper and better. Seriously, screw those UK prices. I'd still like another shot at an affordable MP-10, though. And MP-11. Those Hasbro Asia reissues are a rip-off.

After getting all three, I have to agree. Prowl was nice by himself, but with Bluestreak and Smokescreen alongside him, it's perfection.

 

£69.99 for Prowl is obscene.

I paid about £50 to import the Takara version and the figure is already overpriced at that amount to be honest.

It's a great toy, but I can't think of any criteria by which seventy quid is a reasonable asking price.

 

60 quid for Prowl is hilarious. I can deal with sunstorm for 70, thats been set already for other seekers but 60 fir Prowl? Glad I imported mine for half that.

And there you go America, change the £ for $ and you have the US price. Happy you waited for Hasbro?

 

Every single Autobot car has been overpriced for what you get. They feel so damn cheap and the QC is piss poor. At $20-30 they would be worth it. Nothing more.

 

Considering the mp seekers are weaponizer sized, and the cars are voyager sized, this puts them both at twice the expected retail price for their sizes, which doesn't seem too bad for masterpieces... These will of course go into the inevitable bogof or bogohp sales TRU regularly hold, where they will become worth the money. I'd even say that at £70 Masterpiece Sunstorm seems surprisingly cheap compared to £100 Acid Storm! I really thought Prowl would be £50 though! There had better be some sort of incentive to get Hasbro Prowl over an import! Even a slightly different paint job would be something!

 

Yup....half the price.

 

I have a strict rule of TF collecting where I don't buy more than one figure with the same mold. Helps keep my wallet happy