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.