the distinction is very important since this is an import and not a domestic hasbro release. it was released by a separate company.

 

As it turns out, read somewhere else and saw their website, delayed to December 2nd

 

This is the first labeled TT release on Pulse, not counting MPM-8, which released like any other MP. There's no real point of reference for this, and nothing at all that addresses the repeated delays. We can speculate it being due to shipping and demand, but as stated, this is still new territory as far as Pulse goes; past TT Mall Exclusive scenarios may not apply at all and this could just be a standalone scenario specific just to this release.

 

Keeping my fingers crossed they have more of these available than were up for pre-order (which I missed).

 

while all of this is true, it has very little to do with what i said. you said that this was hasbros own product, which it isnt.

 

And I still don't see that as an important distinction now with the brand harmonization. This isn't being marketed like a TT Mall Exclusive, and the products are still manufactured and packaged in the same location, with no significant difference in packaging, if any. While just a few years ago this could have resulted in wildly different figures and packaging, this is no longer the case today. In fact, everything I buy now via Hasbro is labeled as Takara Tomy on all packaging.

 

Maybe they don’t ship directly from the factories to Hasbro. Maybe they stop in Japan first and TT sends them to Hasbro. Inefficient but we don’t know how it works.

 

brand unification only applies to the main lines. this is marketed as an import on pulse, therefore it is an important distinction regardless of if you think it is or not. this has different packaging from usa releases, isnt being released domestically and is not cross branded hasbro/takara tomy like the mainlines are.

 

You'll never convince me the distinction is important. This being an import or sold in exclusive markets doesn't have anything to do with the branding, especially when every other product they have except this, and possibly King Poseidon still carries that cross branding. It's no different than Hardee's/Carl's Jr or Speedway/Super America. Same product, same packaging, same manufacturing, same revenue. Just because one sells a product in a select location doesn't make it a different company's product.

 

Soooo much of what you said there is simply incorrect.

Takara and Hasbro are different companies. Hardee's and Carl's Jr. (to use one of your examples) are not.
Many of these products WILL NOT have cross branding.

 

Separate, but partnered companies, yes, but the product and the branding are the same almost completely across the board now. The distinction makes no difference when it comes to Generations, Masterpiece, or Studio Series. As far as Star Convoy being considered an import, it makes no difference, especially when it's Hasbro doing the distributing, just as with every other Transformer release.

 

EXCEPT in cases where a toy is exclusive to either Hasbro or Takara/Tomy. And those specific instances are the whole point of this conversation, so acting like they don't matter because everything else is cross-branded entirely misses what is being discussed in the first place.

 

What was being discussed in the first place was the fact Pulse still hadn't shipped any of these, and then we got hung up on the fact these were Takara imports, and that was somehow significant despite every other Takara product that Hasbro distributes being made overseas and brought here for them to distribute under the same brand unification, these being distinguishable only by the fact they weren't a mainline release, which also warranted a significant price markup and repeated delays. But sure, let's keep going back and forth about how there is no important distinction with these from any other Hasbro-Takara distribution but price and production size.

 

Then you are choosing to be ignorant and can’t be helped. Continue on spouting your fallacies

Wait weren’t you the one saying there was not distinction? And now you’re saying there is? You really need to make up your mind

 

Can’t wait for Armada Prime to be announced as a Tokyo Fish Market exclusive, available only with a qualifying purchase of ¥15,000 worth of salmon.

 

Weren't you the one saying I can't be helped but you're continuing to drag this out even further? Now you're trying to change my words? I've never said there was no distinction, I've said repeatedly the distinction is meaningless and insignificant, but sure, let's keep revisiting it over and over, because you seem to think the distinction actually matters? Either accept you're not going to convince me the distinction matters, or keep rehashing this over and over just to fill your time. I'm not going to keep reiterating the same point that the distinction makes no difference, but by all means, you keep insisting that it does to you.

 

Sooooooo, Star Convoy? If there is another delay from Pulse or another B.S. " We had to cancel your order due to the shipment getting destroyed", like the cassettes. I will be supremely miffed!!!

 

Kindly get out of this thread please? Lol.

 

Really getting antsy for Super Megatron's reveal.

Where the hell is it TakTom?  

 

Building up to whatever "Project Raiden" is on Dec 3.