I hope it gets back, I don\'t have the cash but this will show hasbro we put our money where our mouths are.

 

$575 × 8000 = $4,600,000

 

 

i have to say that grey prototype is beautiful, in some ways moreso than the preliminary painted final version

 

Here are 3 things that would help this project immensely.

1 - G1 Packaging (nice decepticon box, looking like the trypricon one with the actual toy pics in pannels with play features). ** THIS ONE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE**
2 - Add a smaller bot with him. Maybe use the Clear Combiner Wars Starscream (Ghost) that came with the Galvatronus combiner (to depicts the Starscream\'s Ghost ep). or something new/cooler: Kranix!?
3 - Some form of Unicron book would be cool. Maybe a Reprint of the Unicron series from IDW.

 

one of us...one of us...

 

But is that accurate? I'm reading conflicting info now where others are saying HasbroPulse won't ship for free unless you renew/add the $50 Premium membership. So which is it? Again, no mention of it either way on the HasLab site.

Haha, yeah. But for that, photos and demonstration matter
For the clarification on where the 8,000 tally must come from, a statement is all that's needed.

This.  

 

people would be complaining why it didn't cost $150

 

That's really a false equivalency. There are people that would complain at $1, or even would complain if you paid them $150. That's not the issue. The issue is value for money. And $575 is a stretch for many. If the quality/value didn't meet a $350 price tag, then it would deserve questioning (not "complaining") about not being $150. The $575 price is being questioned for this reason.

Economics.

 

More likely the people who waste their time throwing tantrums over anyone who dares criticize the flaws of this project would be bored to death because everyone would be able to buy a good Unicron at retail as it should be.
It's just a toy. I don't get why people work up such drama over anything anyone says about it.

 

-Include some cut up and battle damaged Robot Heroes seekers and insections, and include the Galvatron one (one side reformatting), and new Cyclonus & Scourge Robot Heroes figures!

-Kranix would be cool. Or a melting pot full of dead Lithone children.

 

No it's not. It's a product from a for-profit company. That's what matters in these conversations about business and economics. I approach this topic as I would in a college business/marketing class, not as a kid on a gradeschool playground. Unfortunately, this thread has both mentalities coexisting.

 

If it was regular titan size or smaller and cost way more than $150, people would have every right to complain about it being over $150. If Trypticon with his insane level of detail, good articulation, and cool features that nails the remake of the G1 toy so well has had a price point of between $70 and $150, at that size this Unicron shouldn't be much more than $150.
This Unicron isn't hand painted with airbrushed details like a sideshow statue or a huge 3A figure, or even NECA figures. It's very much a big general Siege style basic transformers plastic toy mostly colored by colored plastic parts. It's not even Masterpiece style or construction, color, and materials.

Probably pretty obvious I am a HUGE Unicron fan, but I can't justify the asking price for this and I get why others can't either. And hell, I'd even go as high as $400 for this, even feeling it was a bit too much.

 

Sound chip is $13 on Ebay. Just saying. Give me Orson!

I'm not going to complain, this is a cool piece for those who can afford it. But I also can't help but think comparisons against the Darth Vader Death Star. Which I may have called the 'most obnoxious Transformer to transform' in the past.

 

I don't think it's going to happen. Unless all the foreign preorders count, they'd need to get close to 250-300 preorders PER DAY, from now until the end of the order period, based on how many orders are in vs the 8,000 threshold.

 

Ditto. I really like the look of him with his mouth closed. It's when he opens his mouth he looks pretty goofy.

 

I have the titan class metroplex, trypticon, fort max, devastator, predaking and omega on preorder. That said, i won't be getting this figure. While the quality of this Unicron is obvious, the price and timing are not for me. Also, when did the multi billion dollar company that is hasbro/takara need to crowdfund a project like this. It feels like they are poor mouthing their company.

 

And $500,000 of that is the cost to ship.

There are 5,358 Walmarts in the United States. Every store gets one case of Soundwaves. There are six to a case. That means $1.6mil will have exchanged hands for one single wave if he sells out (and I bet he does). if he sells through 3 waves, that's $4.8mil, about the same as Unicron.

 

2020 feels so far away every time I look at reveal photos of Unicron.

 

Someone went into great detail already about how this is false, but anyway:

-$75 is included shipping
-Fully painted
-3 times the MASS of other Titans. More plastic, more parts, more safety testing, more metal pins and screws, some of them probably having to be built solely for this figure. It's 20 pounds of transforming toy, we've never ever gotten that and neither Hasbro nor Takara have ever engineered such a thing.

 

Wait, what?
That's not how distribution works. They don't use U.S. Mail to stock Walmart.