TFW2005 member WildBill has flagged up something of interest – it seems that the Takara-Tomy Mall has put up listings for some possible rereleases of their earlier Masterpiece exclusives. The listings include the Evangelion crossover MP-10 EVA Prime, MP-11T Thundercracker, MP-14C Clamp Down, MP-18S Silverstreak, and USA edition Generation 1 Trypticon.
According to the pages, the order window for these is March 16th to 24th with a release date of March 27th – and orders are limited to one per customer. Given the short order window, reuse of previous order pages, and the quantity restriction, it is possible that these are “unsold stock” from the last time these items were available rather than a true new run – however, we thought it was worthy of note on the offchance that this is genuinely a new run of these hot items.
Raiyuki
Your only real hope is Hasbro there sadly. TT's never even hit Japan, one of the only two TT MPs to do so (the other being guilded Megatron).
jackisking
Last night was like trying to order CW slingshot and break neck when they went "live". Fortunately I was able to get TC. Part of me is tempted to wait and see if eventually they put up some left over Ramjets. I'm just glad I got TC out of the way. The way Skywarp is going I don't want to be waiting too long to get one.
Johntimus Prime
Clamp Down isn't exactly rare. A lot of online retailers still have him in stock.
Sam
Wow it's pretty unfair how limited the EVA release was, right from the beginning. Worst thing is finding out about it when it's too late, without even getting a chance to buy one.
NegatronDave
Ugh, think I'll just get this and call it a day.
Raiyuki
What sucks is I looked up the California equivilent time and managed to actually be there at my comp to refresh the page at 8pm LA time but the traffic on that page STILL prevented me from getting one. Still glad to have nabbed Thundercracker but I was really looking forward to adding another truck to my collection (I've got three MP10 variants, MP22, and both KFC Stacks).
Exodus
Thanks for this and yeah I couldn't tell which button was "add to cart/order" Clampdown isn't really worth it price wise to go through the tenso route, and I'm with you as well with the whole Ramjet/Tenso situation, hopefully no issues though when it comes through.
Sinestro00
I'm not too, too sad I missed EVA Prime. I was more upset that I lost an hour's worth of sleep for nothing. Oh well, that's ~$250 I have for other stuff. Besides, I haven't even gotten my Ramjets through Tenso yet, so I was a little gun-shy about floating more money out there without product in hand yet (I hope the TTMall/Tenso/US shipping goes as smoothly as others who have used the service to secure exclusives have described).
One thing I am gonna do for future exclusives is to be sure to add the product to my 'favorites' page as soon as it gets a listing on the website. This page has a 'cart' button at the bottom, so you can just load the favorites page from the link on your customer page, check the boxes for the favorite items you want to add to the cart, click the cart button, and proceed to checkout. I did this for EVA Prime, and was sitting on my favorites page at 10:59 eastern, but decided it may be safer to try to load the product page instead at 11 gen069 . The product page loading is what killed me, since it took 5-7 minutes to load, and another 5-7 minutes to load the cart page. At that point, I got the notice there was no stock left. If I would have went directly from my favorites page by clicking the cart button, I just may have gotten one. Sadly, the Chrome page translation doesn't translate the kanji in the button graphics (not unexpected), so I had to click a few things experimentally after the site traffic eased up a bit to see where they went. If anybody can confirm my methodology, If you've done that in that past, that would be great.
BTW: Clampdown is still up as of this posting.
PoweredConvoy
Not surprised this sold out so quick and everyone here missed out.
The page apparently had a lot of traffic hitting it too.
Glad I got one the first time they went up (had to wait up all night to order it way back then).
If this had been an actual re-release and not just leftover stock then people would have probably had no problem.
Randy
Lord Dcast
Wow. What a cool figure. Man, it makes me want to turn a Silverbold or Cyclonus from CW into that thing. Not sure how successful I could be, but it would be worth a try.
monish
I know. I looked them up. I wasn't a big fan of the color, just wanted to add value to my collection if I was able to nab him. But oh well life goes on
Johntimus Prime
On eBay, he runs $450-$500.
Holy shit, that aftermarket.
monish
Well I guess I was too late to get the EVA unfortunately this time due to the kids. But look at the bright side I save 300$
Johntimus Prime
Okay, 3Ps, you must make an add-on kit that lets us replicate this look with MP-11:
NegatronDave
If only they released an Angel Mode Starscream.
Raiyuki
I still regret not having spent a little more on MP4S back in the day. MP10E's feeling like a repeat of that.
Johntimus Prime
I think more than the actual toy, the fiction behind it was the true gift to the world.
Optimus is empowered by Unit-01 after trans-scanning it, then he grows to Unit-01's size and has to battle an Angel possessed by Starscream's ghost.
Oh Japan.
NegatronDave
I want the figure, both as a display piece and as a collectors piece.
The question is do I want to pay the aftermarket prices to fill both those requirements, or get the KO and have him strictly as a display piece?
Personally the collectors element is very important to me. A KO won't scratch that itch. It'll look pretty. But that's it.
Ugh, looks like I'll be saving up for the aftermarket prices.
Raiyuki
I also prefer not to go the KO route. I did give in and do that with Black ROTF and Striker Optimus (with minor regrets after getting two genuine versons of that mold). MPs especially I prefer the genuine article as I do appreciate the figure both as the figure and as a collector's item. A KO just won't do (cept maybe Bape and MP10U; those are tempting).
Lord Dcast
Fair enough. Just an option.