The Transformers Collectors Club, as most of you might be aware, ceased to be an entity at midnight on New Year’s Eve, 2016. There’s been some concern among some fans regarding where this leaves some things such as the yet-to-be shipped Transformers Figure Subscription Service 5.0, so we thought we would share with you this latest update from the Club’s Facebook page:
We will still be filling TFSS 5.0 orders, selling licensed Transformers Club/Convention product and offering customer service in 2017, however our time as the official Transformers Collectors’ Club ends tonight at midnight EST. Thank you all for you support over the last 12 years.
Regarding when those orders might be filled (and consequently when the remaining installment payments might fall due), this message was shared with those who ordered the fifth subscription service on December 20th, which is the most recent update on the shipping status that we are aware of:
Due to manufacturing delays, the container will not leave China until the middle of January. This means that your first shipment should depart here by the end of February. Because of the delays, we have combined the figures into three shipments. After the first shipment we will run the billing for the second installment. We will not schedule the two installment billings until we have the container in hand. I know you are all anxious to receive the final figures from the Transformers Collectors’ Club.
Lumpy
I'll be selling the second one, if anyone's interested.
flux convoy
I thought so. Man, my memory is getting to be awful! Thanks. Also, thanks everyone for using spoiler tags. Now to avoid the thread until mine come in.
Grimlockimus
Ahh thanks for the heads up. Most of the time I just go off of tracking numbers so I forgot all about My USPS. Which is weird because I signed up for it ages ago and never really used it. Anyways looks like my package will be here tomorrow!
SeiberBirdR
I almost never receive an email. Their emails also often end up in my junk folder when I do receive them. Mostly, if I check USPS dashboard I will see something from them. They ship from Azle, TX. Though admittedly I hadn't been checking the past few weeks so I just had the surprise of a knock on my door with a package on the mat! So exciting.
Looking at the dashboard, the label was printed on the 16th and shipped out yesterday afternoon. I am in the same metroplex so I receive mine the next day after shipping. I would go to USPS.com, click on MY USPS under the TRACK&MANAGE drop down, then go to dashboard (it is a sign up service). That will be your most accurate accounting of the status of your package once the label is printed.
Bob Schoonover
Everyone that can (shout out to @G.B. Blackrock and his untrackable address) is tracking them through My.USPS. It tracks inbound packages to your address (provided it's available)
Fractyl's head is an FP one, as well – but it's re-used from Terrorsaur so the OP one is the only new on in the batch
Grimlockimus
So stupid question here, did you receive an email saying the first batch shipped or is there something on the TFSS account page that I'm missing that tells you your order status?
PoweredConvoy
Pretender Optimus has a new head yes. Fun Pub financed that one. Pete showed it off in one of those podcasts (since they commissioned its creation).
flux convoy
Thanks for the correction then. So there's one FP head (OP) this batch then? That's outside the norm. Wonder if that was an intended reuse for Swerve too.
SeiberBirdR
Bob Schoonover
That's like the most unlikely guess I'd have made (Lifeline + CP would have been the last possible guess I'd have made). Seems like we'll be getting big boxes in April and May. I'm also now thinking we'll both pretenders packed together . . .
PoweredConvoy
First figures arriving are reportedly
PoweredConvoy
Nope, that's not the case. It's the alternate head for Motormaster like Battle Core Optimus is for the normal blue and red version. They said as much at the convention.
That's what their intention was. I helped them test if the Optimus Maximus head would fit on the Menasor peg.
SeiberBirdR
Good idea. I posted all of the spoilers in a new thread in a second post (I screwed that up once before) but the information always migrates. Have fun with the figures when they arrive!
Thundershot
Time to stop reading these threads… I like surprises…
SeiberBirdR
Thundershot
Well, that's the head that's used in the comic art, at least…
T-Hybrid
Is it confirmed that Wreckage will use the Ultra Prime/Maximus head? Because it's on the Motormaster body…so that'd be an odd flip.
flux convoy
I'm fairly certain they said at Botcon it wasn't. I'm just going off of my, sometimes fuzzy, memory of the panel.
PoweredConvoy
Toxitron is a pre-existing Hasbro / Takara head, not a Fun Pub head.
Like Silverbolt and Scattershot, there is a Starscream / Seeker head for Cyclonus.
PoweredConvoy
They haven't used Inferno Hotspot, Demolisher Onslaught, and all those others if you count the one
Those are indeed the extra heads for those two Voyagers.