Via our sponsors TFSource, we can report that the Titans Return Brainstorm figure is about to get a new release. According to the listing on TFSource, Brainstorm is coming by once again in August 2017. We cannot say for certain if this is just a new stock that will only be available online, or if he will also make his way back to stores.
We’re sure that Brainstorm will be well stocked online not only by TFSource, but also our other sponsors. Check them out through the links below for more Titans Return toys for order.
GiganGoji
Plus, many members (myself included) have had this figure for sale on the BST threads. Heck, I was asking for less than $18 INCLUDING SHIPPING for mine, and it still took me awhile to sell him. Is it the packaging that people really want?
Either way, glad that people are still able to pick this guy up. Maybe he'll stay in stock long enough for people to pick him up during the next Friends and Family sale.
Lord Dcast
Maybe not in your case, but for Australians we don't get the same way. Tax isn't added on top; it's deducted from the service's total. The service provider pays the tax, not the payee.
Plus Australia Post doesn't charge extra for things to come into the country. Its considered a free service.
Argus
Sadly no, this will only up the taxes, fines and processing fees to levels well beyond the shipping even :/
That and it will be locked in customs for an unspecified amount of time (as in a few weeks or months depending on the season)
Argus
Flying to europe from the US is also significantly cheaper then the other way around. Sometimes it cheaper to book in reverse for europeans and just not use the first hop to get to the US. Lol.
Aside from that and back to the figure: Nevermore sites like Archonia and I would expect the german dealers are listing it as well at around 20-23 before european shipping (with no taxes).
So that sort of ends on european retail prices in total.
Not that those are anything to be happy about but that is a different issue entirely (albeit partially fueled by the airline thing).
Lord Dcast
Posting things from the US to Australia is a pain. If you find someone you can trust, then it's still $20+ just to get it shipped, and at that point you may as well go through Shopmate.
Or…you could camp out for Premium Collectables, which is much better in the long run aside from annoying waiting. I know that site gets a lot of flack from the fans in the TCCA, but after hearing how difficult things are behind the scenes form someone who helps out there I've been convinced otherwise.
Another option is to do stacked shipping on TFSource or Pile of Loot on BBTS. Either saves money on shipping if you shop regularly.
So yes, I could have bought one through Wallgreens and a redirector or a member here, but by the time shipping costs are calculated I might as well just go through a scalper.
Nevermore
Ooooooor maybe your US postal service is more greedy when it comes to shipping stuff abroad than other postal services around the world.
When I can send a Leader Class figure to the US and pay the same as it would cost to have a Legion Class figure shipped from the US to Germany, it's not the German postal service I blame…
And before anyone gets any brilliant ideas: I'm talking before customs and import tax. That would be charged separately.
RKillian
Because my assumption is that it's turned over to Canada Post upon crossing the border and that's where the bulk of the charge is coming from. It's apparently a flat rate the instant it enters Canada because Vancouver is the same $34 as Montreal.
The fight with cross border sales used to be getting a payment type that a foreign bank would accept. Towards the end of my international buying days, almost nobody was accepting USPS money orders anymore. My bank wouldn't accept anything my buddy in Canada sent me either so we were stuck with bartering and there's a reason government-issued currency replaced bartering.
Meanwhile, the Chinese pay $1 per ePacket to flood the market with literal knockoffs. Yet another one-way "free" trade deal subsidized by American taxpayers.
Argus
Getting the UK dropped SDCC set was cheaper then importing the wallgreen….
Chaos Prime
Yea I don't get it either. I see him often enough at Walgreens. Though $22 is an offensive price.
Nevermore
Funny thing, shipping from Germany abroad is almost laughable cheap if you don't require tracking.
Shipping from the US to Germany is almost triple the price.
Hoffman
How does shipping from the US to Canada reflect on Canadian shipping rates?
Our shipping is definitely expensive. But after hearing a number of horror stories about shipping from US friends, maybe it's not a bad thing.
RKillian
If Canadians would get their shipping prices under control, I'd be happy to sell stuff to Canadians again. Damn it, I can't even ship to a buddy 500 miles away in Quebec for under $30 anymore. There's no excuse for it costing almost triple what it costs for me to send the same package 3000 miles to California. Seriously, $12.75 to Beverly Hills versus $34.30 to Montreal?
BenjaminXavier
Well, there are two options for you:
1) petition your government to join the US
2) kindly ask someone here to ship you one.
I'd happily have done #2 while they were still in stores for you. Now he's on the website but to get free shipping you'd have to order two. If you want two of them (perhaps to trade to a fellow canadian) I'm sure someone would be happy to order them and then once they arrive slap a different shipping label on the box and send it off to you.
batfan007
Yeah them Walgreens are real hard to find here in West Australia. I've tried looking in the big desert next door, but no luck. But I'm a slacker and probably just not looking hard enough.
INDISPUTABLE FACT: Everybody on the entire planet is American.
You, me, everybody, no exceptions.
Try $60 + AUD Mr D.
Last time I looked it was CHEAPER to buy the TAK one, or any of the various 3P ones (there was about $10 price diff at the time, with the highest TR Brainstorms at about $90 AUD which would be $69 USD.
Lord Dcast
Retail for a deluxe in Australia is $25, $30 if you're buying RID or Premiere Edition. The TFSource reissue, before shipping, is within that price range so I'm overjoyed.
Ebay prices, on the other hand, are asking for $40 or even $50AUD. I don't know about you, but I don't believe many deluxes are worth that price. Maybe a Generations Warpath, WFC Optimus Prime or a Takara release is worth that price, but not a Deluxe.
Furthermore, its a matter of principal. I refuse to support scalping in any shape or form. It sends a message to those scumbags that its okay to do it. I've seen how ugly the Amiibo scene got back in the day, and I do NOT want to see it happen to Transformers.
TCJJ
Good. Making it an exclusive sucked.
I'm glad you want the rest of us to pay three-to-four times the amount that deluxes are worth in the US to get Brainstorm, but I bought a Legends Brainstorm for the same price as I could buy Hasbro's Brainstorm.
@Hoffman hit the nail on the head – Americans have a lot more access to this stuff and it's still cheaper for all of you, so don't take for granted how hard/expensive some of these things can be for the rest of the world to get ahold of – it's frankly rude to assume that everyone is American and therefore everyone always has access to everything that you do. It's bad enough that the world is so American-centric making a lot of us elsewhere miss out on certain items. Please don't rub it in our faces (though I'm sure that wasn't your intention, but regardless, I felt the need to say it as a general statement).
Lord Dcast
Hooray TFW. Bit late to that party. He's been up on TFSource for days.
I tell you, I hit the preorder button the moment I saw it. He never made it to Australian stores, and this time I am NOT missing out.
Omegax80
Transformers Generations Titans Return Autobot Teslor and Brainstorm | Walgreens
Still available online… So this sounds just like more sold through non-exclusive means.
Hoffman
A quick search of ebay shows that any option would cost me $40-$50 CAD shipped. Retail in CAD would be $20-25. It's available sure…for twice what it would cost at retail. Buyers outside NA would likely have to pay even more on shipping.
Again, a lot of stuff is readily available to Americans due to extremely low prices and shipping rates. I understand that this news is no big deal to US residents. To the rest of the world it might be.
Thundershot
WHAT?!? They're not?!
I'm not Japanese, but I still get the Japanese figures I really want. I was just saying if you really want one, they're not hard to come by. They're all over eBay if you want, and Walgreens.com still has it in stock (if you live in the US). It just seems weird to reissue something that's still readily available. In any case… It's a great toy. Everyone deserves to have one.