Toys R Us More Park in Sydney Australia was the location of a ghost sighting earlier today – a Ghost Starscream sighting, that is. As has been the trend with other Takara-Tomy Masterpiece series releases, Takara-Tomy’s Masterpiece Ghost Starscream has been released at Australian retail through Toys R Us. This sighting comes to us via 2005 Boards odeean who also reports the price runs to $249 AUD.
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ThaConqueror
Ah, TRU. That'd explain why I didn't see him* last time I went TF shopping, the main shopping place here doesn't have a TRU (Rundle Mall does but I get lost easily there). Still the price doesn't surprise me, given how shite the prices are here. But even the $250 price tag on an apparently ill-received figure cast in possibly-fragile clear plastic will never surprise me as much as finding MP Megs in the Robot Kingdom shop at the aforementioned Rundle Mall.
* I will eat your soul if you make a stupid "can't see ghosts lol" joke here.
Krayt
This isn't so much a HASBRO move, but HASBRO AUSTRALIA…. We have had MP Magnus and MP-04 in our version of Target, and the Jetfire + Buster Prime 2 pack in our Kmart
sentinal prime
this is a good sign guys because it a toy'r us that means that a u.s version is coming and soon it will be in canada miss out on the first starscream from hasbro won't miss out it again if it comes to canada
x BlackMagnus x
Lol, looks like the Boogeyman is gonna git' Starsceam! How cool it must be to walk into a TRU, anywhere but the US, and find Jap MP's! The price, not so much.
mcguffin spark
Incredible. I imported a few weeks ago for $116 AUD. Great job TRU…
Bystander
Disappointed, totally.
I have been holding off on this one since I heard a rumor about its releasing in Australia by this xmas about six months ago, so I would be able to buy it in a store avoiding paying expensive international postage cost, but didn't expect it came out at this price, it's just too much. Now I'm still gonna have to order it online.
ILoveDinobot
Maybe Hasbro will release him too! It could happen…
Fit For natalie
Only if your staff discount is $100 off any product in the store.
You can get it much more cheaply from somewhere like Robot Kingdom or something like that.
CDBROWN48
While the price is outrageous there will always be Transformer fans who will pay it so why not make it that expensive!!! Someday I will be rich too and I will buy it for that price too!!! LOL
SydneyY
Lucky I have no interest in the toy. $250, really, wow.
SharkyMcShark
What a ridiculous price that is.
To give perspective it's two and a half times the price of a leader (and the other MP Starscream mold uses floating around at retail here).
blaster_87
Ha! I used to work at that TRU, it was very rare that they ever got anything new in to begin with. Now this shows up?
I wonder if my old staff discount is still valid though… Hrrrmmm
Bovril
WTF that's 150GBP
Not a chance.
GogDog
Yes, we usually do, actually. But it's ok. Australian nationalism is good for a morning .
(In b4 "it's not morning in Austrailia.")
Battleconvoy005
this is not new. Well ghost MP starscream is, but TRU selling imports at ridiculous prices is common. Back in eary 2000 or so, TRU was selling Perfect Grade Gundam kits. Their prices were really inflated. I think they were something like $100 above japanese retail.
Nevermore
Depends on whether it's the first sighting of something not released anywhere else yet. In that case, you could expect a lot of lame stereotypical "Netherlands" jokes.
Fit For natalie
This is an American Transformers message board/website, though.
It would be logical to assume that on an American message board with majority North American members, when somebody mentions a retail outlet without mentioning what nation it's in, it would be safe to say they are referring to the United States or Canada.
We also got MP-4 Convoy back in 2008 or 2009 (I forget), and the Buster Prime/Jetfire pack earlier this year.
I think he's just joking.
odeean
I had carried it to the checkout because I thought it would be around $100. It wouldn't hurt to have a misb copy, but when it came up as $249 I just said no thanks. The only person who got something was my daughter – she got a my little pony baby.
Feralstorm
"HEYYYYYyyyyyyyyaawwwww…. "