Attention fellow Canadian collectors! 2005 Board member megatroptimus has just shared photographic proof of his sighting of the highly anticipated Transformers Kingdom Titan Class Autobot Ark in Canada.
The massive Autobot Ark was found and bought at Toys”R”Us Trois-Rivières in Quebec.
Happy hunting!
Monte Williams
Has anyone tried to remove the weathering effect on the shoulders?
Update: I was planning to weather him anyway, so I just opted to incorporate/obscure the fun but somewhat cartoony factory weathering with my own admittedly heavy-handed version. I've attached a hasty portrait set against the decidedly uninspired backdrop of my kitchen counter.
Hopefully I'll capture a proper portrait soon.
Monte Williams
Transformers is a fascinating franchise, where its collectors are concerned; such wide-ranging preferences! I'm one of those weirdos who'd be perfectly content if all the toys were just robots with no alt-modes or transformations, for example (whereas others dismiss even the most astonishingly engineered, beautifully painted, and highly articulated figures with no alt-modes as "not Transformers"), and while a lot of people in this thread are scorning The Ark's robot mode, that's the only reason I'm here; Omega-as-the-Ark transforming into robot mode in Animated remains one of my all-time favorite mark-out moments in all my decades of Transformers fandom.
gibdozer
I guess I'm more concerned with being able to get the order and actually guaranteed the product. My local area kinda sucks at stocking transformers, but with tfsource I'll pass a figure up 2 or 3 times before they deliver.
With bbts I usually get my stuff the same time or earlier than they hit the shelves. That could just be because of my location though. With Pulse I can't get jack. Everything is sold out immediately and by the time it's back in stock I've usually gotten it somewhere else.
WolverineDragon
Not to bad mouth BBTS, but based on my experience with them, they're usually pretty late when it comes to stocking figures. They're are a couple times where I gotten a figure from them before anyone else (Galvatron being an example), but usually I drop so many preorders from them since they tend to get their stock late.
SuperDD
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Obnimaz
My Ark is processing from BBTS already, my buddy who ordered the same day is still waiting.
RoboW4rrior298
You make a good point, however keep in mind Scorponok is expected to have a robot mode and also a Scorpion alt mode as well as a base. The only literature to have the Ark transform before now to my knowledge was Animated with Omega Supreme being the Ark, if there are others then please correct me. They didn’t need to give this release a robot mode as it had no reason to be other than they wanted to do something different. That’s all well and good but it’s perfectly valid for some of us to have preferred a play set, and it’d give the Core class more reason to exist.
Nevermore
Oh yeah, that's what we need, more hollow toys for people to complain about.
gibdozer
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I disagree. Toys could create the impression of becoming 3x their size in the 80s when they were built hollow inside. With modern toy engineering and a Titan class budget, they could've made a pretty cool playset.
I'm actually very impressed by what they were able to do with Mainframe into Teletran. Reading your comments though, I understand why they didn't go for something more innovative.
ScorponokIsHere
I think folks overestimate how big a base mode you could get out of a Titan Class toy. There's a reason they married them to Titan Master interaction for a while.
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Note that with Titan Class mass you get a thin strip of floor that a Deluxe barely fits on and no walls.
gibdozer
I don't really put my mainline figures on shelves. Mostly they are kept in tubs and I'll swap out a few figures to a basket near the couch downstairs to fiddle with.
Upstairs I have a table that I use for photos and making little action scenes ect. So a base mode that turned into a ship would be pretty ideal for me.
johndoe4880
that scene that was on the box was on the trailer. i wonder how his charictor turns out to be.
ScorponokIsHere
I feel like you'd get that a lot cheaper if you just got some orange construction paper and taped them to to the backs of your shelves.
johndoe4880
that scene that was on the box was on the trailer. i wonder how his charictor turns out to be.
gibdozer
Yeah, if it folded out into a cool interior playset I might have been in on this. I like mainframe and the accessories, just zero interest in Arks bot mode.
In my experience bbts is pretty good about availability, much better than TFsource and Pulse anyways. The only thing you can rely on with Pulse is that you won't be able to buy popular figures there. Even if you do somehow find one and get an order in, IDT that rare occurrence would justify paying for their "premium" service.
prfctcellrulz
That so? They’re that reliable?
gibdozer
Don't waist your money. Pulse never has anything in stock. I always end up at bbts eventually if its a figure I really want.
Cloudraker
Uhm, Gimme.
RoboW4rrior298
That’s what I’ve done, as I see it that Hasbro can swallow a cancelled preorder more easily than independent retailers.
I had the Mirage and Grimlock two pack preordered with Pulse, however ID Toys had them in stock so I bought a set there, and if I get a lemon on both figures I’ll just deal with it until I get my Pulse set. If both sets are good however, I’ll pass one onto board members who missed out.
Shackwave71
Think of Pulse as an insurance policy. If you don't see it in stores first, then theoretically Pulse will get it to you