Pre-order - Combiner Wars Sky Lynx Available for Pre-orders at Online E-Tailers

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

carytheone wrote:Big bad toy store has their Pre-orders up for CW Sky Lynx $34.99.

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/list.aspx?list=20621

HIGHWAY F***IN' ROBBERY! DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT GIVE INTO THAT PRICE!!!! PRIMUS SPARE US

Yeah, onslaught was the same way - I thought they were being cheeky in showing us which figure in the case they figured we'd be buying;

You should do the smart thing and just order the case, I did

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

carytheone wrote:Big bad toy store has their Pre-orders up for CW Sky Lynx $34.99.

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/list.aspx?list=20621

HIGHWAY F***IN' ROBBERY! DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT GIVE INTO THAT PRICE!!!! PRIMUS SPARE US

Yeah, onslaught was the same way - I thought they were being cheeky in showing us which figure in the case they figured we'd be buying;

You should do the smart thing and just order the case, I did

Naw, I just hold off on preordering guys. They always end up showing up to me in the store or on another online site in stock at a much better price for the ones that I want, and not have to get extras

Hellscream9999 wrote:Yeah, but I need me both of these guys - especially Sky Lynx, so, for retail, why not; I don't want to risk missing either of these guys (moreso than any previous wave, hts is spotty, and my local stores are worse - but I'll wait on the wave 1 limbs for hts) So, I'll support bbts

carytheone wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Yeah, but I need me both of these guys - especially Sky Lynx, so, for retail, why not; I don't want to risk missing either of these guys (moreso than any previous wave, hts is spotty, and my local stores are worse - but I'll wait on the wave 1 limbs for hts) So, I'll support bbts

BBTS has been good to me, especially with their PoL and reduced shipping rates. Don't tell anyone, but I've been moon lighting with TFSource.

RiddlerJ wrote:
Still a little disappointed there's no Legends size figure to go with Sky Reign. They should've redecoed Powerglide into Hot House or something.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

carytheone wrote:Big bad toy store has their Pre-orders up for CW Sky Lynx $34.99.

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/list.aspx?list=20621

HIGHWAY F***IN' ROBBERY! DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT GIVE INTO THAT PRICE!!!! PRIMUS SPARE US

ScottyP wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

carytheone wrote:Big bad toy store has their Pre-orders up for CW Sky Lynx $34.99.

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/list.aspx?list=20621

HIGHWAY F***IN' ROBBERY! DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT GIVE INTO THAT PRICE!!!! PRIMUS SPARE US

It's just hedging their potential loss on splitting the case. Onslaught is a repack here, so all the Onslaughts left orphaned have potential to sit around and end up on clearance. If they were really trying to get one over or commit, as you say, "HIGHWAY F***IN' ROBBERY!" on consumers, then the set of both Sky Lynx and Onslaught would be running $60 and not $50. It is not.

I'm a bit frustrated with other things BBTS does lately, so it pains me a bit to defend them, but I think fairness should be applied before throwing around accusations like the one here.

mooncake623 wrote:Wait Onslaught is a repack? I just automatically assumed this one is the one with the running color change we've heard about...

Optimizzy wrote:sigh...I want Sky Lynx but not at $35...maybe I'll just wait and buy him at TFCon
(the irony is that I'd probably be able to get him closer to retail )

william-james88 wrote:

Optimizzy wrote:sigh...I want Sky Lynx but not at $35...maybe I'll just wait and buy him at TFCon
(the irony is that I'd probably be able to get him closer to retail )

Why dont you wait to find him at retail?

Optimizzy wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Optimizzy wrote:sigh...I want Sky Lynx but not at $35...maybe I'll just wait and buy him at TFCon
(the irony is that I'd probably be able to get him closer to retail )

Why dont you wait to find him at retail?

I haven't bought a transformer from a brick and mortar store in more than a year. Not because I don't want to but because they simply don't have them. My Walmart has a great big empty section where transformers are supposed to go but they don't have any. It's pretty ridiculous.

william-james88 wrote:

RiddlerJ wrote:
Still a little disappointed there's no Legends size figure to go with Sky Reign. They should've redecoed Powerglide into Hot House or something.

Wreck Gar doesnt count?

RiddlerJ wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

RiddlerJ wrote:
Still a little disappointed there's no Legends size figure to go with Sky Reign. They should've redecoed Powerglide into Hot House or something.

Wreck Gar doesnt count?

I don't think Wreck Gar interacts with Sky Reign in any way. I might be wrong, but it doesn't look like he can connect or be held by the combiner as some kind of weapon.

ScottyP wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

carytheone wrote:Big bad toy store has their Pre-orders up for CW Sky Lynx $34.99.

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/list.aspx?list=20621

HIGHWAY F***IN' ROBBERY! DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT GIVE INTO THAT PRICE!!!! PRIMUS SPARE US

It's just hedging their potential loss on splitting the case. Onslaught is a repack here, so all the Onslaughts left orphaned have potential to sit around and end up on clearance. If they were really trying to get one over or commit, as you say, "HIGHWAY F***IN' ROBBERY!" on consumers, then the set of both Sky Lynx and Onslaught would be running $60 and not $50. It is not.

I'm a bit frustrated with other things BBTS does lately, so it pains me a bit to defend them, but I think fairness should be applied before throwing around accusations like the one here.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

carytheone wrote:Big bad toy store has their Pre-orders up for CW Sky Lynx $34.99.

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/list.aspx?list=20621

HIGHWAY F***IN' ROBBERY! DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT GIVE INTO THAT PRICE!!!! PRIMUS SPARE US

It's just hedging their potential loss on splitting the case. Onslaught is a repack here, so all the Onslaughts left orphaned have potential to sit around and end up on clearance. If they were really trying to get one over or commit, as you say, "HIGHWAY F***IN' ROBBERY!" on consumers, then the set of both Sky Lynx and Onslaught would be running $60 and not $50. It is not.

I'm a bit frustrated with other things BBTS does lately, so it pains me a bit to defend them, but I think fairness should be applied before throwing around accusations like the one here.

It's more a very frustrating thing when a figure is being sold individually for that much. I can see why they are doing that with Onslaught, but at the same time, that individual cost is just crazy. I bought leader RotF Jetfire for $35 at walmart, and that was the baseline price not a sale, so it looks a little ridiculous that a 2016 voyager costs the same on a big online retailer for 2009 leader prices.

It just really disgusts me to see businesses using that strategy here.

william-james88 wrote:
They could easily fix it if the preorders were set in stone, or if you paid in advance. They woudl guarantee their cashflow and afford to lower the price since their sale was guaranteed.

So here is my question to you guys, would you rather no longer be able to cancel your preorders? Or pay an extra amount for more sought after figures?

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:
They could easily fix it if the preorders were set in stone, or if you paid in advance. They woudl guarantee their cashflow and afford to lower the price since their sale was guaranteed.

So here is my question to you guys, would you rather no longer be able to cancel your preorders? Or pay an extra amount for more sought after figures?

I would rather take a cheaper route. If I make a preorder, I'd keep it rather than preorder a figure for a more expensive price and then be able to cancel it. I try to be more patient, and so far I haven't lost out on a figure I really wanted. I managed to snag Skids and Swerve for retail prices when we thought they would be cancelled a few years back, and I snagged the Brainstorm that was harder to find as the last thrilling 30 figure for a few bucks less than retail, all because I waited.

Now I fully understand others wanting to preorder to guarantee the figure and not minding prices, and I have nothing against them. I just prefer to wait and see. As a result, I only have ever preordered 1 figure, and it was expensive but I got the figure. and at the same time the figure was an exclusive, so that was the route I needed to take. But knowing that a figure is a mainline figure and will be distributed means I don't need to go preorder, it means I can just wait for a better price.

I didn't mean to come off rude in my original post about this, but it just angered me to see them selling off the more desired voyager in a wave for such a heavy cost.

william-james88 wrote:

Optimizzy wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Optimizzy wrote:sigh...I want Sky Lynx but not at $35...maybe I'll just wait and buy him at TFCon
(the irony is that I'd probably be able to get him closer to retail )

Why dont you wait to find him at retail?

I haven't bought a transformer from a brick and mortar store in more than a year. Not because I don't want to but because they simply don't have them. My Walmart has a great big empty section where transformers are supposed to go but they don't have any. It's pretty ridiculous.

What about Walmat.com or Toysrus.com ? Or amazon.com? I am sure they wont charge 35$. I do all my shopping online, but from those retailers rather than specialty shops.

Optimizzy wrote:
Yeah sometimes I can catch them there. Amazon.com is decent sometimes. I usually have the best luck with HTS. But I defiantly have a hard time finding anything at my local stores. Usually I don't mine paying a little extra at BBTS to make certain I get one but $10 over retail is too much. $29.99 I would not have thought twice but for some reason $35 just seems way too steep.

Wolfman Jake wrote:I'm actually perfectly happy to pre-order the duo through TFSource. Their pre-order pics depict Onslaught with the olive-brown combiner chest pieces. I've already got the gray chest version for Bruticus. Now I can have an extra Onslaught with more accurate robot/alt-mode colors to display individually as well. $35.00 for Sky Lynx alone, though, IS quite absurd.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:I'm actually perfectly happy to pre-order the duo through TFSource. Their pre-order pics depict Onslaught with the olive-brown combiner chest pieces. I've already got the gray chest version for Bruticus. Now I can have an extra Onslaught with more accurate robot/alt-mode colors to display individually as well. $35.00 for Sky Lynx alone, though, IS quite absurd.

That's because they're using habsro's digibashs from botcon - notice that onslaughts head is also olive green in the pic of his vehicle mode

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:I'm actually perfectly happy to pre-order the duo through TFSource. Their pre-order pics depict Onslaught with the olive-brown combiner chest pieces. I've already got the gray chest version for Bruticus. Now I can have an extra Onslaught with more accurate robot/alt-mode colors to display individually as well. $35.00 for Sky Lynx alone, though, IS quite absurd.

That's because they're using habsro's digibashs from botcon - notice that onslaughts head is also olive green in the pic of his vehicle mode

Dang! Well, if I don't get the olive version, I'll return it for a refund.

carytheone wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:I'm actually perfectly happy to pre-order the duo through TFSource. Their pre-order pics depict Onslaught with the olive-brown combiner chest pieces. I've already got the gray chest version for Bruticus. Now I can have an extra Onslaught with more accurate robot/alt-mode colors to display individually as well. $35.00 for Sky Lynx alone, though, IS quite absurd.

That's because they're using habsro's digibashs from botcon - notice that onslaughts head is also olive green in the pic of his vehicle mode

Dang! Well, if I don't get the olive version, I'll return it for a refund.

I hemmed and hawed over mentioning that the TFS images had the olive green when I updated the article. I decided to skip being that the images were just the CG ones from before. I didn't want to falsely get hopes up.

The shades of greens and browns used on the Combaticons are very lovely.

carytheone wrote:I hemmed and hawed over mentioning that the TFS images had the olive green when I updated the article. I decided to skip being that the images were just the CG ones from before. I didn't want to falsely get hopes up.

The shades of greens and browns used on the Combaticons are very lovely.

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Hellscream9999 wrote:Anybody know if there are any HTS promo's/codes goin' on right now? I wanna get dragonus, and couple of other figures, but don't really wanna pay shipping, etc...

Cobotron wrote:Not sure if it's been spotted already but 3 out of 4 Combaticon limbs are up at HTS. They are strangly missing Vortex. Maybe they are in the process of posting them right now.

Link to bots!

And like Hellscream asked above, anybody hip to any promo codes?

Cobotron wrote:Not sure if it's been spotted already but 3 out of 4 Combaticon limbs are up at HTS. They are strangly missing Vortex. Maybe they are in the process of posting them right now.

Link to bots!

And like Hellscream asked above, anybody hip to any promo codes?

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:I may hold off until this weekend to get them. If Vortex is put up, they are insta-buy for my birthday (which is in 2 weeks). hopefully something comes up, or there is free shipping on certain sized orders!

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:I may hold off until this weekend to get them. If Vortex is put up, they are insta-buy for my birthday (which is in 2 weeks). hopefully something comes up, or there is free shipping on certain sized orders!

Honestly they're $.50 less each at bbts if you get them as a case, if it matters to you, but I want to see if any promos come out, I don't think there were any around the time the aerialbots came out either - cuz just after christmas and stuff

D-Maximus_Prime wrote: and when I put them in my cart for BBTS the cheapest shipping option for the case to me was frikkin $9.99. Hell no. I'll try to stick to HTS

william-james88 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote: and when I put them in my cart for BBTS the cheapest shipping option for the case to me was frikkin $9.99. Hell no. I'll try to stick to HTS

Thats cute. That same order costs me 29.90$ to ship and thats before I get hit by taxes at the boarder. You guys are so spoiled

william-james88 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote: and when I put them in my cart for BBTS the cheapest shipping option for the case to me was frikkin $9.99. Hell no. I'll try to stick to HTS

Thats cute. That same order costs me 29.90$ to ship and thats before I get hit by taxes at the boarder. You guys are so spoiled

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william-james88 wrote:

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I know I know. Care to tell us what the shipping calculator gives you when you ship the 4 combaticons to the UK?

And while the shipping price for me is true, all those combaticons are at my TRU and my raincheck has them for about 15$ cdn which is 10.45$ US. STILL its not like I get paid in US$. So for the sake of comparing living conditions and buying power, lets just say that I can just walk into a store and pick up a combaticon for 15$. Being in a major metropolis, the only time you cant find a toy is when a particular store chain simply never gets it. Like legends groove, which was never found at TRU Canada.

But hey Va'al, at least me and Kanrabat no longer complain about the lack of french on the box. Remember those days?

william-james88 wrote:While I understand the business practice of using the US Dollar, it totally takes away any goodwill they may have had. etc etc