Transformers Club Update

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edpaek wrote:In your opinion, do you think it's worth forty bucks a year for membership? Are there really cool exclusives? For forty I can get the Leader Prime I still don't have. What's your opinion?

Dae

Personally, I think it's worth it. The Master Collector subscription isn't anything great (to me) but access to the club exclusives is great.

I picked up the Astrotrain and Airazor exclusives, I have the exclusive combiners (2 + 1 that is in the mail) and I got the Botcon set.

I also now have a chance to pick up a couple more Botcon exclusives much cheaper than I would find them on eBay.

If you have the cash to drop on the exclusives - keep in mind, they are not cheap by any means, then it's well worth it.

edpaek wrote:In your opinion, do you think it's worth forty bucks a year for membership? Are there really cool exclusives? For forty I can get the Leader Prime I still don't have. What's your opinion?

Dae

It is one of those things the more you use the better it is. Personally I think it is because of the comic and profiles, the free exclusive figure, and access to other exclusives. It all depends on what you are looking for.

Damn $150 for trion and wolf? Looks like i wont be getting weird wolf now.

your also geting the vector sigma display. That's a good price considering if you look around on ebay. I know it seems expensive but the exclusives are costly to make for such a small run.

I'm just little bothered that they are selling souvenior sets that were supposedly "attendee only" sets. After all, I made the effort and paid the money to actually go to Botcon to get them. Plus they are selling them at even more of a mark-up than their original selling price just because they can.

I am a member and I like to support the CC, but I would feel better about them if they just did something like sell the remainders to online stores like BBTS or TF Source. No one would have to know about it and the CC would still appear to be honoring their committment to Boton attendees.

Oh well, at least the figures will still there way into the hands of collectors.

As a club member I'm actually a little pissed about this being the first we've heard about remaining A3/Weirdwolf sets. Unless I've missed something I thought that these were supposed to be sold out at the convention. I bought a set from ebay last week without Vector Sigma for slightly more than the club's charging. Now I'm not that annoyed by the price difference because I had an upper limit of what I was willing to pay and I'm not that annoyed about not having the VS piece as there are still a few floating around on ebay and I can get hold of it for about £20 shipped if I decide that I want the thing. The thing that is annoying me is that I'd far rather the club was turning profit from me and putting it back towards further club exclusives or additional features. Now I'm not saying there's anything inherently wrong with people helping to cover the costs of attending by selling on figures, I'd just rather see the cash go to the club. This is obviously more than was being charged at the convention but I'd still quite gladly pay it if I didn't have a set on the way.