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Pre-orders go up on Pulse today. Sam Flynn and his Light Cycle are $99.99
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4-pack is $139.99
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>>11756849
>>11756851
So Hasbro didn't quietly forget. I'm not a fan of the price but I am a Tron fan, so fuck dammit..........

And why isn't CLU orange?
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>>11756870
Clu was yellow. Rinzler and the rest of his troops were orange.
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>>11756851
>Want to buy a second Rinzler to make a Tron custom
>Can't do that without buying 3 other overpriced figures
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>>11756926
There'll always be someone on Ebay who buys this kind of stuff just to part it out.
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>>11756849
Wish Sam's helmet didn't have the face on it, what are the chances these hit pulse's clearance?
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>>11756936
For a mark-up over the already outrageous $35 per figure asking price.

>>11756940
>Wish Sam's helmet didn't have the face on it
That's accurate, though for a hundred fucking dollars they should have given him a third head of his disc wars helmet. The motorcycle helmet looks retarded for anything other than him riding the motorcycle.
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This line is going to shelfwarm big time at these prices
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I might have picked up a Rinzler (at Ollies) if it was sold individually. Hasbro clearly does not think Tron is a popular enough IP for retail (they are probably right) so they are doing these shenanigans with overpriced exclusive multipacks and haslabs. Because it's the only way to be worth it to them.
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>quorra gets neutral and smirking heads
>clu only gets a dumb smirking head relevant to only one brief moment from the movie
I hate Hasbro
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>>11756961
Can't shelfwarm if they never see shelves. They're Pulse exclusive and don't release until December. They are probably making these to order, hence the high cost.
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>no black guard 4 pack
So much money left on the table. A Sentry with orange Light Cycle should have also been a no brainer. Pretty sure the Sentry Light Cycles were the same Gen 5 design as Sam's, so easy repaint there. Very dumb not releasing these army builders.
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>>11756849
>>11756851
What the fuck are these prices
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>>11756976
Smarr famiry business. Prease understand.
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>>11756976
They know the line will bomb at retail and got freaked so now they are Pulse exclusive at inflated costs as they try not to lose as much money
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>>11756963
But you can recall the exact moment.
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>>11757070
That's not even what he was wearing in the moment this expression was taken from. He was in his long robe, not his battle grid suit. It'd be fine if it were an extra head in addition to a neutral face, but this being the only unmasked Clu head is a really weird choice.
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>>11756940
Even worse is that he only has the motorcycle helmet, not the normal helmet also.
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>>11756849
>>11756851
>Hasbro Pulse
Fucking hell it's secondary market it is, then.
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>>11757159
Small indie company, please understand. At the low price of $100 a third head would have broken the bank.
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>>11756963
A smug asshole is exactly what I want CLU to look like though.
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>>11756851
Don't care. Getting this.
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It's hilarious people are buying these. If the west falls, a small part of it is due to our mental addiction to buy worthless plastic "thing I remember" at nearly double the price the stuff would've been 6 years ago
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>>11757875
Didn't realize you commie fucks over in China were allowed to post here.
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>>11757884
Did you notice the 'OUR' in the post?
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>>11756849
>>11756851
I want to buy these but the UK prices are fucking ridiculous. The equivalent of $140 for Sam and $195 for the 4-pack. Fuck that.
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>>11756963
>dumb smirking head
>>11757331
>smug asshole
I'll look forward to the day that this future peg-warmer ends up in fodder lots at the equivalent of $2 a head, so I can replace all my RDJ Iron Manlet's head sculpts and sell them off to unsuspecting tourist casuals at a huge profit.
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>>11758773
>future peg-warmer
You people don't seem to grasp the notion of a Pulse exclusive.
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>>11756849
> 100 dollars
> doesn't glow or light up
kek no
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>>11756976
made to satisfy some tiny amount of ancientfags that actually watched this disney slop back in the theatres 100 years ago
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>Disney shits its pants and wonders why there's shit in its pants
Why am I not surprised
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>>11758874
Doesn't BigBad Scam Store get pulse shit after they don't sell or maybe they just buy up all the stock and resell it
They started selling the omega rangers right after they got heavily discounted on pulse
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>>11759953
BBTS clearly buys stock and resells it. Given the long pre-order window on these Tron toys, it seems pretty evident that Hasbro is making them to order. There will be some extras made for addressing returns due to QC issues which could be sold later, and maybe they'll round up a bit to have some extras to sell once they're in stock, but I ultimately wouldn't count on these being available for long enough to get marked down. I could see this being a situation where few people pre-order them because they're waiting for a sale, and when they sell out without a sale happening the aftermarket prices get retarded because so few were produced.
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>>11756849
Farewell Tron
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>>11760420
A lot of dumb people are in for a rude awakening when these Pulse exclusive made to order products don't end up clearanced out, and they have to resort to paying a scalper double.
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>>11760449
hint: the secret is just to not buy it if it doesnt reach the price you think its worth. When I see a figure I get a number range in my head as to what I'd pay and if it doesn't hit it, I don't buy it.
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Finally watched Tron Ares and surprisingly liked it. I wouldn't have minded even just Ares in his original red outfit but it just seems like everyone has little faith in the brand when even Hasbro has relegated the Legacy figures to being exclusives.
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>>11762314
>Legacy fans make a big stink on social media about Ares not being good enough
>THERE'S DOZENS OF US, DOZENS!
>Hasbro somehow thinks dozens = hundreds of potential customers
>markets toward a fan base that hates corpo suits for ruining their childhood sci fi movie franchise
>products fail because fuck them corpos
>full helmet Ares and his motorcycle in Wave 1 could've boosted sales based on "rule of cool" alone
>they won't do it because we need figures of Simpleton Sam in his dorky helmet, Olivia Munn minus the sex appeal, and uncanny Jeff Bridges
Damn, oh well.
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>>11762314
I'd definitely be down for Ares and his cycle. Would probably also buy a white Ares variant. Can't say I'd be interested in anyone else from the movie though. Well... there's Julian Dillinger in his Sark cliffhanger form, but we don't even get to fully see what he looks like, so that would probably be a tough ask. Would have absolutely zero interest in buying ugly Asian girl or ugly black girl.
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>>11762367
Very reddit coded opinions
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>>11762367
>>11762531
I would've easily gotten Ares and his cycle at least, and while I definitely want the Legacy figures, it just seems weird to double back on the previous films without cross-promoting any merch for the new movie.

>Well... there's Julian Dillinger in his Sark cliffhanger form, but we don't even get to fully see what he looks like, so that would probably be a tough ask.
Yeah between Ares seeking out Sam and Quorra plus the cliffhanger with Julian, I'm definitely hooked what's to come but it just seems like the franchise is constantly stuck in a loop of being revived and then shelved indefinitely.
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>>11762551
YES, YES, YES
EXACTLY
TAKE PRIDE IN YOUR MONGOLIAN BASKETWEAVING BREATHERN

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