Question about Trypticon & Costco

[OptimusB38]

Originally Posted by Collectingtoys

What?!? Costco carried Combiner Wars Devastator!?!

I missed that one, I bought him from toysrus.ca for $139.99+tax than returned him, should have kept him. I remember walmart.ca selling him later for $89.99 I think.

I spend too much money at Costco and have never seen anything cool like Metroplex or Devastator there. I would gladly give them my money for either one, especially at those price points.

Agreed! I’ve never seen anything but the big gold movie B.

[ngnaw]

That Devastator from Costco is what started me back into collecting! My mom remembered not buying him when I was younger so she bought it for me on the spot for a birthday present 30 years later lol!

[Collectingtoys]

Originally Posted by ngnaw

That Devastator from Costco is what started me back into collecting! My mom remembered not buying him when I was younger so she bought it for me on the spot for a birthday present 30 years later lol!

High five your Mom for the rest of us! She remembers, you have a wonderful Mom.

[vjcheng]

I have never seen any Titan Transformers at Costco but I should really take a look. On that note if someone is looking for Trypticon still, I have two MISB I'd be willing to sell or trade one for one towards a Predaking which I never went after cause I was out of the country and focused on my studies. :\

[imfallenangel]

For me, I stopped going to Costco a few years ago, before the time they'd have any Transformers, and never saw a Devastator in any stores, until I got lucky and a liquidation store that gets Costco stuff had a couple for 99$ each, which I checked to ensure it was complete before I bought one. If they would have had a Trypticon for the same price I would have considered giving it another chance, as I had returned the one I had bought due to the leg ratchet snapping right away as I was just taking it out of the box, which for something I had paid over 200$, I didn't consider it worth it if it had such a defect.

[RNSrobot]

Originally Posted by Collectingtoys

What?!? Costco carried Combiner Wars Devastator!?!

I missed that one, I bought him from toysrus.ca for $139.99+tax than returned him, should have kept him. I remember walmart.ca selling him later for $89.99 I think.

I spend too much money at Costco and have never seen anything cool like Metroplex or Devastator there. I would gladly give them my money for either one, especially at those price points.

Metroplex seemed widespread with maybe only a few stores in the country not seeing him, and there were lots for a decent period of time.

I remember looking for devy in Edmonton. He hit far fewer stores in smaller numbers. It's possible I missed the one and only stock, but I don't recall any Alberta sightings at all. Maybe once in Calgary?

So yeah devy wasn't something most of us had the opportunity to grab at Costco prices.

[Robimus]

Originally Posted by Pascal

After checking online, they got Metroplex in 2014, Devy in 2015, nothing in 2016, nothing in 2017, and a big R/C Bee in 2018.

Just to be clear, select Costco’s got them. They were not available in every store, or even every province.

I have their customer service responses from my complaints still.

Edit:



So yeah, their response was “FU Manitoba, but be sure to check our website every day for the rest of your life just incase”

[positivelyken]

I only saw Metroplex once, not at retail but in a collectibles shop, and I passed on it for being a bit pricey and too big for my collection at the time. Little did I know the asking price would turn out to be pretty reasonable in the long run, and I've since gotten every other Titan figure afterward. The one that got away...

[imfallenangel]

Originally Posted by positivelyken

I only saw Metroplex once, not at retail but in a collectibles shop, and I passed on it for being a bit pricey and too big for my collection at the time. Little did I know the asking price would turn out to be pretty reasonable in the long run, and I've since gotten every other Titan figure afterward. The one that got away...

I barely remember seeing it in stores, and I felt that it was fairly expensive then, but now I have regrets...