The ‘worldwide’ ROTF Fallen ‘crisis’
While dropping by a suburban departmental store this week, I casually asked the store personnel if they have any stocks of ROTF Voyager The Fallen. Our conversation went something like this:
“Do you still have The Fallen?”
“Oh The Fallen, it’s currently out of stock worldwide.”
“You mean islandwide?”
“No, worldwide. There are no more stocks not just in Singapore but regional, even in the US & in Korea, it’s worldwide. It’s the same with all the other departmental stores here. Even the Hasbro warehouse has no more stocks.”
“Do you know when the next shipment will arrive?”
“I’m sorry, I have no idea.”
“It’s ok, thank you.”
What makes this conversation memorable to me is that the store personnel said his lines in such a solemn tone that he made it sound like it’s a very ’serious’ matter. I was thinking in my head then “wow, I didn’t know that the ROTF Fallen stocks shortage is such a ‘grave’ matter. It’s almost like at the level of the global financial crisis or something similar.” LOL!
So that’s it folks. ROTF fans and toy collectors have relentlessly ‘hunted’ the last of the ROTF Voyager Fallens to temporary ‘extinction’ in the departmental stores here. Even the cute little Legends Fallens (aka Baby Fallen) weren’t spared. It looks like The Fallen has made it to the list of ROTF CITES Appendix 1 - Critically Endangered and nearing possible total extinction. Hopefully some of the surviving Fallen hatchlings out there (Baby Fallens) are given the chance to ‘mature’ to Voyager Fallens to ‘revive’ the local Fallen population once more, soon!
While awaiting the ‘recovery’ of the local Fallen population and if you have missed out on getting your ROTF Voyager Fallen, there are a couple more Fallen options coming up, possibly within this year. One of them is the Red Voyager Fallen (scroll about 1/3 down the page link) and the Megatron, Fallen & Soundwave 3-pack . Will these come to Singapore? I have no idea, we can only hope. If yes, when will they arrive? Only Singapore Hasbro knows that answer. Till then, happy ROTF toy hunting!
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Thx for the info. I am pretty sure they are stocks, just when it will be release.
This will not affect me as I can wait for Takara Version to be released soon
Hi LEon,
Haha, yeah The Fallen will return. It’s just the way the store personnel said his lines that made my day. I was expecting a short “We don’t have stocks,” kind of answer and that’s it. Instead he went on with the above
Hi deSMOnd,
I’m waiting to see your toy review of The Fallen when you receive yours! So far I’ve seen overeseas video reviews of him, but no photo reviews of him done locally. Maybe most of the local private collection ones are still MIB
FYI Juliana, I saw there are lots of Legend Class Jetfire in Bugis BHG store (formerly known as Seiyu) as I bought Mudflap yesterday..So, no worry if you are keen to buy Legend Class Jetfire
Hi deSMOnd,
Thanks for the info! I got my Legends Jetfire some time ago, together with the first 2 waves of ROTF Legends toys. I recently picked up ROTF Legends Fallen, Grindor & Mudflap. Looking forward the rest of the Legends movie cast figures!
Get the ROTF Legends Fallen if you see him, LEon has done a nice review on this little fellow:
http://openthetoy.blogspot.com/2009/07/legend-fallen-transformers-revenge-of.html
‘Baby Fallen’ is small, cute but very naughty, as LEon can testify, LOL
Takara Fallen is available at Falcon’s Hangar, it seems.
Hi Steven,
Cool, thanks for the info! I’m sure deSMOnd would have picked up his from there too! ROTF Voyager Fallen comes in the same case as ROFT Voyager Ratchet which he has just reviewed on his blog. Can’t wait to see his Fallen review!
Btw, do you know how much is Takara Fallen? I’m sure it costs more than the Hasbro version in the departmenal stores right?
Do you have Voyager Fallen too? Is he worth getting?
Better late than never, but yeah, the personnel’s line is pretty funny. Not only because of what a “serious business” it is to them, but I think it’s fairly safe to say that the Fallen’s been a shelf warmer from day one. Maybe the actual movie being released spiked the sales, but far as I know, yeah, shelf warmer.
Hi updatedude,
Now The Fallen’s been warming shelves in places that sell it more than its original retail price
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