Time and Space Toys Email

[buffyswatcher]

Just got this email from T&S Toys :

Greetings! We're just back from San Diego International Comic-Con with lots of new products news. We have just added many New Items to our store and have several COUPON offers to share with you.

BUFFY / ANGEL fans:
Diamond Select Toys unveiled their next wave of Action Figures based on the Angel and Buffy series. Technically the figures are series 2 of the Angel line, but many of the variants figures are based on specific Buffy episodes. The series includes 5 versions of Spike and 4 versions of Darla. A preview of the figures can be seen here at www.action-figure.com . We will have pre-orders up on the site very soon as well as another FREE figure offer for our best customers to receive one of these variant figures free.

We also are very proud to announce that Time & Space Toys will have it's own EXCLUSIVE figure from the Spike/Darla wave. We are not quite ready to officially announce it yet, but it is one on the figures previewed here: Spike and Darla .

In 12" Sideshow figure news, the next two Buffy figures are available to pre-order now:
Prophecy Girl Buffy 12" Action Figure
Willow 12" Action Figure

The DST Buffy ministatues are finally arriving and shipping to customers that pre-ordered. The Gentlemenhas shipped, Welcome Faith currently shipping and Dark Witch Willow shipping very soon.

HUSH CHASE TARA FIGURE UPDATE : We will soon be ending our popular FREE TARA offer. You may still have a small window of opportunity to reserve one with purchases of $100 or more of gift certificates. This allows the buyer to use the gift certificates to pay for any mix of "pre-order" and "in-stock" items as well as use for gift giving. To qualify for your free Tara, purchase $100 or more of gift certificates and include the coupon "FREETARA" in the "COMMENTS" section (there is no "coupon" field for Gift Certificate checkout) when checking out. You will then be emailed your gift certificate for which you may use at any time to pay for future orders including "Pre-orders" (like the soon to be available Spike/Darla wave and our new EXCLUSIVE figure).

Ya know, I didn't read the last email I got from them correctly. I thought it was to purchase $100 or more of in-stock merchandise, not gift certificates to get a free Tara. If I wasn't blid or illiterate, I would have read it fully before preordering one from Cinequest! Stupid me.

[Buffy]

It was originally in-stock merchandise only, but the changed it to in-stock or gift certificates in the last few weeks.

[kakistos]

All done I can use the certificates to buy the new Spikes, or possibly the block figures or the DWW statue.

Seems like a round about way to do the whole thing, but I guess they want to guarantee that someone doesn't order, and then cancel, and still want their free Tara.

[Wicca]

Sounds like there will be an new exclusive Spike or Darla figure, looking forward to seeing what it is! Thanks for the news buffyswatcher!!!

[Jedi Doug]

I think the TAST exclusive is the blue-shirted Spike. It is reported on here:
www.action-figure.com/Article12340.html

[sueworld2003]

Now can somebody give me a bit of help here....I'm rather new to all this 'exclusive' malarky. I live in the UK and I really, really want to get all the Spike's. Does this mean that 3 out of the set will only be avaliable through these other toy retailers and that they will never be released to the public at large at all?

If so, what on earth is the reasoning behind that for the manufacturer? I can understand these other retailers benefiting from it, but surely DTS would sell more the normal way, or am I missing something here. I will be royally pissed if I can't get hold of 'Punk Spike', and 'Lessons Spike' in this country. I hate ordering from abroad, and I rather purchase from a retailer in this country if at all possible, as I did with the Willows.

[Lior Knight]

The exclusivity doesn’t effects UK. Like with Willows, all the figures would be available in the UK.

[sueworld2003]

Oh thanks for that, I feel allot happier now!

[The Second Evil]

Lior said:

The exclusivity doesn’t effects UK. Like with Willows, all the figures would be available in the UK.

Thank God! I was getting seriously worried there!

[trudavies]

Lior said:

The exclusivity doesn’t effects UK. Like with Willows, all the figures would be available in the UK.

I'm not too clear on how the figures are sold in the UK, how much more do they cost there than in the US?

[Lior Knight]

Tru said:

I'm not too clear on how the figures are sold in the UK, how much more do they cost there than in the US?

Regular versions cost between £11.99 to £12.99 and exclusives usually cost £14.99.

In USD, the UK prices are around $23 for each normal version and around $27 for an exclusive figure.

[CMK1887]

Lior said:

In USD it would mean around $23 for each normal version and around $27 for an exclusive figure.

It doesn't cost $23 for a regular version or $27 for an exclusive figure. Normally, regular versions are sold for about $13, while exclusives cost about $15.

-CMK

[Lior Knight]

CMK1887 said:

It doesn't cost $23 for a regular version or $27 for an exclusive figure. Normally, regular versions are sold for about $13, while exclusives cost about $15.

-CMK

I meant it was the UK prices in USD so you could see the difference.