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Date Posted: 13:04:54 10/21/02 Mon
Author: Icon
Subject: Oh no! Alert to all non-US Transfans...

From http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/rage/index1.htm and as such should be considered to be a rumour. HOWEVER, anyone who has ever had dealings to do with Hasbro should bear in mind that this is entirely in keeping with their mindset.

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Transformers-A-No-Go

Big problems if you’re a Dreamwave Transformers fan and you don’t live in North America…

Sam reports that both the Transformers: Generation One Vol 1 TPB and Transformers: Armada #5 have been cancelled for international customers by Diamond. This is in response to a “situation” that occurred at the Frankfurt Book Fair last week – Diamond representatives were approached by a VP of Hasbro, who informed them that they were not authorised to sell ANY Transformers material outside of North America.

The Diamond reps had to take all displayed items down and reported back to head office – who then contact Dreamwave and a number of vendors and found that that this information was correct. Hence the immediate cancellation of all international orders.

Of course, doesn’t this mean that Diamond has been operating illegally for all internationally shipped Transformers comics so far? Is Brian Hibbs going to sue them as well? Cheap shot, sorry. But it’s interesting as to why this has only come to light now – has the restriction only just been added to the contract, or did it always exist? Diamond are still accepting orders for Armada #3, curiously enough – perhaps they have stocks of this in a warehouse in Europe and want to clear them out rather than send them back over to the US.

The biggest fallout is twofold – firstly, any entrepreneurial person who asks his comics shop in the US to order him 100 copies of each Transformers comic from now on will be able to make a killing on European EBAY sites; secondly, any non-North American customer who has bought earlier issues and wants to see the continuation is screwed and rightly going to feel rather pissed off. Of course, any non-North American who was thinking about picking up the books is not going to bother now, no point as they won’t see the conclusion to the series.

It is important to state, however, that the Titan Books’ TPB collections of early Transformers stories are NOT affected by this – they remain available to all and sundry due to their particular contract – it’s just everything from Dreamwave is (effectively) illegal in Europe and the rest of the world.

This Has A “You Killed Optimus Prime, You Bastards” Value Of Nine Out Of Ten

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Damn!

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