Transformers Figure Subscription Service
In 2012, Fun Publications revealed the Transformers Figure Subscription Service. With this, a greater number and variety of exclusive toys from the Timelines toyline could be made and sent out to members of the Transformers Collectors' Club.
Subscription details
The Subscription Service is an optional add-on to Fan Club membership. Each year's lineup consists of six exclusive Transformers. As they are not part of a themed box set like BotCon toys, they can pull from a variety of universes and styles. Toys are shipped out one per month for six months, though the order the toys are shipped in is kept a secret.
Payment for each year can be made in one lump sum, or split into three smaller payments on a regular schedule. Obviously, missing a payment deadline means no more toys get shipped to the delinquent until things are caught up.
Any toys left over from each shipment are subsequently put up on the Fan Club's store (except for the 2014 "bonus" figure) for individual purchase by anyone with a Fan Club membership, though at a slightly higher price tag than the per-unit cost of the full subscription.
Toys
Series 1.0 (2013)
The initial year had some hiccups in its delivery. Meant to start shipping in early 2013, the toys did not actually get shipped from the factory until summer, under the mistaken notion that they were part of the BotCon 2013 toy assortment. Thus, they ended up shipping in the latter half of the year.
- 1: Scourge
- 2: Slipstream
- 3: Circuit
- 4: Breakdown
- 5: Jackpot
- 6: Ultra Mammoth
Series 2.0 (2014)
For 2014, the Service changed things up quite a bit. First by offering a seventh "bonus" figure for subscribers that was not made available for individual purchase, and then by adding Mini-Con partners to three of the toys by making use of the Arms Micron molds that had previously not been available in the US. Another manufacturer's delay occurred, causing the initial shipment to be scheduled to arrive in Dallas in the final week of May 2014 and start shipping to customers in the first week of June 2014.
- 1: Barricade (with Frenzy)
- 2: Fisitron
- 3: Thrustinator
- 4: Treadshot (with Catgut)
- 5: Chromedome (with Stylor)
- 6: Rewind
- 7: Eject
Series 3.0 (2015)
- 1: Carzap (with G.B. Blackrock)
- ?: Krok (with Gatoraider)
- ?: G2 Starscream
- ?: Nacelle
- ?: Serpent O.R.
- ?: Tarantulas (with two Spider Drones)
- ?: ???
Notes
- The Transformers Subscription Service was preceded a year earlier by a similar service for the G.I. Joe Fan Club, also run by Fun Publications. That Service though has 12 toys a year, due to the much lower cost per figure to manufacture.
