No Green Arrow for tomorrow

[Mego Milk]

I bought Animal Man and Bwana Beast.

all good.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Once the site came up, my transaction was totally smooth. I had no previous account either, so I had to enter EVERYTHING.

Chris

[Brown Bear]

Green Arrow will go on sale at 5am on Christams Eve where I live....very convienent. NOT!

[Meule]

If this is the sort of professionalism we can expect from Mattel then I don't have a lot of confidence for any future releases.
Seems like this rerelease is doomed from the get-go: crappy cards, bow-legged figures, first release is an exclusive and release date has been pushed back.

[Sideshow Spock]

Be happy GA was delayed.. RTM is (as usual) swamped with Matty complaining.. here's one excerpt from a poster:

The site crashes wholesale a few minutes before today's items come up for sale.

It returns a few minutes later, but errors abound and I'm unable to place anything in my cart.

Several minutes later, I am able to place the items I want in my cart (from their individual listing pages, mind you, not the main sales page), but the RSOD makes its return and the going is slow.

Several minutes later, I make it to the end of the ordering process only to find an error screen blocking the completion of my order.

30 minutes later, I am told one of the figures that's been in my cart for almost 45 minutes has sold out while I was prevented from ordering it.

I remove the remaining items from my cart and close the browser window.

The End.

Raving Toy Maniac - The Toy Buzz

[Meule]

It's...the nightmare before Christmas.....

I really don't intend to sit at my computer on a certain date at a certain time and be allowed to spend my money when the seller deems it's time.
If I can't get my stuff in a normal way, then so be it.

If all the new figures are going to go through Mattycollector, then I think I'm going to be saving a lot of money in 2010.

Yeah, I'm not gonna bother either. If I can get it on eBay for the same price I'll buy it, if not so be it.
Gotta love exclusives
Oh and the others will be for sale in TRU

[megocrazy]

I wonder if they felt there would be too many desirable pieces available on the same day and moved it for that reason? Moving it off for a week because it's not in yet doesn't make sense. Just take the orders and ship it when it arrives. If the site is crashing now imagine what it would've been if the GA figure was available today too. Plus if you're gonna put a figure up on a Tuesday why not spread the orders out across five days. At least you wouldn't have the buyers only looking for a single figure fighting for bandwidth with all the other people in the same situation. Sometimes I wonder if these companies think before rolling out a plan. Note to big company...In some cases the high school dropout that's been picking orders in your company for 10 years is smarter than the guy that smoked pot and drank for 4 years in college while he got his degree.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I had several error pages, then I made it through and went smoothly. Got Zod and two of the Dark Knight Bruce Wayne/Survival Suit Batman figures, one for me and one for the boy.

Chris

[jasonmego1277]

I am trying to order that damn Zod , and it's not letting me. I hate Matty Collector..... GRRRRRRR !

[Riffster]

ha .

[Gorn Captain]

"What are you doing, Dave?"
"I'm trying to order a Green Arrow, HAL."
"I can't let you do that, Dave. That figure will be offered five minutes after you shut off you computer and go to bed."

[SeattleEd]

I got this:

Server Error

Error:

We are currently unable to perform the selected action. Please accept our apologies for this inconvenience. We have been notified and are already working to correct this issue as quickly as possible. Please click your browser's back button and try this action at a later time, or take a different action.

Error Number: SYS_000001

WOOHOO!!!

[Riffster]

I was able to get the Super Friends Robin no issue today hopefully Green Arrow will be as easy

[SeattleEd]

Major hanging on the site pages. Now I know what to expect next week.

[SeattleEd]

Just came back up at exactly 9 am on my computer.