Toy Fair 2012 Update - No Que, Soundwave or Target Leadfoot Releases Planned

Posted by Mkall Feb 12, 2012 at 1:11pm CST 86,763 views

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Seibertron.com site owner Ryan and news admin El Duque spoke briefly with the Hasbro Transformers brand team this morning at Toy Fair in New York regarding a few loose ends from yesterday. From their discussion, they bring news that there are currently no plans to release DOTM Que, Soundwave (both deluxe and Human Alliance) and Target-release Leadfoot at this time. The main reasons for this is what befalls many toy lines as they come to a close - retailers show more interest in the next line than they do in continuing the existing line. It is possible that the figures could see a release at some point, but at this point there are currently no plans.

In addition, there is apparently some interest within Hasbro to bring Takara Tomy's Arms Microns to the US, but there are no solid plans at this point.

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Re: Toy Fair 2012 Update - No Que, Soundwave or Target Leadfoot Releases Planned (view post)

Comment by CC-Kallen Feb 12, 2012

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. :BOOM:

Re: Toy Fair 2012 Update - No Que, Soundwave or Target Leadfoot Releases Planned (view post)

Comment by HelixPrime Feb 12, 2012

As soon as Hasbro fixes something they ruin something else. May they get stuck in the worst alt mode in the Transformer Universe! :-x

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Comment by Lord Onixprime Feb 12, 2012

Hasbro, you have a Generations line that was made specifically for releasing many different era's of transformers under on title. Why you haven't repackaged these (and what was supposed to be left of Animated for that matter) into this line is beyond me. What's the point in having it if you don't use it to it's full potential?

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Comment by dedcat Feb 12, 2012

I'm sure Soundwave will see a release in that Trilogy line (likely repainted). The other two, not so much. Same to be said of Vortex and Skywarp, I imagine.

At any rate, this should make the scalpers happy.

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Comment by Skywarp64 Feb 12, 2012

Come again?

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Comment by Starparu Feb 12, 2012

I must say, that is extremely disappointing. I had been waiting for those three to come out for the past few months, and I really hoped to round off my movieverse collection (As best I could) with them. Very unfortunate, but expected. Guess I'll start collecting TF Prime figures now.

-Starparu

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Comment by Autobot032 Feb 12, 2012

*sighs*

I truly don't get it. We know they produced Leadfoots destined for Target plus TakaraTomy received their's, plus we saw a packaged Soundwave in both Deluxe and Human Alliance packaging. Why waste all that money??

Obviously the figures were produced. I wonder if Japan will make a Dino available? They seemingly don't have to worry about Hot Wheels and Ferrari, over there.

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Comment by Evil_the_Nub Feb 12, 2012

What the hell are they doing over there? I'm starting to think Hasbro has no idea what they're doing.

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Comment by PrymeStriker Feb 12, 2012

Time to shell out money on eBay v_v

Re: Toy Fair 2012 Update - No Que, Soundwave or Target Leadfoot Releases Planned (view post)

Comment by Flashwave Feb 12, 2012

Autobot032 wrote:*sighs*

I truly don't get it. We know they produced Leadfoots destined for Target plus TakaraTomy received their's, plus we saw a packaged Soundwave in both Deluxe and Human Alliance packaging. Why waste all that money??

Obviously the figures were produced. I wonder if Japan will make a Dino available? They seemingly don't have to worry about Hot Wheels and Ferrari, over there.

Evil_the_Nub wrote:

What the hell are they doing over there? I'm starting to think Hasbro has no idea what they're doing.

Guys, go back and read the news article again. Hasbro may have made 'em, the stores aren't buyin 'em. A repackage would work, but it isn't Hasbro's fault. They made the supply, and the middle-market demand (the stores, not us) aren't interested. Sucks but is true.

And it's a shame, I really wanted an HA Soundwave

Mkall wrote:Seibertron.com site owner Ryan and news admin El Duque spoke briefly with the Hasbro Transformers brand team this morning at Toy Fair in New York regarding a few loose ends from yesterday. From their discussion, they bring news that there are currently no plans to release DOTM Que, Soundwave (both deluxe and Human Alliance) and Target-release Leadfoot at this time. The main reasons for this is what befalls many toy lines as they come to a close - retailers show more interest in the next line than they do in continuing the existing line. It is possible that the figures could see a release at some point, but at this point there are currently no plans.

In addition, there is apparently some interest within Hasbro to bring Takara Tomy's Arms Microns to the US, but there are no solid plans at this point.

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Comment by Dead Metal Feb 12, 2012

Well, they did say that it was due to the retailers not wanting them anymore and ordering the new toy lines instead.

dedcat wrote:I'm sure Soundwave will see a release in that Trilogy line (likely repainted).

Cancelled.

Kinda sucks for those who wanted them.
But hey, maybe they'll put them into the Generations line at one point, they gotta get those 40 + figures from somewhere.

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Comment by Solrac333 Feb 12, 2012

Hasbro, the next time you want to put out 100 Bumblebee repaints, remolds, etc... think of these. The figures we ACTUALLY wanted. Oh and cancelling FE didn't help either.

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Comment by WolfDawg Feb 12, 2012

Well this is a little confusing. Since there's apparently little interest from retailers regarding the Movie-verse figures, does this mean Hasbro is canceling the Movie Trilogy line? I don't remember reading that they were canceling that line, especially since they recently showed pics of the Optimus w/ trailer.

If Hasbro IS moving forward with the Trilogy line, then it confuses me even more since the Trilogy line was planning to use both the Que and Soundwave molds.

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Comment by Evil_the_Nub Feb 12, 2012

It absolutely is their fault for not releasing them sooner and not planning things out. They should know by now how stores operate and that releasing so many lines at the same time is a bad idea.

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Comment by Flashwave Feb 12, 2012

Evil_the_Nub wrote:I absolutely is their fault for not releasing them sooner and not planning things out. They should know by now how stores operate and that releasing so many lines at the same time is a bad idea.

THen whatever figures were the last to be released now would have gotten shoved off the end. And I'm still waiting for Wave 2 to come out. Seen exactly 1 Inferno, two Dark Steel, and I had finally gotten Warpath then so I had to pass the other two up. Stupid move also...

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Comment by Swiftknife24 Feb 12, 2012

They don't think it's worthy to push new film characters yet they're doing the Optimus with trailer...? Hopefully they can be incorporated into the Movie Trilogy line. I mean they *should* do...Why else create a whole new (sub)line and brand it a 'SERIES' for the 'TRILOGY' (implying more than one) for there only to be one figure?

And as such, I hope we'll get the Leadfoot/Topspin twin pack and Dino (Deluxe AND Human Alliance) we were promised. As for HA Soundwave, he had a VERY good silver paint job for the display last year...This may be a chance to get it back (not to say they will...Just that it's an opportunity).

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Comment by dedcat Feb 12, 2012

Dead Metal wrote:Well, they did say that it was due to the retailers not wanting them anymore and ordering the new toy lines instead.
dedcat wrote:I'm sure Soundwave will see a release in that Trilogy line (likely repainted).

Cancelled.

Kinda sucks for those who wanted them.
But hey, maybe they'll put them into the Generations line at one point, they gotta get those 40 + figures from somewhere.

The Trilogy line was canceled too? Well, I can live with that. I do hope DoTM Soundwave does see some kind of domestic release - the fans deserve it. >inset snarky 'I hate Bay' line here<

You probably hit the nail on the head though and Generations will fulfill that need. I like the speculation that it will cover the whole TF history (I still want an Animated Brawn!)

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Comment by blk-ot4500x Feb 12, 2012

F#@K YOU Hasblow .

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Comment by Doubledealer93 Feb 12, 2012

first they F*ck up the first edition line, then this! WHAT THE HELL!??!?

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Comment by Autobot032 Feb 12, 2012

Evil_the_Nub wrote:I absolutely is their fault for not releasing them sooner and not planning things out. They should know by now how stores operate and that releasing so many lines at the same time is a bad idea.