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As you may have gathered from our recent posts, wave 3 of Age of the Primes is out in Canada. Voyagers and deluxes have been found at Walmart. The specific sightings come from Ontario and Quebec. For those wondering, here are the wave contents:

Deluxe:
Aerialbot Fireflight
The Thirteen Micronus Prime
Aerialbot Skydive
Venin

Voyager:
The Thirteen Alpha Trion
Flatline

These were all found at Walmart. While this is earlier than other regions, it does mean that several stores will thus be skipping wave 2, for deluxes, which have been very sparse. We also have reviews of this wave's contents after the images.

I'm digging the uni-bike that is Micronus Prime. I get to thinking of the classic animated series Spiral Zone. It's an easy buy for me but it would have been cooler had the engineers made a better way to keep him standing upright in alt-mode....'nuff said!

I'm glad they're going somewhere. Walmarts around here haven't gotten anything new since Earthspark first came out.

AI toy images

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:AI toy images

Which are you referring to?

william-james88 wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:AI toy images

Which are you referring to?

The Kanrabat images above your posts.

I finally went back to a Walmart. They only had 2 earthspark (Bee and Megs) wave 5 one of blokees. No voyager. Nothing else. Makes me wish I could make it to Canada. That one Pic has more than I've seen in months

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:AI toy images

Which are you referring to?

The Kanrabat images above your posts.

Feel free to not like the AI images, but I find them hilarious.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:AI toy images

Which are you referring to?

The Kanrabat images above your posts.

Feel free to not like the AI images, but I find them hilarious.

Feel free to keep posting ugly trash while also continuing the abuse AI does to actual artists, photographers, and the environment.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Feel free to keep posting ugly trash while also continuing the abuse AI does to actual artists, photographers, and the environment.

I can't deny the "trash" part. But the rest are non-argunents. Like all new tech, one must get with the times.

Im with D Max all the way on this one. This isnt just a get with the times kind of thing, unfortunately.
In more cheerful news though, i recently picked up Skye Bite and he is lovely! I didnt expect him to be so big n tall either, its good to see some more classic Voyager sized .. sizes Will have to keep a look out for Alpha trion while i am out this weekend! Hes next on my hitlist, as the seibertron homepage so kindly reminded me of his being out now

(I think Skye bite looks really cool with Transmetel 2 dragon Megs)

M. Spector wrote:In more cheerful news though, i recently picked up Skye Bite and he is lovely! I didnt expect him to be so big n tall either, its good to see some more classic Voyager sized .. sizes

Classic Voyager size? Nay, good Moon Knight! He is Beast Wars Mega class sized! The same size as the original Transmetal 2 Cybershark toy!

Sabrblade wrote:

M. Spector wrote:In more cheerful news though, i recently picked up Skye Bite and he is lovely! I didnt expect him to be so big n tall either, its good to see some more classic Voyager sized .. sizes

Classic Voyager size? Nay, good Moon Knight! He is Beast Wars Mega class sized! The same size as the original Transmetal 2 Cybershark toy!

Not only is PotP Sky Bite the same sise as the original, he's much, much better than it in every ways. Plus, he blow the T30 version out of the water. That toy is a small miracle among all those undersized updates with all gimmicks removed.

Man... I live in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the selection at every store I hunt at in this city is absolutely ANEMIC lately. Like... I've lived here for four years now, and I'm lucky if I see a restock once a month at any of these stores. Even then, the shelves are mostly picked clean (aside from the usual shelf/peg warmers) within a week or two, after which it's another 3-5 weeks before I see anything new. It's disappointing, even if there's nothing in the current wave that I'm looking for.

It never ceases to blow me away how a city with SO MANY Targets and Walmarts is SO SLOW to restock toys. This picture is better than anything I've seen in months over here.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I miss Toys R Us here in the US .

NotFrankeSisto wrote:I've said it before and I'll say it again: I miss Toys R Us here in the US .

Canadian here. Seriously, you don't miss anything. Not only are Toys R Us shelves as barren as the rest, they sell their things at a much higher price then their competition. From 15.56% more for a leader, 25% more for a deluxe, to a whopping 31.21% more for special sets like the Sonic one.







I'm through with TrU.

Very random, but Pulse just shipped by Fireflight alone with no other charges.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Canadian here. Seriously, you don't miss anything. Not only are Toys R Us shelves as barren as the rest, they sell their things at a much higher price then their competition. From 15.56% more for a leader, 25% more for a deluxe, to a whopping 31.21% more for special sets like the Sonic one.

I'm through with TrU.

I appreciate that insight - thank you! Sad state of the hobby though

NotFrankeSisto wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Canadian here. Seriously, you don't miss anything. Not only are Toys R Us shelves as barren as the rest, they sell their things at a much higher price then their competition. From 15.56% more for a leader, 25% more for a deluxe, to a whopping 31.21% more for special sets like the Sonic one.

I'm through with TrU.

I appreciate that insight - thank you! Sad state of the hobby though

That's how they were before they closed in the US as well. Really, the only reason to shop at TRU was for exclusives.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

NotFrankeSisto wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Canadian here. Seriously, you don't miss anything. Not only are Toys R Us shelves as barren as the rest, they sell their things at a much higher price then their competition. From 15.56% more for a leader, 25% more for a deluxe, to a whopping 31.21% more for special sets like the Sonic one.

I'm through with TrU.

I appreciate that insight - thank you! Sad state of the hobby though

That's how they were before they closed in the US as well. Really, the only reason to shop at TRU was for exclusives.

And now, the few TRUs that still exist in the US only have an abundance of leftover stock of items from two or three years back.

When I was at the TRU in the mall where BotCon 2023 was held, the latest TF items that store had were latter wave Kingdom toys from 2021, as well as an entire wall of those SS86 Coronation Starscreams and Cyberverse Deluxe class Starscreams that every retailer struggled so hard to get rid of.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

NotFrankeSisto wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Canadian here. Seriously, you don't miss anything. Not only are Toys R Us shelves as barren as the rest, they sell their things at a much higher price then their competition. From 15.56% more for a leader, 25% more for a deluxe, to a whopping 31.21% more for special sets like the Sonic one.

I'm through with TrU.

I appreciate that insight - thank you! Sad state of the hobby though

That's how they were before they closed in the US as well. Really, the only reason to shop at TRU was for exclusives.

TRU in Oz has closed down for a long while now. But yes, they ere good for:
+ exclusives
+ price matching (no wonder they went bust)

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Very random, but Pulse just shipped by Fireflight alone with no other charges.

Funny, Amazon shipped my Skydive (and Mixmaster!), but no sign of Fireflight.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Very random, but Pulse just shipped by Fireflight alone with no other charges.

Funny, Amazon shipped my Skydive (and Mixmaster!), but no sign of Fireflight.

Emerje

Amazon has Skydive, Onyx and Alpha Trion arriving Friday for me. Probably would have been Mixmaster too, but I found him at Target yesterday and cancelled Amazon.

Got a notification from BBTS today. Skydive and Fireflight are coming. Don't know the ETA yet but likely this weekend.