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Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:58 pm

I FINALLY found a Jazz! Patience payed off this time. Found him at Target today.

Fri Mar 18, 2011 1:55 pm

Just got Tracks and Scourge in the mail from HTS. Wow! I'm very impressed! It's because of awesome toys like these that I collect TFs!

News Credits: 1 · Sun Mar 20, 2011 8:07 am

i still have yet to see any of wave 2 deluxe so ive bought prime & perceptor but cant get wreck gar before the arm building hoarders

News Credits: 1 · Sun Mar 20, 2011 12:35 pm

I'm freaking out a little. For months I've scoured all of Iowa and parts of Illinois looking for RTS and haven't found anything but Generations and ROTF shelf warmers. I'm getting nervous as I'm now seeing DOTM teaser displays. What's the deuce with not clearing stuff out for RTS? You all think that these stores are going to jump right from Generations to DOTM and decide to skip RTS? All the TRUs I've stalked have each had one RTS figure in the whole store. Not one peg, but just one figure.

I'm freaking! And now HTS is out of stock on the good ones! ACK!

Sun Mar 20, 2011 2:50 pm

I couldn't take the waiting anymore, hoping for Scourge to show up locally (in my area of Canada) so I instead bought one on Ebay. Wow! Impressive figure! I also bought a Dirge on sale at TRU to chill with my Generations Thrust, so I'm pretty pumped about that.

It's odd though... we've gotten a decent selection of Generations here, up to Wave 5, but the RTS releases have been a bit more bizarre. I haven't seen any of the (Deluxe) Wave 1 RTS toys, but the Wave 2 ones seemed to be everywhere for a while.

News Credits: 62 · Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:23 am

Autobot Strider wrote:I couldn't take the waiting anymore, hoping for Scourge to show up locally (in my area of Canada) so I instead bought one on Ebay. Wow! Impressive figure! I also bought a Dirge on sale at TRU to chill with my Generations Thrust, so I'm pretty pumped about that.

It's odd though... we've gotten a decent selection of Generations here, up to Wave 5, but the RTS releases have been a bit more bizarre. I haven't seen any of the (Deluxe) Wave 1 RTS toys, but the Wave 2 ones seemed to be everywhere for a while.

Try Walgreens , Kohls, and Walmart Neighborhood market / grocery for the Wave 1.

I found them all there.

News Credits: 9 · Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:54 pm

Picked up RTS Optimus Prime and Bumblebee from a collector, loose but new- 8$ each shipped. Haven't even seen them in-store yet. *fist pump*

Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:44 pm

Picked up WFC Soundwave and Thunderwing.

Couple of great figures.

My only problem is with the tech specs. A strength of 4 and endurance of 5 seem far too low for Soundwave. Especially since the bio states his body is heavily armored.

Likewise, Thunderwing's intelligence of 6, courage 7 with a rank and skill of 5 seem too low for him. The bio is obviously a nod to his IDW persona regrettably. Be nice if his far more interesting Marvel self were the basis for this bio. His affinity for the Matrix was infinitely more interesting and entertaining than his mindless destroyer persona that IDW ruined him with.

Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:01 pm

Primeultimus wrote:Try Walgreens , Kohls, and Walmart Neighborhood market / grocery for the Wave 1.

I found them all there.

I would, if we had them in Canada! Well, we have Walmarts, but they probably aren't as good...

Thanks though!

News Credits: 2 · Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:24 pm

AutobotTrainer wrote:I'm freaking out a little. For months I've scoured all of Iowa and parts of Illinois looking for RTS and haven't found anything but Generations and ROTF shelf warmers. I'm getting nervous as I'm now seeing DOTM teaser displays. What's the deuce with not clearing stuff out for RTS? You all think that these stores are going to jump right from Generations to DOTM and decide to skip RTS? All the TRUs I've stalked have each had one RTS figure in the whole store. Not one peg, but just one figure.

I'm freaking! And now HTS is out of stock on the good ones! ACK!

I honestly think that is what they're trying to do in some places. The last store I was in still had HFTD pegwarmers and older waves of Generations.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:38 pm

Yeah our selection up here in upstate NY has been very hit or miss as well. Managed to snag Darkmount, Scourge, Cyclonus, and WFC Bumblebee. Got Perceptor loose off eBay to modify into Soundwave, and Lugnut's coming from TFSource. Gotta love Darkmount most of all on his throne.

Really have not seen any Reveal the Shield toys here at all though other than the Rodimus/Cyclonus set though, in any of the local stores.

News Credits: 241 · Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:35 am

My second haul of Reveal the Shield arrived today, and it's a doozy. Thanks again to Pretender Skywarp.

Battle in Space: Rodimus vs. Cyclonus

RtS Solar Storm Grappel
RtS Optimus Prime
RtS Bumblebee
RtS Perceptor
RtS Wreck-Gar
RtS Turbo Tracks (for a little project)

And as a little extra:

WFC Legends Starscream (the big sneak)

News Credits: 36 · Tue Mar 22, 2011 10:56 am

Glad to help, even if I am a sneaky McSneakerson!

News Credits: 2 · Tue Mar 22, 2011 4:03 pm

Just got shipping confirmation for Lugnut today from HTS, so he should get here before this month ends.

News Credits: 62 · Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:44 am

Twitchythe3rd wrote:Just got shipping confirmation for Lugnut today from HTS, so he should get here before this month ends.

Awesome I wish they could get Grappel in so I can order him and Lugnut together.

Thu Mar 24, 2011 3:02 am

Perceptor and Wreckgar a few days ago, the rest today.

Wheeljack is my fav from the autobots so far; that vehicle mode is just sick, I want that to be my future ride, haha. Bot mode has got tons of character too.
Terradive and Scourge are tied, Loving both the vehicle and robot modes. Evil looking mofos

News Credits: 1 · Thu Mar 24, 2011 10:43 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:My second haul of Reveal the Shield arrived today, and it's a doozy. Thanks again to Pretender Skywarp.

Battle in Space: Rodimus vs. Cyclonus

RtS Solar Storm Grappel
RtS Optimus Prime
RtS Bumblebee
RtS Perceptor
RtS Wreck-Gar
RtS Turbo Tracks (for a little project)

And as a little extra:

WFC Legends Starscream (the big sneak)

TRU, HTS, BBTS, WalMart.com, where...WHERE?!?!?! :BOOM:

News Credits: 241 · Thu Mar 24, 2011 10:49 am

AutobotTrainer wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:My second haul of Reveal the Shield arrived today, and it's a doozy. Thanks again to Pretender Skywarp.

Battle in Space: Rodimus vs. Cyclonus

RtS Solar Storm Grappel
RtS Optimus Prime
RtS Bumblebee
RtS Perceptor
RtS Wreck-Gar
RtS Turbo Tracks (for a little project)

And as a little extra:

WFC Legends Starscream (the big sneak)

TRU, HTS, BBTS, WalMart.com, where...WHERE?!?!?!

I think I said Pretender Skywarp hooked me up with them. Luckily for me, he's from the UK so I save a lot on shipping.

Ooo... I'm sorry :-(

Fri Mar 25, 2011 12:13 pm

1st haul of the year - RTS Tracks

wife is banning Tf hauling for a while,so..HELL YEAHHH

News Credits: 13 · Fri Mar 25, 2011 4:09 pm

TRU came through yesterday

RTS G2 Optimus Prime
RTS Perceptor

they had Bumblebee but no Wreck-gar and since i already have a classics Bumblebee i didnt need to ge another one just yet

Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:02 am

I have Kup, Thundercracker and Perceptor on the way from an eBay seller, and Grapple from an online store. Can't wait to rip open the boxes!

Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:59 pm

Dammit... I broke down and decided to pre-order from Big Bad Toy Store. I got the set of Generations Scourge, Thundercracker, Wheeljack, and Kup. I already have Kup, so I'll give it to my room mate as a b-day gift. And it was just yesterday that I said I was totally against pre-ordering a toy of all things.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:41 am

RTS Strafe, not a bad repaint and I am loving the wing designs.

News Credits: 5 · Tue Mar 29, 2011 3:43 pm

Just got my Wheeljack and Thundercracker from HTS. Just ordered them Friday too. I wish BBTS shipped that fast!

Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:42 pm

Pyro-Mas wrote:Dammit... I broke down and decided to pre-order from Big Bad Toy Store. I got the set of Generations Scourge, Thundercracker, Wheeljack, and Kup. I already have Kup, so I'll give it to my room mate as a b-day gift. And it was just yesterday that I said I was totally against pre-ordering a toy of all things.

I did something similiar. Picked up the 8 pack; Warpath x2, Thundercracker x2, Wheeljack x2, and one each of Scrourge and Kup. Already have a couple of Kups and one Scourge but figured having some extra couldnt hurt me in the long run and the bulk pack was a decent price.

Went to Kmart with the 20% off sale and grabbed Sea Spray and a back up Cyclonus/Rodimus double pack. Really like Sea Spray but super disappointed with the double pack. Both figures are really cheap and generally look terrible. I already had one pack that I hadnt opened but am contemplating returning both sets to Walmart for store credit and buying something else. Only thing holding my back is the thought of dumping them on ebay down the road. Sea Spray is really nice though. Transformation is simple but it looks nice in both forms and the colors are very 80's.