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by **Starseeker** » Fri Sep 04, 2020 7:47 pm

Anyone been able to get Airwave yet? I've had my pre ordered from Gamestop and the release date was supposedly 8/24. They charged me that day, but then the money went back in, and they just charged me again. Haven't received a ship email though.

News Credits: 6 · by **Dr. Caelus** » Fri Sep 04, 2020 8:24 pm

Starseeker wrote:Anyone been able to get Airwave yet? I've had my pre ordered from Gamestop and the release date was supposedly 8/24. They charged me that day, but then the money went back in, and they just charged me again. Haven't received a ship email though.

I got mine the same day Arcee came. Both from Target, though oddly not in a box together.

News Credits: 56 · by **o.supreme** » Fri Sep 04, 2020 8:49 pm

My Target order for Airwave says "backordered" expected to arrive anytime between now and 9/14. Dr C. is quite literally the only person I've seen (outside of stolen factory samples and privileged Youtube reviewers) that has any wave 2 deluxes.

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Fri Sep 04, 2020 9:19 pm

o.supreme wrote:My Target order for Airwave says "backordered" expected to arrive anytime between now and 9/14. Dr C. is quite literally the only person I've seen (outside of stolen factory samples and privileged Youtube reviewers) that has any wave 2 deluxes.

I wouldn't freak out, my arcee from target said back-ordered til 9/14 this morning, but by lunch I had gotten an email that she had shipped

News Credits: 23 · by **aronjlove** » Fri Sep 04, 2020 9:45 pm

This blog has a bunch of in-hand pics of the Autobot Alliance. Here's my favorite of Prowl lol

And Ironhide's shield looks interesting...

News Credits: 23 · by **aronjlove** » Fri Sep 04, 2020 9:46 pm

o.supreme wrote:My Target order for Airwave says "backordered" expected to arrive anytime between now and 9/14. Dr C. is quite literally the only person I've seen (outside of stolen factory samples and privileged Youtube reviewers) that has any wave 2 deluxes.

Huh, and my order of Airwave shipped out of nowhere and should be here Tuesday.

News Credits: 10 · by **sol magnus** » Fri Sep 04, 2020 9:56 pm

aronjlove wrote:This blog has a bunch of in-hand pics of the Autobot Alliance. Here's my favorite of Prowl lol
And Ironhide's shield looks interesting...

Cool blog...definitely an Ironhide fan, but I can't wait to switch out Prowl's head.

News Credits: 54 · by **Deadput** » Sat Sep 05, 2020 12:03 am

Oh so Ironhide can become a convertible!

In all seriousness he doesn't look that bad without the roof.

News Credits: 6 · by **Dr. Caelus** » Sat Sep 05, 2020 12:25 am

News Credits: 6 · by **Dr. Caelus** » Sat Sep 05, 2020 12:28 am

Freak show time.

News Credits: 7 · by **Roadbuster** » Sat Sep 05, 2020 6:55 am

Went o one of my Targets yesterday and picked up the Seeker 2-pack of ER Skywarp and Thundercracker. Also saw a couple of Doubledealers and Clones. I'll pick them up on a later date though.

News Credits: 11 · by **Munkky** » Sun Sep 06, 2020 2:50 pm

Dr. Caelus wrote:
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I don't have any (non-cassette) Micromasters or Deluxe Modulators, but these photos make them look a lot of fun, and now I'm thinking of buying at least a few Micromaster duos. I've seen Ironworks at the toy shop in a nearby town, and Airwave is still available to pre-order from Kapow, though I'm guessing I've probably missed the boat on Greasepit and Hot House now. I'm thinking of buying the Siege Rescue Patrol and Earthrise Astro Squad for the Autobots, and the Siege Airstrike Patrol and Earthrise Battle Squad for the Decepticons. For those who have them, are these Micromasters worth buying?

News Credits: 23 · by **aronjlove** » Sun Sep 06, 2020 2:58 pm

Munkky wrote:
Dr. Caelus wrote:
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I don't have any (non-cassette) Micromasters or Deluxe Modulators, but these photos make them look a lot of fun, and now I'm thinking of buying at least a few Micromaster duos. I've seen Ironworks at the toy shop in a nearby town, and Airwave is still available to pre-order from Kapow, though I'm guessing I've probably missed the boat on Greasepit and Hot House now. I'm thinking of buying the Siege Rescue Patrol and Earthrise Astro Squad for the Autobots, and the Siege Airstrike Patrol and Earthrise Battle Squad for the Decepticons. For those who have them, are these Micromasters worth buying?

I really dig the Micromasters this time around. I wasn't a fan of the originals but of the WFC Micromasters I've picked up all but the Siege Rescue Patrol and the Siege 10-pack. Honestly, I've kept the Airstrike Patrol is combined sword mode but all the rest are on a shelf with Ironworks and Greasepit. Airwave should be here Tuesday and Hot House in a month or so, and then I'll arrange everything into a little town on the shelf.

by **Starseeker** » Sun Sep 06, 2020 5:43 pm

Got shipping confirmation for Airwave! Can't wait to connect him with the rest of my city/spaceport.

News Credits: 56 · by **o.supreme** » Sun Sep 06, 2020 8:31 pm

Got another delay notice for my Airwave, meanwhile it appears the first official sighting at retail had been confirmed ugh....

https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/ ... l.1199888/

News Credits: 23 · by **aronjlove** » Sun Sep 06, 2020 8:37 pm

o.supreme wrote:Got another delay notice for my Airwave, meanwhile it appears the first official sighting at retail had been confirmed ugh....

https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/ ... l.1199888/

Target or Amazon? From what I can tell, between my purchase and people on Twitter, it seems Target is shipping while Amazon is delaying.

News Credits: 56 · by **o.supreme** » Sun Sep 06, 2020 9:07 pm

My Earthrise wave 2 order is delayed with Target. Meanwhile I've now seen MPM-10 in pretty much every store in my area...go figure....

I bet if I really wanted that, it would be hard to get, and Scorponoks would be everywhere.... :BANG_HEAD:

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I have Scorponok, but I had to coerce two levels of management to dig one out of the stockroom for me, and have only seen it one other time since. I know many of you probably haven't even seen one yet sadly. My point is, if you are going to gamble on one high price point TF I'd say Scorponok is a much safer bet for a sale than MPM-10. I lifted the box and was surprised how light it was.... Definitely not worth it for me.

News Credits: 6 · by **Dr. Caelus** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 1:43 am

aronjlove wrote:
Munkky wrote:
Dr. Caelus wrote:
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I don't have any (non-cassette) Micromasters or Deluxe Modulators, but these photos make them look a lot of fun, and now I'm thinking of buying at least a few Micromaster duos. I've seen Ironworks at the toy shop in a nearby town, and Airwave is still available to pre-order from Kapow, though I'm guessing I've probably missed the boat on Greasepit and Hot House now. I'm thinking of buying the Siege Rescue Patrol and Earthrise Astro Squad for the Autobots, and the Siege Airstrike Patrol and Earthrise Battle Squad for the Decepticons. For those who have them, are these Micromasters worth buying?

I really dig the Micromasters this time around. I wasn't a fan of the originals but of the WFC Micromasters I've picked up all but the Siege Rescue Patrol and the Siege 10-pack. Honestly, I've kept the Airstrike Patrol is combined sword mode but all the rest are on a shelf with Ironworks and Greasepit. Airwave should be here Tuesday and Hot House in a month or so, and then I'll arrange everything into a little town on the shelf.

I was born in late 83, so I really missed most of G1. I watched the original cartoon on homemade recordings rented from the grocery store, and saw the movie as a rental from Pop-in-Go Video. Eventually I saw the first season on TV repackaged ad G2, and I collected a handful of Marvel comics by scouring antique stores and flea markets when I was older. Point is, by the time I was old enough to ask for Transformers, most of the iconic stuff had come and gone. I had Powermaster Prime, Wreck-Gar, Joyride, and Pretender Grimlock, Jazz, Bumblebee, and Starscream, all without their shells. And I had Micromasters. LOTS of Micromasters.

At the time I kind of loved/hated them. They were awesome, but I always resented them for not being the characters from the cartoons and for not being 'in scale' with any of the figures that were. Regrettably, when I got the chance to 'trade up', I did, and got rid of every single one.

Then, decades later, Armada came out. I didn't have any interest in the cartoon, but the first Armada comic hooked me with this one scene, where the Decepticons attack a Minicon city. It's violent, brutal, and horrific when you grasp what the Cons plan to do with their captives. Although Decepticons had been attacking humans for years, that always felt like Independence Day, War of the Worlds type stuff. The interplay between the Decepticons, Minicons, and Autobots felt very different from that, so I got hooked on that concept - the idea of the minicons or micromasters being at the bottom of the social ladder, fighting for survival and freedom in the middle of a grinding war of attrition between titans.

So, I started collecting Minicons like mad. In grad school I kept a huge bowl of them on our coffee table that people would sit and play with when they came over after a bad day. Needless to say, I was thrilled when WFC:Siege revived the idea, and have been snapping up the Micromasters and their bases, only lamenting more of my childhood favorites would be recreated (e.g., the rest of the AstrobSquad).

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 6:16 am

Arcee and Smokescreen arrived from Target Sunday via FedEx. The other two got delayed to the 14th like everyone else, but there is a tracking number not just a delay so that's promising. Airwave is coming by UPS and Alicon through FedEx. Interesting how everyone is getting these in random shipments, I guess they figured it was better to split partial cases among customers instead of shipping whole orders to some and none to others. I'm not mad. My Arcee does have a bit of pink paint bleed from her chest onto her abs, but whatever.

What is a little more annoying is I finally opened my Scorponok and the silver paint on his crotch is a mess. Part of me doesn't want to go through the trouble of exchanging it with Amazon while another part of me is going to be annoyed every time I look at him. I think he'll be going back.

Emerje

News Credits: 2 · by **Nemesis Destron** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:36 am

So I made a satisfying choice in that fans can have their Timelines version or Earthrise (Runamuck) version but my Neo G1 representations are :TAKARATOMY:

TAV Runabout and Runamuck and they are perfect....'nuff said! :VEHI:

News Credits: 19 · by **blackeyedprime** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 12:33 pm

Tontons review of Ratchet is up, pretty darn unbleeped funny as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9-7WptJETY

News Credits: 19 · by **blackeyedprime** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 12:52 pm

It has some small improvements over Ironhide, the shoulders being white helps the van mode compared to Ironhides out of place black squares and same with the white plastic hinge below the windshield. The light blue windows are nice but the other colors are off and the autobot symbol isn't unified so it would need a sticker over it for my liking. Def waiting for a RED version.

News Credits: 23 · by **aronjlove** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 1:59 pm

Well, after sending me an email saying I needed to approve a delay to the Quint and Smokescreen Target changed their mind about Smokescreen. I just got an email saying he shipped. Is Target just randomly filling orders as they get stock?

News Credits: 10 · by **sol magnus** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 2:16 pm

blackeyedprime wrote:Tontons review of Ratchet is up, pretty darn unbleeped funny as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9-7WptJETY

A lot of complaining for something he didn't and doesn't have to actually spend money on.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Mon Sep 07, 2020 2:30 pm

Greetings Seibertronians! It's back to the Earthrise portion of the Transformers Generations War for Cybertron Trilogy this time as YouTube toy reviewer, TonTon Reviews, has uploaded a new video review of Earthrise Deluxe Class Ratchet! From the forthcoming Galactic Odyssey Collection (along with Lifeline, a Earthrise Arcee redeco)

Thanks to fellow Seibertron users, Praxiusprime77, blackeyedprime, and Hokutron, for spreading this news.

Ratchet is a redeco of Earthrise Ironhide, who himself is a retool of his Siege toy (which was also redeco'ed as Ratchet for 2019s Walgreens exclusive). Like Ratchet, Earthrise Ironhide is only available as part of an Amazon exclusive.

We have embedded the review below for your convenience:

What do you think of Ratchet? Have you preordered this set? Or are you happy enough with any of the previous versions of the character? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!