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News Credits: 457 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 9:04 am

My Blast Off is supposedly arriving today too, but I'm going out of town this morning before it arrives and won't be back to enjoy it until Sunday.

News Credits: 13 · by **mordhelm** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 9:18 am

And yet here I am, pre-ordering before many of you still waiting on my Blast Offs. Estimated Delivery is July 31st.

News Credits: 12 · by **nycPrime** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 9:23 am

Sabrblade wrote:My Blast Off is supposedly arriving today too, but I'm going out of town this morning before it arrives and won't be back to enjoy it until Sunday.

Oh man that sucks. Personally this is the most anticipated figure for me in some time. Can't wait until tonight!

News Credits: 4845 · by **william-james88** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 9:33 am

nycPrime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:My Blast Off is supposedly arriving today too, but I'm going out of town this morning before it arrives and won't be back to enjoy it until Sunday.

Oh man that sucks. Personally this is the most anticipated figure for me in some time. Can't wait until tonight!

Doesnt suck as much as him and the two other Prime Wars toys still not being available to order on Amazon.ca
At least you guys are getting him.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 9:47 am

william-james88 wrote:
nycPrime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:My Blast Off is supposedly arriving today too, but I'm going out of town this morning before it arrives and won't be back to enjoy it until Sunday.

Oh man that sucks. Personally this is the most anticipated figure for me in some time. Can't wait until tonight!

Doesnt suck as much as him and the two other Prime Wars toys still not being available to order on Amazon.ca
At least you guys are getting him.

Yeah, there's no sign on the UK site of any of them either.

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 9:54 am

william-james88 wrote:Doesnt suck as much as him and the two other Prime Wars toys still not being available to order on Amazon.ca
At least you guys are getting him.

But we were able to order them of the main Amazon site. Just received an update e-mail that my Blast-off will ship soon. Expected to arrive August 8-14.

I'd perfer to have just ordered from .ca, but due to the lower production numbers they would likely get crappy stickers slapped on the boxes to include French for Quebec.

News Credits: 4845 · by **william-james88** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 9:57 am

Editor wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Doesnt suck as much as him and the two other Prime Wars toys still not being available to order on Amazon.ca
At least you guys are getting him.

But we were able to order them of the main Amazon site. Just received an update e-mail that my Blast-off will ship soon. Expected to arrive August 8-14.

Not interested in paying shipping plus import fees. The same toys are listed on .ca, they should stock them there too.

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 10:05 am

Understandable, but as shipping and import was $10.31, I decided it was reasonably decent & I wanted him in my collection enough to skip hitting Starbucks on my break the day I placed the order.

News Credits: 42 · by **TF-fan kev777** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 10:06 am

mordhelm wrote:And yet here I am, pre-ordering before many of you still waiting on my Blast Offs. Estimated Delivery is July 31st.

Same here. At least I have the wave 3 prime masters and legends arriving from BBTS this week to tide me over.

News Credits: 56 · by **o.supreme** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 10:46 am

Seibertron wrote:
mordhelm wrote:A LOT went wrong for Hasbro (and Transformers) in the last year. TRU going under tanked sales significantly. And TLK was a failure compared to the preceding movies. My guess is the TLK toyline also suffered. And I hear the comics aren't doing fantastic, revenue-wise (though I bet better than most comics these days).

From what I'm aware, Transformers has done very well in the past year, with the exception of the Last Knight movie. Even the toys sold well, but that's because it was a very scaled back toy line.

I've heard similar things about the comics, but Transformers comics have never been big sellers, not since 2002's Dreamwave Transformers #1.

mordhelm wrote:Unfortunately these things happen when corporations do something drastic to "right the ship".

To the bean counters, what characters sell? The original Autobots and some of the Decepticons.

This is really just the fallout of a tough year for Transformers.

War for Cybertron was in the works long before the failures of last year. In the absence of a working crystal ball, these decisions were all under way long before 2017 happened.

mordhelm wrote:I am with you though, quite disappointed about several missing characters from G1. However, I think they are coming. Warden seems interesting in completing the G1 line. So I think Pretender Monsters, Seacons, Horrorcons, Targetmasters, are all coming. Heck, they may special release the remaining Pretender shells at some point too.

There are different ways to bring out the "missing characters" without doing it in the way in which we think it should be done. Who knows where and when other characters will show up. Hasbro knows what they're doing. I have great faith in their plans, though I have waited very patiently for the 84 and 85 characters to finally get finished up like Cliffjumper, a proper Huffer, the Deluxe Insecticons, Astrotain done right, Reflector, Hoist and Trailbreaker done right, and so on. Hopefully we'll get those gaps filled in soon!

mordhelm wrote:Let's all not forget that there is one more show (NYCC) this year. I believe NYCC was when Grotusque was revealed and put up for sale. I think we have one more surprise coming for NYCC.

Not to mention other shows around the world which may give Hasbro other opportunities to unveil other new products. They haven't really done that in the past but considering the onslaught of new products unveiled at SDCC last week, I have great hopes that there is more just waiting right around the corner.

It was also my understanding, that Hasbro decided to start brand changing every 18 months, to every 12 months so that B&M would order new product, instead of skipping the last couple waves because of ordering too much of earlier ones. I just think most (including myself) thought this would occur after PotP, not during it, since we saw some *clues* at perhaps other proposed releases. Think about it. The original line lasted 8 years (though the concepts changed dramatically) BW lasted 3 years, BM & RID roughly 2 years, and every mainline since has lasted 2 years. Even sub-lines like Universe, and each iteration of Generatons lasted about 2 years. But T30, CW, & TR were 18 months, now we are down to one year.

So while this keeps product fresh on the shelves, this forces :HASBRO:

and

to come up with basically a whole new concept every year. Of course we see some recycling of ideas, and that's not a bad thing, but I'm just not sure how long it will last. I mean MOTU has a great thing going with their collector based series, but I'd kind of hate for Generations to go that route.

Advantages: having guaranteed release dates, and knowing in advance what's coming
Disadvantages: high cost, short supply, and no B&M option, scalpers galore....

News Credits: 372 · by **Cyberpath** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:16 pm

Source: @6niniru

Cyberpath wrote:

Click to enlarge.

News Credits: 65 · by **Wolfman Jake** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:34 pm

Repugnus is looking sharp, there. Thanks for the pics, Cyberpath, and (of course) your comparison charts! As it happens, I have both the Hasbro and Takara "Titans Return" alternate heads available to me, so I'll be replacing the one that comes with Deluxe Repugnus. The question is if I want screen accurate blue optics or toy accurate green ones (as a compromise between the cartoon and G1 toy looks).

Oh, and my Blast Off should be arriving from Amazon on Tuesday 7/31 or Wednesday 8/1.

News Credits: 48 · by **Nemesis Primal** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 1:04 pm

I call shenanigans on this here news. My first post on this site was saying that I got a preorder in on Blast Off the day before Prime Day, which was listed as his release date, and then he came two days after said release date on the 18th. I also posted his arrival on the haul thread as having come with the other thing I ordered on Prime Day. I guess no one listens to me.

I've also preordered Repugnus and P/CP already. Repugnus comes out on August 1st, and will be received by me on the 3rd, and P/CP comes out on September 15th, and will arrive at my house while I'm away at school on the 18th.

Those in-hand pics of Repugnus look great though, I like his head better now.

News Credits: 56 · by **o.supreme** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 1:14 pm

Nemesis Primal wrote:I call shenanigans on this here news.

I wouldn't take it personally, after all nobody is perfect. I've seen many things come up as "news" after I initially posted about them, or IMHO "it wasn't news", its often subjective. Sometimes I purposely submit news, and sometimes it gets reported, and sometimes it does not. Sometimes I post in the forums, things I think are no big deal, and they actually end up as news...go figure. The point is, the folks here all seem to be pretty decent, and care about what they are doing. I know I fly off the handle sometimes, I'm not perfect either, but my anger usually goes towards the toy industry, lackluster animation , or comics, NOT the fans themselves. Just keep on truckin', and enjoy your Blastoff that you got before several others. ;)^

News Credits: 48 · by **Nemesis Primal** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 1:36 pm

o.supreme wrote:
Nemesis Primal wrote:I call shenanigans on this here news.

I wouldn't take it personally, after all nobody is perfect. I've seen many things come up as "news" after I initially posted about them, or IMHO "it wasn't news", its often subjective. Sometimes I purposely submit news, and sometimes it gets reported, and sometimes it does not. Sometimes I post in the forums, things I think are no big deal, and they actually end up as news...go figure. The point is, the folks here all seem to be pretty decent, and care about what they are doing. I know I fly off the handle sometimes, I'm not perfect either, but my anger usually goes towards the toy industry, lackluster animation , or comics, NOT the fans themselves. Just keep on truckin', and enjoy your Blastoff that you got before several others.

Oh, I'm not angry or anything, and I apologize if it came off that way. I just wanted to make sure my voice was heard. I appreciate your response though, you sir are a gentleman and a scholar.

Back on-topic, assuming discussion of Blast Off goes here and not on the CW thread, I love this figure. Am I probably biased, since the Combaticons are my favorite combiner team since playing FoC? Yeah, I probably am. But in spite of that, this is easily one of my favorite combiner-compatible Deluxes I own. He's fun to pose, I'm still surprised by how good his colors look, specifically how glossy this black is, I love how his gun forms his landing gear, and his limb mode is nice and solid. I'm so glad Hasbro actually brought this mold over, and that I got one before it sold out over the course of an hour.

*still regrets taking a break from buying TF's during Combiner Wars*

News Credits: 2 · by **Hero Alpha** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 1:46 pm

Nemesis Primal wrote:
o.supreme wrote:
Nemesis Primal wrote:I call shenanigans on this here news.

I wouldn't take it personally, after all nobody is perfect. I've seen many things come up as "news" after I initially posted about them, or IMHO "it wasn't news", its often subjective. Sometimes I purposely submit news, and sometimes it gets reported, and sometimes it does not. Sometimes I post in the forums, things I think are no big deal, and they actually end up as news...go figure. The point is, the folks here all seem to be pretty decent, and care about what they are doing. I know I fly off the handle sometimes, I'm not perfect either, but my anger usually goes towards the toy industry, lackluster animation , or comics, NOT the fans themselves. Just keep on truckin', and enjoy your Blastoff that you got before several others.

Oh, I'm not angry or anything, and I apologize if it came off that way. I just wanted to make sure my voice was heard. I appreciate your response though, you sir are a gentleman and a scholar.

Back on-topic, assuming discussion of Blast Off goes here and not on the CW thread, I love this figure. Am I probably biased, since the Combaticons are my favorite combiner team since playing FoC? Yeah, I probably am. But in spite of that, this is easily one of my favorite combiner-compatible Deluxes I own. He's fun to pose, I'm still surprised by how good his colors look, specifically how glossy this black is, I love how his gun forms his landing gear, and his limb mode is nice and solid. I'm so glad Hasbro actually brought this mold over, and that I got one before it sold out over the course of an hour.

*still regrets taking a break from buying TF's during Combiner Wars*

Also just posting "news" wont give u credit. You have to submit it to someone by clicking Submit News at the top of the page.

by **RiddlerJ** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 2:01 pm

Cyberpath wrote:

Source: @6niniru

Cyberpath wrote:

Click to enlarge.

That block between the legs is stupid. If they were going to leave it there, leave the tail ends too and just give his beast mode a tail like the other two Monsters have.

News Credits: 48 · by **Nemesis Primal** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 2:17 pm

Moonshot wrote:Also just posting "news" wont give u credit. You have to submit it to someone by clicking Submit News at the top of the page.

Fair point, I did not do that. I'm not really concerned about who gets the credit though, I'm glad the information is out there regardless of who it's attributed to. I just felt in the moment reading that news that my posts were being ignored, and wanted to let people know my opinions on Blast Off if they wanted to hear them.

Legitimate question: how much Wave 3 has anyone actually seen in stores so far? All I've seen are PMs, Deluxes, and Infernos, and the Deluxes I actually wanted sold out before I saw them and were replaced with Wave 2 repacks. It feels like this Wave isn't really out yet due to all this distribution nonsense, or at least it does to me.

News Credits: 372 · by **Cyberpath** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 2:19 pm

Wolfman Jake wrote:Repugnus is looking sharp, there. Thanks for the pics, Cyberpath, and (of course) your comparison charts!

News Credits: 6 · by **Sarahthecutevixen** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 2:36 pm

repugnus in hand images
https://twitter.com/6niniru/status/1022476533472980992

News Credits: 65 · by **Wolfman Jake** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 2:46 pm

RiddlerJ wrote:
Cyberpath wrote:

That block between the legs is stupid. If they were going to leave it there, leave the tail ends too and just give his beast mode a tail like the other two Monsters have.

Repugnus is some kind of arthropod creature (insect, crustation, etc.), so that block is his abdomen. His "bug booty" if you will. It's anatomically accurate to his beast mode.

by **MECHdirge** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 2:51 pm

I just got my confirmation this morning, too. Despite the fact that I’ve been using Amazon since the late 90’s, I don’t have much experience with preordering from them, so I appreciate the news. I wasn’t happy ordering an item without at least an estimate of when it was coming into stock—something the other Transformer preorders had. It looks like this was just a fuzzy bit of communication between Hasbro and Amazon. I’m looking forward to adding these figures to my collection

by **RiddlerJ** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 3:06 pm

Wolfman Jake wrote:
RiddlerJ wrote:
Cyberpath wrote:

That block between the legs is stupid. If they were going to leave it there, leave the tail ends too and just give his beast mode a tail like the other two Monsters have.

Repugnus is some kind of arthropod creature (insect, crustation, etc.), so that block is his abdomen. His "bug booty" if you will. It's anatomically accurate to his beast mode.

I can sort of see that. Still, they should've remolded it so it looks a little more deliberate. As it is, it just looks like they didn't know what to do with the boots.

Keeping the tail bits would've given it a little more legitimacy. Even better if they could've retooled the tail parts to form some kind of bug stinger.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 3:09 pm

Wolfman Jake wrote:Repugnus is some kind of arthropod creature (insect, crustation, etc.), so that block is his abdomen. His "bug booty" if you will. It's anatomically accurate to his beast mode.

That's how I look at it, too. It isn't G1 accurate, but I'm fine with it as an update to his design and it reminds me of the Universe version.

Emerje

News Credits: 2 · by **Crosscheck** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 3:51 pm

Whelp, my Blast Off came today. Transformed him about three times and then on to his true home of Bruticus. The hinge on the HFG is a little loose, but it works. He has the GUY Bruticus rifle in his hand which fits perfectly behind the tail. It was like it was made for him. Overall, great figure. Now time to find a place to put Jetblast.

Can't wait for my next shipment. Predaking comes next week.