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i just got back from toys rus just picked up leader class brawl ,and battle damaged jazz but everywhere i go bumblebee 08 version is sold out anyopne besides me having this problem reminds of megatron when i was looking for him all over again

You're not the only one. The only time I ever saw one was when someone was walking out with the last one just as I entered the toy aisle.

why is he rare, cause i'm not much of a movie line fan, but i picked him up cause he looks kool, as well as the varient of him with the tow truck, and i also got that protoform prime pack u no with jazz and the tank (don't remember his name)

In the current assortments he is short packed. In the Allspark Power assortments he will ship 2 to a case. They will be everywhere soon.

Saw one today at the Target in Schaumburg, IL. First time I've seen one in retail in a couple of months.

I've seen him on 4 different occasions... but then again I hunt way too much.

He's available at HASBROTOYSHOP.com if you're stateside.

It's also because he's in the movie. All the kids are saying "OMG, I need a Bumblebee!", so now you've got collectors AND parents checking stores constantly. You just have to be patient.

Seriously, EVERY time I go hunting, at least 3-4 different people come to the TF section and look through it after I do. I know this because I always look at the Star Wars figs afterwards. Trying to get into that...

Yah... hopefully we can all get one soon enough. Its actually quite funny how the most abundant toys that are left in the aisles are the ones nobody likes.. Payload.. Dreadwing... and that Red One I don't even want to call by its actual name.

I went to four Wal-Marts on my hunt for Starscream today. All four of them had Deluxe figs from ALL waves hanging off the pegs... literally DOZENS of figures in each store, everything, including Concept BB, 70's BB, black and white Barracade, Recon Barracade, Arcee, ect... Looks like Wal-Marts are starting to stock up for Black Friday.

JTKranix wrote:In the current assortments he is short packed. In the Allspark Power assortments he will ship 2 to a case. They will be everywhere soon.

Are you talking about the 08 BB, or the Cliffjumper repaint? I was thinking I might have to settle for CJ since I've been so hopelessly unable to find BB (which I may be glad about depending upon how well the new colors look on the released figure), but it'd be nice to see the actual BB figure around too.

Wes Crayon wrote:

JTKranix wrote:In the current assortments he is short packed. In the Allspark Power assortments he will ship 2 to a case. They will be everywhere soon.

Are you talking about the 08 BB, or the Cliffjumper repaint? I was thinking I might have to settle for CJ since I've been so hopelessly unable to find BB (which I may be glad about depending upon how well the new colors look on the released figure), but it'd be nice to see the actual BB figure around too.

The first wave of Allspark has 2 cliffjumpers and 2 concept BBs in each box of 8 figures.

Barrelass wrote:The first wave of Allspark has 2 cliffjumpers and 2 concept BBs in each box of 8 figures.

Good to know! Thanks for the info.

hasbro toy shop has him and many others in stock online NOW

I haven't seen a Concept BB in stores since September, I think. Good thing I already own two.

Concept BBs usually outnumber each type of other figure at my Wal-Mart. Not quite a shelf warmer, but definitely more common than Arcee.

Pyroclasm wrote:Concept BBs usually outnumber each type of other figure at my Wal-Mart. Not quite a shelf warmer, but definitely more common than Arcee.

Really? Wow!

Of course, aside from that one time I saw one hiding out in Kohls, I haven't seen any Arcee figures around here either.

Blurrz wrote:Yah... hopefully we can all get one soon enough. Its actually quite funny how the most abundant toys that are left in the aisles are the ones nobody likes.. Payload.. Dreadwing... and that Red One I don't even want to call by its actual name.

It's not funny. It's cause and effect. Nobody likes those figures so they don't buy them, and they're left warming the shelves.

And for that, I hate Payload and Dreadwing so much...they're more common than Swindle around here.

the only thing to do is to go early in the morning ,and often to all the toys storeon a regular basis tahts it! thats what i do and i got one ..

I just hope that 4 year old kid is enjoying Concept Camaro BB more than I ever could. I had it in my hands --the only one in the Wal-Mart-- and for some reason put it down to look through some of the other TFs. From behind me, a man picks up the BB, turns to his son and says, "This is the one you want?" "Yeah." I didn't have the heart to tell him, "Sir, that's mine!" D'oh!!

Maestro Meister wrote:I just hope that 4 year old kid is enjoying Concept Camaro BB more than I ever could. I had it in my hands --the only one in the Wal-Mart-- and for some reason put it down to look through some of the other TFs. From behind me, a man picks up the BB, turns to his son and says, "This is the one you want?" "Yeah." I didn't have the heart to tell him, "Sir, that's mine!" D'oh!!

You know the term ''Bros before Whoe's''? Well When your a TF collecter its ''Collecters before kids''.

You should have snagged that bumblebee back, that kid has proably torn that bumblebee from limb to limb by now.

gogleman374 wrote:You should have snagged that bumblebee back, that kid has proably torn that bumblebee from limb to limb by now.

Perhaps. If it's still intact it's probably collecting dust under a bed somewhere. The coup de grâce was that as they were leaving, I heard the dad say, "Are you sure? You already have several Bumblebees." Double D'oh!!

It's a good thing I'm a patient man. I'm crossing my fingers that they get restocked for Christmas soon, because I didn't see any for Black Friday.

I don't recommend it. Aside from well known problems like the difficulty of removing the gun from the hand and hip joints so loose that the figure can't stand up for more than a second before its planet size torso weighs it down, there are other serious problems.

The paint sucks and chips off worse than Transmetal crome.

Some have an arm assembly error that prevents one arm from being moved back to its correct alignment in robot mode.

Some have snapped at the waist fairly easily.

And mine was covered in an unbelievable amount of extra plastic flash that I had to carve off of the figure. Think Kabaya model kit KOs but 10000000000000000 times worse.

Don't spend the money.