The Energon Pub

About two weeks ago at Wal-Mart my girlfriend and i were digging around the toy aisle and picking the "Classics" out of the "Movie" Transformers. I picked out a Jetfire and Grimlock and was going to get one more. She held up one and said "Here's Skywarp, you want him?" I told her no, i allready had Starscream and Ramjet and I decided on Rodimus.

I know it was Skywarp! It was a black and purple jet on a Classics card, NOT a Cybertron card. There was a Cybertron Skywarp there, and it still was there today, but the Classics Skywarp has been gone for days.

Now, I've checked 5 different sites that have complete lists of all lines, including Seibertron, and looked on eBay, and have learned that there never was a single carded Skywarp, only the Magnus/Skywarp two-pack. So what in the hell did I see? My girlfriend remembers and says YES, it was Skywarp. It was a black and purple jet on a classics card.

Question is:

Was Skywarp released at the end of the run on a card, and websites haven't updated this fact?

Was this an error; Skywarp on a Starscream card?

Could someone have bought the two-pack on clearence and switched Skywarp for Starscream and returned it? (This happens all the time with Star Wars stuff)

Were we BOTH having a hallucination?


I will kick myself for months for not buying it that night. I passed it up to get a Rodimus

pics wouldve been nice.

i thought skywarp was a target exclusive...

The only possble way this could have happened is if someone replaced what was originally in the package with Skywarp and then returned it to Walmart. Why they would do this is beyond me, but it happens.

I didn't think of pics, cause at the time i didn't know Skywarp was a Target exclusive. I'd not bothered to look up the complete listing. If I'd known that there wasn't supposed to be such a thing, i would've bought it.

The most likely thing i can think of is:

Somebody found the two pack at Target on clearence. Some Targets here did huge discounts on the classics when the movie line came out. So they bought two or more. Sometime later they saw Starscream at Wal-Mart and bought it, took it home and switched the figs out and returned the Skywarp to Wal-Mart for a nice $9.95 gift card.

There's been several times I've seen older Star Wars figs in new packs, switched out and returned.

What on Earth has been going on with Wal-Mart as of late?

My Wal-Mart will let you bring just about anything back, even without a reciept. they just don't give you money, you get a gift card. So repacked stuff tends to show up there a bit.

I don't care if it was a repacked and returned Skywarp. Wish I'd got it, cause i've never even seen the Magnus/Warp pack at retail.