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Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:It's a bit baffling that the owner and creators of the Transformers franchise know less about their own brand than the fans.

In this case, it's probably more the packaging designers than the higher ups on the toy design team.

Corporations, like governments, often works like the Tower of Babel.
But this time around, no needs for divine intervention for the whole thing to crumble down.

I take solace in the fact that the Transformers brand is still going strong without being sabotaged from the inside, like D&D, Star Wars, and Doctor Who at least.

I know this has been mentioned before, but this really is a crazy thing to see and I welcome and approve of Target's madness!



Shame there aren't any Legacy Leaders I need right now. They've restocked TM2 Megatron and Skyquake currently. If this price is still active when Leader Buzzsaw comes out I'll definitely be getting him if I see him.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:I know this has been mentioned before, but this really is a crazy thing to see and I welcome and approve of Target's madness!

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Shame there aren't any Legacy Leaders I need right now. They've restocked TM2 Megatron and Skyquake currently. If this price is still active when Leader Buzzsaw comes out I'll definitely be getting him if I see him.

Emerje

That really is pretty crazy…. How are they able to do that??
Unfortunately there aren’t any leader class figures I want from Legacy until Soundwave is out…. But good for anyone who can take advantage of this price!

Emerje wrote:If this price is still active when Leader Buzzsaw comes out I'll definitely be getting him if I see him.

Emerje

I see what you did there.

This reminds me of "Voyager Rewind."

Pre-order for dreadwing got canceled with tfsource
Was looking at one on aliexpress? Or is that a no go?

Razorbeast88 wrote:Pre-order for dreadwing got canceled with tfsource
Was looking at one on aliexpress? Or is that a no go?

They plan to re-release him?

Anyway, Legacy Dreadwing hasn't been KO'd yet so if you see it on sale at Ali, it's legit. I just saw a listing and it's normal price plus free shipping. Also, no taxes and so far, I never got any custom fees from Ali.

So yeah, just buy it now from there. It will also be ironically cheaper overall. For now at least.

I heard from someone yesterday that apparently Core Class is ending, can anyone confirm this?
If so then that means cassettes will be tougher to get always having to be included in a Voyager or Leader than many of us have already had to buy twice before.

Till-all-R1 wrote:I heard from someone yesterday that apparently Core Class is ending, can anyone confirm this?
If so then that means cassettes will be tougher to get always having to be included in a Voyager or Leader than many of us have already had to buy twice before.

Sadly, it isn't just hearsay.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:Pre-order for dreadwing got canceled with tfsource
Was looking at one on aliexpress? Or is that a no go?

They plan to re-release him?

Anyway, Legacy Dreadwing hasn't been KO'd yet so if you see it on sale at Ali, it's legit. I just saw a listing and it's normal price plus free shipping. Also, no taxes and so far, I never got any custom fees from Ali.

So yeah, just buy it now from there. It will also be ironically cheaper overall. For now at least.

I appreciate the input, thank you!

Till-all-R1 wrote:I heard from someone yesterday that apparently Core Class is ending, can anyone confirm this?

Our article is still on the front page and on the bar to the right.

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ine/48218/

Emerje

I wonder what the issue was exactly, I said from the start it didn't seem like a great idea but was told there's a strong demand for affordable versions of the main characters. And why we have several price points for them. Without Core how would we have gotten "good" versions of Wheelie, Rumble etc. without having them packed with potential larger bots? Or possibly with ones we may not even want. My guess is they couldn't sell enough reuse in that line to cover the costs of newer molds. They have been stacking up in my area, and mostly from ROTB releases.

Till-all-R1 wrote:I wonder what the issue was exactly, I said from the start it didn't seem like a great idea but was told there's a strong demand for affordable versions of the main characters. And why we have several price points for them. Without Core how would we have gotten "good" versions of Wheelie, Rumble etc. without having them packed with potential larger bots? Or possibly with ones we may not even want. My guess is they couldn't sell enough reuse in that line to cover the costs of newer molds. They have been stacking up in my area, and mostly from ROTB releases.

There's no doubt in my mind that we'll see another Wheelie that is deluxe and in scale with all the other minibots.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Till-all-R1 wrote:I wonder what the issue was exactly, I said from the start it didn't seem like a great idea but was told there's a strong demand for affordable versions of the main characters. And why we have several price points for them. Without Core how would we have gotten "good" versions of Wheelie, Rumble etc. without having them packed with potential larger bots? Or possibly with ones we may not even want. My guess is they couldn't sell enough reuse in that line to cover the costs of newer molds. They have been stacking up in my area, and mostly from ROTB releases.

There's no doubt in my mind that we'll see another Wheelie that is deluxe and in scale with all the other minibots.

And I'm still content with the TF: Legends Wheelie from Takara.

Sabrblade wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Till-all-R1 wrote:I wonder what the issue was exactly, I said from the start it didn't seem like a great idea but was told there's a strong demand for affordable versions of the main characters. And why we have several price points for them. Without Core how would we have gotten "good" versions of Wheelie, Rumble etc. without having them packed with potential larger bots? Or possibly with ones we may not even want. My guess is they couldn't sell enough reuse in that line to cover the costs of newer molds. They have been stacking up in my area, and mostly from ROTB releases.

There's no doubt in my mind that we'll see another Wheelie that is deluxe and in scale with all the other minibots.

And I'm still content with the TF: Legends Wheelie from Takara.

The Titans Return mold?

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Till-all-R1 wrote:I wonder what the issue was exactly, I said from the start it didn't seem like a great idea but was told there's a strong demand for affordable versions of the main characters. And why we have several price points for them. Without Core how would we have gotten "good" versions of Wheelie, Rumble etc. without having them packed with potential larger bots? Or possibly with ones we may not even want. My guess is they couldn't sell enough reuse in that line to cover the costs of newer molds. They have been stacking up in my area, and mostly from ROTB releases.

There's no doubt in my mind that we'll see another Wheelie that is deluxe and in scale with all the other minibots.

And I'm still content with the TF: Legends Wheelie from Takara.

The Titans Return mold?

Yep. Given a much better deco than the Hasbro version.



And with Hasbro upping all the Mini-Bots to Deluxe size, this mold isn't nearly as tiny as the SS86 Core class Wheelie.

Sabrblade wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Till-all-R1 wrote:I wonder what the issue was exactly, I said from the start it didn't seem like a great idea but was told there's a strong demand for affordable versions of the main characters. And why we have several price points for them. Without Core how would we have gotten "good" versions of Wheelie, Rumble etc. without having them packed with potential larger bots? Or possibly with ones we may not even want. My guess is they couldn't sell enough reuse in that line to cover the costs of newer molds. They have been stacking up in my area, and mostly from ROTB releases.

There's no doubt in my mind that we'll see another Wheelie that is deluxe and in scale with all the other minibots.

And I'm still content with the TF: Legends Wheelie from Takara.

The Titans Return mold?

Yep. Given a much better deco than the Hasbro version.



And with Hasbro upping all the Mini-Bots to Deluxe size, this mold isn't nearly as tiny as the SS86 Core class Wheelie.

I wanted to like that mold more than I did, but my copy just couldn't hold together in vehicle mode.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I wanted to like that mold more than I did, but my copy just couldn't hold together in vehicle mode.

I never got the Hasbro version, so my only experience is with the Takara one, which I'll admit is a bit fiddly to transform but mine does hold together in vehicle mode once I manage to finagle everything into its proper place.

As Rattrap once said, "Tricky but doable."

Sabrblade wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I wanted to like that mold more than I did, but my copy just couldn't hold together in vehicle mode.

I never got the Hasbro version, so my only experience is with the Takara one, which I'll admit is a bit fiddly to transform but mine does hold together in vehicle mode once I manage to finagle everything into its proper place.

As Rattrap once said, "Tricky but doable."

Exactly!

chuckdawg1999 wrote:There's no doubt in my mind that we'll see another Wheelie that is deluxe and in scale with all the other minibots.

After buying Core Wheelie I kind of felt it was slightly too small, and once they stared doing the DLX minibots though it would be cool if they revisited in that scale, I'm not exactly in love with the joints on that core bot.

Sabrblade wrote:Given a much better deco than the Hasbro version.



And with Hasbro upping all the Mini-Bots to Deluxe size, this mold isn't nearly as tiny as the SS86 Core class Wheelie.

That one does look nice, too expensive for me on secondary market but if Hasbro could pull of something similar I'd buy it.

Till-all-R1 wrote:That one does look nice, too expensive for me on secondary market but if Hasbro could pull of something similar I'd buy it.

Hasbro did do their own version, in the Titans Return line.

Sabrblade wrote:And I'm still content with the TF: Legends Wheelie from Takara.

Same, it would take a lot for Hasbro to do better than that figure, the Core certainly didn't.

He's also essential if you got the Legends God Ginrai box set since Wheelie comes with Shuta while God Ginrai comes with Ginrai, Minerva and Cab.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:And I'm still content with the TF: Legends Wheelie from Takara.

Same, it would take a lot for Hasbro to do better than that figure, the Core certainly didn't.

He's also essential if you got the Legends God Ginrai box set since Wheelie comes with Shuta while God Ginrai comes with Ginrai, Minerva and Cab.

Emerje

That's actually the main reason I bought that Wheelie.

Transformers Legacy commander class Magmatron has been found st US retail. While the first sighting was at a Gamestop in Texas, there have been more sightings at Gamestops across the country since. It retails for $89.99 USD. He’s been found in Canada at the same store for a while as well as in Australia at Big W and Singapore at Toysrus. So fans from all across the world are experiencing this awesome figure as the summer starts.

You can check out a review of the toy below if you want to see how big he is and how involved the transformation is.

Got my legacy Magmatron in the mail last week and it's easily one of my favorite purchases I've made in awhile

Got so giddy and excited opening him up

I never had the original but always thought the character was so damn cool after getting Beast wars: the gathering at a book fair in elementary school

A killer robot that turns into three different dinosaurs at the same time is wicked awesome