The Energon Pub

The dreaded Walmart Delayed, check back later status may not be the kiss of death others are making it out to be. My spoiler pack and Bee were in that status yesterday. This morning the Spoiler pack was split from Bee and is being prepared to ship, so things can actually come through from the delayed status.

It actually flippin worked! Threatening to cancel my order pushed it through. It's coming via OnTrac scheduled for arrival Tuesday 11/17. Now... had I actually wanted to cancel it, I'd be so angry right now that they charged my card, but since I did actually want this, whatever. Thanks for the in-stock notices all, whatever gets the job done I guess. Walmart definitely needs to figure their stuff out though. If not for my credit-card with them, I'd definitely be ordering elsewhere.

AcademyofDrX wrote:I got my shipment notification and the package is at a delivery facility. Nemesis should be here on Saturday.

Niiiiice I am such a sucker for Gothimus I mean Nemesis Prime. I'll probably give the trailer to SG Prime when he is released so the two Siege molds are trailerless and the three ER molds have trailers.

My Spoiler pack shipped today and according to FedEx, I'll have it tomorrow.

Reports are coming in that the Netflix Wave 2 figures are now available in stores over in Australia.

Sabrblade wrote:Reports are coming in that the Netflix Wave 2 figures are now available in stores over in Australia.

Yay for Australia. When we gonna get 'em?

sol magnus wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Reports are coming in that the Netflix Wave 2 figures are now available in stores over in Australia.

Yay for Australia. When we gonna get 'em?

I've seen some in hand on eBay being sold from Australia. Bumblebee was available for a hot minute last night on the walmart site. Not sure if it was for pre-order or in-stock.

sol magnus wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Reports are coming in that the Netflix Wave 2 figures are now available in stores over in Australia.

Yay for Australia. When we gonna get 'em?

Mid-December if you want to believe Walmart's delay notice for the pre-orders. Normally I would put zero confidence in Walmart's delay dates, but my Spoiler pack is arriving today from Walmart. So maybe they have sorted out some of their mess?

Maybe I'm just in a better mood today because it's Friday but... I'm not going to complain.(I'm sure Ill be back to complaining monday though...) . Reports are coming in from the UK as well they have been found. I guess better to be the last to get something, and know at least you have a chance of getting it, than have no prospects at all, which happens sometimes in Australia and other territories. My spoiler Box is on the way, and I have a deal with someone to split the cost of the Prime set (he gets Prime and I get the Battlemasters), based on whoever finds it first.

holy cow! I just checked and it's out for delivery now! It wasn't supposed to show up until Tuesday thank goodness for small favors.

o.supreme wrote:Maybe I'm just in a better mood today because it's Friday but... I'm not going to complain.(I'm sure Ill be back to complaining monday though...) . Reports are coming in from the UK as well they have been found. I guess better to be the last to get something, and know at least you have a chance of getting it, than have no prospects at all, which happens sometimes in Australia and other territories. My spoiler Box is on the way, and I have a deal with someone to split the cost of the Prime set (he gets Prime and I get the Battlemasters), based on whoever finds it first.

holy cow! I just checked and it's out for delivery now! It wasn't supposed to show up until Tuesday thank goodness for small favors.

I've seen Bumblebee in-hand being sold on eBay from the UK.

FYI, got my spoiler pack today.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

o.supreme wrote:Maybe I'm just in a better mood today because it's Friday but... I'm not going to complain.(I'm sure Ill be back to complaining monday though...) . Reports are coming in from the UK as well they have been found. I guess better to be the last to get something, and know at least you have a chance of getting it, than have no prospects at all, which happens sometimes in Australia and other territories. My spoiler Box is on the way, and I have a deal with someone to split the cost of the Prime set (he gets Prime and I get the Battlemasters), based on whoever finds it first.

holy cow! I just checked and it's out for delivery now! It wasn't supposed to show up until Tuesday thank goodness for small favors.

I've seen Bumblebee in-hand being sold on eBay from the UK.

FYI, got my spoiler pack today.

They aren't out in stores (Smyths) here in the UK yet ***Scrap that, bee and elita are but only some select stores, some webtailers imported them from America to sell a few weeks back though...distribution boggles the mind

Thank you Walmart and USPS! This set is much more interesting than the first Spoiler set because it is a different character and has a wider variety of accessories. The PotP Nemesis accessories are pretty sweet even if the gun smokestacks only really fit in bot mode. The posts are too short to fit on the sides in alt-mode and they are too wide to fit on the back, side by side. I think they look pretty sweet in bot mode though so I'm glad they included them. Still need to dig the Energon cubes out. I just wish they would release some Energon with a 5mm post. Two spoiler packs and an accessory pack and still no way to actually hold the Energon.

Photos copied from and courtesy of CyclonusG1 in UK sightings. More Netflix listings.

Primal might tempt me depending how different it is to MP

blackeyedprime wrote:Photos copied from and courtesy of CyclonusG1 in UK sightings. More Netflix listings.

Primal might tempt me depending how different it is to MP

Some of those Battlefield listings are probably duplicates since that was the working title for the series. "Reissue" was also used. One leak did say we're still getting a second Earthrise Barricade in the Netflix line so that's accurate. Pretty sure we've known about all of these for a while. Primal and "Seeker" might be new, the two Voyagers below that are probably wave 2 Optimus and Soundwave, followed by wave 1 below them.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

blackeyedprime wrote:Photos copied from and courtesy of CyclonusG1 in UK sightings. More Netflix listings.

Primal might tempt me depending how different it is to MP

Some of those Battlefield listings are probably duplicates since that was the working title for the series. "Reissue" was also used. One leak did say we're still getting a second Earthrise Barricade in the Netflix line so that's accurate. Pretty sure we've known about all of these for a while. Primal and "Seeker" might be new, the two Voyagers below that are probably wave 2 Optimus and Soundwave, followed by wave 1 below them.

Emerje

That's what I've been trying to work out All the rumours start to run together.

Emerje wrote:

blackeyedprime wrote:Photos copied from and courtesy of CyclonusG1 in UK sightings. More Netflix listings.

Primal might tempt me depending how different it is to MP

Some of those Battlefield listings are probably duplicates since that was the working title for the series. "Reissue" was also used. One leak did say we're still getting a second Earthrise Barricade in the Netflix line so that's accurate. Pretty sure we've known about all of these for a while. Primal and "Seeker" might be new, the two Voyagers below that are probably wave 2 Optimus and Soundwave, followed by wave 1 below them.

Emerje

Hopefully, cant see any reason for a third/fourth wheeljack.

will be interesting if there is a netflix Primal and if battle damaged how it is applied (or if it's translucent red and comes with a couple of translucent smackdowns)

Primal's inclusion doesn't surprise me after Optimus and Megatron, dunno how he'll look but I don't know what they could do that would make me prefer it to the retail one. Another Seeker sounds great as long as it's from the Siege mold, hopefully it's Sunstorm. I wonder how those Voyagers are gonna work now, since Kingdom doesn't have Battlemasters to pack in, are they just gonna use the Siege and Earthrise molds more? Or are they gonna include Core Class repaints?

blackeyedprime wrote:Hopefully, cant see any reason for a third/fourth wheeljack.

If that is a new Wheeljack, the only possible thing I can think is that it uses the Slicer/Shattered Glass deco, since the original listings still referred to Scrapface as Refraktor, and they already did battle damage on that mold.

So Walmart did end up just now shipping out my Nemesis Prime spoiler set despite having that dreaded "delayed" status. And it would seem they're using time travel to get it to me so if I look around the house I should already have it.



Emerje

Emerje wrote:So Walmart did end up just now shipping out my Nemesis Prime spoiler set despite having that dreaded "delayed" status. And it would seem they're using time travel to get it to me so if I look around the house I should already have it.

Nemesis.JPG

Emerje

That's hilarious! At least they shipped it FedEx. Mine was USPS and while it did get delivered Saturday the tracking didn't update until that morning.

Can someone who managed to get a preorder in for either optimus or soundwave weigh in on whether the voyager assortment got delayed to december as well? I didn't manage to get a preorder in for optimus, and want to get an idea of when I need to start combing shelves.

Welp after delay notification following delay notification, I just got emails telling me that everything except bee was cancelled due to lack of supply. They had split everything up, so I got one email for every character. Wouldn't be surprised if I get bee cancelled next.

Immortal Starscream wrote:Welp after delay notification following delay notification, I just got emails telling me that everything except bee was cancelled due to lack of supply. They had split everything up, so I got one email for every character. Wouldn't be surprised if I get bee cancelled next.

I truly wish someone could answer why Walmart sucks so **** much! How is it small independent toys shops can do what these national conglomerates are apparently incapable of?

For what it's worth, reports are starting to trickle in of these figures appearing on shelves finally. Someone in a facebook TF group reported finding them in Florida (with picture proof) and stated he had seen another report from Arizona around the same time. Our friends at Allspark have also picked up on the news. I'm going to go hunting today.

https://www.allspark.com/2020/11/walmar ... mh_gHC2Jhw

aronjlove wrote:

Immortal Starscream wrote:Welp after delay notification following delay notification, I just got emails telling me that everything except bee was cancelled due to lack of supply. They had split everything up, so I got one email for every character. Wouldn't be surprised if I get bee cancelled next.

I truly wish someone could answer why Walmart sucks so **** much! How is it small independent toys shops can do what these national conglomerates are apparently incapable of?

These big companies are hiring less than stellar people now. They just look at it as a body that can perform a task, and since they are so big and make so much, they don't care if the people suck. It's expendable labor. So as a result, we, the customer suffer. So now it's leaked over into the online sales.
A smaller, family owned toy place will always give better service because they need the business. Kind of like how you will get better service in a mom and pop restaurant than if you went to a chain.

King Kuuga wrote:For what it's worth, reports are starting to trickle in of these figures appearing on shelves finally. Someone in a facebook TF group reported finding them in Florida (with picture proof) and stated he had seen another report from Arizona around the same time. Our friends at Allspark have also picked up on the news. I'm going to go hunting today.

https://www.allspark.com/2020/11/walmar ... mh_gHC2Jhw

Between last night and today, I've hit four Walmart's in the greater Phoenix valley and saw nothing but Wave 1 Voyagers. Got some toy shopping done for the god-kids so it wasn't a waste of time.

I guess I just expect better from an online service, if a pre-order is placed it should have priority. I don't see this issue anywhere else I pre-order, video games or blu-ray movies are the first that come to mind.