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News Credits: 56 · Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:21 pm

So if there is a 3rd wave, no doubt it will be Earthrise based. Do you think they will continue with a gimmick like this, or just continue with the toys?

News Credits: 332 · Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:32 pm

People selling Bumblebee for $60 on eBay, they really need a hobby.

News Credits: 251 · Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:36 pm

Honestly just want Bee and maaaaaaaaybe Elita-1. Looked through a few Walmart’s here in El Paso and they ain’t got jack aside from the stuff that’s been shelfwarming the last six-eight months.

News Credits: 462 · Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:38 pm

o.supreme wrote:So if there is a 3rd wave, no doubt it will be Earthrise based. Do you think they will continue with a gimmick like this, or just continue with the toys?

Cheetor, Deep Cover, and the Allicon are included in the listings, so Wave 3 may be a mix of Siege, Earthrise, and Kingdom molds like how Wave 2 is a mix of Siege and Earthrise molds.

News Credits: 241 · Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:54 pm

Mindmaster wrote:Honestly just want Bee and maaaaaaaaybe Elita-1. Looked through a few Walmart’s here in El Paso and they ain’t got jack aside from the stuff that’s been shelfwarming the last six-eight months.

Elita-1, Bumblebee, Impactor maybe. Still waiting on getting some of the Wave 1 figures.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:People selling Bumblebee for $60 on eBay, they really need a hobby.

Or watch Pawn Stars to get a grip on their expectations.

Mon Nov 23, 2020 9:12 pm

I've only got Netflix Bumblebee. Personally I dont feel the need to collect extra characters for the cardboard backdrop. I would try and print out my own backgrounds instead.

News Credits: 4 · Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:09 pm

Wolfman Jake wrote:Will you be collecting all ten Deluxe Class figures so far for the NETFLIX Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy line just to have your own complete Teletraan I?

Absolutely not.

Nemesis Destron wrote:That is pure sweetness Wolfman especially had it been a 2 story 2 tier like I thought it was at first.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought that!

Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:So if there is a 3rd wave, no doubt it will be Earthrise based. Do you think they will continue with a gimmick like this, or just continue with the toys?
Cheetor, Deep Cover, and the Allicon are included in the listings, so Wave 3 may be a mix of Siege, Earthrise, and Kingdom molds like how Wave 2 is a mix of Siege and Earthrise molds.

He was speculating about what the packaging gimmick might be for Netflix wave 3 since we seem to have completed Teletraan-1 with this assortment, not what the actual figures are going to be.
To which I saw..... maybe more of the alternate future cards from the rest of Kingdom. It's an interesting question.
Also, did Siege have a packaging gimmick that I'm forgetting about or did that start with ER?

News Credits: 241 · Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:20 pm

King Kuuga wrote:Also, did Siege have a packaging gimmick that I'm forgetting about or did that start with ER?

Siege had hidden codes on the boxed figures (Deluxe and up) and some exclusives, revealed by blacklight (like everyone has one! :lol:

). Those codes could be entered on the Hasbro Siege site for hidden stuff. Think Cyber Key codes from Cybertron.

News Credits: 65 · Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:24 pm

King Kuuga wrote:Also, did Siege have a packaging gimmick that I'm forgetting about or did that start with ER?

Hidden black light messages

Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:35 pm

so are the pieces of the backdrop in the boxes the figures come in?

News Credits: 65 · Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:45 pm

Ultra Markus wrote:so are the pieces of the backdrop in the boxes the figures come in?

Yep!

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Tue Nov 24, 2020 3:20 am

King Kuuga wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:So if there is a 3rd wave, no doubt it will be Earthrise based. Do you think they will continue with a gimmick like this, or just continue with the toys?
Cheetor, Deep Cover, and the Allicon are included in the listings, so Wave 3 may be a mix of Siege, Earthrise, and Kingdom molds like how Wave 2 is a mix of Siege and Earthrise molds.

He was speculating about what the packaging gimmick might be for Netflix wave 3 since we seem to have completed Teletraan-1 with this assortment, not what the actual figures are going to be.
To which I saw..... maybe more of the alternate future cards from the rest of Kingdom. It's an interesting question.
Also, did Siege have a packaging gimmick that I'm forgetting about or did that start with ER?

He's just saying that knowing part of the wave 3 lineup there's no reason to think it'll be based on a specific animated series like Earthrise just like wave 2 isn't and therefore the backdrop could just as easily be something from Kingdom or even Siege.

As for what wave 3 will come with, I'm sure they'll just keep doing backdrops, there's no shortage of places to choose from be it Megatron's throne room (probably has an official name I can't think of), inside the Axalon, or just Cybertron or jungle scapes.

Emerje

Tue Nov 24, 2020 5:13 am

I managed to get all but Soundwave preordered when they came out, but each one got delayed, and then canceled, all except Bumblebee. He's the only one I've still got there. :evil:

News Credits: 10 · Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:34 am

I'll be getting wave 2 and giving the ones I don't want to my kid.

Tue Nov 24, 2020 5:15 pm

Decided to do a quick run to one of the Fargo, ND Walmarts over lunch, and the reports were correct. I found a Netflix Bumblebee, and they had quite a lot of the deluxes from this wave (some were piled up on the high shelf). There were also a couple wave 2 Earthrise deluxes on the shelves as well.

News Credits: 10 · Tue Nov 24, 2020 5:38 pm

Nice. Hopefully they'll make their way to the East Coast quickly.

News Credits: 9 · Wed Nov 25, 2020 6:22 pm

Yeah, that's awesome!
Gives me hope that they'll show up around KC sooner than later.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Wed Nov 25, 2020 6:35 pm

sol magnus wrote:Nice. Hopefully they'll make their way to the East Coast quickly.

Same here, I plan on checking this weekend. Some stores like to wait until Black Friday to put stuff on shelves to make things more impressive. Right now I've got one store with nothing on the NetFlix pegs and shelf and another with just one each of Hotlink, Megatron and Sideswipe so the space is there, just need the stock.

Emerje

News Credits: 56 · Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:24 pm

Emerje wrote:
King Kuuga wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:So if there is a 3rd wave, no doubt it will be Earthrise based. Do you think they will continue with a gimmick like this, or just continue with the toys?
Cheetor, Deep Cover, and the Allicon are included in the listings, so Wave 3 may be a mix of Siege, Earthrise, and Kingdom molds like how Wave 2 is a mix of Siege and Earthrise molds.

He was speculating about what the packaging gimmick might be for Netflix wave 3 since we seem to have completed Teletraan-1 with this assortment, not what the actual figures are going to be.
To which I saw..... maybe more of the alternate future cards from the rest of Kingdom. It's an interesting question.
Also, did Siege have a packaging gimmick that I'm forgetting about or did that start with ER?

He's just saying that knowing part of the wave 3 lineup there's no reason to think it'll be based on a specific animated series like Earthrise just like wave 2 isn't and therefore the backdrop could just as easily be something from Kingdom or even Siege.

As for what wave 3 will come with, I'm sure they'll just keep doing backdrops, there's no shortage of places to choose from be it Megatron's throne room (probably has an official name I can't think of), inside the Axalon, or just Cybertron or jungle scapes.

Emerje

It was a little of BOTH actually. I know the Netflix waves are nto tied to a particular toy line BUT they appear to be tied to a specific animated series. Wave 1&2 had the B&W Siege image, and all characters appeared in the Siege portion of the animated series (Except for Nemesis...which I guess could be a spoiler for the next series). It would not be out of the realm of logic though to think that wave 3 will include a B&W version of the ER packaging to go with characters that will all appear in the ER portion of the animation. Not saying it's a 100% certainty, but it is a possibility.

And yes I'd like to know about any included backdrop gimmicks, but I guess it's too early to say.

News Credits: 56 · Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:29 pm

aronjlove wrote:Bumblebee
Impactor
Elita-1
Red Alert
Wheeljack

Not that it's really any good, but here are the rest for grins..
Optimus Prime Battle 3-Pack

Soundwave Battle 3-Pack

This one is actually in stock

Leader Class Spoiler Pack #2

News Credits: 11 · Wed Nov 25, 2020 9:24 pm

I want to get them all now.

News Credits: 56 · Wed Nov 25, 2020 10:00 pm

Its kind of ironic, after years of complaining about too many BBs shelf warming across all lines, we finally have one that is in high demand. Good thing it's not short packed.

News Credits: 462 · Wed Nov 25, 2020 10:09 pm

o.supreme wrote:Its kind of ironic, after years of complaining about too many BBs shelf warming across all lines, we finally have one that is in high demand. Good thing it's not short packed.

To be a little fair, it's a G1 Bumblebee, whom the Bee haters tolerate more. It was the Movie and Movie-inspired Prime Bumblebees that choked the shelves to death.

News Credits: 241 · Wed Nov 25, 2020 10:21 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:Its kind of ironic, after years of complaining about too many BBs shelf warming across all lines, we finally have one that is in high demand. Good thing it's not short packed.
To be a little fair, it's a G1 Bumblebee, whom the Bee haters tolerate more. It was the Movie and Movie-inspired Prime Bumblebees that choked the shelves to death.

Because they redecoed them a bazillion times, either keeping the yellow with a different pattern in a different color, or switching the black and yellow! Not to mention they both have toys in all the major size classes (equal to Optimus Prime) :BOOM:

Fortunately, G1 Bumblebee has stayed small by virtue of how the Generations-style lines are treated: Deluxe is the largest he's gotten :BOWDOWN:

News Credits: 14 · Wed Nov 25, 2020 10:59 pm

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:Its kind of ironic, after years of complaining about too many BBs shelf warming across all lines, we finally have one that is in high demand. Good thing it's not short packed.
To be a little fair, it's a G1 Bumblebee, whom the Bee haters tolerate more. It was the Movie and Movie-inspired Prime Bumblebees that choked the shelves to death.

Because they redecoed them a bazillion times, either keeping the yellow with a different pattern in a different color, or switching the black and yellow! Not to mention they both have toys in all the major size classes (equal to Optimus Prime)

Fortunately, G1 Bumblebee has stayed small by virtue of how the Generations-style lines are treated: Deluxe is the largest he's gotten

Ahh Toys R’Us how we miss thee and your Bee overflowing shelves...