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News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Mon Jan 09, 2023 7:49 pm

Just a thought, Since Earthspark is on Paramount+, one of the lesser subscribed streaming services, could it be possible that not a lot of people are watching it, and thus, there's no interest in the toy line?

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Jan 09, 2023 7:53 pm

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Just a thought, Since Earthspark is on Paramount+, one of the lesser subscribed streaming services, could it be possible that not a lot of people are watching it, and thus, there's no interest in the toy line?

Well, ostensibly, not a lot of people watched Cyberverse on TV, either (the Sunday morning 6am time slot sure did it no favors), yet that show had a huge toyline whose presence continues to linger on the shelves and pegs to this day.

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Mon Jan 09, 2023 10:49 pm

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Just a thought, Since Earthspark is on Paramount+, one of the lesser subscribed streaming services, could it be possible that not a lot of people are watching it, and thus, there's no interest in the toy line?

It's lesser suscribed but it's also not an exclusive show. It's on Nickelodeon as well, so that means it's both on network and on a streaming service, so double the potential that other series like Prime had.

But anyways, the biggest correlation with toy sales is not with advertising or shows, it's the time of year. You won't find much interest here on the boards since the toyline isn't targetted at us.

But the toyline had a great interest in Canada simply for having affordable Transformers toys on shelves during the holidays as can be seen in this before and after pic of my local standee showing that 77% sold within just one month (that being the month of december).

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Wed Jan 11, 2023 10:55 am

william-james88 wrote:
Emerje wrote:Wasn't the MSRP listed at $20 for Deluxes like Cyberverse? What happened there?

Emerje

Hasbro confirmed that was a mistake

Apologies, yes, the correct price for the figures would be $24.99. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Ironically, Pulse just yesterday listed the deluxes as back in stock, and they were $19.99 instead of the preorder $24.99. I ordered all 3, saved $15 from any preorder I would have made

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:02 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Just a thought, Since Earthspark is on Paramount+, one of the lesser subscribed streaming services, could it be possible that not a lot of people are watching it, and thus, there's no interest in the toy line?
Well, ostensibly, not a lot of people watched Cyberverse on TV, either (the Sunday morning 6am time slot sure did it no favors), yet that show had a huge toyline whose presence continues to linger on the shelves and pegs to this day.

Ahhh, but Cyberverse was available to watch on your cable provider's On Demand channel, that's how I watched it until the last couple of specials that were exclusive to Netflix. Nickelodeon hasn't added more episodes of Earthspark to their On Demand channel yet and might not at all.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Fri Jan 13, 2023 11:46 am

So I scooped up the deluxes from Pulse at $19.99, and they arrived yesterday. I am loving them so far.

Megatron is definitely my favorite, as I was sort of expecting based on how much I love his character. i think he is a real fun toy. He is small, and definitely deserves a much bigger toy. But he is pretty awesome, and captures the look the Earthspark design pretty well. I love the shape of the cannon, and I love the shoulder design too. Legs are pretty nice, and I like swooshing his tiltrotor mode around. He is fun.

Bee is my 2nd favorite, I like him, he is pretty nice, and I promise the yellow in the pictures is far exaggerated compared to in-hand in terms of shading differences. I like the head sculpt a lot, and he has some nice presence. I kinda wish his legs had some more shape to them, but he's still good. The alt mode rocks too. "mid-life crisis" alt mode is right!

Twitch is my 3rd favorite. This isn't a slight on her, they are all 3 pretty close to me, it's just the other 2 are a bit more fun while Twitch is a little too fluid in a couple spots for my liking. I adore her head sculpt, and the shoulder rotors are awesome. I wish her legs were a little tighter in terms of joints, but she's still good.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Sat Jan 21, 2023 1:17 pm

By all means resist! It's my favorite part.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Mon Jan 23, 2023 7:41 pm

I got 1 step Wheeljack tonight. He is amazingly addictive.

See here for a video: https://twitter.com/D_Maximus_Prime/sta ... 73/video/2

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Tue Jan 24, 2023 12:31 pm

This is extremely addicting

How to Share With Just Friends

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Wed Jan 25, 2023 7:11 pm

I really wish Bee had a waist swivel, and that his door were back mounted instead of shoulder mounted. I love his alt mode and his colors, but I think Cyberverse is still the better "evergreen" deluxe Bee

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Wed Jan 25, 2023 9:35 pm

Has anyone found the finger banger one-step changers at retail? They're not even listed on Amazon yet.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Wed Jan 25, 2023 9:54 pm

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Has anyone found the finger banger one-step changers at retail? They're not even listed on Amazon yet.

Yeah, I too, am looking forward to fingering some transformers...

...

I'll see myself out.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Jan 25, 2023 9:56 pm

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Has anyone found the finger banger one-step changers at retail? They're not even listed on Amazon yet.

Target's the only place that has any EarthSpark toys, and all they seem to have so far are the Deluxes, Warriors, and the Spin Changers.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Wed Feb 08, 2023 3:33 pm

Honestly, if this Elita's head would have rotated, I would have thought her perfect for her size class. Even so, she is a lot of fun, and I love this design for Elita.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:24 pm

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Honestly, if this Elita's head would have rotated, I would have thought her perfect for her size class. Even so, she is a lot of fun, and I love this design for Elita.

The only thing that I don't like about that Elita appart the hollow bits and the lack of articulation and the lack of paint (all part of the obligatory package of that class) It's those two kibbletastic on top of the bot mode, she's basically superior to the Legacy deluxe.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Sat Feb 11, 2023 5:20 pm

In case anyone wanted to see how Cybertron Hardtop looked with the rest of the crew

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Sat Feb 18, 2023 2:05 pm

Amazon has canceled two of the three Flip-Changers I had on Pre-order, Optimus Prime, and Wheeljack. Bumblebee has no expected ship date so I'm expecting that to be canceled as well. As of now, they still don't have the Tacticons listed for sale. In store, all I've seen are the deluxes, the Warriors minus Megatron, and the Spin Changers. Not sure if my Target isn't stocking them or if I just keep missing them.

As of right now my only experience with the flip changers are these from wave 2

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Sat Feb 18, 2023 9:31 pm

A little weird that they'd cancel those pre-orders of all things. Maybe that just shows how popular simplified toys for little kids really are. I only ever see a bunch of Wheeljacks on the pegs.

Emerje

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Sat Feb 18, 2023 9:33 pm

Emerje wrote:A little weird that they'd cancel those pre-orders of all things. Maybe that just shows how popular simplified toys for little kids really are. I only ever see a bunch of Wheeljacks on the pegs.

Emerje

I tend to believe they're not stocking them, something is really going on with this line and I'd love to know what.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:05 pm

After the joy that is Wheeljack's auto-transformation, I can't wait to get Swindle and Soundwave.

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Wed Feb 22, 2023 10:02 pm

Thanks to Chuckdawg1999, we have a review for the latest Earthspark figures, One Step Soundwave and Swindle.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Flip Changers is a bit of a misnomer, I think tap and change describes better the technique needed to transform these figures. Swindle borrows a few design cues from its Combiner Wars figure with a softer pastel color pallet. Soundwave's design borrows more from the 2015 RID cartoon and the Prime-era Stealth Jet. As with previous one-step changes these make for great desk toys, but please, don't throw them in the air.

News Credits: 1 · by **PerfectVision** » Thu Feb 23, 2023 4:51 am

No one is going to buy Swindle for his charism:"the dude who fought over an empty truck".Because he fought instead of emptying it?No!It was practically empty,one of the two weirdest episode with the one where arachnamechs loose to wood stick.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Sun Mar 12, 2023 12:32 pm

Sharing this over here too for those that only visit this thread, to showcase the deluxe Bumblebee, here he is with the Kid Appeal crew

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Sun Mar 12, 2023 1:48 pm

I love that pic

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Thu Mar 23, 2023 4:50 pm

Just an update, my flip change Bumblebee, the only one NOT canceled by Amazon when I POd them has been pushed back to later in April, also no sign of Warrior Megatron although to be fair it was available briefly when the toys first dropped. I haven't seen any of the flip changers of finger bangers in stores by me and the finger bangers haven't shown up on Amazon yet. Very interesting.