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Cobotron wrote:Man. I just finished season 3 on NetFlix, and I am totally mad/bummed/sad that the Weaponizer Minicons never showed in the States. So much fun playability just wasted. They were all neat little characters and so much more functional then the previous Minicons.

yeah sucks, if only you had a friend in Canada that could find them for you.

Also, the US did get the 4 pack which has most of em, and lancelon is in his proper colours (unlike the individual release). canada has yet to get that 4 pack

william-james88 wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Man. I just finished season 3 on NetFlix, and I am totally mad/bummed/sad that the Weaponizer Minicons never showed in the States. So much fun playability just wasted. They were all neat little characters and so much more functional then the previous Minicons.

yeah sucks, if only you had a friend in Canada that could find them for you.

Also, the US did get the 4 pack which has most of em, and lancelon is in his proper colours (unlike the individual release). canada has yet to get that 4 pack

Why does he have hair.

Kurona wrote:
Why does he have hair.

He's Sideswipe's son. Ok I made that up. Robots don't have parents.

o.supreme wrote:Oddly enough I found a Cyclone mini-Con (Forth) at a local Target this weekend, just one, but I got it for my son, I have no idea where it came from, I did not think Cyclone's were released in standard US Retail beyond Overload and the Mini-Con box sets. I know a few appeared in market 6 (TJ Maxx, Marshalls etc...) but when I saw them they were "marked down" from $9 to $7, for something that should have been only $5 at new price. The Forth I found at Target was indeed only $5.

Now my thought is...was this just a fluke, or is there hope these Cyclones are actually going to start appearing in regular quantities. With Combiner Force coming strong I would not think so, but its a shame most of these were never generally released.

I found several cyclones at 5 Below for $2 so they are showing up in random places for "cheap"

william-james88 wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Man. I just finished season 3 on NetFlix, and I am totally mad/bummed/sad that the Weaponizer Minicons never showed in the States. So much fun playability just wasted. They were all neat little characters and so much more functional then the previous Minicons.

yeah sucks, if only you had a friend in Canada that could find them for you.

Also, the US did get the 4 pack which has most of em, and lancelon is in his proper colours (unlike the individual release). canada has yet to get that 4 pack

I agree Cobo, the weaponizers were really awesome.

Also Will, I saw that set once, but passed it up. It didn't have any weaponizers from the show aside form Lancelon though, so I passed

o.supreme wrote:Oddly enough I found a Cyclone mini-Con (Forth) at a local Target this weekend, just one, but I got it for my son, I have no idea where it came from, I did not think Cyclone's were released in standard US Retail beyond Overload and the Mini-Con box sets. I know a few appeared in market 6 (TJ Maxx, Marshalls etc...) but when I saw them they were "marked down" from $9 to $7, for something that should have been only $5 at new price. The Forth I found at Target was indeed only $5.

Now my thought is...was this just a fluke, or is there hope these Cyclones are actually going to start appearing in regular quantities. With Combiner Force coming strong I would not think so, but its a shame most of these were never generally released.

Was it this singled-packed release?

I just noticed that the wiki doesn't provide proper wave information on the main page it only mentions new characters : http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_Ro ... 15_toyline)

As I'm trying to find out if Warrior Bisk & Ratchet are getting repacked or not that isn't especially helpful.

Also the page is completely missing any mention of things like fastfood toys, soft drink & Kinder toys, and things like the simba diki cars - so of which Transform - no remote control cars either.

I can understand them being on another page but there isn't even a link I can see.

Oh and I can't find that Minicon 4 pack either - or one of the later weaponiser waves - though both have supposed to have been released in the UK via The Entertainer stores.

I sure hope that they do. I have heard good things about Bisk and RiD Ratchet is a pretty fun toy. (The paint apps could be better and he should have had light piping) I honestly have not seen either at retail. I had to order Ratchet.

Sabrblade wrote:Was it this singled-packed release?

Yes, and it was $4.99, but at Target. Oddly enough, when I saw some a while back (I think at TJ Maxx), they were priced at $7.99 (marked down from $9.99) not the $4.99 you show, never saw any at Marshalls, lord knows I looked though

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D-Maximus_Prime wrote:I found several cyclones at 5 Below for $2 so they are showing up in random places for "cheap"

I wanted to make a correction to the above statement, I forgot, shortly after January 1st, we did find a single Hammer Mini-Con for $2 at either Marshalls or Ross (cant remember which exactly...)




Now I question what its name was...I'll check the instructions when I get home. Are Back & Forth exactly the same? Or is this a packaging error?

*Confirmed Instructions say "Decepticon Back"...wish I still had the outer package...

Let's not go "Back" and "Forth" on this, ok?

The show points this toy to be called "Back", and his partner "Forth" is a totally different design:



I think Hasbro wanted to have the names switched at some point, but not everyone got the memo. Using the show as a reference, the name "Forth" is a mistake.

Back and Forth = Rumble and Frensy all over again.

This review makes me want this figure. Also the light piping looks like candy which makes me want to eat it.

WreckerJack wrote:Back and Forth = Rumble and Frensy all over again.

Especially since one uses blue beams and the other red beams as part of their magnetic powers.

So...was there ever a REAL toy released of Forth?

o.supreme wrote:So...was there ever a REAL toy released of Forth?

Nope. All Hasbro-released toys labeled "Decepticon Forth" were instead toys of Back.

Sabrblade wrote:

o.supreme wrote:So...was there ever a REAL toy released of Forth?

Nope. All Hasbro-released toys labeled "Decepticon Forth" were instead toys of Back.

And TakaraTomy never released the toy as Back. Instead, he was redecoed as an Autobot called Ironjam, and coupled with Battle Pack Bumblebee with so-called "Iron" Armor (鋼鉄 Kōtetsu, lit. "Steel").

For everyone living outside the US, Easter is synomymous with seasonal giant Kinder Surprise eggs found in all grocery and big box stores. The surprise in the eggs is usually region/country specific and while Italy had Robots in Diguise themed prizes in 2016, in 2017 it is the UK getting RID themed eggs and toys. These toys are different than the 2016 Italy ones and come with either Optimus or Bumblebee with a projectile weapon. A video of an unboxing can be found here, and screenshots were taken and copied below.
The eggs cost between £5 and £10 and Asda has them at three for £10. They have also been found at B&M by TFW member dacamper who took images of the box, which are also found below.

For those in the US wondering what this is all about and why you are specifically excluded, it's because these chocolate eggs which have a surprise inside are not FDA approved and selling them, importing them and possessing them is illegal. The potential fine is US$2,500 per egg "smuggled" into the US from neighbouring countries (ie Canada). For everyone else, and especially UK TF fans, I wish you a lot of chocolate Kinder goodness this season!

It's so odd to see my local newspaper credited on this page (Liverpool Echo) internet bleeding into reality.

Had one of these yesterday. The chocolate is nice but the figures are solid figures with no articulation. Nothing worth getting excited about.

This little guy is awesome and I love him. If you can find this figure, it is worth the pocket change!

These have been out in the UK for over 2 months can be found £1 cheaper in some shops – but we also have the Movie 4 Optimus Prime truck box too. Kinnerton

Italy still has them too, they just switched company for the license this year!

How come Transformers RID are in english - like in Japan too but the rest isn't english?

Prime Nova wrote:How come Transformers RID are in english - like in Japan too but the rest isn't english?

What do you mean?

Va'al wrote:

Prime Nova wrote:How come Transformers RID are in english - like in Japan too but the rest isn't english?

What do you mean?

Trasformatori : Robot in maschera ?

Or you could say 'travestimento' but I thought that sounded to kinky for a kids line.

RAR wrote:

Va'al wrote:

Prime Nova wrote:How come Transformers RID are in english - like in Japan too but the rest isn't english?

What do you mean?

Trasformatori : Robot in maschera ?

Or you could say 'travestimento' but I thought that sounded to kinky for a kids line.

No, the brand is Transformers where Hasbro is concerned.
Same for Robots in Disguise. We just get extra subtitles/sub-headings.

Long gone are the days of unnecessary brand translation. And boy am I glad.
*glares at the leader of the Maximals Blackjack, from the Biocombat series*

Maschera and travestimento mean more or less the same thing (the former can also be for mask specifically), and the latter has nothing to do with what you're suggesting it might mean.

I WAS JOKING ( Just saying)


But actually it does seem to mean exactly what I was joking about it meaning*; Trans-vestments to change or Transform clothing - the implication in English is with gender bending *(Transvestism) - but the Italian word means the literally the same to 'change vestments' (clothes) it's just the implication is one of disguise and not implicitly cross-dressing.

If however it could be used to imply that* I'd have to leave to native Italian speakers to judge.

It's not always easy to say as some words are words that sound "Foreign" but are not ones that would be understood to have any recognisable meaning in said place - for example 'Decolletage' is meaningless to most French people. or it means "Screw Cutting" - not at all what the English word means.