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News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Fri Dec 09, 2022 10:44 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:The caboose should have been black as well. Unless that particular color scheme is integral to Galaxy Shuttle somehow?

I agree, though it does better color match the shuttle for base mode, which is the main mode they were aiming for

News Credits: 4837 · by **william-james88** » Fri Dec 09, 2022 10:46 pm

Here you go

News Credits: 3 · by **alekese** » Fri Dec 09, 2022 10:47 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
alekese wrote:It was definitely back in stock, because I ordered one at 12:05 Eastern time, then came straight here and reported it. It sold out at some point between then and 12:23, when I
When you what! What! WE NEED TO KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!

lol, forum ate part of my post, and/or I forgot to actually finish typing my thought. The rest of that sentence was "(when i) got the push notification from the app announcing the restock."

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Fri Dec 09, 2022 10:48 pm

william-james88 wrote:Here you go

The lack of scale makes my inner OCD shudder. :BOOM:

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:06 am

Rodimus Prime wrote:The caboose should have been black as well.

Tender or coal car. That is not a caboose.

Rodimus Prime wrote:Unless that particular color scheme is integral to Galaxy Shuttle somehow?

It's colored like the Micromaster Rocket Base that the original Galaxy Shuttle toy was designed to work with.

With this toy's launchpad colored like it, one can now add it (and, by extension, Galaxy Shuttle himself) to the composite modern-day Rocket Base one can create by combining Earthrise Commander class Sky Lynx's base mode with the Galactic Odyssey Collection Botropolis Rescue Mission set of Ironworks and Overair. Adding in the Micromaster Countdown that came packed in with Siege Titan class Omega Supreme completes the package even further.

News Credits: 4837 · by **william-james88** » Sat Dec 10, 2022 9:26 am

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Sat Dec 10, 2022 10:38 am

Those stock photos must have came from some prototype? :-?

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:00 pm

william-james88 wrote:

Amazing what a difference changing one mold color can make.

-Kanrabat- wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Here you go

The lack of scale makes my inner OCD shudder.

I try not to cry at the end of that scene... :-(

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:04 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:The caboose should have been black as well.
Tender or coal car. That is not a caboose.

Right. I meant to say tender. Granted I'm not a train enthusiast so my mistake wasn't glaring to me. And i figured that's why the tender had those colors, but I knew very little of Galaxy Shuttle as well. It would still look good color-matched with the train mode, though.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:13 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:but I knew very little of Galaxy Shuttle as well.

You're not alone in that department. Pretty much everybody knows very little about Galaxy Shuttle because there is very little to know about him. He was barely a character in Victory, treated more like a glorified space bus merely used for transport. The biggest appeal he had was the fact that he was huge and looked really cool. But otherwise, he was pretty much a non-entity.

News Credits: 4837 · by **william-james88** » Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:15 pm

It's really cool how Galaxy Shuttle goes from a fully black train to a mostly white shuttle. It adds an extra layer to the triple changing gimmick.

And the headsculpt is really good

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:16 pm

william-james88 wrote:It's really cool how Galaxy Shuttle goes from a fully black train to a mostly white shuttle. It adds an extra layer to the triple changing gimmick.

No doubt an attempt to give people a version of this mold colored like the black and white Takara release of the original Astrotrain, while also serving as a different character instead of just Astrotrain again.

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:20 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
william-james88 wrote:It's really cool how Galaxy Shuttle goes from a fully black train to a mostly white shuttle. It adds an extra layer to the triple changing gimmick.
No doubt an attempt to give people a version of this mold colored like the black and white Takara release of the original Astrotrain, while also serving as a different character instead of just Astrotrain again.

I was thinking that too, but kind of dismissed it as half coincidence half lazy attempt. Maybe it wasn't.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:38 pm

william-james88 wrote:It's really cool how Galaxy Shuttle goes from a fully black train to a mostly white shuttle. It adds an extra layer to the triple changing gimmick.

And the headsculpt is really good

They couldn't fix the front of the train that is a tiny "nose" that just float there. It looks daff and silly, like the broken back of the shuttle. But if I headcanon that neither Astrotrain nor Galaxy Shuttle could figure out how to properly imitate Earth vehicles then it makes me quite forgiving.

News Credits: 19 · by **blackeyedprime** » Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:43 pm

I figure Hauler has a screamy face because he lost both hands (I've left them folded away). Finally completed the what I've wanted from the lambo bots unless a sunstreaker repaint comes out in buzzworthy.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Sat Dec 10, 2022 9:26 pm

The Victory Space Squad

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 6:54 pm

Galaxy Brained

News Credits: 56 · by **o.supreme** » Fri Dec 16, 2022 12:09 pm

10 days after he was supossed to arrive, Walmart has decided to ship my Galaxy Shuttle pre-order. That I guess is better than some of the Netflix exclusives that shipped MONTHS after they were supposed to arrive?...(or get cancelled altogether)

Anyway, I found it a bit amusing it is shipping from BC Canada. I guess they really cant get them down here for some reason.... :???:

News Credits: 4837 · by **william-james88** » Fri Dec 16, 2022 2:53 pm

o.supreme wrote:10 days after he was supossed to arrive, Walmart has decided to ship my Galaxy Shuttle pre-order. That I guess is better than some of the Netflix exclusives that shipped MONTHS after they were supposed to arrive?...(or get cancelled altogether)

Anyway, I found it a bit amusing it is shipping from BC Canada. I guess they really cant get them down here for some reason....

Canada has lots of Galaxy Shuttle. But, interestingly enough, even at $76 CAD, all the ones in my area sold out.

News Credits: 56 · by **o.supreme** » Fri Dec 16, 2022 3:06 pm

I would have thought maybe, just maybe this would be the start of perhaps WM way to fix some of the distribution issues (when Canada gets too much of something, and U.S. doesn't get enough), but if GS sold really well in Canada, that cant be the case.

I just wonder why WM would go the extra expense to ship across a border, when it would be much easier to receive the shipment domestically and issue from a U.S. distribution center? I mean I'm glad its on the way.

As for Velocitron overall. Cosmos (as we all know) is near impossible to find at 1 per case. Clampdown is very hard to find, but I saw a couple early on, and its (surprisingly) still available on Pulse. Black Convoy I did see a few times and is selling well. The rest ( the remaining 3 deluxes and BOTH voyagers) I can find readily stocked a most Walmart's.

Haven't seen any wave 2 yet, and I dont expect to any time soon.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri Dec 16, 2022 3:11 pm

Today I saw a Clampdown at Walmart for the first time in a long time... which I guess means there was probably also a Cosmos there first thing this morning that I missed out on.

News Credits: 10 · by **sol magnus** » Fri Dec 16, 2022 3:32 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Today I saw a Clampdown at Walmart for the first time in a long time... which I guess means there was probably also a Cosmos there first thing this morning that I missed out on.

There are Clampdowns just sitting for weeks in my area now.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Fri Dec 16, 2022 4:09 pm

william-james88 wrote:
o.supreme wrote:10 days after he was supossed to arrive, Walmart has decided to ship my Galaxy Shuttle pre-order. That I guess is better than some of the Netflix exclusives that shipped MONTHS after they were supposed to arrive?...(or get cancelled altogether)

Anyway, I found it a bit amusing it is shipping from BC Canada. I guess they really cant get them down here for some reason....

Canada has lots of Galaxy Shuttle. But, interestingly enough, even at $76 CAD, all the ones in my area sold out.

Not surprising at all. Those are a hot exclusive at NORMAL leader price. No TrU boost here. So of course they sold out.

I was lucky to have found one, buried under a pile of random things in a cart, waiting to be put on the shelves.

by **Whifflefire** » Fri Dec 16, 2022 7:59 pm

I've started to see Shadowstrip and Crasher show up in multiple stores in Central CT. No sign of Galaxy Shuttle yet. The rest of the line has been well-stocked since October (besides Cosmos, of course, who my brother found once ever back in September). Even Scourge and Override went from being rarities to regular sightings. I'm hoping this will be true for Shuttle eventually.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Fri Dec 16, 2022 8:38 pm

So my local Walmart put Scourge, Override and Hauler on clearance, preparing for Galaxy Shuttle and Hot Rod I'm guessing. Deluxes are still full price.