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News Credits: 972 · Thu May 07, 2009 6:50 pm

The first sightings of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen preview toys: Deluxe Bumblebee and Soundwave have been spotted(and bought) from a Target store in Wollongong, South of Sydney by OTCA member Tiby.

The figures retailed for AU$29 each.

For pictures of the confirmed sale, please click here.

The main line of Transformers ROTF figures are set for release in Australia on May 30th 2009.

Thu May 07, 2009 7:29 pm

These have better come out in the US real soon. Like this week soon.

News Credits: 7 · Thu May 07, 2009 8:43 pm

Good for them. I'm not in any hurry, except for Superion.

Thu May 07, 2009 10:08 pm

haha Narc you want Superion as well? i ordered that Fansproject upgrade kit as soon as it hit preorder on BBTS, really hope its gonna make the movie version better and when it does and he comes out ill do a youtube review on him ASAP

News Credits: 9 · Thu May 07, 2009 10:13 pm

Narc wrote:Good for them. I'm not in any hurry, except for Superion.

I'm all over that set too!

News Credits: 226 · Fri May 08, 2009 3:43 am

$29 .... yay for inflation. :-(

News Credits: 1 · Fri May 08, 2009 4:26 am

I work in the Target store in miranda, Sydney, we found two boxes of the deluxe bumblebee and soundwave figures on Wednesday night However unlike Wollongong our manager wont let us shelve them until the 15th =[

Fri May 08, 2009 7:22 am

DOES ANYONE KNOW WHEN THE TRANSFORMERS 2 TOYS PREVIEW TOYS COME OUT IN va :?:

News Credits: 129 · Fri May 08, 2009 7:53 am

cbe 1999 wrote:DOES ANYONE KNOW WHEN THE TRANSFORMERS 2 TOYS PREVIEW TOYS COME OUT IN va

You're using the shift key all wrong... :cry:

News Credits: 1 · Fri May 08, 2009 4:05 pm

Dkaris wrote:I work in the Target store in miranda, Sydney, we found two boxes of the deluxe bumblebee and soundwave figures on Wednesday night However unlike Wollongong our manager wont let us shelve them until the 15th =[

Your Manager is asking to bring down a whole mess of trouble upon your store. Those figs aren't supposed to be placed out on the floor until the morning of the 30th or after the store closes on the 29th. If the Hasbro rep tours the store before release day and sees those figures out, said rep. could have the whole stock immediately pulled and the store could lose the right to sell ANY ROTF toys. And this was from the lips of the Hasbro rep in charge of U.S. West Coast Distribution. Doesn't matter what store, if they see it out early that store is screwed! Conversely, if they go into a store on release day and the display is not ready to go upon opening that morning, you will see some store employees moving like their jobs depend on it. The rep had Target employees in Everett hustling pretty damn fast to get their display finished and fully stocked by 8:15 a.m. on the date the first movies toys came out. I was standing right behind her at 8:05 a.m. listening to her have words with the stock team supervisor.

Since I have exchanged late night stock duties for the oppurtunity to have first crack at new stock at the local Wal-Mart, I'll probably be there on the night of the 29th/morning of the 30th so that I don't have to deal with the collectors likely to be in at 6:00 a.m. I've decided that there is at least one figure that I will buy for my kids and I, possibly 2 but beyond that everyone else can have them. (My youngest boy and I have a Soundwave collection going. Gotta maintain it) Of course I wouldn't mind waiting outside the store to see if I could...discourage :twisted:

...any potential scalpers.

Sat May 09, 2009 8:58 pm

oh good...im aussie, and this is the best news all week...maybe.
Ill definatly get Soundwave, I got bumblebee from the first movie so ill have to look at it and think about it :-?

...oh...and im definatly getting rotf Devastator :grin:

...even if the Constructicons dont have robot modes *lousy Hasbro* :evil:

News Credits: 972 · Sun May 10, 2009 6:04 pm

T-Macksimus wrote:
Dkaris wrote:I work in the Target store in miranda, Sydney, we found two boxes of the deluxe bumblebee and soundwave figures on Wednesday night However unlike Wollongong our manager wont let us shelve them until the 15th =[

Your Manager is asking to bring down a whole mess of trouble upon your store. Those figs aren't supposed to be placed out on the floor until the morning of the 30th or after the store closes on the 29th.

Yet at the Aussie Toyfair, there was no embargo date on the preview figures at all, only the mainline figures, so Deluxe Soundwave and Bumblebee can be placed on shelves whenever the manager dictates...

News Credits: 1 · Mon May 11, 2009 3:55 am

i_amtrunks wrote:
T-Macksimus wrote:
Dkaris wrote:I work in the Target store in miranda, Sydney, we found two boxes of the deluxe bumblebee and soundwave figures on Wednesday night However unlike Wollongong our manager wont let us shelve them until the 15th =[

Your Manager is asking to bring down a whole mess of trouble upon your store. Those figs aren't supposed to be placed out on the floor until the morning of the 30th or after the store closes on the 29th.

Yet at the Aussie Toyfair, there was no embargo date on the preview figures at all, only the mainline figures, so Deluxe Soundwave and Bumblebee can be placed on shelves whenever the manager dictates...

I talked to staff today and a Hasbro rep was through early this morning. Apparently the figures I mentioned we found now cant be sold until the 30th, even though they PREVIEW figures. Gratz to Wollongong for ruining it for the rest of us. I don't see how our manager is bringing a mess onto us. He nor any staff put the merch on the shelves. The boxes were put back in our toy reserve.

News Credits: 1 · Wed May 13, 2009 10:47 am

Hate to double post, I was on night fill team tonight and we put out two boxes of the Bumblebee and Optimus Prime kids dress up costumes. Hopefully moar ROTF stuff is in our dock awaiting our box cutters.

News Credits: 972 · Wed May 13, 2009 6:09 pm

Dkaris wrote:Hate to double post, I was on night fill team tonight and we put out two boxes of the Bumblebee and Optimus Prime kids dress up costumes. Hopefully moar ROTF stuff is in our dock awaiting our box cutters.

Aint really a double post when there is a 3 day gap between them.

So costumes are out, means that stationary and normal clothing cannot be far behind.
I think you might be sick of stocking all the non toy ROTF gear by June...

News Credits: 1 · Thu May 14, 2009 12:39 am

To be honest our transformers stock is pretty poor, we have a few universe deluxes, a couple of the voyagers, some small transformers animated figures, and a fair few of the ultimate bumblebee. I'm interested to see if our rotf preview stuff will go out tonight, or if management will oblige the hasbro rep and wait until the 30th.