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We have yet to end 2025 and we already have 2026 toys on shelves. The fourth wave of Age of the Prime deluxes has been found at Walmarts in Canada this past week. Online American retailers are also shipping them out though they have not appeared in stores yet. This wave includes Quickstrike, Jalopy, Blastoff, Quintus Prime and Sureshot.

Below are video reviews of these toys if you want to know more, which may be important as fans are budgeting to only buy what they really like now that prices for deluxes have arisen to $27.99 USD.



Quickstrike


Quintus Prime


Sureshot


Blastoff


Jalopy

Sureshot is a way better figure than I gave it credit for. Colours are pretty loud, awesome and correct, shape is right, Sunbow G1 look /check, etc. Of course the targetmaster is a bit weak, but not horrible at all. Also easily upgraded if one wants. I am gonna say; Sureshot is the best pure Targetmaster figure yet. All the Decepticons are unnecessarily Headmasters, Crosshairs is ok, but a repaint/mould, Pointblank... is best left blank.

Went into my local Target today looking for Vortex, and while they didn’t have him, I did manage to get Blast-Off directly off of the pallet. They also had Quintus, but Pulse already has him en route.

Chriphord wrote:Went into my local Target today looking for Vortex, and while they didn’t have him, I did manage to get Blast-Off directly off of the pallet. They also had Quintus, but Pulse already has him en route.

How much was your walmart charging for deluxes

I believe Walmarts in the area are doing the new increased prices, but I don’t frequent them that often so I’m not positive. Today at Target was still $24.99, which made me a very happy boy.

Chriphord wrote:I believe Walmarts in the area are doing the new increased prices, but I don’t frequent them that often so I’m not positive. Today at Target was still $24.99, which made me a very happy boy.

OK cool, thanks!

More new reveals with Animated Ratchet on the Trailbreaker mold and after all this time a return of Prime characters with what I think is a good looking Smokescreen. I sure this will probably get a Beast Hunters blue repaint for Amazon or a Target 4 pack at some point.

Also two more G1 guys.

Powerglide! Finally!

And an Ultra Mammoth is given out of that Big Convoy, right?

Thanks to several Weibo posts we have looks at the new Transformers Generations Age Of The Primes revealed at an offline event in China. Those include the following deluxe toys:

• Powerglide― G1

• Swerve ― G1

• Smokescreen ― TF Prime

• Ratchet - Animated

Ratchet is particularly interesting as he is a retool of the Earthrise Trailbreaker/Hoist mold and comes with multiple tools homaging the original Animated toy. These are slated for 2026 late spring/summer.

Rodimus Prime wrote:Powerglide! Finally!

And an Ultra Mammoth is given out of that Big Convoy, right?

Or Universe Nemesis Prime.

What's with the different color shades for Powerglide? Variant color releases or hand painted prototype?

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Powerglide! Finally!

And an Ultra Mammoth is given out of that Big Convoy, right?

Or Universe Nemesis Prime.

Absolutely! One can never have enough transforming mammoths.

Upon further inspection, that Powerglide plane mode is a bit small and short. I know he was a Minibot, but maybe he should've been a voyager for a more proportional plane mode?

Also I'm impressed with that Ratchet. He's a deluxe, but that TB/Hoist mold is a big deluxe.

Ratchet looks fantastic, can't wait to get him

Love powerglide's robot mode and happy to add him to my collection. A little nitpicky but the hands are pretty obvious when looking at the alt mode from the side but that's my only gripe

Anyone think Prime Smokescreen will be retooled into knock out? Or Bumblebee maybe? I'd love a Prime universe Bumblebee figure