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*whistles*

Sowndwave76 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:I'm just confused with the BB Legacy labelling

Same... My gut tells me this will be just some repaint (and possible retool) of BW Dinobot...
Would they really release Swoop in a store-exclusive line??
I know it probably wouldn't be shocking, and maybe they would since it's not leader class...
But IF it's THE Swoop that's supposed to match the two SS86 Dinobots, I will be very, very surprised.

I must have missed something or forgotten something, which Swoop are you talking about?

william-james88 wrote:

Sowndwave76 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:I'm just confused with the BB Legacy labelling

Same... My gut tells me this will be just some repaint (and possible retool) of BW Dinobot...
Would they really release Swoop in a store-exclusive line??
I know it probably wouldn't be shocking, and maybe they would since it's not leader class...
But IF it's THE Swoop that's supposed to match the two SS86 Dinobots, I will be very, very surprised.

I must have missed something or forgotten something, which Swoop are you talking about?

Before Sludge was confirmed, there was a rumor Swoop would be a Voyager for SS86.

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:*whistles*

Do you think the Dinobot mold has a mutant head built in? Or, would this be a retool for a new head for the BB line? I'm assuming the Grimlock head is the alternate head for the mold and the only other beast mold with 3 potential heads is the Megatron mold and for that the smiling head was only seen as part of a factory error and then not used when it should have been.

So far, I think we've seen an alternate head for every beast mold except for Terrorsaur.

I hope SS86 Swoop will eventually get a red redeco. But he would have to be in the Selects line if he did, and they don't use SS molds in the Selects line, right?

Rodimus Prime wrote:I hope SS86 Swoop will eventually get a red redeco. But he would have to be in the Selects line if he did, and they don't use SS molds in the Selects line, right?

They haven't, but who's to say they won't?

Rodimus Prime wrote:I hope SS86 Swoop will eventually get a red redeco. But he would have to be in the Selects line if he did, and they don't use SS molds in the Selects line, right?

The only Studio Series molds that are apparently off limits are the ones that represent characters from the Paramount movies. If it's Studio Series 86, then there's no issue using it for Selects.

After all we've already seen the Blur mold used outside of ss86

ZeroWolf wrote:After all we've already seen the Blur mold used outside of ss86

And Jazz as well. SS86 molds are fair game it would seem.

Edit: Hell, just looking at SS86 and Buzzworthy Bee, it wouldn't be out of question to have both red and blue swoop be part of SS86 with one being a regular release and another in the Buzzworthy line. We've already seen them change the deco on ER Cliff and SS86 Kup for the BB line, so I wouldn't rule that out as a possibility.

Yeah there are a few already, I should have remembered. For some reason I thought of the Dinobots as off-limits. But G2 versions of them would also be awesome.

The only way G2 Dinobots would happen is through Selects as the price point isn't part of Buzzworthy...yet.

ZeroWolf wrote:The only way G2 Dinobots would happen is through Selects as the price point isn't part of Buzzworthy...yet.

Price point?
With the big-ass Bug-Bee re-release that have lights and sounds, that thing was leader priced.
Plus there's the deluxes two-packs.
The four packs.
Well, anything goes in that line, really.
If you talk about what was found in the system, there may not be any "leader price" yet, but there may already be. Especially if the price is MORE expensive. The prices keep going up and up after all.

For G2 dinobots specifically, I don't think they will ever make sense in the Buzzworthy line. Those are Select written all across them.

Watch it just be kingdom dinobot with better paint on the legs and sword and maybe a Maximal symbol

Like what they did with kup

william-james88 wrote:I'm just confused with the BB Legacy labelling

I believe with the Buzzworthy subline, we are dealing with a Movie1 Big Daddy or ROTF Bludgeon scenario.

The retailers are sold on the subline name and that gives a gateway to Hasbro to shoot out homages for the collectors via a proven seller line for the retailers.
Winners on both sides; collectors get the homage repaints they want; the retailers get a good selling line, exclusive to them, that is a vetted profit maker.

triKlops wrote:

william-james88 wrote:I'm just confused with the BB Legacy labelling

I believe with the Buzzworthy subline, we are dealing with a Movie1 Big Daddy or ROTF Bludgeon scenario.

The retailers are sold on the subline name and that gives a gateway to Hasbro to shoot out homages for the collectors via a proven seller line for the retailers.
Winners on both sides; collectors get the homage repaints they want; the retailers get a good selling line, exclusive to them, that is a vetted profit maker.

It's the Legacy bit that confuses me most

william-james88 wrote:

triKlops wrote:

william-james88 wrote:I'm just confused with the BB Legacy labelling

I believe with the Buzzworthy subline, we are dealing with a Movie1 Big Daddy or ROTF Bludgeon scenario.

The retailers are sold on the subline name and that gives a gateway to Hasbro to shoot out homages for the collectors via a proven seller line for the retailers.
Winners on both sides; collectors get the homage repaints they want; the retailers get a good selling line, exclusive to them, that is a vetted profit maker.

It's the Legacy bit that confuses me most

Like I said before, they're just using whatever the latest non-SS Generations line just like how they used WFC to sell a Titans Return retool, doesn't matter that Dinobot is a Kingdom mold. Nothing more than that.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

triKlops wrote:

william-james88 wrote:I'm just confused with the BB Legacy labelling

I believe with the Buzzworthy subline, we are dealing with a Movie1 Big Daddy or ROTF Bludgeon scenario.

The retailers are sold on the subline name and that gives a gateway to Hasbro to shoot out homages for the collectors via a proven seller line for the retailers.
Winners on both sides; collectors get the homage repaints they want; the retailers get a good selling line, exclusive to them, that is a vetted profit maker.

It's the Legacy bit that confuses me most

Like I said before, they're just using whatever the latest non-SS Generations line just like how they used WFC to sell a Titans Return retool, doesn't matter that Dinobot is a Kingdom mold. Nothing more than that.

Emerje

Which toy are you refering to, and did the listing say Earthrise or Kingdom or something like that?

william-james88 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

triKlops wrote:

william-james88 wrote:I'm just confused with the BB Legacy labelling

I believe with the Buzzworthy subline, we are dealing with a Movie1 Big Daddy or ROTF Bludgeon scenario.

The retailers are sold on the subline name and that gives a gateway to Hasbro to shoot out homages for the collectors via a proven seller line for the retailers.
Winners on both sides; collectors get the homage repaints they want; the retailers get a good selling line, exclusive to them, that is a vetted profit maker.

It's the Legacy bit that confuses me most

Like I said before, they're just using whatever the latest non-SS Generations line just like how they used WFC to sell a Titans Return retool, doesn't matter that Dinobot is a Kingdom mold. Nothing more than that.

Emerje

Which toy are you refering to, and did the listing say Earthrise or Kingdom or something like that?

The only Titans Return retool in the line, Fangry in the Worlds Collide set with a War for Cybertron Trilogy logo in the top left corner of the box. Fangry is as much a mold transplant going from Prime Wars to WFC as Dinobot would be going from WFC to Legacy.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:The only Titans Return retool in the line, Fangry in the Worlds Collide set with a War for Cybertron Trilogy logo in the top left corner of the box. Fangry is as much a mold transplant going from Prime Wars to WFC as Dinobot would be going from WFC to Legacy.

Emerje

The Buzzworthy line is truly an "anything goes" line. So we could have "reissues" / repaints of UC, RiD (new and old) classic Beast Wars, Old Generations like Universe, or maybe even Animated.

Just imagine, a reissue/repaint of Animated Blackout in the Buzzworthy line.
This could be possible.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:According to Target's internal listings the street date is Jan 31st, so right about now would be the earliest I would expect them to show up, if at all before the street date.

Another “street date” has come and gone, but still I’ve neither seen nor heard of the new Buzzworthy wave showing up at retail in the US.

Wolfman Jake wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:According to Target's internal listings the street date is Jan 31st, so right about now would be the earliest I would expect them to show up, if at all before the street date.

Another “street date” has come and gone, but still I’ve neither seen nor heard of the new Buzzworthy wave showing up at retail in the US.

It's just an internal date of when they could sell a toy, they could get the toy at any time either before (hence why they have that date) or after. It's not indicative of when they will actually get the toy. Hence why it's internal and a release date shared to the public.

The Studio Series reissues in the Buzzworthy Bumblebee line have been selling surprisingly well, even though it's reissues of toys that are not great. So you can imagine just how well these new ones will sell. Not only is it another way to get the stellar Cliffjumper and Kup molds but these have new decos that are more toon accurate. And this was even has the unmasked B-127 toy which fans were hoping we'd get, simply because Bumblebee never wore his mask on any of the Cybertron scenes.
These three figures are now being found at US Targets. The first sighting was Ben Yee himself in New jersey.
These same figures were also recently found in the UK at Forbidden Planet Southampton. And speaking of UK sightings, it looks like they are getting caught up on all of Studio Series with both the core class assortment (Shockwave and ravage) at Forbidden Planet and voyager class Soundwave at Smyths. Those UK sighints come from TFW200 board member Prescient.

Where the heck it THAT at? That's got SS Ratchet in there too! That more Transformers figures in that picture than I've seen COMBINED over the last 6 months!

First-Aid wrote:Where the heck it THAT at?

UK

Lol I was thinking the same thing I read Target and thought that selection is wild! UK makes sense though