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DeathReviews wrote:Bah - the Creatures Collide set still isn't showing up on the Target website database. Until then I can't get the UPC number for looking it up. Which means that you can't call Target up to have them confirm if they've got it or not. The dead-head clerks who work in these stores are utterly clueless without those numbers, it's like talking to a brick wall. 'T... oys? Uh... I don't know if we sell these "t... oys" of which you speak. Let me get ahold of my manager....'

The DPCI for the Creatures Collide set is 087-16-0184.

william-james88 wrote:

DeathReviews wrote:Bah - the Creatures Collide set still isn't showing up on the Target website database. Until then I can't get the UPC number for looking it up. Which means that you can't call Target up to have them confirm if they've got it or not. The dead-head clerks who work in these stores are utterly clueless without those numbers, it's like talking to a brick wall. 'T... oys? Uh... I don't know if we sell these "t... oys" of which you speak. Let me get ahold of my manager....'

The DPCI for the Creatures Collide set is 087-16-0184.

That's handy to know - thanks!

I just checked my Target yesterday, no sign of these. ugh.

william-james88 wrote:

DeathReviews wrote:Bah - the Creatures Collide set still isn't showing up on the Target website database. Until then I can't get the UPC number for looking it up. Which means that you can't call Target up to have them confirm if they've got it or not. The dead-head clerks who work in these stores are utterly clueless without those numbers, it's like talking to a brick wall. 'T... oys? Uh... I don't know if we sell these "t... oys" of which you speak. Let me get ahold of my manager....'

The DPCI for the Creatures Collide set is 087-16-0184.

According to Brickseek that's for a Porg 2-k from Star Wars.

Till-all-R1 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

DeathReviews wrote:Bah - the Creatures Collide set still isn't showing up on the Target website database. Until then I can't get the UPC number for looking it up. Which means that you can't call Target up to have them confirm if they've got it or not. The dead-head clerks who work in these stores are utterly clueless without those numbers, it's like talking to a brick wall. 'T... oys? Uh... I don't know if we sell these "t... oys" of which you speak. Let me get ahold of my manager....'

The DPCI for the Creatures Collide set is 087-16-0184.

According to Brickseek that's for a Porg 2-k from Star Wars.

Yup, so go for the UPC, which should be unique and is in the articke.

Toy Dinobot looks really good when pictures are not overexposed. Love the Heroic Maximal / Evil Predacon prefixes for the toy decos, that's one of the parts of the packaging I remember the most from the original Beast Wars toys.

Rtron wrote:Toy Dinobot looks really good when pictures are not overexposed. Love the Heroic Maximal / Evil Predacon prefixes for the toy decos, that's one of the parts of the packaging I remember the most from the original Beast Wars toys.

It made sense for the time. If kids didn't know anything about Beast Wars, they will know who the "good guys" and "bad guys" are.

Guess I know which figures I'll be examining next! I admit I was surprised. For the Creatures Collide set, Target charged about $74. After taxes, that equates to a little over $19.50 per figure. And since the box contains four deluxe figures, that's not bad for the cost. Especially considering that the average price for a Deluxe figure sold by itself these days is about $23 each.

I was fully expecting this set to cost at least $100, probably more. Nice.

Checked my target tonight, not a single new thing.

If that Creatures Collide pack is that price, that is a nice package deal. I need that set.

I was standing in my local Target when this news first hit the Seibertron.com main page, and not only was there no sign of any new Buzzworthy Bumblebee toy other than plenty of leftover Silverstreaks, there wasn't even a spot for any of the new stuff. No places on the shelves set aside for the Creatures Collide set, the Red Cog set, or the toy-colored Dinobot and Terrorsaur. Just a whole lotta old stuff plus the giant RC Optimus thing.

Yeah, my Target also had no space for either the set or Metroplex. The release date is the 31st so that could change. I finally did see Cliffjumper show up, and he looks pretty good in hand. I have ER Cliffy, but I might just swap them out in my collection and put ER up for sale. Maybe it's just the packaging, but BB Cliffy looks a bit lighter shade of red than ER Cliffy does.

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah, my Target also had no space for either the set or Metroplex. The release date is the 31st so that could change. I finally did see Cliffjumper show up, and he looks pretty good in hand. I have ER Cliffy, but I might just swap them out in my collection and put ER up for sale. Maybe it's just the packaging, but BB Cliffy looks a bit lighter shade of red than ER Cliffy does.

He is a lighter shade of red.

sol magnus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah, my Target also had no space for either the set or Metroplex. The release date is the 31st so that could change. I finally did see Cliffjumper show up, and he looks pretty good in hand. I have ER Cliffy, but I might just swap them out in my collection and put ER up for sale. Maybe it's just the packaging, but BB Cliffy looks a bit lighter shade of red than ER Cliffy does.

He is a lighter shade of red.

Ok thanks. I thought maybe it was the lighting in the store. BB Cliff looks better, and I don't even care about the painted window.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah, my Target also had no space for either the set or Metroplex. The release date is the 31st so that could change. I finally did see Cliffjumper show up, and he looks pretty good in hand. I have ER Cliffy, but I might just swap them out in my collection and put ER up for sale. Maybe it's just the packaging, but BB Cliffy looks a bit lighter shade of red than ER Cliffy does.

He is a lighter shade of red.

Ok thanks. I thought maybe it was the lighting in the store. BB Cliff looks better, and I don't even care about the painted window.

My first or second video was on him.

sol magnus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah, my Target also had no space for either the set or Metroplex. The release date is the 31st so that could change. I finally did see Cliffjumper show up, and he looks pretty good in hand. I have ER Cliffy, but I might just swap them out in my collection and put ER up for sale. Maybe it's just the packaging, but BB Cliffy looks a bit lighter shade of red than ER Cliffy does.

He is a lighter shade of red.

Ok thanks. I thought maybe it was the lighting in the store. BB Cliff looks better, and I don't even care about the painted window.

My first or second video was on him.

I'll probably go back and watch it. I was never a big Cliffjumper fan, so when I saw the ER figure at the store I just bought it to round out my G1 collection. I didn't pay much attention to the Buzzworthy version, but I got it in hand at the store last night and the differences were noticeable. BB Cliffy just looks better.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah, my Target also had no space for either the set or Metroplex. The release date is the 31st so that could change. I finally did see Cliffjumper show up, and he looks pretty good in hand. I have ER Cliffy, but I might just swap them out in my collection and put ER up for sale. Maybe it's just the packaging, but BB Cliffy looks a bit lighter shade of red than ER Cliffy does.

He is a lighter shade of red.

Ok thanks. I thought maybe it was the lighting in the store. BB Cliff looks better, and I don't even care about the painted window.

My first or second video was on him.

I'll probably go back and watch it. I was never a big Cliffjumper fan, so when I saw the ER figure at the store I just bought it to round out my G1 collection. I didn't pay much attention to the Buzzworthy version, but I got it in hand at the store last night and the differences were noticeable. BB Cliffy just looks better.

In my area he's far and away the rarest of the bunch. I'd get him just for that (if I didn't already have him).

sol magnus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah, my Target also had no space for either the set or Metroplex. The release date is the 31st so that could change. I finally did see Cliffjumper show up, and he looks pretty good in hand. I have ER Cliffy, but I might just swap them out in my collection and put ER up for sale. Maybe it's just the packaging, but BB Cliffy looks a bit lighter shade of red than ER Cliffy does.

He is a lighter shade of red.

Ok thanks. I thought maybe it was the lighting in the store. BB Cliff looks better, and I don't even care about the painted window.

My first or second video was on him.

I'll probably go back and watch it. I was never a big Cliffjumper fan, so when I saw the ER figure at the store I just bought it to round out my G1 collection. I didn't pay much attention to the Buzzworthy version, but I got it in hand at the store last night and the differences were noticeable. BB Cliffy just looks better.

In my area he's far and away the rarest of the bunch. I'd get him just for that (if I didn't already have him).

Didn't know you made videos!

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah, my Target also had no space for either the set or Metroplex. The release date is the 31st so that could change. I finally did see Cliffjumper show up, and he looks pretty good in hand. I have ER Cliffy, but I might just swap them out in my collection and put ER up for sale. Maybe it's just the packaging, but BB Cliffy looks a bit lighter shade of red than ER Cliffy does.

He is a lighter shade of red.

Ok thanks. I thought maybe it was the lighting in the store. BB Cliff looks better, and I don't even care about the painted window.

My first or second video was on him.

I'll probably go back and watch it. I was never a big Cliffjumper fan, so when I saw the ER figure at the store I just bought it to round out my G1 collection. I didn't pay much attention to the Buzzworthy version, but I got it in hand at the store last night and the differences were noticeable. BB Cliffy just looks better.

In my area he's far and away the rarest of the bunch. I'd get him just for that (if I didn't already have him).

Didn't know you made videos!

When the 4 pack starts going up I'll post them here.

Sabrblade wrote:I was standing in my local Target when this news first hit the Seibertron.com main page, and not only was there no sign of any new Buzzworthy Bumblebee toy other than plenty of leftover Silverstreaks, there wasn't even a spot for any of the new stuff. No places on the shelves set aside for the Creatures Collide set, the Red Cog set, or the toy-colored Dinobot and Terrorsaur. Just a whole lotta old stuff plus the giant RC Optimus thing.

I didnt have any need or desire to pick up Buzzworthy Silverstreak, but my local Target had so many and couldnt move em they all got slashed to $7/8 bucks! Kick myself for not picking one or two up for a friend or something

M. Spector wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:I was standing in my local Target when this news first hit the Seibertron.com main page, and not only was there no sign of any new Buzzworthy Bumblebee toy other than plenty of leftover Silverstreaks, there wasn't even a spot for any of the new stuff. No places on the shelves set aside for the Creatures Collide set, the Red Cog set, or the toy-colored Dinobot and Terrorsaur. Just a whole lotta old stuff plus the giant RC Optimus thing.

I didnt have any need or desire to pick up Buzzworthy Silverstreak, but my local Target had so many and couldnt move em they all got slashed to $7/8 bucks! Kick myself for not picking one or two up for a friend or something

I'll kick you

M. Spector wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:I was standing in my local Target when this news first hit the Seibertron.com main page, and not only was there no sign of any new Buzzworthy Bumblebee toy other than plenty of leftover Silverstreaks, there wasn't even a spot for any of the new stuff. No places on the shelves set aside for the Creatures Collide set, the Red Cog set, or the toy-colored Dinobot and Terrorsaur. Just a whole lotta old stuff plus the giant RC Optimus thing.

I didnt have any need or desire to pick up Buzzworthy Silverstreak, but my local Target had so many and couldnt move em they all got slashed to $7/8 bucks! Kick myself for not picking one or two up for a friend or something

Shame! Shame!

Remembered some old ideas.

I found the Creatures Collide set at Target yesterday. The price of $75 is quite nice for 4 deluxe class figures. Goldbug is definitely the highlight. I’m so happy to have a proper modern Goldbug figure at last! Ransack is pretty nice too, even if only the head was changed from Kickback. The deco makes it work. Skywasp is a nice Waspinator repaint. I gave him the robot head to differentiate him from BotCon Parasite. I might sell off toy colors Scorponok, though. Between the show accurate Kingdom release and the recent vintage re-release, I just don’t have much use for him, unless I can repurpose him as another character.

By the way, if anyone has no use for their extra Ransack heads, the ones that are just Kickback’s head in toy accurate colors, I’d be interested in taking them. I have three extra Legacy Kickbacks, and my plan is to swap out their heads to army build a clone swarm for Kickback. Proper Kickback will retain the normal head while his clones will use the toy colored alternate Ransack heads from this set.

So I already have Terrorsaur from the Kingdom Amazon golden disc set, so I'm really tempted to keep the toy accurate Buzzworthy version like this on my shelves because of the simple stupid hilariousness of it all.