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News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:48 am

Like repaints? You'll love Transformers DOTM MechTech Deluxe Wave 4 is full of them. Entertainment Earth has posted the case breakdown seen below. According to their listing this wave is scheduled to release in July.

1x Jolt
1x Mudflap
1x Thundercracker
3x Cyberfire Bumblebee
1x Buzzard
1x Specialist Ratchet

News Credits: 1 · by **rpetras** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:54 am

Yeesh!

Those Cyberfire Bumblebees will be keeping shelves nice and toasty for a long time to come.

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:01 am

This wave will be the one that ruins your fun for finding these toys.

As if there weren't enough Bumblebees on the shelves now...

by **CrimsonPrime** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:14 am

So far the only Deluxes that I'm interested in :-

Bumblebee,Roadbuster,Topspin,Ratchet and Thundercracker.

I probably wont buy Roadbuster and Topspin until I see a decent review on HA Roadbuster and a confirmation on HA Topspin cause I dont wanna buy both the HA and Deluxe version,after all I am not rich >.<...

News Credits: 21 · by **dragons** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:22 am

This wave will be the one that ruins your fun for finding these toys.

As if there weren't enough Bumblebees on the shelves now...

exactly stop giving us repaints of bumblebee hasbro no one buys them bb & twins never leave shelf you want to make money stop making countels numbers of repaints of bumblebees 2 is fine one in every wave a joke.

ill wait laserbeak head variant repiant head to be released to pick him up there is review video of ha raodbuster on youtube somewhere

News Credits: 5 · by **alexison** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:35 am

Counterpunch wrote:This wave will be the one that ruins your fun for finding these toys.

As if there weren't enough Bumblebees on the shelves now...

I agree. The deluxe and leader Bumblebees are already keeping my shelves toasty.

Like f-primus-unicron on Facebook · by **f-primus-unicron** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:36 am

am i the only one who likes the cyberfire bumblebee over the regular one?

News Credits: 4 · by **freaky777** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:01 am

Who is Buzzard? BuzzSaw repaint or what? Never heard of Him..

by **RiddlerJ** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:24 am

Repaints I would like to see:

A red Ironhide.

A yellow Sideswipe as Sunstreaker

More Seekers (you can never have too many of those), not just random repaints of Starscream, and get those stupid tattoos off him too.

News Credits: 5 · by **alexison** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:29 am

freaky777 wrote:Who is Buzzard? BuzzSaw repaint or what? Never heard of Him..

Yes he is.
http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... saw/21712/

Website · by **Leviathan** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:08 am

Is specialist ratchet going to be another red/white repaint?

News Credits: 5 · by **alexison** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:26 am

Leviathan wrote:Is specialist ratchet going to be another red/white repaint?

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... int/21550/

News Credits: 335 · by **Down_Shift** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:45 am

The only one I like outta that whole mess is specialist ratchet.

by **Fallenprime27** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:15 am

This repaint crap is gotta effin stop....seriously hasbro this is rediculous, insted od makin repaints of bumblebee make better lookin roadbuster for deluxe just like yall did for the HA version, i was disappointed when i saw roadbuster, but topspin looks awesome..... make HA versions of the wreckers,I know roadbuster is out, but dont crap up Leadfoot and Topspin if thier are HA version in the works, for cryin out loud if your makin repaints just cuz lil kids like bumblebee, thier not the ones that are actually buyin ur products....it the collecters that are going out and buyin ur products.......so stop with the repaints

News Credits: 1 · by **Galvatron X** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:36 am

The only Bumblebee I've ever bought was when the NEST 2-pack came out, and I only bought that for the mail-away Ravage.

But, this one actually catches my eye; I really like that paint job. I think I just might get him.

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:47 am

Fallenprime27 wrote:This repaint crap is gotta effin stop....seriously hasbro this is rediculous, insted od makin repaints of bumblebee make better lookin roadbuster for deluxe just like yall did for the HA version, i was disappointed when i saw roadbuster, but topspin looks awesome..... make HA versions of the wreckers,I know roadbuster is out, but dont crap up Leadfoot and Topspin if thier are HA version in the works, for cryin out loud if your makin repaints just cuz lil kids like bumblebee, thier not the ones that are actually buyin ur products....it the collecters that are going out and buyin ur products.......so stop with the repaints

Hate to burst your bubble, but collectors don't command nearly as much of the market share as you're giving us credit for. Hasbro has stated collectors make up around 12% of their sales. That's nothing to sneeze at, but that means the other 88% is kids.

BTW Human Alliance Leadfoot is already confirmed:

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... oot/21482/

I suspect we'll see HA Topspin as well before it's all said and done.

by **CrimsonPrime** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:54 am

Fallenprime27 wrote:This repaint crap is gotta effin stop....seriously hasbro this is rediculous, insted od makin repaints of bumblebee make better lookin roadbuster for deluxe just like yall did for the HA version, i was disappointed when i saw roadbuster, but topspin looks awesome..... make HA versions of the wreckers,I know roadbuster is out, but dont crap up Leadfoot and Topspin if thier are HA version in the works, for cryin out loud if your makin repaints just cuz lil kids like bumblebee, thier not the ones that are actually buyin ur products....it the collecters that are going out and buyin ur products.......so stop with the repaints

Like it or not Hasbro isnt some kind of figure-making machines you know.They run out of ideas sometimes too and they need profits so that they can continue making ones.So what they do is repaints,there's no need to brainstorm that much and they dont need to make crapload of prototypes thus saving them money ergo making them have more profit.

And HA Leadfoot is already finalized.You can see the product at one of Seibertron's news.Even if they didnt make repaints it wont magically make the future figures/moulds such as HA Topspin(Though there's no news about it yet) becomes better.To be more exact,it doesnt change a thing.

BTW kids does buy alot of Transformers this days.At my local TRU there's barely adults/teens.It's literally is filled with crapload of childrens,that's why sometimes I felt weird being there since I'm a teenager.

So to summarize...Repaints actually HELPS.Cause without repaints their profits will decrease thus making the cost of future figures decreased ergo figures with less paint apps and less details and what-not...

News Credits: 11 · by **kirbenvost** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:09 pm

So.

Wave 1: 1 x Bumblebee
Wave 2: 2 x Bumblebee
Wave 3: 3 x Cyberfire Bumblebee

I'm beginning to hate that guy.

News Credits: 1 · by **Heavy B** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:38 pm

oh, goody. you know, i was up at my local walmart, lamenting that i have to rely on a secondary market for generations/rts/what not weeljack, jazz, scoruge, kup, tracks, grapple, wreck gar, lugnut, ect, and im looking at the **** ton of ROTF jolt and mudflap thinking "you know what this shelf needs? MORE F*CKIN MUDFLAPS AND JOLTS"

why hasbro, what have i done to piss you off?

News Credits: 2 · by **Stockade** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:45 pm

As for me:

bought Wave 1 Megatron and saved some money

Bought Wave 2 Shockwave and Skyhammer, saved money again

Wave 3 and wave 4 savin mo money mo money and MO MONEY!!

News Credits: 1 · by **RhA** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:00 pm

Want Thundercracker.

So... when can we get Skywarp? I'm loving these deluxe seekers.

♥ repaints.

News Credits: 2 · by **Stockade** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:04 pm

kirbenvost wrote:So.

Wave 1: 1 x Bumblebee
Wave 2: 2 x Bumblebee
Wave 3: 3 x Cyberfire Bumblebee

I'm beginning to hate that guy.

It wouldn't surprise me that Hasbro and Michael Bay is helping Chevrolet out either indirectly or directly with Camaro sales, since GM doesn't really advertise like they use too. Thats why Bee and the Camaro are popular. Besides, who would want Bee to be a VW Bug anyway since the Camaro has great body lines and styling queues and packs a punch in the horse power dept to outrun those Decepticon baddies.

News Credits: 12 · by **robofreak** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:54 pm

I'm getting Thundercracker and Buzzaw from this group.

As much as I used to go crazy on movie toys, I just can't this time around. Besides, I've already spent a good sized chunk on these.

Now I need a Skywarp repaint and a G1 colored Starscrem.

I'm sick of Bumblebee. I have a ton of them and don't have them all yet. How many Bumblebee are there for the movie worl anyway?