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Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:29 pm

Never had one... but I do like the vehicles up front BETTER. Looking at combined I love SEEING what makes the gestalt. Like devestator.

News Credits: 25 · Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:49 pm

The legs have the jet n front for articulation purposes.

Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:55 pm

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Stupid question; looking back at the old G1 combiners the legs are always shown with the robot chests out, but with Combiner Wars the vehicle parts face out. Is it possible that the old G1 photographers and instruction designers got it wrong? It would kinda make sense since the arms have the vehicle bits out.

I'm pretty sure I combined the G1 Superion with the plane bits on the front of this shins. This looked much cooler to me, and also gave him somewhat functional knees.

So I have zero problems with the CW release working that way.

News Credits: 41 · Tue Mar 31, 2015 7:04 pm

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Stupid question; looking back at the old G1 combiners the legs are always shown with the robot chests out, but with Combiner Wars the vehicle parts face out. Is it possible that the old G1 photographers and instruction designers got it wrong? It would kinda make sense since the arms have the vehicle bits out.

I like it vehicle parts out. Especially on Superion. I like the nose cone knee caps. I like to turn to Takara for these kinds of answers. I just youtubed old Japanese TF commercials and they had them all robo body out. Except for Defensor. There the masters, so...

Ultimatley I think "the right way" is however you like it.

Edit: I feel like I have seen official pics of CW Sup. with robo chests forward.

Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:22 pm

Cobotron wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Stupid question; looking back at the old G1 combiners the legs are always shown with the robot chests out, but with Combiner Wars the vehicle parts face out. Is it possible that the old G1 photographers and instruction designers got it wrong? It would kinda make sense since the arms have the vehicle bits out.
I like it vehicle parts out. Especially on Superion. I like the nose cone knee caps. I like to turn to Takara for these kinds of answers. I just youtubed old Japanese TF commercials and they had them all robo body out. Except for Defensor. There the masters, so...

Ultimatley I think "the right way" is however you like it.

Edit: I feel like I have seen official pics of CW Sup. with robo chests forward.

I have seen one picture of the Takara version with leg bots turned around.

Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:09 pm

Bradimus wrote:Good news everyone... (no, really, this is good news)

I just spoke with Miriam at Hasbro Toy Shop. She said the 3/27 orders just arrived today and will be sent out tomorrow via an upgrade to Fed Ex Air on them. She said this is only for the 3/27 orders.

When I asked why I had not received any notification regarding the delay she said they don't send out emails for delays. They do apparently take good care of their customers when there is one, however. My order is expected to arrive by Friday.

I hope the other orders won't also be delayed.

I was just going to post something about not having recieved shipping notification, and had resigned my self to the fact that since HTS says the remainder of my Stunticons are on back-order, I might not see them til the end of April. I'm Excited about this news and I hope mine will ship out tomorrow (which would stand to reason since they are a 3/27 order), but if not, I've waited this long, what's another month?

Hopefully for my friends who prordered later than I, this means that the 4/27 shipments won't be too far behind.

News Credits: 41 · Wed Apr 01, 2015 10:40 am

I was just going over my finances, and I noticed that HTS has charged me for my order. Mine was 4/27 delivery estimate. I know all you 3/27s got a notification about your order. HTS doesn't usually charge on these pre-orders until they ship.

So does that mean we are all getting our orders? (fingers crossed :PRAY:

)

News Credits: 2 · Wed Apr 01, 2015 10:50 am

I am one of the 3/27 people. I have not been charged, I have not received any communication, and if my order doesn't ship before any of the late orders, I am going to be pissed. One thing of note, when I check my order status, my limbs no longer say backordered, they just say Not Shipped. Hopefully that is an indication of some progress.

Wed Apr 01, 2015 11:10 am

likely everyone is getting them. the figures are listed as in-stock on hts. not preorder but actually instock.

Wed Apr 01, 2015 1:12 pm

I havn't recieved any notifications about my order, but I hope I do soon. As far as I know, I havn't been charged.

News Credits: 3 · Wed Apr 01, 2015 3:23 pm

I'm one of the 3/27'ers. I just checked my order on the website. Air Raid shipped today and is due to arrive tomorrow.

I still haven't received an email, so if you had an early preorder, you might want to sign in and check your order on the HTS site.

News Credits: 3 · Wed Apr 01, 2015 3:24 pm

I have not received a shipping email yet today. I hope the information I was given yesterday is accurate and at least all of us 3/27 orders will receive shipping notification within the next few hours. I assume they are trying to get all the backed up orders out at once, so the emails may come late. I plan to call for an update tomorrow if I don't see anything in my inbox by morning. :PEACE:

News Credits: 3 · Wed Apr 01, 2015 4:03 pm

Have you signed into your account and checked the order status there? Mine shipped without me ever receiving an email.

News Credits: 34 · Wed Apr 01, 2015 6:00 pm

Hello, my Menasor unofficial trasformation (the two Motormaster panels are placed between the Motormaster hands and the two mobile roof parts)...

...and Ultra Prime.

Wed Apr 01, 2015 6:01 pm

My HTS order of wave 2 combiner limbs has now shipped, and Fed-Ex tracking shows expected delivery as tomorrow! Nice!

I approve of this upgraded shipping for delayed orders!

Wed Apr 01, 2015 6:05 pm

Mine was preordered for the april 27 shipment, but logging in shows that it's shipped already! Sounds like good luck all around!

News Credits: 2 · Wed Apr 01, 2015 6:56 pm

SimianProphet wrote:My HTS order of wave 2 combiner limbs has now shipped, and Fed-Ex tracking shows expected delivery as tomorrow! Nice!

I approve of this upgraded shipping for delayed orders!

Same here. Mine is shipping air. Even if it comes Friday, it will still be here when it would have come had it shipped on time last week. Getting G1 Megatron and the limbs all within 24 hours of each other.

News Credits: 3 · Wed Apr 01, 2015 6:58 pm

I just got the shipping email. All is good! :KREMZEEK:

Wed Apr 01, 2015 8:09 pm

Wow, HTS is pretty awesome. They're overnighting the last of the combiner wars limbs I preordered to make up for the delay. Talk about customer service :BOWDOWN:

Wed Apr 01, 2015 8:15 pm

Still nothing on my end, but the status no longer says "backordered", instead saying "not shipped". But y'all kepp talking about your shipping confirmations. I'm not jealous, I swear!

Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:58 pm

Just discovered this week that Hasbro Brazil is somewhat nonsensical:

They release Wave 1 Voyager and Legends together with Wave 2 Deluxe and there will be no Wave 1 for us, even though the ones I got from overseas have clear Brazilian Portuguese writing on them and an INMETRO approval sticker, which is a Brazilian institute for product safety... SO basically they're all ready and good to be released here, but Hasbro just decided to skip them. 8-}

And now with the US Dolar at about 3,5 Brazilian Real, it will be very expensive to get them from e-bay or BBTS.

Well, at least I got Dragstrip.

So far have him, Silverbolt, Powerglide and Bombshell, with the rest of the stunticons set to arrive here soon, this week maybe...

Liking them VERY much.

News Credits: 41 · Wed Apr 01, 2015 10:09 pm

Just got HTS shipping notice for Wave 2 limbs. I had a 4/27 order.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HA! :KREMZEEK:

News Credits: 4 · Wed Apr 01, 2015 10:16 pm

I just got my shipping notice as well and had been told this morning by HTS customer service my order wouldn't ship till 4/27, so that was a pleasant surprise. There is no delivery date yet, but it shows as shipping by Fedex Smartpost.

News Credits: 4877 · Wed Apr 01, 2015 10:17 pm

Nemesis Maximo wrote:Still nothing on my end, but the status no longer says "backordered", instead saying "not shipped". But y'all kepp talking about your shipping confirmations. I'm not jealous, I swear!

HTS doesnt ship to canada so you can bet I am totally not jealous either of all the sweet 20% off deals people got and the fact that everyone is getting them delivered to their houses soon while I still have to wait months for TRU to get them because for some reason walmart decided to start charging 23.00$ for each deluxe.