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News Credits: 2 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 7:36 am

The G2 Bruticus and Superion both ended up at Marshalls and whatever the other named Mashalls store is called last year between Halloween and Christmas and then they were only $40.
I would like to find a good deal on a Computron though. I got the Takara version, but I'd like to Hasbro one s well.

News Credits: 30 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:52 am

Rodimus Knight wrote:The G2 Bruticus and Superion both ended up at Marshalls and whatever the other named Mashalls store is called last year between Halloween and Christmas and then they were only $40.
I would like to find a good deal on a Computron though. I got the Takara version, but I'd like to Hasbro one s well.

He was on clearance at one point too....

News Credits: 56 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 9:08 am

Any Box Set sighting at a retail store in the United States is significant, because they are generally only available online. All you fans in the rest of the world don't realize how good you have it...feel fortunate.

Still I feel this may have been a fluke. Probably someone returned the set, perhaps once purchased at Target.com

I actually had G2 Superion & Menasor at one time, but when it became apparent that no G2 Defensor was in the works I sold them both, thankfully before HTS 66% sale so I got full price back for each... However there are still plenty of them at BBTS. They are currently $70. If they ever dip below $50 each I may reacquire them, along with Fruiticus just for CW Completion sake.

News Credits: 19 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 10:16 am

o.supreme wrote:Any Box Set sighting at a retail store in the United States is significant, because they are generally only available online. All you fans in the rest of the world don't realize how good you have it...feel fortunate.

So many of the toys I actually want don't get released here at all and these things do.

News Credits: 56 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 10:37 am

Carnivius_Prime wrote:
o.supreme wrote:Any Box Set sighting at a retail store in the United States is significant, because they are generally only available online. All you fans in the rest of the world don't realize how good you have it...feel fortunate.

So many of the toys I actually want don't get released here at all and these things do.

I feel the same way. So many figures I don't want/need, probably some of the ones you are wanting too, but I cant easily access the ones I want. Too bad we as fans have to act as redistributors/ambassadors of the product.

Is it too much just to ask for TR Ramhorn at Target Walmart or TRU?

News Credits: 12 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:05 am

I really wish Motormaster wasn't such an awful torso, because otherwise I'd get the G2 Stunticons. As is I'm waiting for an enterprising 3rd party company to make a non-terrible MM (yes I know of the Bold Forms one, that thing sucked though). A shame as MM makes for a cool truck and an imposing robot but that torso mode suuuuuuuuuuuuucks.

News Credits: 293 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:06 am

These sets never came to US regular brick and mortar? Huh. In Canada we got them in store at TRU's, but Walmart was online only.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:12 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Hopefully the high price will deter would-be scalpers.

All the G2 sets are shelf-warming even on ebay at 70$. There's never been scalping on those.

On the contrary, they may rise their price if they sell at 99$ (which is far from being the case currently. Biggest shelf-warmer ever).

News Credits: 56 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:18 am

shajaki wrote:These sets never came to US regular brick and mortar? Huh. In Canada we got them in store at TRU's, but Walmart was online only.

Well I hear tales that supposedly CW Dev was available at TRU in the U.S...., but I personally never saw one. Other than that, no. Why do you think WJ takes so much sadistic pleasure in taunting me with his photos

. Anyway...It's not so much as they are impossible to get (online shopping is not fun, but it is, what it is)...so much as reliving that feeling I had as a kid, when you could walk into any toy store and see practically any transformer toy available at that time.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:19 am

Black Hat wrote:I really wish Motormaster wasn't such an awful torso, because otherwise I'd get the G2 Stunticons. As is I'm waiting for an enterprising 3rd party company to make a non-terrible MM (yes I know of the Bold Forms one, that thing sucked though). A shame as MM makes for a cool truck and an imposing robot but that torso mode suuuuuuuuuuuuucks.

It doesn't solve every issue with that torso, but turning its legs backwards (instead of the sideways position that they're officially supposed to be in) can make it just a little less awful (and slightly taller a bit).

News Credits: 12 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:26 am

Sabrblade wrote:
Black Hat wrote:I really wish Motormaster wasn't such an awful torso, because otherwise I'd get the G2 Stunticons. As is I'm waiting for an enterprising 3rd party company to make a non-terrible MM (yes I know of the Bold Forms one, that thing sucked though). A shame as MM makes for a cool truck and an imposing robot but that torso mode suuuuuuuuuuuuucks.
It doesn't solve every issue with that torso, but turning its legs backwards (instead of the sideways position that they're officially supposed to be in) can make it just a little less awful (and slightly taller a bit).

I am aware of that fix, I may try it if I ever handle the mold.

Speaking of G2 Menasor I'm pretty sure he has the worst stock photo ever taken.

"Drat! Those Autobuffoons have vexed me with their Hasbrophotographizer ray! Now I am but a caricature of my normal glorious self!"

News Credits: 462 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:37 am

Black Hat wrote:Speaking of G2 Menasor I'm pretty sure he has the worst stock photo ever taken.

"Drat! Those Autobuffoons have vexed me with their Hasbrophotographizer ray! Now I am but a caricature of my normal glorious self!"

One does not know the extent of malformed official TF stock photography until one has beheld the wonderment of...

BuiLD-ThINg

Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:42 am

Rodimus Knight wrote:The G2 Bruticus and Superion both ended up at Marshalls and whatever the other named Mashalls store is called last year between Halloween and Christmas and then they were only $40.
I would like to find a good deal on a Computron though. I got the Takara version, but I'd like to Hasbro one s well.

I would keep an eye on walmart.com. twice they had 20% off on these sets, I got my computron for $80 (I think maybe in the spring?).... admittedly not an amazing deal, but better than nothing. would not be surprised if they get some markdowns for the holidays.

News Credits: 12 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:42 am

Sabrblade wrote:
Black Hat wrote:Speaking of G2 Menasor I'm pretty sure he has the worst stock photo ever taken.

"Drat! Those Autobuffoons have vexed me with their Hasbrophotographizer ray! Now I am but a caricature of my normal glorious self!"
One does know the extent of malformed official TF stock photography until one has beheld the wonderment of...

BuiLD-ThINg

Image link is broken at my end but I remember him well. Oh, BuiLD-ThINg, you poor monster.

If I ever get to write Transformers comics, I'll include BuiLD-ThINg. I'm thinking he was originally Build King who ran into the eldritch abomination that is Mach Kick, whose "Unhorse" mode has the power to warp the very Transformation Cog of his victim, mangling and contorting them into a mistransformed mess.

News Credits: 56 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:43 am

Ah...that joke comes around again. Might as well add my part. I still maintain Menasor was just cosplaying as his favorite D&D villain.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:46 am

Black Hat wrote:Image link is broken at my end

How 'bout now?

News Credits: 12 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:47 am

Nope, still broken. Might be my internet provider though, Vodafone is absolutely useless like that.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 12:00 pm

Sabrblade wrote:One does not know the extent of malformed official TF stock photography until one has beheld the wonderment of...

I remember a database of mistransformed TFS but lost the link. Do somebody know where it was ?

News Credits: 12 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 12:37 pm

Black Hat wrote:Nope, still broken. Might be my internet provider though, Vodafone is absolutely useless like that.

OK, there we go! That's better. Or worse, depending on your thoughts on Build-Thing.

Tue Oct 10, 2017 1:09 pm

o.supreme wrote:Any Box Set sighting at a retail store in the United States is significant, because they are generally only available online. All you fans in the rest of the world don't realize how good you have it...feel fortunate.

Yes, all you other countries please be sure to enjoy this AMERICAN toy line that America can't even get in stores. Because this world makes so much sense. :BOOM:

News Credits: 13 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 1:14 pm

Aimless Misfire wrote:
o.supreme wrote:Any Box Set sighting at a retail store in the United States is significant, because they are generally only available online. All you fans in the rest of the world don't realize how good you have it...feel fortunate.

Yes, all you other countries please be sure to enjoy this AMERICAN toy line that America can't even get in stores. Because this world makes so much sense.

Since when has Hasbro's Transformers toylines ever only been American? It's just been mostly a non-Japan toyline, since Takara has that taken care of.

News Credits: 56 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 1:50 pm

mordhelm wrote:
Aimless Misfire wrote:
o.supreme wrote:Any Box Set sighting at a retail store in the United States is significant, because they are generally only available online. All you fans in the rest of the world don't realize how good you have it...feel fortunate.

Yes, all you other countries please be sure to enjoy this AMERICAN toy line that America can't even get in stores. Because this world makes so much sense.

Since when has Hasbro's Transformers toylines ever only been American? It's just been mostly a non-Japan toyline, since Takara has that taken care of.

It was a failed attempt at sarcasm. I can play that game too though. Its nice to know the design team for Hasbro's world HQ, based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, U.S., is designing toys for fans the rest of the world, not the U.S. can enjoy. :roll:

News Credits: 3 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 7:21 pm

I saw and bought FOC Soundblaster two days ago, not sure if finding him is newsworthy though. I'm guessing Target wants to empty out their inventory because they're preparing for some major incoming shipments. For further proof of that, I saw some two-year old Pokemon tin boxes too with stickers that read "Do not back stock" on the back.

News Credits: 101 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:45 pm

Etseterrestrial wrote:I saw and bought FOC Soundblaster two days ago, not sure if finding him is newsworthy though. I'm guessing Target wants to empty out their inventory because they're preparing for some major incoming shipments. For further proof of that, I saw some two-year old Pokemon tin boxes too with stickers that read "Do not back stock" on the back.

You seem lost, dude. Share your haul and post a picture DATTAWAY---->

News Credits: 4 · Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:32 pm

Although Transformers are made in Vietnam these days, some just won't get sold in South East Asia* e.g. CW Legends Blackjack (which only appeared a few waves later but as an imported version), CW Legends Huffer, and CW Platinum Edition Liokaiser.

*Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia... though Philippines I've seen gets more things, while Singapore tends to get things earlier than Malaysia. I have no idea if Vietnam itself is well stocked, while Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar are mysteries - I've not heard of any sightings there.

East Asia gets better coverage, or at least I'd assume, given the sightings in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. Apparently, Japan has Takara Tomy but Hasbro is rare.

In Malaysia where I live we got loads of Titans Return Brainstorm. What is up with Hasbro everywhere in general? It's as if the factory can only make one batch and then ship that one batch to one country only.