TF-fan kev777 wrote:So I went Hasbro Pulse for all my Seacons. Turtler and Gulf both arrived with the extra sleeve, but Kraken just arrived today without the sleeve. Lobclaw arrives tomorrow, so I'll see if he is also sleeveless. Kind of weird.
That is weird, my Kraken has the sleeve. In fact the sleeve made me realize just how random Hasbro's numbering system is for these. I wasn't really paying attention and thought they were shipping in order, but then I saw the big 02 on the box and thought they sent the wrong figure. When I saw it really was Kraken in the box I thought they put the wrong box on him, but no, I checked Gulf and he was 04. So really Hasbro just screwed up the number order since they're in the same release order as Takara Tomy.
TT-GS01 Star Convoy (release 1)
TT-GS02 Kraken (release 3)
TT-GS03 Turtler (release 2)
TT-GS04 Gulf (release 2)
TT-GS06 Lobclaw (release 3)
TT-GS07 Overbite (release 4)
TT-GS08 Tentakill (release 4)
TT-GS09 Super Megatron (release 5)
Now, did you notice there's no 05? That's been known for a while and there was a theory that the Super Megatron was meant to be 05 because he was teased at the same time as Turtler and Hasbro had already reserved that number. But now I can see that wasn't the case at all because I happened to catch this on the order receipt that came with Kraken.
Yep, Kraken was supposed to be 05 and it makes ALL the sense in the world. So how the heck did he end up out of order as 02? And was Super Megatron supposed to be 02 because that makes sense as well instead of thinking he'd be plopped in between Seacon releases? And if not Super Megatron then who did they think was going to be 02 originally? If they already printed the boxes and didn't want to waste them (character names aren't on the boxes, just their ID numbers) then it's a Deluxe box so it's a bit of a mystery.
Emerje