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Thu Jul 06, 2023 10:41 pm

I ordered Megs and Ratbat from Amazon. Today I got...Pax & Shockwave. Debating whether to keep or return. I haven't opened them, but the photos on the packaging sure do make them tempting. The question is whether I bother trying to order the other set. I wanted the villains, but the lower listed price is kind of what made me pull the trigger. At this point, budget says maybe forget about it.

News Credits: 101 · Fri Jul 07, 2023 4:56 am

ShadowBlaze wrote:I ordered Megs and Ratbat from Amazon. Today I got...Pax & Shockwave. Debating whether to keep or return. I haven't opened them, but the photos on the packaging sure do make them tempting. The question is whether I bother trying to order the other set. I wanted the villains, but the lower listed price is kind of what made me pull the trigger. At this point, budget says maybe forget about it.

In Canada, both sets are the same price.
So just buy the other one and split the price difference between the two. This is the "real" price of the sets.

Also, if you don't get both, there's some high chances that once you change your mind, it will be too late. It happened to me a few too many times.

Fri Jul 07, 2023 12:46 pm

So for clarity, if you order Ratbat & Megs from Amazon you'll get Pax and Shockwave?

News Credits: 101 · Fri Jul 07, 2023 12:51 pm

Till-all-R1 wrote:So for clarity, if you order Ratbat & Megs from Amazon you'll get Pax and Shockwave?

Yup.
And the opposite should also be true.

News Credits: 104 · Fri Jul 07, 2023 2:22 pm

Check your Gamestops

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Fri Jul 07, 2023 10:38 pm

Yeah the wave with Dirge is here in Australia too.

Do you think there is a chance of Thunder Clash being in next year's Legacy line? I would love to see a modern take on him.

News Credits: 65 · Fri Jul 07, 2023 11:56 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Till-all-R1 wrote:So for clarity, if you order Ratbat & Megs from Amazon you'll get Pax and Shockwave?

Yup.
And the opposite should also be true.

I can confirm this! I ordered what was labeled and depicted as Orion Pax and Shockwave from Amazon, but got Megatron and Shockwave instead.

After talking to Amazon's customer service, I got refunded for being sent the wrong item and they suggested ordering the other set to get the one I actually wanted. I told them they probably need to fix the website, and that everyone is going to have this problem if they ordered only one of the two sets.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Jul 08, 2023 1:15 am

Wolfman Jake wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:
Till-all-R1 wrote:So for clarity, if you order Ratbat & Megs from Amazon you'll get Pax and Shockwave?

Yup.
And the opposite should also be true.

I can confirm this! I ordered what was labeled and depicted as Orion Pax and Shockwave from Amazon, but got Megatron and Shockwave instead.

After talking to Amazon's customer service, I got refunded for being sent the wrong item and they suggested ordering the other set to get the one I actually wanted. I told them they probably need to fix the website, and that everyone is going to have this problem if they ordered only one of the two sets.

Do have to send it back? Or did they give you the refund and tell you that you don’t have to send it back?

News Credits: 101 · Sat Jul 08, 2023 5:22 am

TK415 wrote:Do have to send it back? Or did they give you the refund and tell you that you don’t have to send it back?

You can bet your left and right nut that the thing must be sent back for the refund.

So if you want both sets, be like me and wait for the second order from amazon to come. If you get the same set again, then file for a refund/return.

Sat Jul 08, 2023 8:51 am

-Kanrabat- wrote:
ShadowBlaze wrote:I ordered Megs and Ratbat from Amazon. Today I got...Pax & Shockwave. Debating whether to keep or return. I haven't opened them, but the photos on the packaging sure do make them tempting. The question is whether I bother trying to order the other set. I wanted the villains, but the lower listed price is kind of what made me pull the trigger. At this point, budget says maybe forget about it.

In Canada, both sets are the same price.
So just buy the other one and split the price difference between the two. This is the "real" price of the sets.

Also, if you don't get both, there's some high chances that once you change your mind, it will be too late. It happened to me a few too many times.

I decided to return Pax and Shocky. Not gonna bother with Megs and Ratbat. Too many expenses in June, and San Diego Comic-Con is less than two weeks away. I like these sets, but I don't need them.

News Credits: 20 · Sat Jul 08, 2023 1:16 pm

Cyber Bishop wrote:Check your Gamestops

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I found Dirge and Nemesis Lio at Gamestop last week, apparently they were street-dated for yesterday but they let me buy Dirge anyway. :lol:

News Credits: 104 · Sat Jul 08, 2023 1:27 pm

Tuned Agent wrote:
Cyber Bishop wrote:Check your Gamestops

transformers-toy-haul-thread-t13s24400.php#p2164634

I found Dirge and Nemesis Lio at Gamestop last week, apparently they were street-dated for yesterday but they let me buy Dirge anyway.

Lucky you I found them two weeks ago but they wouldn't sell them due to the street date. Hopefully whoever sold them to you loses their job because gamestop takes breaking street dates seriously.

News Credits: 4877 · Sat Jul 08, 2023 2:45 pm

Cyber Bishop wrote:
Tuned Agent wrote:
Cyber Bishop wrote:Check your Gamestops

transformers-toy-haul-thread-t13s24400.php#p2164634

I found Dirge and Nemesis Lio at Gamestop last week, apparently they were street-dated for yesterday but they let me buy Dirge anyway.

Lucky you I found them two weeks ago but they wouldn't sell them due to the street date. Hopefully whoever sold them to you loses their job because gamestop takes breaking street dates seriously.

There have been reports of them selling to others since a couple weeks when they were found

News Credits: 241 · Sat Jul 08, 2023 3:07 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Cyber Bishop wrote:
Tuned Agent wrote:
Cyber Bishop wrote:Check your Gamestops

transformers-toy-haul-thread-t13s24400.php#p2164634

I found Dirge and Nemesis Lio at Gamestop last week, apparently they were street-dated for yesterday but they let me buy Dirge anyway.

Lucky you I found them two weeks ago but they wouldn't sell them due to the street date. Hopefully whoever sold them to you loses their job because gamestop takes breaking street dates seriously.

There have been reports of them selling to others since a couple weeks when they were found

Heads are gonna roll... Taking a stance against breaking street dates for not just games, but everything for the sake of fairness...

News Credits: 388 · Sun Jul 09, 2023 1:53 pm

Hello one and all! When the Dirge and Ramjet two pack came and went on Amazon a few years ago, many were frustrated that not only were they exclusive figures of well-known characters, but they were in limited quantities, and the aftermarket prices skyrocketed. Well, last year, we learned that Hasbro was planning on re-releasing Dirge in the mainline Legacy Evolution. The figure only had one change from the original, with yellow plastic for the wings, rather than the painted wings of the Amazon release.

In any case, the wait for that figure is over, as both Tuned Agent and Cyber Bishop have reported finding not only Dirge, but his wavemate Nemesis Leo Prime at U.S. retail! Both were found at U.S. GameStop stores (where new Transformer figures have been showing up with increasing regularity lately). Photo proof from Tuned Agent is included below.

Are any of you looking forward to these figures? You may want to check your local Game Stop if you're in the U.S. Let us know what you think below!

News Credits: 2 · Sun Jul 09, 2023 2:39 pm

Man so many GameStop's I hit in my area had nothing in the way of TFs. :VEHI:

News Credits: 1 · Sun Jul 09, 2023 2:55 pm

My only one is only open like 2 days a week for like 3 hours. But when I managed to make it, no transformers at all.

News Credits: 241 · Sun Jul 09, 2023 3:01 pm

*counts* 3 in my immediate area, including 1 just down the street, and mostly misses with what I'm looking for. O well... >:oP

Sun Jul 09, 2023 3:14 pm

Nemesis Destron wrote:Man so many GameStop's I hit in my area had nothing in the way of TFs.

I used to work at a Gamestop from 2019-2021. We never carried any Transformers. To this day, when I go into my local Gamestops, I never see any. So maybe it's just a region thing?

News Credits: 241 · Sun Jul 09, 2023 3:18 pm

LordBludgeon wrote:
Nemesis Destron wrote:Man so many GameStop's I hit in my area had nothing in the way of TFs.

I used to work at a Gamestop from 2019-2021. We never carried any Transformers. To this day, when I go into my local Gamestops, I never see any. So maybe it's just a region thing?

More like up to the discretion of whoever runs any given store.

News Credits: 104 · Sun Jul 09, 2023 4:30 pm

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:Heads are gonna roll... Taking a stance against breaking street dates for not just games, but everything for the sake of fairness...

Just found out this morning one of the local GS stores had ROTB SS Arcee (her street date was 7/7 as well per GS) and someone sold her early last week. The employee that sold it was fired last night for breaking the street date and the store was hit with some kind of fine from GS corporate.

News Credits: 388 · Sun Jul 09, 2023 4:35 pm

Cyber Bishop wrote:
Jelze Bunnycat wrote:Heads are gonna roll... Taking a stance against breaking street dates for not just games, but everything for the sake of fairness...

Just found out this morning one of the local GS stores had ROTB SS Arcee (her street date was 7/7 as well per GS) and someone sold her early last week. The employee that sold it was fired last night for breaking the street date and the store was hit with some kind of fine from GS corporate.

The same SS ROTB core Arcee that's been out for several months now?

News Credits: 56 · Sun Jul 09, 2023 5:13 pm

GameStops in my area dont carry Transformers at all anymore. The one and only thing I ever got was Selects Artfire. It was brand new, cheaper than on Pulse.com, and right there in store before Pulse shipped theirs, so I got it.

Still, The one thing Target stores have been consistent about in my area are Voyagers (no other size classes mind you...), so I expect Dirge & Dark Leo to show up soon,even though neither is on my want list. I already got my wave 3 Legacy Core Dino's and Axelgrease from Amazon.

The Nemesis should arrive right around my anniversary (July 20th), then its just waiting for wave 4 pre-orders to go live.

News Credits: 1646 · Sun Jul 09, 2023 5:19 pm

I got my Axlegrease today, and she is pretty neat. I really like her colors, and the muscle car mode looks good, though I wish she had a spoiler.

She also looks good with RotB Smash Changer Scourge, and the Junk Squad is shaping up nicely

News Credits: 656 · Mon Jul 10, 2023 9:40 am

Most of the Generations re-packs going all the way back to Siege and Earthrise Astrotrain have been identical to their previous releases, but the recent wide release of Legacy Evolution's Voyager Class Dirge figure doesn't entirely continue this trend. While the overall deco is unchanged, there are two small differences for collectors to be aware of.

The most notable difference is found with the wings, though it may be noted that a quick internet search shows there was some awareness of this change already. The Earthrise release, seen below on the left, features painted plastic wings whereas the Legacy Evolution release, on the right, is molded as tan plastic. This creates a matte versus gloss finish difference that immediately jumps out when putting the two toys side-by-side.

The "knee" paint is also noticeably different in the newer release. Earthrise Dirge features very purple knees (or perhaps kneepads if you prefer), as seen on the left once again in the image below. Meanwhile, the Legacy Evolution version sports a much redder shade of paint, landing somewhere between purple and lilac.

And those two small changes are really it, at least as far as this Transformers toy collector can tell. For most collectors these are not practical differences and add no reason to keep two extremely similar Dirge toys on the shelf, but it's always fun to see some variation when the same toy gets released years after its first outing.