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Sabrblade wrote:

Rated X wrote:At the very bottom of my want list but good to know.

Alas, we don't have Kroger grocery stores down here in Florida.

Yeah I never even heard of Kroger but its a sign that they are out in the wild and trickling down our way slowly. I bit on the voyagers online, but I'm going to hold out for the deluxes and these little guys in retail.

Va'al wrote:Thanks to a tip from newest Seibertron signed-up member PatriotPrime, we have a sighting for the second wave of Transformers Power of the Primes Prime Master figures - including Alpha Trion and Alchemist Prime with their Decoy Suits - in a Kroger over in Ronceverte, West Virginia!

The figures were mixed in with the Easter things in the store, and scan at a price of $6.99 USD each, with plenty to be found according to the images sent to us. If you come across this or any other Transformers toy sightings, make sure to let fellow collectors know via the Sightings Database and the Sightins section of the Energon Pub discussion boards!

I found Wave 2 Prime Masters at a Kroger grocery store in Ronceverte, WV today.
They were mixed in with the Easter Stuff at $6.99 ea.

I tried to report a sighting for these guys like a month ago, but i could not do to the fact that City Market is not a chain opion for sighting. I even reported this in the problem reporting thread, but no reply. And to make sure i sayed something i made a post about it in PotP thread. Hold on just a sec.

Hotconvoy wrote:Just found wave 2 Prime Masters at City Market

Here it is PotP tread page 254 half way down, and nere the bottom a post shows them with Dreadwind and TR Alpha Trion

I saw the wave 2 leaders at 2 different TRUs, so with all these wave 2 sightings does this mean those of us who have yet to see wave 1 will not? Rodimus is the only figure i planned on getting and its starting to look like ill never find him

Megatron Wolf wrote:I saw the wave 2 leaders at 2 different TRUs, so with all these wave 2 sightings does this mean those of us who have yet to see wave 1 will not? Rodimus is the only figure i planned on getting and its starting to look like ill never find him

He's also packed in wave 3 with OO.

kurthy wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:I saw the wave 2 leaders at 2 different TRUs, so with all these wave 2 sightings does this mean those of us who have yet to see wave 1 will not? Rodimus is the only figure i planned on getting and its starting to look like ill never find him

He's also packed in wave 3 with OO.

Thank goodness. Rodimus was the only one I'm planning on picking up. Hopefully they'll do something about the two-toned red plastics.

I hear Kruger was a good place to get silly cheap Star Wars Clearance stuff.

I still actually have not seen a single Power of the Primes toy in the wild yet.

Heck I'm still chasing RID items though likely should have been out in September. I'm just forgetting about it and concentrating on Star Trek Spaceships and buying leftovers that I'd previously forgot to get.

Hotconvoy wrote:

Hotconvoy wrote:Just found wave 2 Prime Masters at City Market

Here it is PotP tread page 254 half way down, and nere the bottom a post shows them with Dreadwind and TR Alpha Trion

It stinks when we miss stuff, sorry about that!

I've added City Market and Kroger to our Store Chain listings.

• City Market: https://www.seibertron.com/sightings/st ... ain_id=361
• Kroger: https://www.seibertron.com/sightings/st ... ain_id=360

Click the "I would like to add a ____ store location" link to add stores and I'll keep a watch out for the notification to approve it. We may try to scrape all the data from somewhere and dump in all the locales at once, but no promises on that yet

ScottyP wrote:

Hotconvoy wrote:

Hotconvoy wrote:Just found wave 2 Prime Masters at City Market

Here it is PotP tread page 254 half way down, and nere the bottom a post shows them with Dreadwind and TR Alpha Trion

It stinks when we miss stuff, sorry about that!

I've added City Market and Kroger to our Store Chain listings.

• City Market: https://www.seibertron.com/sightings/st ... ain_id=361
• Kroger: https://www.seibertron.com/sightings/st ... ain_id=360

Click the "I would like to add a ____ store location" link to add stores and I'll keep a watch out for the notification to approve it. We may try to scrape all the data from somewhere and dump in all the locales at once, but no promises on that yet

Thanks. Didn't see that option

It looks like Wave 2 Power of the Primes Legends figures are starting to trickle into the Twin Cities and surrounding areas in Minnesota. I found two Tailgates (with bad paint jobs) at the Target in North St. Paul along McKnight Road. A friend of mine here found Tailgate, Battleslash, and Roadtrap at a Target in Shakopee. I really wanted to pick up Tailgate when I found him, but the one had a large splotch of paint slop on his face and the other had a bunch of scratches on his chest tampograph details. I'm gonna wait until I find some better samples on the shelves.

I just hit Baker's, our subsiderary of Kroger, and found the two wave 2 Prime Masters. Thanks for the tip y'all!



Despite the 4.99 tag, they rang up for $6.99. Oh well!

I'm gutted kapow toys have sold out of the battle trap set they were offering (£24 for battleslash and roadtrap together) I was planning on getting that tomorrow. Might bite on getting all the wave one primemasters...but I might get swoop...decisions decisions

skylynkfloyd wrote:I didn't know these hadn't been seen yet, I found them on clearance at a Dillon's
Oops

Caelus wrote:Holy crud guys, I didn't know this was news! I found a bunch of them at my Kroger last week for $2.25.

I actually bought three of each and sold them already. It's the only time I've ever engaged in scalping and I feel kind of bad about it. I guess I really didn't make too much profit off of them. $2.25 retail + $3.50 postage + $0.75 for the envelope + the ebay and paypal fees... and because I felt bad about scalping I priced them $1-2 under what everyone else on ebay was selling them for...

These had been seen at Meijer and we reported as much here as part of another sighting https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ail/40652/

The news here was that they were appearing at grocery chains since its pretty cool to find the latest toys there of all places.

And dont feel bad about the "scalping", at the price you sold, its more like you gave a chance to someone who was afraid of not finding these to own them right away. People bought it instantly, proof that the price was fair, and they would have bought them if they saw them at retail, you just provided that sighting to them directly.

The scalping that sucks is when you are looking for a toy desperately and all you see are a bunch of online listings at double the price that are not selling.

Basically, THIS is Scalping: https://www.kijiji.ca/v-toys-games/vill ... nFlag=true

Rainmaker wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Rainmaker wrote:Doesn't look very much like Wreck-Gar to me except for the new head. But what's better, this one or the Generations one that breaks?

I cut the nubs on the generations one so it wont break. Its a great design and a cool original mold, better than this (once you fix it)

Does cutting the nubs change how it looks? What part are even the nubs?

It changes nothing. The nubs are the small extra pieces of plastic that protrude at he back of the handlebars. Its these little nubs that fit into the steering unit in motorcycle mode. So shaving them off changes nothing since they are always hidden anyways.

ThunderThruster wrote:

Z3ROhour wrote:we still need 2 more fembots for Elita, 2 jets, and some Limb-bots for Inferno.
maybe some more randos,
some leaders
&
no MEGATRON!?
WTF!?

Nothing saying we won't get these figures, they just won't be a part of PotP.

good point

ZeroWolf wrote:I'm gutted kapow toys have sold out of the battle trap set they were offering (£24 for battleslash and roadtrap together) I was planning on getting that tomorrow. Might bite on getting all the wave one primemasters...but I might get swoop...decisions decisions

TFS-Express has them both for £12.99 each, so only slightly more.

Omegatron. wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:I'm gutted kapow toys have sold out of the battle trap set they were offering (£24 for battleslash and roadtrap together) I was planning on getting that tomorrow. Might bite on getting all the wave one primemasters...but I might get swoop...decisions decisions

TFS-Express has them both for £12.99 each, so only slightly more.

Thanks for the tip

wanted to take this discussion form the deals thread to here..but...now that we've had a couple confirmed sightings/purchases of PotP Voyager Elita-1 with pink PM armor/feet, I wonder if this constitutes a running change and makes the ones that are painted over black (which I have) a rare variant

additionally, I wonder if someone tried to rub off the paint on Voyager Starscreams PM Armor/Feet what color they would be underneath .

I saw some Elita-1 in atleast two different stores today. If I get a chance to get by, I will document what I can regarding production date and color of the combiner feet.

I've seen Elita in stores 3 or 4 times. She always has black feet.

o.supreme wrote:wanted to take this discussion form the deals thread to here..but...now that we've had a couple confirmed sightings/purchases of PotP Voyager Elita-1 with pink PM armor/feet, I wonder if this constitutes a running change and makes the ones that are black (which I have) a rare variant

Sorry, all Elita-1 Foot Armors are unpainted black so far. I checked some reviews and images, even the box shows them black. They're only peach in stock photos.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

o.supreme wrote:wanted to take this discussion form the deals thread to here..but...now that we've had a couple confirmed sightings/purchases of PotP Voyager Elita-1 with pink PM armor/feet, I wonder if this constitutes a running change and makes the ones that are black (which I have) a rare variant

Sorry, all Elita-1 Foot Armors are unpainted black so far. I checked some reviews and images, even the box shows them black. They're only peach in stock photos on HTS.

Actually, they're painted black. They're peach if you remove the paint.

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

o.supreme wrote:wanted to take this discussion form the deals thread to here..but...now that we've had a couple confirmed sightings/purchases of PotP Voyager Elita-1 with pink PM armor/feet, I wonder if this constitutes a running change and makes the ones that are black (which I have) a rare variant

Sorry, all Elita-1 Foot Armors are unpainted black so far. I checked some reviews and images, even the box shows them black. They're only peach in stock photos on HTS.

Actually, they're painted black. They're peach if you remove the paint.

Peach painted black? What madness is this?

Death confirmed he purchased one with peach feet (his words not mine... ). Also there's a video on YouTube that states you can remove the black paint with 90% alcohol to reveal the pink feet underneath if you so desire.

Images would be appreciated

Plus, I just now read that some Elita-1 figures have swapped feet. How can one tell?

How to get pink feet from the black ones.... its mentioned briefly starting around 5:50 so you don't have to watch the whole video

as for in-box pics, we may have to wait for Death's Video review, unless someone else gets one and posts it.