I'm not thrilled with having to pay up a little for TR Windblade, but since every source I found her available sold her at the same price I decided to go ahead and splurge. It helped that I was able to work some magic with
Amazon.com AND I was able to order PotP Grimlock and Slug at regular price (not the presumed markup originally announced for the next line).
I'll make comments about the dinobots in the appropriate thread and let you know what I think about Windblade here when I get her next week. I have to admit I am looking forward to how she will look with the Reprolable stickers as much as I hate applying stickers (I managed to do a good job with TR Megatron and boy to do those stickers make a difference though the wing stickers cover up beautiful mold detail and I don't find them necessary). I wish I could have also ordered Swoop but at that time his price skyrocketed due to low supply. I expect the price to normalize once he is restocked.
I'm still hoping HTS will restock before my order ships so I can tweak that in conjunction with my HTS coupon and their free shipping minimum.
For now it looks like Windblade will be my last TR figure as Twin Twist is too expensive. If he cost the same as Windblade I probably would have eaten the markup with him as well on the same order. I am debating completing TR with Grotusque from TRU or possible Arcee since I have Hot Rod and Chromedome and wouldn't mind evening out my
's with two females to two males. I also want one more
to even out my deluxe/voyager total numbers with my
's (Galvatron, Megatron, Scourge and Triggerhappy). Unfortunately I only have one
Titan Master (Fangry) vs. 3
's (Sawback, Shuffler and Ramhorn). I had terrible luck with the two
Titan Masters I picked up and had to return them.
From here on out I'll just continue to be patient and hope for the right sale on the right figure to sort of even things out, though having two voyager
's and no
's that large does make things interesting. Still, I am sort of regretting not grabbing Arcee when she was on sale, but I'm more attached to Grotusque as I had his G1 toy and I really like Thrilling 30 Arcee. However I do like TR Arcee's pistols.
I thought my legends class figures would only skew
(Bumblebee and Brawn) but with Kickback released and in my collection and the other Insecticons getting re-released as part of PotP they may even out when I get Slash or outnumber my
's if I am still able to get Chop Shop on HTS when they are restocked with the other figures I want.
Time and money will tell as it always does when collecting on a budget.