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william-james88 wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:I knew id never see wave 2, hasbro better make this right and either postpone wave 3 and ship out more wave 2 or re-release wave 2 at a later date. Getting so sick of missing waves, This is also more proof that they need to slow down on the wave releases.

Hasbro has no more wave 2 to ship out and all their resources are focused on later waves. They can't do anything. What has to happen is the retail stores that bought all their stock have to start distributing it across their chain stores and put them on the shelves.

That's cute, where do you think we are? Canada

william-james88 wrote:stores will have to start distribute it across their stores and put them on the shelves.

#willneverhappen

To be honest, if Wave 2 sold this well I think stores would be more willing to put more of it out, right?

william-james88 wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:I knew id never see wave 2, hasbro better make this right and either postpone wave 3 and ship out more wave 2 or re-release wave 2 at a later date. Getting so sick of missing waves, This is also more proof that they need to slow down on the wave releases.

Hasbro has no more wave 2 to ship out and all their resources are focused on later waves. They can't do anything. What has to happen is the retail stores that bought all their stock have to start distributing it across their chain stores and put them on the shelves.

Have the wave 2 deluxes hit store shelves in the US at all besides Walgreens? TRU/Walmart/Target?

Kurona wrote:To be honest, if Wave 2 sold this well I think stores would be more willing to put more of it out, right?

Unless they want to sell all their wave 1 stuff first.

And Hellscream, I hope for all of us that you are wrong

I tell you, we had better get Wave 2. After the sh*tshow that was CW's UK distribution I am NOT going to be happy if they foul it up for TR.

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How do they get themselves in these pickles I never saw more than 2 waves of Force Awakens toys - I've only seen one new Marvel 3.75" wave this year.
Stores that regularly had a variety of products across 3 counties now have maybe 1 or two types of Transformer and the girls toys are cramming the shelves. Even my local Home Bargains is 85% Girls toys and the nearest B&M has 4.5 Isles of girls toys and similar products aimed at girls and 1 isle of boys specific stuff. the only significant brands being a few Turtles, some hotwheels and some Batman stuff - nothing Hasbro except some Jurassic World board game or something.

Speaking of which the Distribution of the Jurassic World Dinosaurs wasn't great either.

Not only have I not seen a single Titans Returns toy - I've only JUST seen Onslaught & Scattershot & Wreck Gar. - still no sign of Hound, Smokescreen, Trailbreaker, Sky Lynx & Wheeljack.

nycPrime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:I knew id never see wave 2, hasbro better make this right and either postpone wave 3 and ship out more wave 2 or re-release wave 2 at a later date. Getting so sick of missing waves, This is also more proof that they need to slow down on the wave releases.

Hasbro has no more wave 2 to ship out and all their resources are focused on later waves. They can't do anything. What has to happen is the retail stores that bought all their stock have to start distributing it across their chain stores and put them on the shelves.

Have the wave 2 deluxes hit store shelves in the US at all besides Walgreens? TRU/Walmart/Target?

I found them at Walmart, they had the wave 2x over. But they had nothing else unfortunately.

In general this news is getting me rather worried. There's still 4-5 guys from the first two waves on my list and it might be difficult to get them all.

ThunderThruster wrote:

Black Hat wrote:I tell you, we had better get Wave 2. After the sh*tshow that was CW's UK distribution I am NOT going to be happy if they foul it up for TR.

Check any ASDA's (where I found Wave 2 deluxes 3 weeks ago!) or Entertainers in your area. Smyths ought to have them by now too.

The ASDA's near me unfortunately again sell mainly Hotwheels some unbranded tat that they looked like they shipped in by the container load, and lots of tiny toys at inflated prices - They don't really sell Transformer other than Rid Warrior & One step - sometime they get the odd 3-step changer - they have clearanced the Combiner Wars Legends off the shelves and The never sold any Generations Deluxes ever - the last "Mainline" Deluxe they had was in 2008 for the Animated line
They never even had any HFTD, or Reveal the Shield, Transformers Prime / Beast Hunters Deluxes either, They have never sold Combiner Wars or Generations Deluxes, and obviously the last Movie Generations sub-line was mostly exclusive to TRU in the UK.

I also unfortunately live 50 miles away from the nearest TRU or Entertainer and 45 Miles away from the nearest Smyths.

Toymaster has no Titans Returns yet either - but they are at least in the catalogue.

SureShot18 wrote:

nycPrime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:I knew id never see wave 2, hasbro better make this right and either postpone wave 3 and ship out more wave 2 or re-release wave 2 at a later date. Getting so sick of missing waves, This is also more proof that they need to slow down on the wave releases.

Hasbro has no more wave 2 to ship out and all their resources are focused on later waves. They can't do anything. What has to happen is the retail stores that bought all their stock have to start distributing it across their chain stores and put them on the shelves.

Have the wave 2 deluxes hit store shelves in the US at all besides Walgreens? TRU/Walmart/Target?

I found them at Walmart, they had the wave 2x over. But they had nothing else unfortunately.

In general this news is getting me rather worried. There's still 4-5 guys from the first two waves on my list and it might be difficult to get them all.

Even if we didnt have this info from hasbro, I would strongly recomend you do not hesitate if you find these. Wave 1 and 2 of Combiner Wars got extremely scarce once wave 3 rolled in and of all the retail releases of the line it is the deluxes from those 2 waves that are the priciest on the secondary market. Especially if what you are looking for is Wave 1 or a Titan master (since the titan masters had a very early release in the US), I would suggest you buy it now before you cant find it anymore. Wave 2 should have stock coming in from the respective big retail stores' warehouses (though its late, since we are already October) but I dont think they still have much of wave 1 to offer.

william-james88 wrote:

SureShot18 wrote:

nycPrime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:I knew id never see wave 2, hasbro better make this right and either postpone wave 3 and ship out more wave 2 or re-release wave 2 at a later date. Getting so sick of missing waves, This is also more proof that they need to slow down on the wave releases.

Hasbro has no more wave 2 to ship out and all their resources are focused on later waves. They can't do anything. What has to happen is the retail stores that bought all their stock have to start distributing it across their chain stores and put them on the shelves.

Have the wave 2 deluxes hit store shelves in the US at all besides Walgreens? TRU/Walmart/Target?

I found them at Walmart, they had the wave 2x over. But they had nothing else unfortunately.

In general this news is getting me rather worried. There's still 4-5 guys from the first two waves on my list and it might be difficult to get them all.

Even if we didnt have this info from hasbro, I would strongly recomend you do not hesitate if you find these. Wave 1 and 2 of Combiner Wars got extremely scarce once wave 3 rolled in and of all the retail releases of the line it is the deluxes from those 2 waves that are the priciest on the secondary market. Especially if what you are looking for is Wave 1 or a Titan master (since the titan masters had a very early release in the US), I would suggest you buy it now before you cant find it anymore. Wave 2 should have stock coming in from the respective big retail stores' warehouses (though its late, since we are already October) but I dont think they still have much of wave 1 to offer.

will wave 2 show up in stores ever with more than one case

Bumblebee21 wrote:will wave 2 show up in stores ever with more than one case

I dont know guys, I only know what I have been told and shared all that in the article. If you need more info, you can ask your local stores and their managers.

I think it will show up in stores since all the stock was bought from hasbro. So where could it possible be? I think it has yet to be stocked, thats just the logical way to see it. But when you see it, dont hesitate because we now know for a fact that Hasbro aint sending more to stores than what stores already ordered.

Way to incite a state of mass hysteria Will!



I really think your logic is sound though. Target, TRU, and the like have all the inventory, but they are:

A: Waiting for current inventory to sell off. Lord knows they don't leave much peg space for TFs these days.

B: Holding off to bulk up for the holiday shopping rush.

I really think Wave 2 just hasn't even had a chance to reach full saturation yet.

I hope we get some decent revision cases.

Thing can re-appear that way as has happened with Rescue Bots Blurr.

Cobotron wrote:Way to incite a state of mass hysteria Will!

That's what i said .....many posts back

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... 2350310201
Take with many grains of salt.


Personally, I think it's 3P related, but I thought it might be worth sharing.

Wait, what? This isn't unwelcome, I'd love this...but why? I thought only Prime and maybe Megs get multi-size-class privileges?

Very far out of left field. Didn't see it coming, though I'd like it to be true so I can get a Soundwave that is a different mold than Blaster

Sigma Magnus wrote:Wait, what? This isn't unwelcome, I'd love this...but why? I thought only Prime and maybe Megs get multi-size-class privileges?

It's not necessarily unprecedented. He, Starscream and Bumblebee seem to make up the main characters outside of Prime and Megatron.
It wouldn't surprise me an awful lot... but as Autobot N warned, I'm taking it with a grain of salt. It'd have to be extremely good to get me to drop FoC as a CHUG Soundwave though.

Kurona wrote:It wouldn't surprise me an awful lot... but as Autobot N warned, I'm taking it with a grain of salt. It'd have to be extremely good to get me to drop FoC as a CHUG Soundwave though.

I'm inclined to think that it's 3P at the moment. Sure, Prime, Brawn, and presumably Nightbeat and Apeface will have two figures in TR when the line's over, but the second Prime is homaging 2 completely different figures (if the supposed Star Convoy head is counted), and Brawn, Nightbeat and Apeface are making complete figures out of Titan Masters. Unlike them, this supposed Soundwave looks extremely similar to the already existing TR Soundwave, plus it would be out of scale with all of the cassettes.

Of course, I would still welcome a Voyager Soundwave, though.

looks too much like the mp

I mean I'm happy with my FoC Soundwave, he is a good size and a decent sculpt overall, but I definitely want to try to get the TR Soundwave and what of his minions are available for him. I'd love if HasTak made all of the minions though to use with the Leader classes of both Soundwave and Blaster.

I think the biggest supporter of "it's third party" is how it appears to have the Masterpiece hand design. Has/Tak doesn't use that design for Generations, that being said if it is 3P I'd be tempted to get it if the price/quality was right.