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Seibertron wrote:

william-james88 wrote:We found something pretty cool on the Talk Transformers Facebook page, an image of Titans Return Roadburn in package. This will be part of the second wave of 2017 figures, along with Legends Brawn. While they are using the name Roadburn, this is essentially throttlebot Chase. It is using the Titans Return Bumblebee mold.

Seems odd that he's using the name Roadburn instead of Chase, since we've got Rescue Bots Chase so the name is available.

Maybe to avoid confusion? Or maybe there will be a TR Chase based on the recuse bots designs (but we know about most of the waves, so probably not).

Sigma Magnus wrote:It's probably to avoid kids getting confused, like with Clobber/Grimlock.

Normally I'd agree but with Twinferno, Bumblebee and Optimus Prime as recent examples, I still think I'd rather see them use the name Chase.

Seibertron wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:It's probably to avoid kids getting confused, like with Clobber/Grimlock.

Normally I'd agree but with Twinferno, Bumblebee and Optimus Prime as recent examples, I still think I'd rather see them use the name Chase.

Agreed. But hey, once you buy it, you can call it whatever you want, right?

Seibertron wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:It's probably to avoid kids getting confused, like with Clobber/Grimlock.

Normally I'd agree but with Twinferno, Bumblebee and Optimus Prime as recent examples, I still think I'd rather see them use the name Chase.

Twinferno is likely a case of Trademark loss, being merely a substitute name. I'd bet that if Hasbro could have used the name "Doublecross" they would have.

Bumblebee and Optimus are both iconic enough to have all of the mainstream media versions similar to one another across the board.

G1 Chase and Rescue Bots Chase, however, are as different (maybe even moreso) in character and appearance as G1 Grimlock and RID Grimlock. It is evident that Hasbro wants to keep the names "Chase" and "Grimlock" attached to the currently-more-familiar-to-the-kids-of-today cartoon characters while their G1 namesakes get new aliases that avoid confusion between the different iterations of the same-named characters from inside and outside the cartoon franchises.

Tigertrack wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Seems odd that he's using the name Roadburn instead of Chase, since we've got Rescue Bots Chase so the name is available.

Maybe to avoid confusion? Or maybe there will be a TR Chase based on the recuse bots designs (but we know about most of the waves, so probably not).

I believe it's a bit more problematic than that, guys, but Rescue Bots does provide an excellent case in point.

Let's start by examining the Rescue Bot trademarks compared to other lines. A good one would be "Blades" as it's already vulnerable in a sense because it has the "Autobot" prefix since 2008:


Universe 2008 Autobot Blades

Fast forward to now, and we have two new variations:


Generations Protectobot Blades


Rescue Bots Blades The Copter-Bot

The bolded text is the actual trademark used. In short, "Blades" on its own, no prefixes, is a no-go. Rescue Bots cleverly circumvents that by trademarking the character's full title, like the later 2007 Movie Fast Action Battlers did. Note the occasional omission of "Autobot" and "Decepticon" of those toys a regular release would normally have. It seems the longer the actual trademark, the more unique, the better protected.

The same principle can be applied to "Chase". It seems on its own (or even with "Autobot") it's a dud, but as "Chase The Police-Bot" it's perfectly fine. Remember, Rescue Bots trademarks full titles, a slightly different principle compared to Generations and RiD 2015. Put bluntly, that line is no real indicator of what names are actually available.

With that...

I so called Bumblebee being used for a Throttlebot!

:EDIT: And you know what? I've taken a closer look at the head sculpt, and it's not Chase: it's a combination of Freeway's and Searchlight's, the other two Throttlebots that were rumored.

I personally think that Roadburn is a better name then Chase but that's just me. And you can call it anything you want anyway. I think I'll probably get him when he comes out since I'm skipping Bee and those colors look pretty good.

SureShot18 wrote:I personally think that Roadburn is a better name then Chase but that's just me. And you can call it anything you want anyway. I think I'll probably get him when he comes out since I'm skipping Bee and those colors look pretty good.

Yeah surprisingly, those colors with that awful mold looks decent.

Bumblebee is a surprisingly good figure, and I'll take this over Bee any day. Well, assuming he is of the same level of quality.

Terrsolpix wrote:Bumblebee is a surprisingly good figure, and I'll take this over Bee any day. Well, assuming he is of the same level of quality.

I just find the unnaturally thin legs with visible hinges and the wedge biceps's annoying.

SillySpringer wrote:

Terrsolpix wrote:Bumblebee is a surprisingly good figure, and I'll take this over Bee any day. Well, assuming he is of the same level of quality.

I just find the unnaturally thin legs with visible hinges and the wedge biceps's annoying.

I just pretend Bee has awkwardly shaped armor that he's just too chill to fix. A bit of a lazy excuse but the legs seem less out of place as all black on a primarily yellow body. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Terrsolpix wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Terrsolpix wrote:Bumblebee is a surprisingly good figure, and I'll take this over Bee any day. Well, assuming he is of the same level of quality.

I just find the unnaturally thin legs with visible hinges and the wedge biceps's annoying.

I just pretend Bee has awkwardly shaped armor that he's just too chill to fix. A bit of a lazy excuse but the legs seem less out of place as all black on a primarily yellow body. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If the forearms were at least longer, I'd like it more even with the weird upper arms.

Had Fangry and Ptero in-hand at Walmart!

SALE DENIED due to computer-problems.

If my 5y/o daughter hadn't been there, I woulda fussed - but f it, and F Walmart!

bodrock wrote:Had Fangry and Ptero in-hand at Walmart!

SALE DENIED due to computer-problems.

If my 5y/o daughter hadn't been there, I woulda fussed - but f it, and F Walmart!

Never heard of Walmart doing that before. It's only ever happened to me at a TRU when trying to get some Lego that was supposed to release the next day. Best part was that the next time I tried doing that they let me

bodrock wrote:Had Fangry and Ptero in-hand at Walmart!

SALE DENIED due to computer-problems.

If my 5y/o daughter hadn't been there, I woulda fussed - but f it, and F Walmart!

Grab an older wave Titan Master, bring it to the self check-out, and scan it once for each of the wave 3 guys you want to get. You could either actually buy that one or just take it back to the shelf after you've completed your purchase.

Nice, I was hoping to pick up this mold, but didn't want to add yet another Bee to my collection. This will do perfectly!

Terrsolpix wrote:

bodrock wrote:Had Fangry and Ptero in-hand at Walmart!

SALE DENIED due to computer-problems.

If my 5y/o daughter hadn't been there, I woulda fussed - but f it, and F Walmart!

Never heard of Walmart doing that before. It's only ever happened to me at a TRU when trying to get some Lego that was supposed to release the next day. Best part was that the next time I tried doing that they let me

If only! I'm so annoyed right now....

I was totally lookin for the self-checkout but no luck there either.

bodrock wrote:

Terrsolpix wrote:

bodrock wrote:Had Fangry and Ptero in-hand at Walmart!

SALE DENIED due to computer-problems.

If my 5y/o daughter hadn't been there, I woulda fussed - but f it, and F Walmart!

Never heard of Walmart doing that before. It's only ever happened to me at a TRU when trying to get some Lego that was supposed to release the next day. Best part was that the next time I tried doing that they let me

If only! I'm so annoyed right now....

I was totally lookin for the self-checkout but no luck there either.

If this ever happens again, just tell them, "if you had this on your shelves, that must mean that you either intended to sell them or one of your employees/coworkers is so inept at their job that they were unable to follow simple directions." If you don't get banned or kicked out it will work this works best on managers BTW (I, Terrsolpix, am not liable for any life time bans or sassy attitudes from employees from my patent pending technique.)

Look what I found at a Walmart in Indian trial, NC. The chances of you finding it in your Walmart is unicely because these titanmastersites were not found in the system and were put in manually. All of them were there but I only bought 3.

SillySpringer wrote:

Terrsolpix wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Terrsolpix wrote:Bumblebee is a surprisingly good figure, and I'll take this over Bee any day. Well, assuming he is of the same level of quality.

I just find the unnaturally thin legs with visible hinges and the wedge biceps's annoying.

I just pretend Bee has awkwardly shaped armor that he's just too chill to fix. A bit of a lazy excuse but the legs seem less out of place as all black on a primarily yellow body. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If the forearms were at least longer, I'd like it more even with the weird upper arms.

So you preffer the other generations legends class bee ?

Seems like everyone at walmart is getting problems with the titan masters. If walmart actually gave a care about it's customers I'd suggest contacting the company directly and explain the situation.

The last time I went to walmart it was very unpleasant to say the least. Never go into their pet section, the fish situation is depressing and whoever is in charge should be put in jail. (Or a small container of nasty water!)

bodrock wrote:Had Fangry and Ptero in-hand at Walmart!

SALE DENIED due to computer-problems.

If my 5y/o daughter hadn't been there, I woulda fussed - but f it, and F Walmart!

So sorry for your hassle, but I'm so glad to see I was not the only one to have this issue(see others and myself a few pages back). I fought it with customer service. But yes Wal-Mart is inept and I echo your sentiments.

o.supreme wrote:Wave 1 7/1/16-9/14/16
Wave 2 9/15-11/30/16
Wave 3 12/1/16-2/15/17
Wave 4 2/16/17-5/2/17
Wave 5 5/3/17-7/17/16
Wave 6 7/18/17-10/1/17

If this turns out to be true then we might actually see the entirety of the remaining 2017 waves at Toy Fair. If wave 6 comes in July then we'll have already seen them online before SDCC in July so they couldn't announce them there. This is why making HasbroCon yet another con for the later half of the year (with SDCC, CybertronCon, and NYCC) was such a bad idea, it spreads their reveals too thin. Let's not forget that they started revealing wave 4 back in October when wave 2 was showing up so revealing wave 6 when wave 4 is released isn't a huge stretch.

Emerje

william-james88 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Terrsolpix wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Terrsolpix wrote:Bumblebee is a surprisingly good figure, and I'll take this over Bee any day. Well, assuming he is of the same level of quality.

I just find the unnaturally thin legs with visible hinges and the wedge biceps's annoying.

I just pretend Bee has awkwardly shaped armor that he's just too chill to fix. A bit of a lazy excuse but the legs seem less out of place as all black on a primarily yellow body. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If the forearms were at least longer, I'd like it more even with the weird upper arms.

So you preffer the other generations legends class bee ?

Of course. It's a more streamlined design and has less junk parts hindering the overall look. Even if it's inaccurate to G1, it at least has the IDW look going for him.

Fellow Seibertronian Highbrowseyebrows (excellent name) came across the three new Titan Master molds from the third wave of Titans Return figures, in a Walmart in Indian Trail, North Carolina. They were yet to appear in the system, but Fangry, Ptero and Sawback were acquired nonetheless - check them out, and happy hunting!

Look what I found at a Walmart in Indian Trail, NC. The chances of you finding it in your Walmart is unlikely because these titan masters were not found in the system and were put in manually. All of them were there but I only bought 3.

Terrsolpix wrote:

bodrock wrote:

Terrsolpix wrote:

bodrock wrote:Had Fangry and Ptero in-hand at Walmart!

SALE DENIED due to computer-problems.

If my 5y/o daughter hadn't been there, I woulda fussed - but f it, and F Walmart!

Never heard of Walmart doing that before. It's only ever happened to me at a TRU when trying to get some Lego that was supposed to release the next day. Best part was that the next time I tried doing that they let me

If only! I'm so annoyed right now....

I was totally lookin for the self-checkout but no luck there either.

If this ever happens again, just tell them, "if you had this on your shelves, that must mean that you either intended to sell them or one of your employees/coworkers is so inept at their job that they were unable to follow simple directions." If you don't get banned or kicked out it will work this works best on managers BTW (I, Terrsolpix, am not liable for any life time bans or sassy attitudes from employees from my patent pending technique.)

The sales clerk mentioned inept co-workers as to why, then told me if it ain't in the system NO SALE. :/