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Surprised I am the first one to mention this here but the walgreens 2 pack is now available to view online (basically a placeholder:

https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/trans ... 51-product

Seems to be fitting the same timeline as Brainstorm last year.

Thanks to several Seibertronian users who contacted us, we now know of a placeholder listing of the Walgreens Exclusive Clone Set from Titans Return. You cannot order this item yet but this is the first sign of life from Walgreens that they will be getting this product ever since we first found out. This could mean that they could also be found in stores shortly so let us know if you spot them in stores as well or when the listing lets you order the product. For those unaware, this two-pack includes Titans Return Wingspan and Cloudracker who round out the Transformers Clones. Below is the image of the listing along with the product description.








Details
Prepare to see double in this Transformers Generations Clones 2-figure pack, featuring 2 special edition Clone figures in Legends Class scale. This Clone pack includes 2 clone character figures, Wingspan and Cloudraker, available for the first time since 1987.

Transformers Generations Clones 2-figure Pack
Comes with 2 Legends scale figures
Includes 2 special edition Clone characters -- Wingspan and Cloudraker
Winspan figure converts to cyber-falcon; Cloudraker figure converts to jet
Wingspan figure converts in 7 steps; Cloudraker figure converts in 9 steps
Made in China

©2017 Hasbro. All Rights Reserved

Manufactured under license from TOMY Company, Ltd.

Warnings for self serve
Ages 8 and up.

Ingredients for self serve
No ingredient and nutrition facts information available for the SKU

No ingredients listed? But how am I supposed to know if they are gluten free or not?

inventory says 2-5 in stock at a nearby Walgreens! Will check it out in the a.m.!

With any luck, that means they'll be turning up commonly soon! And if that's the case, it's (hopefully) only a matter of time before the website-that-shan't-be-named gets my copy to me. Now if only my Siege on Cybertron would arrive and I could find a good way to get a hold of the Velocitron set... looks like my clone collection is still far from complete after all.

WreckerJack wrote:No ingredients listed? But how am I supposed to know if they are gluten free or not?

Dude, come on.


...Of course they're not gluten-free, they'd be advertising the fact if they were!

daoist wrote:inventory says 2-5 in stock at a nearby Walgreens! Will check it out in the a.m.!

Same here. Walgreen's before work tomorrow!

daoist wrote:inventory says 2-5 in stock at a nearby Walgreens! Will check it out in the a.m.!

DONT, as the news says, its a placeholder listing, it doesnt even have the right name of the product. So the inventory you see is for all Titans Return toys. You go there tomorrow, you will see 2 chromedomes.

william-james88 wrote:

daoist wrote:inventory says 2-5 in stock at a nearby Walgreens! Will check it out in the a.m.!

DONT, as the news says, its a placeholder listing, it doesnt even have the right name of the product. So the inventory you see is for all Titans Return toys. You go there tomorrow, you will see 2 chromedomes.

Correct. This is the exactly same as when Brainstorm came out. If you looked at the inventory it said the same thing. Basically when they revitalize their toy section for Christmas, those numbers will change and you will have a greater likelihood of finding the two pack. However, once the "Find In Stores" button was live for Brainstorm, I think it took me 2 weeks to actually find one in the stores, and by that time I could have purchased online as well.

What you should look for is the inventory increasing, that is your best indicator that you might find it. So if it goes from 2-5 to 4-7, then it's worth investigating, but I wouldn't go out of my way otherwise.

I dunno man. They've got a separate listing for brainstorm and other TFs.

But to your point, there isn't an online listing for the TF deluxe assortment. They do have a listing for rescue bots asst.

I do agree it's highly likely that the 2-5 inventory is on a truck headed to this walgreens.

I'll report back

daoist wrote:I dunno man. They've got a separate listing for brainstorm and other TFs.

But to your point, there isn't an online listing for the TF deluxe assortment. They do have a listing for rescue bots asst.

I do agree it's highly likely that the 2-5 inventory is on a truck headed to this walgreens.

I'll report back

The do have a separate listing for generations, it uses Mirage from CW as the photo. From previous experience with brainstorm, their indicated counts on the stores are not accurate. There were plenty of stores that said they had 2-5 brainstorms last year, only to go there and find 2-5 wave 1 or 2 TR instead. Even when I did find brainstorm last year, the counts were still not accurate.

I believe their counts are going to indicate their current stock of generations deluxes, not the clone sets, at least not yet.

I was almost ready to break down & just preorder the Takara sets at this point. The clones just would have had some oddly painted cousins.

Yeah Walgreens inventory system is awful. I had a guy tell me yesterday "it was a short time thing" as if I missed out or something . Brainstorm is still available online I see. Hopefully this will be also in time if it doesn't turn up in stores eventually. But I have like 20 Walgreens in my area. 3 I pass by just on my daily work commute.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

daoist wrote:I dunno man. They've got a separate listing for brainstorm and other TFs.

But to your point, there isn't an online listing for the TF deluxe assortment. They do have a listing for rescue bots asst.

I do agree it's highly likely that the 2-5 inventory is on a truck headed to this walgreens.

I'll report back

The do have a separate listing for generations, it uses Mirage from CW as the photo. From previous experience with brainstorm, their indicated counts on the stores are not accurate. There were plenty of stores that said they had 2-5 brainstorms last year, only to go there and find 2-5 wave 1 or 2 TR instead. Even when I did find brainstorm last year, the counts were still not accurate.

I believe their counts are going to indicate their current stock of generations deluxes, not the clone sets, at least not yet.

A couple deluxes, some movie trash and a few 1-steps, and those new simplified aligned continuity figures. No twins.

"check back later" Yeah Walgreens dude, that's the plan

I have been holding on to Fastlane to sell with this guy for SO LONG. Hopefully I can get rid of him soon.

daoist wrote:"check back later" Yeah Walgreens dude, that's the plan

Honestly, I wouldn't going out of my way looking again until someone here posts a sighting. Unless you need/want to be that someone. They will typically show up in the wast coast first like the simplified figures did and the rest of the country should follow pretty quickly. I'm in the Chicago area and the simplified figures appeared here about 3-4 days after the first sightings on the west coast.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:the first sightings on the west coast.

huh...so Walgreens distributes things the opposite of every other major company? I didn't think the west coast got anything first...

william-james88 wrote:

daoist wrote:inventory says 2-5 in stock at a nearby Walgreens! Will check it out in the a.m.!

DONT, as the news says, its a placeholder listing, it doesnt even have the right name of the product. So the inventory you see is for all Titans Return toys. You go there tomorrow, you will see 2 chromedomes.

I only saw 1 Chromedome. (There were 5 Hot Rods though).

I'll go back to checking Wednesdays (or Thursdays). I forgot which day of the week they get their truck in.

o.supreme wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:the first sightings on the west coast.

huh...so Walgreens distributes things the opposite of every other major company? I didn't think the west coast got anything first...

I'm not sure how exactly they work, I know that they break up the cases in a warehouse and the stores get individual products instead of cases.

I'm just going by the most recent example for a walgreens only item, the simplified series (don't recall the name). They showed up on the west coast a few days before the midwest.

Most first sightings are on the west coast (specifically California) since the ports for ships travelling from asia are located there.

william-james88 wrote:Most first sightings are on the west coast (specifically California) since the ports for ships travelling from asia are located there.

you are talking specifically about Walgreens yes? because most toy sightings I see start on the East Coast. The Hasbro toys ship out of Rhode Island , even though they are manufactured in Vietnam.

Although this is unrelated, I purchased an Item from China on eBay within the last year. You'd think because I live in Califronia, it would naturally go through San Francisco's port...nope, went over my head, and to NY first, then back across the country before being delivered to my home.

o.supreme wrote:The Hasbro toys ship out of Rhode Island , even though they are manufactured in Vietnam.

From HasbroToyShop, yes, their warehouse is located in RI. For Hasbro toys out of Walmart/Target/TRU? No, each has their own warehouse system and receives the toys directly from Vietnam, not RI. Just take a look at most of the figures in the sightings forum/section. Most of them show up in the west coast first.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Just take a look at most of the figures in the sightings forum/section. Most of them show up in the west coast first.

Slugslinger - 15 sightings, 2 on the west coast
Overlord - 11 sightings, 1 on the west coast
Misfire- 5 sightings, 0 on the west coast
TwinTwist- 7 sightings, 0 on the west coast...

need I go on?

o.supreme wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Just take a look at most of the figures in the sightings forum/section. Most of them show up in the west coast first.

Slugslinger - 15 sightings, 2 on the west coast
Overlord - 11 sightings, 1 on the west coast
Misfire- 5 sightings, 0 on the west coast
TwinTwist- 7 sightings, 0 on the west coast...

need I go on?

Could just be no one is reporting it.

Each one has it's own item # listed. I called my Walgreen's this morning, the guy said they should have two in stock... If they were crossed referenced to the deluxe there would be more, because I was just there and they have way more than that in stock of the deluxe.

It would make sense that Brainstorm was mixed it with the other deluxe... Like most stores those are listed as the same item # with different UPC's... although Brainstorm seems to have a unique item # now. The Clones are obviously a different item all together, being a two pack of Legends, so I would be hard pressed to think they would be cross listed against the Deluxe from CW/ TR / Movie.

The gentleman I spoke with this morning obviously knew it was something different... Told me more than likely it is on the truck coming in today, but there are only two...thankfully I have 4-5 Walgreens around here to hunt from.

I don't think it's tied to TR deluxe necassarily, but it is tied to something, seeing as how every store in my area says they have "#2-5 in stock" but none actually have them.