The Energon Pub

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Woah boy, those gaps dont look good and neither does that alt mode. Also, someone said it somewhere online but the colours on his legs look like an extended version of his face

That Bot wrote:Well I went to my local Fry's today, and in their toy aisle I found.... no Titans Return. But I did find a CW Leader Starscream, who I have previously only seen at a convention, and some RID15 Warriors for $13.99, which I think is literally the best price I've ever seen them at. I may pick somebody up.

Those are good prices, I look forward to knowing what you think of them, I think most are just great, and a nice break from the repeated transformations of CW.

That Bot wrote:Skullsmasher and Hardhead are bought on sight..... as long as they're like $15 or less. I don't want to pay $36 for two deluxes. >< I don't know how much longer I'll even have that option though. Damn inflation.

But they werent that at frys, they were 17$, so why did you go there if you wouldnt have picked them up? Or were you there for something else?

fenrir72 wrote:CW Starscream in my TRU has been like shelf forming for the past 2 years. Defesor team all sold out except for 1st Aid. Mix on the Optimus Maximus and Bruticus team. Skylynx team also mixed availablility.

What is it with this ridiculous hypoerbole, that toy has been out for about 8 months.

william-james88 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Woah boy, those gaps dont look good and neither does that alt mode. Also, someone said it somewhere online but the colours on his legs look like an extended version of his face

That Bot wrote:Well I went to my local Fry's today, and in their toy aisle I found.... no Titans Return. But I did find a CW Leader Starscream, who I have previously only seen at a convention, and some RID15 Warriors for $13.99, which I think is literally the best price I've ever seen them at. I may pick somebody up.

Those are good prices, I look forward to knowing what you think of them, I think most are just great, and a nice break from the repeated transformations of CW.

That Bot wrote:Skullsmasher and Hardhead are bought on sight..... as long as they're like $15 or less. I don't want to pay $36 for two deluxes. >< I don't know how much longer I'll even have that option though. Damn inflation.

But they werent that at frys, they were 17$, so why did you go there if you wouldnt have picked them up? Or were you there for something else?

fenrir72 wrote:CW Starscream in my TRU has been like shelf forming for the past 2 years. Defesor team all sold out except for 1st Aid. Mix on the Optimus Maximus and Bruticus team. Skylynx team also mixed availablility.

What is it with this ridiculous hypoerbole, that toy has been out for about 8 months.

Come one Will, you didn't have COMBINER WARS starscream shelf warming your shelves 2 years ago when we were getting the 3rd wave of Dark Cybertron? It was right there next to voyager Rhinox and Whirl. Remember? When Generations Leader class hadnt existed yet for 3-4 more months until Jetfire was released. It was right there!!

That Soundwave looks amazing to me. Any estimation on his release date?

joeprime276 wrote:That Soundwave looks amazing to me. Any estimation on his release date?

Likely ~August/September online

Randomhero wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:CW Starscream in my TRU has been like shelf forming for the past 2 years. Defesor team all sold out except for 1st Aid. Mix on the Optimus Maximus and Bruticus team. Skylynx team also mixed availablility.

What is it with this ridiculous hypoerbole, that toy has been out for about 8 months.

Come one Will, you didn't have COMBINER WARS starscream shelf warming your shelves 2 years ago when we were getting the 3rd wave of Dark Cybertron? It was right there next to voyager Rhinox and Whirl. Remember? When Generations Leader class hadnt existed yet for 3-4 more months until Jetfire was released. It was right there!!

I remember that, Will had some very insightful comments about it

Any word on US retail?

Leader Starscream only just appeared locally for me about two weeks ago. It's now sitting next to the two Skywarps that have been there on the shelf for months. At this pace I won't be seeing Titans Return for a while.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:Leader Starscream only just appeared locally for me about two weeks ago. It's now sitting next to the two Skywarps that have been there on the shelf for months. At this pace I won't be seeing Titans Return for a while.

Emerje

Lucky, I'm still stuck on thundercracker

Deprhcharge936 wrote:Any word on US retail?

Depends on region, store and stock, likely mid-summer

Starscream has just started showing up around here too. Still never saw Magnus on shelves.

I hit two local Walmarts today, 'cause I got the itch something fierce. The TF spaces were crazy empty.
Just begging for the Titans to return. I gotta good feeling that space won't be empty for long.

Cobotron wrote:Starscream has just started showing up around here too. Still never saw Magnus on shelves.

I saw several - but they all broke when I bought them

I hit two local Walmarts today, 'cause I got the itch something fierce.

This is starting to sound serious, you may want to see a doctor about that

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Emerje wrote:Leader Starscream only just appeared locally for me about two weeks ago. It's now sitting next to the two Skywarps that have been there on the shelf for months. At this pace I won't be seeing Titans Return for a while.

Emerje

Lucky, I'm still stuck on thundercracker

Thundercracker never appeared here at all, we went straight from the two Megatrons to Skywarp. Then suddenly backtracked to Starscream at one Walmart. I had to go through HTS for Ultra Magnus.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Emerje wrote:Leader Starscream only just appeared locally for me about two weeks ago. It's now sitting next to the two Skywarps that have been there on the shelf for months. At this pace I won't be seeing Titans Return for a while.

Emerje

Lucky, I'm still stuck on thundercracker

Thundercracker never appeared here at all, we went straight from the two Megatrons to Skywarp. Then suddenly backtracked to Starscream at one Walmart. I had to go through HTS for Ultra Magnus.

Emerje

Me => => distribution

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Starscream has just started showing up around here too. Still never saw Magnus on shelves.

I saw several - but they all broke when I bought them

I hit two local Walmarts today, 'cause I got the itch something fierce.

This is starting to sound serious, you may want to see a doctor about that

Here you go Cobotron. If you click on it, it should spray to the proper areas.

Seibertron wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Starscream has just started showing up around here too. Still never saw Magnus on shelves.

I saw several - but they all broke when I bought them

I hit two local Walmarts today, 'cause I got the itch something fierce.

This is starting to sound serious, you may want to see a doctor about that

Here you go Cobotron. If you click on it, it should spray to the proper areas.

ARRRR! It's burning my Titans!!!

Don't be tinactin like y'all don't know what itch I'm talkin' about.

I did how ever see a morbidly obese elderly woman wearing a magnificent pair of hand made TMNT fleese jammy pants. Oh Walmart, why you so cray cray?

Sabrblade wrote:

Cobotron wrote:

ARRRR! It's burning my Titans!!!

Is that what the kids are callin' it these days?

Depends on whether or not you've mastered them.

I haven't got any Titans Return figures yet, because I'm waiting for them to show up here in North Western Ohio. Even though the Combiner Wars Sky Reign limbs showed up here a few days ago. I'm gonna be waiting a long time for Titans Return, aren't I?

BTW, CW Leader Starscream and Skywarp both showed up here two weeks ago, and I talked my Grandma into getting me Starscream, who is now on my Combiner Wars shelf, which is directly to my left. But I have never seen Leader Ultra Magnus and I have no idea if there even is a Leader Thundercracker. The only other two CW Leaders I've seen in stores over here are Armada Megatron and Skywarp. And the Bruticus limbs showed up 3 weeks ago, after the shelves being only Optimus Maximus limbs since December. Transformers distribution is weird up here in North Western Ohio.

william-james88 wrote:

That Bot wrote:Skullsmasher and Hardhead are bought on sight..... as long as they're like $15 or less. I don't want to pay $36 for two deluxes. >< I don't know how much longer I'll even have that option though. Damn inflation.

But they werent that at frys, they were 17$, so why did you go there if you wouldnt have picked them up? Or were you there for something else?

A few reasons. First, I did have other business there. Second, I love that store and don't need much persuasion to just visit it and look around. Third, I am compulsive so if I'd found TR deluxes I probably would have grabbed Skullsmasher. At this point I'm just desperate to see them, period.... although I still haven't got Sky Lynx and may have missed the only chance I had to acquire him at a reasonable price.
As for the price, $36=($17*2)*1.06, the sales tax around here. Or two deluxes at $18 each before tax, because I misremembered the posted price . I'll let you decide which is the truth.

Annnnd they couldn't give Soundwave his proper gun. Yes we have the shoulder cannon but what about the hand gun? This is like the reverse of FOC Soundwave/Blaster

That's it, tomorrow I'm going to take a picture of Cw Armada Megatron at one of my local Walmarts. He's has been warming the shelf there for almost a year.

Also get a picture of why I can't get any Leader class figures at my local target. 4 movie grimlocks.

I just received blaster and while I like him and he's a great incarnation, I'd have preferred they were voyagers rather than leader classes. 2 leader figures are expensive and hard to justify the outlay especially ones so alike.

Also, since the Titans returns line seems to homage the g1 toys almost more than the anime, I'd have definitely liked to see soundwave sport a handgun closer to his original, something that war for cybertron soundwave did rather well I thought. I still repute that the original g1's toy's weapons transforming into batteries was one of the best design implementations in the original line up

Soundwave looks ok, but his alt mode looks a bit long for a personal stereo(& YES! i know he's just a repaint/retool of Blaster! but they still could've sorted out his elongated alt mode somehow)

btw anyone know when the Takara versions of the TR figs will be available? coz i'm quite keen on the Takara versions of Galvatron & PMOP