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D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

NovamusPrime3 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Caelus wrote:I still haven't found Hot Rod.

I know how you feel. I'm in the same state as this finding and I still haven't seen wave above the legends

hey just now in my state we just started getting wave 3 legends and my area skipped wave 2

You can buy wave 2 on walmart, its on sale right now if ever you want it

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers ... w/49802138

The thing is, responding to both your previous messages, is those are terrible prices. At least here, we prefer to wait for them to hit stores since stores like Walmart and Target sell deluxes at $14.99 for example. the online prices are much higher and the TRU prices are also very high. HTS is one of the few stores that sell them close to that in-store price, hence the big deal waiting for them to be in stock.

for example: CW deluxes were $20+ online, $15 in stores, $15-17 at HTS, and $24 at TRU. It's a big deal for us to see them in stores rather than online, and with the way many stores online make you buy 1 at a time at higher prices or the entire wave for a lower price when you may not want the entire wave.

What D-Max said. I'm all for buying online, but to apy aftermarket prices upfront for a current-wave toy is a bit much.

I just want to know how all these other places have wave 3 of the deluxes but HTS does not. I just dont get it.

I keep saying I need more Decepticons and then I see Perceptor. My Decepticons are outnumbered 1:7 currently lol.Tho part of the problem is that I can't seem to find Wolfwire/weirdwolf for a good price.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:for example: CW deluxes were $20+ online, $15 in stores, $15-17 at HTS, and $24 at TRU. It's a big deal for us to see them in stores rather than online, and with the way many stores online make you buy 1 at a time at higher prices or the entire wave for a lower price when you may not want the entire wave.

I suppose with distribution being all over the place you can sell or trade any spares. There is likely to be someone who wants one.

Speaking of the Item I mentioned before they were actually out in VERY.co.uk a long time ago (both Wave 2 Voyagers and Crazybolt as well) but they fairly priced but it just hit me at a time I was skint so I couldn't get them and when I had the funds they'd gone. so Now I'm having to chase up a Crazybolt.
It's downright bizarre that the distribution of Astrotrain and Alpha Trion was bordering on the non-existent - I was actually wondering if VERY were being naughty and ordered them in themselves from Hong Kong.

As non of the stores supplied by Hasbro seem to have got them. at this point I'm hoping for a warehouse dump from the US or Canada or Hong Kong that shows up (eventually) TRU sometimes get that sort of stuff.
It's not just Titans Return distribution that is a pathetic mess it's also Marvel stuff and Rescue Bots - RID isn't to bad though (except for later Minicons that seem to have nearly all gone to Germany for some reason)- so that might show either Hasbro is stocking more of that in their own warehouses or the retailers are ordering it as it has a TV show.... which isn't logical as Rescue Bots also has a TV show.

I think they miss a trick by not having the smaller products on shelves as they is a great deal of cross compatibility between RID / Titans Returns & Rescue Bots The Minicon Weaponisers and the Rescue Minicons use the same connection system and are interchangeable - they also both work on the new "Activator Combiners" (The ones with the Stealth Force modes) and the other advantage is something like Tricerabot is a pretty decent Targetmaster for your Titans Returns Deluxes. I also think if they were smart they'd make a boxed set of repaints of all the old Generations Micromaster/Targetmaster releases as they'd also be similar really useful too.

But I just really like small Transformers I guess. I'll even miss Titanmasters when they stop making them - as to me they are almost like the modern stand in for a Diaclone Pilot.

Went to Walgreens for Walgreeny reasons. Walked out with these two.



Wave 3 still hasen't hit major retail around here, but the pharmacey has what I need to soothe what ails me.
I know it was confirmed by our news squad, but just so y'all know I'm not goofing around.

All my local Walgreens has is one Chromedome that's been there for the past two months. The closest Walmart to me just put out a boat load of wave 3 Titan masters and legends figures so hopefully deluxe's aren't too far behind.

Cobo how are Krok's hips? Better than skullcruncher?

The originals were a very easy fix - I actually found Mindwipe trickier to fix the looseness on - I've had much looser toys that that croc anyway such as RID Scorponok and Beast Hunters Wheejack they were both really rag doll loose.

Noting as loose as Fansprojects Not-Roadbuster mould they can barely hold the weight of their own legs and if you look at them funny they won't.

It's inconvenient but hardly difficult to fix them though a bit of floor polish in the hinges or clear nail polish in the ball-cups - that is also hand to stop the problem with arms or legs that fall off too.

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Anyway that isn't what I popped in for - what I actually was going to say was, I just had a thought about Titans Return Voyagers and Combiner Wars Voyager both being a kind of Triple Changer and how if they carry that over to the 3rd line and they also bring some more beasts into the 3rd line.

Something that might work really well idea-wise is to look at Beast Machines characters for inspiration.

## (spoilers for an 18 year old TV show) ##

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What with Tankor, Jetstorm's & Thrust's er "origins" why not have triplechangers of all 3 of them possibly Noble too ?

Failing that there is always another idea which is to make them Fuzors only not ones with 2 beast Modes merged but with a beast & Machine mode merged - they could also be a kind of triple changer if the beast kibble is made to fold away. Something similar to that half truck half bull thing that nearly got made.

Anyway It was just a passing thought I had that - I thought i'd mention.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

NovamusPrime3 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Caelus wrote:I still haven't found Hot Rod.

I know how you feel. I'm in the same state as this finding and I still haven't seen wave above the legends

hey just now in my state we just started getting wave 3 legends and my area skipped wave 2

You can buy wave 2 on walmart, its on sale right now if ever you want it

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers ... w/49802138

The thing is, responding to both your previous messages, is those are terrible prices. At least here, we prefer to wait for them to hit stores since stores like Walmart and Target sell deluxes at $14.99 for example. the online prices are much higher and the TRU prices are also very high. HTS is one of the few stores that sell them close to that in-store price, hence the big deal waiting for them to be in stock.

for example: CW deluxes were $20+ online, $15 in stores, $15-17 at HTS, and $24 at TRU. It's a big deal for us to see them in stores rather than online, and with the way many stores online make you buy 1 at a time at higher prices or the entire wave for a lower price when you may not want the entire wave.

I get that, and in my defense, my quoted post used to lead to a decent price for highbrow. But somebody probably picked it up since then. I agree with you guys and I too want the best prices for my toys. My question is this though, I go on TRU.com and I see listings for Wolfwire and Triggerhappy and other hot toys for 12.99. They arent available but were they? And if the answer is yes then I wonder why you guys didnt buy them then. Thats what I am wondering.

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.js ... age=search

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.js ... age=search

Probably because I didn't notice the sale at the time or it was around Christmas when I was spending a lot of money on gifts for other people.

I just got Sixshot yesterday and he was fun, all i need is Scourge (if he's still available , Broadside (totally needed him) and uhh, Overlord

Speaaaking of Broadside



He's based on the CVS-36 USS Antietam based on the number and Carrier mode, to make it much more Historical based

Albatross250 wrote:I just got Sixshot yesterday and he was fun, all i need is Scourge (if he's still available , Broadside (totally needed him) and uhh, Overlord

Speaaaking of Broadside



He's based on the CVS-36 USS Antietam based on the number and Carrier mode, to make it much more Historical based

Ooh; that's a pretty impressive resemblance aside from the colours and a few cases of unavoidable kibble. Absolutely loving it

Albatross250 wrote:I just got Sixshot yesterday and he was fun, all i need is Scourge (if he's still available

Scourge is readily available everywhere. You can get him right now on sale at tru.com:

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.js ... age=search

RAR wrote:The originals were a very easy fix - I actually found Mindwipe trickier to fix the looseness on - I've had much looser toys that that croc anyway such as RID Scorponok and Beast Hunters Wheejack they were both really rag doll loose.

Noting as loose as Fansprojects Not-Roadbuster mould they can barely hold the weight of their own legs and if you look at them funny they won't.

It's inconvenient but hardly difficult to fix them though a bit of floor polish in the hinges or clear nail polish in the ball-cups - that is also hand to stop the problem with arms or legs that fall off too.

------

Anyway that isn't what I popped in for - what I actually was going to say was, I just had a thought about Titans Return Voyagers and Combiner Wars Voyager both being a kind of Triple Changer and how if they carry that over to the 3rd line and they also bring some more beasts into the 3rd line.

Something that might work really well idea-wise is to look at Beast Machines characters for inspiration.

## (spoilers for an 18 year old TV show) ##

-----

What with Tankor, Jetstorm's & Thrust's er "origins" why not have triplechangers of all 3 of them possibly Noble too ?

Failing that there is always another idea which is to make them Fuzors only not ones with 2 beast Modes merged but with a beast & Machine mode merged - they could also be a kind of triple changer if the beast kibble is made to fold away. Something similar to that half truck half bull thing that nearly got made.

Anyway It was just a passing thought I had that - I thought i'd mention.

If they do that it could mean we get the beast wars mutants, but with robot modes as well

Kurona wrote:

Albatross250 wrote:I just got Sixshot yesterday and he was fun, all i need is Scourge (if he's still available , Broadside (totally needed him) and uhh, Overlord

Speaaaking of Broadside



He's based on the CVS-36 USS Antietam based on the number and Carrier mode, to make it much more Historical based

Ooh; that's a pretty impressive resemblance aside from the colours and a few cases of unavoidable kibble. Absolutely loving it

Expect TakaraTomy to ruin the homage by slapping his G1 accurate "98" on it:


Transformers G1 1986 Broadside Gallery

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Albatross250 wrote:I just got Sixshot yesterday and he was fun, all i need is Scourge (if he's still available , Broadside (totally needed him) and uhh, Overlord

Speaaaking of Broadside



He's based on the CVS-36 USS Antietam based on the number and Carrier mode, to make it much more Historical based

Ooh; that's a pretty impressive resemblance aside from the colours and a few cases of unavoidable kibble. Absolutely loving it

Expect TakaraTomy to ruin the homage by slapping his G1 accurate "98" on it:


Transformers G1 1986 Broadside Gallery

damn it

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

NovamusPrime3 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Caelus wrote:I still haven't found Hot Rod.

I know how you feel. I'm in the same state as this finding and I still haven't seen wave above the legends

hey just now in my state we just started getting wave 3 legends and my area skipped wave 2

You can buy wave 2 on walmart, its on sale right now if ever you want it

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers ... w/49802138

The thing is, responding to both your previous messages, is those are terrible prices. At least here, we prefer to wait for them to hit stores since stores like Walmart and Target sell deluxes at $14.99 for example. the online prices are much higher and the TRU prices are also very high. HTS is one of the few stores that sell them close to that in-store price, hence the big deal waiting for them to be in stock.

for example: CW deluxes were $20+ online, $15 in stores, $15-17 at HTS, and $24 at TRU. It's a big deal for us to see them in stores rather than online, and with the way many stores online make you buy 1 at a time at higher prices or the entire wave for a lower price when you may not want the entire wave.

What D-Max said. I'm all for buying online, but to apy aftermarket prices upfront for a current-wave toy is a bit much.

I just want to know how all these other places have wave 3 of the deluxes but HTS does not. I just dont get it.

Because HTS can't get new stock ahead of other Hasbro retailers, maybe, it's kinda confusing. I've been told one thing, then told vehemently that I'm wrong. Like most things Hasbro, no one will give you a straight answer and you're not allowed to ask.

Big news, folks! Thanks to Facebook user Dallas Mace, we have a potential leak of an upcoming Titans Return deluxe figure: Shockwave! Now, this is still just a rumor, but as some Peg Tags at a North Carolina Walmart have revealed, we have a more than slight indication that a Deluxe Shockwave is in our future. Check out the provided photographic evidence!

UPDATE: Fellow Seibertronian jamesbenjamin points out that the barcode seen on the tag corresponds to that of Fall of Cybertron deluxe Shockwave from years ago, as seen below.



We'd suggest diving into your bag of salt once more, and just consider this a misnamed placeholder for a new deluxe figure from the Titans Return line, though not the purple Decepticon commander after all.





This might seem a little *ahem* illogical, however, seeing as he just got a legend-class toy in the Combiner Wars toyline, but hey, at one time during CW we had two different sized versions of Skywarp on the shelves at the same time, so anything can happen!

Stay tuned to Seibertron.com to find out, as our coverage will be starting soon!

What strikes me as illogical is that they'd list him as 'Shockwave' rather than 'TRA GENERATIONS DELU'. Why would they have a name tag specifically for one of the four (or one of five, even) deluxes in the wave? That... doesn't make any sense. Considering it's not even listed as 'Generations' it could be some special RiD figure for all we know.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Albatross250 wrote:I just got Sixshot yesterday and he was fun, all i need is Scourge (if he's still available , Broadside (totally needed him) and uhh, Overlord

Speaaaking of Broadside



He's based on the CVS-36 USS Antietam based on the number and Carrier mode, to make it much more Historical based

Ooh; that's a pretty impressive resemblance aside from the colours and a few cases of unavoidable kibble. Absolutely loving it

Expect TakaraTomy to ruin the homage by slapping his G1 accurate "98" on it:


Transformers G1 1986 Broadside Gallery

You sure it's not 86? as in the year written below the picture

Stuartmaximus wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Albatross250 wrote:I just got Sixshot yesterday and he was fun, all i need is Scourge (if he's still available , Broadside (totally needed him) and uhh, Overlord

Speaaaking of Broadside



He's based on the CVS-36 USS Antietam based on the number and Carrier mode, to make it much more Historical based

Ooh; that's a pretty impressive resemblance aside from the colours and a few cases of unavoidable kibble. Absolutely loving it

Expect TakaraTomy to ruin the homage by slapping his G1 accurate "98" on it:


Transformers G1 1986 Broadside Gallery

You sure it's not 86? as in the year written below the picture

The smaller 'o' of the 8 is facing us, indicating that the number we're looking at is upside down. The upside down rubsign also helps.

Kurona wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Albatross250 wrote:I just got Sixshot yesterday and he was fun, all i need is Scourge (if he's still available , Broadside (totally needed him) and uhh, Overlord

Speaaaking of Broadside



He's based on the CVS-36 USS Antietam based on the number and Carrier mode, to make it much more Historical based

Ooh; that's a pretty impressive resemblance aside from the colours and a few cases of unavoidable kibble. Absolutely loving it

Expect TakaraTomy to ruin the homage by slapping his G1 accurate "98" on it:


Transformers G1 1986 Broadside Gallery

You sure it's not 86? as in the year written below the picture

The smaller 'o' of the 8 is facing us, indicating that the number we're looking at is upside down. The upside down rubsign also helps.

Ah right thanks

weird though....you would've thought that they could've numbered it to coincide with that year

So Shockwave gets a-Wait a second

I HOPE HE ISN'T A HARDHEAD RETOOL

Kurona wrote:What strikes me as illogical is that they'd list him as 'Shockwave' rather than 'TRA GENERATIONS DELU'. Why would they have a name tag specifically for one of the four (or one of five, even) deluxes in the wave? That... doesn't make any sense. Considering it's not even listed as 'Generations' it could be some special RiD figure for all we know.

There is also a possibility that's he's a Walmart exclusive fig. So that's why he gets his own shelf. But of course this hasn't happened with The two marvel legends exclusives they had so far.

Bronzewolf wrote:Big news, folks! Thanks to Facebook user Dallas Mace, we have a potential leak of an upcoming Titans Return deluxe figure: Shockwave! Now, this is still just a rumor, but as some Peg Tags at a North Carolina Walmart have revealed, we have a more than slight indication that a Deluxe Shockwave is in our future. Check out the provided photographic evidence!





This might seem a little *ahem* illogical, however, seeing as he just got a legend-class toy in the Combiner Wars toyline, but hey, at one time during CW we had two different sized versions of Skywarp on the shelves at the same time, so anything can happen!

Will this new Shockwave be revealed later this month at New York Toy Fair? Stay tuned to Seibertron.com to find out, as our coverage will be starting soon!

That's the barcode for FoC Shockwave from a few years ago. Check the gallery and you'll see the barcode # is the same.

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... 2816/2/15/

jamesbenjamin wrote:

Bronzewolf wrote:Big news, folks! Thanks to Facebook user Dallas Mace, we have a potential leak of an upcoming Titans Return deluxe figure: Shockwave! Now, this is still just a rumor, but as some Peg Tags at a North Carolina Walmart have revealed, we have a more than slight indication that a Deluxe Shockwave is in our future. Check out the provided photographic evidence!





This might seem a little *ahem* illogical, however, seeing as he just got a legend-class toy in the Combiner Wars toyline, but hey, at one time during CW we had two different sized versions of Skywarp on the shelves at the same time, so anything can happen!

Will this new Shockwave be revealed later this month at New York Toy Fair? Stay tuned to Seibertron.com to find out, as our coverage will be starting soon!

That's the barcode for FoC Shockwave from a few years ago. Check the gallery and you'll see the barcode # is the same.

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... 2816/2/15/

Well you have to look at the last number for the bar code for the fall of cybertron shockwave then look at the price tag for this shockwave the last number on the foc shockwave is not there on the price tag

OH MY GOD!!!!!!
All I've ever wanted is a Deluxe G1 Shockwave and this could be it!