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Bronzewolf wrote: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.

I would like to emphatically and unequivocably dispel this rumor.

The way the Walmart computer inventory is set up, you have your generic description of an assortment (like TRA DLX TITANS RETURN) and then you have your specific, individual toys in the assortment, which are all linked to that main UPC. The generic description usually shows up on the shipping labels, and the shelf tags, but the computer can also identify individual items so that the receipt you get at the cash register can be more specific about what you bought.

When you print off all the shelf tags at once, on a big sheet of perforated paper, it will always show you the generic description. If you scan an individual toy, though, and it calls up the description of that specific toy, it's possible to print a shelf tag with that character's name on it. This, in and of itself, doesn't mean anything.

Walmart tends to fold new toys into existing computer assortments. The current Deluxe-class toys from the Titans Return line, for example, share a computer file with Combiner Wars toys and Deluxe toys from Age of Extinction and even a few stragglers from Fall of Cybertron. Walmart just isn't in the habit of purging old computer data.

The only thing proven by this shelf tag with Shockwave's name on it is that somebody scanned an old Shockwave toy and printed a label. It does not indicate that there is a new toy coming.

Source: Walmart employee since 2003, toy department manager since 2013.


Zob

william-james88 wrote:Thanks! I realize it sounded like I was speaking ill of Toy Dojo, but my main point was to show that there are fans out there who really dont care and will pay that price. That always surprises me.

Ha that doesn't surprise me anymore. And if I'm not mistaken, I believe Toy Dojo refreshed their stock of wave 4 from early overseas, so this is the second time they're sold out. Some folks got cash to burn!

Zobovor wrote:

Bronzewolf wrote: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.

I would like to emphatically and unequivocably dispel this rumor.

The way the Walmart computer inventory is set up, you have your generic description of an assortment (like TRA DLX TITANS RETURN) and then you have your specific, individual toys in the assortment, which are all linked to that main UPC. The generic description usually shows up on the shipping labels, and the shelf tags, but the computer can also identify individual items so that the receipt you get at the cash register can be more specific about what you bought.

When you print off all the shelf tags at once, on a big sheet of perforated paper, it will always show you the generic description. If you scan an individual toy, though, and it calls up the description of that specific toy, it's possible to print a shelf tag with that character's name on it. This, in and of itself, doesn't mean anything.

Walmart tends to fold new toys into existing computer assortments. The current Deluxe-class toys from the Titans Return line, for example, share a computer file with Combiner Wars toys and Deluxe toys from Age of Extinction and even a few stragglers from Fall of Cybertron. Walmart just isn't in the habit of purging old computer data.

The only thing proven by this shelf tag with Shockwave's name on it is that somebody scanned an old Shockwave toy and printed a label. It does not indicate that there is a new toy coming.

Source: Walmart employee since 2003, toy department manager since 2013.


Zob

Thanks for the in-depth info! Yes, someone already pointed out the code matches Call Of Cybertron Shockwave, so we've updated the article as such. Again, though, the info is very helpful!

Stuartmaximus wrote:You sure it's not 86?

While it's perhaps natural to assume that Broadside was decorated with the year that his toy was released, the correct orientation of the hull number is so that pilots can read the number as they're landing on the flight deck. (Of course, this was a consumer-applied sticker, so it probably wasn't uncommon for kids to apply the sticker upside-down.)

Broadside is actually number 98, because his aircraft carrier mode was modeled after the real-life U.S.S. Nimitz, whose hull number was CVN-68. This wasn't the first time Hasbro/Takara did a tricky number-swap. Smokescreen had the racing number 38, because his toy was based on the real-life race car of Don Devendorf, which was number 83.


Zob

Just been having some fun with all these new Cons I've found.















Krok and the Foggybottom Swamp Bandits













Special thanks to Walgreens.
Lots more pics starting here

Ok guys, back to the whole "Misfire, Twintwist & Windblade is the next wave" thing...

I did some looking at the projected product codes, and with those three figures, they don't check out. Here's what I have so far:

Leader Class
C2388 Overlord

Titan Master Class
C2389 Optimus Prime
C2390 Trizer
C2391 Ramhorn

(...)

Voyager Class
C2396 Octane/Tankor
C2397 Blitzwing

Legends Class
C2398 Autobot Cosmos
C2399 Seaspray

As you can tell there's a gap: C2392, C2393, C2394 and C2395, four codes, not three. Usually waves are contained within a series, have a gap like that is odd.

I checked against the RiD line as well as the new movie line: no such codes, RiD is at C09** and the movie is at C13**, no where near C23**.

Zobovor wrote:Source: Walmart employee since 2003, toy department manager since 2013.


Zob

Boy do I have a ton of questions for you then, hopefully you wont mind.

As of right now, Hasbro has no Titans Return toys on hand to ship to anyone. So if Walmart makes another order, it will be a back order. A lot of people here dont see any of these Titans Return toys on the shelves, so my question to you is, could it be that Walmart has a lot of inventory but they simply havent had time to put it on the shelves yet? If there is no embargo, what is the usual delay between Walmart recieving new stock from a distributor and placing it on the shelves for people to buy? Have you noticed this Transformers line sell better than others or is it because less product is ordered? Can you recomend your store to order more? Would you?

Zobovor wrote:Smokescreen had the racing number 38, because his toy was based on the real-life race car of Don Devendorf, which was number 83.


Zob

Actually, the car raced under both numbers, so it's not inverted for whatever reason

Meanwhile one of my local Walmarts got another case of Deluxe wave 3 in. Triggerhappy was long gone, but I've got these guys already so that's fine, they probably went to a good home. Still no sign of Soundwave (seen him once at a Target) and Six Shot or wave 3 Voyagers and Legends, just TMs and Deluxe. Wave 4 can wait just a little longer as far as I'm concerned.

Emerje

I want Astrotrain, although he isn't available on Toys R Us yet, I've only seen Wave 3 and 4 Voyagers
Is he still available?

Any of you guys shelfwarming him or making some fun modes at him? (I'm talking to those who have Astrotrain )

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Ok guys, back to the whole "Misfire, Twintwist & Windblade is the next wave" thing...



As you can tell there's a gap: C2392, C2393, C2394 and C2395, four codes, not three. Usually waves are contained within a series, have a gap like that is odd.
.

I'm skipping Windblade, she's like have 3 series of toys already
The other two seems quite promising

Walgreens in Evansville IN, they are 17.99 each but at least I am done with these...just 4 more to go!

Cobotron wrote:Just been having some fun with all these new Cons I've found.

One of the coolest thing on TriggerHappy is that he can do a Gerwalk Mode
Also, that's alot of Transformers!

Albatross250 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Ok guys, back to the whole "Misfire, Twintwist & Windblade is the next wave" thing...



As you can tell there's a gap: C2392, C2393, C2394 and C2395, four codes, not three. Usually waves are contained within a series, have a gap like that is odd.
.

I'm skipping Windblade, she's like have 3 series of toys already
The other two seems quite promising

Not as promising as Crosshairs, Nightbeat, Slugslinger and Needlenose

In my neck of the woods (SEA), Sixshot has like made a large number of stocks in TRU. 3x Optimus is like nowhere to be found.

Hotrod, Kup, Perceptor, Gnaw, Brawn and Kickback? zilch

Zobovor wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:You sure it's not 86?

While it's perhaps natural to assume that Broadside was decorated with the year that his toy was released, the correct orientation of the hull number is so that pilots can read the number as they're landing on the flight deck. (Of course, this was a consumer-applied sticker, so it probably wasn't uncommon for kids to apply the sticker upside-down.)

Broadside is actually number 98, because his aircraft carrier mode was modeled after the real-life U.S.S. Nimitz, whose hull number was CVN-68. This wasn't the first time Hasbro/Takara did a tricky number-swap. Smokescreen had the racing number 38, because his toy was based on the real-life race car of Don Devendorf, which was number 83.


Zob

Ah right, thanks i think someone mentioned some of that previously

Speaking of Broadside....someone's done a fanfix for the jet mode


& someone has painted the arielbots that came with him


makes me now wonder if Takara Tomy will paint the arielbots
I would also love to see a fan custom job done on Broadside...as a helicarrier, i think that could work

That jet mode does look better, but I wonder just how secure it is like that? Doesn't look like the back half can lock together.

Emerje

Cobotron wrote:

Krok and the Foggybottom Swamp Bandits

I read that as Krok and the Soggy Bottom Boys

"In constant sorrow through his days
I am a con of constant sorrow
I've seen trouble all my day
I bid farewell to old Kaon city
The place where I was forged and raised"

That works too!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Ok guys, back to the whole "Misfire, Twintwist & Windblade is the next wave" thing...

I did some looking at the projected product codes, and with those three figures, they don't check out. Here's what I have so far:

Leader Class
C2388 Overlord

Titan Master Class
C2389 Optimus Prime
C2390 Trizer
C2391 Ramhorn

(...)

Voyager Class
C2396 Octane/Tankor
C2397 Blitzwing

Legends Class
C2398 Autobot Cosmos
C2399 Seaspray

As you can tell there's a gap: C2392, C2393, C2394 and C2395, four codes, not three. Usually waves are contained within a series, have a gap like that is odd.

I checked against the RiD line as well as the new movie line: no such codes, RiD is at C09** and the movie is at C13**, no where near C23**.

While I do hope that it is 4 deluxe figures we're getting couldn't one of those codes being to a 4th Titan master? Titan masters have so far only been released in 4's even in wave 4 where there's only 2 new ones they still added in two old ones to keep the cases even.

Quake is cool, but I don't think I'll bother. He's too obviously just Hardhead with a different palette and face.

Krok though...I think I'm convinced.

Sigma Magnus wrote::BANG_HEAD:

Whats wrong sigma?

william-james88 wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote::BANG_HEAD:

Whats wrong sigma?

...check the attachment?

Sigma Magnus wrote:

Just checked mine, and, sure enough, it's totally broken - thanks hasblow, you can literally ruin any figure now, can't you?

(not that - in this specific case that the tt offering is better, as that too is prone to breakage, but that back piece, really didn't have to be part soft rubber, they could have just left it unpainted for all the good it did his beast mode)

On the (only and very bleak) plus side, my tr grimlock has a shiny new scimitar befitting his character