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Fellow Seibertronian bodrock has finally found Titans Return Sixshot as US retail. More specifically, he found it at TaRget, in Portland Oregon, the city where the 90s never ended. Here is what he had to say:

bodrock wrote:I just found and impulse-bought Sixshot at Target -- I'm annoyed at my lack of willpower, but imho, DAT FACE is cool! And the poseability over the G1 original is quite obvious.
All I wanted was Repugnus & Shuffler today, maybe Kup, Percy or Topspin if I saw 'em....Sixshot ended my hunt due to his price tag.

This is the first sighting of this toy at a brick and mortar store in the US. We have yet to spot Sky Shadow , Broadside, Brawn or Roadburn at US retail so if any of you do, please let us know!

He is also in stock on HasbroToyShop at the moment for $44.99

william-james88 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:- Voyagers: Prime is a straight redeco

Yeah but the mold was literally the G2 Prime design. The one we got at retail is the predeco

Very good point indeed. Have a cookie

william-james88 wrote:

- Leader: Magnus Prime is a redeco of an import, Quickswitch has new parts.

Anything else aside from his face and helmet?

It still counts...

Anyone who has Megatron: how do you get the bloody legs to work in alt mode? I cannot get his tank mode close to the ground and the legs just won't work

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Anyone who has Megatron: how do you get the bloody legs to work in alt mode? I cannot get his tank mode close to the ground and the legs just won't work

Right, yeah, that's the one other annoying thing I forgot about him. There's slots in his upper thighs for the lower legs to tab into. They're a bugger to actually get plugged in and I always dread getting to them; they're so easy to miss too at first.

william-james88 wrote:Fellow Seibertronian bodrock has finally found Titans Return Sixshot as US retail. More specifically, he found it at TaRget, in Portland Oregon, the city where the 90s never ended.

I see what you did there

So I know it's not the best megatron, but he's pretty damn cool

I'd be all over that Megatron if he were either a nice flat grey or a good shiny silver. That weird "Almost but not quite metallic" grey that's trying sooooo hard to be silver just looks horrible. The use of stickers kinda sucks too. Did Hasbro forget how tampographs work?

It Is Him wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Fellow Seibertronian bodrock has finally found Titans Return Sixshot as US retail. More specifically, he found it at TaRget, in Portland Oregon, the city where the 90s never ended.

I see what you did there

I did a few things there

And speaking of portlandia

SW's SilverHammer wrote:So I know it's not the best megatron, but he's pretty damn cool

I agree 100%

You just might be able to peg a Titan Master into the front guns on Cosmos.

Kurona wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Anyone who has Megatron: how do you get the bloody legs to work in alt mode? I cannot get his tank mode close to the ground and the legs just won't work

Right, yeah, that's the one other annoying thing I forgot about him. There's slots in his upper thighs for the lower legs to tab into. They're a bugger to actually get plugged in and I always dread getting to them; they're so easy to miss too at first.

I saw them but can't get to them. I got one leg to work but not the other. I'm scared to force it any more than I have

Kurona wrote:

Noideaforaname wrote:The Cosmos thing is weird because we don't really ever get straight re-releases. Not for tail-enders, not for troopbuilders, not even for perennial favorites.

I'd have liked a repaint, myself. Something gunmetal grey like a stereotypical flying saucer (tho Cosmos echos the UFOs from the old Mars Attacks! cards, which is just delightful!), maybe using that Scrounge head for extra B-movie alien robot-ness. But hey, more Cosmos is never a bad thing. Hope this version actually casts the head in red instead of just painting it...

Give me my pathfinderrrrrrr

Wasn't there supposed to be a Beachcomber coming soon? Why do I get the feeling Cosmos was a last minute replacement for a different figure they didn't have ready in time.

Ok, got Megatrons legs to work. Wow is this figure difficult. I'm having a ton of difficulty with him. He is very fiddly and not really much fun at the moment.

RiddlerJ wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Noideaforaname wrote:The Cosmos thing is weird because we don't really ever get straight re-releases. Not for tail-enders, not for troopbuilders, not even for perennial favorites.

I'd have liked a repaint, myself. Something gunmetal grey like a stereotypical flying saucer (tho Cosmos echos the UFOs from the old Mars Attacks! cards, which is just delightful!), maybe using that Scrounge head for extra B-movie alien robot-ness. But hey, more Cosmos is never a bad thing. Hope this version actually casts the head in red instead of just painting it...

Give me my pathfinderrrrrrr

Wasn't there supposed to be a Beachcomber coming soon? Why do I get the feeling Cosmos was a last minute replacement for a different figure they didn't have ready in time.

Beachcomber was rumored, but never properly confirmed. Cosmos was in the plans for a good while, he even got a product code that's in line with the rest of his wave.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Ok, got Megatrons legs to work. Wow is this figure difficult. I'm having a ton of difficulty with him. He is very fiddly and not really much fun at the moment.

I am so sorry that your experience with these figures you were hotly anticipating havent panned out too well.

Another speculation for a Firepower set: Voyager Megs in G2 deco?

william-james88 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Ok, got Megatrons legs to work. Wow is this figure difficult. I'm having a ton of difficulty with him. He is very fiddly and not really much fun at the moment.

I am so sorry that your experience with these figures you were hotly anticipating havent panned out too well.

Hopefully I'll find the deluxes and they will be better soon. Sixshot was a hot letdown and Megatron isn't that good either. I wasn't even going to get him, it was an impulse buy. Sigh

RodimusRex wrote:Another speculation for a Firepower set: Voyager Megs in G2 deco?

Or flywheels using that mold maybe

I suppose I'll throw my theory of the next box sets out there

Firepower: God Bomber, Shockwave from Galvatron (might sound odd however he's the only voyager to not have a second use yet), bomb burst from mindwipe or possibly crosshairs from Kup, wingspan, and I have no idea for the Titan master maybe black zarak.

Intelligence: leaders are hard since there's not too many uses you can get out of the current molds but I really think Dia Atlas is a good candidate seeing as how the base mode for sky shadow is based on his original one, vector prime out of alpha trion, I like the magnificus idea but I think carnivac is more likely, cloudraker, and maybe shockwave as the Titan master if he's not the voyager in the other set.

steals_your_goats wrote:I suppose I'll throw my theory of the next box sets out there

Firepower: God Bomber, Shockwave from Galvatron (might sound odd however he's the only voyager to not have a second use yet), bomb burst from mindwipe or possibly crosshairs from Kup, wingspan, and I have no idea for the Titan master maybe black zarak.

Intelligence: leaders are hard since there's not too many uses you can get out of the current molds but I really think Dia Atlas is a good candidate seeing as how the base mode for sky shadow is based on his original one, vector prime out of alpha trion, I like the magnificus idea but I think carnivac is more likely, cloudraker, and maybe shockwave as the Titan master if he's not the voyager in the other set.

Oh man, both of these sets sound excellent!

william-james88 wrote:

steals_your_goats wrote:I suppose I'll throw my theory of the next box sets out there

Firepower: God Bomber, Shockwave from Galvatron (might sound odd however he's the only voyager to not have a second use yet), bomb burst from mindwipe or possibly crosshairs from Kup, wingspan, and I have no idea for the Titan master maybe black zarak.

Intelligence: leaders are hard since there's not too many uses you can get out of the current molds but I really think Dia Atlas is a good candidate seeing as how the base mode for sky shadow is based on his original one, vector prime out of alpha trion, I like the magnificus idea but I think carnivac is more likely, cloudraker, and maybe shockwave as the Titan master if he's not the voyager in the other set.

Oh man, both of these sets sound excellent!

Given that most of the rumors that have come out have been true I honestly think that these are real possibilities. Except magnificus and dia atlas since they weren't rumored, but neither was metalhawk and here we are.

For Firepower and Intelligence heads, maybe Sunstreaker and Shockwave for Firepower, Wheeljack and Starscream for Intelligence?

RodimusRex wrote:For Firepower and Intelligence heads, maybe Sunstreaker and Shockwave for Firepower, Wheeljack and Starscream for Intelligence?

What do you mean by heads? There is only 1 titan master head per box set.

Black Hat wrote:The use of stickers kinda sucks too. Did Hasbro forget how tampographs work?

Those likely cost more money than these obviously sh|t quality stickers


And, as always, be sure to tune in later to see how much more of a profit hasbro makes this quarter, chances are, these stickers will have had something to do with it

Wait a minute. What if... in Intelligence... Nightbeat. Probably just wishful thinking on my part since I really want a Nightbeat out of this line, but I mean he was rumored and I think (hope) that the rumor wasn't just that reissue of the head version in Wave 4.

Come to think of it, how cool would it be to have a boxset or two of characters we "almost got"? Just to name some that might be relatively within the realm of possibility: Leader Thunderwing, Voyager Flywheels as D-Max suggested, Deluxe Nightbeat or Siren, Legends I dunno but surely there's someone (maybe a Legends-class Repugnus? It'd be a step up from TM, and clearly new-mold Legends or equivalent aren't off the table. Brawn would've been perfect here if he hadn't already gotten a second toy)... the only thing that would be hard would be the Titan Master class since the whole raison d'être is to give better toys to disappointingly-TM characters.

(I mean, obviously, this isn't even so much as speculation since the chances of a boxset with that 'theme' are next to nil - more of a hypothetical perfect scenario I suppose. Still, the idea seems cool to me even if it's not an actual possibility.)

I can totally see Leader Thunderwing in a boxset.