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[First-Aid]

Wave 2 micromasters? I haven't seen wave 1 yet!

[AcademyofDrX]

They've been out for some time now, if you're frustrated you might just want to order online. I've seen wave 1 at Targets, and Amazon has the cars in stock now. Specialty retailers are also an option. Anyway, they're out there.

[MECHdirge]

I’ve had some difficulty finding exclusives at Target and Walgreens, although I was able to attain Ratchet at my local store. I’ll grab Blue Streak, although I’m crossing my fingers I don’t have to pay the scalper markup. I missed Red Wing because my Target Red Card expired from lack of use (and it was never in my local store). Thus far, I’ve resisted paying $80 to a scalper, although I did pay the a small scalper markup for the Rainmakers and Villains 2 pack. *Shrugs*

[ZeroWolf]

I wish we knew what Barricade looked like. I wonder if they retool his alt-mode? I think it would cool if they made him look a little like the Bay-verse version of his police car

What Barricade? I don't think he's getting an update in Earthrise

[Wolfman Jake]

I wish we knew what Barricade looked like. I wonder if they retool his alt-mode? I think it would cool if they made him look a little like the Bay-verse version of his police car

What Barricade? I don't think he's getting an update in Earthrise

Not that I’ve heard of. Maybe we’ll get something down the line with Kingdom, Netflix, or Selects?

[Autobot N]

I wish we knew what Barricade looked like. I wonder if they retool his alt-mode? I think it would cool if they made him look a little like the Bay-verse version of his police car

What Barricade? I don't think he's getting an update in Earthrise

Not that I’ve heard of. Maybe we’ll get something down the line with Kingdom, Netflix, or Selects?

There's a leaked listing for Netflix Barricade. Also, Deep Cover, an Allicon, and Cheetor. They were leaked around the same time as the Netflix Wave 2 deluxes.

[ZeroWolf]

Ah if its under the netflix line then that might understand why it didn't ring any bells with me

[Wolfman Jake]

I wish we knew what Barricade looked like. I wonder if they retool his alt-mode? I think it would cool if they made him look a little like the Bay-verse version of his police car

What Barricade? I don't think he's getting an update in Earthrise

Not that I’ve heard of. Maybe we’ll get something down the line with Kingdom, Netflix, or Selects?

There's a leaked listing for Netflix Barricade. Also, Deep Cover, an Allicon, and Cheetor. They were leaked around the same time as the Netflix Wave 2 deluxes.

Care to point me in the direction of this Netflix leak? Barricade and Deep Cover are news to me for Netflix. Allicon is already in Earthrise. I don't understand why they'd release another one in Netflix, unless there is a great alternate deco they have in mind. We're already getting the Bailiff retool of the Allicon in the Quinesson Judgment set coming up in September. Cheetor I thought was already slated for Kingdom, so again, I wonder what kind of redeco we'd get. "Dirty Battle Damaged Cheetah" sounds a little odd.

[Autobot N]

Care to point me in the direction of this Netflix leak? Barricade and Deep Cover are news to me for Netflix. Allicon is already in Earthrise. I don't understand why they'd release another one in Netflix, unless there is a great alternate deco they have in mind. We're already getting the Bailiff retool of the Allicon in the Quinesson Judgment set coming up in September. Cheetor I thought was already slated for Kingdom, so again, I wonder what kind of redeco we'd get. "Dirty Battle Damaged Cheetah" sounds a little odd.

Posted here on Seibertron back in May.

[aronjlove]

Slitherfang makes a nice hat

[Sowndwave76]

I dig that Bluestreak... Hope to find him. But I'm still planning on getting Smokescreen, so if BStreak is too much of a pain to find, I'm not worried.

Who else will have Ramjet and Dirge in a week??

[william-james88]

Toysrus reopened in Canada a little while ago but there didn't seem to be anything new. That's all changed now since Earthrise Scorponok and Skylynx have been found along with the Seeker two pack featuring Thundercracker and Skywarp. The sightings come from Ontario. The image below was posted by Havokboix on Cybertron.ca who found these in Mississauga.

There was a 20% off sale this week and these are the prices they were at:

Seeker 2 pack: 63.97 ($49 USD)
Skylynx: 95.97 ($72 USD)
Scorponok: 199.97 ($151 USD)



Also, speaking of Canadian sightings, the battle call Cyberverse figures were found at Walmart for $35 CAD ($27 USD).

[Sowndwave76]

Toysrus reopened in Canada a little while ago but there didn't seem to be anything new. That's all changed now since Earthrise Scorponok and Skylynx have been found along with the Seeker two pack featuring Thundercracker and Skywarp. The sightings come from Ontario. The image below was posted by Havokboix on Cybertron.ca who found these in Mississauga.

There was a 20% off sale this week and these are the prices they were at:

Seeker 2 pack: 63.97 ($49 USD)
Skylynx: 95.97 ($72 USD)
Scorponok: 199.97 ($151 USD)

Those are some nice prices!!


I went into Walmart just a couple days ago, and the TF Siege/ER section was completely empty.
I've never seen a section literally empty like this. There was a lot fro Cyberverse but that was it.
I was just in the Target by me and the only ER figures were 2 Starscreams (there was some Siege stuff).

Does anyone else think that Hastak is pumping the brakes with distributing ER stuff because the show was delayed and the toys for the second part of the show were released waaaay early?
Would a company lose money if they back-out of sending product to stores? Or does Hastak have an established "contract" with a store like Target which reserves peg and shelf space, and if they don't send product, the higher-up's for Target just sit back and think, "Well, it's your product that's not being sold since you're not sending it... As much as we don't like the look of a thinned-out section, we're still making money from the contract we agreed to so we can deal with some empty pegs".
Just seems like for quite a while this area has been really thin with ER stuff...

[ZeroWolf]

I wouldn't say the toys for the second part were released too early, 2020 was always the year for Earthrise. The Combiner Wars cartoon didn't release till after that line had finished. Plus the show wasn't delayed by that much (we're talking months) Siege cartoon was never going to debut when the Siege line was out.

[william-james88]

I wouldn't say the toys for the second part were released too early, 2020 was always the year for Earthrise. The Combiner Wars cartoon didn't release till after that line had finished. Plus the show wasn't delayed by that much (we're talking months) Siege cartoon was never going to debut when the Siege line was out.

Yeah, that's why the toyline accompanying it is the Netflix line, not the siege line.

[o.supreme]

It's Walmart's Netflix War For Cybertron Toys, based on the Netflix War For Cybertron (Siege), show, based on the Hasbro War For Cybertron (Siege) toys.... I mean c'mon how easy is that

[AcademyofDrX]

There is still a global pandemic and nascent recession which is affecting supply chains, staffing, and consumption, as well as retailer priorities. I'm guessing *gestures around at global chaos* all of this probably has more to do with your given stores' stocks than trans-media scheduling.

Also, I don't know how specific exclusive arrangements work, but at a high level stores make their money when they sell products and not when they ... don't.

[Sowndwave76]

There is still a global pandemic and nascent recession which is affecting supply chains, staffing, and consumption, as well as retailer priorities. I'm guessing *gestures around at global chaos* all of this probably has more to do with your given stores' stocks than trans-media scheduling.

Absolutely could be... Just interesting that as I've walked through that store multiple times in the last couple months, nothing else has consistently stood out to me as being sparsely stocked. In other words, the store doesn't look like it's missing 1/3 of it's normal product. And it wouldn't take any examining to notice this.... Seems that all the global chaos would be affecting a lot of various companies.

Also, I don't know how specific exclusive arrangements work, but at a high level stores make their money when they sell products and not when they ... don't.

Right... But a high level store like Target doesn't need to sell TF... That was part of my point.
Selling thousands of products means TF are literally a single drop in the bucket.
So IF Hasbro chose to slow the distribution of toys from a single line such as TF (which no matter the reason is happening in my area), Target as a corporation doesn't need to care much. A decline in toy sales?
Yeah, could spell trouble with only 20 billion in profits to fall back on.

[ScottyP]

My wave 2 Micromasters arrived from EE yesterday and spawned a minor epiphany - I don't care if they never finish these sets/teams. Micromasters deserved better than this output. Astro Squad looks fine as robots but this space shuttle barely holds together. The top panel of the front part is meant to hold by friction over what becomes the back of Fuzer's robot legs and it just can't do it. Blast Master's head can't rotate all the way in because there is literally not clearance to rotate it as shown in the instructions. The cavity it needs to go into is visibly too narrow and not in the "barely too narrow let me grab my hobby knife" kind of way. Ground Hog inherits that thing from a few G1 Micromasters where the back of the feet will have to be worn down over time to easily complete their 180 rotation for alt mode. It may break before that ever happens because after positioning the top of the arms/sidepanels so the front end can barely stay put, I noticed some nasty stressing on the shoulder ball joints already forming. That's with a minute or two of handling. Also, it took me way to long to realize he's entirely the wrong color. The engineering and sculpting is fine in principal but the materials used and final execution doesn't feel adequate or thoroughly tested.

To end on a positive, Roller Force is really cool and doesn't have the problems the others do. I like this one, it's an example of proper execution unlike the other three in this wave.

[AcademyofDrX]

They're so tiny though, there's only so much you can do with a mass-produced product at this size and price point. I'm glad we have them, but I've never expected that much from them. We've only seen them in Generations in this virtual thirty year anniversary line, so I'm not holding out hope for another redo anytime soon.

On the other hand, maybe Minicons will come back into fashion and we'll get a different set of updated tiny Transformers that learn from this line's opportunities.

[ScottyP]

They're so tiny though, there's only so much you can do with a mass-produced product at this size and price point. I'm glad we have them, but I've never expected that much from them. We've only seen them in Generations in this virtual thirty year anniversary line, so I'm not holding out hope for another redo anytime soon.

On the other hand, maybe Minicons will come back into fashion and we'll get a different set of updated tiny Transformers that learn from this line's opportunities.

Mini-Cons are a great counterpoint to these Micromasters because it feels like these new ones are a step backwards in evolution from the Armada/Cybertron era Mini-Cons.

[aronjlove]

Did anybody else get an email from Pulse saying Arcee is delayed until 10/10? I wonder if any other figures will be delayed...

[Emerje]

Slitherfang makes a nice hat

Emerje

[First-Aid]

Slitherfang makes a nice hat

Emerje

Thank you for this. My exact thoughts. COOOBRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

[Deadput]

Speaking of Zetar and interaction with Earthrise figures, my Ironworks figure came in today and I had a dissembled Zetar around and well...



"Ironworks this is an intervention, stop torturing poor Zetar and put him back together"

"Heh heh, drill hand goes bzzzzzzzzz"

"Help...me"




Kinda scary how well it works, it's even convincing if you hide Zetar's face.