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News Credits: 20 · by **Tuned Agent** » Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:04 pm

Barricade was on the shelves for a good while in my area, I saw him multiple times. The deluxes were the only figures from the final wave that ever showed up in my neck of the woods, plus maybe Direct-Hit and Power Punch. Never once saw Apeface, Astrotrain, or Ratbat and Rumble.

News Credits: 317 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Thu Mar 19, 2020 7:20 pm

Emerje wrote:
Sentinel_Primal wrote:Only major member of Soundwave's crew left is Buzzsaw, but I could easily see him being packaged with a repainted Ravage, maybe as Glit or Howlback

Overkill and Slugfest might like to have a word with you. They at least got to be in the cartoon, unlike Beastbox and Squawktalk. Maybe Buzzsaw can be paired with Enemy in a future Selects set since his "partner" Wingthing (they've been paired together twice now) is already being made.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Is nemesis prime still happening? I haven't heard a peep about it.

Why wouldn't he be? He's still scheduled for the end of March so we should be seeing some in hand pics soon.

Emerje

After the initial announcement there wasn't a peep. No prototype pics no magazine teasers, nothing.

News Credits: 23 · by **aronjlove** » Thu Mar 19, 2020 9:50 pm

So I brought Siege Prime and one of my Rungs home from work and realized two Rungs and Siege Prime's backpack combine into a sweet jetpack

News Credits: 436 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:01 am

aronjlove wrote:

So I brought Siege Prime and one of my Rungs home from work and realized two Rungs and Siege Prime's backpack combine into a sweet jetpack

"Transform! God On!"

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 1:22 pm

Man, Prime just can't get enough jet packs... first he steals Sideswipe's, in an alternative universe he turns Jetfire into one, now he's duplicating another bot to use and it turns out he already had one to begin with.

Reminds me of the end of AoE :lol:

BTW, very cool use of Rung ;)^

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 1:26 pm

You also forgot the Unicron Trilogy universe where he combined with other characters to get a jet pack :lol:

till Cybertron where his own super mode give one

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 1:30 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:You also forgot the Unicron Trilogy universe where he combined with other characters to get a jet pack till Cybertron where his own super mode give one

I wouldn't say forgotten as much as I'd say completely ignorant of.

by **ZeldaTheSwordsman** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 1:32 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:You also forgot the Unicron Trilogy universe where he combined with other characters to get a jet pack till Cybertron where his own super mode give one

And a mighty damn fine one it is. So fine they resurrected it for this line.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 2:36 pm

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:You also forgot the Unicron Trilogy universe where he combined with other characters to get a jet pack till Cybertron where his own super mode give one
And a mighty damn fine one it is. So fine they resurrected it for this line.

Agreed. I think the designers really out did themselves with him. He's a beast of a toy and ever so fun to handle.

by **negativedan** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 3:27 pm

Bit the the bullet and ordered the Ratbat/Rumble set from an ebay seller in China. Seems like it was the best option but I didn't realize the instructions would be in Chinese, anyone have and English Ratbat/Rumble instruction sheet they'd be willing to part with? (I collect them, not that I'm having trouble with the transformation lol)

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 7:31 pm

negativedan wrote:Bit the the bullet and ordered the Ratbat/Rumble set from an ebay seller in China. Seems like it was the best option but I didn't realize the instructions would be in Chinese, anyone have and English Ratbat/Rumble instruction sheet they'd be willing to part with? (I collect them, not that I'm having trouble with the transformation lol)

It's not the same, but Hasbro will provide a PDF by request.

by **negativedan** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 7:34 pm

carytheone wrote:
negativedan wrote:Bit the the bullet and ordered the Ratbat/Rumble set from an ebay seller in China. Seems like it was the best option but I didn't realize the instructions would be in Chinese, anyone have and English Ratbat/Rumble instruction sheet they'd be willing to part with? (I collect them, not that I'm having trouble with the transformation lol)
It's not the same, but Hasbro will provide a PDF by request.

LOL Funny story I actually tried them hoping for a physical one but all they could provide was a PDF... Of the Chinese instructions...

News Credits: 131 · by **no-one** » Sat Mar 21, 2020 7:27 am

negativedan wrote:
carytheone wrote:
negativedan wrote:Bit the the bullet and ordered the Ratbat/Rumble set from an ebay seller in China. Seems like it was the best option but I didn't realize the instructions would be in Chinese, anyone have and English Ratbat/Rumble instruction sheet they'd be willing to part with? (I collect them, not that I'm having trouble with the transformation lol)
It's not the same, but Hasbro will provide a PDF by request.
LOL Funny story I actually tried them hoping for a physical one but all they could provide was a PDF... Of the Chinese instructions...

Oh Hasbro

I've got a set on order from aliexpress, guess I'll be in the same boat.

News Credits: 18 · by **blackeyedprime** » Mon Mar 23, 2020 4:29 pm

The Netflix bots (megatron, hotlink) are out in blighty thanks to CyclonusG1s sighting, bad news for us, is that the toyshop doesn't sell food unlike walmart, so we can't go to the shop to buy them

News Credits: 10 · by **sol magnus** » Mon Mar 23, 2020 4:52 pm

While my Earthrise post went unread for the Gallery news, I just ordered Siege Spoiler Pack Ultra Magnus. Guess I'm going to give my other Ultra Magnus to my boy.

News Credits: 23 · by **aronjlove** » Mon Mar 23, 2020 6:03 pm

sol magnus wrote:While my Earthrise post went unread for the Gallery news, I just ordered Siege Spoiler Pack Ultra Magnus. Guess I'm going to give my other Ultra Magnus to my boy.

I'm about to do the same this coming paycheck. The thought of a Battle Rung has me very intrigued.

News Credits: 4499 · by **william-james88** » Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:27 pm

While all of Canada is in quarantine, Walmart is remaining open and some fans have stopped by the toy aisle while getting groceries. From these visits, several fans have brought back sightings of both the Megatron and Hotlink box sets which are part of Walmart's exclusive line of Siege repaints for the Transformers Netflix Series. Here is a specific sighting from Alex, over at Cybertron.ca, who found these in Calgary:

Today I went to the Deerfoot WM. There were 2x Netflix Megatron and 2x Netflix Hotlink (Bought 1 Hotlink).

Megatron looks really good, nice silver paint and plastic with shading done in silver paint on his legs.

Hotlink is great, dark grey plastic with shading in both metallic purple and pale purple (almost lilac) paints. He's not as dark as seen on stock images.
Targetmasters (Heatstroke and Heartbrun) are unimpressive, what you see is what you get.

Now, while sightings can be exciting news, please remember that this is a time of crisis and it has been advised to only venture out if need be. Stay safe fellow fans!

News Credits: 1641 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Mon Mar 23, 2020 10:05 pm

I'm interested to see if Walmart will honor the original 4/7 release date for the online pre-orders, with all that has happened lately

News Credits: 6 · by **Sarahthecutevixen** » Mon Mar 23, 2020 11:06 pm

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I'm interested to see if Walmart will honor the original 4/7 release date for the online pre-orders, with all that has happened lately

4/7?
where are you getting that

News Credits: 1641 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:57 am

Sarahthecutevixen wrote:
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I'm interested to see if Walmart will honor the original 4/7 release date for the online pre-orders, with all that has happened lately

4/7?
where are you getting that

My order states 4/7 as the release date from my 2/22 pre-order

News Credits: 20 · by **Tuned Agent** » Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:14 am

I wonder if Hotlink would make a good base for a custom Skywarp. :-?

by **ZeldaTheSwordsman** » Tue Mar 24, 2020 12:37 pm

Tuned Agent wrote:I wonder if Hotlink would make a good base for a custom Skywarp.

Eh... For one thing, I think these releases will be a bit rarer than the main SIEGE stuff. For another, he seems to have the frowning head (Yes, I know the official Skywarp had that - and that was stupid).. I guess if that doesn't bother you.. But then, if that doesn't bother you you could also repaint Starscream (who is not exactly hard to find).

What I would do with Hotlink is strip off the excessive black weathering. Because it's just too much in his case. Unless they toned it down for the production version...

News Credits: 18 · by **blackeyedprime** » Tue Mar 24, 2020 12:43 pm

He's way too shway to be turned into skywarp, though it doesn't look like he will be as hard to get. He should go nicely with redwing. Photo lifted from CyclonusG1s post.

by **ZeldaTheSwordsman** » Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:02 pm

Oh good, they did throttle back on the weathering for the production version. On the toy fair version and the stock image, the black weathering obscured most of his base plastic color!