Phew, you'd think people would be happier about us passing along sightings news, even if it is a bit out of date, but then I come in here to this thread and it's just, well, speaks for itself really.
KirbyForce1 wrote:Saw one of these about a week ago (about a week ago) at my local ASDA.
Kyleor wrote:I spotted these back on March 14
Primeultimus wrote:Found this 2 months ago at Target and Walmart.
Tsutsukakushi wrote:Saw this at a Target store yesterday and a few weeks ago.
Bumblevivisector wrote:I'm honestly shocked that this warranted a front paged sighting. Not only has this been in stock for over a month at Westland's TRU, we've consistently had more of it than any other hyperchange figure.
Drift082111 wrote:I didn't know it was news. The hyper change Optimii seemed to be so prevalent in the Central New York State area so I for one didn't even think these were hard to come by.
TimothyR wrote:yeah.. this thing has been saturated in stores for over a month... i'm not sure how it qualifies as news.
It's very clear to me that there is still extreme confusion to the site's policies for what kind of sightings qualify as news, and how we obtain that information. I for one don't scour the internet for sightings news, I generally just check things here (or get emails sent to staff copied over to us podcasters about stuff) to know what's out and what isn't. I'd known this thing was online for awhile, but genuinely had no idea it was in stores until yesterday.
So all that said, once again for everyone reading this, here's the site's general guidelines for reporting a sighting as "news":
- First reported sighting for a given region, such as "United States", "Canada", or "UK".
- Said sighting is emailed, with picture proof, to news@seibertron.com or sightings@seibertron.com
- Said sighting is emailed, with picture proof, to news@seibertron.com or sightings@seibertron.com
- Yes, I listed that twice. Site staff does not roam the boards checking sightings. It's not a feasible activity and it can turn into a bunch of work, and we're all volunteers here. Once in awhile, yes, we may catch a thread post and news it, but this is the exception. You have to let us know and email is what we monitor. Pretty easy to check that info out even on the go, on even the cheapest of smartphones.
- Generally, must be a newer toy. This is relatively new, probably hitting distribution saturation just now, hence I actually saw it in NC at last If we went back and looked through news and couldn't find a newspost about RiD 2015 Legions Wave 1, well, sorry that wouldn't be news anymore, but if you're out and see Wave 3 (Fixit/Underbite), let us know!
- If you aren't sure whether or not to report something, here's an easy thing to do. Take a picture with your phone while you're out, and later on run a quick search of either our news, or heck, even go to google and search "(Insert Toy Name Here) Seibertron" and you'll almost definitely just get hits of our news articles related to it, including sightings. No sighting for your region? Email us!
So remember, if you think this news is horribly out of date, the power is in your hands to help us out on being more current in the future. To those already doing it, and to those helping us point out what's missing in the database, you rock! Hope this helps, I'm off to mess around with this Optimus some more now