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I really wish that Hasbro would run their own online store, rather than contracting through someone else. Kind of defeats the point of buying from "Hasbro Toy Shop" when you still aren't buying direct. I wonder if TRU going under might spur Hasbro and Mattel to launch outlet stores...

o.supreme wrote:I just sent a customer service e-mail to HTS. There has to be a better way. There is no way to know if an item is in stock or not other than checking daily. Even if you log in, and put them in your "wish list" there is no notification that I am aware of... . (I just noticed the wave 1 prime masters were still on my list, I happened to purchase them in late Jan, but received no notification they were ever in stock...) If PotP Hun-Gurr appears before end of month, and I miss an opportunity to get it at 20% off, I'll be ticked...

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I mean I know TF fans are dedicated. But I really question how many of these they had if they all sold between 2-4am (PDT), which I know would be 5-7am EDT, but still...

I hate you HTS..........

ok so earlier when I checked they had everything PotP in stock except Elita-1 & Hun-Gurr. Now when I check they have nothing in stock for PotP. I mean I have all the ones I want so far except Hun-Gurr...but is it just HTS being glitch again, or are they really completely wiped out?

o.supreme wrote:

o.supreme wrote:I just sent a customer service e-mail to HTS. There has to be a better way. There is no way to know if an item is in stock or not other than checking daily. Even if you log in, and put them in your "wish list" there is no notification that I am aware of... . (I just noticed the wave 1 prime masters were still on my list, I happened to purchase them in late Jan, but received no notification they were ever in stock...) If PotP Hun-Gurr appears before end of month, and I miss an opportunity to get it at 20% off, I'll be ticked...

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I mean I know TF fans are dedicated. But I really question how many of these they had if they all sold between 2-4am (PDT), which I know would be 5-7am EDT, but still...

I hate you HTS..........

It's terrible how those sold out before 8am. Either they had very low inventory, or the scalpers cleaned up. Absolutely terrible either way.

Scalpers are obviously having a field day with these 2, HTS really needs to do back orders or something cause this is complete crap.

I want pink feet for my elita combiner. Mine came with black feet (tfsource) Can anyone confirm that the pink feet actually exist ? Or is that just the promotional art and the color got changed in production?

Great news. The feet ARE pink... just under black paint now. You can use 90+% alcohol to remove the paint. That's exactly what I'm doing ... as soon as I find one. sigh.

gothsaurus wrote:Great news. The feet ARE pink... just under black paint now. You can use 90+% alcohol to remove the paint. That's exactly what I'm doing ... as soon as I find one. sigh.

The one my minions found in store has da peach feet. No black paint to remove...

That's great news!! And wow... like... I need some minions.

Thanks for the heads up. That will free up a weekend for doing some OTHER custom project besides pink feet.

The Amazon Starscream got down to $16.17 as far as I can tell. It was going down a few cents at a time (a few time an hour I think) since this past weekend.

It is now back up to $16.55 since it got down to $16.17 this morning. For those who are interested, this might be the time to get it discounted.

Once again...

THESE WEAPONS SUK SO VERY, VERY HARD!!!

Bounti76 wrote:

Yeah, I get where you are coming from. The pistols are way too small, and the feet look less like girl feet and more like monster feet.

Maybe a third party will make us some Victorion style feet in pink.

Well I got a response from HTS. It was everything I would expect, from a bot or monkey. Not sure if it was an actual human responding:

Hello,
We apologize, but no, we don’t have a notification procedure for our consumers when items go into stock.

Thank you for shopping with us and have a nice day.

That's nice and all...but I guess I really wont be doing any shopping if they don't have anything in stock for more than 2 hours in the middle of the FREAKIN NIGHT!

Oh and I love that they want you to review products. Now I was one of the fortunate ones that did snag TR Ramhorn because he was available for slightly more then 2 hours in the middle of the day, I'm sure you are all enjoying my quite extensive review of him right now, weighing it in the balance if you want to purchase this item or not...

o.supreme wrote:Well I got a response from HTS. It was everything I would expect, from a bot or monkey. Not sure if it was an actual human responding:

Hello,
We apologize, but no, we don’t have a notification procedure for our consumers when items go into stock.

Thank you for shopping with us and have a nice day.

That's nice and all...but I guess I really wont be doing any shopping if they don't have anything in stock for more than 2 hours in the middle of the FREAKIN NIGHT!

Oh and I love that they want you to review products. Now I was one of the fortunate ones that did snag TR Ramhorn because he was available for slightly more then 2 hours in the middle of the day, I'm sure you are all enjoying my quite extensive review of him right now, weighing it in the balance if you want to purchase this item or not...

That doesn't tick me off as much as when you have to luck out & be online at whatever random time they put exclusives on sale in the afternoon that sell out in 10 minutes. I was fortunate to get 2 out of the 3 I wanted last year, but still kinda bummed out that I missed out on Primitive Optimus.

Z3ROhour wrote:Once again...

THESE WEAPONS SUK SO VERY, VERY HARD!!!

gothsaurus wrote:Yeah, I get where you are coming from. The pistols are way too small,

They're actually supposed to be her shoulder spikes, like the ones she had in the cartoon that were akin to Optimus's shoulder smokestacks.

o.supreme wrote:Well I got a response from HTS. It was everything I would expect, from a bot or monkey. Not sure if it was an actual human responding:

Hello,
We apologize, but no, we don’t have a notification procedure for our consumers when items go into stock.

Thank you for shopping with us and have a nice day.

That's nice and all...but I guess I really wont be doing any shopping if they don't have anything in stock for more than 2 hours in the middle of the FREAKIN NIGHT!

Oh and I love that they want you to review products. Now I was one of the fortunate ones that did snag TR Ramhorn because he was available for slightly more then 2 hours in the middle of the day, I'm sure you are all enjoying my quite extensive review of him right now, weighing it in the balance if you want to purchase this item or not...

Well if you look now on HTS Elita and Hun Gurr aren't just out of stock, they actually deleted them off the site. Even POTP Grimlock is still there, even though he's been out of stock for ages. They have the inmates running the asylum over there I think.

ok. Thanks sincerely for the note about the little blasters being for her shoulders. Cheers!

gothsaurus wrote:ok. Thanks sincerely for the note about the little blasters being for her shoulders. Cheers!

Yeah, I got the feeling that the original animators might have wanted to make Optimus's female Autobot Leader counterpart have something from his design to serve as a visual representation of her leadership position, and so chose to give Elita One her own "shoulder stacks" like the ones Prime had.

I have tried to click on links and they don't access any of the toys listed.

hailhydra wrote:I have tried to click on links and they don't access any of the toys listed.

Yeah, it seems like Hasbro Toy Shop deleted the listings after they sold out. Who knows what the idea was behind that, but for the time being you apparently can't even find 'em on HTS, let alone buy them there.

Sabrblade wrote:

Z3ROhour wrote:Once again...

THESE WEAPONS SUK SO VERY, VERY HARD!!!

gothsaurus wrote:Yeah, I get where you are coming from. The pistols are way too small,

They're actually supposed to be her shoulder spikes, like the ones she had in the cartoon that were akin to Optimus's shoulder smokestacks.

Oh! Okay! Now, that makes sense.

As many of us know, the tail-end releases of lines can often be hard to non-existent to find in big-box retail stores; think Combiner Wars Sky Lynx; Thrilling 30 Arcee and Chromia; and Titans Return Overlord. While these figures elude many shelves at Walmart, Target and Toys R Us (RIP ), they often find their way to discount chains like Marshalls and TJMaxx. Case in point? Titans Return Slugslinger and the rest/repacks of the Wave 6 assortment have found their way to Ross! This particular sighting comes to us from the Ross store located in West Bountiful, Utah, courtesy of yours truly. Priced at just $7.99 (!), I found two of Slugslinger as well as one each of Hot Rod and Hardhead.





Have you seen any hard to find figures out and about at your discount chains? Please let us know, and as always, post away in your local sightings forum to help fellow local collectors out.

Guess I'll be checking my local Ross' in a few days then. Not sure if I'll pick any up though.

Wave 6 found at Ross but wave 5 never sighted within 60 miles of me at any store

The_Bob81 wrote:Wave 6 found at Ross but wave 5 never sighted within 60 miles of me at any store

I never saw Wave 5 anywhere at all except online.