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Hearing about this is reaffirming my opinion that it would have been better to use the slot to make TR Arcee more accessible..

I see M.A.S.K., I buy immediately.

So will Thrust and Runabout be in stores ? Or was the only chance to get them the pre order that I am sure sold out in 3 seconds .

o.supreme wrote:Also Target exclusives seem to be released in much smaller quantities overall, despite being sold in solid cases. I have yet to see one shelf warm, several I have only seen once.

How many times did you see this one?

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... -us/42059/

Managed to eke an order in for Thrust and Runabout earlier today. Thankfully these didn’t go out of stock in literal seconds like the GI Joe Classified stuff has.

The Micromaster pack is kinda disappointing to me, so money saved for other releases.

The Headmasters I did not see coming at all. Neat they found a way to bring the Legends tooling over stateside. I’d probably get just Chromedome so I can put the original Titans Return one on my IDW shelf along with Rewind (who’s in storage somewhere )

william-james88 wrote:

o.supreme wrote:Also Target exclusives seem to be released in much smaller quantities overall, despite being sold in solid cases. I have yet to see one shelf warm, several I have only seen once.

How many times did you see this one?

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... -us/42059/

Believe it or not, Thundercracker and Skywarp are shelfwarming here in El Paso, all four Targets have loads of them here. Seen that Soundwave dozens of times as well, between here and my hometown in Wilmington, NC. Leadfoot even is starting to hit saturation; I see more of him than actual other Studio Series. I just wish the same could be said for their other exclusives; the Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge stuff I’ve seen one of each once each (except the red Stormtrooper fella who’s name I’ve forgotten), and I was lucky to have found the GI Joe Classified Baroness w/ COIL Bike and Beachhead, have yet to find any Cobra Troopers and probably never will

william-james88 wrote:How many times did you see this one?

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... -us/42059/

Two, maybe three times before it was gone. I would have purchased it, but it wasn't different enough from the TR one for me. The only BB toys that I got was the set with the new Tablet minions, I kept them but gave the cheap BB toy to one of my sons friends.

I want them to release the later waves of the deluxe Titans Return Headmasters. I never found any of the figures from waves 5 & 6 in stores, and Perceptor & Topspin from wave 4. IIRC, they were hard to find online too, except for huge mark ups.

I was lucky to get Perceptor off shelves.

The sad thing is that I actually saw Windblade, Topspin, Twin Twist, Misfire, and Slugslinger on shelves in multiple stores, but I passed them up every time because I kept hoping in vain for Sky Shadow and Overlord. Who ultimately never showed up in my area AT ALL because at every single blasted store the Leader-class space was clogged by an overspilling glut of Turbo Changer Dragonstorm. Oh, hindsight's a bugger.

For TR deluxes I saw all of wave 4 a few times, and slugslinger once. Never saw wave 5. I ended up getting legends Topspin and Twintwist just this year in fact. I only sAw Overlord and Skyshadow a couple times in store, but even after TR, Overlord was super inexpensive online for quite a while. It just shows the system is broke when toys that could be on store shelves that rarely were either get discounted or jacked up online.

william-james88 wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:I finally got my first of the Earthrise Wave 2 Deluxe Class figures from Amazon, Arcee. She's worse than I though she'd be. The plastic is thin. The transformation is not fun. The robot parts are just smooshed underneath the car and don't really peg or tab into anything from the car securely. Mine also has a big quality control issue where one of the pink pegs won't snap into the white hole on the inner armature of the car hood and front fenders. It prevents the fender side panel from pegging in correctly, leaving a huge panel line gap and making it impossible to roll the car flat on its wheels.

I am grateful for your sacrifice in getting a toy I was pretty sure I'd hate but was still curious about. Glad to know I can trust my intuition. Looking forward to your review if the MP.

Speaking of Masterpiece figures, I'm just about ready to cash them all in. They come out too slowly and we'll never complete the whole cast at this rate, especially when they keep redoing characters already released. Without going into a whole rant on the Masterpiece line, I'll just say that modern Generations figures are much more satisfying, keeping the screen accuracy of the Sunbow character models and adding in much more sculpted detailing, which looks fantastic to me. All of this comes at a fraction of the price of the Masterpiece line. So, what I'm trying to say is, don't count on me for that Masterpiece Arcee review, lol!

Munkky wrote:Looks like Runabout is already sold out on at least one UK site. I've been at work all evening so I wasn't able to put in any pre-orders until now. I'm not holding out much hope on ever owning Thrust or the other Coneheads either.

ID and Kapow were both sold out of Runabout within an hour. Zavvi was the last one I found to have him in stock. Here!

Meanwhile I've been asked to source Thrust...



Target.com is a waste of time for non-US buyers, but he is sold out there already. Only found one other source so far. But... why is he listed at $109 on his own!?!

Hasbro are essentially scalpers to their own [international] fanbase..

Wolfman Jake wrote:Speaking of Masterpiece figures, I'm just about ready to cash them all in. They come out too slowly and we'll never complete the whole cast at this rate, especially when they keep redoing characters already released. Without going into a whole rant on the Masterpiece line, I'll just say that modern Generations figures are much more satisfying, keeping the screen accuracy of the Sunbow character models and adding in much more sculpted detailing, which looks fantastic to me. All of this comes at a fraction of the price of the Masterpiece line. So, what I'm trying to say is, don't count on me for that Masterpiece Arcee review, lol!

I've had that thought in the back of my head since Siege started, and outside of the Diaclone homages I'm starting to find myself less and less excited every time a new MP figure is announced. To me that's odd considering how stoked I was when they first started doing MPs.

As for the Target-exclusive guys, on the other hand, I'm loving the Windstorm/Hurricane and Stingracer/Stinger deal. It's like a mini-crossover set. Plus, I was super-into M.A.S.K. as a kid, and those were two of my favorite vehicles (even though Hurricane was my brother's).

Glarryg

Part of my Mindwipe's wing/lower-leg broke off a few months ago. This re-release can be an opportunity to replace him. It's a figure I've already experienced though, but he's also part of a "set" (the Rebirth cast.) So it sucks. Is there a price yet?

Cyberpath wrote:Part of my Mindwipe's wing/lower-leg broke off a few months ago. This re-release can be an opportunity to replace him. It's a figure I've already experienced though, but he's also part of a "set" (the Rebirth cast.) So it sucks. Is there a price yet?

I'm in the same boat, the very tip of the wing that becomes the back of the leg, and it was the Takara version so this would be a perfect replacement. I also never got Hardhead as I mainly went for the Decepticon Headmasters, ugh, I mean Titanmasters, so I might pick him up if I see him.

Wolfman Jake wrote:Speaking of Masterpiece figures, I'm just about ready to cash them all in. They come out too slowly and we'll never complete the whole cast at this rate, especially when they keep redoing characters already released. Without going into a whole rant on the Masterpiece line, I'll just say that modern Generations figures are much more satisfying, keeping the screen accuracy of the Sunbow character models and adding in much more sculpted detailing, which looks fantastic to me. All of this comes at a fraction of the price of the Masterpiece line. So, what I'm trying to say is, don't count on me for that Masterpiece Arcee review, lol!

Another thing about the MPs is that even before the prices ballooned.. there was always the fact that they take up more space.

So, there's something I'm curious as to whether anyone else was experienced. When I first got Snapdragon, his right hand didn't want to budge for anything, almost as if it was glued in place (although I didn't see any signs of glue). I had to loosen the screw a fair ways before it would actually move. It has moved freely ever since, though, even after I re-tightened the screw.

Anyone else run into that? Or have any idea what the problem was?

first walmart cancels nearly all my pre-orders for the second wave of netflix figure and I missed the chance to pre-order the Target exclusives. What a craptastic day this is starting off to be.

aronjlove wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:Part of my Mindwipe's wing/lower-leg broke off a few months ago. This re-release can be an opportunity to replace him. It's a figure I've already experienced though, but he's also part of a "set" (the Rebirth cast.) So it sucks. Is there a price yet?

I'm in the same boat, the very tip of the wing that becomes the back of the leg, and it was the Takara version so this would be a perfect replacement. I also never got Hardhead as I mainly went for the Decepticon Headmasters, ugh, I mean Titanmasters, so I might pick him up if I see him.

Yours, too?

So it can happen again with this new release then?

(Mine was also Takara.)

Glarryg wrote:As for the Target-exclusive guys, on the other hand, I'm loving the Windstorm/Hurricane and Stingracer/Stinger deal. It's like a mini-crossover set. Plus, I was super-into M.A.S.K. as a kid, and those were two of my favorite vehicles (even though Hurricane was my brother's).

Glarryg

The Micromaster set is actually an Amazon exclusive, part of the Galactic Odyssey subline.

Greetings Seibertronians! Takara Tomy have taken to their Twitter account to share the news that preorders will be going live next month for the domestic release of the Target Exclusives (in the USA at least), Thrust and Runabout! Included with the tweets was a brand new image of the figures in question!

Voyager Class Thrust



Deluxe Class Runabout



It is unknown at this point if these two will be Takara Tomy Mall Exclusives or not.

Thrust and Runabout were announced at hasbros streaming event, Fans First Friday, click here for more of the reveals from the event!

Thrust is a redeco of the previously released Amazon Exclusive Dirge and Ramjet two pack (they are themselves retools of the Earthrise seeker mold).

Runabout is a direct redeco of his partner Runamuck.

What did you think of these? Did you manage to secure a preorder? Or are you gambling on finding them in store? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!

Cyberpath wrote:

aronjlove wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:Part of my Mindwipe's wing/lower-leg broke off a few months ago. This re-release can be an opportunity to replace him. It's a figure I've already experienced though, but he's also part of a "set" (the Rebirth cast.) So it sucks. Is there a price yet?

I'm in the same boat, the very tip of the wing that becomes the back of the leg, and it was the Takara version so this would be a perfect replacement. I also never got Hardhead as I mainly went for the Decepticon Headmasters, ugh, I mean Titanmasters, so I might pick him up if I see him.

Yours, too?

So it can happen again with this new release then?

(Mine was also Takara.)

It all depends on if these are straight re-releases or if they did something with the materials. A few figures in Titans Return used a type of rubbery plastic for pieces, and I've heard reports of the others breaking as well. Specifically, the flap on Skullcruncher/Krok where the Titanmaster sits has broken on a bunch. No idea why they used this type of plastic for the pieces they did.

Went to Target, Walmart, and two Walgreens with zero signs of any new Earthrise. One of the Walgreens did have a shelf sticker for WFC Deluxe but nothing on the shelf. Was hoping to see a Sunstreaker or Bluestreak.

Bombshell0001 wrote:So will Thrust and Runabout be in stores ? Or was the only chance to get them the pre order that I am sure sold out in 3 seconds .

They should be. Leadfoot was similarly sold out of preorders almost instantly, but at least at my Target, they ended up getting two cases of him, at 6 to a case. Same with 'Cracker and Skywarp.

Just got my Airwave today from Pulse (seems they're shipping out Wave 2 Deluxes one-by-one) and I noticed something interesting.


After messing around with them a bit, I noticed that there's shared engineering between Airwave and fellow Decepticon Brunt. Specifically the softer metallic plastic parts and paler orange come from Brunt (knees, hips, wheels, elbows, and chest peg).

Airwave's a nice solid Decepticon, though he isn't as fun of a modulator as Ironworks (who's basically a living set of building blocks). I am head-over-heels for this color-scheme (wish there were more orange and blue guys out there). It's interesting to see that the Titans Return method of shared engineering still lives on with the Weaponizers/Modulators.

Yeah Airwave is really good, but in some of his other firms he just seems loose and unfinished, whereas Ironworks ( and Greasepit) seem to have everything tab in nicely together reinforcing the toys strength and stability.

Ha!