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Just to give everyone a heads up, I found four Rodimus Minor's and one Ironhide at a local TRU. We still have some Arcee figure's as well.

Good spotting but this goes in the sightings forum.

Yeah this goes in the sightings forum. But in the case of Summit County Ohio, we get wave 1 of HFTD, Generations, and PCC two months after release. We are still waiting for Arcee, Rodimus, and Ironhide. Right now all of our stores aren't even restocking wave 1, they're just letting them run down to only a few on the shelves and leaving them like that for weeks.

While I have found all four of the animated exclusives at TRU, the TRU in my city had the top shelf full of transformers cases. I counted 28 cases of wave 1 of Generations. A couple of wave 2 and about four cases of wave 3. Also they had a bunch of HftD cases wave 1 as well. I was hoping to spot a case of wave 4 Generations because that's what I need now but no luck. They also have been getting in a few cases of Animated Deluxe figures (not Rodimus or Arcee).

Blurrz wrote:Animated TRU Exclusive Wave 2 were released two months ago.

Yes I know they were. I guess I should have been more specific. Everyone had trouble with their local TRU Animated Arcee's. So, this post was more of a "if you haven't got them in your area and would like me to hook you up" message. Not a "haha guess what I saw" post.

Are people still looking for Rodimus and Ironhide from Animated? My TRU and TRU Expresses are flooded with them.

Same question: Are people still looking for Rodimus and Ironhide from Animated?

Blurrz wrote:Animated TRU Exclusive Wave 2 were released two months ago.

You gotta be kidding me! We have nothing even now!!!

MidAge wrote:Same question: Are people still looking for Rodimus and Ironhide from Animated?

Yeah. And Arcee. And wave 2 of Generations/HFTD/PCC

Oh yes. Rodimus and Ironhide? Everyone and their brother is looking for them. I've never laid eyes on them, in person. In fact, I just missed their shipment by a day, and saw that they restocked with the Arcee/Ratchet case, and now the pegs are completely full of Ratchet and I was told that until he sells, new ones won't go out for sale, even if they have a case in the back. =\

To top it off, someone thought he'd be a douche and offer me Rodimus for $40.00 shipped. I turned him down immediately.

So, yeah, we're still looking.

Here he is, friends! Please act with haste, this is one of the most worthy Transformer figures ever made, and easily the best version of my home-chill bot Rodimus ever! (Well, best at this size, that is)

Autobot032 wrote:Oh yes. Rodimus and Ironhide? Everyone and their brother is looking for them. I've never laid eyes on them, in person. In fact, I just missed their shipment by a day, and saw that they restocked with the Arcee/Ratchet case, and now the pegs are completely full of Ratchet and I was told that until he sells, new ones won't go out for sale, even if they have a case in the back. =\

That's when you buy all the Ratchets and then when they restock, you return all the Ratchets.

LOST Cybertronian wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:Oh yes. Rodimus and Ironhide? Everyone and their brother is looking for them. I've never laid eyes on them, in person. In fact, I just missed their shipment by a day, and saw that they restocked with the Arcee/Ratchet case, and now the pegs are completely full of Ratchet and I was told that until he sells, new ones won't go out for sale, even if they have a case in the back. =\

That's when you buy all the Ratchets and then when they restock, you return all the Ratchets.

8 of them?! I have high doubts that TRU would allow that. I know they'd give me guff on the returns, for sure, but they might even on the purchase. (Buying multiples, etc.)

No. That's...no.

Well I'm more than willing to help anyone out as long as supplies last this way. I won't charge any extra either lol. That guy wanting 50 bucks was ridiculous.

Yeah, I'm willing to help anyone out that needs it, no extra charge.

Rodimus the Prime wrote:Here he is, friends! Please act with haste, this is one of the most worthy Transformer figures ever made, and easily the best version of my home-chill bot Rodimus ever! (Well, best at this size, that is)

Oh yeah...I forgot! To bad they're more expensive than the others. Is he really worth 15 dollars though, because I don't have any version of Rodimus and I'd like to have a good one.

Autobot032 wrote:Oh yes. Rodimus and Ironhide? Everyone and their brother is looking for them. I've never laid eyes on them, in person. In fact, I just missed their shipment by a day, and saw that they restocked with the Arcee/Ratchet case, and now the pegs are completely full of Ratchet and I was told that until he sells, new ones won't go out for sale, even if they have a case in the back. =\

To top it off, someone thought he'd be a douche and offer me Rodimus for $40.00 shipped. I turned him down immediately.

So, yeah, we're still looking.

Who'd that idiot work for? ToyWiz.com?

OptiMagnus10 wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:Oh yes. Rodimus and Ironhide? Everyone and their brother is looking for them. I've never laid eyes on them, in person. In fact, I just missed their shipment by a day, and saw that they restocked with the Arcee/Ratchet case, and now the pegs are completely full of Ratchet and I was told that until he sells, new ones won't go out for sale, even if they have a case in the back. =\

To top it off, someone thought he'd be a douche and offer me Rodimus for $40.00 shipped. I turned him down immediately.

So, yeah, we're still looking.

Who'd that idiot work for? ToyWiz.com?

ToyWiz isn't that bad. I found a Henkei Galvatron for around $20 bucks from them, also picked up a Laser Ultra Magnus from them cheaper than most places online. Been a while since I've checked out their site though.

OptiMagnus10 wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:Oh yes. Rodimus and Ironhide? Everyone and their brother is looking for them. I've never laid eyes on them, in person. In fact, I just missed their shipment by a day, and saw that they restocked with the Arcee/Ratchet case, and now the pegs are completely full of Ratchet and I was told that until he sells, new ones won't go out for sale, even if they have a case in the back. =\

To top it off, someone thought he'd be a douche and offer me Rodimus for $40.00 shipped. I turned him down immediately.

So, yeah, we're still looking.

Who'd that idiot work for? ToyWiz.com?

It was a fellow poster. (No, I will not name names.)

I just found it to be really crappy. A profit is one thing, because you have gas and time spent, but he wanted nearly triple the price for the figure. At the time he offered it to me, Rodimus was still $11.99 or $12.99 and he was going to use standard (not flat rate) Priority Mail, to ship it, which was figured to be around $6.00, maybe $7.00

So...that's about $34.00 for a figure. Almost three times what the store was charging.

There's absolutely no reason why he deserves such a price. Even ToyArena charges like $25.00 for it, but at least you have a professional handling it.

Autobot032 wrote:

OptiMagnus10 wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:Oh yes. Rodimus and Ironhide? Everyone and their brother is looking for them. I've never laid eyes on them, in person. In fact, I just missed their shipment by a day, and saw that they restocked with the Arcee/Ratchet case, and now the pegs are completely full of Ratchet and I was told that until he sells, new ones won't go out for sale, even if they have a case in the back. =\

To top it off, someone thought he'd be a douche and offer me Rodimus for $40.00 shipped. I turned him down immediately.

So, yeah, we're still looking.

Who'd that idiot work for? ToyWiz.com?

It was a fellow poster. (No, I will not name names.)

I just found it to be really crappy. A profit is one thing, because you have gas and time spent, but he wanted nearly triple the price for the figure. At the time he offered it to me, Rodimus was still $11.99 or $12.99 and he was going to use standard (not flat rate) Priority Mail, to ship it, which was figured to be around $6.00, maybe $7.00

So...that's about $34.00 for a figure. Almost three times what the store was charging.

There's absolutely no reason why he deserves such a price. Even ToyArena charges like $25.00 for it, but at least you have a professional handling it.

I have no idea how some of these people/websites sell deluxes for $40, voyagers for $60, and leaders for $80. Who in their right mind is going to pay that much for an action figure? I mean, forty bucks for a ten dollar figure (at least they should be ten bucks). Insanity.

OptiMagnus10 wrote:

Rodimus the Prime wrote:Here he is, friends! Please act with haste, this is one of the most worthy Transformer figures ever made, and easily the best version of my home-chill bot Rodimus ever! (Well, best at this size, that is)

Oh yeah...I forgot! To bad they're more expensive than the others. Is he really worth 15 dollars though, because I don't have any version of Rodimus and I'd like to have a good one.

Aye! He's worth it, especially if you dig the Animated aesthetic. For my part, the few extra dollars in shipping was still an extremely worthy trade-off for the hassle of having to keep looking.

Rodimus the Prime wrote:

OptiMagnus10 wrote:

Rodimus the Prime wrote:Here he is, friends! Please act with haste, this is one of the most worthy Transformer figures ever made, and easily the best version of my home-chill bot Rodimus ever! (Well, best at this size, that is)

Oh yeah...I forgot! To bad they're more expensive than the others. Is he really worth 15 dollars though, because I don't have any version of Rodimus and I'd like to have a good one.

Aye! He's worth it, especially if you dig the Animated aesthetic. For my part, the few extra dollars in shipping was still an extremely worthy trade-off for the hassle of having to keep looking.

Thank you for pointing it out. I ordered one and he's been located in stock.

No problem, man! Glad to hear you snagged one!

Rodimus the Prime wrote:

OptiMagnus10 wrote:

Rodimus the Prime wrote:Here he is, friends! Please act with haste, this is one of the most worthy Transformer figures ever made, and easily the best version of my home-chill bot Rodimus ever! (Well, best at this size, that is)

Oh yeah...I forgot! To bad they're more expensive than the others. Is he really worth 15 dollars though, because I don't have any version of Rodimus and I'd like to have a good one.

Aye! He's worth it, especially if you dig the Animated aesthetic. For my part, the few extra dollars in shipping was still an extremely worthy trade-off for the hassle of having to keep looking.

Well, I love Animated. And I've been waiting months for this guy, so I may get him.