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[Brokebot]

Gotta love Walmart for reminding us that Transformer toys are not gluten-free.

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They also give Californians cancer.

[Sabrblade]

Don't have a Rung, so they just got me to pay for another Ultra Magnus.

Rung is getting reissued in Earthrise like Astrotrain and Smashdown.

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

Maybe, maybe not. But the $20 price tag of 2005-2010 felt decent for a Voyager at the time relative to our earning power, which has not kept pace with inflation so well. And since 2011, Transformers have dwindled in mass while the prices have crept upward... But it could be worse.

Not as much as you think, in fact when weighed some current figures are heavier than previous ones. ER Hoist for instance is the heaviest of his wave at 3.2 ounces or 91 grams, and Wheeljack is an average 2.7 or 77 grams, same as Siege Mirage and surprisingly, TR Sergeant Kup. Just saying

Okay, but that's all post-Dark of the Moon stuff. Compare a DOTM or Generations Voyager to, say, a Cybertron or ROTF Voyager and you'll notice more of a difference.

Gotta love Walmart for reminding us that Transformer toys are not gluten-free.

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They also give Californians cancer.

Those warnings are so we know materials present have the potential of being carcinogenous and we'd rather make an informed decision about whether to accept that risk rather than blunder about in blissful ignorance like the rest of you bozos

Also, and more importantly to the corporations, they prevent some smeghead from suing and claiming "Well they didn't warn me!"

[william-james88]

Gotta love Walmart for reminding us that Transformer toys are not gluten-free.

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They also give Californians cancer.

[JelZe GoldRabbit]

Also, and more importantly to the corporations, they prevent some smeghead from suing and claiming "Well they didn't warn me!"

At least the "I didn't read the warnings" excuse doesn't fly in courts, that should count for something... or does it?

[Flashwave]

Soo, yeah. If Walmart wants me to buy another Ultra Magnus I am gonna have to see PICTURES. Tempting though the description reads, I'm not plunking money down blindly.

[Rodimus Prime]

Also, and more importantly to the corporations, they prevent some smeghead from suing and claiming "Well they didn't warn me!"

At least the "I didn't read the warnings" excuse doesn't fly in courts, that should count for something... or does it?

Who knows? It's California.

As for this new Magnus set, I'll buy it if it's in purple and green/black, because I love the mold. Pretend it's Motormaster. Otherwise, pass. Rung can suck it.

[Skritz]

If there is one stereotype about 'murricans that is stronger than Californian Hipsters, Rednecks or Florida Man...its 'Dumb people who sue a company because they did something stupid so now all boxes have dumb warnings'.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Advantage to not yet getting Siege Magnus: I feel perfectly OK with jumping in on this blind.

also looking forward to another Rung. It's awesome he's getting a box set treatment, and hopefully he ends up in the cartoon

[Skritz]

Some say its a Dark Energon Magnus so he might be covered in purple cracks or have some translucent purple. I think a Decepticon Magnus might just end up a boring black repaint, however. Or they could make it a double whammy and have an evil Magnus whose cab robot is Shattered Glass colored. Would be weird but who knows?

[TF-fan kev777]

Soo, yeah. If Walmart wants me to buy another Ultra Magnus I am gonna have to see PICTURES. Tempting though the description reads, I'm not plunking money down blindly.

I'm hedging my bets and placed an order. I'm guessing that Tonton or someone else who gets the figures up for review early should be showing them sometime in March, early enough for me to cancel the pre-order if I the deco isn't something I want.

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

Some say its a Dark Energon Magnus so he might be covered in purple cracks or have some translucent purple. I think a Decepticon Magnus might just end up a boring black repaint, however. Or they could make it a double whammy and have an evil Magnus whose cab robot is Shattered Glass colored. Would be weird but who knows?

Mold layout would get in the way of having the red head on that, I think, so what you'd end up with is Delta Magnus' cab robot. Or else a Magnus with a blue torso and arms, and red head and legs.

[durroth]

When reading the details of the Ultra Magnus Spoiler Pack they say the figure is 7" tall I think. So that's the size roughly of a deluxe figure, correct? It may just be me but I passed on the UM Siege figure because of the size. I don't like how he's a "leader class" which makes him larger then almost all the other figures including Optimus. I'd prefer him to be the same size as Optimus....

Deluxes are about 4" figures. He's just the siege figure with a new deco. I don't really see why he'd be the same size as optimus, that doesn't really make sense scale wise for the character.

[Skritz]

While G1 scale is insanely out of whack, production pieces do give us a very loose estimate of the intended size in relation to one another. Magnus is definitely designed to be taller than Optimus.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Some say its a Dark Energon Magnus so he might be covered in purple cracks or have some translucent purple. I think a Decepticon Magnus might just end up a boring black repaint, however. Or they could make it a double whammy and have an evil Magnus whose cab robot is Shattered Glass colored. Would be weird but who knows?

I really hope it's this, that would be awesome.

also, I did get him

[ThunderThruster]

I think this would be a nice easter egg if Magnus' colour scheme was based on this:

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[leokearon]

SharimusPrime has a review of Decepticon Mirage

[TF-fan kev777]

Sweet, I was hoping we would see some reviews soon for the Netflix line. Mainly so we can see Ultra Magnus before he hits stores and know whether or not I want to cancel my pre-order if the deco isn't something I want.

[AcademyofDrX]

This is the third version of this mold and the third Mirage, would it really kill them to give us a Slapdash

[JelZe GoldRabbit]

This is the third version of this mold and the third Mirage, would it really kill them to give us a Slapdash

With a Mirage head?

[Wolfman Jake]

This is the third version of this mold and the third Mirage, would it really kill them to give us a Slapdash

With a Mirage head?

At least "Invisible" Mirage had a slightly different Mirage head.

[JelZe GoldRabbit]

This is the third version of this mold and the third Mirage, would it really kill them to give us a Slapdash

With a Mirage head?

At least "Invisible" Mirage had a slightly different Mirage head.

And that's the crux of the problem. Hasbro is way past simple post-release head retools, if any they are built in, 2 per mold on average. If a Slapdash out of Mirage is planned, he'd get a lot more changed, but nobody minds that, right?

[Nemesis Destron]

With Earthrise figures now appearing in retail stores I wonder how long it will be until we see price mark downs especially on one of our favorite shelf-warmers Shockwave.

[JelZe GoldRabbit]

With Earthrise figures now appearing in retail stores I wonder how long it will be until we see price mark downs especially on one of our favorite shelf-warmers Shockwave.

That... could be a bit of a logistic problem for thew stores, as they're considered the same assortment as the Earthrise ones. Not by Hasbro, mind you.

[TF-fan kev777]

With Earthrise figures now appearing in retail stores I wonder how long it will be until we see price mark downs especially on one of our favorite shelf-warmers Shockwave.

That... could be a bit of a logistic problem for thew stores, as they're considered the same assortment as the Earthrise ones. Not by Hasbro, mind you.

This could end up getting a bit weird. A few targets near me were overflowing with the cyberverse Cheetor with the battleship after Christmas and somehow marked all the Cheetors down while not marking down any of the others they have from the same size class. So Target's system must have some way of marking down a specific UPC code, but I suspect it may take more effort than simply marking down an entire size class. On top of that, I believe each individual Target decides when and how much to mark down. I've found some stores really quick to mark down and move product and others take forever.

And aside from Target, it just dawned on me that I don't think we've seen a single sighting of Earthrise in a Walmart yet, have we?