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[Tuned Agent]

I cannot wait for my set to come in the mail! I pre-ordered as soon as they went live! I'm happy I at least managed to pre-order this set, but upset I missed out on Soundwave set. Again... Wal-Mart exclusives let me down. No Soundwave set, no Gigawatt. :'(

I'm looking forward to this as well...
And don't give up hope on Soundwave yet, but there's a chance you may have to check out a couple stores to find him. I mean, keep an online eye out, but I won't be surprised if I end up getting him at the nearby Walmart. If I see the Netflix Bumblebee, I'll probably get him too.

Yeah, I wouldn't worry too much yet, I'm sure the Soundwave set will make it's way to stores in the next couple months, just like Megs and Hotlink.

As for the two-pack, I don't really care about Ironhide. I have the Siege version and I really like him, and this version doesn't have a great alt mode. Prowl isn't perfect either, his doors could use "highway patrol" on them, his pelvis could use a little paint detailing to break up all the solid black, and he has Bluestreak's headsculpt. But the more I look at Prowl, the more I like him. His deco is otherwise very nice, I especially like the black detailing around the windows in alt mode. I don't have a Prowl in my collection, so I might get this set just for the Prowl (before the secondary market prices skyrocket, as Amazon exclusives tend to do).

[Nemesis Destron]

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Why give him Smokescreen's head, when Prowl has his head? I call bs.


I still think if / were smartER they would use CW Club Subcription Bluestreak's colors for this mold. I would so throw my money for that...'nuff said!

[Sowndwave76]

But the more I look at Prowl, the more I like him. His deco is otherwise very nice, I especially like the black detailing around the windows in alt mode. I don't have a Prowl in my collection, so I might get this set just for the Prowl (before the secondary market prices skyrocket, as Amazon exclusives tend to do).

Dude, that's a good call. I don't think these ER figures are the best there will ever be, but taking in consideration both the past and what's been recently available, they're really pretty good, at least in terms of appearance.
I have one opened figure from the Siege line, so I can't really speak to transformation enjoyment, overall QC, etc., because I have very little personal frame of reference.
So maybe there are issues that will make it easy for some to pass on a lot of these ER figures.

But if you don't have a Prowl in your collection, I'd go for the 2 pack. Even though you like your Siege Ironhide, the ER version's bot mode is pretty on point. Not sure how you display your collection, but maybe have the Siege IH in alt mode since it's relatively unique, and have the ER IH in bot mode.

These are already overpriced imo. All of them. Yeah Ironhide's a large deluxe, so I'll call that a win.
But when all the other deluxes are $20+, assuming you already have your favorite character(s) it will sting quite a bit to have to buy any later on when getting them for original release price is either a hassle or just not likely. Wait for a sale and who knows if you'll get what you want.
I buy what I really like, but I can't imagine paying anywhere close to $30+ for one of these deluxes.
The average price for Siege Skywarp on the 'bay is $70 (& in most cases that's not including the shipping cost you're covering).

When Amazon runs dry, I'm betting the price for Prowl & Ironhide is $65-$80.
I'd bite now.
Oh, and don't forget you'll have until November to cancel if you change your mind.

[Starseeker]

Today online I saw that a Walmart 7 miles from where I work had Airwave as being in stock and with a tag saying "pick up today." I excitedly went over there to find none on the shelves, but they had a bunch of pallets on the floor loaded with toy boxes ready for pack out.
I asked a guy that had an assistant manager tag on if someone could help me get the figure and showed him the webpage that showed in stock. The guy looked at me like he didn't want to be bothered and said, "see all these pallets? We're just unloading the truck. I don't know if it'll be here today or tomorrow, but if you check back tomorrow you'll probably find it, so thats why it says that."
If I really wanted to be a jerk, I would have asked for the store manager and demanded not to leave without the toy. But I took the high road and I'll check back tomorrow.
The service at these retailers is getting worse and worse though. Don't have it in your website that the figure can be picked up today and then have some wise guy tell you to come back tomorrow.

[o.supreme]

I had the same experience last weekend. There is something seriously screwed up with Walmarts website. If you go directly to it, you can't even find wave 2 deluxes, but if you look them up independently starting with Google for example,it says several stores in my area have them in stock, which is completely false.

They may be coming sooner than later, bit I'll be shocked if the first sighting is tomorrow. I thought for sure it would be last weekend being the beginning of the month, but was proved wrong. I had a lady tell me at one store thenext shipment of deluxe's was coming 8/12, another store said 8/14, but I think it could just be more siege Netflix....do all deluxe's have the same item number now? I can't remember....

[DeathReviews]

Yay! Doublecrosser - another neat Battlemaster for Hasbro to NOT put in stores anywhere for anybody to find! Yet more grist to feed the scalping websites and mess over collectors everywhere through utterly incompetent production and distribution! Whee, whee!

[o.supreme]

Well since I cant find Slitherfang anywhere, I just went ahead and put together all the AIRLOCK Transformers I have so far, pretty cool, but now I realize my even more ambitious project (all the TR and Legends bases), will require more space. I finally have them, all, just working out the logistics of how I can display them all in base modes for photos down the line...

[Jelze Bunnycat]

I'm kinda cold on that Prowl is the problem. I'm not really into the head design as much as the Siege one.

It's actually Bluestreaks cartoon head design, not Prowl's: the "ear muffs" are missing. Payback for Siege Bluestreak reusing Prowl's head?

[Triggerdick Megatron]

Sky Lynx is seriously an incredible figure, he is so much fun! And has so much play value!



Also, I put my engineering degree to good use and built a spaceport! Omega is currently buried in one of my upper shelves at the moment, otherwise he would be there too

Looks awesome, nicely done!
I have some designs in mind for a big Decepticon city/spaceport built around Trypticon/Overlord/Sky Shadow which incorporates these Earhrise guys once I get them. I'd also like to build a "pen" for the beast mode 'cons that factors into it somehow, but I'm still working on it in my head.

Yes, I'm absolutely loving Sky Lynx too. It has a lot of detail, so many modes and endless possibilities

[-Kanrabat-]

I'm kinda cold on that Prowl is the problem. I'm not really into the head design as much as the Siege one.

It's actually Bluestreaks cartoon head design, not Prowl's: the "ear muffs" are missing. Payback for Siege Bluestreak reusing Prowl's head?

All that head talk remind me of a light custom I'm about to make. Turning Combiner Wars Prowl into CW Red Allert by painting his helmet black and using a Repro sheet of G1 Red Alert.

[Starseeker]

If anyone is looking to pre order Airwave, Gamestop has him listed for $19.99 with an arrival date of 8/24. I jumped on that after my experience at Walmart yesterday. Snagged Greasepit on Gamestop as well for the same price. Looks like they're more ahead of the curve than BBTS who has all these things listed as pre order for the last couple months with no change and they want to charge $2.00 more for a deluxe.
Easy decision for me to make about which route to go.

[SGMLordMirage]

I got very lucky this morning. Stopped by the local Target and found the big guy sitting there on the shelf. What a find! Cannot wait to pose him with the rest of my Titans I have. In addition, I picked up Slitherfang as well. Was hoping to see Sky Lynx but no luck.

SGM

[Hellscream9999]

I got very lucky this morning. Stopped by the local Target and found the big guy sitting there on the shelf. What a find! Cannot wait to pose him with the rest of my Titans I have. In addition, I picked up Slitherfang as well. Was hoping to see Sky Lynx but no luck.

SGM

You're lucky, seems there's only one target in a large part of illinois that is carrying him

[SGMLordMirage]

I know, in the southern part of Missouri, seems between Springfield and Branson there is only two stores. For some that's more than what they have. When I was stationed in Virginia, shoot there was five Targets within 50 mille radius.

[Decepticon Stryker]

I'm kinda cold on that Prowl is the problem. I'm not really into the head design as much as the Siege one.

It's actually Bluestreaks cartoon head design, not Prowl's: the "ear muffs" are missing. Payback for Siege Bluestreak reusing Prowl's head?

All that head talk remind me of a light custom I'm about to make. Turning Combiner Wars Prowl into CW Red Allert by painting his helmet black and using a Repro sheet of G1 Red Alert.

That sounds cool! And also very weird that Hasbro didn't think of first.

[o.supreme]

I was wondering if someone would be willing to do a test for me. If you have a Target store that you know for sure has Slitherfang, can you check it against brickseek? DPCI 087-26-2641 . I want to know if the sites data is faulty, or is there really just none in the nearly hundreds of stores I've checked, many in CA, but also random locations across the is as well, people seem to be finding it pretty easy, but I've not seen one in person, not have I got a positive results on brickseek yet

Edit: Ok I did a search in SGMLordMirage's area of MO and they all came up negative, must be an error with brickseek. Oh well, at least I have my BBTS pre-order, who knows who that will be in stock though....

[-Kanrabat-]

I'm kinda cold on that Prowl is the problem. I'm not really into the head design as much as the Siege one.

It's actually Bluestreaks cartoon head design, not Prowl's: the "ear muffs" are missing. Payback for Siege Bluestreak reusing Prowl's head?

All that head talk remind me of a light custom I'm about to make. Turning Combiner Wars Prowl into CW Red Allert by painting his helmet black and using a Repro sheet of G1 Red Alert.

That sounds cool! And also very weird that Hasbro didn't think of first.

IKR? A line where the main purpose is remolds and repaints, no Red Alert. Especially when Sunstreaker and Sideswipe are there.

[Sabrblade]

I'm kinda cold on that Prowl is the problem. I'm not really into the head design as much as the Siege one.

It's actually Bluestreaks cartoon head design, not Prowl's: the "ear muffs" are missing. Payback for Siege Bluestreak reusing Prowl's head?

All that head talk remind me of a light custom I'm about to make. Turning Combiner Wars Prowl into CW Red Allert by painting his helmet black and using a Repro sheet of G1 Red Alert.

That sounds cool! And also very weird that Hasbro didn't think of first.

IKR? A line where the main purpose is remolds and repaints, no Red Alert. Especially when Sunstreaker and Sideswipe are there.

There was no CW Sideswipe.

Meanwhile, Hasbro CW Lightsteed is pretty close to Red Alert's colors as-is.

[-Kanrabat-]

There was no CW Sideswipe.

Uh? That's even worse!

[Sowndwave76]

There was no CW Sideswipe.

Uh? That's even worse!

I will say that most of the CW Autobots that I can remember weren't that great at all.
I've recently seen photos of CW Smokescreen and Hound, and they're nothing impressive.

But speaking of Sideswipe, now I'm kind of wishing Hastak was releasing an ER version.
I haven't been a fan of the battle-damaged paint apps, but he's one of my favorite Autobots.

Here's who I'm looking to get as of now:
Netflix Soundwave
Conehead 2-pack
Smokescreen
Prowl & Ironhide
Netflix Bumblebee

Maybe's:
Wheeljack
Bluestreak
Grapple
Sunstreaker (especially if we're not getting an ER Sideswipe)
Ratchet (if he's ever released)
Cliffjumper: I'm still on the fence even though I bought him (not opened yet)

I'm hoping sooner than later we get some word on both the Kingdom waves and the SS '86 Movie line...
That would definitely help me figure out what's going on with my "maybe" list.

[Sabrblade]

There was no CW Sideswipe.

Uh? That's even worse!

The plan for CW Sideswipe was that Hasbro would have had Fun Pub release one instead of doing it themselves since they were making Fun Pub release Hasbro's unused leftover work at the time, but Fun Pub didn't get to it before Hasbro pulled the license from them. And it would have ended up being just a straight redeco of CW Breakdown with no new head since Hasbro made Breakdown's head able to work for both him and Sideswipe without the need of a new one.

[aronjlove]

Well, my Target definitely did a reset of the toy section as the Transformers area was pretty full. Picked up Scorponok and now I can cancel my Amazon pre-order. They also had bikes in stock so my god-daughter is getting the Spider-Man bike she's been asking for. Now I just gotta figure out where the heck I'm gonna display Scorponok...

[Hellscream9999]

Well, my Target definitely did a reset of the toy section as the Transformers area was pretty full. Picked up Scorponok and now I can cancel my Amazon pre-order. They also had bikes in stock so my god-daughter is getting the Spider-Man bike she's been asking for. Now I just gotta figure out where the heck I'm gonna display Scorponok...

ugh, everyone on here talking 'bout their local target having scorponok, and the nearest store to me that has one is 200+ miles away (I live in chicago-land)

[aronjlove]

Well, my Target definitely did a reset of the toy section as the Transformers area was pretty full. Picked up Scorponok and now I can cancel my Amazon pre-order. They also had bikes in stock so my god-daughter is getting the Spider-Man bike she's been asking for. Now I just gotta figure out where the heck I'm gonna display Scorponok...

ugh, everyone on here talking 'bout their local target having scorponok, and the nearest store to me that has one is 200+ miles away (I live in chicago-land)

That's how it was with the Seekers when they first dropped. Scorponok surprised me as there was a couple on the shelf plus a lot of Earthrise, both Voyager and Deluxe. This is my first city bot so I had to grab him.

[Hellscream9999]

Well, my Target definitely did a reset of the toy section as the Transformers area was pretty full. Picked up Scorponok and now I can cancel my Amazon pre-order. They also had bikes in stock so my god-daughter is getting the Spider-Man bike she's been asking for. Now I just gotta figure out where the heck I'm gonna display Scorponok...

ugh, everyone on here talking 'bout their local target having scorponok, and the nearest store to me that has one is 200+ miles away (I live in chicago-land)

That's how it was with the Seekers when they first dropped. Scorponok surprised me as there was a couple on the shelf plus a lot of Earthrise, both Voyager and Deluxe. This is my first city bot so I had to grab him.

Well, that's the thing, the seekers are being sold at every store, but it looks like only 1 out of every few districts is gonna stock scorponok right now, so they have fewer stores to spread their volume out to, so it makes sense that the stores that are gonna get it would get a couple