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News Credits: 12 · by **nemesis-prime** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 7:35 am

G1 25th anniversay Masterpiece exclusive Skywarp now avalible at walmart.com.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=11090852

News Credits: 387 · by **Nekoman** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:09 am

Front paged.

News Credits: 12 · by **GuyIncognito** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:19 am

I really want it, but I'm hesitant to spend that much. Especially right now when I should be spending my money on gifts for other people.

by **NormT81** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:26 am

1469 left

by **Prime Riblet** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:19 am

I can't see this lasting very long......

News Credits: 23 · by **ZenPrime** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:21 am

Already picked 2 up from the local Walmart and they had plenty left after 2 weeks of being on the shelves. I'm waiting for them to go on clearance so I can have the price adjusted.

News Credits: 21 · by **dragons** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:24 am

I really want it, but I'm hesitant to spend that much. Especially right now when I should be spending my money on gifts for other people.

thats cheap for master piece i say go for it its better than spending 2 3 times as much for takara version isnt christmas only month or 2 away

by **Bouncy X** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:31 pm

cant believe they dont ship to canada. whats worse is while walmart canada does have a website, you cant buy from it. its basically a website to look at things and then you gotta go to store and hope they have it. its 2009 and a major department store doesn't have an online store for its own freakin country....how sad.

lol

by **NormT81** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:56 pm

pm me bouncy maybe i can help you out :-?

News Credits: 1 · by **NebulanFree** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:21 pm

Only took three weeks from the time they started popping up in stores for them to show up online.

Way to go, Wal-Mart.

:APPLAUSE:

by **Baha08** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:38 pm

Hopefully that means they put them out in my store now.

Let me tell you it's a pain to know they have 15 of these bad boys in stock but they seem to "lost" the boxes in a pile and only one person knows about it while the other toy section works stare at you blankly, even though the boxes has Masterpiece Skywarp on them.

by **Rated X** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 6:06 pm

This figure is great !!! I seen like 20 of them in my local Wal-Mart in Miami (Hialeah store) almost 2 weeks ago. I go to a 24 hour Wal-Mart at 5 in the morning to avoid Christmas shopping freaks and loud children. I advise everyone to go get this guy so that Wal-Mart will keep cashing into all the G1 molds and repaints that we love. Wal-Mart has the power to topple the Henkei/Tarkara regime and bring us all the figures that Hasbro couldnt convince them to relese in the USA. But we must show them we really are willing to buy these toys....

BUY BUY BUY !!!

News Credits: 1 · by **Venomous Prime** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 7:31 pm

MP Skywarp was $80 at one of my local Wal Marts

Good thing I didn't buy it

News Credits: 3 · by **Kibble** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:20 pm

original sin wrote:MP Skywarp was $80 at one of my local Wal Marts

Good thing I didn't buy it

Now even Walmart themselves are scalping the damn things?!?

News Credits: 12 · by **nemesis-prime** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:47 pm

Baha08 wrote:Hopefully that means they put them out in my store now.

Let me tell you it's a pain to know they have 15 of these bad boys in stock but they seem to "lost" the boxes in a pile and only one person knows about it while the other toy section works stare at you blankly, even though the boxes has Masterpiece Skywarp on them.

Same thing happened to me.

by **Baha08** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 11:02 pm

Bit of a question and a warning:

1. Can you return/exchange an Open Skywarp is say it's defected a bit? I have some of his wing ends (The parts that fold back) defected and comes off too easily and his tail fin also comes off too easily. Not to mention he doesn't want to snap together so easily and leaves big ass gaps, mainy in the back where his legs connect in jet mode and the bottom where the wings connect to his arms (Even MP Starscream I have doesn't do that)

And the warning is QC might be a bit off with this figure or I must be unlucky enough to buy the one that has what seems to be the most defect in a toy since most these parts shouldn't just come off during the transformation so easy.

News Credits: 3 · by **Kibble** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 11:36 pm

Baha08 wrote:1. Can you return/exchange an Open Skywarp is say it's defected a bit?

I'm sure you can exchange it.

by **Baha08** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 11:58 pm

Kibble wrote:
Baha08 wrote:1. Can you return/exchange an Open Skywarp is say it's defected a bit?

I'm sure you can exchange it.

I hope, aside from Universe Hot Shot and TFA Sunstorm I have never had Quality problems with any figure, even the Wal-Mart Starscream only has the hinge wear on his wings. But Skywarp has so many issues that messes up his Jet mode for me and I didn't buy that $5 replacementh plan (I'm not sure why they have that but I guess to BS you out of returns)

I just don't know what policy they have on opened toys with defects. Kinda hopping someone really knows so I don't get stuck with this one or even buying a new one for 60 more dollars.

News Credits: 1 · by **Venomous Prime** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 12:54 am

How long ago did you buy it?
Did you buy it online or at an actual store?

by **Baha08** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 1:14 am

About two hours ago in store. I actually got the excahnge (Kinda surprised) but I did take a while to carefully pick the next figure (A lot also had minor paint mess ups and such)

The new one is a LOT better quality. It still has the same problem as Starscream where he migh have the fragile wing hinges and where the speed brake on top doesn't connect all the way but it's a lot better then the last one which doesn't snap in right.

by **Hsunami** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 3:01 am

I got mine on Wed. There were like 20 units at my Walmart. $55

http://transformersrollout.wordpress.co ... arp-found/

News Credits: 3 · by **Kibble** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:14 am

Baha08 wrote:But Skywarp has so many issues that messes up his Jet mode for me and I didn't buy that $5 replacementh plan (I'm not sure why they have that but I guess to BS you out of returns)

Here's a question: what the hell are they gonna do for someone that actually buys that plan and comes back 6 months from now to use it and these things are long gone? Pull a Hasbro and exchange it for a similar figure? Even though there are no similarly priced figures...

by **Baha08** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 12:53 pm

Kibble wrote:
Baha08 wrote:But Skywarp has so many issues that messes up his Jet mode for me and I didn't buy that $5 replacementh plan (I'm not sure why they have that but I guess to BS you out of returns)

Here's a question: what the hell are they gonna do for someone that actually buys that plan and comes back 6 months from now to use it and these things are long gone? Pull a Hasbro and exchange it for a similar figure? Even though there are no similarly priced figures...

Mainly why I didn't buy it. It would be nice to get a replacement but useless unless Hasbro learned that people don't like flawed figures. We pretty much know why this nice figure is flawed because you need to handle it when transforming. Hell my Starscream had that hinge wear that should have been fixed, but sometimes even being careful with it is hard because of how you have to pull them off the pegs and what not to lift it.

by **Naked Magnus** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 3:38 pm

Man, I could not find a Masterpiece Screamer at any WalMart in my area when he came out. Now these same WalMarts have a surplus of Skywarps. What is the reason? Did they simply make more of them? Or, are people not buying them? Is it the higher price? Is it the recession?

I got mine today. I haven't taken him out of the box, as I had already exceeded my monthly TF budget. I had to convince the wife that I would open him up a different month in place of buying something else. The colors are better than the Takara version. Now I wish I had not put the stickers on my Takara Skywarp, as the glossy plastic makes his jet mode look very bad ass. Without the stickers, Takara Skywarp looks like a real F-15. Then I can leave the takara one in Jet mode and the Hasbro one in robot mode. I could also swap the heads so that the hasbro one has the unique Takara skywarp facial expression.