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Autobot N wrote:

aronjlove wrote:I posted this on Twitter cause of Blackarachnia but everyone is going off about Retrax?

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What does the card say?

"Ascends to leader of the Predacons"

Sabrblade wrote:Not just Retrax. Manterror and Buzzclaw are there too.

Who is next to Buzzclaw, in front of Waspinator? Head sorta looks like Razor Claw or Seaclamp.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Not just Retrax. Manterror and Buzzclaw are there too.

Who is next to Buzzclaw, in front of Waspinator? Head sorta looks like Razor Claw or Seaclamp.

Emerje

Do you guys mean Buzzclaw or Buzzsaw?

Seibertron wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Not just Retrax. Manterror and Buzzclaw are there too.

Who is next to Buzzclaw, in front of Waspinator? Head sorta looks like Razor Claw or Seaclamp.

Emerje

Do you guys mean Buzzclaw or Buzzsaw?

Buzzclaw. Orange w/ blue eyes. Bottom-right corner.

Emerje wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Not just Retrax. Manterror and Buzzclaw are there too.

Who is next to Buzzclaw, in front of Waspinator? Head sorta looks like Razor Claw or Seaclamp.

Emerje

This is gonna sound crazy, but I'd been looking at so many Beast Wars toy heads trying to figure out who it is, and none of them were clear enough match for it. But then I go looking elsewhere and someone else just IDs it right on the spot as not a Beast Wars toy.

Of all things, it's the Predacons Rising redeco of TF: Prime Cyberverse Commander class Predaking, purple forehead crest, purple wings, and all!

aronjlove wrote:I posted this on Twitter cause of Blackarachnia but everyone is going off about Retrax?

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This is really neat, the card could've gone the easy route and just had Scorponok, Waspinator and possibly Terrorsaur (if we are indeed getting one) beneath Blackarachnia, but I love how the artist went the extra mile with the fanservice and put in a load of obscure Predacons and even an Aligned Continuity Predacon!

Sabrblade wrote:

Seibertron wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Not just Retrax. Manterror and Buzzclaw are there too.

Who is next to Buzzclaw, in front of Waspinator? Head sorta looks like Razor Claw or Seaclamp.

Emerje

Do you guys mean Buzzclaw or Buzzsaw?

Buzzclaw. Orange w/ blue eyes. Bottom-right corner.

For comparison:

Took some more pictures of Airazor. She is a pretty neat bird lady. It feels good to finally have one.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Took some more pictures of Airazor. She is a pretty neat bird lady. It feels good to finally have one.

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Nice! Mine should be coming from BBTS tomorrow along with Cyclonus

Sabrblade wrote:Of all things, it's the Predacons Rising redeco of TF: Prime Cyberverse Commander class Predaking, purple forehead crest, purple wings, and all!

That's crazy! What an obscure choice to pull out, not sure if it really meshes well with the rest of the characters, but it's neat none the less.

Emerje

Not gonna lie, took me a bit to figure out the back legs in beast mode as the clearance for the panels is pretty tight, but I finally got it figured out and boy do I love me some Rhinox!



His back beast legs don't have much range of motion as they are little stubby things on a ball joint. Other than that I really dig him

Axalon Flight crew.

*Fair* is not a term I use often when it comes to toy collecting, because that's just simply not how the world works anymore. However every once in a while we get a surprise. Congrats aronjlove for being one of the first to get Kingdom Rhinox and sharing your pics. Also if anyone at Hasbro sees this or cares (probably not). I for one appreciate that on this occasion, for whatever reason, security was tight enough around this particular toy to avoid being stolen by individuals to be picked up by early reviewers. Also I'm linking to a Youtube reviewer from Las Vegas (not too far from where he was first found in some stores in Arizona). While he may have 5 1/2 thousand subs, it appears his videos only get on average a couple hundred views. Some even more niche subjects not even that. But low and behold, when an average joe can be the 1st in the world to present something, they can get thousands of views in the first day! THIS is why fairness matters IMHO. I don't expect like magic for early reviewers to all of a sudden stop happening. But it is nice for once for the little guy to get a win.



As for me, I'm off to see if my Target upon doors opening today have that Rhinox. (I was told a new shipment of voyagers will be in today, but of course it could be wave 1, 2 or 3).

*update*

Unfortunately it was more wave 1... . Oh well...at least I got to see Cyclonus for the first time in a while, I'm sure it won't be there long. Also met 2 of the local scalpers. The first, and older guy in his 70's waits there EVERY SINGLE MORNING, but he goes after Hotwheels, so yeah I have no beef with him. The other guy though...was after the exact same thing I was. I can only hope that if Rhinox had been there, he would have been civil enough to let me have one, instead of trying to snatch up both. Yeah scalpers are a very real problem.

I just saw two posts on Twitter within minutes of each other from people getting charged for Galvatron. One specifically mentioned BBTS. Another early figure it seems...

aronjlove wrote:I just saw two posts on Twitter within minutes of each other from people getting charged for Galvatron. One specifically mentioned BBTS. Another early figure it seems...

Yeah, the BBTS thread on TFW is flooded with people getting their Galvatrons in

Autobot N wrote:

aronjlove wrote:I just saw two posts on Twitter within minutes of each other from people getting charged for Galvatron. One specifically mentioned BBTS. Another early figure it seems...

Yeah, the BBTS thread on TFW is flooded with people getting their Galvatrons in

I hope theirs have had a running change done to the shoulders, otherwise I'll likely cancel my order and wait for the toy colors one

Hellscream9999 wrote:I hope theirs have had a running change done to the shoulders, otherwise I'll likely cancel my order and wait for the toy colors one

What's up with Galvatron's shoulders?

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:I hope theirs have had a running change done to the shoulders, otherwise I'll likely cancel my order and wait for the toy colors one

What's up with Galvatron's shoulders?

Parts of the shoulder are coming installed upside-down and backwards, and they're pinned together, visually, they sit way lower than they should

Anyone else getting flashbacks to the alleged shoulder fix for Punch / Counterpunch?

Hellscream9999 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:I hope theirs have had a running change done to the shoulders, otherwise I'll likely cancel my order and wait for the toy colors one

What's up with Galvatron's shoulders?

Parts of the shoulder are coming installed upside-down and backwards, and they're pinned together, visually, they sit way lower than they should

Is there a way to tell in the box if the shoulders are messed up?

So I took a chance and pre-ordered Kingdom Galvatron today from BBTS, now that I've done that I'm sure all the early release figures are gone.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:I hope theirs have had a running change done to the shoulders, otherwise I'll likely cancel my order and wait for the toy colors one

What's up with Galvatron's shoulders?

Parts of the shoulder are coming installed upside-down and backwards, and they're pinned together, visually, they sit way lower than they should

Is there a way to tell in the box if the shoulders are messed up?

The top of the shoulders will visually sit below his black shoulder pylon things



They should sit just above them and it fixes his silhouette



Apparently nothing needs to be "fixed" if you don't mind the pins facing outwards

Yeah, the pins don't really bother me so I have no intention of fixing them or hoping for a running change unless there's a really easy solution. I thought there was talk about having to remove the pins to swap them, but it seems like you could just unscrew the torso and biceps and just swap them.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:Yeah, the pins don't really bother me so I have no intention of fixing them or hoping for a running change unless there's a really easy solution. I thought there was talk about having to remove the pins to swap them, but it seems like you could just unscrew the torso and biceps and just swap them.

Emerje

I don't think the biceps unscrew, the pics of the fix show that you have to bend the shoulder halves apart and pry them away from the shoulder joint

We thank fellow Seibertronians O Supreme and Aronjlove for more Kingdom Rhinox content. Aronjlove has provided us some in hand images which you can see below. You will also find a video review for Rhinox. This is a rare occasion where a toy was only reviewed once it was found in stores by a fan and his video is below.























We also have a review for a toy not yet found in stores, deluxe Wingfinger. The review is from PrimevsPrime and we get a great look at the combiner Hasbro fashionned from the 3 fossilizers at the Hasbro Pulse Fan Fest 2021.

Seibertronian aronjlove has shared some images with us of a new Golden Disk card variant for Blackarachnia!










The translated text reveals that in this outcome, she becomes the leader of the Predacons. But what had people really talking when aronjlove posted this on Twitter was the obscure Beast Wars characters that were featured on the card art... along with art of an unexpected TF: Prime Predaking toy redeco!?

Further, our own Dominus Prime has pointed us to a post on the TFW2005 boards showing a new variant of a Dinobot card from a Wave 3 figure.






Whether this is just a "this could happen" variant, or an actual show spoiler for the upcoming Kingdom cartoon, this card sure shows an interesting upgrade(?) to Dinobot. In case this is a spoiler, his translated card text reads "Becomes a Herald of Unicron"


Have you found any new variant cards in the (slowly trickling out) Wave 3 Kingdom figures you've managed to find? Let us know!