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News Credits: 42 · by **Autobot N** » Wed Jul 07, 2021 12:55 pm

william-james88 wrote:I remember people saying they feared Kingdom arcee would be the only thing left from the Kingdom waves. Well, still too early to tell but damn do I see lots of Ractonite.

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Most of what I've seen at my places is Arcees (at least for Kingdom, there's like 7 SS86 Blurrs at my Walmart that haven't moved in months)

News Credits: 19 · by **blackeyedprime** » Wed Jul 07, 2021 1:01 pm

Er arcee been dropped to £10 here - if findable and most of wave 1/2 Kingdom down to £15. Sadly I wasn't able to get er astrotrain for the almost reasonable price of £25. Stores seem to have been a bit more savvy and ordered less netflix wave 3 so they don't have overstocks of repacks even of its just cheetor this time around. Pretty sure Kingdom magnus will drop lower than £40 as he seems to be the shelf warmer. Every area will be different though.

News Credits: 20 · by **Tuned Agent** » Wed Jul 07, 2021 1:41 pm

I've also noticed wave 1 getting restocked instead of wave 3, and it seems to be getting stocked simultaneously with wave 2, especially the deluxes. Arcee is definitely the one lingering in my area as well.

News Credits: 101 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Wed Jul 07, 2021 1:54 pm

william-james88 wrote:I remember people saying they feared Kingdom arcee would be the only thing left from the Kingdom waves. Well, still too early to tell but damn do I see lots of Ractonite.

There's Kingdom deluxes on the shelves of your local stores? :shock:

News Credits: 23 · by **aronjlove** » Wed Jul 07, 2021 3:52 pm

Huh, apparently I got unsubscribed from this thread :BANG_HEAD:

In the future, I will pick Amazon as my horse as it has been the only one completing the race. And my usual luck on figures was not in effect this past weekend as all I saw of wave 3 was a single Dracodon.

News Credits: 11 · by **Overcracker** » Wed Jul 07, 2021 4:20 pm

BBTS just sent an email stating Kingdom Tracks will be processing soon. Which means its way ahead of schedule.

: Tracks BBTS

News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Wed Jul 07, 2021 7:37 pm

Galvatron finally came in from my online order at EB games. And it's the misassembled one. Tried to undo the pin, but got gun shy after making a small dent in his shoulder.

I'll be keeping my eye out for a correctly assembled version. I don't know why Hasbro switched to pins, but I hate it. Things like this wouldn't be a problem if this were held together by screws. It's a good enough toy otherwise, but the misassembly bums me out.

I don't know why I'm not more excited by it. It has the matrix on a chain. It looks the part. The canon mode is messy, but it's there. It's probably the best Galvatron we've ever gotten.

News Credits: 12 · by **Razorbeast88** » Wed Jul 07, 2021 7:57 pm

I got mine from Amazon today and he doesn't have shoulder fix either
But its all good, I'll stick with front facing pins

News Credits: 23 · by **aronjlove** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 11:31 am

I don't know if this is the right thread to post this, but has anyone else seen the picture floating around of a bright orange Kingdom Ark titan? It looks like a Takara advert pic because it has a stark white background with kanji at the bottom aligned to the right.

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News Credits: 459 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 11:37 am

That's just a TakaraTomy stock photo of the Ark.

News Credits: 23 · by **aronjlove** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 11:41 am

Sabrblade wrote:That's just a TakaraTomy stock photo of the Ark.

So, bad lighting? I follow a Japanese collector in Japan who already has the Ark and his pictures have the expected color like Hasbro's photos.

News Credits: 459 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 11:49 am

aronjlove wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:That's just a TakaraTomy stock photo of the Ark.

So, bad lighting? I follow a Japanese collector in Japan who already has the Ark and his pictures have the expected color like Hasbro's photos.

More just a case of heavy color saturation.

News Credits: 10 · by **sol magnus** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 11:50 am

I want my damn Rodimus Prime. Who's with me?!

News Credits: 194 · by **RodimusConvoy13** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 12:21 pm

sol magnus wrote:I want my damn Rodimus Prime. Who's with me?!

I want mine too! At least Galvatron just shipped from Amazon for me. I should have him Saturday.

News Credits: 11 · by **Overcracker** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 12:23 pm

sol magnus wrote:I want my damn Rodimus Prime. Who's with me?!

Me too. but seems that's still a while off before it starts shipping.

On related news, I switched my Rhinox Pre-Order from BBTS to Amazon, and lo and behold it immediately shipped and is here already. While BBTS still has Rhinox on pre-order.

News Credits: 10 · by **sol magnus** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 2:59 pm

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:
sol magnus wrote:I want my damn Rodimus Prime. Who's with me?!

I want mine too! At least Galvatron just shipped from Amazon for me. I should have him Saturday.

Picked up Galvatron in store today, but I can't tell if his shoulders are correct or not -

News Credits: 19 · by **blackeyedprime** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 3:03 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
aronjlove wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:That's just a TakaraTomy stock photo of the Ark.

So, bad lighting? I follow a Japanese collector in Japan who already has the Ark and his pictures have the expected color like Hasbro's photos.
More just a case of heavy color saturation.

Except for the translucent pieces like the viewing ball, cockpit and visor etc are blue instead of yellow and it has an EX tag, so yup takara likely going with a different paint scheme or some kind of excllusive release for it. time will tell but it will be long after most ppeoples spends have crashed on the hasbro version.

News Credits: 17 · by **AcademyofDrX** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 3:23 pm

All of the Kingdom Takara Tomy Mall exclusives have the EX tag. It refers to their retail availability, not the product design.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 3:25 pm

Have we not learned from what happened to Earthrise Alicon about Takara's photo skills? Some people in Japan have the to already, and it's exactly the same as Hasbro are releasing.

News Credits: 19 · by **blackeyedprime** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 4:05 pm

if they can turn yellow blue in their photos,wondering what color the sky is in their snaps XD

News Credits: 56 · by **o.supreme** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 4:11 pm

Well the easiest solution is to order The Ark directly from a source that sells the TT version and tell us all about it. It's not impossible. I got a TT Siege Rung for around $12 shipped at a time when it was impossible to find locally for a decent price (In hindsight if I had known they were going to reissue it in ER oh well....) it was the exact same toy, though TT lettering on the package differed slightly. I wasn't expecting anything different though, it was just the best way to get it at the time.

Order one and let us know what you find out :-D

News Credits: 1 · by **Rtron** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 4:29 pm

The EX in the name means nothing, plenty of War for Cybertron Trilogy figures that are regular retail in the west were exclusives in japan.

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 4:42 pm

sol magnus wrote:
RodimusConvoy13 wrote:
sol magnus wrote:I want my damn Rodimus Prime. Who's with me?!

I want mine too! At least Galvatron just shipped from Amazon for me. I should have him Saturday.

Picked up Galvatron in store today, but I can't tell if his shoulders are correct or not -

From what I can tell it's the bad shoulders.

News Credits: 5 · by **Nuclearxpotato** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 6:48 pm

blackeyedprime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
aronjlove wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:That's just a TakaraTomy stock photo of the Ark.

So, bad lighting? I follow a Japanese collector in Japan who already has the Ark and his pictures have the expected color like Hasbro's photos.
More just a case of heavy color saturation.

Except for the translucent pieces like the viewing ball, cockpit and visor etc are blue instead of yellow and it has an EX tag, so yup takara likely going with a different paint scheme or some kind of excllusive release for it. time will tell but it will be long after most ppeoples spends have crashed on the hasbro version.

They have an earlier test run of the figure. Takara has a 50/50 shot of using an earlier or later version of any figure for their promo shots, but the figure is the same.

ER Prime, ER Allicon, K Megs are the first examples I can think of.

News Credits: 4856 · by **william-james88** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 9:19 pm

blackeyedprime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
aronjlove wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:That's just a TakaraTomy stock photo of the Ark.

So, bad lighting? I follow a Japanese collector in Japan who already has the Ark and his pictures have the expected color like Hasbro's photos.
More just a case of heavy color saturation.

Except for the translucent pieces like the viewing ball, cockpit and visor etc are blue instead of yellow and it has an EX tag, so yup takara likely going with a different paint scheme or some kind of excllusive release for it. time will tell but it will be long after most ppeoples spends have crashed on the hasbro version.

Takara has been using early test shots for their pics and alter colours as well, they've been doing that a lot lately. It will be the same as the Hasbro release.