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For what it's worth, I concur with TF-Fan Kev777, I think Terrorsaur was always intended to be the heavy hitter of the Golden disk collection as Hasbro/Amazon knew fans wanted him

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Of course, it may all be an exercise in futility. I haven't gotten a single item from SS, SS86 or Kingdom from the Amazon wish list pre-orders before finding them in store and cancelling on Amazon anyway.

My results have been mixed. I got Paleotrex from Amazon way early last December, long before I saw any Kingdom product in store. Ractonite I saw at Walmart first, so I cancelled my pre-order. Ark I found in store at Target (cancelled my Amazon pre-order). But Amazon shipped Rodimus and Wingfinger to me in August, as I have yet to see either in store. The only one I have left on pre-order is Slammer, which obviously got pushed to January. I haven't received a request to approve the delay that I am aware of (but I have on other items in the past).

o.supreme wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Of course, it may all be an exercise in futility. I haven't gotten a single item from SS, SS86 or Kingdom from the Amazon wish list pre-orders before finding them in store and cancelling on Amazon anyway.

My results have been mixed. I got Paleotrex from Amazon way early last December, long before I saw any Kingdom product in store. Ractonite I saw at Walmart first, so I cancelled my pre-order. Ark I found in store at Target (cancelled my Amazon pre-order). But Amazon shipped Rodimus and Wingfinger to me in August, as I have yet to see either in store. The only one I have left on pre-order is Slammer, which obviously got pushed to January. I haven't received a request to approve the delay that I am aware of (but I have on other items in the past).

I had the same experience as you on the earlier wave stuff. My comment was specific to the stuff that Hasbro failed to reveal in any logical timeline or order and we were able to pre-order using the wish list trick because official pre-orders weren't opened yet (and still aren't for a few of them). I'm guessing Slammer is the only one that you might have ordered that way and we won't know on him for some time.

I'm mainly curious to see if the wishlist trick even works or not, as nothing I've ordered that way has made it to shipping before I cancelled.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

o.supreme wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Of course, it may all be an exercise in futility. I haven't gotten a single item from SS, SS86 or Kingdom from the Amazon wish list pre-orders before finding them in store and cancelling on Amazon anyway.

My results have been mixed. I got Paleotrex from Amazon way early last December, long before I saw any Kingdom product in store. Ractonite I saw at Walmart first, so I cancelled my pre-order. Ark I found in store at Target (cancelled my Amazon pre-order). But Amazon shipped Rodimus and Wingfinger to me in August, as I have yet to see either in store. The only one I have left on pre-order is Slammer, which obviously got pushed to January. I haven't received a request to approve the delay that I am aware of (but I have on other items in the past).

I had the same experience as you on the earlier wave stuff. My comment was specific to the stuff that Hasbro failed to reveal in any logical timeline or order and we were able to pre-order using the wish list trick because official pre-orders weren't opened yet (and still aren't for a few of them). I'm guessing Slammer is the only one that you might have ordered that way and we won't know on him for some time.

I'm mainly curious to see if the wishlist trick even works or not, as nothing I've ordered that way has made it to shipping before I cancelled.

It works insofar as they ship it out when they get it. Just because the listings go up early doesn't mean it will ship early. I stopped doing it because it didn't provide any meaningful advantage, and I've been able to get all my pre-orders in on time from Hasbro Pulse. I don't have enough space for all my toys, so it's not important to me that I get it in-hand before everyone else.

So I guess my initial assessment of Wishlist preorders not being actual pre-orders was more accurate than not. Everything else I got was ordered after it was officially listed. Slammer thus far has been my only attempt at a wish list pre-order. I guess we shall see in time.

AcademyofDrX wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

o.supreme wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Of course, it may all be an exercise in futility. I haven't gotten a single item from SS, SS86 or Kingdom from the Amazon wish list pre-orders before finding them in store and cancelling on Amazon anyway.

My results have been mixed. I got Paleotrex from Amazon way early last December, long before I saw any Kingdom product in store. Ractonite I saw at Walmart first, so I cancelled my pre-order. Ark I found in store at Target (cancelled my Amazon pre-order). But Amazon shipped Rodimus and Wingfinger to me in August, as I have yet to see either in store. The only one I have left on pre-order is Slammer, which obviously got pushed to January. I haven't received a request to approve the delay that I am aware of (but I have on other items in the past).

I had the same experience as you on the earlier wave stuff. My comment was specific to the stuff that Hasbro failed to reveal in any logical timeline or order and we were able to pre-order using the wish list trick because official pre-orders weren't opened yet (and still aren't for a few of them). I'm guessing Slammer is the only one that you might have ordered that way and we won't know on him for some time.

I'm mainly curious to see if the wishlist trick even works or not, as nothing I've ordered that way has made it to shipping before I cancelled.

It works insofar as they ship it out when they get it. Just because the listings go up early doesn't mean it will ship early. I stopped doing it because it didn't provide any meaningful advantage, and I've been able to get all my pre-orders in on time from Hasbro Pulse. I don't have enough space for all my toys, so it's not important to me that I get it in-hand before everyone else.

I'm not expecting anything to ship early.

Very simple, I'm just curious to see if using the wish list trick has ACTUALLY worked for anyone, meaning someone placed an order using the wish list trick, did not cancel for any reasons and the order arrived. None of mine made it that far before I cancelled, so I'm just curious to see if it actually works.

I know some have indicated that it might put you at the back of the line if you order using the wish list trick versus waiting for the listing to become active. My question is more on whether even trying the trick in the future is worth it.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

AcademyofDrX wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

o.supreme wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Of course, it may all be an exercise in futility. I haven't gotten a single item from SS, SS86 or Kingdom from the Amazon wish list pre-orders before finding them in store and cancelling on Amazon anyway.

My results have been mixed. I got Paleotrex from Amazon way early last December, long before I saw any Kingdom product in store. Ractonite I saw at Walmart first, so I cancelled my pre-order. Ark I found in store at Target (cancelled my Amazon pre-order). But Amazon shipped Rodimus and Wingfinger to me in August, as I have yet to see either in store. The only one I have left on pre-order is Slammer, which obviously got pushed to January. I haven't received a request to approve the delay that I am aware of (but I have on other items in the past).

I had the same experience as you on the earlier wave stuff. My comment was specific to the stuff that Hasbro failed to reveal in any logical timeline or order and we were able to pre-order using the wish list trick because official pre-orders weren't opened yet (and still aren't for a few of them). I'm guessing Slammer is the only one that you might have ordered that way and we won't know on him for some time.

I'm mainly curious to see if the wishlist trick even works or not, as nothing I've ordered that way has made it to shipping before I cancelled.

It works insofar as they ship it out when they get it. Just because the listings go up early doesn't mean it will ship early. I stopped doing it because it didn't provide any meaningful advantage, and I've been able to get all my pre-orders in on time from Hasbro Pulse. I don't have enough space for all my toys, so it's not important to me that I get it in-hand before everyone else.

I'm not expecting anything to ship early.

Very simple, I'm just curious to see if using the wish list trick has ACTUALLY worked for anyone, meaning someone placed an order using the wish list trick, did not cancel for any reasons and the order arrived. None of mine made it that far before I cancelled, so I'm just curious to see if it actually works.

I know some have indicated that it might put you at the back of the line if you order using the wish list trick versus waiting for the listing to become active. My question is more on whether even trying the trick in the future is worth it.

Yup., all my wishlist pre-orders arrived. Last one I have is Tigatron from the original April pre-order batch and it's getting ready to ship. Amazon has not cancelled a single wishlist pre-order for me yet.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:3) Tigatron is really cool looking, love me a regular Bengal Tiger! And he and Shadow Panther will look great together as the mutant cat brothers.

I'm considering renaming my two Siegfried and Roy.

I need to think of an alternate name for Tigatron, funny enough I think "Tigertron" will be enough for me

I'd probably call the pair of them Calvin and Hobbs.

Overcracker wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

AcademyofDrX wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

o.supreme wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Of course, it may all be an exercise in futility. I haven't gotten a single item from SS, SS86 or Kingdom from the Amazon wish list pre-orders before finding them in store and cancelling on Amazon anyway.

My results have been mixed. I got Paleotrex from Amazon way early last December, long before I saw any Kingdom product in store. Ractonite I saw at Walmart first, so I cancelled my pre-order. Ark I found in store at Target (cancelled my Amazon pre-order). But Amazon shipped Rodimus and Wingfinger to me in August, as I have yet to see either in store. The only one I have left on pre-order is Slammer, which obviously got pushed to January. I haven't received a request to approve the delay that I am aware of (but I have on other items in the past).

I had the same experience as you on the earlier wave stuff. My comment was specific to the stuff that Hasbro failed to reveal in any logical timeline or order and we were able to pre-order using the wish list trick because official pre-orders weren't opened yet (and still aren't for a few of them). I'm guessing Slammer is the only one that you might have ordered that way and we won't know on him for some time.

I'm mainly curious to see if the wishlist trick even works or not, as nothing I've ordered that way has made it to shipping before I cancelled.

It works insofar as they ship it out when they get it. Just because the listings go up early doesn't mean it will ship early. I stopped doing it because it didn't provide any meaningful advantage, and I've been able to get all my pre-orders in on time from Hasbro Pulse. I don't have enough space for all my toys, so it's not important to me that I get it in-hand before everyone else.

I'm not expecting anything to ship early.

Very simple, I'm just curious to see if using the wish list trick has ACTUALLY worked for anyone, meaning someone placed an order using the wish list trick, did not cancel for any reasons and the order arrived. None of mine made it that far before I cancelled, so I'm just curious to see if it actually works.

I know some have indicated that it might put you at the back of the line if you order using the wish list trick versus waiting for the listing to become active. My question is more on whether even trying the trick in the future is worth it.

Yup., all my wishlist pre-orders arrived. Last one I have is Tigatron from the original April pre-order batch and it's getting ready to ship. Amazon has not cancelled a single wishlist pre-order for me yet.

I got ER Ironhide and Prowl this way, and in retrospect that was a bigger deal than I realized at the time.

Pretty much everything I pre-ordered has arrived and been in my possession weeks if not months before actually finding them in store, Tracks for instance I just spotted yesterday but have had him for a month.

Granted my areas is barren for just about anything anyways so it feels almost miraculous when something does show up, but even when I've travels out of town to a large City with several stores I still find empty toy aisles. I haven't seem a fully stocked TF section since 2019, and generally at a Kmart.

AcademyofDrX wrote:

Overcracker wrote:Yup., all my wishlist pre-orders arrived. Last one I have is Tigatron from the original April pre-order batch and it's getting ready to ship. Amazon has not cancelled a single wishlist pre-order for me yet.

I got ER Ironhide and Prowl this way, and in retrospect that was a bigger deal than I realized at the time.

Perfect, thanks to both of you.

Also for Tigatron, expect a delay notice, I just got mine today.

I got notified about Tigatron being back in stock on Amazon but apparently it can't be shipped to my location. Sigh. I might just preorder on tfsource to be safe until I see an opening on Amazon
Or maybe I'll wait on pulse first

Razorbeast88 wrote:I got notified about Tigatron being back in stock on Amazon but apparently it can't be shipped to my location.

Same, but something wonky must be going on. Those listings say Amazon.com, but the main site says its out of stock, and why would they not ship to standard addresses?

o.supreme wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:I got notified about Tigatron being back in stock on Amazon but apparently it can't be shipped to my location.

Same, but something wonky must be going on. Those listings say Amazon.com, but the main site says its out of stock, and why would they not ship to standard addresses?

Yeah thats very weird
Guess I just gotta be patient then haha

Sabrblade wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:If you were to put Terrorsaur in the orignal wave 4, then that whole wave would have been new molds.

Terrorsaur isn't a wholly new mold. He's a heavy retool of Airazor.

Neither is Pipes. And as it turns out, wave 4 is half repacks now.

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:If you were to put Terrorsaur in the orignal wave 4, then that whole wave would have been new molds.

Terrorsaur isn't a wholly new mold. He's a heavy retool of Airazor.

Neither is Pipes. And as it turns out, wave 4 is half repacks now.

Even better.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Also for Tigatron, expect a delay notice, I just got mine today.

I got that as well since today was the arrival date, had to approve the delay. Tigatron and Sweep were two that I used the wishlist trick on, but I doubt that had anything to do with it.

I've only gotten that "can not be shipped to your location" message when I tried to order something that went out of stock in the middle of the ordering process or when something is actually out of stock, but still showing up as in stock for whatever reason. Seems to be a glitch that usually fixes itself.

Emerje

Mistaken_Table wrote:Don't know about the other Pulse branches, but the UK one is borderline useless. I use them to GUARANTEE getting a figure at some point eventually, but it gets cancelled as soon as an actual online retailer puts their pre-orders up.

As a laugh I've trusted them with getting me a Dracodon, which I pre-ordered at its reveal. Earliest they can get 1 to me is December. Pathetic.

As an FYI to other UK folks, IDToys has Tigatron up and Kapow has all 3. Probably still won't get Tigatron this year, but at least it'll be Jan 2022, not Jan 2023.

How is it pathetic you'll still get your toys and you just have to wait a little bit longer for your item...the more you order and cancel the higher the probability they'll just stop UK service as it won't be profitable for them to continue. all because folks like you are impatient

Found Shadow Panther today, but no Pipes or Waspinator.

sol magnus wrote:Found Shadow Panther today, but no Pipes or Waspinator.

You won't find Pipes for a few months, he isn't part of that case

sol magnus wrote:Found Shadow Panther today, but no Pipes or Waspinator.

Only Waspinator and Shadow Panther are showing up in wave 4. Pipes and Slammer have apparently been pushed back for now, replaced with repacks of Tracks and Paleotrex. Congrats on finding Shadow Panther, though. I have seen Wave 4 yet in my area.

Wolfman Jake wrote:

sol magnus wrote:Found Shadow Panther today, but no Pipes or Waspinator.

Only Waspinator and Shadow Panther are showing up in wave 4. Pipes and Slammer have apparently been pushed back for now, replaced with repacks of Tracks and Paleotrex. Congrats on finding Shadow Panther, though. I have seen Wave 4 yet in my area.

... I knew it. My area skipped Wave 3 as I saw exactly those figures except for Wasp!

How is the Ravage wanna-be? Considering adding to my Tripredacus Agents... of which I made Telemocha Wolfang a member, and looking into making Target Blackarachnia one

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:

sol magnus wrote:Found Shadow Panther today, but no Pipes or Waspinator.

Only Waspinator and Shadow Panther are showing up in wave 4. Pipes and Slammer have apparently been pushed back for now, replaced with repacks of Tracks and Paleotrex. Congrats on finding Shadow Panther, though. I have seen Wave 4 yet in my area.

... I knew it. My area skipped Wave 3 as I saw exactly those figures except for Wasp!

How is the Ravage wanna-be? Considering adding to my Tripredacus Agents... of which I made Telemocha Wolfang a member, and looking into making Target Blackarachnia one

He's a black Cheetor with a mutant head. The paint job is decent and the mold does look good in black, but that's the best I can say about him. if you like Cheetor, there's nothing to dislike here.

i know this isn't the thread for it, but I found Worlds Collide about an hour later, so W00t!

I know these were on Hasbro Pulse UK Monday, but these are on Pulse U.S. Now, or is this old news?

https://hasbropulse.com/collections/new ... 5-tigatron

12/1/21

https://hasbropulse.com/collections/new ... waspinator

11/15/21

https://hasbropulse.com/collections/new ... ow-panther

11/15/21

o.supreme wrote:I know these were on Hasbro Pulse UK Monday, but these are on Pulse U.S. Now, or is this old news?

https://hasbropulse.com/collections/new ... 5-tigatron

12/1/21

https://hasbropulse.com/collections/new ... waspinator

11/15/21

https://hasbropulse.com/collections/new ... ow-panther

11/15/21

I just got Shadow Panther yesterday, and Waspinator today.