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Emerje wrote:Even the Dollar Tree Final Faction toy line can see the benefits of selling extra weapons and lots of them.

https://www.dollartree.com/final-faction

Emerje

I need Churro the guard dog!


And I don't get why they don't do accessory packs when even the original 3.75" G.I. Joe figures had several accessory packs made so historically they should know accessories sell.

So I'm double posting this here and in the Steal of a Deal thread in hopes of possibly creating a steal of a deal for many of us. When others found Cyclonus apparently in stock at Gamestop, I took a look myself, but decided to pass and wait for Amazon.

But I happened to notice that Gamestop has the prices wrong and low for most of wave 2. The have the deluxes at $16.99, Voyagers at $24.99 and Leader UM at $44.99.

However this actually is not a great deal because of how Gamedstop set up their pre-orders. They are treating each item as a separate "order" as far as how their free shipping at $35 per order goes. They are charging $6 for shipping on each item since they won't let you combine. The only way I've found to get free shipping is to order enough of each individual item to get each item above $35, so 3 Airazors will work, but not 1 each of the 3 deluxes. Basically the great price gets wiped out by the shipping. Anyone interested in Kingdom UM can get him for free shipping since he is above the threshold all on his own.

However, I do have a challenge for everyone that has the wave 2 deluxes or voyagres on pre-order with Amazon. Go to the page for each item on Amazon, and report a lower price and give them the link to Gamestop's page for each item. In enough of us do it, it might make Amazon lower their price to match Gamestop and give us all the better pricing that have pre-ordered on Amazon. You can find the link to report a lower price in the Product Information area, under the feedback heading (scroll down a bit).

I'll be curious to see if this will work before scalpers see the price and wipe Gamestop out of stock.

Here are the links to Gamestop for anyone who wants to try this out. I've already submitted them myself.

https://www.gamestop.com/toys-collectib ... dition=New

https://www.gamestop.com/toys-collectib ... dition=New

https://www.gamestop.com/toys-collectib ... dition=New

https://www.gamestop.com/toys-collectib ... dition=New

https://www.gamestop.com/toys-collectib ... dition=New

Also, Huffer is back available on Amazon for anyone looking.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:So I'm double posting this here and in the Steal of a Deal thread in hopes of possibly creating a steal of a deal for many of us. When others found Cyclonus apparently in stock at Gamestop, I took a look myself, but decided to pass and wait for Amazon.

But I happened to notice that Gamestop has the prices wrong and low for most of wave 2. The have the deluxes at $16.99, Voyagers at $24.99 and Leader UM at $44.99.

However this actually is not a great deal because of how Gamedstop set up their pre-orders. They are treating each item as a separate "order" as far as how their free shipping at $35 per order goes. They are charging $6 for shipping on each item since they won't let you combine. The only way I've found to get free shipping is to order enough of each individual item to get each item above $35, so 3 Airazors will work, but not 1 each of the 3 deluxes. Basically the great price gets wiped out by the shipping. Anyone interested in Kingdom UM can get him for free shipping since he is above the threshold all on his own.

However, I do have a challenge for everyone that has the wave 2 deluxes or voyagres on pre-order with Amazon. Go to the page for each item on Amazon, and report a lower price and give them the link to Gamestop's page for each item. In enough of us do it, it might make Amazon lower their price to match Gamestop and give us all the better pricing that have pre-ordered on Amazon. You can find the link to report a lower price in the Product Information area, under the feedback heading (scroll down a bit).

I'll be curious to see if this will work before scalpers see the price and wipe Gamestop out of stock.

Here are the links to Gamestop for anyone who wants to try this out. I've already submitted them myself.

https://www.gamestop.com/toys-collectib ... dition=New

https://www.gamestop.com/toys-collectib ... dition=New

https://www.gamestop.com/toys-collectib ... dition=New

https://www.gamestop.com/toys-collectib ... dition=New

https://www.gamestop.com/toys-collectib ... dition=New

I placed my order for Kingdom Wave 2 with them last week as I was looking for Galactic Man and they had him in stock. Although if I had waited till this week I could have received a $10 discount.

With the price difference and ability to use Quadpay or Sezzle, I went with Gamestop as the math says I'm only paying a couple of extra dollars because of the shipping.

aronjlove wrote:With the price difference and ability to use Quadpay or Sezzle, I went with Gamestop as the math says I'm only paying a couple of extra dollars because of the shipping.

It's stupid that they're charging shipping so I'm passing on this. On the surface the prices are great, but then they're charging $5.99 per item for shipping instead of lumping them all together and giving free shipping on an order over $35. In the end it comes to more than the MSRP total so I'll just wait because these will certainly be cheaper at release in some places.

Emerje

Hopefully Kingdoms Galvatron will be inspired by Newages version...

their repaint into Straxus looks pretty good too in bot mode

Kingdom has come



And here is the Rat with some of his prior incarnations. I think he might be the best and my personal favorite of the lot, though I do like the Transmetal one a good bit

Looks like BBTS had the Kingdom wave 1 deluxes in stock already.

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Lists?Slug=NewArrivals

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Looks like BBTS had the Kingdom wave 1 deluxes in stock already.

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Lists?Slug=NewArrivals

Thank you BBTS, very cool!

Autobot N wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Looks like BBTS had the Kingdom wave 1 deluxes in stock already.

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Lists?Slug=NewArrivals

Thank you BBTS, very cool!

I agree, and they even come in under the pulse price point too, a rare happenstance for the up charging sites, so, easily ordered the whole case

Yeah, BBTS just charged me for the Cheetor and Paleotrex pre-orders. I thought they wouldn't be out until February

I stuck them in the Pile loot, so will wait for a few more things to come in stock before actually shipping them.

With BBTS having them, I wonder if Amazon will get them soon, that's where almost all my preorders are through, got all the deluxes for $17 each there.

These crossovers continue to get weird don't they?

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:With BBTS having them, I wonder if Amazon will get them soon, that's where almost all my preorders are through, got all the deluxes for $17 each there.

I've got them on Amazon and had the same thought, although mine is a mix of wonder and fear. I'd love to get them earlier than expected, but don't need another $80 worth of items I budgeted for next year creeping into this month.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:With BBTS having them, I wonder if Amazon will get them soon, that's where almost all my preorders are through, got all the deluxes for $17 each there.

I've got them on Amazon and had the same thought, although mine is a mix of wonder and fear. I'd love to get them earlier than expected, but don't need another $80 worth of items I budgeted for next year creeping into this month.

My thoughts exactly.

I think from here on out, Hasbro should just use the shrugging emoji for all future release dates.

TonTon just realeased his Ractonite review. Honestly don't know how good of a review it is cause I refuse to support his videos due to the extent of the "early samples" he obtains, but figured some of you would be interested in it. https://youtu.be/CGjSKDiJgrY

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:With BBTS having them, I wonder if Amazon will get them soon, that's where almost all my preorders are through, got all the deluxes for $17 each there.

I've got them on Amazon and had the same thought, although mine is a mix of wonder and fear. I'd love to get them earlier than expected, but don't need another $80 worth of items I budgeted for next year creeping into this month.

If only Amazon.com did not limit the toy pre-orders to the U.S, I would have pre-ordered through them.

Not sure why they have this limitation. Its kind of annoying.

As it is BBTS or TF Source work great. Even Ami-Ami lets me ship things south of the U.S border without any issues, it just takes longer to get here.

If anyone out there just wants their Transformers Kingdom figures NOW rather than wait for the chance to find them at retail, well they are available. We were informed that BBTS just got the deluxe figures in. Those include Warpath, Cheetor, Paleotrex and Blackarachnia. They are $21.99 USD each and ship worldwide (though shipping can get rather pricey for fans outside the US). All these toys can be purchased here.

If ever you do find these toys at retail, which hopefully happens sooner rather than later, please let us know.

That is neat, but I can wait. Hopefully this just means other retailers will get them sooner than later. Amazon still says Feb 3rd for my Paleotrex, but maybe that will change?

o.supreme wrote:That is neat, but I can wait. Hopefully this just means other retailers will get them sooner than later. Amazon still says Feb 3rd for my Paleotrex, but maybe that will change?

Yeah, for March 15th

The only one I really want is Warpath, and I can wait until Amazon ships him. I might also get Blackarachnia, but she'll be an in-hand decision.

instabuy

After some consideration I'm keeping my CW Warpath. Yeah he doesn't have his cannon mounted in his chest in robot mode but I dig his size in that he's small like his G1 counterpart...'nuff said!

Greetings Seibertronians! Fellow Seibertron users, Sentinel_Primal, and Jojo have let us knowvthat YouTube toy reviewer, TonTon had uploaded a review of the [url=h]Transformers Kingdom Wave 2 Deluxe Class Fossilizer Ractonite[/url]!

Ractonite is the 2nd of the Deluxe Class Fossilizers to be revealed, and like Paleotrex and Vertebreak, belongs to the Predacon faction. Not that it will matter what faction it is when it comes to seeing how you can use all the pieces that Ractonite turns into!

We have embedded the review below for your convenience:



What do you think of this Fossilizer? Have you already thought of ways to combine his parts with other figures? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!

The toy looks great (didn't need to see the review to make that decision), I've had it pre-ordered on Amazon since it became available. There is this odd conundrum however. The Bones don't look right on Original Series characters, but the BW Toys (where they would look good), don't have any 5mm ports... I understand why, as any animal with "holes" all over would look bad, but it's just odd that Hasbro hadn't considered that, especially with Promo images showing Primal wearing Dino-Armor that really isn't workable with Paleotrex or Ractonite.

Also major props to anyone who reworks the lyrics of Mac Tonight (which in and of itself was a parody of Mac the Knife) into Ractonite