The Energon Pub

william-james88 wrote:please take pics next time, would love to see how fully stocked your shelves are.

Well it's really just leader class. Everything below that is crickets. A couple of SS deluxes, no more. But I'll take a few tomorrow. I'm going to start checking both stores regularly for Tigatron, since I was late for the preorders. If I see Blaster, he will be an in-hand decision.

Blaster looks really good. I'm probably gonna pick him up, but I'd rather focus on getting Tigatron because Blaster's gonna be rereleased in Legacy. I'm hoping that the rumors of Twincast with Rewind are true, but I'm not gonna hold my breath over it

Blaster for me, tigatron mp outshines the wfc but it does look like he has had his stripes painted like on the golden disc version rather than the initial images where he had undeccoed areas.

Waspinator repaints are welcome tho as I'd rather have them to go alongside t30 Waspinator.

Sentinel_Primal wrote:Blaster looks really good. I'm probably gonna pick him up, but I'd rather focus on getting Tigatron because Blaster's gonna be rereleased in Legacy. I'm hoping that the rumors of Twincast with Rewind are true, but I'm not gonna hold my breath over it

There are rumours of Twincast?

william-james88 wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:Blaster looks really good. I'm probably gonna pick him up, but I'd rather focus on getting Tigatron because Blaster's gonna be rereleased in Legacy. I'm hoping that the rumors of Twincast with Rewind are true, but I'm not gonna hold my breath over it

There are rumours of Twincast?

Not that I recall, it's more just an assumption of "they made Soundblaster from Soundwave so they'll make Twincast from Blaster." But there's no evidence behind it IIRC.

Apparently there was another exclusive "fan videoconference", where Pipes & Slammer were shown off (also the new SS BB toys including Arcee, but that is for another thread)



THIS however was what I wanted to see. Sure it may be nothing special to some, but It's what I was waiting for with Slammer.

(Hi Rodimus Primal

Hey guys, I'm new to collecting again and I have a question.

Is it worth tracking down the Walgreens exclusive Red Alert or just get the one from the Seige line?

cambot wrote:Hey guys, I'm new to collecting again and I have a question.

Is it worth tracking down the Walgreens exclusive Red Alert or just get the one from the Seige line?

Welcome to Siebertron!

In my humble opinion, it's worth tracking BOTH. They look awesome together and are each pretty much perfect toys.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

cambot wrote:Hey guys, I'm new to collecting again and I have a question.

Is it worth tracking down the Walgreens exclusive Red Alert or just get the one from the Seige line?

Welcome to Siebertron!

In my humble opinion, it's worth tracking BOTH. They look awesome together and are each pretty much perfect toys.

Agreed. "Why not both?" as the meme goes.

cambot wrote:Hey guys, I'm new to collecting again and I have a question.

Is it worth tracking down the Walgreens exclusive Red Alert or just get the one from the Seige line?

TBH I think it depends on the version you want, Earth Mode or Cybertron. As G1 fan I prefer the Earth Mode to having Cyberton writing on him. So I passed on Seige version. Of course limited space and saving Money also played a role in this decision.

cambot wrote:Hey guys, I'm new to collecting again and I have a question.

Is it worth tracking down the Walgreens exclusive Red Alert or just get the one from the Seige line?

Get the Walgreens one, will be easy to find once its out.

cambot wrote:Hey guys, I'm new to collecting again and I have a question.

Is it worth tracking down the Walgreens exclusive Red Alert or just get the one from the Seige line?

Welcome to the forums! It depends on what your preference is; if you like Cybertronian vehicle modes more than Earth ones, get the Siege version, but if you'd rather have an Earth car mode get the Walgreens exclusive one. You'll probably have better luck findng the Walgreens version as well, because the Siege version is a couple of years old now and may be more difficult to get hold of.

On the topic of Core Hot Rod, I don't hate it. Yeah it's not Masterpiece or Studio Series quality, but it looks like something a 6-year-old would enjoy playing with. If I collected Cores I would probably get one.

william-james88 wrote:

cambot wrote:Hey guys, I'm new to collecting again and I have a question.

Is it worth tracking down the Walgreens exclusive Red Alert or just get the one from the Seige line?

Get the Walgreens one, will be easy to find once its out.

Speaking of which, we are way late into the year. I know Pulse had a very limited quantity for a short time, but still no sightings at Walgreens... Probably stuck on a boat somewhere

o.supreme wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

cambot wrote:Hey guys, I'm new to collecting again and I have a question.

Is it worth tracking down the Walgreens exclusive Red Alert or just get the one from the Seige line?

Get the Walgreens one, will be easy to find once its out.

Speaking of which, we are way late into the year. I know Pulse had a very limited quantity for a short time, but still no sightings at Walgreens... Probably stuck on a boat somewhere

Ehe... Not to burst anyone's bubble, but my local Walgreens is busy resetting the aisles for the holidays, and unless Transformers gets a special section, you may not see Red Alert in stores: I didn't spot any tags for them on the shelves.

Autobot N wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:Blaster looks really good. I'm probably gonna pick him up, but I'd rather focus on getting Tigatron because Blaster's gonna be rereleased in Legacy. I'm hoping that the rumors of Twincast with Rewind are true, but I'm not gonna hold my breath over it

There are rumours of Twincast?

Not that I recall, it's more just an assumption of "they made Soundblaster from Soundwave so they'll make Twincast from Blaster." But there's no evidence behind it IIRC.

I could also be completely misremembering, but I swear there was something about how Rewind fans would get him eventually which turned into Twincast might be coming. Oh well, now we have rumors of SG Blaster which might be the actual way we get Rewind as opposed to Twincast

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:Blaster looks really good. I'm probably gonna pick him up, but I'd rather focus on getting Tigatron because Blaster's gonna be rereleased in Legacy. I'm hoping that the rumors of Twincast with Rewind are true, but I'm not gonna hold my breath over it

There are rumours of Twincast?

Not that I recall, it's more just an assumption of "they made Soundblaster from Soundwave so they'll make Twincast from Blaster." But there's no evidence behind it IIRC.

I could also be completely misremembering, but I swear there was something about how Rewind fans would get him eventually which turned into Twincast might be coming. Oh well, now we have rumors of SG Blaster which might be the actual way we get Rewind as opposed to Twincast

Fan's hopes turn into rumors way too easily. Anyone who's had the verbal chain message experiment in school (or watched the latter half of Madagascar 2) will know what I mean.

I personally don't have a strong desire one way or another. But I would think a Twincast repaint,/ slight retool from Blaster would be far more likely to happen than T Wrecks from BW Megatron, but we already have the latter....Selects ( Perhaps TT Selects?) May be it's method of release, but I would be shocked if we hadn't heard some kind of official leaked listing or something in the next 12 months.

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:

o.supreme wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

cambot wrote:Hey guys, I'm new to collecting again and I have a question.

Is it worth tracking down the Walgreens exclusive Red Alert or just get the one from the Seige line?

Get the Walgreens one, will be easy to find once its out.

Speaking of which, we are way late into the year. I know Pulse had a very limited quantity for a short time, but still no sightings at Walgreens... Probably stuck on a boat somewhere

Ehe... Not to burst anyone's bubble, but my local Walgreens is busy resetting the aisles for the holidays, and unless Transformers gets a special section, you may not see Red Alert in stores: I didn't spot any tags for them on the shelves.

They won't have tags for Red Alert himself, but they should have tags or a place for WCF Deluxes in the regular toy aisle. That is where all the previous ones have been in my stores. For whatever reason Walgreens waits to put them out until they reset the store for Christmas, but they just put them in the regular toy section in the same spot as the regular WFC deluxes.

o.supreme wrote:
Speaking of which, we are way late into the year. I know Pulse had a very limited quantity for a short time, but still no sightings at Walgreens... Probably stuck on a boat somewhere

Walgreens has them. When Hasbro got them (and EB Games got him), Walgreens got him too. Inventory isn't kept by Hasbro themslves unless it's unsold toys, and in this case every single toy destined for distribution is sold (since it's exclusive). So when the toy was ready for distribution, it was sent to all retailers. So it's in the retialer's hands.

We see this with exclusives a lot. A retailer will have a bunch of product stuck in a warehouse and due to issues with logistics can't bring it to shelves/consumers. It's happened that if they can't figure it out in time, they just dump their stock to another retailer. Walmart did that with their TLK exclusives a few years back and Amazon canada did that with the coneheads, which pissed me off.

cambot wrote:Hey guys, I'm new to collecting again and I have a question.

Is it worth tracking down the Walgreens exclusive Red Alert or just get the one from the Seige line?

Walgreens, The siege one is really bad with it's mismatched whites and the alt modes really a bit of a failure at being Earth or Cybertronian. I dislike the bot mode anyways with the lack of a neck and squarenss of it but Earth mode Red Alert and some of the other repaints such as tigertracks or netflix deepcover pull it off a bit better due to their coloring.

Well right before the rest of Kingdom wave 5 hits retail, Hasbro held a Q&A to reveal the rest of the line. That includes deluxe Pipes, Slammer and core class Hot Rod. For Slammer, we get to see his various modes, including a tower mode to go on T30 Metroplex. Hasbro also had official images for these three along with Shadow Panther. Hot Rod will be repacked in the first wave of Legacy.

We thank TFW2005 for the screenshots that you see below.

T30 Metroplex reissue or riot.

*ahem*
Scamper looks great and that is an amazing feature (especially after the failure to do the same with SIEGE Brunt). However, this feature makes the need for another reissue of T30 Metroplex all the more urgent because with him costing what he does on eBay right now... most who don't already have him won't be able to take advantage of it - unless there's a reissue.

That sure looks like an Omega Sentinel to me

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:T30 Metroplex reissue or riot.

Don't You mean "peacefully protest?"

Scamper looks great and that is an amazing feature (especially after the failure to do the same with SIEGE Brunt). However, this feature makes the need for another reissue of T30 Metroplex all the more urgent because with him costing what he does on eBay right now... most who don't already have him won't be able to take advantage of it - unless there's a reissue.

Yeah, reissuing Metroplex would be a good selling point for Scamper (not to mention Metroplex) and it wouldn't even require any new engineering. Personally I believe the figure needs an update though. Maybe in 2 years for its 10th anniversary?

If that's what the meme was, I would have said that instead, but it isn't.

I would like to see him updated with G1 aesthetic instead of Aligned, and with CW ports and TR and WFC base connectors, but I specifically mentioned T30 because that already exists and is what the pics from this reveal advertise Scamper as being able to connect to.