Earthrise Seeker 2 Pack, Scorponok and Skylynx found at Toysrus Canada

william-james88 wrote:Toysrus reopened in Canada a little while ago but there didn't seem to be anything new. That's all changed now since Earthrise Scorponok and Skylynx have been found along with the Seeker two pack featuring Thundercracker and Skywarp. The sightings come from Ontario. The image below was posted by Havokboix on Cybertron.ca who found these in Mississauga.

There was a 20% off sale this week and these are the prices they were at:

Seeker 2 pack: 63.97 ($49 USD)
Skylynx: 95.97 ($72 USD)
Scorponok: 199.97 ($151 USD)

Those are some nice prices!!


I went into Walmart just a couple days ago, and the TF Siege/ER section was completely empty.
I've never seen a section literally empty like this. There was a lot fro Cyberverse but that was it.
I was just in the Target by me and the only ER figures were 2 Starscreams (there was some Siege stuff).

Does anyone else think that Hastak is pumping the brakes with distributing ER stuff because the show was delayed and the toys for the second part of the show were released waaaay early?
Would a company lose money if they back-out of sending product to stores? Or does Hastak have an established "contract" with a store like Target which reserves peg and shelf space, and if they don't send product, the higher-up's for Target just sit back and think, "Well, it's your product that's not being sold since you're not sending it... As much as we don't like the look of a thinned-out section, we're still making money from the contract we agreed to so we can deal with some empty pegs".
Just seems like for quite a while this area has been really thin with ER stuff...

I wouldn't say the toys for the second part were released too early, 2020 was always the year for Earthrise. The Combiner Wars cartoon didn't release till after that line had finished. Plus the show wasn't delayed by that much (we're talking months) Siege cartoon was never going to debut when the Siege line was out.

ZeroWolf wrote:I wouldn't say the toys for the second part were released too early, 2020 was always the year for Earthrise. The Combiner Wars cartoon didn't release till after that line had finished. Plus the show wasn't delayed by that much (we're talking months) Siege cartoon was never going to debut when the Siege line was out.

Yeah, that's why the toyline accompanying it is the Netflix line, not the siege line.

It's Walmart's Netflix War For Cybertron Toys, based on the Netflix War For Cybertron (Siege), show, based on the Hasbro War For Cybertron (Siege) toys.... I mean c'mon how easy is that

There is still a global pandemic and nascent recession which is affecting supply chains, staffing, and consumption, as well as retailer priorities. I'm guessing *gestures around at global chaos* all of this probably has more to do with your given stores' stocks than trans-media scheduling.

Also, I don't know how specific exclusive arrangements work, but at a high level stores make their money when they sell products and not when they ... don't.

AcademyofDrX wrote:There is still a global pandemic and nascent recession which is affecting supply chains, staffing, and consumption, as well as retailer priorities. I'm guessing *gestures around at global chaos* all of this probably has more to do with your given stores' stocks than trans-media scheduling.

Absolutely could be... Just interesting that as I've walked through that store multiple times in the last couple months, nothing else has consistently stood out to me as being sparsely stocked. In other words, the store doesn't look like it's missing 1/3 of it's normal product. And it wouldn't take any examining to notice this.... Seems that all the global chaos would be affecting a lot of various companies.

AcademyofDrX wrote:Also, I don't know how specific exclusive arrangements work, but at a high level stores make their money when they sell products and not when they ... don't.

Right... But a high level store like Target doesn't need to sell TF... That was part of my point.
Selling thousands of products means TF are literally a single drop in the bucket.
So IF Hasbro chose to slow the distribution of toys from a single line such as TF (which no matter the reason is happening in my area), Target as a corporation doesn't need to care much. A decline in toy sales?
Yeah, could spell trouble with only 20 billion in profits to fall back on.

My wave 2 Micromasters arrived from EE yesterday and spawned a minor epiphany - I don't care if they never finish these sets/teams. Micromasters deserved better than this output. Astro Squad looks fine as robots but this space shuttle barely holds together. The top panel of the front part is meant to hold by friction over what becomes the back of Fuzer's robot legs and it just can't do it. Blast Master's head can't rotate all the way in because there is literally not clearance to rotate it as shown in the instructions. The cavity it needs to go into is visibly too narrow and not in the "barely too narrow let me grab my hobby knife" kind of way. Ground Hog inherits that thing from a few G1 Micromasters where the back of the feet will have to be worn down over time to easily complete their 180 rotation for alt mode. It may break before that ever happens because after positioning the top of the arms/sidepanels so the front end can barely stay put, I noticed some nasty stressing on the shoulder ball joints already forming. That's with a minute or two of handling. Also, it took me way to long to realize he's entirely the wrong color. The engineering and sculpting is fine in principal but the materials used and final execution doesn't feel adequate or thoroughly tested.

To end on a positive, Roller Force is really cool and doesn't have the problems the others do. I like this one, it's an example of proper execution unlike the other three in this wave.

They're so tiny though, there's only so much you can do with a mass-produced product at this size and price point. I'm glad we have them, but I've never expected that much from them. We've only seen them in Generations in this virtual thirty year anniversary line, so I'm not holding out hope for another redo anytime soon.

On the other hand, maybe Minicons will come back into fashion and we'll get a different set of updated tiny Transformers that learn from this line's opportunities.

AcademyofDrX wrote:They're so tiny though, there's only so much you can do with a mass-produced product at this size and price point. I'm glad we have them, but I've never expected that much from them. We've only seen them in Generations in this virtual thirty year anniversary line, so I'm not holding out hope for another redo anytime soon.

On the other hand, maybe Minicons will come back into fashion and we'll get a different set of updated tiny Transformers that learn from this line's opportunities.

Mini-Cons are a great counterpoint to these Micromasters because it feels like these new ones are a step backwards in evolution from the Armada/Cybertron era Mini-Cons.

Did anybody else get an email from Pulse saying Arcee is delayed until 10/10? I wonder if any other figures will be delayed...

aronjlove wrote:

Slitherfang makes a nice hat

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

aronjlove wrote:

Slitherfang makes a nice hat

Emerje

Thank you for this. My exact thoughts. COOOBRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Speaking of Zetar and interaction with Earthrise figures, my Ironworks figure came in today and I had a dissembled Zetar around and well...



"Ironworks this is an intervention, stop torturing poor Zetar and put him back together"

"Heh heh, drill hand goes bzzzzzzzzz"

"Help...me"




Kinda scary how well it works, it's even convincing if you hide Zetar's face.

aronjlove wrote:Did anybody else get an email from Pulse saying Arcee is delayed until 10/10? I wonder if any other figures will be delayed...

I didn't get any personally, because the only figures I have preordered right now are SS Overload and Selects figures, but I saw someone post elsewhere they got the same email about Airwave, so I would guess all of the Wave 2 Deluxes at least are currently delayed from them.

So I went to the Polaris Target to look for these and got distracted with the one and only Scorponok On the shelf... needless to say he came with me as an early birthday gift to myself. He’s joined some of my other titans in the office.

Bsnyder33 wrote:So I went to the Polaris Target to look for these and got distracted with the one and only Scorponok On the shelf... needless to say he came with me as an early birthday gift to myself. He’s joined some of my other titans in the office.

Nice find, my Target doesn't even have a spot on the shelf for him. But you mistransformed his feet! his toes need to be flipped out, he looks like someone who got frostbite.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

aronjlove wrote:Did anybody else get an email from Pulse saying Arcee is delayed until 10/10? I wonder if any other figures will be delayed...

I didn't get any personally, because the only figures I have preordered right now are SS Overload and Selects figures, but I saw someone post elsewhere they got the same email about Airwave, so I would guess all of the Wave 2 Deluxes at least are currently delayed from them.

Interesting. I got Airwave on pre-order through Target and have not heard anything from them yet so hopefully it is just a Pulse thing. I can't wait for Snapdragon to ship from Target so I finally have the Decepticon Headmasters from The Rebirth. I wanna take a group photo lol.

I have Airwave on pre-order at Target as well. But target really isn't great on communication either. I still find it strange there hasn't been a sighting of wave 2 deluxes anywhere that I am aware of. Interestingly...I was able to find out from a kind employee that another shipment of deluxes is due in my local Walmart store tomorrow, though I don't know if it will be more wave 1 (or if Netflix shares the same barcode??), but in any event, I find it highly doubtful since my geographic location would not be the first place to get anything usually....(Although PotP Voyager Hun-Grrr did get 1st sighting news reported at a store about an hour north of me, and we also had the infamous "All CW deluxe Groove" box show up here as well .

I think we'll probably have our first deluxe wave 2 sighting in about a week. I have a couple Walmarts and Targets near me that tend to get things early (within a week or so of first sighting) and seem to move TF's pretty well. Those stores have stocked up with wave 1 about a week or so ago, and I'm guessing both chains have to be getting close to clearing out wave 1. Although for me, I have to wait out my Target pre-orders anyway since I got them on that BOBO deal back in Feb/March.

Trying to figure out Target's pre-orders is a guessing game.
For Doubledealer at least, my Target pre-order did ship the day he was first reported as sighted in store, and he arrived next day. I made all my pre-orders with Target as soon as they went live, so I have to be pretty early in the pecking order there. Snapdragon on the other hand has not shipped yet despite being found in stores, so who knows for the deluxes.

Coneheads have shipped and arrive tomorrow!!!!

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Coneheads have shipped and arrive tomorrow!!!!

What?!?! Mine says Wednesday

aronjlove wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Coneheads have shipped and arrive tomorrow!!!!

What?!?! Mine says Wednesday

Mine, too.

Which peg is it that breaks on Grapple and does it affect transformation?

blackeyedprime wrote:Which peg is it that breaks on Grapple and does it affect transformation?

The ones under his crane assembly get stuck in his feet. Sanding down the pegs helps.

Thanks!

sol magnus wrote:

aronjlove wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Coneheads have shipped and arrive tomorrow!!!!

What?!?! Mine says Wednesday

Mine, too.

My order updated and now says tomorrow. Looking forward to my first set of Coneheads.

aronjlove wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

aronjlove wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Coneheads have shipped and arrive tomorrow!!!!

What?!?! Mine says Wednesday

Mine, too.

My order updated and now says tomorrow. Looking forward to my first set of Coneheads.

Mine still says Wednesday, but I can live with that.

aronjlove wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

aronjlove wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Coneheads have shipped and arrive tomorrow!!!!

What?!?! Mine says Wednesday

Mine, too.

My order updated and now says tomorrow. Looking forward to my first set of Coneheads.

I JUST got an order update saying delivery tomorrow!!
Can’t wait to have these new cone heads!!!!!!!!!!

Greetings Seibertronians! Following on from the new reviews we recently posted about the Astro Squad Micromasters, fellow Seibertron user and YouTube toy reviewer, Chuckdawg1999 has let us know that he's done a review of both the Astro Squad and the Race Track Patrol Micromasters!

Special thanks to fellow Seibertron user, Thundertron for reaching out to us about the review as well.

Here's what Chuck has got to say about these two Micromasters teams and you'll find his review embedded below!

Chuckdawg1999 wrote:I have to say I'm impressed. Usually, when I review Micromasters there's one set I just don't enjoy, but in this case, both the Astro Squad and Race Track Patrol are really, really fun. The combined form of the Astro Squad makes for a cool looking NASA approved shuttle while the Race Track Patrol has the best-combined weapon of any car based Micromaster team yet. Both sets get a high recommendation from me.

What do you think about these Micromaster updates? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!

Do we know if the Earthrise repacks of Micromasters Direct-Hit and Power Punch have new map pieces or if they're repeated from another release? For that matter have we seen any of the map pieces repeated? I don't think we have, but it doesn't hurt to ask. I don't mind buying them a second time, I just don't want to miss the map piece.

BTW Entertainment Earth has Micromaster wave 3 listed as just wave 1 again (Boo, those guys are peg warming at Target) and Power Punch and Direct-Hit which is good for those that missed the Siege line enders, though I really have to wonder what Hasbro has against Rumble and Ratbat being easy to get. A little alarming that these are showing up at Target now before wave 2.

Emerje

Sowndwave76 wrote:

aronjlove wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

aronjlove wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Coneheads have shipped and arrive tomorrow!!!!

What?!?! Mine says Wednesday

Mine, too.

My order updated and now says tomorrow. Looking forward to my first set of Coneheads.

I JUST got an order update saying delivery tomorrow!!
Can’t wait to have these new cone heads!!!!!!!!!!

I find it hilarious as they have the little cone on their heads which goes into the big cone of the jet. I don't know if that was a feature on the original toys but it is kinda cute

And I still can't believe I almost skipped this mold angrily because of the Siege Seekers. Maybe if a Seeker wasn't revealed until Wave 2 it wouldn't have been bad. But seeing Starscream revealed only a couple of months after completing the Siege trio irritated me.

My Coneheads are still showing Wednesday on Amazon. Hasn't even shipped yet.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:My Coneheads are still showing Wednesday on Amazon. Hasn't even shipped yet.

Same here. Hopefully that's an overestimation.

I just got notice that my Conehead 2-Pack should be delivered by Amazon on Sunday.

I finally got around to opening Ironworks and noticed something about his box art.



I guess the artist was given all of Greasepit's parts to draw as well.

My Coneheads still haven't shipped...

Emerje

Pulse just charged me for Scorponok today. A full 2 weeks before they said they would. Getting past the unexpected $170 bill, hopefully they actually ship the big guy out and I'll get him next week. And Amazon says the cone heads are unavailable now, so hopefully at least they filled my preorder, even though they haven't charged me and the order says 'not shipped.'

Found these 2 this morning at my usual Target. Appeared to be the only ones left. They also had a Scorponok which I left since I already have mine from BBTS.

FYI for those of you getting the Coneheads; three people as of this writing have gotten the set and Amazon just put a label on the packaging and shipped it like that. One of the three had the box come so damaged that Dirge was broken.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:FYI for those of you getting the Coneheads; three people as of this writing have gotten the set and Amazon just put a label on the packaging and shipped it like that. One of the three had the box come so damaged that Dirge was broken.

Care to share some links and pics?

william-james88 wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:FYI for those of you getting the Coneheads; three people as of this writing have gotten the set and Amazon just put a label on the packaging and shipped it like that. One of the three had the box come so damaged that Dirge was broken.

Care to share some links and pics?

Mine should be showing up in the next four hours according to the Amazon app, I'll definitely let you all know if mine shows up like that.

william-james88 wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:FYI for those of you getting the Coneheads; three people as of this writing have gotten the set and Amazon just put a label on the packaging and shipped it like that. One of the three had the box come so damaged that Dirge was broken.

Care to share some links and pics?

It's coming from the Amazon forum on the TFW2005 boards and the reviewer Baltmatrix's Twitter.

Image from Baltmatrix's twitter. This is some BS. I ordered all three of the Siege Amazon exclusives and none of them shipped this way. But, technically Amazon told us it would ship this way, look at the attachment for the ER Autobot two-pack. Amazon lists if the packaging is just the original box.

Needless to say, but I just canceled my order for the Autobot two-pack and re-ordered so I could choose the Amazon packaging option. It is still in stock so I suggest others do the same, just make sure to complete a new order before canceling the previous in case it goes out of stock.

I've had selects sent that way with just a label slapped on them but cant remember from where. Amazon uk usualy finds a box that is ten times the size of the itm and sends them in that (which will probably be down to staff having to meet targets/bonus). I'm half expecting scorponok to turn up in a box the size of a bungalow.

Ok, so a new shipment did indeed show up at my local Walmart this morning, however they were more Wave 1 deluxes.
Both Hasbro Pulse and my Target pre-orders still show 9/1 as the supposed release date for wave 2, just a little over 2 weeks away you would think some places might get them earlier...I guess with what's goin on it will be miracle if they show up on 9/1.

Also that makes everything else way more disproportionate. If wave 1 started showing up around March, then if we get Wave 2 in Sept, Wave 3 in Nov and Kingdom wave 1 by end of year.....

I think this must be some thing where Amazon fails to make the instructions about "ships in original packaging" clear enough to their employees, because every time there's an Amazon exclusive Transformers figure this happens to some amount; what "ships in original packaging" is supposed to mean is that is ships in the Hasbro shipper box (that has the product name on the outside, thus why the asking to ship in Amazon packaging option is framed as obscuring what's in the box), and a lot of people get it that way as they're supposed to, but there's always some amount who receive it and it's literally the actual figure box with a label slapped on, probably meaning either the wording to the employees about whst "original packaging" means is overly vague, or it arrives at some Amazon warehouses without the shipper box, and the employees aren't told in those circumstances to put it in an actual box.

Jeddostotle7 wrote:I think this must be some thing where Amazon fails to make the instructions about "ships in original packaging" clear enough to their employees, because every time there's an Amazon exclusive Transformers figure this happens to some amount; what "ships in original packaging" is supposed to mean is that is ships in the Hasbro shipper box (that has the product name on the outside, thus why the asking to ship in Amazon packaging option is framed as obscuring what's in the box), and a lot of people get it that way as they're supposed to, but there's always some amount who receive it and it's literally the actual figure box with a label slapped on, probably meaning either the wording to the employees about whst "original packaging" means is overly vague, or it arrives at some Amazon warehouses without the shipper box, and the employees aren't told in those circumstances to put it in an actual box.

You could be right. Mine showed up in an Amazon box. I checked my order and I did not select gift packaging. Interesting.

Jeddostotle7 wrote:I think this must be some thing where Amazon fails to make the instructions about "ships in original packaging" clear enough to their employees, because every time there's an Amazon exclusive Transformers figure this happens to some amount; what "ships in original packaging" is supposed to mean is that is ships in the Hasbro shipper box (that has the product name on the outside, thus why the asking to ship in Amazon packaging option is framed as obscuring what's in the box), and a lot of people get it that way as they're supposed to, but there's always some amount who receive it and it's literally the actual figure box with a label slapped on, probably meaning either the wording to the employees about whst "original packaging" means is overly vague, or it arrives at some Amazon warehouses without the shipper box, and the employees aren't told in those circumstances to put it in an actual box.

On what planet does slapping a label on the actual packaging make sense? More importantly how do the people who are supposed to deliver the packages accept them like that?

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Jeddostotle7 wrote:I think this must be some thing where Amazon fails to make the instructions about "ships in original packaging" clear enough to their employees, because every time there's an Amazon exclusive Transformers figure this happens to some amount; what "ships in original packaging" is supposed to mean is that is ships in the Hasbro shipper box (that has the product name on the outside, thus why the asking to ship in Amazon packaging option is framed as obscuring what's in the box), and a lot of people get it that way as they're supposed to, but there's always some amount who receive it and it's literally the actual figure box with a label slapped on, probably meaning either the wording to the employees about whst "original packaging" means is overly vague, or it arrives at some Amazon warehouses without the shipper box, and the employees aren't told in those circumstances to put it in an actual box.

On what planet does slapping a label on the actual packaging make sense? More importantly how do the people who are supposed to deliver the packages accept them like that?

It doesn't, at all, but given what conditions are like for Amazon warehouse workers, I really don't blame them for not thinking about it much.

"Earthrise? More like Earthfall! Seekers, escort Scorponok, and reduce this city to rumble!" - Megatron


Probably not canonical since ol' Scorpy and Megs are usually backstabbing each other but it makes for a cool pic.