Transformers Combiner Wars Deluxe Groove Available in the US in May as part of May Mayhem

Posted by william-james88 Apr 5, 2016 at 9:28pm CDT 29,584 views

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This has been a very groovy day with the not one but three articles about Hasbro's Combiner Wars Deluxe Groove where we see the differences between the two versions, a full gallery and where we have some evidence that he will be part of May Mayhem and possibly come to the States.

Well, no need to wonder now since we actually have our first listing of this figure in the states. This listing from Dorksidetoys.com confirms that this figure is part of May Mayhem and is scheduled for a release in the states in, well, May for the price of $17.99 USD. This site gets its toys directly from the manufacturer, as the price indicates.

Transformers News: Transformers Combiner Wars Deluxe Groove Available in the US in May as part of May Mayhem

This listing is currently sold out, but by no means is this cause to worry. Instead it is simply solid evidence that this toy will be available at more stateside retailers in the near future.

For those outside the US, here is a list of other sites currently listing Hasbro's deluxe Groove:

http://www.tf-robots.nl/a-43893257/nieu ... pre-order/

http://www.idtoys.co.uk/transformers-co ... exclusive/

http://m.ruten.com.tw/goods/show.php?g=21612241203655

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Comment by SW's SilverHammer Apr 5, 2016

please stop saying groovy.

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Comment by william-james88 Apr 5, 2016

Not to get anyone panicking but while all this proves that we are getting deluxe Groove, it does not bode well on us getting Shuttle Blastoff anytime soon. Maybe he will be left for May Mayhem 2017 :twisted:

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Comment by Randomhero Apr 5, 2016

Good to see he's going to be getting more releases. I preordered mine from Robotkingdom a few weeks ago and it looks like it's still up in the air with tfsource and bbts, I'm sure it will happen.

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Comment by Mindmaster Apr 5, 2016

Hopefully he won't go out too quickly... I just did manage to squeeze in my order for Slingshot and Wildrider last year, but just barely. Hope I won't be busy when preorders go live!

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Comment by Agamemnon Apr 5, 2016

The Dorkside toys listing has since been taken down, with a message saying they are not ready to reveal this listing yet... :WHISTLE:

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Comment by Emerje Apr 5, 2016

Agamemnon wrote:The Dorkside toys listing has since been taken down, with a message saying they are not ready to reveal this listing yet...

In other words Hasbro has put an embargo on this information just like they did last year. Something official will be said soon I'm sure, keep an eye on Facebook.

Emerje

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Comment by Sabrblade Apr 5, 2016

Kurona wrote:The thing is, I don't exactly see how it's exclusively "Takara's Blast Off", other than just being revealed first - and that's the very shaky logic this seems to be being based on. It's not like Hasbro and Takara design them independently, then when Takara makes something new Hasbro suddenly sees it at the same time as us and is all like "Oh, well I'll take that too for my market thank you very much". Both companies will surely have known the others' plans well in advance - HasTak's a partnership that have only grown closer and closer to each other in the past few years.

John Warden said at Toy Fair that Takara made their Groove and Blast Off figures without Hasbro input, and we know that Takara only made those two because Hasbro had other plans for Groove and Blast Off in Combiner Wars that didn't align with Takara's "beholden to G1" mindset.

Why, the Takara Groove mold itself has several design and engineering aspects that clash with all the Hasbro-designed CW Deluxes:

Takara Groove has an additional sprue of clear plastic that none of the Hasbro CW Deluxes have
Takara Groove has two weapon accessories in addition to its hand/foot/gun, whereas all the Hasbro CW Deluxes only have a single non-HFG weapon each.
Takara Groove was still in the gray prototype stage long after the molds of his fellow Protectobots were already completed.
And, Takara Groove was given special attention in promotional materials like magazines and ads, which Takara did not do for either Slingshot or Wildrider, showing how much more unique and special the Groove mold was in its own right.

Takara was obviously aware of Hasbro's plans for Legends class Groove and jet mode Blast Off (Takara engineered those toys for Hasbro, after all), but since those plans were in defiance of how Groove and Blast Off were in G1, Takara nixed the idea of doing what Hasbro did and took the initiative to create the UW molds of Groove and Blast Off by themselves without Hasbro's input or budgetary limitations, and regardless of whether Hasbro would be interested in the new Groove and Blast Off molds or not.

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Comment by King Kuuga Apr 5, 2016

I missed QS and BN last year, I'm not missing Groove this year. If we get shuttle Blast Off at some point in the future, you could combine AB, Offroad, Rook, and Jet Blast Off with a spare torso to make Substitutron! Or create your own combination. This is the true beauty of Combiner Wars: options.

(says the guy who has all his combiners in default configuration and only Sunstreaker as an extra limb)

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Comment by Nemesis Maximo Apr 6, 2016

SW's SilverHammer wrote:please stop saying groovy.

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Comment by Mr Skram Apr 6, 2016

Kurona wrote:
Personally I kind of like the idea of Rook as a wrecker. Mostly because of his strong body frame and his ridiculous hulk hands of doom. Still... there's something about AB and Rook that seems sort of... droney in vehicle mode; I don't know how to explain it. I'm not saying that they can't have personality or whatever and there's a lot you can attach to them, but personally I kind of like them has Sky Lynx's little drone force. It's a nice compromise to me between his G1 and Combiner self.

I display Rook on my Wreckers shelf armed to the teeth with dual axe hands and some of Whirl's armaments when he's not combined. He looks great with them!

My drone is Wheeljack, mostly because he looks terrible, but maybe WJ had to make a prototype vehicon type thing and spiced it up with some of his personality and looks. Or he just attempted to clone himself and failed so we're stuck with this abomination version of him.

But, uh, oh yeah... I missed out on Brakeneck and Quickslinger somehow and I'm still kicking myself for it. I won't make the same mistake with Groove(and hopefully Blast-Off in the future).

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Comment by william-james88 Apr 6, 2016

Mindmaster wrote:Hopefully he won't go out too quickly... I just did manage to squeeze in my order for Slingshot and Wildrider last year, but just barely. Hope I won't be busy when preorders go live!

But walmart and toysrus had plenty once may came around. You ddint need to preorder last year inorder to get a copy. These were available for a solid 2 months once out.

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Comment by DeathReviews Apr 6, 2016

Keeping fingers crossed that they will have made enough of these things that everybody who wants one can get it... (for a decent price)

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Comment by william-james88 Apr 6, 2016

DeathReviews wrote:Keeping fingers crossed that they will have made enough of these things that everybody who wants one can get it... (for a decent price)

If its any indication fo last year, than anyone in the states will, unless they hibernate in may.

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Comment by william-james88 Apr 6, 2016

Hey guys, remember that CW Ratchet head we saw a while back. Well it's being usd for CW Rathet, who is the Botcon cusom class exclusive (like Galva Convoy last year). Meaning he wont be coming to retail. And they are using that for a bunch of ratchets.

So Memphis, will this break your Combiner Wars Mold Chart?

Marvel G1 Ratchet

G2 Ratchet

Rescue Bot Medix

G1 Ratchet

There is also SG Rathet in this shot of all 5 toys:

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Comment by Sabrblade Apr 6, 2016

That last one isn't SG Ratchet (he's missing from your post). There are two G1 Ratchets to choose from. Marvel colors (red helmet, white crest) and Cartoon colors (white helmet, black crest).

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Comment by Agamemnon Apr 6, 2016

Yeah, that kinda sucks for me as I was hoping to keep Ironhide and Ratchet together in a CW display. On the other hand, I wondered if Hasbro would ever have released Ratchet given how closely he would have likely matched First Aid. Back on the first hand, with Prowl and Streetwise both coming out and sharing a mold, I still thought there was a chance...

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Comment by william-james88 Apr 6, 2016

Agamemnon wrote:Yeah, that kinda sucks for me as I was hoping to keep Ironhide and Ratchet together in a CW display. On the other hand, I wondered if Hasbro would ever have released Ratchet given how closely he would have likely matched First Aid. Back on the first hand, with Prowl and Streetwise both coming out and sharing a mold, I still thought there was a chance...

Are you handy with a paint brush and do you have a club membership? I have neither so I am screwed all the way, but if you have those then all hope is not lost. These figures are available on their website store later. However, it will be unpainted with no stickers. But autobot stickers arent hard to come by and ratchet just needs some red and black in certain areas to work. It will cost you double retail for an unpainted figure, I will grant you that, but its not impossible to own.

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Comment by Agamemnon Apr 6, 2016

william-james88 wrote:
Agamemnon wrote:Yeah, that kinda sucks for me as I was hoping to keep Ironhide and Ratchet together in a CW display. On the other hand, I wondered if Hasbro would ever have released Ratchet given how closely he would have likely matched First Aid. Back on the first hand, with Prowl and Streetwise both coming out and sharing a mold, I still thought there was a chance...

Are you handy with a paint brush and do you have a club membership? I have neither so I am screwed all the way, but if you have those then all hope is not lost. These figures are available on their website store later. However, it will be unpainted with no stickers. But autobot stickers arent hard to come by and ratchet just needs some red and black in certain areas to work. It will cost you double retail for an unpainted figure, I will grant you that, but its not impossible to own.

Yeah, I'm not a club member. I spend too much on plastic crack as it is. And really, maybe I was a bit too strong in the wording that this sucks. More, I am disappointed, but not enough to get one and paint it myself. (I have done some model painting, but not for a number of years.)

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Comment by william-james88 Apr 6, 2016

Agamemnon wrote:Yeah, I'm not a club member. I spend too much on plastic crack as it is. And really, maybe I was a bit too strong in the wording that this sucks. More, I am disappointed, but not enough to get one and paint it myself. (I have done some model painting, but not for a number of years.)

Would there have been a middle gound (like a pricey exclusive that you dont have to paint) or is it that you would only have gotten this if it was a normal retail figure? I will tll you what I think sucks a bit: this Ratchet looks more like Ratchet than CW Ironhide looks like Ironhide. And I actually preffer the first air mode for some reason (the arms sure peg better for arms mode) so it kind of blows that its the other mold we got doubles of at retail. Also, neither of the two we got at retail actually represent a G1 characer properly. Offroad is a new character and Ironhide's alt mode is movie themed with a G1 pallette. While the van is perfect for Ratchet and First Aid.

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Comment by Agamemnon Apr 6, 2016

william-james88 wrote:
Agamemnon wrote:Yeah, I'm not a club member. I spend too much on plastic crack as it is. And really, maybe I was a bit too strong in the wording that this sucks. More, I am disappointed, but not enough to get one and paint it myself. (I have done some model painting, but not for a number of years.)

Would there have been a middle gound (like a pricey exclusive that you dont have to paint) or is it that you would only have gotten this if it was a normal retail figure? I will tll you what I think sucks a bit: this Ratchet looks more like Ratchet than CW Ironhide looks like Ironhide. And I actually preffer the first air mode for some reason (the arms sure peg better for arms mode) so it kind of blows that its the other mold we got doubles of at retail. Also, neither of the two we got at retail actually represent a G1 characer properly. Offroad is a new character and Ironhide's alt mode is movie themed with a G1 pallette. While the van is perfect for Ratchet and First Aid.

I would have preferred Ironhide as the First Aid mold too. I also would have preferred a regular retail release (of course!) but if this was an exclusive, say for around $30 USD.....maybe? If he would have been released in May Madness with Groove, I probably would have jumped.

I think what is bugging me is the completionist in me. I had expected an eventual Ratchet after seeing Ironhide. But I'm not too put out...

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