Transformers Cyberverse Warrior Thundercracker to be a Toys R Us Exclusive

Posted by william-james88 Aug 25, 2018 at 3:18pm CDT 19,436 views

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We saw an upcoming Cyberverse Thundercracker a little while ago. It was found on Hong Kong's Toysrus website. A few presumed it to be an exclusive item, and it turns out it is. A full case of this single item was found at a Toysrus in Singapore. We know it is an exclusive since it has an "imported by TRU" sticker in the back which, in Singapore, is used for their exclusives.

This keeps an odd tradition of Thundercracker toys being exclusives, which we previously saw in the Studio Series line from Hasbro and in the Arms Micron line from Takara.

This also continues the trend of Toysrus hosting exclusives toys from Transformers cartoon shows, which they did with RID, and since there are no Toysrus stores in the US it is unknown how that toys will be made available in that country. While it is not the case yet for Transformers, there have been a few Hasbro exclusives for the Star Wars line that have only been made available at Toysrus stores elsewhere in the world with no distribution channel in the US.

If you find it in any store, let us know. This particular sighting was found by Singapore-based TFW2005 user lake88.

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Comment by ZeroWolf Aug 25, 2018

Interesting :-?

Not that I want Thundercracker, his lack of knees really kills it for me, but would HasTak really keep this one from all areas where Tru died?

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Comment by william-james88 Aug 25, 2018

ZeroWolf wrote:Interesting Not that I want Thundercracker, his lack of knees really kills it for me, but would HasTak really keep this one from all areas where Tru died?

They are doing it with these two toys:

https://www.ebay.ca/sch/i.html?_from=R4&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5336631220&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1 ... r&_sacat=0

https://www.ebay.ca/sch/i.html?_osacat=&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5336631220&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1 ... t&_sacat=0

so who knows

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Comment by Jelze Bunnycat Aug 25, 2018

ZeroWolf wrote:Interesting Not that I want Thundercracker, his lack of knees really kills it for me, but would HasTak really keep this one from all areas where Tru died?

Probably not. Thundercracker more than likely was meant as an exclusive, but the store used depends on area. In other words, if an international chain has no presence in a given country, the exclusive is passed on to a chain that does. I could easily see Target snatching this up.

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Comment by chuckdawg1999 Aug 25, 2018

I KNEW IT!!!!!!

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Comment by KVO Prime Aug 25, 2018

I'm still confused about this show. It looks obviously to be catering to children, but is this the only show that will running? Transformers Prime was amazing. I'm ready for another mature-mood TF series.

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Comment by Jelze Bunnycat Aug 25, 2018

KVO Prime wrote:I'm still confused about this show. It looks obviously to be catering to children, but is this the only show that will running? Transformers Prime was amazing. I'm ready for another mature-mood TF series.

Rescue Bots Academy for the littlest tykes.

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Comment by ZeroWolf Aug 25, 2018

KVO Prime wrote:I'm still confused about this show. It looks obviously to be catering to children, but is this the only show that will running? Transformers Prime was amazing. I'm ready for another mature-mood TF series.

The Prime Wars cartoons were supposed to be more mature...you're mileage may vary in how well it worked.

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Comment by KVO Prime Aug 25, 2018

He thinks Shadow Striker's gimmick is the best transformers gimmick ever lmao...

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Comment by -Kanrabat- Aug 25, 2018

Well, guess my sureshot purchases for this line are Warrior Starscream and Thundercracker. As for the rest, we will see.

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Comment by D-Maximal_Primal Aug 27, 2018

Thundercracker is a TRU exclusive. wow. You were right Chuck, but that kinda stinks for those who want the Cracker in places that aren't Canada and some other countries

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Comment by chuckdawg1999 Aug 27, 2018

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Thundercracker is a TRU exclusive. wow. You were right Chuck, but that kinda stinks for those who want the Cracker in places that aren't Canada and some other countries

There is no doubt in my mind that Hasbro will find a way to make TC available for those who don't have a TRU by them anymore.

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Comment by william-james88 Aug 27, 2018

chuckdawg1999 wrote:
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Thundercracker is a TRU exclusive. wow. You were right Chuck, but that kinda stinks for those who want the Cracker in places that aren't Canada and some other countries

There is no doubt in my mind that Hasbro will find a way to make TC available for those who don't have a TRU by them anymore.

Tell that to the star wars fans who currently have no way to buy these aside from ebay:

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/706-53473?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5336631220&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1 ... olid=11111

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/706-53473?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5336631220&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1 ... olid=11111

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Comment by william-james88 Aug 27, 2018

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Thundercracker is a TRU exclusive. wow. You were right Chuck, but that kinda stinks for those who want the Cracker in places that aren't Canada and some other countries

This news i making me see that people online are having a very very hard time realizing that the US is not the only country in the world, its pretty crazy. As you stated, and as we know, thundercraker is a TRU exclusive, meaning individual national TRUs are piking him up across the globe (as they did before). But now, its simply that the US doesnt have a TRU chain, so they will have to find some other way (if any, see post above). And people are having a very hard time understanding that if the US doesnt have a TRU, then how can there still be such a thing as a TRU exclusive.

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Comment by Va'al Aug 28, 2018

In other Transformers Cyberverse news today, though shifting onto the toys that accompany the animated series for this story, we have the finding of some new stock images for the entire Wave 2 of the Warrior class, which includes Megatron (with Fusion Mace), Acid Storm (with Toxic Slice), and Windblade (with Cyclone Strike), plus Scout class Optimus Prime (with hilarious Ion Burst).

Check out the images mirrored below, thanks to fellow fansite TFW2005's user Nevermore discovery on the back end of Target.com - meaning that no listings are available yet - and let us know what you think in the Energon Pub discussion!

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Comment by -Kanrabat- Aug 28, 2018

The funniest thing with that scout Optimus is we can recreate this pose with pretty much every Optimus toys ever! :lol:

Also, that Warrior Megatron don't look that bad.

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Comment by ZeroWolf Aug 28, 2018

The windblade is another in the category of "Cyberverse with knees" I might pick her up with shockwave.

Scout optimus...I thought the arm mounted cannon was megatrons thing? ;-)

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Comment by angtre Aug 28, 2018

Megatron is not bad at all, at least for the standards of this particular line (that I consider pretty low, BTW... but okay-ish given its target audience).

Also I'm very happy about having Acid Storm getting the spotlight, for once. A shame its paint job isn't more accurate, though.

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Comment by Emerje Aug 28, 2018

ZeroWolf wrote:The windblade is another in the category of "Cyberverse with knees" I might pick her up with shockwave.

I think you're underselling her a bit. The only standard articulation she's missing is thigh swivels, she even appears to have waist swivel. Her elbows bend a little funny, but otherwise she's almost on par with the RID version (which was a good figure). She looks like one of the best figures in the line.

Emerje

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Comment by ZeroWolf Aug 28, 2018

I'd rather undersell something then over-sell it :-)