Transformers Earthrise Wave 3 Battle Masters Found at US Retail
Monday, September 14th, 2020 11:40PM CDT
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2x Soundbarrier
1x Slitherfang
3x Doublecrosser
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Posted by Flashwave on September 14th, 2020 @ 11:57pm CDT
Posted by First-Aid on September 15th, 2020 @ 12:07am CDT
Posted by Emerje on September 15th, 2020 @ 1:36am CDT
Flashwave wrote:Why is Slitherfang shortpacked? He's the only one of these I want and I have not seen him yet
Probably because he was just released in wave 2 while Soundbarrier was wave 1 and under normal circumstances would be harder to find. Of course in reality they're all hard to find since Walmart doesn't sell them. I haven't found wave 2 at Target yet, but I was able to order a Slitherfang from Amazon, though it's shipping slowly (arrives Friday, ordered it last week with Amazon Prime, such is 2020).
Emerje
Posted by Bounti76 on September 15th, 2020 @ 2:23am CDT
Posted by Emerje on September 15th, 2020 @ 5:41am CDT
Bounti76 wrote:My Target is full to the brim with Slitherfang and Rung. With as awful as distribution has been for Earthrise (3 1/2 months left in 2020, and I still haven't seen Wave TWO of Deluxes anywhere), I wonder if I'll see Doublecrosser at all.
My local Target got in one case of Earthrise wave 1 and then replaced it with wave 1 Siege Battlemasters after they sold out. Last I checked, around a week ago, there was nothing on the peg but Blowpipe and Lionizer. Going back today to see what's shown up, I only have something like 4 or 5 figures left that I don't have or have pre-ordered.
Emerje
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on September 15th, 2020 @ 6:36am CDT
Bounti76 wrote:My Target is full to the brim with Slitherfang and Rung. With as awful as distribution has been for Earthrise (3 1/2 months left in 2020, and I still haven't seen Wave TWO of Deluxes anywhere), I wonder if I'll see Doublecrosser at all.
That's why I pre-ordered the entire rest of the line that I wanted, with the way things are going, I'm not going to risk missing out
Posted by william-james88 on September 15th, 2020 @ 9:51am CDT
Flashwave wrote:Why is Slitherfang shortpacked? He's the only one of these I want and I have not seen him yet
This is a slitherfang repack, so he isn't shortpacked. He already appeared in Wave 2.
Posted by Wolfman Jake on September 15th, 2020 @ 10:22am CDT
william-james88 wrote:Flashwave wrote:Why is Slitherfang shortpacked? He's the only one of these I want and I have not seen him yet
This is a slitherfang repack, so he isn't shortpacked. He already appeared in Wave 2.
Now if Wave 2 would kindly show up in my area, I'd be set.
Posted by o.supreme on September 15th, 2020 @ 10:58am CDT
Also on the subject of whole case shipments, it appears they got a whole case of Voyager Grapple. There were 6 of them there this morning when there was none on Sunday, and I seriously doubt 6 Starscreams would sell out in less than 2 days.
*edit* went to report my sighting, and there is no space for Doublecrosser yet..oh well, I reported the others.
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on September 15th, 2020 @ 11:47am CDT
o.supreme wrote:Well I was fortunate, the tip I got from the Target Employee on Sunday worked out. I scored Doublecrosser this morning. They got 2 cases, so 6 DCs, 3 Slitherfang (my first time seeing him), and 3 Soundbarriers.
Also on the subject of whole case shipments, it appears they got a whole case of Voyager Grapple. There were 6 of them there this morning when there was none on Sunday, and I seriously doubt 6 Starscreams would sell out in less than 2 days.
*edit* went to report my sighting, and there is no space for Doublecrosser yet..oh well, I reported the others.
The original wave 1 voyager case was 2x Grapple and 1x Starscream, so in theory, they could have sold 3 screamers and left what you saw if they got 3 fresh cases. Or, they are shipping solid cases of Grapple now just to ensure someone is clogging the shelves since Megatron isn't until wave 3.
Posted by o.supreme on September 15th, 2020 @ 12:05pm CDT
Posted by william-james88 on September 15th, 2020 @ 12:20pm CDT
Posted by ZeroWolf on September 15th, 2020 @ 12:29pm CDT
Posted by william-james88 on September 15th, 2020 @ 1:22pm CDT
ZeroWolf wrote:Didn't realise you scored a R.E.D Arcee Will
Hahaha!
Posted by Wolfman Jake on September 15th, 2020 @ 4:20pm CDT
Posted by aronjlove on September 15th, 2020 @ 7:53pm CDT
I guess Target heard how Amazon was treating the Seeker 2-pack during shipping and said hold my beer. It was in a box so no idea why the additional sticker on the window. I don't save boxes but I would imagine a collector would have a fit.
Posted by Slashercon on September 15th, 2020 @ 10:16pm CDT
Posted by Emerje on September 16th, 2020 @ 2:57am CDT
Emerje wrote:Bounti76 wrote:My Target is full to the brim with Slitherfang and Rung. With as awful as distribution has been for Earthrise (3 1/2 months left in 2020, and I still haven't seen Wave TWO of Deluxes anywhere), I wonder if I'll see Doublecrosser at all.
My local Target got in one case of Earthrise wave 1 and then replaced it with wave 1 Siege Battlemasters after they sold out. Last I checked, around a week ago, there was nothing on the peg but Blowpipe and Lionizer. Going back today to see what's shown up, I only have something like 4 or 5 figures left that I don't have or have pre-ordered.
Emerje
Shocking, still nothing but Siege wave 1 Battlemasters.
Emerje
Posted by aronjlove on September 16th, 2020 @ 11:56am CDT
Originally, I was pretty heated when we all heard about ER Datsuns after buying all the Seige Datsuns. But after opening and playing with Smokescreen a bit, there's room for both. The each do things a little different and there are enough design differences it doesn't feel like a retread of the same thing. The guns are cool, the Seige shoulder guns could merge into a second pistol while the ER shoulder guns can attach to the primary gun to make a triple barreled blaster. Deginitely happy with my purchase.
Posted by Wolfman Jake on September 16th, 2020 @ 12:08pm CDT
aronjlove wrote:
Originally, I was pretty heated when we all heard about ER Datsuns after buying all the Seige Datsuns. But after opening and playing with Smokescreen a bit, there's room for both. The each do things a little different and there are enough design differences it doesn't feel like a retread of the same thing. The guns are cool, the Seige shoulder guns could merge into a second pistol while the ER shoulder guns can attach to the primary gun to make a triple barreled blaster. Deginitely happy with my purchase.
Thanks for the comparison shot. Can you do another quick one with the shoulder weapons swapped? I want to see Earthrise Smokescreen with the more screen accurate shoulder cannons of the Siege/Selects figure.
Posted by aronjlove on September 16th, 2020 @ 12:16pm CDT
Wolfman Jake wrote:aronjlove wrote:
Originally, I was pretty heated when we all heard about ER Datsuns after buying all the Seige Datsuns. But after opening and playing with Smokescreen a bit, there's room for both. The each do things a little different and there are enough design differences it doesn't feel like a retread of the same thing. The guns are cool, the Seige shoulder guns could merge into a second pistol while the ER shoulder guns can attach to the primary gun to make a triple barreled blaster. Deginitely happy with my purchase.
Thanks for the comparison shot. Can you do another quick one with the shoulder weapons swapped? I want to see Earthrise Smokescreen with the more screen accurate shoulder cannons of the Siege/Selects figure.
Sure thing...
ER Smokescreen's head is a bit bigger so I had to put the white shoulder guns with the clips out instead of in like on the Siege/Selects Smokescreen. The bigger head also allows ER Smoke to look up while Siege/Selects cannot.
Posted by Wolfman Jake on September 16th, 2020 @ 12:36pm CDT
aronjlove wrote:Sure thing...
ER Smokescreen's head is a bit bigger so I had to put the white shoulder guns with the clips out instead of in like on the Siege/Selects Smokescreen. The bigger head also allows ER Smoke to look up while Siege/Selects cannot.
Thanks!
Posted by AcademyofDrX on September 16th, 2020 @ 12:43pm CDT
Edit: the stems on the Siege guns are significantly longer than the ER versions, so their bases are not flush with his shoulders without filing them down. Not only are the holes in the Siege version deeper, the hood is curved, so there needs to be more clearance space.
Posted by AcademyofDrX on September 16th, 2020 @ 12:50pm CDT
It's not a big deal, but I'm a little disappointed.
Posted by aronjlove on September 16th, 2020 @ 1:04pm CDT
Posted by AcademyofDrX on September 16th, 2020 @ 1:16pm CDT
(Images below via TFWiki)
Posted by aronjlove on September 16th, 2020 @ 1:23pm CDT
Posted by Starseeker on September 16th, 2020 @ 2:41pm CDT
What's worse is when I emailed Gamestop about it, they don't even respond. You have to love it
Posted by o.supreme on September 16th, 2020 @ 2:47pm CDT
Starseeker wrote:I don't even know when my Airwave is coming. I got a ship notice on the 6th, but checking it, it still only says the shipping label was created but not been picked up by the carrier (Fed Ex). Its coming from Kentucky and I'm in Connecticut, soooooo what's the story?
What's worse is when I emailed Gamestop about it, they don't even respond. You have to love it
Seems like you are the first person with a Gamestop shipping story. Most of us here are sitting back in frustration and confusion watching Target Scramble to fulfill pre orders from a sale on toys offered 6 months ago.
Speaking of which, did most of you who have received anything from Target get it from Fedex directy, or did they dump it off at your local USPS last minute, for them to deliver? I hate when they do that, always causes an unnecessary extra couple of days delay.
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on September 16th, 2020 @ 3:25pm CDT
o.supreme wrote:Speaking of which, did most of you who have received anything from Target get it from Fedex directly, or did they dump it off at your local USPS last minute, for them to deliver? I hate when they do that, always causes an unnecessary extra couple of days delay.
All of mine came from Fedex directly, with 2 of them leaving the same Fedex facility on the same morning, yet they were still delivered by 2 different trucks.
Posted by Emerje on September 16th, 2020 @ 3:43pm CDT
TF-fan kev777 wrote:o.supreme wrote:Speaking of which, did most of you who have received anything from Target get it from Fedex directly, or did they dump it off at your local USPS last minute, for them to deliver? I hate when they do that, always causes an unnecessary extra couple of days delay.
All of mine came from Fedex directly, with 2 of them leaving the same Fedex facility on the same morning, yet they were still delivered by 2 different trucks.
Same, all of mine were delivered directly by FedEx or UPS.
Emerje
Posted by WeatherManNX01 on September 16th, 2020 @ 8:36pm CDT
Posted by Hellscream9999 on September 16th, 2020 @ 9:43pm CDT
WeatherManNX01 wrote:I got Arcee today. Am I doing something wrong, or is the transformation just really bad? It feels like the transformation is basically "shove everything somewhere under the car shell".
in so far as I can tell, they did not actually design a place for her legs or arms to lock into, so yeah, just cram her under her backpack
Posted by WeatherManNX01 on September 16th, 2020 @ 9:47pm CDT
Hellscream9999 wrote:WeatherManNX01 wrote:I got Arcee today. Am I doing something wrong, or is the transformation just really bad? It feels like the transformation is basically "shove everything somewhere under the car shell".
in so far as I can tell, they did not actually design a place for her legs or arms to lock into, so yeah, just cram her under her backpack
Yowza. I like the look of the Earthrise figure, but I'd rather keep the previous Generations figure if it Transforms better.
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on September 16th, 2020 @ 10:00pm CDT
WeatherManNX01 wrote:I got Arcee today. Am I doing something wrong, or is the transformation just really bad? It feels like the transformation is basically "shove everything somewhere under the car shell".
In a word, yeah.
Posted by Deadput on September 16th, 2020 @ 10:27pm CDT
I just hate G1 Arcee's base design (I don't when it's changed up to be more of a Transformer with kibble such as IDW) and just about all of her Generations toys except for the Titans Return mold which I think is the best we have gotten just with the sole point of her actually having vehicle bits on more areas then her backpack.
Remove the backpack and Arcee becomes no different than some anime robot-girl, gross me out.
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on September 16th, 2020 @ 10:29pm CDT
Deadput wrote:Earthrise Arcee truly is just some cheap "anime" figure basically.
I just hate G1 Arcee's base design (I don't when it's changed up to be more of a Transformer with kibble such as IDW) and just about all of her Generations toys except for the Titans Return mold which I think is the best we have gotten just with the sole point of her actually having vehicle bits on more areas then her backpack.
Remove the backpack and Arcee becomes no different than some anime robot-girl, gross me out.
I agree about the TR version, I think it and the Cyberverse deluxe are the best versions of Arcee.
Posted by -Kanrabat- on September 17th, 2020 @ 7:26am CDT
Posted by o.supreme on September 17th, 2020 @ 4:28pm CDT
Posted by Emerje on September 18th, 2020 @ 2:07am CDT
Emerje
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on September 18th, 2020 @ 8:58am CDT
Looks like it will mainly affect the wave 3 Earthrise items and some of the October Studio Series releases.
Posted by aronjlove on September 18th, 2020 @ 9:22am CDT
TF-fan kev777 wrote:Beware anyone who pre-ordered from Target on the BOGO sale back in February. Anything that hasn't shipped yet might be in jeopardy of losing the sale price. Target was making me update my payment info, but when you do, you lose the sale/promotion price.
Looks like it will mainly affect the wave 3 Earthrise items and some of the October Studio Series releases.
I received Smokescreen and Snapdragon but they have not yet shipped the Voyager Quint and today I approved a third shipping delay. Thankfully I haven't been asked to update payment info but who knows when or if the Quint will actually ship.
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on September 18th, 2020 @ 9:57am CDT
aronjlove wrote:TF-fan kev777 wrote:Beware anyone who pre-ordered from Target on the BOGO sale back in February. Anything that hasn't shipped yet might be in jeopardy of losing the sale price. Target was making me update my payment info, but when you do, you lose the sale/promotion price.
Looks like it will mainly affect the wave 3 Earthrise items and some of the October Studio Series releases.
I received Smokescreen and Snapdragon but they have not yet shipped the Voyager Quint and today I approved a third shipping delay. Thankfully I haven't been asked to update payment info but who knows when or if the Quint will actually ship.
I received Snapdragon and 2 of the 3 quints I ordered. The 3rd quint they just cancelled on me with no warning. Same thing happened with the mistake priced $30 SS Overload, which really would have irritated me if I didn't hedge my bets and also order one from Amazon at the mistake price, which I already received.
Posted by Emerje on September 19th, 2020 @ 7:32am CDT
Emerje
Posted by Sowndwave76 on September 19th, 2020 @ 11:50am CDT
But of course now, there are 5 Seeker 2 packs at my Target.
Posted by o.supreme on September 19th, 2020 @ 1:13pm CDT
Posted by Starseeker on September 19th, 2020 @ 4:47pm CDT
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on September 19th, 2020 @ 4:56pm CDT
Emerje wrote:I've had two delays on my one quint order so far. Going to be pretty annoyed with Target if they cancel it knowing some people were able to get more than one. I still have a bunch of stuff in open pre-orders I'm waiting for. I use a Red Card so they haven't asked me to update my payment method.
Emerje
I use redcard as well, but they still required me to change my payment method
Posted by o.supreme on September 19th, 2020 @ 5:39pm CDT
Phase 1.
Phase 2 will include other Leader & Titan Class toys with the Airlock system.
Phase 3 will use Omega Supreme to expand to all toys with the previous TR connection system
Posted by Emerje on September 19th, 2020 @ 8:05pm CDT
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Emerje wrote:I've had two delays on my one quint order so far. Going to be pretty annoyed with Target if they cancel it knowing some people were able to get more than one. I still have a bunch of stuff in open pre-orders I'm waiting for. I use a Red Card so they haven't asked me to update my payment method.
Emerje
I use redcard as well, but they still required me to change my payment method
That's odd, how often do you use it? I've used mine several times online since February, to say nothing of in-store purchases. Plus a bought a new phone a few months ago and Target had me update the app and card security so maybe that helped? Either they wont ask me to update or they'll ask me to update tomorrow, who can tell with Target?
Emerje